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[Cast Away] Martian My Husband

Don’t you just hate it when you’re short a few million dollars to produce a drama with your dream team of actors, writers, and directors? *pouts* Well, we found a way to scratch that itch!

Introducing the new Dramabeans community series Cast Away — where Beanies can advocate for their chosen actors and creatives in imaginary roles.

How it works: Each week, we’ll share a hypothetical K-drama plot with you. In the comments, discuss who you think is the perfect cast to play the roles in this imaginary show.

You can also go wild and introduce more characters, rename the show, pick your favorite director, etc. Who knows? Maybe our collective wishing will manifest fantasy casting into reality.


This week’s K-drama plot: a wedding entourage goes to Mars

When an earthling scientist and her alien groom finally tie the knot, the groom insists on holding the reception in his spaceship to gift the guests a trip around the world. Unfortunately, his soju-addled brain loads the map of Mars into the navigator by mistake. Now, the newlyweds and their entourage are stuck on Mars for 687 days as it recharges for the trip back to Earth.

While growing potatoes on Martian soil is, well, small potatoes for the bride, dealing with their human companions is driving her bananas. Especially when her guest list features gems such as the ex-boyfriend and research partner who’s still in love with her, the well-meaning mom who keeps “tidying up” the ship and breaking things, and the conspiracist uncle who’s hellbent on proving that the groom and his people are planning an attack on Earth.

Will her sanity and marriage survive a year of this?

 
It’s time to send your favorite cast to Mars! Who is your smartypants heroine who would rather analyze wind patterns than listen to her ex’s hot air? And who will play the alien groom who’s infuriatingly clueless about human emotions: “Mother-in-law said it’s fine to reduce rations by 20% as she doesn’t really need extra nutrition since everyone grows old and dies anyway. Why are you mad?”

Who is this too-helpful, passive-aggressive mom who doesn’t know how to communicate properly with her alien son-in-law (or her own daughter for that matter).

Who do you want as the ex? Will he be a clingy comic relief, or do you want him to be a professional piner who will break your heart? Maybe he will sacrifice himself to protect his rival alien against the kooky uncle. Well, depending on if you want the uncle to be a harmless ajusshi or a surprise killer as is normal for K-drama rom-coms.

As always, you can swap the roles around. Or better yet, add more guests to the list and make this an unforgettable wedding getaway. Come to think of it, we didn’t even discuss bridesmaids yet…

Feel free to request a plot line for future Cast Away posts. We’ll do our best (beep-boop!) to serve a fun twist on it.

 
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Smarty pants heroine: Ahn Eun-jin.
Clueless Alien Goofy husband : Taec-yeon.
Helpful passive-aggresive MIL : Kim Mi-kyung.
The ex? Comic relief please. That'll be Yang Kyung-won.
Kooky Uncle Auntie: Park Ji-young.

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OMG yaaas Taec for the Goofy Alien FTW.

Could we maybe have also Chansung??? But NOT as the stupid-ex/2ML he so often plays??

How about we cast him as the alien's (Taec's) brother who had stowed away, unbeknownst to his hyung, on the spacecraft inititally and, during his secret time on Earth, had fallen in love with, I don't know, something silly like a tree or a building or something, so that when they accidentally leave for an entire Earth year...he just pines, comically, on the ship for the Empire State Building or the N Seoul Tower or something.

I'd laugh. 😂

No Junho, pls.

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I'll watch a show (okay, maybe just Tiktok edits) of the alien's brother pining for the Truck of Doom.

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LMAO I wish someone would make this for real

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His tsundere crush 🤣🚚💔

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👍👍👍!!! I’d watch your show just for Kim Mikyung and Park Jiyoung as bickering sisters. Or or or bickering sisters-in-law.

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Lee Mi Sook could be the aliens mum, then.
Or he could be from a non-gendered planet and his parent could be some super androgynous person.

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Smarty pants heroine: Park Eun-bin
Clueless alien: Kim Soo-hyun, obviously
Clingy comic relief ex: Choi Jin-hyuk in Shin Hye-sun's body
Mom: Kim Mi-kyung
Kooky uncle: Kim Won-hae

Bridesmaids:
#1 - the claustrophobic Chae Soo-bin
#2 - the "was dragged into the wedding party" Kim So-hyun
#3 and 4 - the perpetually hangry Seo Hye-won and her forever cheerful twin sister, Joo Hyun-young.
#5 Rowoon.

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Yayh, Mr. Girlfriend!
I det hele taget yayh!

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I'm lazy so I'll just swap in the entire cast of Because This Life Is My First (switch Kim Byeong-ok from dad to uncle). For the ex, maybe Lee Joon?

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So My Love From the Star + The Martian = Korean Weekender in Space?

Whoever came up with this one gets a bow.

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The female lead has two sisters - one older and business oriented who only wanted to make money and is now stuck away from her high-pressure corporate job and going crazy and one younger and ditzy who's boy crazy and is now stuck on Mars without boys. And of course one annoying little brother who just likes needling everyone for a reaction.

The space ship is quite small.

The male lead came to Earth to escape an arranged marriage between his controlling parents and a powerful family on his home planet. He finally decides he needs to call them for help and his ex is the one who comes looking for him. She also crashes, along with her long-term boyfriend who was happy when the marriage fell apart and is not thrilled about the rescue mission.

The space ship is quite small.

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These are great additional details. The space ship will feel very small fast. I would love to see this story unravel

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I don't know about any of the casting for this drama, but if you are going to have a reference to The Martian, you need a cameo of Matt Damon and Sarah Silverman (maybe at the wedding) singing "their song" together.

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Not sure about the other characters but I would love to see Son Seok Ku's take as the alien groom.

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I'm always going to vote for a super super hot groom

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Kim Mi-kyung is everybody's mum, except I see Kim Mi-kyung as perfect for someone who cleans so that things break, but not obviously passive-aggressive. She can do it, - as we saw in Knight Flower - but mostly she is just aggressive and would beat up her SIL if he didn't put food enough on the table.
Could it be Kim Hae-sook, maybe? I could see her cleaning like a stampeding herd of bisons and being passive-aggressive as caustic soda with artificial sweetener.

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Byeon Woo Seok as the alien. But he would not be robot-like at all, just different from mainstream human expectations.

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Kim Hae-sook is a great choice! I was thinking of Kim Mi-kyung as part of an Oh Hae-young package (I think Eric Mun would be a good alien, and Lee Han-wi as the suspicious uncle), but she's more aggressive than passive-aggressive. Seems like a spaceship should have a computer expert on board, though, right?

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Lee Kwang-Soo as the alien groom
Joo Woo-Jae groom’s father
Jang Doyeon groom’s mother
Kim Ji-Yu as groom’s grandfather
Park So-Yi as groom’s grandmother
Lee Se-Hee as the bride
Ra Mi Ran as the bride’s mother
Kim Hee Won as the bride’s uncle
Kang Ha Neul as co-worker ex boyfriend of bride

The aliens are humanoid species whose main traits are: they have octopus skin heads with tiny tentacle beards; they have tiny suction cups on their fingers; they grow up to their mature age then their bodies slowly revert to their child state; every six hours they must wear an aquarium helmet so their brains do not turn to dust.

The bride is a part of a research team for the colonization of Mars. Original colony was powered by small nuclear generators fueling a cluster of connected hexagonal buildings. It was decided that Mars had to be terra formed by exploding many polar nuclear bombs to build a Martian atmosphere. Her ex-boyfriend is for the idea and the bride was violently opposed to it. The groom was a space envoy to help Earth solve its planetary pollution issues but spent most of his time seducing his bride with his unusual, sensual body parts.

The groom’s parents troll the bride’s uncle with thoughts about making Earth “their home world” and the uncle takes that as these “aquarium fish” lusting after the planet’s great oceans to breed and conquer the world (even though salt water is toxic to them). The groom’s grandparents are the only people who have any common sense and try to get along with everyone.

The bride’s mother is a nosy clean freak. When she cleans the grooms’ helmet with solvent, the next time he uses it he has a violent allergic reaction turning his skin into a orangey cheetah pattern. The uncle begins to call him “Orange Pus” which aggravates the groom to no end, but he holds his tongue for the sake of his bride. It becomes worse when they take potatoes to grow outside the hydroponic lab into the native soil (it turns the Russets into orange potatoes.) As they consume these Martian potatoes, the humans begin to change their appearance into orangish spuds - - - which revolts the groom and his family to the point of leaving the mutants on Mars after their ship recharges.

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As usual your added details elevate the story. Orange potatoes... who'd have thunk!! 👏

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Red plus yellow equals orange

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👍👌

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I'm not quite sure when this became a comedy soft-porn version of an Adrian Tchaikovsky novel but... kudos.

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