{"id":230519,"date":"2026-03-25T02:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/disney-sets-big-budget-korean-remake-of-the-americans-starring-lee-byung-hun-han-ji-min\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T02:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:41:19","slug":"disney-sets-big-budget-korean-remake-of-the-americans-starring-lee-byung-hun-han-ji-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/disney-sets-big-budget-korean-remake-of-the-americans-starring-lee-byung-hun-han-ji-min\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ Sets Big-Budget Korean Remake of \u2018The Americans\u2019 Starring Lee Byung-hun, Han Ji-min"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Disney+ Sets Big-Budget Korean Remake of &#8216;The Americans&#8217; Starring Lee Byung-hun, Han Ji-min <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fx6KBIbVNI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/fx6KBIbVNI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/THR\/status\/2036597791460676090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">March 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe similarities of the two premises \u2014 North Koreans embedded in the South, instead of Russians spying in 1980s America \u2014 started to make sense to me,\u201d Disney&#8217;s head of international local originals Eric Schrier says. \u201cBut it was really the passion of our Korean team that got me excited \u2014 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/THR\/status\/2036597791460676090?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132112659.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney+ Sets Big-Budget Korean Remake of &#8216;The Americans&#8217; Starring Lee Byung-hun, Han Ji-min https:\/\/t.co\/fx6KBIbVNI \u2014 The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 25, 2026 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-230519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}