SM Entertainment Buys the Rights to Produce K-drama Version of Hana Kimi

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• Question mark? I don't think JYJ had anything to do with Dream High? Did you instead mean JYP? Just checking. :)

  • You're right, just a typo on my part. Oh what a difference a letter makes!

    • He he, just thought I'd check. I don't know my boy bands at all, but I did follow both DH and SKKS, and I was like, "Wait, I thought the idols in each drama came from different boy bands?" Korea has way too many boy bands - the only way I manage to differentiate them at all is from following Korean dramas, which is kind of sad, because I generally have very poor expectations for idol acting.

      I loved both Hana Yori Dango and Hana Kimi the mangas, so I always felt kind of bad for HK that its Taiwanese and Japanese adaptations couldn't achieve the same level of success that the adaptations of HYD did. The Japanese HK did have lots of eye candy, though. Even if it was so whack.

• wow, another adaption of a japanese anime...SM better used a great actor and actress to play the lead roles..don't disappoint me 6_6 i don't want no crappy ass actor and actress and please don't use idols..sorry peoples

• SM?!.....i can already see half of SuJu in it....maybe not Si Won cuz he'll be busy in Taiwan......and either one of the SNSD girls or Go Ara or Lee Yeon Hee will play the lead....good luck trying to convince anybody that they are boys.....but then again i've yet to come across an Asian cross dressing drama that they dint have that trouble
  I did like Hana Kimi, the Jdorama but that was only because I loved all the high School gimicks and Nakatsu was such a hoot!..but whenever they tried to go serious i'd hit the ffw btutton

  • actually on second though Heechul might make a good Nakatsu...afterall he's got the boy-love fanservice part perfected :)

  • Go ara is Good cadidate for this Dram ; She can dance Though her act isn't good (seems she always is sad)...But undeniable beauty;And young ehough 1990.

• I loved the manga, so I've got my fingers crossed so hard that this adaptation, at least, will come out watchable. I've only seen a couple episodes of the Taiwanese and Japanese versions, and in both, the actors playing Sano drove me batshit insane--I think Oguri Shun is exceedingly unattractive, and Wu Zun...well, the less said about that particular (but very pretty) block of wood, the better.

  • i love Shun. Okay so he's not attractive, that's true. But he's a very awesome actor and i love him in Hana Kimi, although my fave role of his will always be Hanazawa Rui of Hana Yori Dango.

    I'd chose acting skills over attractive face anytime.

• Can we have a girl who can convince everyone she's a guy (funny how it's obvious to the audience - just by the appearance alone - that it's a girl while everyone in the drama is oblivious. It's like they live on another planet) and also NOT do the over-acting/act cute kind of thing? The TW version received rave reviews but I switched it off after half an hour - Ella just made me cringe and roll my eyes to the back of my head.

  As for Korean cross-dressers (so far I've seen Coffee Prince and SKK Scandal), only Park Min Young didn't make me cringe. She didn't over-do the "oh I'm a guy so I gotta eat/act like a pig" kind of thing.

• Awww, I love the Japanese version, so, I'm not exactly jumping for joy with this news, but c'est la vie. I hope they hire good actors for this adaptation, and not just idols please.

  On a totally different topic: Jung Woo Sung and Lee Ji Ah are dating???

  • Where did you hear about JWS and LJA?

    • Go to Han Cinema:

      http://www.hancinema.net/exclusive-jeong-woo-seong-and-lee-ji-ah-lovers-in-paris---captured-street-date-in-france-28434.html

  • WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT POSSIBILITY AT AKP.

    Capish, everyone? *runs back to crying*

    http://i966.photobucket.com/albums/ae145/ockoala/Jung%20Woo%20Sung/jwslja.jpg

    • WHAT? WHAT? I...OMG WHAT?

      *hugs Koala*

    • Awww. Sorry, chica. Feel free to edit my post and delete the OT.

    • *wahhhhhh*

      *Clings to Sere* This is just too much for a Koala to handle all at once.

    • I know, I know. *pats*

      Maybe it's all photoshopped...Think that, maybe that will help.

      Quick, quick, you need distractions. A chat about M3? Sh? Random hot men? Speaking of, pics can't be posted here, right? Gah

    • I'll be fine. Nothing a fifty-proof Vodka bender can't cure.

      Send the huskies to find me if you don't hear from me in a day or so. No, gimme three days of radio silence.

• Add YAB to the list :).

• To be honest, I didn't mind the j-version that much. I mean, it SO wasn't the kind of drama I like and the slapstick comedy was too much (I do not like slapstick comedy), but I watched it and lalala through it. XD

  IDK how the kdrama might be. It could either be awesome or spectacularly bad. I don't think kdrama can ruin the story too much. Then again, if I were a fan of the manga, I'd probalby hate all of the adaptations.

  As for Boys before flowers, I guess it was so popular for a number of reasons. I couldn't get past ep 10 because if I had heard Jan-di say another word, I would have torn my hair out (and not even LMH and his performance, which I enjoyed a lot, could make me watch more), but I think the main reason BBF was so popular was because HYD had, in itself, a "kdrama" flavor, imho, and that translated well into the kdrama format.

  • I couldn't get past episode 7 of BOF!

    • F1968, same here. I gave up after episode 7 and opted to read javabeans/girlfriday's recaps instead :P

      there's so many of girl crossdressing dramas....but i still watch them all :P

  • Jan-di totally ruined BOF.

• I've read somewhere that instead of a cross-dressing girl... it'll be a cross-dressing guy in an all-girls school. so that's GG + the cross-dressing male would be... Heechul? Onew? Minho? Key? LOL

  • a lot of suggestions have been made pointing towards minho as sano. obviously cos of his athleticism. no. 1 in high jump (idol stars championship), totally believable. hahah

• I like Hana Kimi, and the Japanese ver was so fun, even if a bit ridiculous, it's still one of my best jdramas.

  I'm kinda sure Hana Kimi korea will just be another Playful Kiss, though.

  And Sungkyunkwan Scandal definitely does it better