Lee Soo Hyuk is considering his second vampire drama and this time it's "The Scholar Who Walks The Night."
On April 8 Lee Soo Hyuk's agency Star J Entertainment told Newsen that he received the offer.
"Lee Soo Hyuk received an offer from MBC's 'Scholar Who Walks The Night' and is looking into it," said the Star J. Entertainment representative. "It has not been confirmed yet but we are in the middle of adjusting the schedules."
So far, the cast is shaping up nicely. Lee Jun Ki has already been cast as the male lead in this Joseon-era tale about a mysterious scholar with supernatural qualities. Besides Lee Jun Ki, TVXQ's Changmin has signed on to play a human character, a crown prince, in his first historical drama. Also, actresses Kim So Eun and Jin Se Yeon are reportedly considering roles. Jin Se Yeon has been offered the leading female role.
The heroine of the drama is a young girl whose family has been unjustly ruined and thus becomes impoverished. To support her family, she dresses up as a boy and sells books. On one of her selling trips she meets the mysterious scholar and cannot help but be attracted to him. The vampire scholar has done all he can to avoid the temptation of human interaction but falling in love makes his life difficult.
It's not known if the role that Lee Soo Hyuk is considering is that of another vampire or a human but he has played a vampire before. He played Soo Hyuk/Mukadil Paejua, one of the prince's servants and a vampire band vocalist in the 2011 paranormal drama "Vampire Idol."
In that drama, which also starred Kim Woo Bin and Hong Jung Hyun, a prince from a vampire planet travels to earth to see his favorite idol perform. And naturally he brings his entourage along.
"The Scholar Who Walks At Night" places vampires in the Joseon era and is based on a popular manhwa of the same name.
Lee Soo Hyuk does make a good vampire and even his last human role was a brooding one. He played an emotionally distant reclusive carpenter in the drama "Valid Love" with Uhm Tae Woong and Lee Si Young. Before that he played the second lead in "The High School King of Savvy" with Seo In Guk and Lee Ha Na.
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