Fans aren’t overly ecstatic with ‘Fated To Love You’ remake

THE success of China’s 2017 remake of the classic Taiwanese drama ‘Meteor Garden’ has started a widespread remaking craze for Taiwanese dramas, introducing idol classics to the new generation.

So far, both ‘My Lucky Star’ and ‘The Prince Who Turns Into a Frog’ are confirmed to be getting remakes, to be filmed in late 2018. ‘Fated to Love You’ is the third of these remakes to start filming in late 2018.

The original ‘Fated to Love You’, which premiered in 2008, was the show that kickstarted Ethan Juan and Baron Chen to fame, and established Joe Chen as one of Taiwan’s highestpaying actresses.

When ‘Fated to Love You’ was confirmed to be getting a remake, fans weren’t exactly ecstatic and pleased with the changes in names of the characters Ethan Juan’s “Ji Cunxi” has become “Wang Xiyi”; Baron Chen’s “Dylan Dai Jianren” is now called “Di Lun”; while Joe Chen’s “Elaine Chen Xinyi” has been renamed to “Chen Jiaxin.”

“Please don’t ruin my childhood,” one netizen wrote. Another netizen joked, “China should just produce a new show called Screenwriting of China so they can save China’s screenwriting industry.”