Can’t believe after a year of nothing on the City Hunter TV series front some good news, it’s been announced that Lee Min Ho will play the lead role in upcoming SBS drama, Previously “Chung woo-sung” was pegged to play Ryo but looks like he is busy with IRIS now known as Athena (Goddess of War).
The new version from the television broadcaster SBS re-imagines manga’s setting of Tokyo in the late 1980s as Seoul in 2011. Lee will play a former CIA operative who now works as a gun-for-hire.
In 2008, the American company Fox Television Studios signed a tentative agreement to co-produce and distribute a joint Korean-Japanese live-action adaptation of the manga, although no further developments in that effort has since been announced. Another Korean actor, Jung Woo-sung, had been previously attached to that earlier, proposed live-action version. Another Asian star, Hong Kong martial artist Jackie Chan, played Saeba in a loose 1992 live-action Hong Kong adaptation of City Hunter. Coincidentally, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment distributes this 1992 City Hunter film in North America.
If on schedule it will be airing in May 2011. [ Via ANN ]