Following the online drama hit "Residual Sin", iQiyi launched a brain-burning web drama "Crime Fighter" while it was hot. The drama is jointly created by "Psychological Crime" director Wubai and Yang Miao, and will be officially launched on iQiyi at 20:00 on July 20.
Yesterday, "The Exterminator" held an online press conference and media viewing at the Beijing Media Center, and iQIYI's vice president of marketing, Ms. Dai Ying, general manager of iQIYI's self-made drama development center, Wu Zonghan, chairman of Wuxi Zhonglian Transmission Film and Television Culture Communication Co., Ltd., and Beijing Yiku Culture Media Co., Ltd., the initiator of the Arc Light Director Alliance, the director of "Exterminating Division" Wubai and director Yang Miao, starring Yang Qiming, Cai Wenjing, An Shenghao, Jin Pengchen, Huang Yina and other main creators appeared together. Zhang Xiaolong, the "Wen Tai Doctor" who gained great popularity in "The Biography of Zhen Huan", also came to the scene of the press conference to help the release of "Exterminating Division".
According to the director, this will be a suspenseful and upgraded version of "Psychological Crimes", which tells the story of Chinese detective Tang Shuo, who was killed in South Korea because of his girlfriend, went to a foreign country to pursue the murderer, but fell into one serial case after another. In the screening session before yesterday's press conference, some key plots in the play were exposed for the first time, and the brain-burning plot left a deep impression on the media present.
At the press conference, several Chinese and Korean leading actors in the play came to the scene in unison, and divided the two pairs of China and South Korea to carry out a "big competition of reasoning ability". As the male protagonist, Yang Qiming revealed that it was also the first time to see the finished film and was deeply attracted by the plot.
In fact, this "Crime Fighter" is already the second cooperation between the two, Yang Qiming said: "This time with Wen Jing, with the five hundred directors is the second cooperation, the first cooperation is "You Who Picked the Star", tacit understanding must be there, and this time the director of the play gave us some new ideas, I feel that I have gained a lot. And Cai Wenjing, who is the second partner, complained that the language challenge encountered this time was too great, "Many of the lines this time have to be switched back and forth between Chinese and Korean, and each time it has to be memorized for a long time." As Korean actors, An Shenghao and Huang Yina were fluent in the show yesterday,Chinese and Huang Yina, who stole the success of the crew, also showed a few northeastern dialects on the spot.
It is reported that "Crime Fighter" will be launched exclusively on iQiyi at 20:00 on July 20.
Ms. Dai Ying, general manager of iQIYI's self-made drama development center, said
"'Crime Fighter' We don't spell IP, we fight for stories, we don't spell stars, we fight for actors, we don't spell investment, we fight for production. So I really hope from the bottom of my heart that everyone can support such a good project. ”
According to Mr. Chen Hongjia, Vice President of iQIYI Marketing, "iQIYI's effective paid memberships have officially exceeded 20 million on June 1. About "The Exterminator", he said, "This is a work that iQIYI has invested very much, I just want to say a word, this drama will really make me want to watch it, I believe that with such a good platform as iQIYI, it will definitely be able to create an effect of 1+1 greater than 2." ”
Why did producers choose iQiyi?
Wu Zonghan, chairman of Wuxi Zhonglian Transmission Film and Television Culture Co., Ltd., talked about why he chose to cooperate with iQiyi for this drama, and he mentioned that it was because of the strong recommendation of the director Wubai
"Five hundred is a strong recommendation, call every day, this subject must be given to iQiyi, and said that if it is given to iQIYI, he can invest two hundred percent." The producer, director and lead actor also said that iQiyi is the most suitable, and "Psychological Crime" is also very well broadcast on the iQIYI platform, mainly because the director is very determined, and the businessman Dai Ying is also very positive, clean and crisp, and won. ”
"Wen Taiyi" Zhang Xiaolong came to help and detonated the atmosphere of the scene
"Today is mainly to learn, has been everyone's evaluation of network dramas, TV stations have higher requirements, and online dramas have lower requirements." In the past two years, iQiyi has given us a benchmark, their works have become one, I think it is now the standard of cinemas, and today they can put "Exterminator" in such an environment to play, which shows their full confidence. Just saw the director use the web drama to realize their film dreams, the web drama with the film texture makes us full of hope and expectation, I will also become a loyal fan of this drama, this is really a particularly good play, everyone may feel the same as me."