On September 5, 2010, directed by Xu Ke, written by Zhang Jialu, and starring Andy Lau, Li Bingbing, Liu Jialing, Deng Chao, Liang Jiahui, the costume suspense action film "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire", was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 67th Venice International Film Festival and premiered in Venice; then on September 29, 2010, it was released Chinese mainland, winning the box office championship for three consecutive weeks, and the final mainland box office was 300 million.
"Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire" mainly tells the story of Di Renjie's imprisonment for 8 years because he opposed Wu Zetian's accession to power, and a series of strange cases of burning corpses occurred in the imperial court, and the imperial court was helpless; at this time, Wu Zetian had to make an exception to use Di Renjie, who was still in prison, to authorize the case to be solved. The time setting of the film is 8 years after Di Renjie was imprisoned, when Tang Gaozong was no longer there, and Wu Zetian was about to become emperor; at the beginning of the story, the sixty-six-zhang Tongtian Floating Tu built by Wu Zetian in preparation for the enthronement ceremony was about to be completed, and the murder began with the Tongtian Floating Tu.
"Di Renjie's Empire of Heaven" won the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards, including 14 awards nominations for best film, and finally won the best director and best actress and best sound effects, costume design, art direction, visual effects a total of 6 awards, is the biggest winner of the Academy Awards. Unfortunately, the absolute actor Andy Lau was not nominated that year; fortunately, the film "Fight in the Ring" invested by Andy Lau at that Academy Awards won the best movie.
Although there have been many TV drama works about Di Renjie, "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire" is the first film about Di Renjie's theme, and Andy Lau has also become the first screen Di Renjie. Although he did not become a movie emperor with this film, Andy Lau's version of Di Renjie still impressed the audience.
As the legendary first detective in Chinese history, Andy Lau's version of Di Renjie had super detective ability, strong logical reasoning ability, and strong knowledge, resourcefulness, and the ability to reuse the emperor to control the power, which was almost omnipotent in that era.
In "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire", Di Renjie dared to take risks in order to investigate the case, and went deep into the dark underground ghost city of Luoyang, and obtained a very important clue to solve the case. In this, his relationship in the jianghu also helped him a lot to solve the case; although he lived in the temple, he also got to know the figures of the three religions and nine streams, and the red flame golden turtle in this case was the clue he found from the underground ghost city.
Because in the process of handling the case, di Renjie had to go through all kinds of difficulties and dangers, Di Renjie of "Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire" also had to know martial arts, and he also won the trust of emperor Gaozong of Tang, and he obtained an artifact, which could hear the flaws in the opponent's weapons, find weaknesses, and easily break the opponent's weapons; at the same time, it was given to Di Renjie by Tang Gaozong, which could control Wu Zetian and have a supreme sacred status, just like the later Song Dynasty story "The Imperial Golden Whip that Fights the Emperor and The Emperor", which is almost invincible.
Unfortunately, at the end of "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire", Di Renjie was also poisoned by the Red Flame Golden Turtle, and when he saw the sun, he was poisoned and spontaneously combusted to death, so he could only hide in the dark underground ghost city all day long, and there was no Andy Lau in the sequel after that. [I don't know if Andy Lau's Di Renjie will return in the future "Di Renjie" series of movies! 】