Choi Jin Hyuk Made Me Wish He'd Be In A Korean "Beauty And The Beast" Type K-Drama (With A Happy Ending)
Just rewatching a couple of K-Dramas and I never realized that I've first seen action star Choi Jin Hyuk as Wol Ryung in Gu Family Book. Unlike the main character, he's a pure-bred Gumiho who fell in love with a human woman resulting in the Nagare Bouma child known as Kang Chi. I always felt the tears of Wol Ryung and Seo Hwa's sad love story. It was tragic in the beginning and ended tragically near the finale of Gu Family Book. I didn't realize that Wol Ryung had taken "other forms" when the actor Jin Hyuk appeared as the main protagonist of OCN drama Justice and Rugal. Then I decided it'd be cool if he actually gets to play in a Korean version of Beauty and the Beast but give it a happy ending!
I wasn't exactly the biggest fan of Ron Perlman's and Linda Hamilton's Beauty and the Beast from 1987. I thought about possible ladies to play as the Beauty to Jin Hyuk's Beast. I rewatched Gu Family Book (some episodes) and thought the actress playing Seo Wa's younger self wasn't really so pretty. Instead, Justice has Jin A Nana acting as a prosecutor. I thought about her character could've easily served as the badass Beauty to Jin Hyuk's Beast. In the 1987 Beauty and the Beast TV series - Catherine the Belle is a prosecutor. Nana was able to carry out the gutsy, witty prosecutor who might match up to Catherine's character in the 1987 series.
The fantasy elements should be taken into the modern story. Inspiration can be taken from Korean Odyssey except for the tragedy. The cliche that I'm willing to carry over is the Gumiho element except it's the guy who's the Gumiho. Jin Hyuk is a gumiho who ends up in a difficult partnership with a lady prosecutor. A group of gumihos get falsely accused of being part of the killings linked to an organ harvesting syndicate. So gumihos here aren't always chaotic evil. The unlikely partnership between a gumiho and a beautiful prosecutor starts out as friends then they fall into a difficult romance.
The fantasy elements should be taken into the modern story. Inspiration can be taken from Korean Odyssey except for the tragedy. The cliche that I'm willing to carry over is the Gumiho element except it's the guy who's the Gumiho. Jin Hyuk is a gumiho who ends up in a difficult partnership with a lady prosecutor. A group of gumihos get falsely accused of being part of the killings linked to an organ harvesting syndicate. So gumihos here aren't always chaotic evil. The unlikely partnership between a gumiho and a beautiful prosecutor starts out as friends then they fall into a difficult romance.
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