oh this sounds good and i love me some lee minki! i just hope it is not too intense or i will have to watch with my eyes covered. just don't include children in danger---can't watch those... please let it be a good female lead if he signs on! and let the chase begin.

This sounds interesting. I might want to check it out depend on who they'll cast as the female lead. Hopefully a capable actress who needs more appreciation.

I love thrillers and Lee Min-ki. I hope he accepts. I've liked some of the PD's past dramas like Coffee Prince and Triple, so I'm cautiously optimistic for this. As for the lead actress, for some reason the first name that popped into my head was Lee Bo-young. Other than that, I'm not sure. The drama does sound interesting and I'll likely give it a shot when it airs.

Esom! I want Esom as the leading lady. Haha

Breaking my DB ban for 2 seconds... you never saw me! Shhhh!

You guys are lucky that this news is 2 days old and I've had time to process it and I'm not just a fumbling stuttering mess. You actually get some coherence from me.

Min-ki has actually worked with PD Lee Yoon-jung before on Taereung National Village, one of his very very first roles 14 years ago! I haven't seen that drama, but the thought of a director reuniting with an actor who they worked with in their baby acting days over a decade earlier gets me excited. He's matured a lot since then. I know that there was a lot of drama about this PD and her decisions for Cheese in the Trap, but I heard good things about Argon and Coffee Prince is a forever classic, and I'm always open to more projects by female directors in dramaland. There are definitely not enough of them!

I also realized that, surprisingly, I can't recall him ever having played a detective in his 15 years of acting. He's played computer geeks and serial killers and magicians and bodyguards and musicians and spare tires, but never a detective! After he said in an interview last month that he really loves doing rom-coms but that he doesn't want himself or the audience to get bored of him doing the same genre, I had a feeling that whatever he would choose next would be on the darker side. Count me in.

But what makes me even more excited about this is the focus on a female member of the National Assembly, and the fact that SHE is saving her husband--aren't these situations almost always ones in which the wife or the daughter goes missing and hardly ever the other way around? Yep, I'm intrigued. I'm sure whoever they cast for the female lead will be great, as it sounds like this role really requires a strong leading lady. Lee Bo-young is my first vote but given the fact that she just had a baby, I'm thinking that won't happen.

I'll let them reveal the writer (and wait for Min-ki to be confirmed) before getting too excited about this, but I can't help but look forward to it. I hope more information is released soon!

Okay, back to the books for me!

You didn't see a thing!!!!

Everything I’m reading about this I’m liking. I have faith in this director and LMK’s steely stares will be put to good use I’m sure.

I've got a script, and it's called Everyone's Lice. It's a heartbreaking story about this girl who hides a mesh of dark secrets that she's been keeping for eons in her head, and the guy who untangles them, bit by bit. I've got another script, and it's called My Oily Man. It's about this girl and this guy who keeps slipping out of her reach for some strange reason. I can totally see Lee Min Ki helming the lead in both my stories. I just have to wait for someone to pick up my scripts. I just have to be patient. Wish me luck, beanies. Thanks for reading my post.

What is this magic and why did we all jump to picturing Lee Bo-young as the female lead? O__O

Though it'd be great if OCN tries something new and casts Kim Seo-hyung as the lead. After that interview where she talks about iconic antagonist roles having a zero, sometimes negative, effect when it comes to getting more projects, I really want dramaland to give her a chance. :( Besides, Everyone's Lie sounds like a remix of SKY Castle's theme song...

Because This Life is Our First will always be my favorite Lee Min-ki drama, and this sounds like something much different. It is good to stretch and do different things. I hope that this goes well.

i have a question (and please, not from a super fan or anything because i would like the truth and un-biased and non-misogynist understanding) but the accusation for LMK around when he came back--what happened with that / was it true?

He is, and forever will be, Se Hee to me :)

It’s off-topic but this post made me remember the first time I watched Coffee Prince’s behind the scenes.
All I remember is Lee Yoon-jung‘s unique and contagious laughter. I used to laugh by just hearing her voice. Such a cheerful and great director☺️

Ehh. Isn't this PD the one who cut most of PHJ's filmed scenes in Cheese? I haven't seen any of her other work so I can only go by how she screwed up Cheese. I'll wait to see what the verdict is from beanies halfway through before I watch. That is if LMK takes the role.