I recently read on that NBC is planning on making an American remake of My Lovely Sam-Soon.
If anyone has any information please post!! Would love to know more about the development of this project. Any information about cast, plot, pilot, premiere dates, etc. are welcome!!
oh no... in that case.. i'll try my hardest to write to NBC in leaving the project alone.....
get your own storylines and screenplays....stop copying other people...
NBC will never get 1% of what Sam Soon is...
Oh, God, not another American remake! It wouldn't be so bad if these American remakes the studios do for movies and TV shows weren't so horribly re-done. I hope they don't do anything to bring shame to this wonderful Korean drama, but they probably will.
Did MBC sell or give permission to NBC/Universal to do this? Do they know what they're getting themselves into? I don't have high hopes for this remake and I'd hesitate to watch it. I'm so in love with the "original" (funny how we'll be referring to this one as the "original" now - but it was so beautifully done, why remake it (aside from the obvious reason, money)?
**EDIT** I just read that MBC sold the rights of the show to NBC. MBC (Munwha Broadcasting Corporation) was the network that originally aired MLS in South Korea.
As an artist, it's very disheartening (but not surprising) seeing all these studios/companies doing remakes of foreign shows and films. If you're going to do it, at least throw in some originality in there and be creative with it. The better option here though, for NBC/Universal ... is ... get your own ideas. Or better yet, rather than "remaking" "My Lovely Samsoon" why not make an American show "inspired" by it? It probably still wouldn't hold a candle to the original but at least there'd be some crappy American carbon-copy of the show.
EDIT --- Sorry, I just wanted to add - all the subtleties on the show - the ending? This show wasn't meant to go on for seasons and seasons. Most Korean dramas are made with the intent of being only 16-18 episodes, maybe 20 at the most. (except for that one Korean historical drama that has over 90 episodes, I can't remember the name of it at the moment). But the point is, you and I know they're going to drag this show out and ....
****SPOILERS BELOW****
show the couple moving in together or getting married? Remember how the drama ended? It was actually open ended. It was left up to us, the viewer to think "hmm, I wonder if they got married", or "hmm, I wonder if they moved in together?" "Or, I'm so happy for them, I hope they stay together for 50 years". But no, Americans (according to the media) can't think for ourselves, so we have to be "shown" what will happen, and have our imaginations taken away from us.
As for the subtleties ... we know there's going to be some hot steamy scenes in here - maybe not stretching all the way to intimacy, but close to it. I liked in MLS that all of that was pretty subtle -
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Remember when Sam-soon and Jin-Hyeon were in bed together and she refused to "do anything with him" until he "bought something"? It was actually kind of funny, because he went to the several drug stores, and they were all sold out, until finally he "got something". When he came back, Sam-soon was asleep.
AND - I bet they're going to turn Hee-jin into some horrible conniving backstabber (well I mean she isn't all peaches and cream in the original) but you see what I mean, though, right? They're going to make that whole thing into some big soap opera - Hee-jin and Sam-soon in fisticuffs. How American.
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yeah.. most dramas in Korean and Japanese are meant for 1 season.....
look what they did with Princess Hours...
hugely success.. and they made a sequel to that.. this time with a king..
that bombed !!!!!!!!
i hear they are making FULL HOUSE 2..
original FULL HOUSE (and we're talking about korean one...not American, Olsen tiwns one.. lol)
was hugely successful...thanks to part with Song Hye..beautiful....
i dont care for Rain though....he is butt ugly.. lol
but remakes, cant stop them because they want revenue...hoping they will get from the success of originals...but most of the time, they fail !!!
A remake (of anything) wouldn't be so bad if it were done with creativity, talent, and grace. What ends up happening is a horrid remake that ends up looking as though the people who made it had absolutely no respect for the original - and that's sad. Don't remake something if you can't respect the beauty of the original.
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As an artist you should understand that "there is nothing new under the sun." Artists borrow and take from each other all the time. It is what maintains current artists employed and old ideas relevant. If we relied purely on old works, nothing would get updated. We'd still be going to amphitheatres to watch Greek plays in Greek and Latin, Japanese Noh and Kabuki theatre in Japanese, Native rain dances in Hopi and Navajo, listen to viking sagas in Nordic languages, listen to love poetry in Persian, watch cave paintings, etc. Those are the originals, after all.
So what if they make alterations to the original in the remake? The point is that it's a remake. Worse would be to bring the original show, dub it with different language and music, censor situations, delete entire episodes. This is something that has happened with Japanese cartoons and Canadian television series time and time again. I'd rather see a American company remake a show than to destroy the original because it means the original remains intact.
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As an artist you should understand that "there is nothing new under the sun." Artists borrow and take from each other all the time. It is what maintains current artists employed and old ideas relevant. If we relied purely on old works, nothing would get updated. We'd still be going to amphitheatres to watch Greek plays in Greek and Latin, Japanese Noh and Kabuki theatre in Japanese, Native rain dances in Hopi and Navajo, listen to viking sagas in Nordic languages, listen to love poetry in Persian, watch cave paintings, etc. Those are the originals, after all.
So what if they make alterations to the original in the remake? The point is that it's a remake. Worse would be to bring the original show, dub it with different language and music, censor situations, delete entire episodes. This is something that has happened with Japanese cartoons and Canadian television series time and time again. I'd rather see a American company remake a show than to destroy the original because it means the original remains intact.
How do you know it's "a crappy remake" when it hasn't been made? The bottom line is to make something that will be a hit/success with its target audience. One could have the best intentions when it comes to respecting the original work, but if it doesn't sell and/or its audience does not like it and relate to it, how are the artists going to keep working and making more art? Which also brings me to the other subject you brought up: money. Without financial backing, how else is the movie and television industry going to maintain all those actors and technicians employed? Especially now that we're facing one of the worst financial crisis. And it's not as if we're writing about a piece of original art either - k-dramas in general are renown for their formulaic ideas. In this instance, they mixed elements of Bridget Jones's Diary with elements of other k-drama romance stories (e.g., the ever-popular "rich, handsome guy falls in love with a poor girl" type of story). Yes, certain plot elements steered away from the regular k-drama trappings (it's original in that sense), but it only manages to look completely different because it is set in Korea with Korean actors and Korean music. In other words, nothing new was added to this show either.
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