Since Chen Kun played Hu Bayi in the movie "Finding the Dragon".
Every year on August 1, he will wish the character he has played on social platforms - Happy Birthday.
In the hearts of many "Ghost Blowing Lights" original party and fan drama fans.
Although Chen Kun's version of Hu Bayi is not the most reductive, it is also the most brilliant one so far.
Dashing and agile, tough and handsome.
Although Pan Yueming in the drama version of "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth" has made people shine.
But slightly "swollen" cheeks are still a bit of a joke from time to time.
With the end of Pan Yueming's latest edition of "Yunnan Bug Valley".
The ending of Douban's 6.6 points made the fans helplessly send out such an exclamation:
"After seeing the Worm Valley, I know that Longling is the peak"
The "Ghost Blowing Lights" series is magnificent in imagination and the story is ups and downs.
However, its adapted film and television works are of high quality, but there are very few.
So far, there are only three Douban scores of 7:
Movie "Dragon Quest" (7.4)
TV Series "The Ancient City" (7.9)
TV series "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth" (8.2)
And in nearly ten versions of the "Touch the Golden Iron Triangle".
In "Finding the Dragon", Chen Kun Huang Bo Shu Qi's "Hu Bayi, Wang Fatzi, Sherry Yang".
It is recognized as the group with the best acting skills and the strongest sense of CP.
To this day, there are still fans who use the three-person still P map to celebrate the birthday of "Commander Hu", expressing their miss and expectation.
However, the long-awaited sequel to "Finding the Dragon" has dragged on for 6 years and has not been seen.
Released in 2015, "Finding the Dragon" once grossed 1.697 billion at the box office.
The film's sub-account reached 652 million.
Earn a lot of money.
Not filming the second part is counterintuitive.
And at the end of the movie that year, the director Urshan also deliberately made an "open-ended ending" for it.
The "Iron Triangle", which seems to be out of danger, seems to be caught in a bigger crisis in the suddenly distant shot.
Such "unfinished intentions" have also been interpreted by many people as the foreshadowing of the sequel of the film.
However, in 2017, the film released a concept trailer for "Captain Touching Gold: General Jiuyou", which was directed by Xu Ke.
The sequel thing, completely gone below.
In 2021, the film party official micro, which has not been updated for a long time, rarely sends out a dynamic related to Chen Kun.
It triggered a large number of fans to be excited and urged below.
Especially this message:
"I'm going to tell my grandfather that the official blog of the movie he watched when he was younger has been updated"
A sentence of "tell my grandfather", the joke is full of bitterness.
Where did the Dragon Quest sequel go?
Not only is the intention of countless movie fans difficult to reconcile.
It has also become a major "mystery" in the industry.
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Because things are too weird.
At one point, the "pot" was buckled on the head of the male protagonist Chen Kun.
It is said that he "refused to act".
Indeed, in recent years, Chen Kun has begun to try to transform to "drama bones".
In a historical film, even the muscles in the corners of the mouth are carried with drama.
Hu Bayi, who takes the "Indiana Jones" route, seems to be no longer the role he pursues.
However, Chen Kun and Shu Qi have been together many times, and they have not shyed away from calling each other "Sherry" happily.
The reality is that he is personally still very much looking forward to continuing to play this role.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have wished Hu Bayi a happy birthday every year.
Director Urshan once took the initiative to take responsibility.
I said that I didn't press "Dragon Hunt 2" because I wanted to shoot the "Fengshen List" trilogy first.
But the sequel director has been replaced by Xu Ke, but why is it still stopped?
Root cause.
Let's start with the "civil war" of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series - a copyright dispute that is more turbulent than the plot of the novel.
Let's comb through the storyline:
The original author of "Ghost Blowing Lights" originally named Zhang Muye sang in the world, when he was struggling to write this novel.
I never imagined that it would be so popular in the future.
Therefore, at a price of 100,000 yuan, the film and television adaptation rights of a total of eight books of "Ghost Blowing Lights" were sold to the starting point of the "Owner" Chinese Network.
Why is it so cheap?
Tianxia Baxiang once revealed that he did not understand the market at that time.
So much so that there has always been a rumor in the anecdote: it is said that the world's bully singer was drunk that year, and he sold the adaptation rights at a low price on the wine table.
Sell it, sell it.
But here's the problem.
The starting point network is engaged in novels and literature.
They don't have the courage of Marvel to adapt their own IP, and they don't have the strength.
What to do?
Just make a difference.
They sold the film and television adaptation rights to the first four novels to a company called Dreamer Pictures.
On this line, the "Nine-Story Demon Tower" directed by Lu Chuan and starring Zhao Youting and Yao Chen was born.
As well as the 2018 film version of "Yunnan Bug Valley" and Lin Yushen's version of "Ghost Blowing Lantern Dragon Ridge Labyrinth".
And that's not all.
The starting point network then sold the adaptation rights of the last four books to Wanda Pictures.
Wanda Pictures, on the other hand, found Huayi brothers with more experience in genre film production to shoot "Finding the Dragon" together.
The basic division of labor is that Wanda pays for IP.
Huayi paid Zhang Luoren.
Therefore, the production team of "Finding the Dragon" is almost all old acquaintances of Huayi Brothers.
Like director Urshan's "Painted Skin 2", which laid the status of a commercial film director, it is Huayi's own IP.
Zhang Jialu, one of the screenwriters, has cooperated with Huayi in films such as "No Thief in the World" and "The Sound of the Wind".
Producer Tao Kun is also a long-term partner of Huayi.
Even the three leading actors often appear in films produced by Huayi, especially Chen Kun.
That is to say, the sequel to "Finding the Dragon" is not filmed, how to shoot.
Wanda Pictures, which has the right to adapt, has the final say.
However, the original team of people and horses are original and need Huayi's help.
So the question arises.
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In 2017, there was an Indian movie "Wrestle! Daddy", which caused a movie-watching boom in China.
However, at that time, a "strange phenomenon" was exposed:
The film has a very high reputation and attendance rate, and as a result, it only gets 3% of the scheduling in Wanda's theaters.
It should be known that the national average of the film on the opening day of the film is as high as 13.3%.
WrestleMania! Daddy
What's the problem?
Some good people have discovered, "Wrestle It! The publisher of "Daddy" is Huayi Brothers.
It is reasonable to say that two years ago, the two sides joined hands with "Finding the Dragon Recipe" to make a lot of money, why did they come to "dismantle the stage" at this time?
But just flip it forward and you'll see:
Since 2016, whenever there is a crash in the film slot of Wanda and Huayi.
Wanda, which has the advantage of cinema, will let the other party "wear small shoes" on the schedule.
The film produced for Huayi is far below the national average of the film.
Although Wanda has always denied that the scheduling is unfair.
It is only for the normal consideration of the laws of the market.
But in 2016, the movie "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" was "suppressed".
Feng Xiaogang couldn't help but "connotate" the other party once.
This led to a personnel storm of job hopping and "digging the foot of the wall".
It became the eye of the storm that the outside world speculated later, and the two "bad friends".
A former executive of Wanda Pictures named Ye Ning was once a key figure who led the Wanda Group's film and television sector to the peak.
It is rumored that the films invested by his hands have never lost money.
At one time, he was also specially praised by wanda bosses at the annual meeting.
It was also this Ye Ning who single-handedly promoted huayi's cooperation with Wanda in "Finding the Dragon" in 2015.
It turned out that it was indeed a good deal, and everyone made money.
But the problem is...
In 2016, Ye Ning resigned from Wanda.
Came to Huayi Brothers as CEO.
The discord of the latter two families on the row of films was speculated to be a gap in this matter.
Therefore, the "Dragon Hunt 2", which should have been hot, naturally had no news.
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In the original work of "Ghost Blowing Lights", Third Master Zhang had a sentence to advise his apprentice:
"Together is born, divided is dead"
This sentence later became the iconic line of the iron triangle in the movie "Dragon Hunt".
Together are born, and divisions are dead
I don't know if it's a parable.
In reality, the film and television adaptation rights of "Ghost Blowing Lights" have indeed staged a complex combination of points and points.
In 2016, after Tencent acquired the starting point Chinese.com, it repurchased the rights to adapt the web drama of eight books.
This led to the later "Jingjie Ancient City", "Longling Labyrinth" and "Yunnan Worm Valley".
Signing with Pan Yueming, Zhang Yuqi and Jiang Chao is the planning of five dramas.
It also makes people see the possibility of the series version tending to be unified.
As for the film version of "Dragon Hunting Recipe" that makes fans think about it.
The official update in the summer of 2021, I don't know if it can explain the problem.
"Harmony is life".
I hope that this sentence in "Ghost Blowing Lights" can bring a good result to fans.
It is expected that Chen Kun's Hu Bayi and Sherry Yang will sublimate the friendship of the revolution to the end.
Text/Porco Rosso Watch Movie Editorial Department: Polluk
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