2024-04-16 07:19:45
‘The Machine that Reads Fate’, whose season 2 will be released on Apple TV+ on the 24th, follows the appearance of a secret machine that predicts people’s fate in a general store in a small town in the United States, and the changes that occur in the lives of the village residents. It’s a green drama. A total of 10 episodes will be released in Season 2.
‘The Machine that Reads Fate’ is based on the full-length novel of the same name, and the screenplay was written by writer and producer David West Read, who won the 2020 Emmy Award and the 2021 Golden Globe Award for the drama ‘Schitt’s Creek’. I took charge. The lead role was played by actor Chris O’Dowd from the British drama ‘The IT Crowd’.
Ahn Soo-jeong, head of Studio Dragon’s global drama team, said, “Season 1 was highly evaluated for its quality, so production of Season 2 was confirmed even before all episodes were released.” He added, “Season 2 will tell the past and present stories of the characters who appeared in Season 1 in more depth. “As it unfolds, we plan to provide more exciting and touching enjoyment about the characters’ relationships and the meaning of life.” He continued, “I am thrilled that a domestic drama studio is producing an American drama for the first time, and that it has successfully led to Season 2.”
In fact, Season 1 of ‘The Machine that Reads Fate’ entered the Apple TV+ TOP 10 in more than 100 countries around the world according to the global OTT ranking service Flix Patrol, and gained popularity by rising to the TOP 3 in North America, the UK, and Australia. It is also recording a critic freshness index of 92% on the global rating site Rotten Tomatoes.
Existing K-drama overseas expansion was mainly accomplished by distributing domestically produced dramas through overseas platforms or selling remake production rights to overseas businesses. However, ‘The Machine that Reads Fate’ is attracting attention as an unusual case in which a domestic production company collaborated with an overseas production team from the planning stage to create a local language drama.
Studio Dragon is the first domestic drama studio to simultaneously produce IP in Korea and the United States, leading overseas local production. Based on the judgment that countries producing IP need not be limited to Korea, the plan is to expand the scope of the K-drama industry by combining the strengths of K-drama with talented creators overseas.
In the future, Studio Dragon plans to increase overseas collaboration dramas based on its K-drama planning and production know-how. Soo Hugh, who was the showrunner of ‘Pachinko’, is participating as an executive producer and is preparing a drama of the same name based on author Kim Eon-soo’s novel ‘The Plotters’ with Universal Studios USA, and is preparing an American version of ‘The Plotters’. A number of local target dramas in the U.S., such as “Crash Landing on You” and “Vincenzo,” are also in planning and development.
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2024-04-16 07:19:45