Yay!! :)

Thanks for the news.
I've read in some sites that he will also star in Detective Hong Gil-Dong. Is it true? Or did he decline the film project?

LOL, even better if the secret door in the rice chest leads to 2014 Gangnam a la Rooftop Prince. He can go to a night club and maybe get busted by the YAAS cops for sexual depravity.

Jokes aside, I am looking forward to this one.

I've seen this part of Korean history being portrayed on screen so many times I've lost count. So it's good to see them changing things up a little and making Sado the victim. Last time a drama did that (Jang Ok-jung), it failed miserably - let's hope this one holds it's own since it's up against Nodame's remake.

They have a deadly combo whilst every other upcoming sageuk looks so ridiculously crappy. I'm looking forward to this.

FINALLY. He's going to be fantastic! And with Han Seok Kyu? I'm hyperventilating already.

It will certainly be interesting to see how the conflict between Yeongjo and Sado is re-written. If we're going by Lady Hyegyeong's account of the event, Sado was both violent and sexually depraved AND a tragic victim. Her analysis of Sado's psychological state was that his actions were driven by an intense conflict between his fear of Yeongjo and his desire to please him as a son. That doesn't make Sado's actions justifiable, but it makes his character a bit more sympathetic. It sounds like this drama is going to make Sado out to be entirely innocent, but in my opinion, Sado doesn't have to be totally whitewashed to become a tragic victim.

In any case, I'm definitely looking forward to this!

Prepare to be amazed!!!!! Lee Je-hoon thank you for accepting this role. I couldn't think of anyone better.

I love this solid and talented cast. I haven't had a crack drama this year. Hoping this would be it.

Awesome... I hope this drama will do good for him after the drama that shall not been mentioned.

Now let's cast for Jo Jin Woong as the Joseon #1 sword man a.k.a the bodyguard.

KingSejongxMooHyul OTP in Deep Rooted Tree still the best for me

Who?

There was a scenario just like this about Prince Sado in Warrior Beak Dong Soo.

oppa is baaaack! with a very good project too boot!

This should be fusion sageuk with secret door as portal to Seoul 2014. I can't take the heartbreaks if this drama really kills Sado in slow death inside the rice chest. And I'll watch at least 2 Sado. Sado Lee Je Hoon here and Sado Yoo Ah In in movie "Sado"

Elcome back lee je hoon. Youre amazing and i cant wait to see post army you!!!

So glad he's coming back in a drama. I was afraid fashion king scared him away from dramaland and he was gonna stick to just films.

This drama is going in a right direction already!!!

Hope this is going to be like another kind of "Deep Rooted Tree". As watched before a great chemistry between Han suk-kyu and SJK. Now lee je hoon,..?? A very great choice to pair with HAn Suk-kyu. Liked him best in "Architecture 101" . Saeguk

There is so much acting when in this drama I don't think I can handle. It's like watching Lawrence Olivier act with Tom Hanks. This is soooooooooooooo awesome. Thank you dramagods! First Joseon Gunman, then a whole bevy of romcoms and now this. Someone in Kdramaland does love me!

just once I would like to see a k drama that portrays the character of Sado accurately: a rapist,sadist, and serial murder who woul've been a disaster to Korea had he lived to become king.
I think Lady Hong (his wife) was a very empathetic woman,also her Confucian culture preventd her from criticising her husband/sire of her son, which is why she makes him sympthetic (tormented by his high performing/former prodigy father*)... Yet how awful would it have been to Lady Hong: married to sadistic rapist who murdered their servants and other concubines... who was also mentally illy (on top of his sadistic/psychopathic persoalit disorder). Sex would have been a torment with a man like Sado. Then her son tries to make his father a hero, and history/popular culture makes Prince Sado out to be a victim.
Please just make an accurate movie that takes Lady Hong at her word.

*intelligence is highly linked to X-chromosome, so Choi Sukbin was probably a highly intelligent woman who rose from slave to consort, but given Yeongjo's own cold personality, probably a less nice personality than Dong Yi makes her out to be, even if she was empathetic to Queen Inhyon, like Yeongjo was empathetic to Prince Sado's victims, his people as well as concerned for his country's future.
I think Yeongjo, like many brilliant men was a terrible father. The fact that his concubine was beneath him intellectually meant that he had a weak son, further exacerbating the parenting flaws that men of his character profile have with their sons.