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On the 20th, the American streaming media giant Netflix Netflix announced to the world the number one candidate for the director of the American drama version of "Three-Body", which is Zeng Guoxiang, the director of Hong Kong, China (Zeng Zhiwei's son, representative works: "July and Ansheng", "Young You").
As we all know, an American drama, one of the seasons of the shooting will include a lot of directors, but this does not mean that these directors will work on the same set, at the same time, just that they will work together to complete different episodes of the same work.
According to Netflix's plan, Zeng Guoxiang will direct the first episode of the first season of "Three-Body Problem" (as for whether Zeng Guoxiang will shoot other episodes in the future, it is unknown).
Seeing that many people are questioning whether Zeng Guoxiang has the ability to shoot the drama, I think this question has actually gone astray. In fact, the American drama version of the "Three-Body Problem" project was successfully established under the impetus of Netflix and has begun to prepare, which in itself is more or less with a little "outrageous" attributes.
The "Three-Body Problem" project reminds me of another Sino-American co-production blockbuster, yes, "The Great Wall".
Thomas, the boss of American Legendary Pictures, took a plane, passed through China to see the winding Great Wall, and did not know how, he had a strange idea in his heart, to shoot a blockbuster movie about ancient Chinese fantasy themes (in view of the fact that legendary pictures are monster movies, so the so-called fantasy in Thomas's heart is actually a monster movie).
In order to shoot "The Great Wall", a film with Chinese characteristics, Thomas hired a Chinese director, "Guoshi" Zhang Yimou, and also invited many Chinese actors.
However, when "The Great Wall" really came out, we found that the original so-called ancient Chinese fantasy story was a pretense, which was clearly a typical Hollywood monster blockbuster, and it didn't matter whether there was a shell of Chinese culture or not, anyway, it was running to the visual effect of the monster.
Invited Chinese directors and many Chinese actors, but the screenwriting team is all American, you taste you carefully, what is Legendary Pictures doing?
"The Great Wall" rubbed the popularity of the "Great Wall" and told the rotten story under the typical Hollywood narrative routine, while "The Three-Body Problem" was filmed by the Americans, can it still maintain its original taste?
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It should be said that the biggest controversy of the American drama version of "Three-Body" is not at all whether its director should not be Chinese, but whether this project is handed over to the American team to produce.
The domestic drama "Three-Body Problem" clearly states that the original author Liu Cixin is the screenwriter, but here in the American drama version of "Three-Body", Liu Cixin and Liu Yukun (the translator of the English version of "Three-Body") only serve as the production consultants of the play.
The script for the American version of "The Three-Body Problem" was created by Game of Thrones screenwriter David Benioff and D. Lee. B. Weiss controls.
This can't help but beg the question: Is the American drama version of "Three-Body" still telling a story that takes place in China? Or, even if he tells a story that takes place in China, will it be like "The Great Wall", China is only a narrative background, in fact, it is still a typical, traditional American culture under the influence of the story.
If this is the case, the American drama version of "Three-Body Problem" has little to do with Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem". Just like the United States, Australia and other countries have also remade "Journey to the West", but in the eyes of Chinese audiences, it cannot be said that it has nothing to do with the four famous works "Journey to the West", but it is indeed not the same thing, after all, the cultural core is too different.
So far, the cast of the American drama version of "Three-Body" has only revealed one actress, Elsa Gonzalez, a Mexican actress who has participated in "Fast and Furious: Special Operations" and "Godzilla vs. King Kong".
However, as for which role Elsa will play (Ye Wenjie or Shen Yufei), Netflix is still silent and refuses to disclose too much information.
However, since European and American actors have been selected to play important roles, it at least shows that the background of the story is most likely not China. Of course, if the place where the story takes place is not China, then many of the plots about Chinese characteristics in "The Three-Body Problem" must be deleted, otherwise it will be too blunt.
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It's time to talk about the controversy over the choice of Director Zeng Guoxiang.
In fact, Netflix not only chose Zeng Guoxiang as the director of the first episode of the first season of the American drama version of "Three-Body Problem", but also let him serve as the supervising producer of the show. It can be seen from this that Netflix still attaches great importance to Zeng Guoxiang.
Tsang Kwok-cheung, the son of the well-known Hong Kong actor Tsang Chi-wai, soon came up with his first masterpiece after entering the Chinese mainland film market, that is, the literary and artistic film "July and Ansheng" that gave birth to two film queens.
Due to the nature of literary and art films, the box office of the film is not particularly outstanding, and the data of 167 million yuan in the mainland cannot be said to be unproductive.
Later, Zeng Guoxiang cooperated again, and Zhou Dongyu made the controversial "Young You", which won more than 1.5 billion yuan in the mainland, which opened up the director's popularity and greatly enhanced his influence.
No matter how controversial the script of "Young You" is, anyway, the level of Zeng Guoxiang's filming is obvious to all, so it will not be too difficult to understand why Zeng Guoxiang can be valued by Netflix as the number one director of the American drama version of "Three-Body Problem".
After all, this is not a Hollywood blockbuster, and it is not directed by Zeng Guoxiang alone, and his influence cannot be compared with Zhang Yimou's $150 million A-grade blockbuster "The Great Wall".
In fact, although the science fiction attributes of "Three-Body" are very different from the films directed by Zeng Guoxiang before, didn't Guo Fan, the director of "The Wandering Earth", also shoot such a masterpiece without any experience in shooting science fiction films?
Therefore, for Zeng Guoxiang's ability, in fact, there is no need to worry too much, and the team that shoots science fiction films in the United States is very resourceful, which will be a great help for Zeng Guoxiang.
What I'm more worried about is actually two aspects:
First, whether Netflix wants to shoot a work with the spiritual core of the original "Three-Body Problem", rather than hanging a sheep's head and selling dog meat to shoot an American hero blockbuster;
Second, Zeng Guoxiang's influence is still relatively small, even a world-renowned director like Zhang Yimou cannot dominate the whole story, will Zeng Guoxiang be greatly restricted in terms of specific plot and actor casting? How much control he has over the series is a big question worth paying attention to.
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