Chapter 173 The male protagonist is the most important

Liu Yifei and Yang Mi, two women, two, "Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", one movie version, one drama version,
Although there are many similarities, the first choice for the male lead is still Lin Feng, and Lin Feng refused them all at the beginning.

But the biggest difference between Liu Yifei and Yang Mi's two versions of "Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" is that Liu Yifei in the film version is just the heroine.
In the TV series, Yang Mi is not only the heroine, but also the initiator of the project. Although Jiaxing Media also invited other institutions such as Huace Film and Television,
But the bulk of the project's investment will definitely come from Jiaxing Media, so Yang Mi also attaches great importance to the filming of the TV version of "Eternal Love".

Although Yang Mi also knew that Liu Yifei was going to star in the film version of "Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", the two were inevitably compared.
Yang Mi vs Liu Yifei, Yang Mi vs Tang Yan, Yang Mi vs Liu Shishi, Yang Mi vs Zhao Liying,
This also includes Liu Yifei vs. Tang Yan, Liu Yifei vs. Liu Shishi, etc. Comparisons between these "85 flowers" are always inevitable.

Yang Mi has gotten used to this. As long as the "85 Flowers" can continue to be popular, they will have to continue to compare.

If one day people don’t dare to compare themselves with the “85 Flowers”, that would be truly dangerous, because it would mean that the era of the “85 Flowers” ​​is over.

However, compared to being compared with others, Yang Mi is now more concerned about the filming of the TV version of "Eternal Love".

The reason why Jiaxing wanted to shoot the TV series "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" was not only because it was a necessary shooting project for Jiaxing Media,

At the same time, because Yang Mi liked this story very much, he obtained the TV series copyright very early, while the film version was taken away by Alibaba in advance.

At this time, after listening to Lin Feng's advice, Yang Mi firmly controlled the shares of Jiaxing Media, although she was still a small shareholder, and some shares were held by her parents through other means.

"Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" not only has a good story, but also Yang Mi likes it very much after it was adapted into a script.

"A man who is drunk in the Peach Forest is deeply in love!"

"One who has forgotten all the past and waited till he turned into ashes!"

"Flowers bloom because of fate, flowers fall because of disaster!"

"Three lives of love, three lives of entanglement!"

When Yang Mi first read Eternal Love, she was moved by the love story of the protagonists in three lifetimes. The first time she read the novel, she felt very sorry for Ye Hua.

The character "Ye Hua" is somewhat similar to the character "Bai Zihua" played by Lin Feng, both with a naturally cold temperament.

The one who has only studied diligently for tens of thousands of years, afraid that if he gets hurt, his relatives will be sad and his enemies will be happy, and has only worn black clothes for tens of thousands of years. He is obviously a young, handsome and romantic gentleman, but he has the appearance of a mature young man who swallows his anger.

He is a good grandson in the eyes of the Heavenly Emperor and a good prince in the eyes of his subjects, but he just wants to stay with his beloved forever, with the man farming and the woman weaving.

Ye Hua, who had never experienced love at that time, mocked his second uncle Sang Ji for being crazy about love and ruining his bright future. However, he didn't know that he was more in love with Su Su than his second uncle.

As a mortal, Su Su is incompatible with the lofty Ninth Heaven. In order to protect Su Su, Ye Hua has made every effort to let her take the love potion after she gives birth to the child, while he will bear the emotional pain alone.

Ye Hua's love was forbearing and deep, but it was still no match for the eyes of the Emperor of Heaven and Su Jin's conspiracy, which eventually made Su Su heartbroken and jumped off the Zhuxiantai.

At that time, Yang Mi was wondering, if Su Su was not the emotional tribulation that led to Bai Qian's ascension to god, and if Bai Qian did not have an engagement with Ye Hua, would Ye Hua have been emotionally traumatized for the rest of his life?

The answer is yes.

Ye Hua is lucky. Seventy thousand years ago, it was Si Yin who took good care of Jin Lian. The first person he fell in love with was Su Su. His legitimate fiancée is the Queen of Qingqiu, Bai Qian.

As Ye Hua said, "What he wanted from the beginning to the end was the same person. For three lifetimes, they were destined to love each other."

Towards the end of the novel, Yang Mi felt even more sorry for Mo Yuan, the god of war respected by everyone in the world.

Just like Zheyan said, Mo Yuan’s heart is drifting. Can he really see clearly whether the relationship between him and Bai Qian is that of master and disciple or that of children?
The novel is told in flashback. The 20,000 years that Bai Qian spent learning martial arts in Kunlun Xu is only briefly mentioned in her memories. Mo Yuan's presence is also relatively low. In retrospect, he is just the ancient god of war and Bai Qian's master.

In fact, it starts from when Bai Qian became a disciple, the goddess Yaoguang made things difficult for Si Yin, Mo Yuan dueled with Yaoguang, and Mo Yuan was obsessed with Si Yin's birthday.

He specially brought her fine wine, disregarded his relationship with the Wing Clan, and personally went to the Wing Clan to rescue people. After being seriously injured, he still took three thunderbolts for Si Yin...

Telling all these things one by one, perhaps Mo Yuan 70,000 years ago didn't know what he was thinking about his disciple!

As for Bai Qian, who had been naughty and wild since childhood, Mo Yuan was like her second parent, teaching her magic, raising her up, and treating her with great kindness.

On the bank of Ruoshui River, she hugged Mo Yuan's immortal body and cried until her eyes were red. She didn't care about the four seas and eight wastelands that her master was thinking about, and vowed to bury the Wing Clan with him.

Afterwards, he used his own blood to nourish Mo Yuan's immortal body for 70,000 years and nearly lost his life. Was all this just to repay his master's kindness in teaching him?

Maybe Bai Qian herself doesn’t know either!
Zheyan said that Bai Qian was a complete layman when it came to matters of love, and she came to understand them too late. Without anyone to guide her, she would never have been able to figure it out on her own.

When she became Su Su, she felt lonely, so she asked Ye Hua to marry her, just for the sake of company.
When she became Bai Qian, she allowed Ye Hua to follow her every step of the way because of her engagement with him. Only after being enlightened by Bai Zhen did she realize her true heart.

It can be said that when it comes to love, Bai Qian is always in a passive position. Plus, Mo Yuan is a person who takes the people of the world as his own responsibility. In the end, the two of them can only be described as a coincidence.

If Mo Yuan had not sacrificed his spirit to the Donghuang Bell 70,000 years ago, Si Yin would have grown up carefree in Kunlun Xu, and it might have been possible for her to be with Mo Yuan. However, things are unpredictable.

After 70,000 years, Mo Yuan finally came back, but his favorite disciple had already fallen in love with his younger brother.

When Mo Yuan said, "Yes, there was no Ye Hua at that time, how sad and helpless it was!"

True love is fulfillment. Ye Hua thought Bai Qian loved Mo Yuan, so he chose to fulfill her. He risked his life to kill four beasts, spent all his cultivation to make elixirs for Mo Yuan, and finally obtained half of the father's life force, which was a blessing in disguise. Even though Mo Yuan saw his own heart clearly, after confirming Bai Qian's thoughts again and again, he still chose to fulfill her. He sincerely wished Bai Qian and Ye Hua well. They both loved each other deeply.

On the other hand, Li Jing thought that the person in Si Yin's heart was Mo Yuan. He could not resist Xuan Nu's instigation and finally blamed Si Yin for not taking him seriously.

If it is just as Bai Qian said, Li Jing's whole life was pursuing things that he could not get and had already lost. When he finally got them, he did not know how to cherish them, so his whole life was spent in long boredom and regret.

Another couple, Emperor Donghua and Qingqiu Bai Fengjiu, is also a tear-jerker. Emperor Donghua knew that he would never have a marriage in this life, but he still fell in love, and then wanted to forget it. Just reading the novel, it's heartbreaking to think about it. Fengjiu and Donghua are destined to be a tragedy.
It was precisely because Yang Mi liked it that Jiaxing bought this big IP, and this kind of sadomasochistic fairy tale drama,

Moreover, there has been a very successful case before, such as "The Journey of Flower" starring Lin Feng and Zhao Liying, the pinnacle of tragic love.

Nowadays, most of the fairy tale dramas are about abusive love. Some of them are happily together, while others go their separate ways in the end. Moreover, many of them are about three lives and three worlds.
For example: Zi Xuan and Xu Changqing, Ye Hua and Bai Qian, Jin Mi and Xu Feng, they all experienced the entanglement of three lives and three worlds.
Why not a few more lives? It’s because of the old saying: “Nothing happens more than three times.” That’s why it’s called “Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms” instead of “Ten Lives, Ten Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms.”

The reason for filming "Eternal Love" was not only because Yang Mi liked it, but also because she had to fulfill the performance requirements of Jiaxing Media's "3 million bet agreement".

Moreover, Yang Mi is under more pressure than before, which is why she is so serious and cautious now, because the movie "I Am a Witness" flopped at the box office.

Although the movie "I Am a Witness" has attracted a lot of fans since its inception and has sparked a Weibo craze;

Although the world premiere was held in a grand manner, with many celebrities attending and helping to promote the film;

Although Yang Mi and Lu Han all said "this is not a fan film", the data after the release showed that this is a fan film;

Although the original Korean director An Sang-hoon directed it, and the well-known domestic screenwriter Gu Xiaobai participated in the adaptation;

Although there are two popular idols Yang Mi and Lu Han, as well as powerful actors such as Wang Jingchun and Zhu Yawen joining;
Although the publicity for "I Am Witness" was highly praised, such as "sincere work", "scary surprise", "far beyond expectations", the media and audience fans all praised the quality of the film.

Although the movie achieved very good box office right from the start, with 3248 million on the first day of its premiere, 800 million more than "The Burning Heart",
Moreover, "I Am a Witness" achieved a high box office of 5005 million on the second day, which was the highest single-day movie with the highest contribution rate and the highest screening rate.

It seems that the situation is very promising. Even professional third-party box office forecasting agencies have predicted that the box office of "Burning Flames" should exceed 3.04 million yuan.

Then the box office of "I Am a Witness" on the third day was 3764 million, the box office on the fourth day was 1592 million, and the box office on the fifth day was 1266 million.
And then… nothing happened. The box office of "I Am a Witness" has fallen below 10 million, which basically means that the box office of the movie has come to an end.
You have to know that even though "Charlotte's Troubles" has been released for more than a month, it still has millions of box office revenue every day, and sometimes even its box office on a certain day can exceed that of "I Am a Witness".

This made Yang Mi speechless. He had worked so hard on the film, and had Lu Han as a top star, but the box office was not high.

Apart from the fans, no one can get the attention of passers-by, which just proves once again that "I Am a Witness" is a fan movie.
Don’t be fooled by the fact that the box office of “I Am a Witness” was very high in the first three days. In fact, it was all watched by fans. Apart from the fans who will spend money to watch your movie at the beginning, there are very few passers-by watching it.

Although this movie has a good reputation, its box office is not high. Now, let alone surpassing the 3.04 million box office of "Burning Heart", it is even difficult to break the million mark.

In the previous life, the box office of "I Am a Witness" was 2.15 million. How could Lu Han have the blessing of "Running Man"?

The current Lu Han has never been on "Running Man". Although he is a top star, due to the existence of super top star Lin Feng, the number and stickiness of his fans are not as high as in his previous life.

Three days before, a third-party professional box office organization predicted that the box office of "I Am a Witness" would be around 4.5 million yuan. Three days later, the predicted result became around 1.8 million yuan, which changed quite fast.

At this time, Jiaxing Media not only did not make any money, but also lost money, and was getting further and further away from the "3 million bet agreement".

The pressure is even greater now. After all, apart from Yang Mi, there are few stars in Jiaxing Media who can really make money.
Even Dilraba Dilmurat, who is now a little famous, is still just a small star. Although she is on the rise, she can't make any money now.

Yang Mi has few works in 2016, and the things shot at the end of 2015 can only be released and broadcast at the end of 2016 or 2017, which happens to be the third year of the gambling agreement.

Therefore, "Eternal Love" is a project that must be successful, and it must be a huge success, which puts too much pressure on us.

Moreover, the investment of "Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" is as high as 3 million yuan. Although there are other investment institutions, Jiaxing will definitely take the lion's share.

Under the pressure of such huge investment and production costs, success must be guaranteed, which puts even more pressure.

At this time, the entire core team of Jiaxing was a little panicked.

In fact, the entire core team consists of only three people, Yang Mi and her two agents Zeng Jia and Zhao Ruoyao. One is a former agent, the other is a former agent, and now they are a chairman and a general manager.

But the expressions of the three of them are very solemn now. From the beginning, they were all very optimistic about the project "Eternal Love" and felt that it could be successful.

But now we have to ensure that it will be successful, which is a bit stressful. Who can guarantee the unknown?

At this time, Zhao Ruoyao also said: "Now all the work for the project has been prepared. The producer of Huace is President Zhao Yifang. She is more of a producer. She doesn't care about the business. The specific production is still on our side.
The director is Lin Yufen, who previously directed "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3", "Love OO" and "The Journey of Flower". There is no more suitable director than her.

The costume design is done by the team of William Chang and Stephen Chow, who are definitely big names in the industry! Chen Haozhong is the art director and Stephen Chow is the styling director.

Ling Zhihua, who was nominated for the "Best Action Design" at the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards for his film "SPL", has joined as the action director.

There is no problem with the entire behind-the-scenes production team, and the casting of the actors has basically been completed. They are basically all artists within our company.

The most critical thing now is the selection of the male lead, which has not yet been decided, and this is also the most critical thing. "

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(End of this chapter)