On August 18, Hollywood Warner was preparing to shoot a movie story related to China. Warner's latest film project, "The Great Chinese Art Heist", has been written. The film is mainly about the theft of looted cultural relics in China's Yuanmingyuan in Europe. The screenwriting lineup includes Ouyang Wancheng, Jessica Gao, ken Cheng, and the film will be directed by Zhu Haowei, director of "The Film", and the writers and directors are all Chinese.
Screenwriter Ouyang Wancheng has starred in "Silicon Valley" and "Space Force", while Jessica Gao has participated in famous works such as "Female Hulk", "Rick and Morty", and Ken Cheng has participated in "Inuyasha Laughter".
Director Zhu Haowei has directed the movies "Picking Gold", "Amazing Monster Group 2" and "Special Forces 2", and "Picking Gold" also received great attention in the United States with an all-Asian cast that year.
It should be pointed out that the film "The Great Robbery of Chinese Art" is based on a magazine article written by Alex W. Palmer in 2018, which interviewed a number of scholars and practitioners in the Chinese art industry who questioned the article's claims after seeing the published content.
The article focuses on the theft of Chinese artifacts from European museums, including Fontainebleau, mainly from the 1860 Yuanmingyuan. The article describes it as follows: "No one knows who stole them today, and cultural relics continue to return to China." In China, a new generation of tycoons is collecting ancient works of art that have been lost from the Yuanmingyuan, and museums are silent about the thefts."
After the news was released, it caused controversy on domestic social media, and many netizens questioned the story angle that the film would present.