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'Meteor Garden' reboot will be flashier, show creator says

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<p>Sixteen years after it premiered, Taiwanese TV drama &quot;Meteor Garden&quot; is set for a reboot, according to the show&#x27;s creator.</p><p>Angie Chai announced on Tuesday that the show&#x27;s new version will be a &quot;fuller — and flashier — adaptation of the books,&quot; a <a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/trailblazing-idol-drama-meteor-garden-will-be-rebooted">report</a> by the Strait Times said.</p><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/AsianDramaLoversPH/photos/a.1428654177369938.1073741828.1428644560704233/1952560874979263" data-width="auto"> </div><p>The show, based on the Japanese comic series &quot;Boys Over Flowers,&quot; launched actors Jerry Yan, Vic Chou, Ken Chu and Van Ness Wu to superstardom as the group F4 across Asia.</p><p>The report added that the reboot will be made for 720 million New Taiwan dollars ($23.74 million), or 15 million New Taiwan dollars per episode. That budget is 30 times larger than its 2001 predecessor. </p>

<p>Sixteen years after it premiered, Taiwanese TV drama "Meteor Garden" is set for a reboot, according to the show's creator.</p>

Sixteen years after it premiered, Taiwanese TV drama "Meteor Garden" is set for a reboot, according to the show's creator.