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- Noh Hee-kyung adapts beloved drama for the big screen
- Secret Garden: Episode 1
- Song Hye-gyo wraps The Grandmasters, back to Korean film
- Old Boy Hollywood remake gains traction
| Noh Hee-kyung adapts beloved drama for the big screen Posted: 14 Nov 2010 05:08 AM PST Seo Young-hee (Queen Seon-deok, Dal-ja’s Spring) has just been cast in the upcoming film by acclaimed screenwriter Noh Hee-kyung (above, right), an adaptation of her beloved 1996 drama, The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World, about a family’s loss, inspired by her own. Noh Hee-kyung (Red Candy, The World They Live In, Goodbye Solo) is one of the most highly regarded writers today in the drama world, and if you’ve seen her work, you’ll recognize her trademark cerebral yet incisive look at the human heart, mapped out in a myriad of characters and circumstances, but always piercing and earnest. The Most Beautiful Goodbye in the World is a heartfelt personal tale inspired by the death of her mother, who passed away from cancer. While it isn’t a strict autobiographical story, it’s a fictional rendition of her loss, and her most personal piece of work. (...) © girlfriday for Dramabeans, 2010. | Permalink | 4 comments | Add to del.icio.us  |
| Posted: 13 Nov 2010 08:45 PM PST
I’d been wary of getting excited about Secret Garden, because it’s so easy for hyped dramas to let you down, even when you love the cast. So it was with relief that I found the first episode light and funny, with a bustling pace and solid comic acting from the cast. In addition to A-list leads Hyun Bin and Ha Ji-won, who are great, the drama is produced by a “hitmaker” team, the duo behind City Hall, On Air, Lovers in Paris, and Lovers in Prague. Despite the creds, I was cautious of writer Kim Eun-sook, because I have found her writing a little too glib and soulless for my liking in the past. Secret Garden is full of her trademark super-speed banter, but this time I was swept up in the zippiness because the characters are so engaging. She also drops in a number of pop-culture references, some of which involve the stars of her own previous dramas, which are fun to spot. Secret Garden is off to a promising start with a strong 17.2% premiere. Granted, its competition wasn’t the strongest (MBC aired the news and KBS’s King Geunchogo is just getting started on its 70-episode run. They recorded 12.2% and 10.3%.). But perhaps it’s tapping in to an overlooked audience; it’s been a while since a romantic-comedy miniseries aired on the weekend, which I’ve always found curious — the viewership is there! Not everyone wants to see a million episodes of sageuk or family dramas, just sayin’… SONG OF THE DAY Secret Garden OST – “바라본다” (Looking at you) by Yoon Sang-hyun. This song is sung by Yoon Sang-hyun’s character and gets a fair bit of play in this episode. (...) © javabeans for Dramabeans, 2010. | Permalink | 77 comments | Add to del.icio.us  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Song Hye-gyo wraps The Grandmasters, back to Korean film Posted: 13 Nov 2010 03:32 PM PST Newly transformed action star Song Hye-gyo (Full House, The World They Live In) just wrapped on the set of Wong Kar-wai‘s martial arts film The Grandmasters, and has returned home. She’s headed straight into her next project, as if she’s purposely trying to make me look lazy or something. I can’t wait to see what The Grandmasters looks like. Wong Kar-wai is my one cinema indulgence: as in, I give everything he makes a fighting chance to steal my heart, because his earlier work just owns my soul. Frankly, his later films (post-In the Mood for Love) are missing that spark for me, mostly because I think he was better when he was looser, less polished, and freer as a cinematic storyteller. His early films always felt like he had this rushed, burning desire to tell a story and show a world that just somehow…got out of reach (making them utterly addictive). Or perhaps his languid-pace-fiery-characters combo has become old hat? Either way, I’m looking forward to his re-foray into martial arts, because I’m a sucker for stylized action, and for Tony Leung Chiu-wai. (...) © girlfriday for Dramabeans, 2010. | Permalink | 36 comments | Add to del.icio.us  |
| Old Boy Hollywood remake gains traction Posted: 13 Nov 2010 10:11 AM PST There have been talks of a Hollywood remake of Park Chan-wook‘s hallmark revenge thriller Old Boy for some time now, but the project was stuck in legal battles over the rights to the original story, from the Japanese manga of the same name. But with that dispute finally settled (to the tune of how many millions, I wonder), Old Boy is back on track to be the next big Hallyu-Hollywood crossover. Will it survive the process and actually become a watchable movie? Or will it die a slow death and get lost in translation? Three big names are being bandied about in contention for the remake: Steven Spielberg, who has been attached as producer and possible director for some time now, Matthew Vaughn (Kick-ass, Layer Cake), and Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting). I’d vote for either of the latter two, if I had my druthers, since they have more of an indie edge and will un-slick the Hollywood sheen off of the remake. I think Danny Boyle in particular could do something very urban and gritty with the source material, while creating something other than a carbon copy. Because who needs a carbon copy when Old Boy is…Old Boy? (...) © girlfriday for Dramabeans, 2010. | Permalink | 63 comments | Add to del.icio.us  |
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