According to KBS Global, the lead role for Ronny Yu's Blood: The Last Vampire film adaptation has been casted and it’s none other than the always charming actress, Jeon Ji Hyun. Widely known throughout Asia for playing comedic characters in Windstruck and My Sassy Girl, she is now taking on a totally different direction in the role as Saya, the half-human/half-vampire warrior. This will mark her debut into the U.S. film market and as such, she is required her to use English dialogue only. She is currently taking English lesson in US to prepare for the role but it seems that is not the only thing she is going have to learn. Corey Yuen is onboard the project as action choreographer and will most likely put her through martial arts training so she can participate in the action scenes.
The film will be produced by Pathe, the largest independent film studio in France with a budget of US$25 million. Principal photography is scheduled to start in January 2007 and a worldwide theatrical release is expected in spring 2008.
I'm thinking Yoon So-yi would have been a more obvious pick for the role, but that's still good news of sorts.
Yoon So-yi would be great but Jeon Ji-hyun has been studying english for a while now and she has a greater appeal in asia and some appeal in the west so from a marketing point of view shes perfect.
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you are super cute!
True Japanime enthusist prefer a martial artist to play such a role, not someone who does not know martial arts, who really cares about marketing do you think the average american family is going to see this? No! only those who know and care about it. Which would be the cult followers which I happen to be one of.
Good for her.