On May 1, the online movie "The Guardian of Touching Jinjue" adapted from the novel "Touching the Ghost Gate Heavenly Master" was launched, and the cumulative account of 6 days exceeded 8 million yuan, the number of moviegoers exceeded 2 million, and the number of broadcasts exceeded a staggering 60 million, making the movie quickly become a network hit.
"Touching the Golden Seal of the Ghost Gate Heavenly Master" is the first work of the prequel "Touching the Golden Seal" series developed by Tianxia Baxiang after selling the copyright of "Ghost Blowing Lights".
In 2016, Tianxia Baxiang made the film adaptation rights of "Touching Jinjue" for 40 million yuan.
After 5 years, this work was adapted into an online movie for the first time, which was called "Ghost Blowing Lantern New Universe", and "Hu Bayi Professional Household" Pan Yueming also participated, which triggered a lot of Network heat for a time.
The story of the film takes place in the 1960s.
Hu Bayi (Wu Yuhan) and Wang Kaixuan (Han Yezhou) are hired by a mysterious boss to travel to old Montenegro to find the legendary Touching Jin Yue Youying.
The mysterious boss also hired a group of tomb robbers, Big Tiger (Du Shuai) and Erhu (Guo Ye), to explore the way into the ancient demon tomb at the head of the Black Mountain, but they were attacked by the zombie worms in the tomb and the wolves on the old black mountain, and they suffered heavy casualties, so they had to exit first and wait for Hu Bayi to arrive and then go down the cave together.
Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan meet archaeologists in the county: Professor Yang Siyuan (played by Guan Xuan), Jian Guo (played by Wang Nanxi), Lu Jun (played by Zhao Yixiao) and Hazelnut Zi (played by Qiao Mu), and meet the tomb keeper Wolf Girl Egg (played by Shen Hanmei), who can control the wolves with a whistle. The crowd decided to go down to the cave together to prevent the Big Tiger and the Two Tigers from destroying the tomb.
After some adventure, Hu Bayi and the others finally found The Touch Jin Jue Youying in the ancient tomb, and matched it with the touch Jin Jue candle on Hu Bayi's body.
At this time, touching JinJue became the object of contention between the two gangs, and the mysterious man also appeared at a critical moment, he was the army that had been with them.
It turned out that Hu Bayi's grandfather, Hu Guohua, was the master of Professor Yang Siyuan and Lu Kai, the father of the army.
When Hu Guohua took the ancient demon tomb to Kaixia, Lu Kai had an accident, and Hu Guohua and another female apprentice escaped with a candle and were separated from Lu Kai.
After Lu Kaijiu died, he was found by his son Lu Jun, and told his son the secret of touching Jin Jue- legend has it that after candlelight and Youying were paired, the location of the treasure could be learned. Therefore, the army was desperate to find Youying, but he was eventually defeated by Hu Bayi and arrested along with the tomb robbers such as the Great Tiger and the Second Tiger.
In the Easter egg at the end of the film, Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan see the treasure map from touching Jin Jue, and at this time, a pair of women's thighs appear, and it is Shirley Yang who appears in advance.
At the end of the film, Shirley Yang appeared, and the determination of the filmmakers was clear, and it should be to create a new IP similar to the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series.
Moreover, the Easter eggs specially added by the film side are obviously a goodwill to the fans of the original work, and there is obviously a plan to make a sequel, and the combination of Hu Bayi, Wang Kaixuan and Shirley Yang can become the "iron triangle" of the sequel, leaving everyone with unlimited imagination space.
In addition, we mentioned earlier that Pan Yueming was also involved in this movie -
It turned out that Pan Yueming was good at calligraphy, and the opening words of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series of TV series he starred in himself were written by himself. It is said that he will also design different styles according to the different stories told in each work, and he is very careful.
Now, as a professional household recognized by netizens as "Hu Bayi", he is also considered by netizens to be the "spokesperson" of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series.
Being able to write an inscription for the title of this film shows his absolute support for the film, after all, this movie is a prequel to "Ghost Blowing Lights" and a new IP to be developed by Tianxia Baxiang in the future.
The development of the IP "Ghost Blowing Lights" began in 2015, with Lu Chuan launching the Nine-Story Demon Tower and Urshan launching the Dragon Hunt.
Comparing Hu Bayi, played by Zhao Youting and Chen Kun in these two movies, Chen Kun is significantly higher, and the reputation of "Finding the Dragon" is much better than that of "Nine-Story Demon Tower".
Jin Dong played Hu Bayi in the 2016 TV series "Ghost Blowing Lantern Essence of the Ancient City", and the series received a lot of praise as soon as it was broadcast, and Jin Dong's performance was also recognized by the audience, but unfortunately he only acted this time.
Later, Ruan Jingtian, Gao Yiqing, Zhao Zuo, Cai Heng, Lin Yushen and Zhang Hanyu all played successively, but it was not until the appearance of Pan Yueming that the audience found the image of Hu Bayi in their minds.
In 2019, "Angry Qing Xiangxi" scored 7.2 points, and although Pan Yueming's version of Hu Bayi was not as handsome as Jin Dong's version, his mature acting skills interpreted the character characteristics very well and also received praise from the audience.
Pan Yueming signed a contract for 5 TV series in one go, ensuring that Hu Bayi of the next few works of this series was played by him.
In 2020, "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth" exploded, scoring a high score of 8.3, and the combination of Pan Yueming, Jiang Chao and Zhang Yuqi made the audience shine, and most people thought that this was the best combination so far.
Therefore, the upcoming "Yunnan Worm Valley" this year has also attracted great attention, and the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series is destined to become the most successful ONLINE NOVEL ADAPTATION TV SERIES IP in the mainland at present.
As the author of "Ghost Blowing Lights", in 2007, Tianxia Baxiang sold the copyright of the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series to Xuanting Company for 1.5 million yuan, and the buy-out price was 1.5 million + 40% of the revenue of the adaptation of the work, but this IP he can no longer use from now on.
Therefore, after entering the Upward Pictures, Tianxia Baxiang has always wanted to develop a new IP that can compete with the "Ghost Blowing Lights" series, and on April 21 this year, there was just launched "Jingu Qitan 1: Dark City Killing Machine".
Subsequently, in early May, "The Guardian of Touching JinJue" was launched, and Pan Yueming was pulled to cheer him with the title calligraphy, which was obviously full of "ambition" for subsequent IP development.
Of course, it is not easy to do a good job of AN IP, the world wants to do another popular IP out, there is still a long way to go, I hope he can not forget the original intention of the original creation, but also look forward to his new works.