Yang Da Pao is in desperate situation
"Mainland Yang Dapao and ATV remake the classic "I Have a Date with Zombies""
This is the headline news of the Hong Kong "Next Magazine". They made an exclusive interview with Yang Can, Yang Xiuya, and Lu Zibo. This issue of the weekly magazine was published shortly after the listing, and it was the same as the one broadcast on "South Weekly" and Nanchu Satellite TV. The report appeared on the Internet and was reposted everywhere.
Those loyal supporters of Yang Dapao responded enthusiastically. After all, after "The Proud Wife", the kung fu in the past few months has been the craze of female "sex" professional dramas. Xue Qiyuan and the angry youth represent the pair of Yang Dapao. The popularity of the golden combination has not yet dissipated, especially Yang Can's fanatical fans are hyping up for him.
Regardless of whether it is a friend or an enemy, the news is now known. This sharp media man wants to remake the classic zombie film-"I Have a Date with Zombies". In order to film this TV series, he even went to Hong Kong and the dying Hong Kong. ATV cooperation, this really makes the *** stunned.
Both Wu Lan and Zheng Chucheng also breathed a sigh of relief after receiving Yang Can's call. It seemed that they were worried that it was superfluous again, and that the top players could gain a foothold in the complicated Hong Kong so quickly.
However, the focus of the media and the Internet is not that Yang Dapao's tentacles have reached Hong Kong. After all, according to Yang Dapao's resolute and popular style, this is not too unusual. The media and Internet attention are the TV series themselves.
In the second episode of the National Elf Salted Fish, everyone thought she would continue to shoot "The Good Wife" 2. Unexpectedly, what followed was a remake of a Hong Kong drama! Everyone in the industry felt that it was a little surprised. It is not surprising that the remake of classic TV is not surprising. It is surprising that the remake of zombie movies. Since the zombie boom in the 1980s, zombie movies have long become abandoned in Chinese film and television.
Even after the death of the representative Lin Zhengying, after the death of the representative, the 100-episode drama "I Have a Date with Zombies" has carried the banner of zombies since 1998, but even this trilogy of zombies has been so popular. The last part of the classic long drama also came to an end in 2004 when the ratings were low. This also officially ended in the final glory of the rigid series in the Chinese film and television circle.
Remake a zombie movie! ? During the interview, Yang Dapao said that he was full of confidence in this drama and tried to enter the US market with this. He expressed his confidence in the US market. What is the definition of entering the US market? Are you ready to barely recover the cost? How many American TV foreign awards did you sign up for? Or do you really want to be a blockbuster like "The Good Wife"
Although people in the industry have not had time to speak, the news on the mainland has already begun to be discussed enthusiastically.
"Is Yang Dapao's brain broken? What zombie film is to be remade, it is better to remake the Legend of the Sword and Fairy! He tasted a bit of sweetness in the entertainment circle and wanted to learn from Zhang Jizhong to bury the old series, right!?"
"He must be bored with the renminbi, and want to smell the Hong Kong dollar! We have money and go to Hong Kong to spend money. It is a paradise for "sexuality". It is a man who needs to experience it and understand Yang Dapao seriously!"
This kind of comment is very kind, the most intense is the original zombie movie "fan", this is not the "Proud Wife", which has not much influence in China, but the classic zombie series of ATV generation, in which ATV Huadan Wan Qiwen plays Ma Xiaoling, the heroine of the movie, was the most classic screen character of the year, just like Weng Meiling played Huang Rong in "Shooting", and Lin Daiyu played by Chen Xiaoxu in Dream of Red Mansions is a sacred and inviolable image in the hearts of many drama fans.
"Lao Tzu, someone wants to make a remake~ "Zombie Inspector", shit~! In this world, anyone besides Wan Qiwen can perform Ma Xiaoling's little peerless beauty, that little willful'sex', that pair of 42-inch coquettishness "Small long legs, dangling little miniskirt, who the hell is acting! Yang Xiuya's "Sao" x go to death~!"
"Yang Xiuya's pretentious woman is going to play Xiaoling~! It's ruining the classics, it's ruining the classics~! Everyone jointly resists~! We must not let the new version of zombies *** our eyes!"
Such negative comments flooded almost all the sections on this topic. For a while, Yang Can became a public enemy on the Internet as well as the bearded Zhang Jizhong, and he had a group of hardcore fans who helped him wave the flag and shouted and saved some of the decline, but Gradually, these voices supporting Yang Can quickly disappeared from the Internet..
The title of Douda on the homepage of Xinlan.com is a multiple-choice question "If the zombie series is retaken, who do you think is most suitable for the performance? God you and Ma Xiaoling?" ***After that, anyone can see the results, and 85.4 percent of them are selected. Option No. 3: "There is no suitable candidate, the classics cannot be surpassed."
Yang Can has been prepared for such criticisms that are flooding like "tide" water, and has already ordered Yang Xiuya and Lu Zibo to ban any television, online magazines and other media during this period.
The public's doubts were in his expectation. If he continues to film "The Good Wife" 2, these people may still say "expecting". Yang Xiuya is still a representative of mainland actresses, but if he remakes a Hong Kong drama, they will be completely different. Different, Yang Dapao is no longer a figure in the limelight in the media industry, but has become a moth seeking his own way.
Of course, there is no reason why Yang Can’s moth will be cast aside by thousands of people. The so-called Muxiu and Lin Feng will destroy it. Yang Can, the most dazzling new star in the media industry in the past year, has received great attention. At the same time, at the same time He was hostile by almost all of his colleagues, and all those competitors wanted to drag him off the limelight. This time it was good. The top media wanted to kill themselves this time, and they even said publicly not to film "The Good Wife 2" And to remake a Hong Kong drama!
In this situation, many influential film and television magazines, newspapers and media all pointed their guns at the top for a while. What tarnished the classics, and overweight comments followed one after another. What is even more exaggerated is that there are even professions. The writer wrote an article about Yang Dapao, as an angry youth ghostwriter, why not filming the classic red "color" drama, but instead filming the Hong Kong drama "Chaos" God drama. An absurd article that proves that he is actually not patriotic at all.
In a few days, the top media was almost overwhelmed by the saliva of public opinion.
Whether Yang Can played this game right or not, whether he was fainted or not, can only wait for the facts to prove that although the Internet has been noisy, the industry’s reaction is still very calm, and many drama reviews People's opinions are surprisingly consistent, and they all use the word "conservative" to describe them.
Yes, it is a seemingly funny term. In fact, people who make TV shows in the mainland know a principle. Although many people scold the remake of classics, it is almost certainly a project with considerable investment potential.
The reasons are well known. Of course, no matter what actor you hire and how much investment you need to remake classics like Journey to the West or Jin Yong's drama, you will definitely be scolded by everyone, but scolding does not mean that the effect is not good.
At least in the face of those familiar classics, everyone will look at the new version for one or two episodes, and then there will be the capital to scold them, right? Not to mention the famous producer Zhang Jizhong's remakes of "Shooting", "Sculptures", "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" and "Journey to the West". It is Hong Kong and Taiwan that have successively reproduced "Shooting" and "Sculpture". Although the evaluations are different, there is no example of not recovering the cost.
This is why everyone is so enthusiastic about classic remakes.
But from another perspective, "I Have a Date with Zombies" is not the same as those above. Its classic lies in his distinctive "characters", rather than the story itself.
This series does not have its classic original scripted novel. Because ATV's original screenwriting mode was changed while filming, there are hundreds of episodes of three zombies, and there are countless plot loops without answering the preface.
There are obvious flaws in the script, and it can't stand scrutiny at all. It's just that Kuang Tianyou, Ma Xiaoling, Zombie and other characters have bright images and novel plots, so they are welcomed by the majority of young students.
And this drama was novel at the time, and its unconstrained style was a bit too surpassing the times, so that it was extremely polarized. People who like it will die or live, and people who dislike it will not even see a single episode. Go down.
The love described in the series, and even the great love that transcends love, is quite incompatible with the universally materialized values of TV dramas in the Chinese community, and it has also caused the disadvantage of a small audience. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, most of the people who like it are students. With young people.
The mainland has not introduced this drama at all because of policy reasons.
That is to say, "I have a date with a zombie" is a recognized classic series, but due to various factors, its original influence is far less than those of other popular classics. At best, it is only compared with the wireless TV drama "Gongsmanship" in previous years. The influence is on par.
Generally speaking, the market effect of remakes is absolutely impossible to surpass the original version. This is a recognized rule in the industry. That is to say, even if the top media shoots a new version that is popular and called, then at most it will only get the same as the original version. What’s ridiculous about the market effect is that this time, the top-tier has claimed a high investment of 50 million yuan-whether this can be recovered is really a big question mark.
Compared with the previous "Proud Wife" with a small cost of nearly 30 million in profit, this top move is quite unwise. In any case, it is also the work of Yang Dapao, a well-recognized ghost media person in the industry. Could it be that he This marketing genius also encountered a bottleneck
At this time, Yang Can did not care about the ups and downs of the outside world. He and Mai Weijian, who had just flown to Hong Kong, were sorting out documents in the TV drama production office of ATV. A Qiang organized the staff to move stacks of old The documents are in front of them.
Yang Can frowned and smiled bitterly in his heart. The situation in front of him was worse than he thought. Although he did not have any expectations for ATV, he did not expect ATV, the dominant force in the media industry in East Asia 20 years ago. It has fallen to this point.
The total number of actors and actresses signed is less than 30, of which 25 are newcomers under the age of 22, and there are 32 behind-the-scenes personnel, except for those late and old employees who are waiting to receive their pensions. There are still some "hairy" young men left, and the pillars like Chen Shisan are not even ten.
"What about this...? With just such a small number of people, our crew can't build it. Even if we transfer all our top mainland people, it is not enough. There are too many scenes involved in this film." Mai Weijian's pair of mice The thief's eyes were running "chaotically", very dissatisfied, not at all the joy of receiving tens of millions of investment.
At the beginning, Yang Can thought that only actors had to figure out their own way. Looking at the current situation, Asia is now completely empty except for the screenwriters and a few on-site crews. In other words, there are a lot of things they have to organize next. The first is to set up the airs of the crew, then select actors to sign contracts, rent the venue, and then start the official filming.
A Qiang shouted at the employees in Cantonese, angrily. Yang Can asked what was going on, and A Qiang explained in embarrassment:
"Mr. Yang, according to your wishes, Consultant Liang and Screenwriter Chen were supposed to come to the meeting for a few days, but they happened to be sick and they said they were going to rest for two days..."
Mai Weijian became angry as soon as he heard it, and he slapped the table with his hand and cried out: "***!! Aberdeen would dare to follow me with this set, and put on his face! It's better not to come! It's best! Get out of here, Lao Tzu is alone taking pictures for them! The script is changed by Lao Tzu alone, isn't it 30 episodes!?"
After finishing talking, he kicked the table fiercely. His arrogant attitude in the last meeting has angered Liang Liren and the ATV screenwriter team. This is to give him a blow to extinguish the arrogance of this new director.
A Qiang was a young man and was frightened by the very temperamental director. He could only ask Yang Can cautiously: "Yang Sheng, I think I should ask Mr. Lin what to do first. I am afraid he will have to come forward with this matter."
"No." Yang Can waved his hand without even thinking about it. If this little thing should bother Lin Baixin, then he should be solely responsible for what he is talking about. Of course he knew that Lin Baixin was responsible for asking him for help when arranging this Aqiang. , But Yang Can’s style is like this, he won’t ask for help if he is killed.
"I think we need an excellent producer the most to establish the core of a crew." Yang Can "touched" his chin to express his views. He has just seen ATV's current producer list, ten years ago. Big gold medal producer Zhong Xian Zhiwei has passed away, Wu Jinyuan defected to tvb, and transferred to the mainland to develop Li Huizhu is now even more confused, and has produced the hit drama "Gong" and "Beauty World".
No one can use the entire ATV at all!
Mai Weijian was dumbfounded and asked in a puzzled manner: "Boss, this time we can still learn the way we did last time. I will direct and you will be the producer. Why bother to ask for trouble?" Mai Weijian is arrogant. No one is convinced except Yang Can. If Yang Can feels that he can't take care of it, he will prepare to do all the director, producer, producer, and he does have this ability.
"I can't do this this time." Yang Can shook his head and sat down. As soon as he took out the cigarette, Mai Weijian lit him up and couldn't help but smiled, "When did you learn to flatter?"
"Boss, just say it! Don't betray you!" Mai Weijian cried out helplessly, time is running out, so there is no time to gossip.
"This time is a remake of the drama. We must innovate and surpass while we must not deviate from the original main axis. Last time, because it was an adaptation of an American drama, the script you changed has your charm in it. I can just stand by the side, but this time is different. ." Yang Can patted the three scripts in front of him:
"For a 100-episode long drama, we have to peel off the dross, take the essence, and reorganize it into a 30-episode series, and keep the original flavor, but you and I are not familiar with this drama, if we control the direction , It’s easy to lose the core charm of the original version, especially the part about love."
Yang Can suddenly asked a very abrupt question: "How many times have you been in love?"
Mai Weijian was stunned for a moment, counted his fingers in his heart, and reluctantly replied in a few seconds: "Two, three times..."
"So, we don’t have enough experience to describe truly touching love. This aspect is a flaw we cannot make up." Yang Can sighed. Although the apparent selling point of "I Have a Date with Zombies" is a novel story, it is true The core of the book really describes the main axis of true love in the world. At this point, both self and Mai Weijian, the two indeterminate "sex", can't get their charm, and naturally they can't capture the taste.
A Qiang was secretly shocked when he heard this conversation next to him. In fact, when Liang Liren and Chen Shisan were discussing how Yang Can and the others came to disarm, he was also on the scene. At that time, someone asked Liang Liren the same question, whether the top will be thrown away. Leave them alone, Liang Liren's answer turned out to be surprisingly consistent with what Yang Can said now.
"They can't get rid of us. Without Thirteen, they can't get the taste of the original version. Losing the original core value is a devastating blow to any remake."
This Mr. Yang doesn't look like a person in the industry from the point of view of his conversation. How could he have such insights? This is really surprising.
How did he know that Yang Can had actually observed the consciousness of ATV's high-level gang before, and he had a better understanding of the overall situation than anyone, and even Lin Baixin might not know as much of his secrets as Lin Baixin.
Yang Can thought to himself, in the current state, ATV is simply a piece of sand, and people's hearts are "turbulent". It needs a real core figure to lead the overall situation. However, it is impossible for an outsider like him to take up this role. A person who is expected to have a cohesive eldest brother level in ATV takes the lead. The former role-playing boss Xian Zhiwei suddenly passed away, which is the most direct reason for the current collapse of ATV.
The core of the crew usually needs to be someone who is expected to be capable and empathetic, and Yang Can has already asked similar questions in those high-level meetings of ATV. Although no one answered, Yang Can is already in their consciousness. Many options have been unearthed, and the most people think of it is Li Huizhu, the current producer of development in the Mainland.
However, he has already understood before that Li Huizhu is currently filming "Palace Lock Bead Curtain" in the mainland, and the schedule is not up to date, so there is only one candidate left, and Yang Can wants to invite one the most—the original "I and Zombies Have Yin Tianzhao, the male lead actor of the three dramas "A Date", has been in ATV for more than 20 years and is now developing in the mainland.
In fact, in the second part of the zombie series, ATV was originally not a filming. It was Yin Tianzhao who approached Chen Shisan and wrote the outline. Together with the gangster Xian Zhiwei, he found Lin Baixin’s house and talked about it for three days before making the most classic episode of the zombie series available. Seeing the sky, talking about energy, talking about people's expectations, talking about the degree of familiarity with the drama, he is the best candidate.
It was only in the afternoon when he called to discuss the matter with Cai Yanming, but Cai Yanming, who was in Taiwan, seemed rather helpless.
"Brother, although I am the current big boss of ATV, you also know that I only took over in 2009. There were a lot of internal struggles for power in ATV before. Yin Tianzhao was forced to leave when he left. , You want him to come back, I’m afraid he won’t agree, it’s no longer a question of money."
Yang Can heard the reaction in Cai Yanming's words and knew that this was not so simple. Back then, Yin Tianzhao left ATV during the most popular period, and of course there were reasons unknown to outsiders.
While having dinner with some ATV people in the evening, Yang Can gradually "feeled" the context of the matter. It turned out that Yin Tianzhao was not a contracted artist of ATV when he was filming the second and third part of the zombie but was an artist with an independent agency contract. Someone was jealous inside and squeezed him out. When shooting Zombie III, ATV made a new female actor surnamed Wang and falsely accused Yin Tianzhao of an indecent assault.
In the end, Yin Tianzhao was completely "forced" to leave Hong Kong. This incident was planned by Liu Jiangang, one of the directors of ATV. When Yin Tianzhao was young, he had a dispute with him and splashed water on his face. The matter was extremely secretive, and it took Yang Can a few hours to dig it out of Lin Baixin's mind.
Knowing the reason, this matter will be easy to handle. Yang Canzheng is worried that their Hong Kong South Chu Satellite TV branch has just been established. There is no subject matter yet. This time, as soon as the flag is waved, Zhou Hongliang and Su Yali immediately dispatched an investigation to Liu Jiangang. Under a purposeful investigation , Within two days, we found out what happened, and spent about 100,000 Hong Kong dollars to obtain definite evidence. At that time, the person who spread the word about this matter kept a mindful record of Liu Jiangang's phone call.
Things went smoother than expected. Yang Can was in a better mood. While drinking coffee, the video of Yin Tianzhao who had contacted before finally arrived as scheduled, and suddenly he heard a knock on the door outside. While the call was on, Yang Can responded. Qiang nodded. When A Qiang opened the door, he clearly saw the people who came in for a moment, and saw a beautiful woman in a hat walk in.
That woman was almost the same as Yang Can in high heels, the iconic "sexual" slender woman with single eyelids, although her face was not as white and red as Yang Xiuya, she was still beautiful.
Yang Can smiled and opened the screen to adjust the angle, sitting in a suit, a man wearing sunglasses appeared in the screen, just about to say hello, but at a glance noticed the woman who had just come in from the door, and instinctively opened her mouth and stood. Up.
"We should meet for the first time, Mr. Yin Tianzhao, Miss Wan Qiwen..." With a smile on the corner of Yang Can's mouth, he beckoned the two old friends who had not seen each other to sit down. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to ***(***.***) to vote for recommendation, ***, your support is my biggest motivation.)