First script read for Hong sisters’ horror rom-com Master’s Sun
Production is underway for the new Hong sisters horor romantic comedy
Master’s Sun, starring
Gong Hyo-jin and
So Ji-sub, set to premiere later this month. It’s following
I Hear Your Voice
in SBS’s Wednesday-Thursday slot, which means we’re going straight from
mind-reading hero to ghost-seeing heroine. Hm, I could get used to
Superpower Wednesdays. Character descriptions accompanied the script
read, and as expected the Hong sisters didn’t scrimp on the puntastic
titles and character names, as is their custom.
So Ji-sub plays the rich I-see-everything-as-money hero Joo Joong-won (
joong-won means “ruling position” or “supremacy”), and Gong Hyo-jin plays the I-see-dead-people heroine Tae Gong-shil (
tae is “form/figure” and
gong-shil
is “empty room,” so literally “form in empty room” as in the creepy
ghosts she sees). That also makes the pun version of the title
Mr. Joo’s Ms. Tae, which, PFFFFFT. What can I say? The Hong sisters never met a pun they didn’t like.
The heroine suddenly develops the ability to see ghosts after an
accident, and it freaks her out so much that she can’t sleep at night.
She works as a secretary for the hero, a haughty executive of a shopping
mall kingdom (Oh the product placement to come. Anthony would LOVE
this.) and the drama promises a mix of chilling horror, sweet romance,
and laugh-out-loud comedy. Yes please. I’m begging you — bring back the
funny.
Co-starring is
Seo In-gook (
Answer Me 1997)
as an ex-soldier and head of security (I’m thinking chaebol executive
private security, not yunno, mall cop… though come to think of it,
that’d be funnier).
Kim Yuri (
Alice in Cheongdam-dong)
plays a top star, and since her character’s last name is Tae, she must
be related to the heroine. I hope the love square isn’t between sisters.
Man, that would suck. And
Jung Ga-eun (
A Thousand Kisses) plays a meddlesome busybody who brings the laughs.
I’m looking forward to So Ji-sub for the first time ever, mostly
because his conceited and self-involved character actually sounds like
the perfect thing to mesh his star persona with to make for
side-splitting comedy. I hope that’s what they’re going for, because I
can actually see myself liking him if he can make fun of himself. And
Gong Hyo-jin is love love love. With PD Jin Hyuk of
City Hunter and
Prosecutor Princess
at the helm, all around it’s got great ingredients for a fantastic
drama. Not that we haven’t been burned by that before, but let’s just
hope this drama’s got enough magic to make up for old wounds.
Master’s Sun follows
I Hear Your Voice and premieres July 31 on SBS.
Via
TV Report
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