Finally, some movement on Answer Me 1994, otherwise known as the follow-up drama to last year's huge cable hit Answer Me 1997. Casting is in full swing with offers out to Go Ara (Heading to the Ground) and Yoo Yeon-seok (Gu Family Book) to star. But here's my question: Are you still going to insist on going with Basketballopalooza, or have we learned from our mistakes?
It seems they have, because everyone's back to calling it Answer Me 1994 for now. What I'm most excited about is that the drama will be set on a college campus, which YAY. Why don't people make college dramas anymore? Where are the Neukkims of dramaland? What's great about it is that college dramas were all the rage in 1994, so making one now set in that era seems like the perfect pop culture homage that the 1997 team is so good at.
Jung-woo, aka You're the Best, Lee Soon-shin's Bread Man, and movie actor Kim Sung-kyun (Covertly Grandly) will round out the leading foursome. Along with Yoo Yeon-seok, they'll be three boys from Kyungsangdo who room together at a boarding house while attending a university in Seoul.
Sung Dong-il and Lee Il-hwa (1997′s awesome Mom and Dad pair) run the boarding house where the boys live, and Go Ara will play their daughter. Cute. So basically, it's like the sitcom Three Men Three Women, crossed with Neukkim/Feelings and Answer Me 1997. All things I love.
It's been a while since Go Ara has done a drama (since 2009′s Heading to the Ground and 2008′s Who Are You), but she can be good depending on the role. I see her fitting a bygone-era youth drama with no problem, and as long as her character's got spunk, which is thankfully almost a given with this writer, I think we're good. Yoo Yeon-seok has been great in a streak of high-profile, popular projects, from Introduction to Architecture to A Werewolf Boy, and despite his character going nowhere in Gu Family Book, he's been good in the role. Bread Man Jin-wook is just awesome, so I can't wait for more hilarity from him.
I had my worries, but the project seems to be shaping up okay. I don't know that it can recreate the lightning in a bottle that was 1997, but as a cute campus comedy it sounds promising. The cast still has to finalize and sign on the dotted line, but according to the PD, it sounds like they're a lock.
Answer Me 1994 starts shooting in July for a September broadcast on tvN.
Via TV Report
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