Netflix has lined up its subsequent high-profile Korean drama sequence — and this one may get steamy. At present given the working title Scandals, the present can be an adaptation of the 2003 Korean movie Untold Scandal, which reimagined the promiscuous world of the traditional French novel Harmful Liaisons throughout the context of Korea’s Joseon period. The present can be led by a star-studded solid together with Son Ye-jin (Crash Touchdown on You), Ji Chang-wook (Welcome to Samdal-ri), and Nana, aka Im Jina (Masks Woman). It has already began taking pictures in Seoul.
Directed by Ok-drama mainstay Jung Ji-woo (Anyone, Tune in for Love), Scandals revolves round a daring and harmful love sport between the outstanding, high-born Girl Cho (Son) and Cho Received (Ji), the period’s biggest playboy —with the conflicted younger widow Hui-yeon (Nana) unknowingly entangled within the center.
A luxurious recreation of Korea’s Joseon period, Scandals “brings to life a world the place love and temptation have been taboo,” in response to Netflix. “The sequence depicts characters who problem the strict order of society and have interaction in a risqué sport of affection and temptation at a time when harboring needs was forbidden,” the official abstract provides.
Stephen Frears famously tailored Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 18th-century novel Harmful Liaisons for the stage and display screen within the Nineteen Eighties, with the latter starring Glenn Shut, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman, and incomes a greatest image Oscar nomination.
Netflix additional described Son’s character, Girl Cho, as a “strategist” and “a girl of expertise and appeal who goes in opposition to the constraints positioned on girls of her time by making a secret wager on love” — by proposing a temptation sport to her admirer, Cho Received. The playboy, Cho Received (Ji) is summed up as a “fascinating” pleasure-seeker “who doesn’t belief love and solely enjoys relationship,” utilizing “the whole lot in his energy to win Girl Cho’s coronary heart and their wager.” Nana, in the meantime, will rework into the widow Hui-yeon, who vows to stay chaste after dropping her husband, however turns into “conflicted by complicated feelings and attraction in direction of Cho Received.”
Netflix hasn’t shared any launch information for Scandals but, but it surely’s a comparatively secure wager that the steamy sequence can be prepared for launch someday later this 12 months.