Casting for kdramas and kmovies often sees some interesting shuffles. Actors who are popular in dramas in one year often wind up getting cast together in the same films.

So, it's no surprise that actor Kim Tae Woo, who played the gangster that threatened and then saved Jo In Sung in the melodrama "That Winter The Wind Blows," has signed on for the film "Pirates." Or that his co-stars, Kim Nam Gil and Son Ye Jin were in another popular 2013 melodrama, "Shark."

His management agency, Chorok Entertainment, confirmed his decision a few days ago and said that he began filming on August 28.

The blockbuster film, which has been called the Korean "Pirates of the Caribbean," is set in the Joseon era.

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