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A few days later, CCTV News broadcast an interview with Jiang Heng, and in an afternoon special report on the development of the domestic film industry, played a full video of Jiang Heng's boxing performance.

As soon as the program was broadcast, it once again sparked discussion among the audience about Jiang Heng's Kung Fu.

As for Chinese-language films today, it’s almost fair to say that “Kung Fu movies are dead.”

Cheng Long is living off his past success, and the quality of his films is declining. Jet Li is in semi-retirement, and hasn't starred in an action movie for a long time.

Although Donnie Yen is still making movies, his works have a mediocre influence and it is difficult to stir up a movie-watching craze.

The rest of the action actors are even worse.

For example, last year, Vincent Zhao collaborated with Sammo Hung and Kar Shang Chen to shoot a movie called "God of War", which tells the story of Qi's army heroically fighting against Japanese pirates. However, the movie only made more than 90 million yuan at the box office. Not only was it a huge loss, it didn't even make a splash. It really had no popularity at all.

However, "Wolf Warrior 2" produced by iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video has been anticipated by many action movie fans because of Jiang Heng's endorsement.

As for "Dragon and Snake Romance", which was directed and starred by Jiang Heng and was supported by the original novel, it was widely discussed by movie fans before it even started filming, and the popularity was completely on a different level.

In the forum of the original novel, everyone discussed the characters that might appear in the movie. The ones they were most looking forward to were Baliming and Changmei, and they wondered if they would appear in the film.

The main reason is that the author's description of the relevant fighting scenes is so wonderful that it makes readers look forward to it.

"Director Jiang should adapt the book like he did in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber: The Demon Cult Leader, with the plot advancing quickly and the entire book story being shot in the length of two films. So the fight between the protagonist and Changmei is out of the question, and Baliming is still expected to appear!"

“I don’t know who can play Balimin!”

"I think this Baliming looks a bit like Aobai. Xu Jinjiang is a good choice!"

"Billy Chow is more suitable. He has real kung fu skills and can fight Director Jiang for real!"

"Xu Jinjiang also knows Kung Fu!"

"It's different. Old Xu can only say he has practiced, but Billy Chow is a boxing champion!"

"Then I think it would be safer for Director Jiang to ask Xu Jinjiang to do it. Old Zhou has kicked Jet Li away before!"

"Didn't they say Director Jiang is very good at Kung Fu?"

"They also said that Ma Yun is a Tai Chi master. Do you believe that?"

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In Jiang Heng’s office at iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Pictures, Du Huan and several executives from the film production department reported to Jiang Heng on the final preparations for “The Legend of Dragons and Snakes”.

"So far, there are 34 action stars willing to guest star, including Jackie Chan and Jet Li, and most of them said they don't want to take any pay!"

Jiang Heng glanced at the list in his hand and saw that most of the names on it were artists from Hong Kong, even Zheng Shaoqiu, who had basically faded out of the film and television industry, was among them.

Speaking of which, many big stars gradually stop filming, and the fundamental reason is that they are old and can no longer play the leading role.

If I want to film a movie, I can only play supporting roles, and supporting roles don’t get much money.

Therefore, big stars with huge fortunes choose to fade out when they reach a certain age.

Even Jiang Heng himself had the idea of ​​retiring and was planning to start his retirement life before the age of 40 to enjoy the rest of his life.

"Good, thank you for your hard work. Have you coordinated the schedule?" "Everything has been coordinated. As long as the shooting progresses as scheduled, there will be no problem!"

"Okay, then let's hold a press conference for the new film and prepare to start filming!"

At Jiang Heng's command, the employees got busy.

On Saturday, September 9, the square in front of the China Film Cinema Wukesong store was crowded with people, almost all of whom were reporters and audiences who came to attend the new film press conference of "Dragon Snake Romance".

Many cast and crew members including Jiang Heng, Liu Yifei, Qian Xiaohao, Guli Nazha, Yuan De, Chow Billy, An Zhijie, Yu Rongguang, and Yin Zheng attended the event.

As for other guest stars with smaller roles, they will not attend the new film's press conference.

"Director Jiang, will you use a body double in this play?" asked a reporter from Xinlang Entertainment.

People around looked at him sideways, thinking that this boy was really brave to ask such a sensitive question.

In fact, in the entertainment industry, action movies make extensive use of stunt doubles.

Sometimes it is because we are afraid that the actors may be in danger, sometimes it is because the actors are not skilled enough and cannot perform the actions required by the director, and there are also problems such as actors getting injured or time issues.

When Jet Li was filming "Once Upon a Time in China", he was injured not long after joining the crew. It was Xiong Xinxin who completed the role of the stunt double perfectly, which won the appreciation of Xu Ke, and thus the role of Ghost Leg Seven in the second film was created.

Jiang Heng smiled and said, "Well, it's hard to say, because I'm not only the male lead of this film, but also the director. I have to ensure the quality and quantity of the film and finish it on time so that it can meet the audience next summer!

So, for some scenes that are not very important, I might use a body double, but for the important fighting scenes in the film, I will definitely do it myself.

When the film is released, there will be a lot of footage from the filming that will be revealed, and everyone will be able to tell which is real and which is fake! "

"Good, Director Jiang, well said!" A reporter cheered loudly, and the others applauded.

In the eyes of these media reporters, Jiang Heng is really a very good person. Except when facing the entertainment reporters who follow and take pictures secretly, Jiang Heng's attitude is very good and polite in most cases.

The reason why Wen Zhang, who was involved in the "See you on Monday" incident last year, has not been able to make a comeback is largely because he was too arrogant when he was famous and offended a number of media reporters.

As the saying goes, when a wall falls, everyone pushes it. Negative news is everywhere and it is impossible to turn things around!
As for Jiang Heng, many reporters actually knew that if they could expose a shocking negative news, it would definitely cause a sensation in the entire Chinese entertainment industry.

But regardless of whether such news can be released, depending on Jiang Heng's daily performance, this group of people is more inclined to report positive news about Jiang Heng.

So except for the first question which was a bit sharp, the subsequent question-and-answer session went very smoothly.

After the new film launch conference, the crew went to the film and television base in Huairou.

Because Jiang Heng has chosen to shoot special effects blockbusters here for many years, more and more film crews have come here to shoot.

A film and television city was built next to the China Film Digital Base. iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Pictures took the majority of the investment share, turning Huairou into the "Hollywood" of the mainland.

On the set, Jiang Heng led the crew members to worship "Guan Gong" again, and the film "Dragon and Snake Romance" officially started shooting.

On the first day, we shot a lot of literary scenes in indoor scenes, and waited for about a week before we started shooting the indoor fighting scenes.

When it came time to film the scene of Tang Zichen, played by Liu Yifei, it was discovered that all the training that the young lady had put in during this period was not in vain.

The heroine she plays is beautiful and heroic, with a strong aura, a detached appearance, and a great figure. She also fights like a master. (End of this chapter)