After many twists and turns, "The Walking Dead", the first authentic zombie film ever, is finally about to be launched.

As a restricted-level production, it is certainly difficult for such a TV series to start filming, although the United States advocates democracy and freedom, and even allows many cable TV stations to broadcast, zombie films like this horror genre are very restricted by policy. The U.S. civilization department is very strict about TV dramas that "affect children's growth and development".

Children and children are the flowers of America, although these children have been exposed to zombies, vampires, werewolves, and grew up in horror comics, but if you really make a zombie TV series, it will still have a great impact on them. Therefore, the relevant departments were very cautious in this regard, and in the end, Yi Feiyang found a back door before being approved.

With a filming permit, the most important thing for filming next is the selection of actors, there are many actors who are very suitable for the role of this TV series, but those Hollywood filmmakers disdain this kind of downgrade TV production, they are movie actors, not TV actors!

Yi Feiyang was unwilling to use his strength to let big-name actors such as Johnny Depp or Nicolas Cage star in this TV series, so he had no choice but to look for TV actors.

Those TV actors were very excited when they heard the news, because the drama filmed by Yi Feiyang is a big production, and it is his first TV series, and Yi Feiyang's directorial fame alone can make this drama popular. In such a situation, who is unwilling to participate, it can be said that they want to enter the crew.

Yi Feiyang would rather be lacking, but he won't call you by name when he sees that you are famous in the TV circle, his arrangement is very simple. Interview. Important roles must be interviewed one by one. Especially the male and female protagonists, they have to interview in person!

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"The filming of China's "The Walking Dead" drama has started, and the actor audition is about to begin!"

"Do you want to join The Walking Dead? Do you want to experience the zombie life? Come, the gates of hell are open for you! ”

"Do you have a dream? Do you have a passion? Give you the stage and show yourself! The great director Yi Feiyang offered a reward of 10 million to recruit the best actor! ”

Without a doubt, the last one is the most exciting, and $10 million is an astronomical amount for many people. In Yi Feiyang's words: "I want to turn these 10 million US dollars into 1,000 tons of explosives and detonate the United States!" ”

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With all kinds of recruitment posters and interview news in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and other places in the four major cities of the United States, everyone knows that a century-making zombie TV series is recruiting actors, so street gangsters, student artists, hip-hop people. Rebellious youth, and a gold digger with dreams. All towards the goal - the Los Angeles "The Walking Dead" pilot, heading out!

A black reporter interviewed the constant stream of interviewers on the street and said excitedly: "God, if you don't see it, you can't believe that so many people are recruiting for the show 'The Walking Dead'!" Some of them came from Detroit, some from Chicago, some from New York, some from Philadelphia, and they were as powerful as migratory birds......"

These interviewers are varied, the most unbelievable thing is their dress, as if to make a "deep" impression, these people are dressed as black vampires, zombies, and some even directly put on makeup into hideous zombie shapes, so you can see a large number of "zombies" walking on the road, thousands of people gathered in Los Angeles. And Los Angeles has become the first-ever "City of Zombies".

The Los Angeles city government is about to cry because they have received thousands of complaints, all because the children are scared by the zombies, zombies, vampires, devils, etc.

There is no way, many parents and adults have to coax their children: "This is Halloween in advance, everything is fake!" ”

But even so, Los Angeles has become big news because of the "ghost", its popularity has increased rapidly in the United States, and the tourism industry has grown sharply all of a sudden.

The Walking Dead Cast Recruitment Office in Los Angeles.

Four words: overcrowded!

AMC TV was crowded with people inside and out, and even the parking lot outside was full of "actors" waiting for interviews, to be precise, "bull ghosts and snake gods", what zombies, zombies, vampires, blood roses......

A reporter took the microphone and squeezed into the crowd to interview a white zombie: "Hey, man, may I ask what role are you here for?" ”

"Of course it's the actor!"

"What if you don't get chosen?"

"Oh, it's okay, the supporting actor can do it too!"

"You have a lot of perseverance!"

"No, mainly for the 10 million!"

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Suddenly, the black reporter interviewed a girl dressed as a vampire.

"Hi dear miss, why are you participating in the recruitment?"

"To be famous!" The vampire girl said lukewarmly, chewing gum.

"Do you think you'll be chosen?"

"I don't know. I've heard that many actresses have to sleep with the director, is this true? The vampire girl asked the reporter rhetorically.

"This ...... I can guarantee that China Easy will definitely not! ”

"Why? Don't all men like this tune? ”

"Because his girlfriend is too beautiful, he won't fall in love with others at all!"

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To be precise, both actor recruitment and actor interviews are boring.

Although you can see a lot of strange slings walking around in front of you, performing funny comedy to introduce yourself and prove yourself, all kinds of performances, all kinds of rhetoric, it is even more exciting than America's Got Talent.

For example, a guy who played a werewolf during the interview learned wolf howling as soon as he came on stage, but after roaring for a long time, there was no reaction from the judges' seat, but he recruited a female dog.

There is also an actor who directly plays a zombie, and as soon as he comes on stage, he crooks his neck to scare people, but he is smashed by someone who throws a lot of rotten tomatoes.

Arguably. Actor interviews and recruitment are the kind of jobs that test your laughter. You have to hold back your laughter. When you see all kinds of slings, you have to keep a serious posture, and then tell him whether he is a good actor, whether his performance is good or not, whether he is passed or passed.

But for Yi Feiyang, none of this is important. It's not funny at all, because his whole mind is immersed in the preparation of the TV series.

Now the comic of "The Walking Dead" is becoming popular, and with the news that the TV station is going to start filming this drama, it has driven this comic to become purple. In this way, it has also invisibly put a lot of pressure on Yi Feiyang, because Yi Feiyang deeply knows that when literary works are adapted into movies and TV series, the most complained about is "whether to respect the original work".

For example, the N works of Master Jin Yong in the previous life, as well as the four classical masterpieces that have been adapted and rotten, etc., because these literary works are relatively abstract. Everyone has different Linghu Chong, Yang Guo and Guo Jing in their minds. There are different Monkey King and Zhu Bajie, and it is really difficult to unify their thoughts.

So after careful consideration, Yi Feiyang decided that this drama will strive to be faithful to the original work, "The Walking Dead" is a popular super comic work, and in the future, it will have fans all over the world, if you can't let the TV series pay tribute to the original work, then the die-hard fans of the comics will scold their mother.

In addition, Yi Feiyang also hopes that loyal fans of comic works will become loyal viewers of his TV series, and he can't make these parents angry.

Therefore, Yi Feiyang teamed up with Robert, the original author of this comic, to focus on putting some of the original pictures in the comic story directly on TV, so that fans of the comic can see their familiar scenes from it, in order to gain their favor.

This version of "The Walking Dead" will not only limit the perspective to the city of Atlanta, the whole United States will become a zombie stage, they will run wildly here, roaring, howling and rushing towards humans, the bloody sunset, the chaos of major American cities, such as Atlanta, Los Angeles, Detroit, New York, etc., will become an inseparable part of the entire TV series on the screen.

And in the comics, those few well-known and well-known early characters for comic book fans, Yi Feiyang will invite some big names in fantasy entertainment to make cameos, what Robert Downey Jr., Nicolas Cage, and Johnny Depp, and even the king of heaven Mike Jackson and so on...... Anyway, they will hang up quickly in the play, and they don't worry about affecting their schedule, which can not only increase the highlights of the play, but also allow these big names to show their style, and see how they hang up one by one, well, when the time comes, an album will be called: A hundred ways for super big names to die!

Looking back, although these people just show their faces in the play and make cameos, they themselves have huge appeal and must not be underestimated.

The structure of the entire TV series is still based on the original comics, serving the twin themes of "Darkness and Light" and "Death and Rebirth" by Fat Robert.

Loyal to the original book is only similar in some pictures and some of the characters, Yi Feiyang is self-aware, and according to his current strength, he wants to create a new world, which is still radical and risky.

Now, I am challenging another field, although this field is disdainful or worthless by many big directors, but in Yi Feiyang's view, if Waterloo fails in such a field, then what face do I have to meet the Jiangdong parents in Hong Kong? !

Therefore, Yi Feiyang maintained a cautious attitude, and simply used the overall structure of the original "The Walking Dead" TV series in his previous life to make certain modifications. The advantage of this is that it is more secure and within your own ability.

But when this TV series is over, or to find some free time, Yi Feiyang decided to go to the University of Southern California to study in the directing department to enrich his theoretical knowledge, after all, he was only halfway and had a powerful cheat.

Yi Feiyang believes that one day he will make his own film, completely, from creativity to shooting, it is his own film, and it is only a matter of time.

Now, what is needed is learning.

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Because of the time, the cast recruitment for "The Walking Dead" ended quickly.

In the end, including the male and female protagonists, all the actors were recruited.

The male protagonist Colin and the female protagonist Luo Li are both TV actors, not very well-known TV actors to be precise, and the two have played soy sauce in many TV series before. But I didn't expect to get the opportunity to lead the male and female protagonists in the new TV series of super director Yi Feiyang this time. For them, it was "happiness that came too fast".

"Oh my God. When Director Yi called me to tell me that I had been admitted, I couldn't believe my ears. And when he said that I was going to play the lead role, I was making pizza in the kitchen and almost passed out! Happiness comes so fast! The heroine said in an interview later.

"As we all know, I'm just a young actor, and I've never imagined that one day I'll be able to be the leading actor...... Hehe, of course, to be precise. I used to imagine that I wasn't like a liar...... But happiness came too suddenly, and when dear Director Yi told me that I was the male protagonist, I even wondered if there was a guy with the same name and surname named Colin! Oh my God, I almost jumped for joy at that moment! Afterwards, I called all my friends and relatives to tell them the good news, but I regretted it after the call, because I suddenly remembered what if the director didn't need me when the filming started. These are the original words of the actor in an interview with the media.

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Super director Yi Feiyang's new TV series is about to start filming? The well-informed American paparazzi immediately told the whole world about this bombshell news!

Yi Feiyang's fans are now the happiest fans in the world. Because watching movies is only a short hour or two, but watching TV can enjoy Yi Feiyang's works for a long time. One episode a quarter, it's fantastic!

And for those fans of The Walking Dead comics, they just want to watch TV series that are infinitely close to the original, and watch works that can make you gasp with your mouth and clap your thighs and applaud.

Of course, "The Walking Dead", which is obviously a zombie TV series with bloody and bloody skyrockets, tense and suspenseful plots, will not disappoint these flesh and blood comic fans, everyone knows this.

On the forum, on BBS, they loudly announced that Director Yi Feiyang was a reputable person, and said that he would reduce his value to shoot TV, and he did it.

What's more, "The Walking Dead" is Yi Feiyang's old business - horror films, and the American horror fans who have experienced Yi Feiyang's "Ghost Record" and "Chainsaw" are a little cheering, welcoming the most imaginative director in history to return to the business he started from.

Then, they had a heated discussion about who would star in "The Walking Dead", the actors were not famous, what the acting skills were, how the TV series would be presented, and whether it was a random adaptation of the comics.

"China Yi has never missed an actor, although Colin and Luo Li are not famous, but I believe that next time under Yi Feiyang's training, they will definitely become tomorrow's stars!" Yi Feiyang is a die-hard fan, and he is very powerful to make an obvious headline on Yahoo Entertainment's BBS.

"I also believe in Yi, I believe in his vision!" Less than a second after the message appeared, someone replied.

"Actors are just tools, whether a play is good or not depends on the storyline, as long as the play is loyal to the comics, then it will definitely be able to become popular!" The registered user named Henry Newton was clearly prescient.

The posts on the forum proliferated for a while, and everyone was full of expectations for Yi Feiyang's TV series.

When there was a lot of discussion, there was another major news leak:

"I just watched "Entertainment Xintiandi", and there is news that China Yi plans to let its big-name stars make cameos in this drama, and the results are all hung up, let's guess who they will be?"

This time, everyone's gossip fire was burning, and under the thirsty stimulation, the sales of "Entertainment Xintiandi" directly increased by 100%!

Needless to say, this newspaper, which is an important mouthpiece of fantasy entertainment, can get such exclusive information, and it is definitely an "insider"!

"The first person to hang up - Robert Downey Jr.! It is said that he will appear in the first episode and then be eaten by zombies! ”

"The second person to hang up - Nicolas Cage! Inside information, he will appear in the second episode, playing a car salesman, only to be shot and hung up! ”

"The third person to hang up - Johnny Depp! Reliable information, he will play a rock singer who dies in an explosion in the play! ”

The newspaper listed a hundred ways to die for many fantasy entertainment celebrities to make cameos in "The Walking Dead", which can be said to be fun and gossip without limits.

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The next day, this "Entertainment Xintiandi" was stimulated by the newspaper being out of stock, and regardless of whether Yi Feiyang had this idea, he began to make up his own story based on the traces of catching the wind and catching shadows, but this news that had just been made up was very well received by American fans.

"Roar, the beautiful Anne Hathaway and Jessica Alba must not die too miserably, especially when they hang up, I hope the picture can be romantic and beautiful, and don't destroy their image of goddesses in our hearts!"

"I hope that Johnny Depp will die a miserable death, and it is better to be eaten by zombies and die! Because this kid is so bad, he promised to sign for me last time but he played a trick! ”

"Wow, the big names are dying en masse! This time there is a good show! ”

"I don't know if China's good friend Mike Jackson will make a cameo, if he hangs up in the play, or is killed by zombies, it will be a huge explosion!"

"Yes, I'm looking forward to the appearance of the Heavenly King!"

"Let's make a cameo! King Mike! ”

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Pop King Mike Jackson, the most awesome singer in Hollywood, although his fame is not as strong as before, but his brilliance and achievements are unmatched, if he is really willing to show his face in this TV series, then this appearance will definitely go down in TV history!

Soon, the king of heaven, Michael Jackson, threw an olive branch to Yi Feiyang through the newspaper media: "I'm looking forward to my dear Yi calling me, since the last time I starred in his work, I am eager to work with him again...... So now, here's your chance! So, today, I want to express my heart through the newspaper: Dear Yi, old fellow, call me quickly! ”

Wow, that's an agreement???

This super pop king, who is worth a lot of money, is absolutely affectionate, which makes all the media very excited, they are blocked in front of Yi Feiyang's door, blocked in front of the door of fantasy entertainment, and countless cameras are lined up, wanting to photograph the dear China Yi Yi's every move.

The surging public opinion hit like a wave, so that Yi Feiyang, who started the preparatory work of the TV series, was not calm. I didn't expect that my first time filming a TV series would be even more lively than making a movie.

In the face of Yi Feiyang's rising popularity, many American directors and Hollywood directors are not convinced and unhappy.

"What's going on, why are the front page headlines of newspapers and magazines all about this Chinese director? What does he have to introduce? Isn't it just going to tinker with TV dramas? It's embarrassing to do such a low-status thing, only those who can't get along in Hollywood make TV! Someone Hollywood director said angrily.

"This damn China Yi has made the film and television industry a miasma! Yes, I wish he was frustrated and cried out loud! ”

"Wait, wait until the Oscars in May, and there will be a time for him to cry!"

"Spielberg will definitely be able to beat him! Defeat this fame-seeker! ”

Oscar? Yi Feiyang didn't think so much about it for the time being, for now, he was only concerned about filming! (To be continued......)