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"Detective Di Renjie"
[Xu Ke's "Di Renjie" plans to shoot 3 of the 24 films, but Di Renjie has already flown all over the world on the Internet]
At the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2011, Liu Jialing became the queen of the Academy Awards with the role of Wu Zetian in "Di Renjie's Empire of Heaven", and also became the first couple in the history of the Academy Awards with Leung Chao-wai.
But in fact, Liu Jialing's performance in this film is not very good, and the role is not enough to register for the heroine. Therefore, this year's Academy Awards is considered to be awarded to Liu Jialing as the best actress in recognition of her contributions to Hong Kong films over the years, or to compensate for her regret of not winning the Academy Award nominations for several outstanding works.
With Liu Jialing's strength, she is enough to be elected as a film queen, but her best work is not "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire".
However, "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire" has a starring lineup directed by Xu Ke and Andy Lau, Liu Jialing, Li Bingbing, Deng Chao, Liang Jiahui, etc., which not only achieved a box office of 290 million, but also had a profound impact on the entire film creation market.
"Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire" is the beginning of the cooperation between Xu Ke and Huayi, based on the trust in Xu Ke's ability and ambition for the film market, Huayi's "Di Renjie" series was originally planned to make 24 films, namely:
"Di Renjie's Psychic Shrine"
The Bronze Warrior of Di Renjie
"Di Renjie's Smiling Night Fork"
"Di Renjie's Giant Spirit Palm"
"Di Renjie's Deadly Feast"
"Di Renjie's Kunlun Golden Dome"
"Di Renjie's Lover Vine"
"Di Renjie's Ghost Valley"
"Di Renjie's Five Ghosts Shoot the Door"
The Nine-Tailed Fox of Di Renjie
"Di Renjie's Garou Luo"
"The Seven-Faced Man of Di Renjie"
Di Renjie's Empire (2010)
"Di Renjie's Mirage"
"Di Renjie's Murderous Phoenix"
Dragon King of Di Renjie 's God " ( 2013 )
"Di Renjie's Nine Ding Divine Pearls"
"Di Renjie's White Brow Daoist"
"Di Renjie's Linglong Pagoda"
"Di Renjie's Heavenly Fire"
"The Goryeo Beauty of Di Renjie"
"Di Renjie's Thunderbolt Sanskrit"
The Golden Scroll of Di Renjie
The Four Heavenly Kings of Di Renjie (2018)
But in 2018, as you can see, a total of three films have been released, namely "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire", "Di Renjie's God Dragon King" and "Di Renjie's Four Heavenly Kings".
Among them, Di Renjie of "Di Renjie's God Dragon King" and "Di Renjie's Four Heavenly Kings" was replaced by Zhao Youting, and the box office reached 602 million and 601 million respectively, which was double that of Andy Lau's "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire", but the investment also grew, and the network score fell continuously.
Therefore, before "Eight Hundred" in 2020 became a hit, Huayi's life was very difficult, and the two Huayi brothers had begun to sell collectibles to save the emergency.
After "Di Renjie's Four Heavenly Kings", Xu Ke wanted to prepare a film version of "Heroes of the Condor", returned to Hong Kong to participate in the filming of a Hong Kong film tribute blockbuster "Seven-Man Band"; last month, he just participated in the launch of the blockbuster "Chosin Lake" of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and served as one of the directors.
Therefore, it is almost certain that Huayi's grand plan of 24 "Di Renjie" has been shelved, at least temporarily.
Whether the future is restarted or not depends on Providence. [At the speed of 3 films in 8 years, it is difficult for Xu Ke to finish filming in his lifetime.] 】
However, the "Di Renjie" theme movie suddenly became a bottomless gold mine, Xu Ke did not shoot, and many people rushed to shoot. And that's not counting the hundreds of episodes of "Di Renjie" that started with "Boy" or "Detective".
If the 3 "Di Renjie" directed by Xu Ke are regarded as authentic, when the canon stops updating, those unauthentic "Di Renjie" movies on the Internet have grown up like wildfires.
include:
"Di Renjie's Flying Head Luosha"
"Di Renjie's Underworld"
Di Renjie's Nether Ship
"Di Renjie's Reincarnation Diagram"
"Di Renjie's Headless God General"
"Di Renjie's Heavenly Sect Lord"
"Di Renjie's Angry King Kong"
"Di Renjie's Deep Sea Dragon Palace"
Di Renjie's Nightmare of The Soul
"Di Renjie's Deadly Eye"
"Di Renjie's Ghost Shadow Blood Hand"
"Di Renjie's Illusory Nirvana Demon Moth"
"Di Renjie's Blood Vine"
"Di Renjie's Burning Heavenly Fire"
"Di Renjie's Immortal Shura"
"The Return of Di Renjie's Detective"
"Di Renjie's Heavenly God Under the Mortal"
"Di Renjie's Western Demon Ji"
"Di Renjie's Strange Worm Mystery Case"
"Di Renjie's Bathing Fire Qilin"
Di Renjie's Humanoid Puppet
"Di Renjie's Witty Red Eye"
"Di Renjie's Thunder Fire Dragon"
"Di Renjie's Nine Dragon Coffin"
"Di Renjie's Detective Heavenly Lonely Luan"
"The Eastern Ying Evil Art of The Great Tang Di Renjie"
Wait a minute.
These "Di Renjie" films, from the director to the actor, from the production company to the distribution cycle, are basically all online film standards for small-cost production.
On October 2, 2018, iQIYI's solo broadcast of "Di Renjie's Underworld Road" was launched in Hengdian on May 16, 2018, and it was completed on June 6, 2018, and it was only filmed for 20 days.
On November 6, 2020, "Di Renjie's Flying Head Luosha", which was launched on Youku, is the sequel to the original team of "Di Renjie's Underworld"; it is Luo Liqun and Li Ruoxi who play Di Renjie and Shangguan Yan'er, and this coffee position is different from Andy Lau and Li Bingbing of "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire" that year, I don't know how many light years.
The biggest actor in the film is Yang Gongru, who plays Wu Zetian, but she appears for less than 30 minutes in the nearly 90-minute movie.
On July 27, 2018, Youku's solo broadcast of "Di Renjie's Deadly Heavenly Eye", Chen Jianfeng played Di Renjie, the female number one was Helian Yunzhu played by Nan Chu'er, and Xu Dongdong played Wu Zetian.
"Di Renjie's Deep Sea Dragon Palace", which was released exclusively on Youku on February 21, 2020, is still Xu Dongdong as Wu Zetian, Di Renjie is Lian Kai, and Xu Dongdong's ex-boyfriend Yin Ziwei plays Mo Lingfei.
In the "Reincarnation of Di Renjie", which was released on January 20, 2018, Wang Haixiang played Di Renjie and Lu Yan played Wu Hou.
Released on October 16, 2018, "Di Renjie's Worm You Blood Vine", Du Yiheng played Di Renjie, and Pan Yanfei played Wu Zetian.
In "Di Renjie's Headless God General", which was released on November 24, 2018, Liu Yichen played Di Renjie and Pan Yanfei played Wu Zetian.
"Detective Di Renjie", which was launched on January 12, 2020, and "Detective Di Renjie's Heavenly Lonely Luan", which was launched on July 25, 2020, are all played by Du Yiheng as Di Renjie.
In "Di Renjie's Nightmare of Reaping Souls", which was released on June 30, 2020, He Gang played Di Renjie and Gan Tingting played Wu Zetian.
Filmed in January 2020, "Di Renjie's Burning Heavenly Fire", He Gang played Di Renjie, has not yet been released.
In these "Di Renjie" network movies, most of the character design, costumes, scenes and props and other art designs are based on Xu Ke's "Di Renjie" trilogy, which is not politely plagiarism. These Di Renjie are all dressed in black and wearing a croissant hat like Andy Lau's version, and even the magical Dragon Gong has copied the same model.
What is more subtle is that Du Yiheng of "Di Renjie's Worm You Blood Vine" was once a stand-in for Andy Lau, and He Gang of "Di Renjie's Nightmare of The Soul" was Andy Lau's imitation show debut, which was really imitated to the bone marrow.
However, Huayi has already announced the title of the "Di Renjie" movie, and they will definitely not repeat it.
[After watching Yang Gongru and Xu Dongdong, Pan Yanfei, Gan Tingting and other versions of Wu Zetian, and then comparing Liu Jialing, it is indeed Liu Jialing who has the most post-film style.] 】
Immediately after Zhen Zidan's "Ip Man" went viral, a bunch of "Ip Man" or Wing Chun movies emerged; but it was not long before it was discovered that "Di Renjie" was the best developed IP today.
As a result, the theme of "Di Renjie" has also become the second film IP in China after the theme of "Huang Feihong".
Once, Huang Feihong had an endless fight; now, Di Renjie had an unfinished case.
At that time, the "Huang Feihong" movie wave was also Xu Ke.