Cast lineup confirmed for youth romance Cinderella and the Four Knights

61 January 22, 2016May 26, 2016

Cast lineup confirmed for youth romance Cinderella and the Four Knights

by girlfriday

Jung Il-woo, Park So-dam, Ahn Jae-hyun
Sohn Na-eun, Lee Jung-shin, Choi Min

With a few more additions, the main cast members have been secured for the new teen romance drama Cinderella and the Four Knights, the series formerly called You’re the First that was courting Jung Il-woo (Records of a Night Watchman), Ahn Jae-hyun (Blood), and breakout actress Park So-dam (Because It’s the First Time) to star. I’m glad that they returned to the original title of the novella that it’s based on, because why hide that it’s a Cinderella fantasy and lose the descriptive title?

Park So-dam has been cast as the heroine, a smart, athletic high school student who works multiple jobs and has a terrible home life because of her new stepmother and stepsister. She does a good deed and is given an unusual offer by a chaebol chairman to come live at his giant mansion and work an enormously well-paying part-time job. She wants to become a vet and is scraping by as it is to build up her college fund, so she takes the job and moves into this house, where she’ll live with his three grandsons and one bodyguard who looks out for them.

The three chaebol heirs are cousins, all beautiful and all used to doing whatever they please. Eldest is Ahn Jae-hyun, a carefree playboy who’s lived his whole life with all of the money, all of the love, and all of life’s advantages at his feet. He sounds like your standard chaebol prince, and he’s described as a smooth player, but one who isn’t hateful. Naturally he and Jung Il-woo will be at odds over girls (yes, plural).

Middle cousin is CNBLUE’s Lee Jung-shin (Temptation), a singer-songwriter and top star. He’s a sweet, playful guy with a “church oppa” image who’s nice to the heroine. I’d wager he’s the only nice one, at least in the beginning.

And the youngest cousin is Jung Il-woo, a wild child rebel who’s actually extremely lonely and sensitive on the inside. Aren’t they all. His backstory includes a reversal of fates, in which he went from a life of extreme poverty to a life as chaebol royalty. He does have a softer side under that coarse rebel exterior, and tends to the garden and likes animals.

Apink’s Sohn Na-eun (Twenty Again) has joined the cast as the other girl in the main love square: Jung Il-woo likes her, but she’s liked Ahn Jae-hyun since they were kids, so in order to get close to her crush, she’ll use Jung Il-woo. And give the rebel more cause for angst? That’s just cruel! I didn’t like her character very much in Twenty Again, but this one doesn’t sound any better, sadly.

Last but not least, there’s a bodyguard who also lives in the house, played by Choi Min (Riders, Yong-pal). He’s both secretary to the chairman and bodyguard to the heroine, why I don’t know, and he’ll be a Daddy Long Legs type who’s warm and always protects her. Really, you had me at Jung Il-woo and Park So-dam, but a coming-of-age Cinderella fantasy about making your own family with four beautiful boys sounds pretty freaking adorable.

Cinderella and the Four Knights will be a 16-episode drama that’s 100% pre-produced by HB Entertainment (You From Another Star, Punch, Yong-pal). It hopes to air sometime this year, and is still looking for a broadcaster.

Via Sports Chosun

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1 pigsnout

January 22, 2016 at 3:26 AM

for Park So Dam's sake, I hope this project is better than the last few dramas Jung Il Woo chose.

Now his picking a project is almost a guarantee it will be bad or boring.

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rinoak

January 22, 2016 at 7:50 AM

Have you seen his latest web drama? It's called High End Crush and it's actually really cute! And, clocking in at just over five hours, it's a quick, light watch too.

I like Jung Il Woo best when in a rom-com and we all know he'll get the girl in the end so this sounds like my kinda thing.

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crystal

January 22, 2016 at 11:26 AM

I'll always give Jung Il Woo's projects a chance. I've liked him since Flower Boys Ramen Shop and 49 days.

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Sam

February 1, 2016 at 4:04 PM

Thought his last drama, The Nightman's Journal, was good.

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2 Sandra

January 22, 2016 at 3:30 AM

chaebol..chaebol...chaebol...

Boring...boring..boring...

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3 whilethemusiclasts

January 22, 2016 at 3:41 AM

LOL at Jungshin being older than Jung Il-woo. ^^

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madcity

January 22, 2016 at 9:20 AM

Right? Does it seem like the age order for the three is backward?

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skelly

January 22, 2016 at 5:28 PM

Yes. Cray. Especially since as the oldest, AJH will have a lot of dialogue and plot to carry - honestly, why is anyone giving this guy anything but cute supporting roles? He is Not Good, to be kind, and after the unholy stink of Blood you'd think they'd be more cautious about giving this guy a lot to do. His looks are bland, his acting is as wooden as Oh Ji Ho. Doubt I will watch.

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4 katherine

January 22, 2016 at 3:42 AM

will goes to SBS

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godieagelimit

January 22, 2016 at 7:09 PM

hahahaha yep. SBS was my gut reaction to this.
The Heirs and Secret Garden with a Cinderella twist.

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5 lordseungri

January 22, 2016 at 3:44 AM

Well I love PSD and JIW so let's see how this turns out

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6 Wen

January 22, 2016 at 3:47 AM

Good leads, but there're Ahn Jaehyun + 2 idols... just why :'(

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7 lolcoolcat123

January 22, 2016 at 4:04 AM

I kind of like the sound of this drama. Okay maybe I'm just going to watch it for park so dam and Jung il woo but still! Also whats with all the new dramas being 100% pre-produced nowadays? I like it though, at least it wont end up being cut short or extended (hopefully because that's just a call for disaster.....seriously!!) and the story-line wont change according to the netizens!! (like what happened to The Producers).

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8 sunnyl

January 22, 2016 at 4:13 AM

I love Choi Min! (He would've made good Jung-hwan too, I think)

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9 marsinblue

January 22, 2016 at 4:19 AM

This sounds nice.
I'm surprised how teen dramas in the past few years haven't quite lived up to the magic of earlier works e.g. Goong, You're Beautiful, Dream High .

Don't get me wrong, there's been amazing dramas focussed on youth - the Reply series, School 2013, Angry Mom ..., but I'm more thinking about those light-weight, bubbly-to-angsty teen dramas that are not in it for the script-writing awards but more for creating that memorable universe and characters and that people still go back to watch / recommend nowadays. Attempts like 'To the beautiful you', 'Pretty man', 'School 2015', Korean 'Nodame', 'Sassy Go go' were good to varying degrees but they all fell more or less short of the magic/hype/mania of earlier days...

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pigsnout

January 22, 2016 at 4:35 AM

I think some of that view is just nostalgia..... Reply 1997, Shut Up Flower Boy Band, School 2013, Angry Mom or even Sassy Go Go are actually much better dramas than some of the older popular ones, especially when you look at the story/acting, like Goong and Dream High.

I feel like we are just not that easily pleased by just pretty eye candy any more, we got standards as viewers.

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marsinblue

January 22, 2016 at 5:25 AM

I agree Reply 1997, School 2013 and Angry Mom are better and even outstanding dramas, which is why I explicitly set them apart in my comment because I think they are on another level of scrip-writing, character depth and development, etc. Also, they were never penciled to have as audience just the standard young viewers but rather families.

But as for those dramas catered specifically towards the young like Sassy Go go, SUFBB, Flower boy Next Door and so on, I did like them but they still seem to fall short from the magic of "You're beautiful". But yes you're right, it could well be nostalgia kicking in! I often see that people are biased towards older dramas or the 1st version of a drama they've seen, which makes sense.

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pigsnout

January 22, 2016 at 5:43 AM

I even think some of the youth dramas these days are better than the earlier ones.... Sassy Go Go especially is not in the same class as Pretty Man, To the Beautiful You, K-Nodame or even School 2015. And I like some of the old dramas but going back to them, I find the acting horrible or the story dragging. It becomes really obvious once you start watching more kdramas and can tell good acting from bad.

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10 kanz

January 22, 2016 at 4:19 AM

Can I volunteer to live in the house too? Become their maid/servant/secretary/anything? Oh boys!
Though it reminds me a bit of Boys Before Flowers F4.

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11 wackycashew

January 22, 2016 at 4:20 AM

I like this cast and the premise of the plot. So, I'll probably check it out. Gotta LOL that Jungshin gets to play an older cousin than JIW. XD

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12 Sam

January 22, 2016 at 4:22 AM

I'm in! :) It sounds fun to me....just hope it doesn't fizzle out at the end. I'll be looking forward to watching it!
Thank you for the info and update.

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13 Mareina

January 22, 2016 at 4:28 AM

This setup reminds me of Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge/Perfect Girl Evolution, altough the heroine is probably pretty much the opposite. I do love those kinds of stories, so I'm happily looking forward to this one ^_^

I can't believe Jung Il Woo is up to play the youngest. He looks older than Ahn Jae Hyun, even if they're the same age!

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14 Nahldia9

January 22, 2016 at 4:35 AM

This sounds just like an anime I watched last year. Hopefully JungII Woo will fall for the other girl. I hope it's a twist to the story so it's not so typical and boring

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15 Cafe

January 22, 2016 at 4:37 AM

Jung il woo the youngest????!!! I DO really hope that this drama turns out well, I would like to see a light highschool romance, but.... Jung il woo the youngest??? He seems older than at least his other two "brothers".

This and the fact that him (who picks terrible dramas and has a so-so acting) and Ahn Jae-hyun (cutie who can't act for save his life), I'm fearing this would be a utter flop.

I really hope this works.

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Waiting

January 22, 2016 at 8:34 AM

Cafe,

Thought the same...strange that JIW was the youngest and perhaps a strange choice of projects.

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16 dramamama

January 22, 2016 at 4:39 AM

Il-Woo is the youngest? Seriously? I know the she lines in kdrama land are sometimes blurry, but he looks the oldest.

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17 Danielle Diokno

January 22, 2016 at 4:50 AM

I think Naeun will be great in this drama. But it is gonna be hard since it is very different from her real personality. No need to bash something you havent seen yet PEOPLE!!!! Hmph.... You guys are so rude.

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pigsnout

January 22, 2016 at 5:48 AM

Grow up. She has acted before and never shown a good performance, of course people are going to think she is bad at acting based on what they already saw.

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dumb

January 22, 2016 at 5:16 PM

she has acted so many times before in movie and drama but no improvement. what do u expect everyone to say?

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18 MikeyC

January 22, 2016 at 4:56 AM

Damn he is working non stop. cnblue, cheese in the trap, now this drama.

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neehr

January 22, 2016 at 7:56 AM

Ahmmn, if you're talking about CN Blue's Lee Jung Shin being in Cheese in the Trap you're actually mistaken.. That's Nam Joo hyuk in CITT, though they are famous as doppelgänger..

Anyway excited for this Park Sodam-Jung Ilwoo-Naeun, count me in!!!

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19 Kei

January 22, 2016 at 5:30 AM

This reminds me of a novel and after I saw the title once again, I was shocked that this is really the adaptation of that novel!The novel was overall pretty cute, so I kinda anticipated this a lot c:

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20 fab

January 22, 2016 at 5:38 AM

So JIW is Cha Chi-soooo again?! Can't let that go unnoticed. And thumbs up to all the "pre-produced" shows!

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21 Hwari

January 22, 2016 at 5:49 AM

So this is the first project of JIW since joined the new agency. Does it mean his company used the package 1+1 with Ahn Jae Hyun... just wondering..

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22 Mia

January 22, 2016 at 6:18 AM

I was looking forward to this, but Ahn Jae Hyun and chaebol sounds like two terrible setbacks to this whole project. I need Jung Il Woo to hook up with Kim Soo Hyun's management team - KSH seems like he has an eye for picking good dramas.

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23 Kris

January 22, 2016 at 6:34 AM

Can't wait for this!

I can't imagine yet Ahn Jae Hyun taking this role but I'm pretty much excited ^_^

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24 JuDa

January 22, 2016 at 6:48 AM

the only times Jung Il Woo dramas worth watching is when he became the 2nd male lead..Really feel bad for him..

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25 CC

January 22, 2016 at 7:41 AM

Sounds very familiar, have I seen this one before? LOL I'm going to watch because Iam all for a cinderella story but this does remind me of a Taiwanese drama "Romantic Princess". Oh well I like the two main male actors and I really want to see them again. Bring it on!!

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Cinderella and the Four Knights