Koreans to do Hanadan? And a bit on Legend

[dangermousie]

There are rumors, not sure how substantiated, that Koreans want to make their own version of Hana Yori Dango. (thanks kitkat_cat for linking me to it)

Hmmm. Hanadan is like a kdrama already so yay if true :)

Also, according to that story (on hanadan comm), fans are picking who they'd like (not that the casting people will listen or anything) and some of them make me go whaaaaa?

Makino Tsukushi
1. Yoon Eun Hye: I can actually very much see that. She'd be my first choice. Her or Lee Ji Ah (Sujini in Legend). But the story would so have to be set in college.
2.Goo Hye Sun: no idea who she is

Doumyouji Tsukasa
1. Jo In Sung: Ummm, seeing that Bali is already a much darker, adult and frelled-up version of Hanadan, JIS was MADE to be Domyouji. Except for two not-so-niggling problems: (1) He is enlisting next year and (2) Too old! I suppose if they set it in last year of college, I'd buy it.
2. Kang Dong Won: He can play anyone, but once again, too old? Also, good luck trying to get him to do a drama.
3. Lee Dong Gun: Mmmmm...*drifts off* I somehow see him more as a Rui though. I don't think he could do the requisite off-kilter rage.
4. Jang Hyuk: ???????????? If I can squinch my eyes and see JIS as Domyouji, age-wise, Jang Hyuk? You are kidding! I adore him to bits, but the man is 30+ and looks it! Nothing wrong with that, he is scrumptuous, but how can he be Domyouji? Very very grad student Domyouji? LOL
5. Hyun Bin: he and JIS are most age appropriate of the bunch but once again, much more of a Rui vibe to me. Maybe it's my Snow Queen hangover, but also, his strength is quiet introspective scenes. Even in Kim Sam Soon, those were the ones he rocked, not the angry ones.

My choice: JIS! Though I could see Eric do it, if QSS was any indication of his ability to be a hot, violent jerk. Though once again, he'd be too old.

Hanazawa Rui
1. Im Joo Hwan
2. Choi Si Won
3. Jang Geun Seuk

I don't know who any of them are except JGS who is being awesome as the Prince in HGD and could probably be Rui very well. Joo Ji Hoon could be awesome but it would break my heart for him and YEH to costar and not end up together.

So, out of these? For me? YEH/JIS/JGS.

But something tells me it will be the 'I can't distinguish them' boys from SuJu or similar.

If it even happens.

In other news, just when I thought I couldn't fangirl Bae Yong Joon any harder, apparently one of the things he said while accepting some award or other for The Legend: "If the second part of TWSSG is produced, at that time I would like to express love to Sujni that I could not have done [in part 1, I presume]"

YESSSSSSS. *waves her happy DD/S shipper flag* Btw, if BYJ was 15 years younger, he'd be made to play Rui.

EEEEE!

Comments

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Hyun Bin is still only a year younger than JIS. They are all too old unless they set it in a different environment. Of all the kdrama actors I like, JJH is the youngest, and he is still a 1982 baby. Except for Lee Wan, you are right. Hmmm...

I'd rather they were older than supposed and 'play younger' than get an actor I can't like.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

True. I think I'll be fine with JIS.. Yoon Eun Hye looks similar to him in age. But then Jang Geun Seuk will not do - he looks much younger!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

We'll just have to find someone else for Rui (look at us, being all casting-agentish :P) I am not as much a fan of JGS as you are, so I don't mind.

The more I think about it, the less the 'older' thing is a problem. Jae Hee portayed a believable highschooler in DGCH (at the first few eps). Now, that was in 2005, but he was born in 1980. And JJH and YEH played highschoolers in 2006 in Goong and they were born in 1982 and 1984 respectively.

So as long as they move it to college, we are OK :)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

To be honset, I think I am not too excited about another Hanadan as it is a, I have seen so many school dramas that they will last me lifetime... THEY BETTER make it a college drama :D I'll watch for JIS or Hyun Bin or JGS.

I am changing the subject here (sorry! I will forget) - "The Piano" has all elements you like (angst, angst, angst) and BOTH JIS and Go Su. I think it is the closest I have seen to "Bali", only no one dies. If you don't have it I can send!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

(angst, angst, angst)

LOL, you know me a little too well.

I meant to get to Piano some time, but never got around. Don't worry, I can get it quite easily. Go Su plays the guy in love with stepsis, right? I was thinking I am in need of another angsty drama. Only You is cute but not intense/angsty enough.

I have two dramas where JIS is actually the lead and gets the girl: Spring Day and Shoot for the Star but I heard they aren't so awesome. Hmmm. I will give it a try just for him.

Btw, have you watched Green Rose? it's with Go Su and is excellent and very Count of Monte Cristo-ish.

THEY BETTER make it a college drama :D I'll watch for JIS or Hyun Bin or JGS.


Heeee. I love Hanadan in any incarnation so am rather excited if this happens. If they cast unknowns though, much much less so. I suppose if they could get Hyun Bin (though seriously, I adore him but CANNOT for the life of me see him as Domyoji), that would definitely make me excited. Or as angelajewell suggested, Jae Hee would be awesome, but he is 2 years older than Hyun Bin so I doubt they'd go for it.

The chances of them getting Jo In Sung are nonexistent, I'd say. If they did, I'd watch the silly thing raw, even, but they have better chances getting it filmed in North Korea than having him :) Not only is he enlisting rather soon (this is to be filmed/shown latter half of 2008) so it's timewise not workable short of a rift in time-space continuum, he also seems to have switched to movies only. Bali was his last drama and that was what? 2005? 2006? Blanking. Which is just as well, I suppose, as why would he find Hanadan interesting, after all his character in Hanadan would basically be his character from Bali 'lite.'

I don't see why they are doing Hanadan, frankly, much as I love the manga. There is so much awesome manhwa that just begs to be adopted into a drama.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I have two dramas where JIS is actually the lead and gets the girl: Spring Day and Shoot for the Star but I heard they aren't so awesome. Hmmm. I will give it a try just for him.

He also "gets the girl" in "Piano", this drama more of a type similar to "Capital Scandal" with two separate OTPs. JIS has his own OTP, but he still angsts A LOT. I could be of course wrong but this drama has all over it "written for dangermousie"

- angsty stepsiblings love - check
- angsty angry JIS - check
- angsty pretty Go Su - check

Which is just as well, I suppose, as why would he find Hanadan interesting, after all his character in Hanadan would basically be his character from Bali 'lite.'

** nods ** As you, I'll totally love him in Hanadan. I find him V.V.HOT, actually, and I am even contemplating watching "Bali" properly (which has the ending of HATE)..

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I didn't know JIS got a girl of his own in Piano. Now I am definitely invested. Mmmm, weekend fun, here we come.

am even contemplating watching "Bali" properly (which has the ending of HATE)..


YAY!

I actually like the ending of Bali because it makes emotional sense to me, even if it's so horrid, sadness-wise. walkwithheroes and I had a long discussion on it here, if you are interested:

http://dangermousie.livejournal.com/1113441.html?thread=11832417#t11832417

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I didn't know JIS got a girl of his own in Piano. Now I am definitely invested. Mmmm, weekend fun, here we come.

In short, JIS and his sister grew in a nice middle-class family. Then their father dies, his relatives harass the mother and she doesn't know what to do. She meets this guy, a gangster and a total no-gooder who has a young son (his girl-friend had just "dropped" their son on him, actually). The gangster falls in love, they marry, the mother dies in accident. JIS blames the Father and Go Su (who plays the step-sibling brother) for everything . (You can easily ff the backstory it is slightly too long but when it gets going it is all good)

JIS grows angry and becomes a gangster himself. Go Su and the sister have their love going for ages, from childhood. JIS later hooks with a girl who herself is a single mother and their love story develops too (and I love this bit because there is that element of "JIS was an orphan and he got attached to the child because he was orphan too). As far as I can remember Go Su and the sister don't have a good ending but JIS does.

And in the middle - much family angst and strange but powerful feelings but everyone reconciles at the end.

Thank you very much for the link!!!!!!!!!!!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Piano sounds sooooooooooooooo awesome. Thank you!