On Friday night, to the surprise of many fans, the official website of Pirate TV suddenly changed its appearance, all the pictures became antique Chinese style, and the title also seemed to be eye-catching Chinese characters, and below was a line of English introduction, "The new drama "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in the autumn of October is about to be launched, look forward to it"

And clicking on the page, there is neither actor information, nor story synopsis, only the comic concept poster of this new drama, netizens quickly found something unbelievable to them, this series turned out to be a traditional Hong Kong martial arts film, which means the production of all Chinese people? Not even an American?

This makes many people feel incredible, of course, this is just a comic concept poster, and there is no specific information yet, no one can be sure whether this series has any crossing, science fiction and other themes, after all, American dramas have now begun to play all kinds of strange ideas, and martial arts comic posters do not mean that they are themes that have nothing to do with the United States.

Many netizens even think that this may be some animation CG that Li Xiaole wants to shoot for the promotion of "The Legend of the Great Sage", and it should be noted that some CG short films of "The Legend of the Great Sage" have been circulated on the Internet by Heifan Studio, and everyone will have a strong interest in this movie.

As for this martial arts drama, it may be just a short film with a ticket, warm up the market, before the release of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", a similar short film was broadcast on TV stations.

But the next morning, the media that received the inside news of the pirate station yesterday broke out one shocking news after another, leaving all fans stunned.

"Before Li Xiaole's new movie, try 3D dramas, ambitious film and television maniacs are coming! This is an all-Chinese team~! "The investment is more than "Band of Brothers", and Li Jesus led the Hong Kong team to North America!!" "After the Olympics, there was another Chinese storm, the first Chinese drama in North American history to be broadcast in prime time on a top five TV station.

According to several media reports such as Rotten Tomatoes and Yahoo Entertainment, internal employees of the pirate station have revealed information about the series.

"This "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is a remake of the classic series, which will be broadcast in two versions, one Mandarin version in the Chinese market, and the version dubbed by European and American actors will be broadcast in North America."

Yahoo Entertainment also broke the news of the list of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in the capital, and the North American audience looked at the list, and many ordinary American fans didn't know anyone except Jet Li and Li Xiaole.

What's even more surprising is that this time the pirates announced that the scheduled number of episodes is 30...... This has greatly exceeded the length of ordinary American dramas, which means that the young Oscar-winning director is full of confidence in this Chinese series to conquer the North American market.

Looking at the budget, fans think he's crazy...... $6 million per episode...... This has surpassed most American dramas, second only to HBO's epic masterpiece Rome.

In other countries around the world, many mainstream TV stations will broadcast some American dramas with good themes, but for Americans who are "the first in the world", it is okay to watch British dramas and French dramas, but they will find it difficult to accept any Mexican dramas, Brazilian dramas, and other Latino dramas on TV.

You must know that Latinos are the largest minority in the United States, with 35 million people, but that's it, mainstream American viewers can't stand these Latino dramas landing on TV screens, what are you kidding? This is the entertainment center of the whole world, the United States, white people are the center of society, and the blacks who are the best at sports and entertainment have spent decades barely entering the mainstream, and they can only occasionally appear as the protagonists, as for the other races, sorry, they are all standing aside~~!

If you want to broadcast your own TV series, you can ~~ go to a small state TV station ~ San Francisco's Chinese TV and Latin TV stations are broadcasting their own programs every day, but these programs can only live in a small circle, and there is no place for them in the mainstream TV industry.

And this time the Pirate Channel's move obviously broke everyone's existing notions and radiated the national TVB, and it was even going to broadcast an all-Chinese drama on the weekend prime time!?

Now American drama fans are exploding, and on the official website forum of Pirate TV, as soon as the layout of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is launched, the message board keeps adding new messages from fans:

"It's really fake, is Jesus Li finally going to shoot a Chinese theme~ It's so exciting!" Is this good news or bad news? Although I also like Chinese kung fu movies, but such a long series...... I can't imagine I'll be able to read it all! ”

"My God, Li Xiaole is really too successful in the opening of the Olympic Games this time, and he has inflated himself to this point, an all-Chinese drama? This is simply a fool's dream, the all-black starring "Everyone Hates Chris" is disgusting, this series is simply an insult to the American television industry~! ”

"Damn~! I've been waiting for more than half a year to wait for such a national narcissistic thing!? ”

Stig Larsen from Nevada left a message in confusion: "Li Xiaole is a very talented director, both his film and TV works are very successful, but this is also based on the laws of the market, his nationalist works are really ridiculous, I am curious, how many Americans will be willing to watch an all-Chinese drama, there are only 3 million Chinese Americans in the whole American, even if everyone watches it, this series has a bleak future......"

Another user, Curtis Tong from Ohio, said: "Li Xiaole is a Chinese, he makes martial arts movies normally, but this feels completely different on American TV, after all, the white society here, everyone is not interested in what martial arts, the Chinese are not interested, this is obviously a very courageous but stupid decision." ”

Augustin Bell, a user whose avatar is a Labrador, said: "Ha~~ A TV version of a martial arts film, he has to face "Doctor House", "Desperate Instructions", "Grey's Anatomy", "Superman Prequel", well, if the kung fu masters in this martial arts film suddenly become zombies, the plot turns to "The Walking Dead"~~ Maybe this martial arts drama can still be saved." ”

And in the mainstream media, because of the arbitrary style of Pirate TV at the Olympics, it has also rightly received huge criticism.

The columnist of "Hollywood Letterman" expressed strong anger at Mills Howard for Li Xiaole's episode, and he commented viciously:

"It's a collective carnival in Hong Kong's show business, but they're clearly overestimating their influence, and I've heard that the series is also a way to bet on ratings, and I'm excited to see how long this farce lasts...... Maybe those Hong Kong leopards will one day learn that Hollywood is not a fast place that can be joined by casual street performers. ”

Mills Howard's position represents the views of most film critics, and of course, there are justified reasons for their anger. In the history of American dramas, except for Spielberg's "Band of Brothers", which is similar to the short movie, although some American dramas have high production specifications, there are actually very few dramas with an investment of $3 million per episode.

Take a look at the three works in front of the investment in "Shooting the Condor", the first season of "Roma" BBC and HBO jointly invested 110 million US dollars, the most ambitious and expensive historical drama in the history of American dramas, although the critics praised it after the broadcast, but the viewing population hovering around 3 million is very shabby compared to the investment.

Roma's top-notch quality earned critical acclaim and awards, but it wasn't enough to offset the high cost of the production, and HBO finally cut the unprecedented blockbuster series after two years of contract.

The first two films in "Roma" are the last ten episodes of "Friends", with an investment of 180 million, and the story of "Emergency Room" seasons 4-6 with an investment of up to 13 million per episode, but they are all because of the factors of popular actors, and almost all actors take more than half of the budget.

This fact proves that in the American drama industry, the more you want to invest, the more you have to see whether the audience likes the leading actors, as long as you like it, everything is not a problem.

And what makes "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" feel very incredible is that they only have one actor Li Lianjie with ratings appeal, but Li Lianjie only has less than ten episodes of scenes, or in the later stage, how does this make American audiences integrate into the story? As for those Hong Kong actors? Who knows......

And the so-called 3D TV, which is a seat gimmick, is still far from being so popular.

More than 500,000 netizens participated in a survey on "Shooting the Condor" on the Pirate Taiwan Forum, and 67.8% of them thought that "the team of all Chinese people is not interested, and they will not watch it." And only 100% of 23.7 people chosen: "Martial arts films still have potential to be tapped, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is worth looking forward to, and I will watch two episodes first to try it when it is released." ”

At the same time that the American audience was laughing, in China, as soon as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was announced, everyone was stunned when they saw the list of actors, which immediately triggered a round of applause.

"Guo Jing - Li Xiaole; Ouyang Ke - Zheng Jiaying

Huang Rong - Ha Ji Won; Mei Chaofeng - Deng Cuiwen

Mu Nianci - Zhang Bozhi; Yang Kang - Nicholas Tse

Huang Yaoshi - Zhang Guorong; Temujin - Qin Pei

Ouyang Feng - Tony Leung; Hong Qigong - Huang Rihua

Yang Tiexin - Miao Qiaowei; Guo Xiaotian - Liu Songren

Nandi - Li Lianjie; Old naughty boy - Zeng Zhiwei

Yinggu - Yuan Yuyi; Yin Zhiping - Lin Feng

Qiu Qianzhang, Qiu Qianjian - Liu Qingyun;

Hua Zheng - Tang Ning; Wang Chongyang - Zheng Shaoqiu

Qiu Chuji - Liang Jiahui Ke Zhen Evil - Huang Qiusheng ......