The US movie studios are planning a remake of Crash Landing on You, the very romantic K Drama hit about a rich and very modern Korean entrepeneur who crashes while skydiving into North Korea and is rescued by a NKsoldier.
Now why does that need a remake?
the ReviewGeek is not impressed.
We already know the the property will need to adhere to strict DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) rules and that will immediately throw into question how these are going to be added in....
Translating (Crash Landing on You,)... to an American audience, and injecting modern day politics and social messaging, without losing the heart of the story? Good luck....
The film Parasite was pretty well ruined by Hollywood, since it doesn't make a lot of sense to Yanks, who have less class snobbery... but a common K drama theme is the clash of poor and rich families.
and even Pachinko was ruined by adding a modern day story about the problems of an American of Korean ancestry to the story. Season two is now here and remains confusing with flash forwards and flash backs, but I do wish at the end of the series, someone will make a fan cut of the series removing all that secondary story and simply telling the story of the Koreans in Japan from start to finish.
----------------------UPDATE
Geek reports that the plan is to rewrite it in outer space.
Hmmm... I am old enough to remember when this was done in Enemy Mine, where the alien is bisexual and later his/her child ends up adopted by the human...
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