When the easter egg at the end of "Di Renjie's God Dragon King", Xu Ke released 23 concept maps in one go, two of which corresponded to the finished "Heavenly Empire" and "Shendu Dragon King".
At this time, I am especially looking forward to Xu Laowei's ability to shoot 23 "Di Renjie" series and create a detective universe that belongs to China.
Unfortunately, after filming "Four Heavenly Kings", Xu Ke did not continue to shoot, and the reason given was that the amount of engineering in this series could not bear when he was older.
Also, when filming "Heavenly Empire", he directly blocked the follow-up road.
Let Di Renjie be poisoned by the red flame golden turtle, can only stay in the ghost city, Wang Donkey's antidote does not work no one knows, but Andy Lau's schedule is definitely tight, want to ask him to play Di Renjie again, I am afraid it will be a little difficult.
In my opinion, "Tongtian Empire" is the most classic part of Xu Ke's "Di Renjie Trilogy", and it is also the one that best fits the detective suspense genre. Later, "Shendu Dragon King" and "Four Heavenly Kings" directly weakened the suspense and became a pure fantasy film.
This also gave the wrong instructions to the crew of the network big movie that followed the venture capital di Renjie, pretending to be a ghost on the surface, ignoring the core key to solving the case, and turning the good suspense detective film into a confusing horror thriller.
What is "Di Renjie's Headless God General", "Di Renjie's Deadly Heavenly Eye", "Di Renjie's Heavenly Red Fox", "Di Renjie's Flying Head Luosha", just by listening to the title of the film, you know that it is a big rotten film that pretends to be a god and a ghost.
Moreover, they also have a common disease, that is, no matter who Di Renjie plays, he cannot get rid of the shadow of Andy Lau's style.
Dressed in black, with a croissant hat and a dragon in his hand, in order to make his starring actor look like Andy Lau, He Gang and Du Yiheng, who once imitated Andy Lau, became actors who competed for it.
At present, most of the best actors who play Di Renjie recognized by most audiences are Liang Guanhua and Andy Lau, one is a realistic TV series, and the other is a fantasy movie.
Although Liang Guanhua's pearl jade is in front, Andy Lau has made him a chivalrous guest of both culture and martial arts with his reinvention of Di Renjie, just like the combination of Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang in the TV series.
Why do I say that "Heavenly Empire" is an unsurpassed classic in the Di Renjie series?
Because this film combines the martial arts and fantasy that Xu Ke is best at, but does not leave the genre of detective suspense, he uses the industrialization of film techniques and modern special effects technology to create a different World of Di Renjie.
Andy Lau became recognized as the most handsome Di Renjie, and I have to admit that Andy Lau's acting skills in the film are very good.
As an opponent of Wu Zetian, he was unruly and unrestrained, as a court official, he was also meticulously observant, and Andy Lau's Di Renjie was very different, and he always felt that there was a powerful aura shrouded.
But it is clear that Xu Ke did not have the idea of creating the "Di Renjie Universe", otherwise he would not have killed such a good partner as Pei Donglai, played by Deng Chao, nor would he have left room for follow-up, directly changing Zhao Youting and Lin Xin to shoot the prequel.
In the same year that the third "Four Heavenly Kings" was released, Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown 2" was released at the beginning of the year, and frantically collected more than 3 billion box office, while "Four Heavenly Kings" only had a mere 600 million, behind the box office gap, Xu Ke lacked overall planning for this series.
If Xu Ke can be like Chen Sicheng, from the beginning to plan to create a detective universe, using Di Renjie as the protagonist, constantly incubating other characters, and even broadening the region where it occurs, when filming "Heavenly Empire", the characters will be fixed and continue, perhaps this series can really become bigger and stronger.
Zhao Youting is also very handsome, but he is really inferior to Andy Lau in terms of playing Di Renjie, and no one can replace Andy Lau's Role of Di Renjie, and there are still many suspenseful foreshadowings in "The Empire of Heaven", and Di Renjie's follow-up relationship with Wu Zetian cannot be hastily taken by just a few words.
Even if Di Renjie was poisoned by the Red Flame Golden Turtle and could not see the sun, it did not prevent him from solving the case subsequently, but Xu Ke did not intend to get a follow-up, and the prequel continued to develop in the direction of fantasy, and finally made the series completely bankrupt.
Xu Ke did not do it, but let many web dramas see the opportunity to circle money, after all, Di Renjie is a public IP, and does not need to spend too much money to buy copyright. Everyone flocks to it, but it is getting more and more away from the core of suspense, and the consequence of the flood is that the series is completely stinky.
I thought I could see the Oriental Detective Universe created by Xu Laowei, but now I can't wait, which is a pity!
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