tvN Plans to Air Remake of Japan’s “Liar Game” in October

[imienazwisko.livejournal.com]

“Liar Game” joins “Tomorrow Cantabile” (Nodame Cantabile) in the list of Japanese series that will be remade in Korea this year.

According to a statement made by a drama representative to iSPlus on August 26, the Korean adaptation of Japan’s “Liar Game” is set to air on cable channel tvN this October.

This information was confirmed with a representative from CJ E&M who said, “It is true that it will be completed by October. There will be a total of 10 episodes and it will follow ‘Valid Love.‘ ‘Liar Game’ is a popular series not only in Japan but in Korea as well so we plan to cast good actors. After finishing the casting work, we plan to begin filming next month.”

The remake of “Liar Game” will be written by Yoo Yong Jae of MBC’s “Time Between Dog and Wolf” and directed by PD Kim Hong Seon, who was in charge of OCN’s “Hero” and SBS’ “Warrior Baek Dong Soo.”

“Liar Game” is a live action adaptation of Kaitani Shinobu’s manga of the same title. The manga, which was first serialized in 2005 and was adapted into a TV series on 2007, is about Nao Kanzaki, a college student who’s honest to a fault. By a twist of fate, she got involved in a fictional “Liar Game Tournament” wherein contestants are encouraged to cheat and lie. The live action series had a second season aired on 2009. It also spawned two live action films that were shown in 2010 and 2012.
source: soompi

[Poll #1980026]

i hope they will just do the first season cause imho the second one and movies wasn't really on par, esp the last movie without erika. idk im not fond of the pd or writer but lets see

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[hipployta.livejournal.com]

The writers are good but I don't know...I prefer Erika in Spec anyway

[tsuyoi-hikari.livejournal.com]

The writer is good? I absolutely like TBD&W but the ending was a mess esp after the discovery. And I dont have faith in the PD either since WBDS has one of the worst ending ever. It drives me crazy watching the drama since only bad things happen to the leads ughhh -- one of the most frustrated drama I have ever watch despite the sizzling chemistry between Yoo Seungho and Ji Changwook.

Erika is great in SPEC! :D

[swhyeon1991.livejournal.com]

Wait so apparently The Genius didn't count lol. Eh idk, I'm more interested in The Genius 3 tbh.

[fullmoon-secret.livejournal.com]

its an pseudo-reality show
this is a drama so different genre?

[mad-nux.livejournal.com]

any korean remake = NOPE. /bias

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

fated to love you is flawless, stahhp

(then i realized i can't think of anything else)

[21banged.livejournal.com]

I'm still reading the manga, so ngl I'm pretty damn excited for it - even if it does turn out shitty

[tsuyoi-hikari.livejournal.com]

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The original was soooo good and I just absolutely adore both Shota & Erika. I probably wont watch it since the drama is only good when you dont know the tricks. I dont think the Korean remakes going to work considering they always always failed in doing any Japanese remakes. :/

BTW OP, no need to do the poll since 'nope, Shota oppa >>> everyone' is too accurate for anyone not to choose it. :D

[imienazwisko.livejournal.com]

idk, shota oppa has some haters :p i mean he had that dv scandal when he hit his sister during dinner and his mom called ambulance/police. and he is rumoured to have nasty attitude on set, always disagreeing with director. which, speaking from my personal experience from working in movies, can be a real pain in the ass.
he's a good actor and liar game is one of his top works so yeah, will be hard to top that.

[kinagyo.livejournal.com]

I love Liar Game so I'm excited for thisss

but yeah, Shota oppa >>> everyone

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

nope, Shota oppa >>> everyone

Shota/Hiro>>> everyone

[miuratenshi.livejournal.com]

I will watch this but no one will slay like Shota did.

[canxi.livejournal.com]

Agree.

[torontok.livejournal.com]

I generally can rely on tvn to put out quality dramas but then again, I havent seen the original so my opinion is moot

[uledy.livejournal.com]

(http://imgur.com/hqgBk9L)

Please stop with the remakes. I feel like the world around me is becoming less and less creative.

[canxi.livejournal.com]

Man I marathon-ed the two seasons and concluding movie for this show so hard. I loved it.
I should read the manga, too because I know the show breaks off from the storyline and changes up some of the characters.

I would be willing to give a Korean remake a shot depending on who they cast.

[gray-fairy.livejournal.com]

Liar Game is one of my favorite Japanese dramas ever. I may be watching this if it's good.

[pbutterlion.livejournal.com]

why are people so biased with japanese stuff? chill lmao im hft i loved the drama so i wanna see another version of this yea

[imienazwisko.livejournal.com]

lol i love this comment
bless you (and your seunghoon icon!)

[edanz-castle.livejournal.com]

I have faith in TVN but Shota wouldn't be in it. TBH he was the reason I watched..

[feel-my-mind.livejournal.com]

Now I know why people get so "Please No," about remakes. Usually, I'm like whatever, let them have their fun, but this one I was like "Nobody can replace Shota and Erika!" (And I think both of them actually have better dramas out there.)It is TVN, so I'll wait for the case


(ok, so I suppose my list of dramas not to touch are nagareboshi, bloody monday, liar game and idk, mabe voice, but that becuase I love the cast.... I haven't watched a jdrama since nagareboshi, I'm so out of it. then again my list of kdramas is like maybe 10 (lets see, IHYV, Coffee Prince, Bridal Mask, City Hunter, Dream High, My Girlfriend is a Gumiho,Queen In-hyun's Man, You're Beautiful, My Princess, that one with Siwon and the kid, half of Love Rain before it got all -unneeded plot twist-y- so its not like I be said to actually be a deciding factor in any of this. Recommendation for both is what I really need. Maybe then I can stop watching anime from like the late 90s/early00s. Not my fault I found the stuff I couldn't see as a kid, but wanted to on hulu.)

[ohcrepe.livejournal.com]

Can I just say I love you for mentioning Voice? I love the cast too and some of the cases made me cry so hard. Such an underrated drama for a getsuku.

*GASP*

[shy-mizuno.livejournal.com]

It's gonna be crap, but YEY!!!~

[kat-tunluver90.livejournal.com]

EHH???
I dunno how to feel about this because Liar Game is absolutely one of my favorite jdramas of all time and korea has yet to make a successful kdrama adaption of a jdrama/manga. At least in my opinion. Shota and Erika did such a great job in Liar Game so it's very hard for me to see anyone play those roles.
What gives me slight hope is that it'll be airing on TvN which isn't too bad. sigh... I dunno we'll see I guess. But even if I do enjoy it, I know no other adaption could ever surpass the japanese version for me. I love it too much lol.
Also I wonder how the character fukunaga will be in the korean version. Will it be like in the manga or the jdrama.

One of my favorite scenes. I hope they play this game so we can have this scene again:

[uledy.livejournal.com]

I would not be surprised if someone remade Nobuta wo Produce. It's way to popular and classic to not be touched :|

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

i have faith in tvn, plus the korean version of the devil was waaaaaaay better than the japanese one.

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

But...the Korean version was the original

[shortysc22.livejournal.com]

I LOVED Liar Game so I'm curious to see how this will turn out.

I've been hoping for an American remake for years because I think it'd go really well on American television.

[nrafx.livejournal.com]

These comments are making me think I should give the drama another shot. I tried watching it once because I liked the manga but I could not get into it at all...

Generally though I have faith in tvN so I'm gonna stay cautiously optimistic about this.

[cotxpaxi.livejournal.com]

hm tbh i only saw a liar game movie during a flight, so i'm not familiar with how good the actual drama is. just hope the lead is a hottie too (sung joon???)

oh oh and i just thought of something. my alltime fav japanese drama is IWGP. it'd be cool if that was remade in korea. but an 'iljin' drama is never gonna happen :'( is there something similar out of korea???

[imienazwisko.livejournal.com]

a drama like IWGP? no way. it's my fave as well but it's an absolute classic. i don't think there's a korean drama like that... imho a remake wouldn't work, esp now that many years after it aired.

[keyutie.livejournal.com]

another remake of an amazing drama? please stop :( or be amazing. but korea's track record doesn't give me much hope

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

i voted that it's too early to judge. especially without the casting.

but imho, it's gonna be tough to enjoy it as a korean drama, but the japanese version was just SO good. korean dramas have a different style. they're so much slower, and tend to stretch out scenes a lot. the japanese version, second season, already stretched out a lot of their scenes, so i worry that the korean version will stretch out the first season and the second season even more. japan's liar game did the fine line of a fast-paced tense psychological thriller very well. /shrug/ i just don't think korean dramas does fast-paced dramas very well. plus, aren't kdramas usually 60 mins each episode? jdramas are only 45 mins each iirc.

[milafanway.livejournal.com]

I trust this more than nodame cantabile's remake but that's not much...........why? Like, korean writers need to step up their game and do some drama without a love square.
Even though I'm not the biggest Shota's fan, no one can slay like him in that drama.......
Praying for "kazoku game" to stay without a remake.