Disney+ Announcement Confirms K-drama Knock Off with Kim Soo Hyun will Air in 2025 and that Female Lead is Jo Boa

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• It’s a very male centric drama with a writer team who has historically not written romances so there’s really no reason to fight regarding the billing of the ladies. They all accepted the role likely because the roles they were offered were interesting and that wanted to be a part of such a sprawling star studded cast. Im so seated for this and it’s one of my most awaited alongside North Star!!

  • North Star, Melo Movie, Nine Puzzle and Knock Off are next year's marquee dramas acc to knetz. All post on TQ/Insti/Pann asking "what drama are you looking forward to" floods with these 4 responses. When life gives you tangerines and Made in Korea are also mentioned often. Personally I am also excited about Everything Will Come True! Next year has so many good dramas.

    • Aside from Knock Off, Melo Movie and North Star are my cannot-wait dramas. 2025 cannot come faster!

    • 2025 has the most impressive Kdrama lineup I’ve seen in a while. Tempest, Knock-Off, Ask The Stars, Melo Movie, When Life Gives You Tangerines, Our Movie, My Youth, Art of Negotiation, Gods Beads, Everything Will Come True, Treasure Island, Nine Puzzle, Squid Game 3, Karma, Good Man, Hyper Knife. The list is truly extensive. The buzz and ratings from 2025 will make for a very competitive Baeksang Awards for the next 2 years.

• I agree about the sure-fire comment. No drama is ever a guaranteed hit no matter how many big stars it casts, but something about this one feels very Reborn Rich esque. The gut feeling of a mega drama.

  Personally I don’t love the genre or subject matter but the time period keeps is interesting. I’ll probably board the hype train when it picks steam and go from there.

• The only bad thing about this drama is the long wait, both pre release and potentially between seasons (ugh).

• Knock off's cast feels like a casting PD's fever dream. So much talent in one project but so much pressure too. Hope they are up for it.

• How much $$$$$ does this production team have because what a cast. Seriously.

  • Other than Kim Soohyun I don't see anyone else in the cast who is paid close to his astronomical level of salary per episode. Much of the cast are popular character actors but not exactly superstars that command high salaries. The bulk of the budget will still go into production with 18 episodes split into two seasons.

• I was hoping kwon nara was the lead or even kse because i have never gotten into a jba drama. Maybe i am watching the wrong ones but she is soooo bland. At least the drama revolves around ksh's character which is a relief.

  I hope i warm up jba and if anyone has recs, i'd love to change my mind on her. So far i watched her in the drama with ysh and nine tailed fox.

  • Jo bo ah only bland in romance,she's never had any chemistry with her costars.don't worry this drama has zero romance.

    • Yay for zero romance! I am perfectly happy with the men leading the show.

  • Same thoughts on Jo Bo Ah. She just does plunky bubbly female leads so poorly and literally cannot generate any believable romantic chemistry with her costars. But in a more badass role or even as a villain, she's a very strong actress. As others have said, its not a romance drama (thank heavens for us all lol) and the blandness comes from the lack of chemistry instead of the lack of acting talent imo.

    • I'm hoping there's romance I don't want their visuals wasted come on they look hot together. The last ksh drama, that I enjoyed and had romance was mlfas, I love me some Jo boah and disagree with the others on her lack of chemistry, she had it in spades with yoo seungho especially and most recently with ahn bo hyun.

  • She was good in military prosecutor doberman, but I guess people only watch her romcom dramas

• it's clearly male centric drama and all the stories will be focus on soohyun's character and it's not even a romance drama but crime action drama (just got new update about the genre) so who cares about the billing. I'm just excited to see soohyun will act with so many veterans tbh

• A bit disappointing. I preferred the description of Nara's character and prefer Nara as an actress. JBA is always very bland in dramas but maybe she will be better here.

  But, regardless, the romance doesn't seem to be a central theme and the plot and rest of the cast sounds awesome.

• I dont care about the female lead but super disappointed that it’s a D+ exclusive. I was hoping it airs on tv so at least the networks can promote it. D+ is incapable of doing that lol. I dont get how from a business decision it makes sense to snag all these high profile S tier actors, pay them the big bucks, but absolutely refuse to promote any of the completed dramas. It’s baffling lol. They somehow convinced SKH to do a drama, then released it without any bells or whistles. Now they got KDW JJH KSH JWS HB and so so so many more top actors for their dramas. Surely they are not expecting all these dramas to pull off a Moving and become huge hits without any effort on their part lol

  • Agree with you. I'm amazed how D+ not only got S tier actors but they're also veterans who rarely do a drama. D+ def spend a lot of money for the casts.

    • I have been very taken aback and confused at how Disney+ managed to nab so many huge kdrama projects (e.g. Polaris / North Star), especially given their restructuring turmoil, but based on interviews, it looks like its new Korea strategy is to go after and win the biggest actors, writers, and productions, no matter the cost. They can’t compete against Netflix on volume, so they’re going for “quality”.

    • Correction - Disney+ is going for “star power” and “scale of projects”.

  • I hope things will change next year. It’s not for the lack of money like you mentioned they can afford S grade stars for all their dramas. They have the most anticipated kdramas for 2025 as their exclusive and not via streaming rights. They just expect dramas to do well on names alone. Big Bet was proof that cannot happen. Maybe they will pour more money next year. It’s a waste to not capitalize with KDW’s return or KSH’s follow up after qot, or Moving’s production team doing a new drama Light house. So many opportunities!

• Another Disney+ drama that they splurge on but will be forgotten after a few months because almost no one would have seen it as Disney+ keeps its Korean originals geolocked in Asian territories and dumped into Hulu and not advertised everywhere else. Such a waste of talents to not be seen by a wider audience but they got paid tons in Disney money anyway and will have a shot at awards glory in the exclusively for streaming (and partially paid for by Disney, Netflix and TVING/COUPANG) Blue Dragon & Grand Bell.