China goes twofer for kdrama remakes

[dangermousie]

Two big kdrama hits are getting Chinese remakes and my main reaction is - whyyyyy?

Remake n1 is cdrama version of that (in)famous weepie Autumn in My Heart, otherwise known as the drama where kids who were brought up as siblings meet as adults and fall for each other. It's OK as it turns out they are not related. Ooops, she gets cancer and dies, and he's hit by a truck. Clearly, karma is telling them sibcest is a sin. No, I am not making this up. cdrama decided one go at the hystericathon is not enough and is remaking it with Zhang Han (best known as Mainland Domyouji. Well, at least he'll be making out with a fake sister and not a real one, a la Japanese Domyouji) as tragic hero, Jiang Kaitong as tragic heroine, and Dennis Oh as hero's best friend who falls for heroine to much angst. I find Dennis Oh's inclusion a bit weird, but he probably speaks Mandarin about as well as he speaks Korean :P. He also can't act his way out of a paper bag, but as long as he looks pretty while crying, I don't believe anyone will care.



Don't be fooled by the grins, they are more like death grimaces! I may check this out of sheer trainwreck syndrome.

Remake n2 is of the big romcom hit My Girl with Jimmy Lin in the lead role. My reaction is an even bigger "whyyyyyy?" than it is to AiMH remake. I adore Jimmy Lin to bits but My Girl is my most perfect romcom. I don't even like the genre and I adore MG with a fierce passion. I fail to see the need. No to mention, Jimmy Lin's own My Lucky Star was, in a lot of ways, a take on My Girl if Yoo Rin wanted Jung Woo instead.

Oh well. At least nobody marries his cancerous sister in that one.

Comments

[orangebreeze.livejournal.com]

I'll never get why Dennis Oh and Daniel Henney are allowed to act in dramas. I like neither of them and their talent is about null. Having to watch them brings out my aggressive side >.>

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I think Dennis Oh actually has anti-talent and anti-charisma, as opposed to DH who just doesn't have any.

[kitkat-cat.livejournal.com]

oh gawd, this just reminds me why i refuse to watch most dramas that come out of mainland china. they are just utter *dirge*!!! argh!!! crap plots, crap acting, and you haven't even got any eye-candy! then, they go and produce some gorgeous adaptation of a martial arts novel and i forgive all their past transgressions. HMPH.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, I loved every period epic I've seen from the Mainland but all the contemporaries sound awful.

[hollyxu.livejournal.com]

I say, stick to the historicals and wuxia, China. Or at least, hire some decent contemp drama writers, because the ones you have now, they suck (so much so that I had to censor myself there).

Jimmy Lin is hitting 40, isn't he? There must be a portrait somewhere in an attic... ;P

In other news, MatsuJun made out with his sister? I didn't even know he had a sister. Ahh, the things we do for movies. (I'm still holding out for the Maggie/Jake Gyllenhaal fiasco of Batman.)

[(Anonymous)]

Frankly I agree with you. They better stick with wuxia drama. About eye candy the worst is HK drama. I don't know, except maybe Bosco Wong and Ron Ng, everyone else look so...hum..."oily" ?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Not his real sister, his on-screen twin sister in "I'm in love with my little sister" movie.

[hanjae.livejournal.com]

Remake n2 is of the big romcom hit My Girl with Jimmy Lin in the lead role.

...WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

I want him to do something else that I'd actually be interested in watching, damnit. My Lucky Star has been the only drama of his so far that I've managed to watch in its entirety, I think. And considering I couldn't finish the Korean My Girl, I'm not sure I'd have much luck with the Chinese one...

Any news on who the female lead is?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Someone I am not familiar with - Cherie something.

[hanjae.livejournal.com]

*googles* Cherrie Ying, apparently. I don't have the faintest clue who she is, either.

I just looked up the director, Lin He Long, and he's done a pretty varied list of dramas - Devil Beside You, My Lucky Star, Why Why Love, Romantic Princess, Love or Bread... I wonder who the writer will be.

[paatriiing.livejournal.com]

I lol. Mostly because My Girl even had a Filipino remake and it was a huge terrific hit back home. Filipino dramas are more given to melodrama than Korean, I will tell you, so I was really cringing at the thought but it was pretty decent. But then again, I'm used to how our dramas drag on for MONTHS and kind of find excuses to just be on air lol xD

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, how long was MG remake?

[paatriiing.livejournal.com]

I can't remember so I googled it and... 75 episodes. lol.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Where did they find enough material for 75 eps???????????????

[(Anonymous)]

Philippine soaps are all in daily format (30/45 minutes per) unlike kdramas, that's why there are 75 episodes. :)

And lately the major tv stations are either remaking Kdramas or making shows with plots taken from kdramas then passed off as 'original' shows. >.> The funniest was when they remade Stairway to Heaven and they kept making the cast wear scarves even though it doesn't snow in this country lol