Song Joong Ki Cast as the Male Lead in K-drama Adaption of Revenge Novel The Youngest Son of Sunyang

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• I don't think Vincenzo is Revenge melo to the core. And I think it's more about The female lead one is taking the revenge and his character is just being supportive of his female lead taking revenge to babel group, which led to The female lead feeling the angst way more than him. Meanwhile in here, he is the one who get to experience the betrayal.

• Just hope the female lead is decent and not who is being rumoured..

  • Same.

    How the heck do you go from Jeon Yeon Been to...Suzy???

    • Yeah fl rumored to be suzy.What the fuck!!Holy shit!After kim tae ri and jeon yeo bin movie actress going to idol actress suzy flop??I don't know better for sjk decline this drama.
      This remind me with another arthdal chronicle hype buzz drama end up biggest flop drama in 2019.

    • Because money is everything.

    • Gosh does Suzy really bring in money? I doubt anyone watches her dramas for her acting skills.

      No hate to Suzy as a person, but her acting skills have not improved in the past couple of years.

    • It's not that bad. It appears that the female lead doesn't have a huge role.

    • Suzy brings in big CF money but not just that she also brings in buzz. Startup didn't have very high ratings but Suzy was constantly high on the buzz ranking. Recently saw an article that said actors that can constantly bring in buzz and ratings are very very few so their appearance fees has gone through the roof. If Joonki brings in both his appearance fee will be crazy high and Suzy will be a good affordable option as the female lead because she'll be cheaper plus her endorsements will pour in money and most of her endorsements are luxury brands. It's the same reason BTS V and Blackpink Jisoo are highly sought after despite not having dependable acting skills. Though it is estimated that the appearance fees for BTS V is currently the same as Kim Soohyun.

    • But didn't Vincenzo just prove that as long as your FL is talented and has good chemistry with Song Joongki, she doesn't have to be famous beforehand??

      Jeon Yeo Been was well loved in that role, and they didn't need a 'famous' FL because SJK casting provides enough buzz on his own and it had an actually good script. I don't understand why this new drama is throwing away the chance to get an FL who is actually a decent actress (don't give me the "improved" spiel....if it takes literally ten years for someone to go from godawful to mediocre they're still not "good"), or they just want that PPL money. I mean, they just cast SJK right after he was done with the hit drama of the first half of 2021 which was also hugely popular overseas, that's buzz enough on its own.

      I don't know about other idols but afaik no one from BTS or Black Pink has taken any lead roles as an actor yet? But then unlike most idol groups they're actually highly successful in music, why go into acting if your day job pulls in that much money.

    • Who the hell is jeon yeo been lmao

  • SJK's name is big enough to make people watch the drama. His other dramas show that he has what it takes to produce high ratings, Who needs an actress who can hardly act and look pretry only.

  • Hau sorry to pop your bubble..... But lmaoooo suzy is cheaper option... Since you know well about rumors maybe you should know about actors and Actresses salaries tooo... Suzy got paid for vagabond 2019 almost the same amount of ksh with psycho... She's literally the highest paid actress in that DC list lololo...suzy is a Korean goddess. You can keep crying

• Huh dejavu i feel it will be another arthdal chronicle season 2 please don't accept sjk.He suit in modern day drama.It's will be flop for sure and suzy will be female lead.Just no no no.

• So this is fantasy body swap revenge melo action thriller? Any genre being missed out? SJK is on a roll after Vincenzo and Space Sweepers (which wasn't good but the CG was amazing) if the female lead is Suzy then both their combined CF and star power should propel him even further into superstardom. If Suzy does this I don't see her having much screen time a la PSH in MOA but it would be another ratings hit in her filmography.

  • I don't think it will as hit as Vincenzo, since it seems heavy drama (hopefuly). the opportunity to make it a hit both 50 50. And I'm surprise this drama is time travel category eventually!

    • The scriptwriter is solid so if the script is good high ratings could be possible. I agree though it's hard to say what may or may not get string ratings these days. Hush was especially a suprise at how badly it flopped while Beyond Evil and Mr Queen were hits that nobody expected.

    • Nobody expected? Say you didn't expect it. Mr. Queen was no underdog. It was an expected hit. Wtf are you talking about? Beyond Evil is a hit more in critical acclaim than in ratings.

  • Her last ratings hit is Dream High which was like a decade ago. Suzy cannot bring in high ratings ala Song Hye Kyo

    • I think OP is referring to SJK bringing in the ratings benefiting her.

    • You seem don't know Gu Family book exist, its average rating is over 16%, it's very high too, While you were sleeping 2049 rating is always high,it also won the best Hallyu drama award at 2018 Seoul International drama awards!

• In the earlier post about netizens pick for the role, I saw some comments saying they're a bit too old. Yet SJK is older than those picks so where are those commenters now?

  Anyways, I've seen what SJK can do. But I personally didn't find Vincenzo that much of a challenge or the drama that great. But it had all the elements to easily be a hit which is never a wrong choice for your comeback. I wish he'd picked something more challenging after that drama, though. This one feels like a slightly different shade of the same color. But oh well. If he indeed confirms, then I hope it all works out.

• I read on qoo that novel is old but the plot is solid and the romance is barely visible in the original work. The core content is the succession of the chaebol, the stock fight, the corporate control and the brothers difficulties. Hope the writer stay true to the original work.

• This sounds similar to Innocent Man. A man who takes the fall comes back to get his revenge. Don't tell me the male lead will also fall for the girl and be conflicted of his revenge plan. I do wish he'll expand his range by choosing different project/genre. I don't mean this is a bad choice by the way. It's just that it's too similar to his previous works including Vincenzo. Well, for now let's believe in him.

• Doesn’t seem like this will focus on romance anyway so Suzy as the “supporting” FL should be fine lol

  • Exactly it would be a win for her without having to do much. I'm sure they'll focus all the promotional material in their "couple" even though the drama won't focus on romance.

• If the female lead doesn't have a huge role than cast a good actress who always play supporting role a chance.
  Sadly many good actresses don't get casting opportunities as they are not idols or back by big agencies.

• No, the writer is fleshing out the love story per a released statement so the second main plot for the drama after revenge is the romance.

  • Can you share the link?