"The story of Zhu Bajie and Zizhu'er is so touching, why delete it?"

Liu Yifei asked as she sat on a lounge chair by the swimming pool, wiping the water off her body with a towel.

She had just learned about Jiang Heng's publicity and promotion plan. She briefly listened to the love story of Zhu Bajie and Zizhu'er and thought it was pretty good, so she asked casually.

Jiang Heng smiled and said, "Of course it's because of the length of the film. We can't just make two parts at a time. If we do it too often, the audience will get upset!"

Liu Yifei was stunned for a moment. "It's, that simple?"

"On one hand, the main reason is that they are not the protagonists!"

"Not the protagonist?"

"Yes, Black Myth, Wukong! But Zhu Bajie's love story is too brilliant. If we add it in, it will easily overshadow the main plot!"

Liu Yifei nodded slightly after hearing this, obviously agreeing with what Jiang Heng said.

She has been in the entertainment industry for many years, so she has deep feelings about things like "stealing the show" and "overshadowing the main character"!

Many well-known actors in the industry have their own dedicated screenwriters, which is hard to imagine for many outsiders.

Why? To help the big names straighten out the plot, see where they can add drama and steal the show!

So if the plots of some TV shows and movies are rubbish, it’s not all the fault of the director or the screenwriter of the crew. Some so-called big stars also have to bear certain responsibilities.

Back to "Black Myth: Wukong", there is no problem with the story between Zhu Bajie and Zizhuer in the game.

Because the game process is not a one-shot process, it is possible that Big Head Doll may play for two days without seeing Tiger Vanguard!
The movie is different. It's just over two hours long, and the momentum of the whole film lies in the fact that Sun Wukong would rather die than live in disgrace, and would rather die than be a dog. The plot of the destined man searching for his roots is also carried out in one go.

Jiang Heng didn't want the audience's attention and "empathy" to be diverted midway, so the film became like this!
So far, it seems that the audience is quite accepting of it, because they don’t know about this “love story”!
But after the "risking life to leak" script was exposed, the public opinion changed, and a large number of female viewers posted messages, saying that they wanted to see this love story and hoped that Jiang Heng would be able to film "it" one day.

Some black fans also took the opportunity to post a message saying that Jiang Heng’s movies always subconsciously avoid love, which is probably related to his lack of love during his growing up.

Jiang Heng’s fans naturally couldn’t stand this and posted a rebuttal, saying that Jiang Heng is handsome, famous, capable, wealthy, and has a high status, and that the girls who like him can line up from Beijing to Paris, so he lacks love and is joking!

The hater replied: "With so many girls liking him, why doesn't he find a girlfriend!"

The fan replied, "You don't have to worry about Director Jiang, he always has a girlfriend!"

"Who is it? I'm curious!"

"That's right, why haven't you made an official announcement yet?"

"This is easy. Think about it. Which first-line actress hasn't made an appearance recently?"

As soon as these words came out, the entire forum was about to "explode". Netizens spontaneously summarized the schedules of several golden flowers from iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video, and used the process of elimination to determine who Jiang Heng's mysterious girlfriend was.

Jiang Heng, who was far away abroad, had no idea that netizens were concerned about his emotional affairs. After getting bored of staying in the Maldives, he took Liu Yifei to Australia.

He has quite a few mansions here, and not many people pay attention to him, so he can travel very comfortably on a daily basis.

It was late August when Black Myth: Wukong was released in the mainland market.

The total box office was fixed at 36.1 billion RMB, breaking the box office record of the mainland film market. In foreign countries, "Black Myth: Wukong" also achieved good box office results.

For example, in Japan, perhaps because their national character itself has a dark tone, the film was a big hit at the box office when it was released and was very popular.

Not only did it win the summer box office championship in the Japanese market, it also broke the box office record for foreign films in the Japanese market.

It can be said that except for the incredible "Spirited Away", no other movie can rival "Black Myth".

As for the Korean market, it is somewhat divided.

The film did very well at the box office and attracted a lot of viewers, but its reputation was a bit hard to describe.

Because a large number of Korean netizens gave low scores to "Black Myth: Wukong" on their domestic film review websites. The reason is very simple. Those netizens think that many elements and scenes in the film are Korea's cultural heritage.

This is nonsense in the first place, but there are still many Korean netizens who agree with it, which is quite speechless.

In the world's largest North American market, "Dark Myth: Wukong" also performed well. The film finally grossed $4.13 million, ranking second only to "The Dark Knight Rises". In 2012, it basically ranked third in the North American market.

Speaking of the protagonists of these two films, one is a "superhero" in the hearts of Chinese people, and the other is a superhero in the hearts of Americans.

"Black Myth: Wukong" earned 36.1 billion RMB in the mainland market, which is equivalent to 5.7 million US dollars.

The total box office revenue from Hong Kong and Taiwan has exceeded 4.13 million US dollars. Adding the million from North America, the total box office revenue of "Black Myth" in the two film markets of China and the United States has exceeded billion US dollars.

In comparison, "The Dark Knight Rises" is slightly inferior, with a box office of only over 300 million yuan in mainland China, and the total box office of the two major film markets in China and the United States combined is just over 600 million US dollars, which is a huge difference.

The real rival of "Black Myth: Wukong" this year is "Avengers", which earned 6.23 million in the North American market and 15.19 billion US dollars worldwide.

However, the film's box office in mainland China was only 5.79 million yuan, and the total box office in the Chinese and American film markets was less than million US dollars, which is a huge gap.

The global box office champion in 2012 was "Black Myth: Wukong".

Some media have published this conclusion, but the global box office summary of the film is not very timely, so there is no exact data for the time being.

"Director Jiang, the global box office statistics are out. It's 21.9 billion US dollars!" Yu Dong called again, very excited.

This achievement is really rare, especially after 3D movies became popular and audiences became accustomed to many visual scenes. There are only a few movies that can gross over billion dollars worldwide each year, let alone billion dollars!

Jiang Heng was also very excited after hearing this. He never expected that "Black Myth" would be so popular. It seems that after people get used to the shocking "visual effects scenes", they prefer to watch films that reveal human nature!
"It's really great, I didn't expect everyone to like it so much!"

Yu Dong laughed and said, "It's mainly because the plot and characters are so profound, especially after the relevant plots of 'Pansiling' and 'Huoyanshan' were released, the fans were discussing it so enthusiastically that several of them were on the hot search list!

The single-day box office was declining rapidly at that time, but it started to rise again. I have to say, Director Jiang, your idea is really good!"

Jiang Heng laughed, "Not really, it's mainly because of the audience's support, and your publicity is also good!"

Yu Dong chuckled after hearing this, agreeing with what Jiang Heng said.

Then he gave a time, indicating that the celebration banquet was ready and they were just waiting for Jiang Heng to "return as the king"! (End of this chapter)