When I heard of this remake it was the rare instances where I think it’s a good idea. Korean has bought the rights to hit 2007 Taiwanese time-travel high school romance movie Secret starring Jay Chou and Gwei Lun Mei. The remake will hit the theaters in 2018 with the setting changed from high school to college. The movie not only starred Jay bit he also directed and wrote all the music, and reportedly it was based on his own high school romance but with no time-traveling coolness of course. Jay joked that he was still young enough to star in the K-remake, lol, but K-netizens have long loved this movie and the current groundswell of interest is for Park Bo Gum to play the male lead. Jay’s acting wasn’t the best and he got more accolades for his directorial and music composition for this movie but I hope K-ent finds someone who is really good at playing the piano.
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park bogum is really good at playing piano!sadly he's in break... i hope he can take the role..
Park Bo-Gum might be good in playing the piano but is he at Jay Chou's level who can play classics and mix them with contemporary music. The best thing about the Secret is the realness with music because we all know that Jay Chou played every piece of music, no double whatsoever. If Koreans would be remaking this, they should go with someone who legit knows his piano and not just some instrumentals.
aHe is an expert pianist and actually is a musixalbtheater major. He can rock this
It will be difficult to top the feels I felt watching this film because Jay wrote the songs so it felt more personal.
I loved the original movie. The movie haunted me for a very long time. I didn’t mind the acting or find anything wrong with the lead actors. It’s one of the few Taiwanese movies I truly enjoyed. As with all risks with remakes, it will be difficult to replicate the feeling of melancholy, haunting and mystery of the original movie. It needs to be handled by a PD with sensitivity.
I a frequent visitor of your website and when I stumble this news I nearly sreams NO!!!!!!!!
This was my ultimate fav movies in highschool(~ 8 years ago) and it still really my favs. If they cant someone who can play piano and act as good as jay chou then dont. They r going to faking it then like most movies do.
But I still hope the remake does well
I just hope they wont cast random idol from big company to play this role. I dont mind with K-movie. But i will be speechless if they make kdrama version.
I liked this movie and was my fave. The romance and heartbreaking... Aaahh... The music was really great. Will they compose new music or just 'remake' it? Jay's music ability is no joke.
For some reason I thought the original film was set in a college not high school. Anyway, I just love, love this movie. The fact that Jay Chou can play the piano made it more realistic.
Yes. the taiwanese movie was fantastic although Jay's acting left much to be desired. I'm afraid the korean version may not follow it faithfully, and end up butchering it. Park Bo Gum is a good choice, just no female idols please....
Koreans sure do love foreign music films. I'm surprise that there's barely any in Korean films. I think rather than finding actors, I hope that they find a good soundtrack composer.
yes, park bo gum's piano skill is a guarantee. Like above, I am more concerned about the female lead... kim so hyun will be good... hee hee... :-)
Yes pbg a good choic..popularity + visual + talent = perfection..