Don’t you just hate it when you’re short a few million dollars to produce a drama with your dream team of actors, writers, and directors? *pouts* Well, we found a way to scratch that itch!
In the Dramabeans community series Cast Away, Beanies can advocate for their chosen actors and creatives in imaginary roles.
How it works: We share a [very] hypothetical K-drama plot with you, and in the comments, you discuss who you think is the perfect cast to play the roles in this imaginary show.
You can also go wild and introduce more characters, rename the show, pick your favorite director, etc. Who knows? Maybe our collective wishing will manifest fantasy casting into reality.
This week’s K-drama plot: a witch curses her enemy (and herself)
A modern witch casts a curse on her work rival to make his greatest fears come true. The next day, she wakes up married to him.
Meanwhile, he has no memory of why he decided to marry her. He wants out, but the printer always jams when printing the divorce papers, and the civil registration office burned down after he managed to file the forms!
After a few weeks of this, she realizes that to get him to leave her, she must do the opposite and make him fall in love for real.
Who are your votes for the harebrained witch trying to survive in the modern workplace? I say harebrained because how can she not see this coming with that curse? And doesn’t she know that making someone fall in love is a guaranteed way to fall in love right back in dramaland?
Who is this normal office guy who gets swept up in all this nonsense when all he wanted was to get a promotion at work and retire with a nice pension?
And who will play the Truck of Doom driver who chases them to the ends of the world once they actually fall in love and want to stay together forreals? (Or, you know, the ultimate villain could just be a hardworking civil registration officer determined to process the divorce papers he rescued from the fire.)
As always, you can introduce more characters or switch the genders around. This is a classic romance plot, but you can wrestle it towards a different genre if you want to.
Feel free to request a plotline for future Cast Away posts. We’ll do our best to serve a fun twist on it.