News bites: February 7, 2015

by awcoconuts

• Kim Jae-wook (Age of Feeling) has been cast as the lead in There’s Another Road. Billed as a movie that will demonstrate that even the briefest of human encounters can provide healing, Kim will play a policeman who is ready to give up on life. He’ll travel to Chuncheon in what he decides will be his final trip, but there he’ll meet Seo Ye-ji (Records of a Night Watchman), whose character is in a similarly precarious situation in life. Kim gave his reasons for choosing the film: “I thought this could be a film that today’s youths, many who face harsh realities without anyone to lean on, could relate to. Just as I was comforted when I read the script, I hope we can release a good project to the world and I will try my best to ensure it.” [My Daily]
• Lucky Kim So-yeon! She’ll have the men falling for her left and right in the upcoming JTBC drama Falling for Innocence. In addition to the male leads, Jin Gu (The Target) will make a cameo appearance as a senior police detective who is a hopeless romantic and only has eyes for Kim. He’ll be in the first couple of episodes, then will continue to materialize in flashbacks. Falling for Innocence begins on Fridays and Saturdays in April. [Osen]
• I’ll forevermore do a silent cheer when I hear about a new project that a former One International intern is involved with: Byun Yo-han (Misaeng) is the lead in an indie titled Socialphobia, a film with a view on the current state of social media. When a woman posts a nasty anonymous comment in a public forum, a witchhunt begins, but at the end of the search, she’ll be found dead. Those who searched for her will attempt to uncover the truth behind her suspicious death. Byun’s character is a would-be police officer who gets involved in the online debate that escalates, while Lee Joo-seung (Pinocchio) is a social media junkie who also gets entangled in the case. [TV Report]


Byun Yo-han

• Kang Haneul (Misaeng [Silent hooray!]) will appear in OCN’s latest crime series, Missing Persons Task Force M. About a pair of detectives forced to work together despite radically different styles, each of the ten episodes will show the duo working to solve a different, grisly mystery. Sadly, that means Kang’s cameo will be limited to one episode, but his role will be a central one for the hour, and I’ll take what I can get. Missing Persons Task Force M airs at the end of March. [Joongang]
• Kim Seung-woo (IRIS 2) has confirmed and Lee Tae-ran (King’s Family) is being courted to lead Twenty for the Second Time. The melodramatic film will be about a man and a woman who were first loves in their twenties and become reunited later in life. It will be filmed in Korea and Italy beginning next month and released in the second half of the year. [TV Report]
• Innocent Steps, the 2005 film about a girl (Moon Geun-young) who gets mistaken for a professional dancer and who has a mere few months to win a national dancing competition, is being remade in China. While the news is being released on the heels of the success of the Chinese remake of Miss Granny (which was released in China a month ago and has already set revenue records for a Chinese-Korean joint production), pre-production for the remake of Innocent Steps took two years and the first draft of the screenplay is already in place. The updated version will be about a Chinese man and a Korean woman who struggle with cultural differences but eventually fall in love through their dance collaboration. Production is now in search for the leads, and filming will soon begin in both countries, with 40% of the scenes to be shot in Korea and the rest in China. [Munhwa]
• Funnyman Shim Hyung-tak (Persevere Gu Hae-ra) is a welcome addition to SBS’s upcoming weekend drama Divorce Lawyer in Love, where it seems he’ll play the second lead vying for the attentions of Jo Yeo-jung. Divorce Lawyer in Love will begin in March after the conclusion of The Family is Coming. [Star News]

Shim Hyung-tak

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