Red Peafowl - Thailand

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When this mafia themed BL series was first announced it was heavily implied that it would be the new 'KinnPorsche' in both scale and content, with a big budget to match. It's based on the Y novel of the same name by Ju-oN which concentrates on a cat and mouse game between a skilled police officer and a powerful Mafia figure with whom he has a secret relationship. The cast were announced over a period of time with many well known actors being revealed on an almost daily basis, while the two main roles, that of police officer 'Lu Yi-Peng' and mafia boss 'Hongkong Shuai' were unveiled at a press conference in October. The actors who won these parts were the relatively unknown Maiake Kandis ('Side By Side', 'Quarantine Stories') and Dollar Patchara ('Born To Be Y'). Main support comes from Long Lee, Frank Thanatsaran, Boun Noppanut, Mek Jirakit and Max Nattapol. It will be directed by Woodie Pongchaiphat who has mainly helmed action/supernatural movies and series in the past.

    

• Tong Bai Shi (Long Lee) is the Green Dragon of the Qinglang Gang, which is known for its cruelty and illegal trade. • Yu Mo Yi (Frank Thanatsaran) is a friend of Lu Yi-Peng and Tong Bai Shi's rival. • Hua Hong (Boun Noppanut) is the leader of the Golden Lion/Tiger Mafia gang. He is the head boss in the gambling business, taking over after his father disappeared. • Mr Ying (Mek Jirakit) is a high society celebrity whose past, status and origins remain a mystery. • Tie Bai (Max Nattapol) is the White Kirin mafia of the Bai Qilin gang who are the worst in the mafia gray circle.

    

• Lu Ma Yun (Earth Katsamonnat) is the younger brother of Lu Yi-Peng who suffers a great accident and proves to be an important factor between Lu Yi-Peng and HongKong Shuai. • Chen Qin (Dun Romchumpa) is an agent of the CIS unit and commander of the C4 police group. • Qin Qiang'en (Gun Napat) is HongKong Shuai's business rival and enemy. • Liu Gua Shi (Yacht Patsit) is a magazine editor who arranged to have Lu Yi-Peng take a cover photo with the director-general's daughter, angering HongKong Shuai greatly. • Rufus (Ben Braiser) is a business partner of HongKong Shuai, making him one of the only people to regularly meet up with the mafia boss until Lu Yi-Peng became jealous. • Xi Hao (Rome Siwapong) is a young artist friend of Lu Ma Yun, who Lu Yi-Peng fully trusts to take care of his younger brother, but what is their relationship status? • Jackie (Ten Apivit) is a member of the C4 police group who is calm, formidable and more astute about what is going on around him than most people realise.


Synopsis: "Lu Yi-Peng, graduated from police cadet school with flying colours. In his first year of service, he accomplished many successful cases, and went on to become one of the best undercover cops in the Force. However, Yi-Peng has something to hide - a scar on his thigh of the name of his adversary from the mission that earned him his high reputation - HongKong Shuai, a charismatic and mysterious young mafia boss, who had plied him with a strange drug that roused him into sexual interaction due to the change in feelings it wrought. Although Yi-Peng seethes over the incident, he has been unable to resist HongKong Shuai ever since and has willingly surrendered into a physical relationship with him. He vows, however, to one day put the man behind bars; only thing is, their meetings have gradually developed into something else and Yi-Peng finds himself losing to HongKong Shuai every time. Will he still be able to succeed in his mission... does he even want to?"

Here's the MyDramaList page


Teaser (which is really just a character introduction):



Pilot trailer:




* Although this series isn't due out until 2024, I thought it might be prudent to start a thread now since there's already a few posts in the Hub and it's starting to look like there will be a lot of videos and pics being released to support it in the coming months, so we might as well keep them all together.

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The short character introduction teasers have started to be released.

The first one is for the police grouping and the second is for the mafia bosses:

  

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So many known supporting actors but completely newbies for the main couple. That and the whole mafia theme. The entire thing just remind me of Kinnporche. I wonder if they are trying to emulate that success

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The next character introduction teasers concentrates on allies to HongKong Shuai and other interested parties:

  

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These four 'couple posters' have now been released. So, are all these guys really going to be together in some form in the series or are we just being messed with?

  

  

And what about Earth/Rome or Boun/Max? 

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Here's what they are calling special feature 1 (I'd just call it a teaser snippet!):

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Way too large of a cast to properly explore all the pairings. So I am just going to assume most of them are just going to be brief cameos.

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Here's Special Feature 2 and 3:

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They continue to tease us with videos. These are down as Trailer Scene 1,2, 3 etc.

They pretty much just repeats parts of the long trailer that we got at the October press conference:

  

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Maiake Kandis, who was due to appear as police officer 'Lu Yi-Peng' one of the two lead roles, has announced via his social media that he will no longer be taking part in the series. He gave no reason for his decision, and so far, there has been no statement from the production company about the actor's withdrawal or possible replacement.