I'm an avid Jane the Virgin watcher, so I am interested to see what a Korean adaptation would look like. The casting of Jane, her mother, and grandmother are going to be key to decide if I am on board.

*sigh*

No.

I'm happy that JJ is receiving offers and is considering a drama comeback :) Can't comment much about the original "Jane the Virgin", nor do I feel anything about a possible Korean remake, because I've never watched the original American version

I love the premise But but ... (let me watch and tell) ....

Oh no, a remake... I found jaejoong to be quite underrated since triangle(drama was a mess, but he was impressive), but this... eh.

Weird that they would cast the male lead before the title character. I think the success of this show hinges on who they cast as Jane. Gina Rodriguez is phenomenal as Jane so I wonder which Korean actress can match her.

Frankly I wish American television would remake a few of the better K-dramas. They already did it once with 'Frequency', the 2017 CW series that they SWEAR had nothing whatsoever to do with 'Signal' (wink, nod)

Hell no

yeah...NOPE.

Jane is the perfect balance between naïve hopeless romantic and practical, independent woman and given Korea's track history with their lead women I cannot CANNOT trust them to do justice to this character.

Jaejoong's a little too pretty to play Rafael but k-writers are gonna have a FIELD day with his backstory since his-abandoned-as-a-child plot is straight out of every k-romcom ever.

Wow, this is very interesting. The original production "Juana, la virgen" was done in my country (2002) and it had at least 130-150 episodes, very typical southamerican soup opera, although we all acknowledged that having a pregnant virgin was very innovative.
The actress playing the role (Daniela Alvarado) was very charismatic and beautiful in a very natural way, she was even a little tiny bit fat and had this angel-like face... I think I watched so many parts of it just because of her, she was also my age at the time, I think...

But anyway, rewatching parts of it again, I realise again why I can't put up with southamerican soups, they just have too much unnecessary and dragging conflicts that really don't make sense.

I have never watched the American one because I am sure it is silly and typically they will have too much sex references either implicit or explicit.

But I feel I am looking forward to watch the Korean remake... wow, who will be the main female lead??? ☺

I don't know how to feel. In some sense, it's like 'of course', this seems like the perfect zany rom-com for a kdrama remake. But the issue is that what makes the show great and loveable are not the tropes, or crazy situations but how the characters respond to them in such a real way, and most importantly that this show is about the heroine and her struggles at its core. At some point you just didn't care who Jane ended up with, because you just wanted her to be happy. I feel like some shows struggle in making the show really about the heroine, it's like she's there, and she has a life, but the hero is nearly always the more dynamic one who has quirks and a personality (and real talents), whereas the heroine is often relegated to hard-working, bubbly, plucky, maybe has a temper.

uhhhhhhhhhh lol i feel as if...this is not a good idea

Noooo. They're going to miss the entire point, aren't they? I feel like they're going to miss the parody aspects completely. Oh, and the fact that the entire show is about an immigrant family full of strong women.

I'm interested in how this will play out but I doubt they are gonna include all the characters' stories. (like um.. Luisa and Rosa's romance) but we'll see. If I would cast a Jane, I probably would cast someone like Park Hee-Von... She haven't gotten a lead role and she's a great actress who's very underrated.

i wouldn't mind just seeing him again in a drama, any drama... don't know/not familiar with the original story.

he's so pretty....

According to Soompi, the casting offer to play Jane has gone out to Kim Bo Ra.

https://www.soompi.com/article/1341019wpp/kim-bo-ra-in-talks-to-star-in-korean-remake-of-jane-the-virgin

he once had stomach cancer but fortunately he overcame the illness.

Huh? Is this necessary?

If it is important to the plot, then I still see no connection between artificial insemination and stomach

What if they remake it as Jaejoong The Virgin?

Uh yeah, I see them being all about the love triangle (which I never cared about) and not really getting the things that made JtV interesting and fun. Like the narrator - I can't imagine a k-drama version of the narrator.

Interesting! It would definitely have a feeling all of its own. One of the things that is so fun about Jane the Virgin, that sets it apart imo, is that it's so meta. It does an amazing, self-aware, and hilarious job parodying/being the telenovela. I wonder how a kdrama could replicate that kind of charm, but in its own manner. Hmmm maybe if it is also meta and goes all-out making fun of k-drama tropes. I just answered my own question! But it would be interesting to see how they carry it out. :)