I remain eagerly anticipating Lee Kyung Hee‘s upcoming KBS drama Arbitrarily Fond, or whatever the final title will be or even if there will be one standard translation of the title. Starring Kim Woo Bin and Suzy, the drama has just confirmed its hot property status on just the two leads alone by reportedly being scooped up by one of China’s top online video streaming portals, after a heated bidding war, for a price that just beat the current top sales price held by another KBS drama Producer.
That’s an impressive feat since Producer was sold to China at astronomical prices, taking into account this depressed ratings economy, solely on the star power of Kim Soo Hyun in that country. Professor Do Min Joon’s popularity in China is no joke. The Chinese media is calling the sales price of Arbitrarily Fond the Kim Woo Bin effect, which has some truth to it since he’s been popular there thanks to Heirs and Suzy is well known enough in China but arguably not as much as Kim Woo Bin yet.
Aside from Arbitrarily Fond getting a Chinese buy at top prices, the drama is also going into production earlier than expected. it’s scheduled to start filming next month, which dovetails with industry chatter that Descendants of the Sun won’t be airing in March of 2016 after all and will get another short delay. If Arbitrarily Fond is starting filming earlier then it makes sense the two dramas will switch around airing dates, with AF landing first in early Spring followed by DotS in late Spring/early Summer. Doesn’t matter either way to me, both dramas are basically 1-2 on my most anticipated K-drama short list.
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wow wow wow, I'm anticipating this drama more than descendent of sun so this is really one hell of a good news to me????, KWB fighting!
Following the footsteps of producer, I keep telling people to not have an expectation of anything or it will disappoint them ,so it's better to go in this drama without expectations to avoid disappointment.
A very good attitude to have, I think. After all, Suzy is a rather mediocre actress who gets by on her cute and perky personality rather than any great acting chops, and Kim Woo Bin has had a few good moments but I really wasn't impressed with the work he did in Twenty and I wonder if he is going to coast now that he has a lot of fame.
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me too,
YES, me three...
who are the second leads? have they been casted yet?
That's what I want to know too. Like, they don't even have a PD! But then, they were really hush hush about the pairing before news came out so maybe it'd be the same for the rest.
Its not Descendants of the Sun, its Mirage of the Sun.
As if Suzy had nothing to do with the hype. She may not be as popular, but she's not some unknown non factor. With all this publicity I'm thinking this drama will be a one-man show to help KWB raise his profile and have Suzy as some pretty accessory, as opposed to have her have a go at melo (and acting!) What with Lee and him been from the same agency....
Not taking shots at you Koala! Just my thoughts on all I've heard from this drama.
Too much conspiracy theory for the drama that didn't even start shooting. Can you just wait and see I don't know, first two episodes?
And? Not like Kim Woo Bin was not voted 2nd most in demand actor by industry heavy weights. Lee personally picked her leads, can we not doubt that the writer herself better knows what she expects her leads to be.
SidusHQ co-production company. To make money you need to invest them first. One of their writers wrote a new drama, choose her lead who happens to be in the same company as her, SidusHQ just saw opportunity to do an inside company production. Without a doubt they would mediaplay about Kim Woo Bin (as well as JYP mediaplaying with Suzy). They have a product to sell.
@silverandgold Nowhere in my comment did I say it was a bad thing, I was just pointing out what I think. And I like KWB, so it's not like I'm crucifying him or SidusHQ for basically doing their job. I actually thought I'd offend Suzy fans more for the pretty accessory comment than KWB fans for implying he is going to run the show o.O
Wish they took lee yoo bi instead of suzy
Hey, Koala, I think you mistagged Barbie Hsu.
Not too excited for this drama so I don't want DoTS to be pushed back(yet again). I need me my Joong Ki fix lol.
Will that drama ever see the light of the day?(no pun intended haha)
I'm waiting for Descendants of the Sun
Sidus's media play
Yeah, I saw a bunch of k-net's comments on the original article talking about how SidusHQ was media playing KWB in this article. Especially, given the fact that no real figures or stats have been made available and the Chinese companies are still in talks for the selling price.
They also couldn't even get the highest sold drama right in the article lol...
yep lol. pretty obvious honestly