"Ye Dong can call me Xiaobao. Wang Xiaobao said respectfully, and asked, "I don't know what kind of drama this is?" Listening to Wang Xiaobao's question, Du Sanming also pricked up his ears and prepared to listen carefully, Ye Zheng has been talking about nonsensical performances, and he is also emphasizing that this is a comedy, but he has never told him what kind of drama this is.

"This drama is related to Journey to the West. Ye Zheng laughed a little mysteriously. "Something to do with Journey to the West?" Wang Xiaobao and Du Sanming were both stunned: "Could it be a remake of one of the plots?" In this world, "Journey to the West" is also a classic masterpiece, which has been circulated for hundreds of years and has a wide influence. In the 80s, Huaxia TV invested in making "Journey to the West" into a TV series, just like the CCTV version of "Journey to the West" that year, which became an immortal film and television classic. Later, the TV series was remade many times, and several of the big productions also received a lot of ratings, but the reviews were far inferior to the classics of the eighties.

Later, some people came up with some ideas, which was to remake and adapt one of the plots into a movie. Anyway, because of the map-style plot mode of "Journey to the West", the plot can be completely independent of the story, so a number of movies based on "Journey to the West" have emerged, some are faithful to the original work, and some are greatly adapted...... As a result, there are such as "Emotional Daughter Country", "The Beautiful Life of Gao Laozhuang", "Nezha vs. Sun Wukong", "The Story that Tang Seng and Little White Dragon Have to Say", ...... Although most of the reviews are not good, there are also many that have achieved good box office results, such as last year's "Nezha vs. Sun Wukong", which has no depth, no thought, and no connotation, but still won a box office of 360 million and a good result of 500 million overseas sales. The reason for this depends to a large extent on the progress of science and technology. The mature and exquisite wonderful fighting pictures produced by the computer, and the application of three-dimensional animation technology, make many people addicted to its wonderful pictures.

Taking this as an example, using wonderful special effects to make up for the connotation of the plot has also become a foothold for everyone to remake and adapt "Journey to the West". So Ye Zheng mentioned that the story was related to "Journey to the West", and Wang Xiaobao and Du Sanming subconsciously thought it was so. "It's not a remake, it's a big adaptation. Ye Zheng smiled: "This movie, I planned to be about three hours long. Subvert the original plot of "Journey to the West" and interpret a tragicomedy. ”

"Three hours!" Wang Xiaobao gasped, startled by Ye Zheng's words. "Hmm. Ye Zheng nodded: "Actually, I originally planned to make two parts, but considering that it would be better to put them together after all, I simply combined the two into one." Of course, the plot can't be cut too much, so in terms of length, it will be equivalent to the length of two movies. ”

"This ......," Wang Xiaobao frowned. "What's the matter, scared?" Ye Zheng looked at him with a smile. "No!" Wang Xiaobao hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Ye Dong, please tell this story first, I'll listen to it." ”

Du Sanming also couldn't wait to listen, very curious about how Ye Zheng would subvert the traditional "Journey to the West", tragicomedy? Wasn't it originally a comedy? How did it become a tragicomedy? Ye Zheng nodded and said slowly: "This story is like this...... Sun Wukong escorted Tang Sanzang to the West to learn scriptures, but halfway through he conspired with the Bull Demon King to kill Tang Sanzang and stole the Moonlight Treasure Box...... "The story told by Ye Zheng is naturally the classic movie "Journey to the West" in his previous life.

The story of this well-known rebellion myth has created a movie legend. It has successfully created a number of immortal classic characters, disseminated classic lines and dialogues, and gave birth to a group of loyal "big talk fans", leaving a strong mark on film culture.

Such a classic, Ye Zheng will naturally not lose it, and it is bound to be filmed. Time and Space Film and Television were established, and three films were filmed, "Suzhou River" and "Can't Do Without You" are biased towards literature and art, and they are destined not to win too high a box office, nor will they have much influence. Therefore, the focus of time and space film and television is still on the movie "Journey to the West". Originally, this movie was divided into two parts: "Journey to the West: Moonlight Treasure Box" and "Journey to the West: Cinderella". But Ye Zheng felt that this was not good. In the previous life, although "Journey to the West" was widely acclaimed, when it was released in Hong Kong in 1995, the total box office of the two films combined was only more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars, although it was not miserable, but compared with its popularity later, it was too far and too far behind.

When it was released in Beijing at that time, both films only ended up with a box office of about 200,000, which was really low. At the root of it, taking apart a film is a reason. For example, when many people mentioned "Journey to the West" later, most of what they thought of was the second half of "Journey to the West: Cinderella", and what they thought of was the love between Supreme Treasure and Zixia Fairy. And the director at the time, Liu Zhenwei, also regretted that the film should not be divided into two episodes, even if there is a lot of material, it should be condensed as much as possible. It's better to overwhelm the audience than to discourage them.

Liu Zhenwei remembered this lesson. Ye Zheng naturally did not dare to repeat the mistakes of the past. Another very important reason is the current situation. In 1995, the film's presentation and form type seemed a little too avant-garde. It is not favored by many people in the industry. Because this movie contains too many genres, action, comedy, sci-fi, tragedy...... At that time, many people couldn't accept this kind of movie that was a bit out of the times for a while. And at that time, the managers of many film companies also felt that the film was "too noisy and noisy", and they were not optimistic, so there was no publicity.

These reasons led to the poor box office of "Journey to the West", but for the current environment of the times, the methods that seemed avant-garde and excessive in 1995 are now decent. This is not a problem. In terms of publicity, time and space film and television will naturally make a big splash. Therefore, Ye Zheng is ready to make a big deal about this movie, not only at the domestic box office, but also to enter overseas strongly. If "The Two of Us", which created a box office success for feature films last year, can be regarded as the first shot of time and space film and television, then "Journey to the West" is a heavy artillery attack. "The Supreme Treasure used the Moonlight Treasure Box to travel through again and again, but the Moonlight Treasure Box suddenly malfunctioned, and it actually brought him back five hundred years ago. And at this time, the Zixia Fairy was walking towards him......"

Ye Zheng took a sip of coffee, looked at the two people who were already immersed in the story, and continued: "The above is the plot of the first half, and the following is the second half. This Zixia Fairy and her sister Qingxia were originally the wicks of the sun and moon lamp in front of the Buddha's throne......" Telling this story, Ye Zheng was also excited. The thing he is most excited about is to bring out the classics of his previous life. What I look forward to most is that the classics of the previous life can create brilliance in this world again.

After drinking two cups of coffee and talking for half an hour, Wang Xiaobao and Du Sanming listened carefully and didn't say a word. The more they listened, the more amazed the two of them became, and the more they admired Ye Zheng. Such a plot and such a subversive whimsical idea completely exceeded their imagination of "Journey to the West". The story of the four masters and apprentices taking the Western Scripture to kill demons and eliminate demons can be made up like this?

If it weren't for the familiar characters and monsters such as spider spirits and white bone spirits, it would be hard to believe that this story was adapted from "Journey to the West". Is this an adaptation? No, it's a completely new story!