The Remarried Empress lands on Disney+ this autumn.
A web novel with 2.6 billion views is finally becoming live-action this autumn, with Shin Min-a, Ju Ji-hoon and Lee Jong-suk sharing the leads. The source material here has racked up roughly 2.6 billion views globally as a webtoon, been translated into ten languages, and built a following in Japan that borders on devotional. Disney+ confirmed on July 27 that the live-action adaptation arrives this autumn, and released a teaser poster of Shin Min-a as Empress Navier alongside it. An empress gets divorced and proposes to someone else! Navier is the empress of the Eastern Empire, admired for her intellect and her composure, and married to a man she has known since childhood. Emperor Sovieshu betrays her, takes a low-born mistress, and demands a divorce. What Navier does next is the whole reason this story blew up. She accepts the divorce and immediately proposes remarriage to Heinrey, the crown prince of the Western Kingdom, which detonates the politics of both empires simultaneously. It...