Fresh-out-of-army Yoo Seung-ho (I Miss You)
seems intent on making his comeback solely in films for the time being.
Sigh. Dramaland misses you too, yunno! While cameras haven’t even
started rolling on his first post-military movie Joseon Magician,
Yoo is already entertaining offers for his next project and considering
a title role as a 19th-century folk hero in the new film Kim Seon-dal.
The movie comes form director Park Dae-min (Shadow Murder/Private Eye)
and tells the story of Kim Seon-dal, a traditional folk hero passed
down through legends and retold in many forms, including the book Swindler Kim Seon-dal by Lee Wan-geun and the 1968 movie Hero Kim Seon-dal,
starring Lee Soon-jae. Kim Seon-dal is an uncommon hero, to say the
least — he’s a con artist who outsmarts people, which in turn satirizes
the social problems of the day.
The most famous folk story starring Kim Seon-dal has him giving out
money to the villagers who come to the river to fetch water, with
instructions to return the following day and give the money back. The
next day, he stands by the river and collects the money in the presence
of a wealthy man from out of town, telling him that he’s selling the
water from the river. The greedy rich man forks over a load of money to
purchase the rights to the river from Kim Seon-dal, only to discover the
next day that he can’t make the townspeople pay for free-flowing water
from the river.
He’s a trickster type of hero, so more like Jeon Woo-chi and less
like Hong Gil-dong, and though he helps people, he also just likes to
lay bare people’s flawed reasoning for doing things. In keeping with the
central character, the movie will be a satirical comedy that lampoons
the existing social order. I’ve never seen a dramatization of this folk
hero, but I already like the sound of him.
Yoo Seung-ho’s reps stated that this is one of many possible
projects, so it isn’t a lock yet. Though I don’t really see why he
should pass up a chance to play an impish hero. I mean, I still watch
Kang Dong-won’s Jeon Woo-chi on rainy days. Perhaps after being
a magician and then an unlikely con man hero, he could take that
long-awaited detour to dramaland? Not that anyone’s counting.
Kim Seon-dal begins shooting in June.
Source: TV Report
Via: Dramabeans
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