Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX lookingat chinese dramaland in the past week
and let's get right into it.
Let's first talk about drama that have gone live, on the 30th,
a television series that's 40 episodes long went live on Mango television,
chinese title, Bai Se Cheng Bao, English translation, direct.
The White Castle, It's a medical drama led by Peng Guanying, Xiong Ziqi, Tu Songyan, Gao Xin
haven't had time to check it out, if it somehow turned out to be a really great one,
I believe i'll definitely hear about it on internet,
just because for this particular type of drama, it is way too rare
to get a really good one from chinese dramaland
Then on June the 1st we have two dramas that went live on different platforms.
First one is one that got cancelled first, like I mentioned last week
and then during this week it get rescheduled and then aired
Xiao Zhan, Li Qin drama, Meng Zhong de Na Pian Hai
that drama is set in the 1970s pretty much right after cultural revolution.
And i'll see if I get time to watch it,
although i'd say it's a particularly tricky time to act for the younger people today.
So living in 2020s in their 20s 30s, they are way too young to have lived through that time
or have heard enough or seen enough left over of that period to actually understand
how different people have become these days, compared to the four or five decades ago.
It's just really subtle but really different. If you are not a master of acting,
it's actually really hard to play it convincingly.
The other drama that also went live pretty much exactly 1 day before it says i'm gonna air and it aired,
is a has been put on shelf for over 2 years since it has wrapped and nobody knows when it'is gonna happen
and suddenly air dropped paired fantasy drama Hua Rong, on the platform iqiyi
it is led by Ju Jingyi and Guo Junchen, English title is Beauty of Resilience.
The female lead is a phoenix. She doesn't know she is one,
obviously she's gonna discover and then she has the sort of the Nirvana power whatever
you know fantasy dramaland stuff.
I watched the 2/3 of the first episode and decided to quit.
It is a very very very average and cheap production of a fantasy drama
that unless you just want to see these two leads,
I don't see any specific reason that you should even click it open to watch.
Then today as i'm sitting down making this video, a drama has just gone live on Tencent.
And this one we've talked about a couple of times previously, right now the title is Zhao Liang Ni
English translation a date with the future. It is a firefighter drama.
Another one, how many have we got in recent years?
We've got a Ren Jialun one, we've got a Gong Jun led one
Now this one is Chen Weiting led one with Zhang Ruonan,
also including Ren Hao and Ci Sha
I probably will try to check it out a bit just to see these couple of boys in their firefighter gears,
the then let's talk about multiple dramas at different stages of production.
First, the ones that have announced they are officially a wrap.
First one is Chun Se JI Qing Ren, the Li Xian, Zhou Yutong led contemporary romantic drama.
There's a lover in my hometown.
It feels like yesterday they started shooting , not so long agoI talked about them started shooting right
And now it's done, okay cool.
The next one is also a drama pretty much I've been talking about it since day one
of its starting shooting, also a contemporary dramam Zai Bao Xue Shi Fen
Wu Lei and Zhao Jinmai, Amidst A Snowstorm of Love, the one that started shooting in Finland.
Anybody still remember earlier this year we talked about this is the first chinese drama
in the last 3/4 years that actually held its opening ceremony abroad.
Then let's talk about the ones that have started shooting.
We have quite a few, first, there's a drama called Xue Mi Gong,
English title The First Shot, and It is a anti-drug police drama
youku, led by Huang JIngyu, Wang Ziqi, Xie Keyin,
see, if you've watched my recent live stream
somehow when a drama has Huang Jingyu as the lead,
he always gets credited as the first one, we may never find out why,
but you know he ..... somehow is special
anti drug drama, okay, his familiar zone,
cause the drama I think his best known for is an anti drug drama
not so long ago which crashed towards the ending, but earlier parts were really popular.
He's kind of the default policeman, firefighter guy in chinese dramaland now
probably just because he's a really muscly and big built guy
well they've started shooting and i'm curious to see now Wang Ziqi is in that too,
aren't they in a firefighter drama as well like together?
So now they are in an anti-drug drama.
So let's see how many of those type of jobs they are gonna get in dram land, particularly together,
we also have a pair of drama has started promoting,
but also pretty much started shooting as well during this week
called Si Hai Chong Ming based on a novel that has a totally different title.
And on drama list, it has a different pin yin title.
I think it just hasn't updated yet. It's a period drama.
not sure if it's Wu Xia or fantasy,
but it seems to be something like that, because the title is ~~~~
something like that, which is pretty funny.
It's led by Jing Tian, Zhang Linghe,
Zhang Linghe, he's getting so many top top popular genre dramas these days
as the male lead, shooting up fast, then it will also featuren Guan Hong and Chang Long
based on their production photo, everybody looks really good.
I have to say the styling looks pretty nice, interesting,not boring and suitable for the actors.
They have just started shooting and i'm pretty sure later you're gonna hear more about this drama
and see more stuff coming out related to that.
Then we have a contemporary drama that has started shooting called Bei Shang
Northward, and this drama is pretty much set in the 2010s, so not exactly now,
but a couple of years back, I think for the main characters,
it's led by Bai Lu, Tu Ling, Ou Hao, Hu Jun
if you look at the synopsis, it's talking about people who grow up together
and then they go through some kind of change and then meet again.
But it's like limited to the area of living. It's like a domestic family contemporary drama.
The interesting thing about this project is, it is another script written by the the script writer Zhao Dongling
who has written JIng Cha Rong Yu, in which Bai Lu also played a main role.
And this is also an iqiyi production, which is the same as JIng Cha Rong Yu,
Bai Lu, Iqiyi, Zhao Dongling, see. you can't help thinking that they are somehow related,
have a feeling that Ou hao is gonna be like somebody like 青梅竹马 Qing Mei Zhu Ma (childhood sweetheart)
somebody who grows up together with this girl.
And then Tu Ling probably is playing her mom and HU Jun probably is playing his dad.
I'm just guessing okay if it turned out to be like that, well I I guessed right I guess
then let's talk about a few pieces of news on films.
We have a film that has started shooting during this week.
And it's interesting because it's led by Hu Ge and Gao Yuanyuan
never thought these two are gonna show up in a same film, but they do.
It will probably be really interesting. It's a family domestic comedy.
And if you look at the poster, it looks even more interesting.
Chinese title Zou Zou Ting Ting literally means walk walk, stop stop.
It's a word you describe somebody when they are wandering around and
and they are very slow and they are very absent minded or without a destiny.
So they're just like walking around, they walk, and then they stop,they walk and stop
that's that type of walking that you describe in chinese, Zou Zou Ting Ting
and the English style is Gold or Shit.
Somehow it feels very AvenueZ it's like goldmine, landmine you know
so poster title and then it's Gao Yuanyuan and Hu Ge I am intrigued.
Somehow it reminds me of the drama that Hu Ge did with Yan Ni
young husband, older wife, domestic drama that's actually really really good
just by looking at the poster and the title, kind of reminds me of that.
Then we have a good news on a film that has been talked about since early May,
which is it will start shooting and now the news I think is in June
they're officially gonna shoot it, and it is the film version of Yi Shan Yi Shan Liang Xing Xing
I know a lot of people love that drama okay watching my channel
Shining for One Thing, led by Zhang Jianing and Qu Chuxiao
There was a drama version that people really liked.
It ends with a very ambiguous ending, it's a time travel story.
So you kind of know what happens, but not quite sure
it is said that the film version is the guy, this time, previously is the girl time traveling back
And this time is the guy doing the time traveling, and it's gonna be the original cast of these 2
So if you really like the original series, you have a film version to look forward to,
let's hope they wrap up the story nicely in this film version and time travel,
you know it's always tricky trying to make sure it doesn't have leakage.
Then there's really a funny thing that people caught on Dou Ban
which is a film showed up on Dou Ban as a project that has been decided will go.
Although we do not know if it really would happen, it says projected in 2025,
which is to too far down the line and never can be sure about that.
It's an adaptation of a novel from the scifi writer Liu Cixin
Wandering Earth., Three Body creator, uh~ this one
Quan Pin Dai Zu Se Gan Rao 全频带阻塞干扰
It has two versions of this novel.
One is in a future time where Russia is completely against the US
another version is China against the US, it's the same story.
It just puts in different countries, somehow.
The basic idea is US technology is far ahead, to win a war between these two.
The only way the other Russia/China can can win is to create a huge explosion
on the sun to cause extreme solar activities,
therefore, completely paralyzes entire earth's technology,
communication, digital, and any type of electromagnetic devices
basically beats the technology out of human existence,
and then bring us all back to the days of cold weapons and spears and stones,
and then fight against each other.
So that's the novel, English title I'll type it out here.
I'm not quite sure exactly how it gets translated.
Sci fi films are very hard to make and particularly these days,
if you make a US against China third world war,
back in stone age time, probably not being the best thing to do.
Then one final last thing about a film that was said to get released onlin eduring this week
didn't happen, is a film that actually has been delayed for 6 years.
I believe it has screamed outside of China, but it never got past censorship.
And then during this week there's this buzz about it will go live online on May the 27th,
but when the time comes it didn't, it still didn't go through.
We don't know if that film is ever gonna show up, but if you're curious,
you can search what the film is based on.
This is a film called Yuan Hang, literally meaning voyage far away,
so you voyage to a very far away place.
It is a film based on a real horrendous crime that happened back in 2011 or something in china
called called Lu Rong Yu, Long Rong Yu is the name of that fishing boat
google Mutiny on Lurongyu 2862, read it yourself.
I think it's one of the worst and most horrific Mutiny on the ocean that has happened in recent decades in the world.
It's insanity. It is a chinese boat that went to south American waters to fish squid,
and then things went wrong, and on the boat.
Originally, there were 33 people, when they returned to china, 11 are alive
So exactly 2/3 of the people have died.
It was like a battle royale situation on the boat, people killing each other off
and it got made into the film more than 6 years ago.
And it's actually led by really good actors and a lot of people are very curious to see the film version,
but because of its very bloody nature, extremely brutal nature,
maybe the film was very authentic to what really happened on the boat
and therefore it just never got through.
And this week people were saying it's gonna go online
a lot of people are like you know buzzing, cool~
we really wanna see this film and then didn't happen again.
So maybe it will never happen. Maybe we'll never get an online release,
but maybe you don't wanna watch a film like that.
Honestly, if you wikipedia this thing, you'll find it and it will make you have nightmares
just by imagining what has happened.
That would be the end of this video.
Thank you for watching AvenueX, hope you're doing well,
hope you're staying cool on this half of the planet
it's getting really hot this year where I am, so hot for the time,
at least in the last decade, I haven't seen a summer so hot so early on.
So you've heard my AV running multiple times during this video.
If it is like that where you are as well, please don't get heatstroke,
drink a lot of water, take care, I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.