jeon ji hyun in absolute boyfriend?
2009-09-18 06:51 pm
This is not finalized (so take with a grain of salt), but Jeon Ji-hyun’s potential drama comeback just may come in the Korean adaptation of Japanese manga Absolute Boyfriend, aka Zettai Kareshi. The kdrama will be directed by PD Kim Min-shik of Queen of Housewives and Before and After: Plastic Surgery.
Jeon Ji-hyun is currently busy surveying projects to finalize her decision, and the Zettai remake is reportedly a strong contender. (It had considered casting U-Know Yunho at one point, who moved on to Heading to the Ground instead.) A source with the production said, “We understand that for a long while, Jeon Ji-hyun has been carefully preparing to take a role in a Korean drama. We are working out the details of her casting, and hope for a positive result.”
In the original fantasy-romance manga, a girl accidentally gets a made-to-order boyfriend android from a website, only to find out that she has to pay an exorbitant amount to keep him — unless she helps the company conduct research to improve future models. She must then hide his non-human status from others, and he starts to develop human emotions.
In the kdrama version, the lead is not a teenager but a 30-year-old woman who is a stylist at a beauty salon without any clients. She is betrayed by her first love who becomes an overnight success as a movie star. Feeling the sting, she orders up her ideal man in robot form, aka her “absolute boyfriend.”
Absolute Boyfriend will be a 16-episode drama to air on MBC either at the end of this year or in early 2010. If she decides on the drama, it will be Jeon Ji-hyun’s first in ten years, since 1999’s Happy Together. After seeing such a lot of the same old kdramas airing one after another, this plot sounds like a refreshing change.
donga via dramabeans
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Date: 2009-09-19 01:57 am (UTC)He's probably eating his heart out.
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:01 am (UTC)I would've probably watched it too (I'm taking a pass on HTTG).
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Date: 2009-09-19 01:59 am (UTC)i like this premise
haha the ONLY good boyfriend is a robotic one
jkjkjkjka;sjfaoiwej;lrkj but still, v. cool
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:03 am (UTC)I like that she's an older woman instead of the usual teen.
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:08 am (UTC)I felt so torn between him & Hiro while watching Zettai Kareshi. I didn't know who to root for XD
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-19 02:05 am (UTC)I loved the manga soo much than the japanese version IMO
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:09 am (UTC)even though they SHOULD!
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:05 am (UTC)But but but but why this manga (again). Why not something else. *headdesks repeatedly*
Anyway she's pretty. And Yunho would have been hilarious in this.
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-19 02:08 am (UTC)OMG JAEJOONG AS NIGHTO *me dead* XDDD
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:11 am (UTC)I swear on all that is holy if Korea touches Nodame Cantabile, I will cut a bitchno subject
Date: 2009-09-19 02:13 am (UTC)OUCH.
You didn't have to say that, Yunho is not even gonna be in this drama.
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Date: 2009-09-19 03:56 am (UTC)i never finished it because of it :(
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:18 am (UTC)I seriously wanna see SNSD play the girls after that CF.
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:26 am (UTC)I demand a better ending for K's version...
..................... oh and now it reminds me of the sucky SP.
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:37 am (UTC)DO NOT THINK ABOUT THE SPECIAL! think about all the good times!!
i'll sing you the theme song!!
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:29 am (UTC)hopefully the korean version will stick to the plot somewhat, unlike the japanese one >_>
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:36 am (UTC)lol Yunho. will he ever get to work with his dream girl.
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Date: 2009-09-19 02:51 am (UTC)Glad I'm not the only one thinking this... Isn't Riiko supposed to be a kinda sentimental girl who gets rejected all the time? I can't imagine someone rejecting jeon ji hyun
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