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Chapter 675 Suggest playing Dryad

"A Chinese Ghost Story", "The One-Armed Swordsman" and "Dragon Inn" are all in Golden Harvest's remake plan.

These works have set off a movie-watching frenzy in different eras, and Golden Harvest thinks it's time to introduce new ones!

The remakes of these works are aimed at the so-called Asian film project of Weinstein Films. They have been promoting it for so long, which shows that this matter has something to do with it.

Weinstein Films has planned eight Asian films: the Chinese costume action blockbuster "Mulan", the remake of the Japanese classic "Seven Samurai", the epic masterpiece "Shanghai", and an undecided film with Tony Jia's participation. film, Hong Kong action movie trilogy...

Hollywood can do it, there's no reason Golden Harvest can't!

Of course, catching up with the financial crisis, this so-called Asian film project never came to fruition.

But Golden Harvest is different. Relying on the ever-expanding film market in the mainland, as long as the quality passes the standard, it is hard to say whether it will make a profit, but it should not lose money.

Shen Xudong nodded and admitted: "..."A Chinese Ghost Story" is indeed in the remake planning, but...we can't think of a new entry point for the time being."

"A new entry point?"

Shen Xudong shook his head: "It is impossible to copy it as it is. Xu Ke's version of "A Chinese Ghost Story", the actors, director, lyrics, soundtrack, and costumes are all top-notch, and it is already an absolute classic in the public impression. We have no way to surpass it!"

In fact, there is no "A Chinese Ghost Story" in Liaozhai's original work, it is called "Nie Xiaoqian"...

Compared with "Painted Skin" and "Ying Ning", "Nie Xiaoqian" is not a famous novel at all, it is just an ordinary story, not special, but a scholar who saved a female ghost, married her later, and I gave birth to a child, but did not explain the specific background of the times.

The second half of the original book is all about how Xiaoqian respected the elderly in Ning Caichen's family, gradually transformed from a ghost to a human being, and was finally accepted and passed on to the Ning family.

But after adaptation by Li Hanxiang and Xu Ke, "Nie Xiaoqian" became a big IP in one fell swoop!

Yang Shoucheng on the side nodded: "That's...the combination of Leslie Cheung + Wang Zuxian, there is really no way to surpass it!"

Jiang Zhiqiang also said: "The story itself is impeccable!"

really…

"A Chinese Ghost Story" abandons ghosts and gods and returns to the world. It is a cruel and helpless story:

In the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, where "weeds are covered with blood, and wolves are crowned with tassels", a scholar who has the ambition to save the world but struggles helplessly in reality, and a woman from a family who has fallen into prostitution meet in the rivers and lakes. They share poetry and love each other.

The scholar hated himself for being incompetent and unable to save the country, but he thought that at least this woman must be saved by himself, so with the help of his friends, he went through all kinds of hardships to save the girl who was about to be sold to bullies, but in troubled times, everyone is at risk Like weeds in the wind, the scholar could not give the girl a home and a stable life. After a brief love, the two could only separate again, forgetting each other in the world, and never saw each other again.

Therefore, the road follows the crowd...

Ten miles of Pinghu is full of frost, and every inch of blue silk is worried about the new year.

Looking at each other in the shape of the moon, I only envy mandarin ducks but not immortals.

Shen Xudong scratched his head: "But we are working on the Liao Zhai series, and we are thinking of an entry point to connect "Painted Skin" with "A Chinese Ghost Story"..."

"Have you thought of it?"

Shen Xudong hesitated for a moment, but still admitted: "We feel that the key to connect the stories of Liao Zhai is that there is a character who can participate in everything from beginning to end..."

"Pu Songling?"

"The role of the storyteller...we did consider it at the beginning, but he can only tell the story, there is no way to participate in it..."

"That you…"

"Joining the role of a monster catcher..."

Jiang Zhiqiang: "Catch the demon... Oh, you turned the ghost into a demon!"

"For the trial..."

Pu Songling described the ghost in "Painted Skin" in "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio" in this way: "Climb along and peep through the window, and see a ghost with a green face and a skin that looks like a vibrating garment. Woman." Obviously, this is a green-faced ferocious ghost.If it is faithful to the original, then the movie "Painted Skin" can only be made into a ghost movie.

It is impossible to pass the trial!

So, Xiao Wei transformed from a green-faced ghost into a vixen...

Nie Xiaoqian in "A Chinese Ghost Story" must also be a fox demon...

Aunt Liu interrupted again: "Cissy can play Nie Xiaoqian!"

"Of course Sissy can play Nie Xiaoqian, but I don't think this role is a challenge for her..."

Liu Yifei was puzzled: "Challenging?"

"Cough cough..." Shen Xudong coughed lightly, and then made a friendly suggestion: "Are you interested in challenging yourself? Playing grandma... This role is very interesting, it can help you open up new avenues of acting..."

Liu Yifei was surprised: "Grandma? That tree demon with a big tongue?"

Shen Xudong shrugged: "Do you want to get rid of the fixed image of a fairy? Playing a tree demon will definitely shatter your inherent impression in the audience's mind!"

Hearing this, Liu Yifei actually nodded...

"No, he was joking..."

Yang Shoucheng quickly stopped her thoughts...

He knew that Liu Yifei had been thinking about transformation, and didn't want to bear the title of fairy anymore...

But, what are you kidding?
Let Liu Yifei play the dryad grandma?
Yes, the transformation is very thorough, but the movie is ruined directly - it looks like that, why not do it yourself?
"I'm not joking, Shen Xudong has a serious face: "In "A Chinese Ghost Story", the tree demon makes the female ghosts seduce men and then eats them, it is a way of exoneration..."

"Exoneration?"

"Well, if you eat mortals when you meet them, you are an innocent victim and you will be wanted by the heavens. Let the female ghosts seduce mortals first, and then eat these mortals who are obsessed with ghosts and want to commit adultery. It has changed, it is no longer the killing of innocent people, but these mortals are being eaten for committing adultery, which is the reward they deserve!"

Shen Xudong explained it seriously, and Yang Shoucheng felt wrong...

Jiang Zhiqiang interjected: "No, I talked to Xu Ke, and he said that "A Chinese Ghost Story" is actually the relationship between Miss Wu and college students, and the tree demon is the old bustard..."

"But we have to innovate!"

……

Of course Shen Xudong is talking nonsense...

Let Liu Yifei play the tree demon, then... who will play Nie Xiaoqian?
This topic was temporarily suspended, and Shen Xudong remembered something: "Actually, when we were planning the remake, there were two films that I really liked, but...Zhong Lifang and Jiahe didn't like it..."

Jiang Zhiqiang immediately asked, "What movie?"

""Three Heroes of the East" and "The Legend of Modern Heroes"..."

Jiang Zhiqiang thought for a while, feeling a little unsure: "The two films directed by Johnnie To?"

"Correct!"

These two films are very unique, introducing a lot of Gothic, punk and some Cthulhu elements into the sci-fi setting of the Overhead Republic of China, coupled with very avant-garde costume design, creating a feeling that is difficult to experience in other films.

Jiang Zhiqiang nodded: "These two films are indeed powerful, opening up new ideas, history and modernity, martial arts and guns, spells and technology, there is nothing that cannot be integrated, nothing that cannot be matched..."

"Three Heroes of the East": Anita Mui, Michelle Yeoh, and Maggie Cheung turned into peerless masters, fighting against the villain boss Qing dynasty old man on the streets of Hong Kong!
"Modern Heroes" continues the setting, but the story is mixed with "Mad Max" and becomes a story of finding water sources and fighting against evil forces...

Speaking of this, he shook his head again: "It's hard to make a remake, where can you find a combination that is comparable to Anita Mui, Yang Ziqiong and Zhang Manyu?"

Shen Xudong smiled wryly: "That's why they opposed me."

(End of this chapter)