Korean Novel ‘Sad Tropic’ Being Adapted As U.S. TV Series by Seoul Street & Astro-Nomical Entertainment
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Hae Wons’ bestselling Korean novel Sad Tropic will be adapted for TV in the U.S.
by Seoul Street and Astro-Nomical Entertainment as an hour-long series. This comes on the heels of the novel, which is published by All That Story, currently being adapted as a Web Toon in Korea by ToYou’s Dream.
The action-packed-female centric novel follows Sunny Kwon, a North Korean defector and decorated assassin, who double crosses a crime syndicate to rescue a child from her abusive captors.
Now the two of them are fugitives on the run from the world’s most dangerous organization. Astro-Nomical’s Jay Ahn said, “I am delighted that Sad Tropic based on Hae Won’s Korean novel is not only being adapted into a webtoon series in Korea, but also into a one hour series with our partners at Seoul Street.
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