Jung In-sun gets trapped in a novel’s Grand Shining Hotel

by Jenzy

A teaser is out for tvN’s Lunar New Year drama special Grand Shining Hotel, a horror-fantasy starring Jung In-sun (Let Me Be Your Knight) and Lee Ji-hoon (Sponsor).

The premise is a juicy one. Yoo Ah-young (Jung In-sun) is a publishing employee and aspiring novelist who somehow ends up trapped inside a horror novel. If that wasn’t scary enough, her boss and secret work crush Song Woo-bin (Lee Ji-hoon) is also trapped with her and now the target of an in-universe serial killer. To save their hides, Ah-young is going to have to sleuth not only how to escape, but also who is this mysterious author with a vendetta against her boss.

The teaser gives us a peek into the foreboding setting. In the midst of rainy nights and mysterious laptops, the opening text tells us “someone invited me into a novel.” We then see our writer Ah-young as she clicks a button on her laptop and finds herself in front of the Grand Shining Hotel. She’s flabbergasted at her situation, and unfortunately — if the way she’s being manhandled by thugs and hotel security is any indication — she’s not having a Grand Shining time. We end the teaser on an ominous voiceover where Woo-bin asks Ah-young, “Did you succeed?”

Although they aren’t pictured in the teaser, the supporting cast also includes Kim Jae-kyung (Again My Life), an in-novel jazz singer with lethal charms, and Jung Jin-woon (Midnight Thriller), Ah-young’s police officer friend who has a crush on her.

Can I just say I am PUMPED for another entry into my favorite, yet niche drama plot trope of people being sucked into alternate storybook worlds? My fingers are crossed this story holds up next to genre greats like Extraordinary You and W-Two Worlds.

Written by Park Se-hyun and directed by Myung Hyun-woo (My Man is Cupid), Grand Shining Hotel will air on tvN on February 11, and be available for streaming on TVING on February 10.

Via Osen, Sports Donga
 
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