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Gojek Backed OTT Platform Goplay Taps On Kdrama Popularity For Original Content
An Indonesian remake of South Korean hit TV series Tunnel will be one of the first pieces of original content for Goplay, a recently launched OTT platform backed by Gojek.
Jogjakarta-based Fourcolors Films is producing the Indonesian adaptation of Tunnel while multiple Citra Award winner Ifa Isfansyah is one of the three directors assigned to direct different episodes. The cast includes “The Raid” actor Donny Alamsyah and up-and-coming actress Hana Malasan. Tanya Yuson and Shanty Harmayn are the showrunners for the series.
Speaking to trade publication Variety, Tanya Yuson, “There so many universal elements in the original, and Thailand has remade it very close to the original one. We really made it into the local setting, shifting the context, although we still kept the spirit of the [original’s] mystery and the time slip theme.”
“Something like this, an adaptation, is something that is pretty new to Indonesia. Goplay is willing to break new barriers and offer its viewers something that hasn’t been already seen in Indonesia.”
Inspired by the Hwaseong serial murders, on which top South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho’s “Memories of Murder” is based, the 16-episode series was broadcasted on Korea’s OCN and set the highest ratings of all time for the channel.
“Korean contents [and its popularity] has brought together the fractured Asian market together,” said Yuson. “We have some other projects that touch on that [K-pop connection].”
