Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week.
Let's get right into it
as usual in the order of things already live
or will go live soon.
Number one, right after my last week's video.
Meng Hua Lu
A Dream of Splendor
led by Chen Xiao and Liun Yifei that's been talked about
for too long on Tencent, finally aired on June 2
If you're looking at this video on saturday,
it first goes out.
They should have aired up to episode 12.
And let's hope if I talk about it,
I don't get copyright strike.
I'm gonna make a video talking about that
and a couple of channel related restructuring.
I'm thinking about doing next week,
but right now let's just not think about that.
So that's the drama that went live during this week.
Then we have a couple of dramas that are coming up very soon
on june the 6th.
A drama, if nothing went wrong should go live on Mango television
called Qi Zi de Xuan Ze,
English title is the exact translation of the chinese meaning
Wife's Choice
Contemporary drama led by Sun Li
not that Sun Li
but that Sun Li
Yuan Wenkang domestic family story about a wife in her 30s
discovering the husband is cheating on her and therefore
other things happen
very Mango television
think about <ango television and it's dramas.
Let's see how well it's gonna work out.
I think a lot of people are just curious to see if Yuan Wenkang
again plays a bad guy like how attractive that bad guy can be,
then there's a possibility of a drama going live on June 7th,
but it's not 100% confirmed but very
likely on june the 6th, Huan Ying Guang Lin, My Superhero,
the video that I got taken down yeah lovely copyright strike
anyway that drama should finish airing on.
Both the shanghai satellite television,
Dong Fang and Beijing satellite television and they need the next drama.
Like the next day you need the drama for that slot
and this drama is called Lin Shen Jian Lu
It doesn't have an official english title yet,
and it actually has a previously different chinese title called
Duo He Re Shui
I think i have talked about it because the title is drink more hot water.
It has become a meme on internet in china,
which is something that the a boyfriend or a man says to a woman
when he really doesn't know how to comfort her.
Now they've changed it to Lin Shen Jian Lu
that means seeing a deer in the depth of a forest
that's still a contemporary drama about middle aged people's life crisis,
marriage, work, all that.
And it's a drama that's led by JIn Dong and Li Xiaoran
So it has a high likelihood of going live.
Right after huan ying guang ling finished airing on television,
we shall see if that happens.
Then there is a drama that is projected a
little bit further down the line in the future.
The drama has announced it is scheduled to go live
on june the 20th and this drama is interesting.
Mai Ding Li Shou Wo Ai Ni, english title is Miss Buyer
This drama was actually filmed back in 2018,
and i'm pretty sure the production wanted to go
out that year or in 2019 as soon as possible.
But unfortunately Zhai Tianlin happened,
if you still remember.
Actor Zhai Tianlin who got a doctor's degree,
but was found out that he really doesn't deserve to havea degree at all
his thesis is all copied from otherwhere
and ever since he got found out and kind of got
removed from entertainment business.
Every chinese university graduates,
whether you're in science or in other social studies,
whatever your major is,
and whether it is BA, MA, Doctor's degree to whatever
every school had been so much stricter
on final thesis and going through the checks of the,
how much percentage of like possibility of plagiarism or whatever
and made every student's life a much more complicated thing.
So for all the students,
they've literally used a new way of counting years.
So traditionally in chinese history,
when a new emperor comes to power,
they would change the title of the year,
somesome year one, somesome year two,
and it's complicated anyway.
So from that year when Zhai Tianlin's thing blew up
all the students in China call it Tian Lin Yuan Nian
Year One of Tian Lin
So now I think is Tian Lin San Nian or Si Nian
the 3rd or 4th year now.
And honestly, as long as students still exist and college still exists.
And year after year,
students still need to submit thesis,
they're not gonna forget about Zhai Tianlin
And what he's done.
As long as people remember,
there's no hope for him ever coming back.
I know i've said a lot,
but this particular drama was made back in 2018.
And now this drama has finished the post production of changing the face.
Ai switching all the shots with Zhai Tianlin as the lead to Yang Shize
So now the leading actors are Tang Yixin, Yang Shize, Yuan Wenkagn, Li Yuan
Yuan Wenkang again,
he's gonna show up in two dramas at the same time
the Mango television and this one
as for Li Yuan, she's the super sassy assassin lady
from (longest day in Chang'an)
So these two actors i'm definitely interested in seeing
but for the two leads used to be Tang Yixin and Zhai Tianlin
Now it's Tang Yixin and Yang Shize
and I feel so bad for Yang Shize,
because they've released a railer and youcan really tell
its' Zhai Tianlin's body with his face.
And his face is like more like the just the eyes and nose and mouth,
but not the shape of your face.
It doesn't actually look like the Yang Shize, body-wise
and in many shots,
it still looks too much like Zhai Tianlin
the AI technology is weird.
It basically makes the whole drama looks like it's deep fake.
It's very unfortunate,
I think for a production to have that happening to them.
And I don't think it's really that fair for the actor
who came in later
face dubbed onto another person,
but they definitely get paid and they're willing to do it.
So will be interesting to watch it,
it's not the first time that this has happened to a chinese drama,
but then for younger actors and also for the lead of a drama
male lead number one gets fully faced changed, first time
if you've watched the killing of 3,000 crow,
you know one of the supporting female roles got face changed.
But this is male lead
I probably would just check it out for a bit
and see how weird it looks on screen.
We do live at a really weird time and feel
everything is just like going out of control,
dashing towards the
edge of abyss
then let's talk about other things at different stages
for dramas and film production.
Number one is the long quiet hasn't done anything account of the drama
Ren Sheng Ruo Ru Chu Jian
Anybody still remember
A Love Never Lost that everybody has been waiting for
for over what? 2 years now
since day one when it was announced
Li Xian, Chun Xia, Zhou You, Wei Daxun, Zhu Yawen
that official account on weibo suddenly released new materials,
new posters, and new sort of interview of the director.
So it feels like they're starting to promote,
so looks like they're gonna put it out very soon
then talking about promoting stuff.
There is a drama that actually started shooting back in march this year,
but they didn't officially promote at all of that point.
They're still shooting, but they started promoting now.
So I don't know maybe that's just their plan for it.
And it looks like a very interesting project that's
gonna show up on tencent when it's finished.
and It's called Hei Tu Wu Yan
That's the chinese title.
The english title would be Frozen Surface
and it's led by Deng Jiajia, Hu Jun, Chen Jianbin
Just by looking at the cast
it probably is gonna be another
Burning Ice type of drama
somewhere in china where it's ice covered and very cold.
Looking at the poster,
you can also tell snow and the car and the drag of like blood,
a trace of blood on the snow.
So it's definitely a crime drama and also although
they haven't leaked much about the plot,
Chen Jianbin does plays a crime investigation unit team leader
in a police station.
There's no way it's not about crime,
it's gonna be a crime drama featuring those two actors, that actress
at a cold place in China
does feel like Burning Ice.
I have no worry about these three's acting,
just hope it's a good script solid enough
and wondering when we can see it.
Then let's talk about two films.
One just started shooting,
one just wrapped,
the just started shooting film
it's called Zheng JIu Xian Yi Ren, Who's the Suspect
and this is a remake film based on the korean film.
7 days
and it's gonna be led by Zhang Xiaofei and Hui Yinghong
the new queen and old queen of filmland
I haven't watched the korean film,
but the rough plot is a lawyer who got hired by somebody
to defend a criminal and the person who hired her
actually turns out to be mother of the victim.
So that's like really interesting sort of dynamic between the characters
ever since Zhang Xiaofei earned her.
Title of new sort of queen of the filmland in china.
She definitely has leveled up.
and I'm pretty sure at this point she would be very careful
picking her next script so that
she doesn't damage her new received position in the industry.
And then the film that has wrapped has been very very under promoted because
they're keeping it under wrap until they just finished shooting this week.
This film also looks very interesting.
It's another crime themed film
and it's gonna be called San Ge Shi Nian
literally means 3 10 years.
So three decades
based on the novel written by Xu Tong
This is a very well known documentary maker.
He's got multiple documentaries in the last 12,
13 years that has got him multiple awards, but this is his novel.
And he is making his first ever fictional film.
And then he invited other people to adapt
his work and work with him on the script.
And first person that got credited is the guy named Lu Wei
This is an old man who was the adaptation script writer of the
original novel that eventually got turned into Chen Kaige's
most well known film,
Farewell My Concubine, Ba Wang Bie Ji
And then it's led by Duan Yihong and Xin Baiqing
the kind of actors who can play anything,
literally, anything imaginable just just give it to them.
They're gonna make sure it's no problem.
So it's a pretty insane combination of film making
first is like you never think about this director making a fictional film
then Lu Wei
He's like one of those old old times classic person who
really understands script writing and he actually broke off.
He used to be collaborating with Chen Kaige
but then he couldn't deal with Chen Kaige,
so he had problems with him they ...
and everybody thought like he's too old,
but apparently not.
He's now
here
they were so under wrap and nobody has heard about it
They only just announced when they finished shooting and everyone
on internet that I was looking at people talking was like
what? Lu Wei?
Is that That Lu Wei?
OMG OMG, he's still around?
Can't imagine that
And then they see Duan Yihong and XIn Baiqing,
and everybody got excited.
This is a story about a discharge army soldier guy
because of a missing gun went hunting for a criminal.
That's the story.
So it's a crime story again
to wrap up today's video.
there's 1 piece of news that came out
during the shooting of a drama this week.
Xi Chu Yu Men, West Out of Yumen
that i've just talked about a couple of weeks ago
that started shooting led by Ni Ni and Bai Yu
because the originally casted second male lead
that's supposedly to be played by Jing Chao
Yeah, I like him a lot and he looked particularly good in this year's
Liu Guang Zhi Cheng, the min guo drama with Jing Tian
Due to a scheduling conflict.
So he was originally signed to this drama.
But for scheduling things he can't make it
I mean recent couple of months in china was pretty hectic.
A couple of places got completely locked down and stuff.
I don't know if it has anything to do with that,
but he could make it basically to the to
the production and production needs him NOW
like they need somebody to shoot
they're in production.
There's no way
they have to switch and they changed it to Jin Han
so the thing is originally if they thought of this
character would be very suitable for Jing Chao to play,
imagine anything he like would be very suitable to play now.
Goes to the hand of JIn Han
they are so different, right?
Like everything considered totally totally different types.
It happens, it happens actually in production.
Sometimes you just can't get away from those very physical problems.
And 塞翁失马焉知非福
that's an old chinese saying
something that may look like misfortune at this point
actually turn out to be a good thing at the end
who knows
that would be everything i've collected on chinese dramaland,
everything during this week.
I hope you're having a good weekend,
hope you're having a good june,
not like where I am where we've just had insanity wind and rain,
and cold.
Like I switched on my heater in june.
Can you believe it? Again!
Because it was 3°,
I was like.... three??!!!
and In the meantime, somewhere in the world like in India,
it's like 50 degrees
Best way to comfort ourselves is like,
we don't live on Venus or Mars or Mercury,
where insanity is the daily norm of the weather there,
or it doesn't even have weather, it just bakes.
that would be the end of this video.
Thank you for watching having AvenueX
I'll see you my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.