Hey guys, it’s Anton. So, the very first video I ever made mentioning The Golden Hairpin
was back in November of 2019. Unbelievably, it's been almost two years now since the
drama was announced, and we still have had no pending premiere date yet on the series.
"The Golden Hairpin" is an historical mystery drama that made a big splash when it was announced
that the two main leads were going to be Kris Wu a popular singer-songwriter and Yang Zi from
"Ashes of Love" and "Battle of Changsha". When the official trailer for "The Golden Hairpin"
was released in the summer of 2020, I made a reaction video to the drama on ADN Plus,
and I honestly thought it was really going to premiere a few short weeks afterwards,
similar to the way Love and Destiny was released back in 2019. After all, "Love and Destiny" and
"The Golden Hairpin" were made the same director. And when "Love and Destiny" released its official
trailer out of the blue with no warning, it came as even a bigger surprise when the drama
simply started airing with nearly no publicity at all to announce its pending premiere date.
But since the date its production team dropped their official teaser trailer,
it now does seems like "The Golden Hairpin" is stuck in indefinite limbo and we still have no
news updates for the drama that everyone has been anxiously waiting for. Even the official Weibo
account for "The Golden Hairpin" has been mostly silent with the exception of the posting of a
short video montage of Tencent's dramas throughout 2020 to ring in the New Year for 2021. So where
exactly is "The Golden Hairpin"? We know that filming was completed already back in July 2020,
and we can assume that any post production editing has been finished as well, seeing as though this
is an historical series that really does not need that much CGI effects, if at all. "The
Long Ballad" with Leo Wu and Dilraba was actually announced and started filming at around the same
time as "The Golden Hairpin", and I remember when both these dramas were officially announced they
both had attracted a lot of attention from netizens, including myself. Well, to the joy
and general surprise of "The Long Ballad" fans, that drama was released on March 31st of this
year 2021, but leaving "The Golden Hairpin" fans wondering why their drama had been left behind.
When "The Long Ballad" started to air, everyone assumed that "The Golden Hairpin" was not too far
behind. At around that time, we finally heard some news of "The Golden Hairpin" when it was announced
that tVN, a big Korean broadcasting network was looking into acquiring the rights to produce
their own Korean version of "The Golden Hairpin" with actor Park Hyung Sik. But alas, it was not
meant to be as the drama's producers decided to write a new original story of their own.
Then finally, in April of this year 2021, we got some real news. "The Golden Hairpin" was reported
to have finally obtained a distribution license through the Chinese censorship board meaning that
they can finally air. This article was written on April 25th, 2021. But shortly ten days later,
another article was written stating that the drama had to go through a second review
with the censorship board and as of today there has been no other subsequent updates.
So what does this mean. If the "Golden Hairpin" has really gotten their distribution license,
then we most likely will be able to see it sometime this year 2021. In fact, most of
the rumors currently are pointing towards and July or August premiere date. But of course, these just
rumors, so as of right now we can't be too sure. Its production team had previously pushed for a
2021 air date so I am hopeful that we will see it some time this year, but obviously this will
basically be pending the Chinese government and the drama passing its censorship review. Kris Wu
has been involved in a few scandals over the past year and some netizens were concerned that this
could affect the airing of "The Golden Hairpin". And this is totally a legitamate concern,
because we've seen other dramas in the past get dropped or altered permanently because
of scandals involving their main leads. Take for example "The Legend of Ba Qing" which originally
featured Fan Bing Bing and Gavin Gao until both leads were involved in serious scandals that
resulted in the entire drama being reshot with new leads, costing the series $11.6 billion dollars.
I don't think "The Golden Hairpin" will get delayed to that extent because of scandals,
but you never know. I'm hoping for the best though and wishing we'll have a premiere sometime
in the next few months. If there is any news of a premiere date for "The Golden Hairpin", you can
bet I will let you guys know first, but for now we will just have to be patient and wait the drama.
Anyways, what do you guys think? Does it seem likely that The Pillow Book will get aired in
July/August according to the rumors, or do we will have to wait until the end of this year?
What do you guys think the real reason is why this drama keeps getting being pushed back?
And what have you been doing in the meantime while we sit and wait? Let me know down in the comments
section below. That’s all I have for you guys today. I’ll let you guys know if there are any
other updates for "The Golden Hairpin” premiere because this is something I’ve also personally
been following as well. Until then, I’ll be here in the waiting room with the rest of you guys.
Anyways, thanks for joining me today. As always, this is Anton, please remember to subscribe to
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airing its first few episodes. Until next time, I will catch you guys in the next video. Later!