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Blackpink’s Jisoo eyed for zombie romance K-drama Influenza; Seo In-guk, Lee Sung-kyung in talks on In Your Brilliant Season – Korean drama casting latest
- K-pop superstar Jisoo would play the ex-girlfriend of a soldier in Influenza – the pair have to fight for their lives when a zombie outbreak begins
- Seo In-guk is in talks to play a man who loses his hearing and memory, and Lee Sung-kyung the woman who saves him; Shin Min-a has been offered a thriller role
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Several major stars appear set to return to the small screen in a range of exciting new K-drama series, including zombie- and superhero-themed shows.
Influenza
Park Jung-min (Hellbound) and Blackpink superstar Jisoo have reportedly been approached to star in Influenza, a major new series from Coupang Play, the Korean streamer behind the acclaimed drama Anna with Bae Suzy.
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The show, which will comprise nine episodes, will be directed by Yoon Sung-hyun, who recently made the Netflix sci-fi crime thriller Time to Hunt, and scripted by Han Jin-won, the Academy Award-winning co-writer of Parasite.
Based on a novel by Han Sang-woon, the series will follow a soldier and the girlfriend he just broke up with, who suddenly have to fight for their lives at the outset of a zombie outbreak.
Jisoo, one of the world’s most popular Korean celebrities, has been increasingly focusing on her acting career. She most recently appeared in the show Snowdrop.
Park, who has worked with director Yoon on all his films, recently appeared in Smugglers, the biggest Korean film of the summer season.
Although I Am Not a Hero
Jang Ki-yong (My Roommate Is a Gumiho) and Chun Woo-hee (Delightfully Deceitful) have been confirmed as the leads of the forthcoming JTBC drama Although I Am Not a Hero, to be helmed by SKY Castle and Snowdrop director Jo Hyun-tak.
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