Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week.
Let's get writing to it.
First, there's a drama that has just announced yesterday
that it's gonna go live on. March the 6th,
which is the Lie Zui Tu Jian
Under the Skin
crime drama led by Tan Jianci and Jin Shijia
Tan jianci plays a genius painter who can
draw people just by description,
whereas Jin Shijia plays a policeman who has to
pair up with him and work together to solve cases.
Classic two guys come together, form a team,
solve cases and develop their friendship in terms of like,
how far would the friendship go?
I have no idea
these days, probably not anywhere,
otherwise it wouldn't pass censorship.
I will definitely 100% without a doubt check it out.
okay
I guarantee that.
And if it's worth watching
I'll for sure, let people know
then let's move on to talk about dramas at
other stages of production.
First, a couple of trailers about a couple of projects,
number one, Qi Shi Ji Xiang, English title, The 7th generation.
Still don't think that english title actually makes much sense, but anyway,
it's a fantasy drama led by Ding Yuxi and Yang Chaoyue
It already started production and they just released an new trailer.
It's very conceptual and it's all very very very white.
In costume,
typical Xian Xia that it's like they robbed a curtain shop
and took out all its white cloth and fabric.
But if you look at the other stylings
of those characters in production shots,
it's actually rather colorful.
And very wide range of hair tied up,
hair put down, sort of more god like looking
and more human like looking.
There's armory, there's all type of stuff.
So it could be actually rather interesting to look at.
Also there's a drama that has just released a trailer
didn't say when it's gonna come,
but it does give you the vibe, that it's gonna come very soon.
It's a contemporary, romantic, high school.
Setting drama that's pretty much taking the
old old old setup of body swap or spirit swap.
Depends on how you look at it.
It happens again. Last year.
We've had The Day of Becoming You
this year.
The drama is called Fan Zhuan Ren Sheng
When you be me, I know what it means,
okay
but come on that english is grammatically
not making sense.
So this drama we're gonna have a female and male lead
they're gonna swap their body again
and just play out the scenario and see
who can write the more funny version.
And this drama is gonna be led by Zhou Yitan and Ma Sichao
pretty sure they're gonna make it really fun.
Because these two actors they totally work for comedy
as long as it's funny, right?
I can watch like a hundred dramas with body swap scenarios
because it's just naturally really fun.
It totally depends on the details and how you write it
and how well the actors can bring that to life.
Also during this week a film has released a trailer.
It is the Zhu Yilong led film Ren Sheng Da Shi
which has gone through a couple of name changes.
Right now.
The english title is Lighting up the Stars.
I don't think they're gonna change anymore.
Probably gonna stick with it because
it sounds so positive.
These days it can only be positive,
whereas the film actually talks about cremation.
Human body turn into
H2O and carbon.
This film has released a proper proper trailer that gives
you an idea about the main characters
what they are like
and what kind of main conflict this phone is depicting.
And then most of the main characters use local dialect,
which is a useful thing in film to add that bit of reality.
This film, if nothing weird happens, is gonna go into cinema in china
on April the 2nd because that runs into the Qing Ming (清明节） festival.
That's one of the most important traditional festivals in
china where people go to pay respect to their ancestors.
So it's definitely aimed at that period of holiday and festival.
And also its theme is about people dying and mortuary
and funeral business
couldn't be more perfect.
Also during this week,
a contemporary drama has just got the license to air.
So technically they can just air it like tomorrow.
It's a tencent drama called Da Bo Yi， english name.
Unconfirmed yet, boy yi,
the word means game theory.
If you watch that film,
you probably know what that is.
It's circled around a very important factory's ups and downs and it's running.
And it has a lot of that power play, struggle,
all types of things going on,
looking very exciting, a little bit,
too exciting on the brink of actually break out
physical fight of the competition and stuff.
And this drama is led by Qin Hao and Wan Qian
yeah just because of the two leads,
I probably will check it out when it airs
just not sure when.
Also during this week,
the drama Yu Jun Chu Xiang Shi
The Blue Whisper fantasy drama led by Dilaraba and Ren Jialun
platform has come out to call for advertiser.
So it feels like they're aiming at march and april,
airing during those 2 months at some point,
then during this week,
Guang Dian (NRTA) has announced quite a few project,
which are all gonna start shooting from march to, let's say, april.
That's the time these productions are gonna go into production.
And they're all called the important projects that's led by Guang Dian
nrta, national radio and television administration,
the official projects.
This type of projects we've had a lot last year.
For example, the Beyond, Chao Yue is a (NRTA) led project,
and you can feel the vibe in it usually important
dramas that have certain kind of historical
point of existence and tasks on them
are the guang dian projects.
So I looked at a couple of them that are all gonna start shooting.
They haven't announced the casting yet,
probably in the stage of keeping in a secret at this moment.
But within 2 months,
we're gonna know pretty much about all four projects
that they've just announced.
And they all look very, very interesting.
They just pick one particular thing that's like really, really
in now,
topics people are interested in and then,
go at it and it includes some really good production companies
taking on those tasks.
First, a drama called Da Kao, The Big Examination
and it's focused on 2020's,
one of a kind china's Gao Kao (高考）
national college entrance examination,
the biggest exam of the nation due to covid
and gao kao happens at the beginning of every june in china.
So that was only a couple of months after the outbreak
talking about a couple of middle school involved.
Teachers, parents, students as you can imagine,
then there's also a drama called Xian Wei Da Yuan
not sure how it's gonna get translated
and doesn't have an english official title yet.
Xian means county
Wei is the short for the party committee.
So it's the organization,
governmental and party organization running a county.
So you know already this is gonna be not about
metropolis and big city.
It's gonna be focused on a county level.
And it's gonna have leaders and the people living in the area
and all their conflicts and dramas.
and why I have a really good feeling about this one
I hope it's gonna be an interesting one is, first
it's gonna be produced by Zheng Wu Yang Guang
and the director is Kong Sheng
the best director okay of ZWYG
He is the leading director of nirvana.
He is the leading director of shanghai qing Minning Town
For this drama, they did similar things as Minning Town
They had the writer going to a Hunan province's county level,
local government and stay there for a couple of months,
just watching how people work and write the script.
From that ground up
very similar to Minning Town which also had a lot of field study done
by writers before they put together a script
haven't announced who are gonna be the leading actors.
But I have a feeling it's definitely gonna repeat
quite a few actors that you see from Minning Town
It's just the type of drama that will cast this type of actors.
Don't know who's gonna lead it,
but whoever I hope it's gonna turn out to be another Minning Town drama.
I think it's safe.
Kong sheng is really good at controlling narrative,
so
cannot wait.
Then there's also a project called Wo Men Zhe Shi Nian
English title, our times
gonna start shooting around april.
It's another Dan Yuan Ju (单元剧）unit drama.
They're gonna focus on ten different stories
of people's lives from 2012 to 2022
They haven't been super clear about exactly
what are the ten different units are about,
but think about Zai Yi Qi
the covid drama that had different directors,
different crews making totally different stories about that.
This is similar.
Then there's another drama that has been said we'll start
shooting this month called Zhong Zhong Zhi Zhong,
The Power Source, look at the poster
you already know what industry it's gonna be talking about.
It's about engineering,
about very high end, heavy,
big mechanical machine,
production industry,
which is very important to china.
And the story is gonna be focused on a specific company's turbulent history,
and particularly recent 5 to 10 years of huge changes
that has happened to this industry in china,
not sure how specific they're gonna get with this particular company,
whether they're gonna use its real name or use a fake fictional name of it,
but it does feel it may have something to do with this.
We shall see
this is a huge company and huge brand,
very important and has extremely exciting history in recent decade.
If any of my audiences happen to be working in this industry or in your work,
you need to use stuff produced by them,
you probably know some about it.
Anyway, so this is also a project that's about to go.
All these four projects I've just mentioned.
They're all nrta led,
pretty much you can be sure,
even if they include traffic actors,
it has to be the traffic actors that are reliable, right?
They can first do acting properly.
And then let's talk about anything else.
First, they need to fulfill the basic requirement of being able to act.
So that's everything i've collected during next week.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
hope everyone has a great March.
and I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.