Xu Zheng was pushed to the cusp of the storm because of the online broadcast of "囧Mom". On January 27, Bi Zhifei, the director of "Chasing Dreams in Showbiz", once again contributed to the wave.
This long article and several pictures have only one core, that is, turned out the old account of Xu Zheng's filming of "Tai 囧", saying that after the success of "People in 囧途", the producer prepared to shoot "Man in 囧途 2", the screenwriter was Tian Yusheng, the director of the "Former" series, but some staff sent the outline of "Man in 囧途 2" to Xu Zheng by e-mail, and when applying for the film two months later, it was unexpectedly found that it had been declared by another company as "People in 囧城", and the screenwriter's signature became Xu Zheng and Yang Qing.
In the end, Xu Zheng's "People Again On the Way of Tai" was successful at the box office, and the producer of the original "People in the Road" sued and won the lawsuit, and was awarded 5 million yuan in compensation. In addition, Bi Zhifei also accused Xu Zheng of beating up female journalists and having a very strong network maintenance and public relations team.
On the morning of January 28, Bi Zhifei named Xu Zheng again and scolded the other party: "You are really disgusting!" Get out of the movie circle! And stressed in the comments that "it is not a theft, I am very angry after learning about some of his things!" ”
The understanding that Bi Zhifei said was actually several pictures in the long article on the 27th, the first of which was a marketing number that said that "the director of "People on the Road" was not Xu Zheng", and the other several documents were the documents of the two film producers at that time to fight the lawsuit, and the screenshots of Xu Zheng's social media reports that beat female journalists.
So, are a few screenshots of Bi Zhifei the truth? In fact, everyone has ignored a key figure in the copyright dispute between the two sides, that is, Yang Qing, the screenwriter who was originally in "People in 囧城" and Xu Zheng in the document. This Yang Qing is the director of "Hotpot Hero" Yang Qing, as early as 2016 "Hotpot Hero" promotion interview, in addition to talking about the film itself, we asked about the controversy about "People in the Road" and "Tai 囧", Yang Qing gave another statement.
The two sides broke up due to different philosophies
Yang Qing recalled that in the summer of 2010, he received a call from Xu Zheng, who wanted Yang Qing and him to co-direct "Man on the Road 2". As we all know, at that time, the copyright of "People in the Road" was re-produced by Huaqi Company, the original producer of the film, led the summer file of that year after the release of the film, becoming a new topic and hot IP, at this time Xu Zheng found Yang Qing to cooperate in the development of a sequel, which is obviously based on the basis of the copyright held by Huaqi Company. And Yang Qing's memory of time is very clear, because his debut film "Nightclub" was released in July 2009, and Xu Zheng contacted him just one year after the release of the movie, and he remembers this point in time very clearly.
The document reads that Wang Mou, an employee of Huaqi Company, sent an email to Xu Zheng on September 4, 2010, with the content of the outline of "People on the Road 2". At this time, Xu Zheng had already begun to write a script with Yang Qing.
Yang Qing also said that the two people spent several months to write the outline of the script, but there was a conflict with the copyright owner of "People in the Road 2" in the concept, and thus was dragged into a long-term copyright dispute, both sides are entangled in mutual consumption, at this time it is only in the script creation stage, the film did not start shooting, it is clear that because of the concept of disagreement, Xu Zheng wants to pull Yang Qing out to do the script alone, and then shoot the film independently, the original producer naturally does not agree, on the one hand, this will affect "People in the Road 2", in addition, as a starring actor If there is no Xu Zheng, it will be difficult for his company to develop a sequel.
Yang Qing proposed to change the direction, and "Tai 囧" was born
Xu Zheng and Yang Qing were in a stalemate because of the copyright of "People in the Road 2", and the time came to the beginning of 2011, when the best period of development of the film and television industry was ushered in, capital entered the bureau, hot money poured in, and film and television companies began to accumulate the first talents and resources. Pony Benten rose rapidly, and successively signed screenwriters Reed, Lan Xiaolong, Kong Ergou, as well as directors Wu Yusen, Zhang Yibai and others, and before that, Pony Benteng invested in "Mulan", Ning Hao's "No Man's Land", "The Great Golden Robbery" and other movies. At that time, Yang Qing and Xu Zheng were also guests of Li Ming, chairman of Xiaoma Benteng, and Li Ming promised to help them both regain the copyright of "Man in the Road 2" and let them create with peace of mind.
However, the copyright issue has not been resolved, Yang Qing recalled, when he and Xu Zheng sat in a café called "Sunday" in Wangjing every day smoking cigarettes, to struggle with how to go. Later, Yang Qing proposed to "change a story and go to Thailand to shoot" so that you can avoid copyright issues, which is also very different from the original story. However, his idea, the producer and boss of The Pony Benten expressed their opposition, and only Xu Zheng felt that it was feasible. Although the final idea was passed, but there was another long stalemate in personnel and budget, and finally Yang Qing sent an email to Xu Zheng, giving the name "Tai 囧", and told Xu Zheng that he decided to quit and let Xu Zheng complete "Tai 囧" by himself. As we all know, because Pony Benteng did not support the project enough, the investor of "Tai 囧" eventually became Guangguang Pictures, and after the film sold 1.2 billion at the box office, the producer of "People in the Road" finally confronted Guangguang and Xu Zheng's Zhenle Dao.
So, why did Yang Qing spend so much time to help Xu Zheng prepare "Tai Yuan"? It all started with his directorial debut, Nightclub. At that time, Yang Qing's name was unknown, he wanted to make this movie but could not attract investment, and then he found Xu Zheng, Xu Zheng in order to help him, not only willing to star, but also helped him contact the investor, got 2 million funds, completed the film in a month, brought Yang Qing into the film circle, it can be said that Yang Qing helped Xu Zheng to repay the peach. Of course, thanks to Xu Zheng's help, there is a "Hotpot Hero" in the back.
Finally, I would like to say that after changing the place where the story takes place and the creative idea, is "Tai 囧" still plagiarized and plagiarized? This answer is a matter of opinion, but Bi Zhifei shouted that Xu Zheng "get out of the film circle" with only a few unverified screenshots is more like setting off an online violence.