Disney+ Sets Big-Budget Korean Remake of ‘The Americans’ Starring Lee Byung-hun, Han Ji-min https://t.co/fx6KBIbVNI
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Disney+ is developing a remake of The Americans called The Koreans. It stars Lee Byung-hun and Han Ji-min as a pair of North Korean spies masquerading as a happily married couple in 1990s South Korea.
“The similarities of the two premises — North Koreans embedded in the South, instead of Russians spying in 1980s America — started to make sense to me,” Disney’s head of international local originals Eric Schrier says. “But it was really the passion of our Korean team that got me excited — and I could see that, because Korea is still divided, this could be a very culturally relevant story for the local audience, which is always the primary priority for our local original content.”
