Season 2 (playplayplays Kim Young-hyun and Park Sang-yeon) of the TVN drama 'Arthdal Chronicle' will change the casting.
As a result of Dong-A.com confirmation, 'Arthdal Chronicle' Season 2 has a lot of new actors. The casting itself changes as actors who played existing characters, not changes due to the appearance of new characters, do not appear. Song Joong-ki, who played as a silver island character in Season 1, will get off the 'Arthdal Chronicle' series, but Lee Joon-gi will replace the vacancy instead. Lee Joon-gi is currently positively reviewing her appearance.
“As a result of the in-depth discussion by the writers and crew, I suggested the role of Season 2 NIST to Lee Joon-gi,” a studio Dragon official told Dong-A.com. Lee Joon-gi, a member of the company Tree Essence, also said, "The 'Arthdal Chronicle' season 2 is one of the works under consideration." Lee Joon-gi plays the silver island character unless there is a big difference.
The character of the heroine Tanya is also changed. As Kim Ji-won had to change the actor naturally, let alone star in Season 2 of the 'Arthdal Chronicle' early on, some actors, including Shin Se-kyung, have been in the spotlight for the current Tanya character candidate. Shin Se-kyung has been known to have discussed with the production team as a strong candidate until recently.
Jang Dong-gun, who played the character of Tagon, will participate in Season 2. Kim Ok-bin, who is divided into Taealha character, has not yet decided to appear.
The 'Arthdal Chronicles' series depicts the fateful stories of heroes who write different legends in the ancient land 'As'. Although it was considered the most anticipated work in 2019, it was caught up in various rumors due to its difficult setting and poor CG (computer graphics). Unlike the huge production cost of 54 billion won, the score was not good. (It was said that it would overestimate the era of appeals (the highest audience rating of 7.705% in its own four times, Nielsen Korea and paid platforms and households nationwide), but it was considered to be a work that had many points that did not know where it was from.
It was pointed out that the plan for the season was unreasonable in the first place, but studio Dragon, the production company, showed its willingness to make Season 2. But the situation was not so good, unlike the will of the production company. The 'Arthdal Chronicles' series was flowing in a completely different direction from the original idea. Director Kim Won-seok, who participated in Season 1 production, stepped down from his work and left the studio dragon, where Corona 19 was properly caught up and the production itself was postponed indefinitely.
The plan is to start this year as Corona’s progresses. But the season one cast couldn’t go on. Song Joong-ki, Kim Ji-won got off the show. Lee Joon-gi and Shin Se-kyung are reviewing the works, but there are many burdens: given the situation behind the works, many variables are forced to think. The same is true of existing actors who have now held off on their appearances.
What direction does casting really flow? The Arthur Chronicles, which was born with the insistence of a great writer, is expected to endure all kinds of criticism and achieve the task of producing and broadcasting Season 2 safely. And this time, there are many different views on how much production cost will be invested.