Lee Jae-wook ascends to the top of The Impossible Heir
by lovepark
Disney+ has dropped a trailer for The Impossible Heir featuring its three desperate leads looking ferocious and determined. The crime-suspense drama covers the “revolt of the minor league” as the son of a murderer, a bastard of a chaebol group, and a daughter of a debtor, team up to rise to the top.
Lee Jae-wook (Death’s Game) plays Han Tae-oh, a man who wants to escape. The trailer starts off with a person asking Tae-oh if he made his dad into a murderer, and then his dad calls him from jail, saying how much he missed him. Frazzled, Tae-oh runs to a temple and begs someone to run.
Then comes illegitimate third son Kang In-ha, played by Lee Jun-young (May I Help You). All he wants is recognition, but he remains trapped in his opulent room — his very existence denied by his father, Chairman Choi Jin-ho (See You in My 19th Life).
Finishing our trio, there’s Hong Su-ju (Sweet Home 2) as Na Hye-won whose wish is to go up in life. However, even simple dreams are difficult for Hye-won since her debt-ridden mom ran away to gamble, leaving her behind to deal with the loan sharks.
As Hye-won asks Tae-oh if he hopes to live a different life, the battle to reach the top begins. Strutting in a sharp suit, Tae-oh declares that power isn’t all that since he has something stronger: desperation. Whether Tae-oh will become the key to control Kang-Oh Group, we’ll have to wait and see, but one thing is for sure — their opponents won’t go down without a fight, particularly the group’s second son Lee Ji-hoon (Jinxed at First).
With Hye-won also putting her trust in In-ha, the illegitimate son makes his move and propositions the chairman to acknowledge him as an heir if he saves him. No cost is too small for these three if it means fulfilling their goals, and all eyes turn to the coveted seat at the head of the group. The fight for succession commences, but Tae-oh is confident that In-ha will succeed perfectly.
Written by Choi Won and directed by PD Min Yeon-hong (Insider, Missing: The Other Side), Disney+’s The Impossible Heir is slated for twelve episodes and premieres February 28.
Via JTBC
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1 Diana Hansen
February 13, 2024 at 7:19 AM
This looks good! three underdogs taking on the conglomerate world and you know who will win and we get to go on their wild ride to victory! At least that's what my brain tells me. *+*
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2 Unaspirated
February 13, 2024 at 7:52 AM
They look so cool in that poster! Getting more and more excited for this!
*huluhuluhulu jebal*
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3 vienibenmio
February 13, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Trying to decide if this is worth watching just for the very strong likelihood of having a super angsty forbidden love.
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Elinor, Team Glasses team co-captain
February 13, 2024 at 2:16 PM
LJY and LJW do look good together...
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4 jillian
February 13, 2024 at 11:21 AM
This looks intriguing. It also has a potential to be a messy relationship desperate for power and love.
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5 hacja
February 13, 2024 at 11:29 AM
I couldn't help notice that in the poster all three actors have impossibly good looking hair, so you have to say Disney is once again at the top of its PR game.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
February 13, 2024 at 2:13 PM
And picture perfect make up too!!
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DancingEmma
February 13, 2024 at 10:16 PM
I’ve been thinking about whether there is such a thing anymore as a ‘real’ photo (if there ever was) in the entertainment spheres globally as photos can be manipulated in the most sophisticated ways beyond my ability to detect the fakeries.
But, having said that, I had a moment while watching “Knight Flower” recently when I was amazed that in a close-up of Lee Kiwoo, I saw what looked his skin pores (and/or bad make-up). I was pleased that they hadn’t gauzed it up.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
February 13, 2024 at 11:19 PM
... or used a soft focus filter to make it more dreamy and less, you know like that thing known as "real". Actually K-movies have more "realistic" styling of their stars so much so it is difficult to recognize our perfect drama MLs at times.
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ladynightshade wants her own ryu sunjae
February 14, 2024 at 3:49 PM
The lack of visible touch-ups and skin-altering/whitewashing makeup is (part of) why The School Nurse Files is so special to me. I found the leads so much more beautiful with their pores and skin blemishes fully visible; they looked breathtaking and human.
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DancingEmma
February 14, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Thanks for the heads up. I will try to find it.
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ladynightshade wants her own ryu sunjae
February 14, 2024 at 5:54 PM
It’s a Netflix original. The story is a bit wacky by kdrama standards, but I enjoyed it very much.
6 bomibeans
February 13, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Pass. The Palace Politics genre is inherently deeply boring to begin with, so it takes exceptional writer/director/actor to make this interesting and exciting topic, and credits are not promising (as much as I love Lee Jae-wook.) Unless there's a whiff of angsty / steamy romance or buzz from beanies - well, then, I might check it out.
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7 Qingdao: likes scented candles
February 13, 2024 at 3:06 PM
This could be quite intense. I'm in it for LJW!
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8 ladynightshade wants her own ryu sunjae
February 13, 2024 at 3:20 PM
This sounds right up my alley - if they nail the interpersonal tensions and friendship between the trio. Here's also to hoping the female lead gets the complexity and development on par with her male counterparts.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
February 13, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Bingo!! 👏 👏 👏
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Flix_Crusin
February 14, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Here's for a messy, layered, actual person female lead with agency!!!!
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9 Blue (@mayhemf)
February 13, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Ahhhh.. I have to go to the dark side, don't I?
LJW looks insanely handsome here...
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Qingdao: likes scented candles
February 13, 2024 at 5:25 PM
LJW always looks "insanely handsome!"
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Blue (@mayhemf)
February 13, 2024 at 5:30 PM
I concur ; )
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
February 13, 2024 at 6:15 PM
I'm on that planet too!
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ladynightshade wants her own ryu sunjae
February 14, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Insanely handsome is his default. God really has his favourites 😩.
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Diana Hansen
February 14, 2024 at 7:06 AM
I think I'll be there with you.
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10 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
February 13, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Anyone else getting the J drama Trillion game vibes? No?! Just me sailing that ship alone then. I want to watch but tension is coming off the poster so can’t imagine the intensity of the actual drama week by week. It may be one to save to binge if the reviews are good.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
February 13, 2024 at 9:45 PM
W2P ... fail proof way to watch dramas - wait and watch policy.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
February 13, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Love this approach but some dramas call my name before they even drop so there is no way I can apply the W2P approach. Queen of tears being one Twinkling watermelon another great example.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
February 13, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Exceptions prove the rule. 😂
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11 lapislazulii
February 13, 2024 at 11:56 PM
That's one cool poster, Disney staying strong with the impeccable production aesthetics!
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12 OAsia
February 14, 2024 at 10:20 AM
I really like this poster. I don't know if that was the intention of this drama, but I'm expecting a love mess here. It would be nice if the feelings here were really messy. I wonder when it will be time for K-dramas to introduce plots, for example those of Brazilian telenovelas. I remember that years ago I watched a Brazilian telenovela in which there was a love triangle, her and the two of them. At some point they all moved in together and she got pregnant and they didn't want to do DNA tests. And they even wanted to register their child as having two fathers. I don't remember how their court fight ended, because I didn't watch all episodes this telenovela due to lack of time.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
February 14, 2024 at 10:46 AM
I like where the telenovela went with the story. 😂
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ladynightshade wants her own ryu sunjae
February 14, 2024 at 3:51 PM
When your love triangles are so messy they accidentally become progressive and affirming of nonconforming relationships... the best of both worlds that makes everyone happy.
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13 Flix_Crusin
February 14, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Lets go! I hope for things to get as messy, complex, and yea, backstabby as possible.
Can't believe I'm saying it, but I kind of hope for a love triangle, too.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
February 15, 2024 at 12:05 AM
📐 They do say a triangle is the most stable shape... so sounds good. 👍❤
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14 peiyeelai
February 15, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Power, greed, love triangles, ambition and birth secrets....
After all the sweeet dramas in Oct-Jan, I need something more complex and complicated. So, I will definitely wait for this drama to be aired on DisneyPlus.
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