{"id":560874,"date":"2026-03-26T00:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560874\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:23:16","slug":"korea-set-the-americans-remake-casts-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560874\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea-Set &#8220;The Americans&#8221; Remake Casts Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/korea-set-the-americans-remake-casts-up.jpg\" data-caption=\"Netflix\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/korea-set-the-americans-remake-casts-up.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"korea-set-the-americans-remake-casts-up\"\/><\/a>Netflix<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSquid Game\u201d alum Lee Byunghun and \u201cHeavenly Ever After\u201d actress Han Jimin will star as the leads in Disney+ spy thriller series \u201cThe Koreans\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The project is a reimagining of FX\u2019s critically acclaimed Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell-led series \u201cThe Americans\u201d which followed two Soviet KGB intelligence officers posing as an American married couple in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>This take will be set in South Korea in the early 1990s.  The loving couple at the heard of a seemingly ordinary middle-class family hides a secret from their friends, neighbors and even their own children \u2013 they\u2019re both elite North Korean spies working to bring down South Korea from within.<\/p>\n<p>As they wrestle with issues of loyalty, patriotism and identity, a relentless Korean counterintelligence agent draws closer to exposing them.<\/p>\n<p>Filming has begun on the series, which will stream exclusively on Disney+ internationally and Hulu in the United Statates.<\/p>\n<p>The project is backed by Imaginus and Studio AA, with Ahn Gilho (\u201cThe Glory\u201d) directing and Park Eunkyo (\u201cMother\u201d) writing.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/lee-byunghan-han-jimin-the-koreans-remake-the-americans-1236764981\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/international-trailer-fraser-scott-in-pressure\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Trailer: Fraser, Scott In \u201cPressure\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/teaser-trailer-hbos-harry-potter-tv-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teaser Trailer: HBO\u2019s \u201cHarry Potter\u201d TV Series<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix \u201cSquid Game\u201d alum Lee Byunghun and \u201cHeavenly Ever After\u201d actress Han Jimin will star as the leads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-560874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}