My guess: they are waiting for jcw to start promotions but they can do so many things even without him. For starters…
From what I see the 3 main leads are all in other countries: JCW is in Bali Kyung Soo is in Bangkok for music Kwang Soo is in Vietnam for his movie promotion
I imagine they will all be back soon (this week) to do interviews and go on stage for the usual press conference, but yes Disney should have had more things pre-done.
It's only released in Vietnam at this moment, as it was a collaboration to promote their countries partnership, I assume it will be out on streaming by the end of the year for the rest of the world.
hmm remake with the same main lead and screenwriter.. its like he tried to fix his own work or not to mess with…
It was posted earlier in thread that the screenwriter said this on X:
The original script for "The Manipulated" was rated 19+, but the director at the time (for movie "Fabricated city") lowered it to 15+ and added a game nerd setting, so it was almost like a new script. The upcoming drama "The Manipulated" is based on the original script, so it's pretty much a different work (Said the writer of "Taxi Driver", who's also the writer of "The Manipulated")
The production team hasn't even finished screening the guest list! They haven't started filming yet you silly…
That is probably what it was, a meet up and discussion on the program. What they are aiming for with it etc... I imagine they will be shooting it very very soon though. As Kwang Soo should be returning from Vietnam, and I'm sure he would want to do it before he has to do promotion for his other drama the manipulated, and he is still filming Goldland with Park Bo-young.
I was wondering if I got it wrong from the trailer but looks like Kwang Soo plays a villian too.
Yeah, I think the cast mentioned in an interview with Na PD that Kyung Soo is more behind the scenes planning, and Kwang Soo is the one who is more hands on bad guy.
It's actually coming out sooner than I expected, thought it would be end of November, maybe beginning December. Pleasantly surprised, and if it is like usual, then trailer should be out this week.
The plot reminds me a lot of Fabricated City. It was an awesome movie.
Same writer, but re-imagined into a different type of show. Never seen this happen before where you get to redo what you previously did but with improvements and feedback from the previous work. Different director though.
Should I watch or avoid, I'm planning to start as it ended today.
I rated it a 1.0 so that they get a hint not to do a season 2, and rather let the actors do other projects instead of making them waste time on the sequel.
Saw a post that said Ji Ye Eun had been casted too, is it true?
So far just a rumor and not confirmed. She is on break from everything at the moment due to overwork. So this would be the first thing she would film after taking time off, but yeah nothing definite besides the 3 guys and Lee Hyori appearing.
JCW is in Bali
Kyung Soo is in Bangkok for music
Kwang Soo is in Vietnam for his movie promotion
I imagine they will all be back soon (this week) to do interviews and go on stage for the usual press conference, but yes Disney should have had more things pre-done.
The original script for "The Manipulated" was rated 19+, but the director at the time (for movie "Fabricated city") lowered it to 15+ and added a game nerd setting, so it was almost like a new script. The upcoming drama "The Manipulated" is based on the original script, so it's pretty much a different work (Said the writer of "Taxi Driver", who's also the writer of "The Manipulated")
I imagine they will be shooting it very very soon though. As Kwang Soo should be returning from Vietnam, and I'm sure he would want to do it before he has to do promotion for his other
drama the manipulated, and he is still filming Goldland with Park Bo-young.