Marimar, My Name is Kim Sam Soon, My Girl, I Love Betty La Fea, and Lalola - these localized version are today’s hype among primetime television. It is so that many asianovela fanatics are wondering, why not the two giant networks (ABS-CBN 2 and GMA-7) consider a Meteor Garden Filipino Version?
I remember, I was so crazy over Meteor Garden then, that I was so happy when my brother went to Hongkong and bought me the original soundtrack of Meteor Garden. Me and my sister even posted F4 pictures in our room! LOL! Anyway, Meteor Garden was a phenomenal hit in the Philippines when it started to air on April of 2001. I believe this Taiwanese drama started the asianovela craze that is very apparent until now. I think ABS-CBN should consider a remake of it since they were the first to broadcast Meteor Garden.
Alex Gonzaga (Toni Gonzaga’s sister) recently expresses her wish to portray a role like Shan Cai (Barbie Xu) in Meteor Garden. But I think, Kim Chiu suits the role of Shan Cai and of course, Gerald as Dao Ming Si (Jerry Yan). Considering the fact also that Kim-Gerald tandem has been tested and earned a lot of fans.
If ABS-CBN will make a Filipino version of Meteor Garden, I hope they will consider the following cast: