PRODUCTION: Taewon Entertainment & Kang Je-kyu Film
PD: Kang Je-kyu 강제규 (Taegukgi: The Brotherhood Of War, Shiri), Lee Hyung-min 이형민 (I'm Sorry I Love You, SangDoo, Let's Go To School, Winter Sonata)
SCRIPT: Kang Je-kyu 강제규, Choi Wan-kyu 최완규 (Jumong, All In, Sang Do, Heo Jun)
CAST: Lee Byung-hun 이병헌 (A Bittersweet Life; All In, Beautiful Days), Kim Tae Hee 김태희 (Love Story In Harvard, Nine Tailed Fox, Stairway To Heaven), T.O.P. (I am Sam)
EPISODES: 20
START: 1st half of 2009


Korean star Lee Byung-heon is returning to TV screen in a spy thriller titled “Iris.” Lee’s first TV drama in five years since his starring role in “All In,” “Iris” is Korea’s first attempt at a high-tech spy thriller filled with flashy action scenes, cool cutting-edge devices, and scenic overseas locations.
The 20 million-dollar action-packed drama is directed by Kang Je-gyu of “Taegukgi: Brotherhood of War” and Lee Hyung-min of “I’m Sorry, I Love You” and produced jointly by Taewon Entertainment, which had made the global project “Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon.”Filming will begin later this year and take place in Russia, Japan, China and the United States. The twenty-parter “Iris” is scheduled to be aired early next year.
Lee has just wrapped up filming the French-American movie “I Come with the Rain” with Josh Hartnett and is getting ready to shoot “G. I. Joe.” Lee will be playing Korean ninja Storm Shadow in the action flick. The multi-national collaboration co-starring British actress Sienna Miller and American actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt alongside Lee is due for release in August 2009.
-- Credit to soompi
Actress Kim Tae Hee has been cast in the upcoming drama “IRIS” and will be collaborating with Lee Byung Hun. Kim Tae Hee will play as the partner of Lee Byung Hun in this spy action drama. The production company of “IRIS“, Taewon Entertainment, disclosed this information today, 10th of October.
This, if realized, will be Kim Tae Hee return work since her last drama “Love Story in Harvard” back in 2004.
Kim Tae Hee will ditch her past image and play as an agent of a National Intelligence Agency (NSS) with an with a clear and sensitive mind. She will also be thwarting terrorist activities with her colleague Lee Byung Hun in several action scenes.
She also appears to be in a love triangle with Lee Byung Hun and another colleague, Jin Sa Woo, which the cast has not been finalized.
“IRIS” is scheduled for broadcast next summer.
-- Hanfever