For some reason, I thought that they were gonna do a movie remake and not a drama.

I have yet to watch Tokyo Tower, but for some reason, this post fills me with glee! *g* JJH \o/

I love when they expand a movie out into a series :) But the guy really should look younger... I mean, that's the whole "shock" part of it.

PD Ahn Pan-seok's White Tower was a masterpiece. I love Kim Ji-soo, she is a great actress. I'm also glad to hear that this drama will be filmed in advance. Hope it will turn out great. Excited. :)

Jessica: Agreed.

However, I do believe that props are in order for their decision to film the series before airing. Most series that have done this...have failed in their viewer ratings, because the scriptwriters/producers of korean dramas always like to manipulate the story around what their viewers would like to see. And no doubt that often times, this isn't what the producers/makers/etc. originally intend for to happen to their story.

So kudos to them.

the plot doesn't sound that interesting. we've already seen the younger boyfriend deal in dal ja's spring, but i would watch it anyway because i like kim ji soo and joo jihoon

Hmm..

I love Kim Ji Soo, but with Joo Ji Hoon? I guess we'll have to see how their chemistry plays out...

wow really? that movie was terrible =\ but maybe they might do it better? i just feel this plot has been rehashed a lot...

20 yr age gap.... I remember seeing the Japanese one a while back.. but never finished :/

The Japanese version was such an awful movie.. I love JJH, but I'm not really looking forward to this. :/

He keeps playing the type of character that I hate. :\

oh my god. I missed Joo Ji Hoon on primetime drama!

I will definitely keep this drama on my radar!

wow, i thought tokyo tower was a good movie and joo ji hoo seems prefect for the chacter with the last two movies he's been in. i love his characters!!!!!

Agree that the movie was pretty bad. Pretty actors, but overly melodramatic, and just did not catch my attention. This doesn't mean that the premise can't be reworked into something more interesting, but I have a feeling that the movie was chosen for a remake BECAUSE of the melodrama, so yeah.... not exactly my cup of tea...

I was hoping they would be remaking Lily Franky's Tokyo Tower. That story, both the movie and drama versions, is just.... so touching.

I thought they were remaking the Japanese drama, Tokyo Tower, not the film... scared me for a sec...

I'm not really into the plot thing.. seriously, how many time has this been made?? Sure the first few times = hype (i.e. Kim Sam Soon, Dal Ja's Spring, My Sweet Seoul, What's Up Fox?, etc.) but after a lot then.. I don't know, people kinda of lose interest in them.
I'll probably only watch this cus of the cast... besides that, my hope is not that high.

Oooh this one threw me off. I was thinking that this was a remake of the *other* Tokyo Tower, which was another bestselling novel made into a 2007 drama and movie. Though I can't imagine Kim Ji Soo as Jo Ji Hoo's mom. :D

This May-December pairing can definitely work. Kim Ji Soo made her unlikely pairing with Jung Gyu Woon (same age difference) work in Women in the Sun, and Jung Gtu Woon was recovering from hepatitis during the shoot! A lot of scenes were just them sitting together, precisely because he was too sick to move. But somehow it still worked. :D

My guess is that this show will go to SBS, and then OCN if SBS doesn't take it. I can't see MBC taking this show, since I think they already passed up on Gourmet and Someday. Because it IS an adultery drama, there's a decent shot this may attract w/end watching ajummas and have some success. Cos, you know, a bunch of them watched Goong and thought "he's wasted on my daughter." :D

YEHEY!!!!! ILL DEFINITELY WAIT FOR THIS!!!

awesome, i love ji hoon.

@ belleza
"Cos, you know, a bunch of them watched Goong and thought “he’s wasted on my daughter.” lols.... you are too funny!

Despite his somewhat peculiar fashion sense, I've recently decided that I like JJH (not because i'm an ahjuma! ha). I didn't think Antique was great, but I liked his performance in it when i wasn't too busy oogling the cakes. Never thought much of him in Goong...actually he really annoyed me then. I think he's come a long way since . Have yet to see Naked Kitchen but look forward to it. I think its great that he's choosing these "alternative" type projects that gives him the opportunity to really act not just look pretty.

I liked Kim Ji Soo w Jung Gyu Woon in Women in the sun too, look forward to this drama, hope it won't end up too melo...

btw... belleza, are u still following C&A? it's been really starting to get good for me in the past few eps...

"belleza, are u still following C&A? it’s been really starting to get good for me in the past few eps…"

Oh I know. In Episode 15, for a very brief scene, So Ji Sup starts to channel his character in Rough Cut. There's this famous line in Johnny Cash's Folsom Blues that goes "I shot a man, just to watch him die." SJS does THAT with his eyes, the crazy-death eyes, and it's chilling (one notch below Ha Ja Woo chilling.) Shin Hyun Joon has had various super-evil moments in C&A, but at that moment, Lee Cho In is like the man in black coming to bring your inevitable death with his piece. HE's terrifying, but only for that scene.

And then in episode 16, well the cat's fully out of the bag. And now, you can tell the story is closing out, and in a way you almost sense relief from the writers because now the four characters are now all in play and all active with each other, as they haven't been for most of the show. All the hands are exposed and now it's just mano y mano cowboy stuff in the hospital. BTW, I'm never going to that hospital. :D

Only one thing why I will watch this drama. KIM JI SO... I like her in WOTS .

I am soo stoked!!! I LOVE JOO JI HOON!!

Kim Ji-soo was amazing in Women in the Sun, and I've liked Joo Ji-hoon since Devil. With the White Tower PD helming this, wow!