Acclaimed C-director Li Shao Hong‘s planned C-adaptation of the popular K-drama Heirs has been getting lots of attention in the last two months and for good reason. Heirs was hella popular in China and continued to build Lee Min Ho‘s popularity as well as vaulted Kim Woo Bin from unknown in the Chinese market to suddenly a buzzy new face. Rumors have abounded about who was going to get cast in the drama which pretty much is rubber stamped to garner ratings regardless of quality or lack thereof. This weekend came the first credible leaks about the casting so everyone simmer down and let’s get to it. Male lead Kim Tan is reportedly Yu Xiao Tong who I last saw when he looked 12 years old even though he was already a teenager. He’s a relative newbie but got a huge breakthrough role playing one of the most well known characters in Chinese literary classics Jia Bao Yu in the latest drama adaptation of one of the Four Classics Dream of the Red Chamber back in 2010. He’s 20 years old now so as least it’s not a stretch to play a teen. Female lead Cha Eun Sang may be Kan Qing Zi who is getting a lot of face time in the popular C-drama Shining Days. Director Li has reportedly landed Super Junior‘s Choi Si Won to play Choi Young Do and Kim Hee Sun to play Kim Tan’s mom. Jiang Mong Jie, who co-starred with Yu Xiao Tong in Dream of the Red Chamber playing female lead Lin Dai Yu, will be playing Lee Bo Na, while Prince (Wang Zi) is joining the cast not as Kim Tan but playing Yoon Chan Young. Super tall hot daddy du jour Zhang Liang (from the popular C-version of Daddy Where Are We Going?) will be playing Kim Won. The drama is slated to start filming shortly with a location shoot in Beihai, Guangxi province. That’s all I’ve got for now folks. So far I don’t want to spork my eyes out but it is a weird and random assortment of folks to mush together.
Original flavor Heirs.
Yu Xiao Tong as Kim Tan.
Kan Qing Zi as Cha Eun Sang.
Choi Si Won as Choi Young Do. Kim Hee Sun as Kim Tan’s mom. By, the way, if Kim Hee Sun really plays Kim Tan’s mom, then she would be playing the mom to the character Lee Min Ho played, thus making all the Oedipal comments from viewers about Faith and their noona-dongsaeng pairing completely true. XD
Jiang Mong Jie as Lee Bo Na.
Zhang Liang as Kim Won.
Prince (Wang Zi) as Yoon Chan Young.
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Oh no.... Kim Tan ㅜㅜㅜ
It's rare but sometimes remakes are better... 'Cause in most cases it all comes down to "interpretation."
One can only hope, it's liked equally by those that enjoyed the original.
I dont know w/ mainland-C remakes, but Taiwan seems better on adaptations and remakes.
Haha that C-Kim Tan is soo ugliest compared to Lee Min Ho!!
Si won shud be the male lead
That is so true. This drama screams pretty and handsome people. Hearing that Siwon oppa might play Choi Young Do is weird. Him playing second male lead is weird. Comparisation is totally nothing alike. People are going to compare Lee min ho with that unknown star. I just think its totally weird.... still in a bit of shock that Siwon oppa is probably acting in this!
I can see Siwon doing the part, even tho' I think he's too old. I'm disappointed that he's probably playing another role where they dub in his Chinese (he can speak it). I don't watch anything with dubbed in voices. If it's true, as he says, that he is serious about his acting career, why would he do this? Can't be the money.
Umm...
These people scare me. Lol!! Hopefully, it's just a dream.
Lee bo na seems to be perfectly casted.
Chanyoung too. Pretty face.
Had to lol at your kim hee sun comment.
I don't think i'll ever really understand the magic behind the popularity of heirs. I mean, the formula for crack drama was all there, it just all feels like a huge letdown because it didn't even end up being crack-level that BOF/You're Beautiful was yet SO many people gobbled it up the same way. We all know BOF was bad but we still watched with fascination. It was popcorn entertainment. For heirs, all that hype that amounted to alot of brooding/moping around dragged out conflicts that ran in circles.. no dam feels.
Heirs will be the first k-drama that had so much potential (star studded cast, highschool setting, famed writer, lots of money investment) yet failed to even move me. Those times i felt something was when I decided to forget about the characters in that world and just watched an actor's performance -- sad that it had to amount to that.
Yu Xiao Tong as Kim Tan? I majorly "What-ed". That is a strange casting for sure for sure. Siwon has the eyes to pull off a Choi Young Do. Prince I guess could maybe do a decent job as Chan Young, but I doubt he will be Kang Min Hyuk level. And I have already established that no one can do Lee Bo Na the way Krystal did. Major doubts about C-Heirs, but I guess we will have to wait and see.
What if... they don't follow Kim Eun Sook's story and then went off on a tangent? They'd lose some lines like what she gave to Bo Na or Eun Sang's mom, but Heirs had sooome potential of being a fun show, more than what we got.
Not following the Kim Eun Sook story and going off tangent would be a vast improvement IMO.
Hah! C-Kim Tan is getting an early start on ugly sweaters.
I can see myself watching the first episode out of morbid curiousity. Who knows maybe this version will actually be good.
LOL!!!!
hahaha you cracked me up with your comment!
The male lead looks like a middle schooler (and fugly to boot) and the female lead looks fully grown up. WTF.