Historical drama reinvents historical incidents by incorporating the creator's imagination into the limited facts available.
There are several subgenres of this genre, with The Sovereign being categorized as orthodox. It meticulously preserves the chronological facts while imaginatively describing the parts that are not recorded, such as Sukjong's emotions and thoughts, in order to reconstruct the creator's vision without compromising plausibility.
Thus, there is endless potential for the genre.
However, because the set had to be recreated to depict the period's background, production costs were twice as high as for other genres in the context of the modern.
The Sovereign was mostly filmed in Jeonju Hanok Village and the open studio at Mungyeong Pass, but they still had to construct a separate indoor set for the background, like the royal palace.
The first day of shooting was planned for the Mungyeong open set, and it happened two weeks later, after a table read. The actors arrived one by one on the day.
Among the earliest arrivals, the most senior actor, Pak Chang-soo, who played Song Si-yeol's role, was strolling around the...
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