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Wu Yuan and several screenwriters in the company's screenwriting department have almost perfected the script of the movie "The Monkey King".

Just like Marvel, Guangying Times now has a group of screenwriters who specialize in writing scripts for Xianxia movie universe movies. They have all been trained in the past ten years. The earliest ones even entered the industry when Guangying Times was engaged in idol TV series.

After so many years of training, plus the writing of seven or eight Xianxia movie universe movies, these screenwriters may not be considered "all-rounders", but in the field of commercial popcorn movies, especially this kind of superhero movies, they are also professionals.

Every profession has its own specialty.

Even Wu Yuan, a director who has shot many commercial blockbusters, frequently communicated with these screenwriters when writing the script of "The Monkey King", absorbed their suggestions, and finally made a perfect script.

In this final version of the script, there are a total of four and a half important actors.

The male protagonist Sun Wu, the female protagonist A Zi, the important male supporting role Lu Yicheng, and the villain Dapeng King.

Needless to say, the male protagonist Sun Wu has basically been confirmed to be Zhang Yishan.

The role of the heroine A Zi in the movie is just a vase and a motivator for the male lead. Just like most commercial popcorn movies, the heroine's existence is to embellish the picture and buff the male lead.

In the movie, the most important plot of A Zi is to encourage and support Sun Wukong when he failed the inheritance trial for the first time and wanted to give up, and finally let him rekindle his confidence. She is a very classic auxiliary heroine.

The role of Lu Yicheng is a funny character. Its existence is similar to that of the fat man Ned in the new version of Spider-Man. It is a role that provides jokes.

After all, a movie cannot have a tight rhythm all the time. It needs a certain humorous plot to adjust the audience's emotions.

And the "half" leading role is naturally the Dapeng King, because this Dapeng demon king will be a "Dapeng" most of the time in the movie. Even if he transforms during the battle with Sun Wukong's monkey hair clone, he is still a monster with a human body and a Dapeng head. After all, this is in line with the image of monsters in the minds of Chinese people.

As we all know, the image of monsters in the minds of Chinese people is that female monsters are very anthropomorphic and extremely charming, while male monsters are all human bodies with monster heads, as if they have not evolved completely. Wu Yuan does not intend to break this stereotype.

So the Dapeng Monster King, who almost never shows his face and relies purely on special effects, only shows half of his face, and of course is only half of the protagonist.

In addition, Wu Yuan also needs to find a "Sun Wukong". If nothing unexpected happens, this role will have to invite Liu Xiaolingtong. Although his reputation has been somewhat lost due to the "two blossoms" incident, it is true that only his image of Sun Wukong is the most deeply rooted in people's hearts, and no one is more suitable to play Sun Wukong than him.

Even most of the netizens who cursed him on the Internet will still be happy to see him play Sun Wukong.

In fact, in addition to him, there is another choice that is not impossible, that is, Stephen Chow's version of Sun Wukong, which is also very memorable and can also bring the heavy feeling of "inheritance".

After all, "A Chinese Odyssey" is almost a myth among Chinese movie fans. A movie that flopped at the box office when it was released, but with the passage of time, it has become more and more classic, and even hailed as a masterpiece, which also makes the role of "Supreme Treasure" have a national level of influence.

It is undoubtedly a hell-level difficulty to get Xing Ye to come out and act in a movie again. He has long been determined not to appear in the screen, and he has not done anything to maintain his personal image. Now he is full of white hair and looks very old.

Although the theme of "The Monkey King" is "inheritance", the Monkey King in the movie story is not looking for an heir because he is old and dying. He is living well in the earthly immortal world!

It's just that in the worldview of the movie universe, the human world has been cut off from the heaven and earth, and the immortals have returned to the earthly immortal world and can no longer interfere with the human world. Therefore, when the earth is in crisis, Sun Wukong wants to pass on part of his power left on the earth to an earthly mortal, so that he can take on the responsibility of protecting the earth.

The Monkey King is still the majestic Monkey King, not an old monkey with staggering steps and white hair!

In this case, Teacher Liu Xiaolingtong, who is still in very good condition and is very active in wanting to play the role of Sun Wukong, seems to be the most suitable choice.

So Wu Yuan also chose to send an invitation to Liu Xiaolingtong.

Apart from anything else, he believes that Teacher Liu, who is very obsessed with the role of "Sun Wukong" and is very utilitarian, will definitely agree to this invitation.

And he will not have any opinion on the image of "Sun Wukong" in the script. After all, the protagonist of this story is "Sun Wukong", but there is no adaptation or joke about Sun Wukong.

In fact, it is indeed as Wu Yuan guessed. As soon as the Light and Shadow Times sent the invitation to Teacher Liu, he immediately agreed and said that it was a great honor to work with a great director like Wu Yuan.

Well, there is no way. His Monkey King movie, which was popular on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, has no further news. The project has been cancelled. He is currently being mocked and ridiculed by netizens. How could he refuse such an opportunity to revive the image of "Sun Wukong"?

Wu Yuan has also started to look for other roles in the "Monkey King" movie.

There was no special audition or open selection. Wu Yuan just took a list of currently active actors in the mainland and studied it himself. If he thought it was suitable, he would invite them to meet privately, discuss the script, and try out the play.

In this way, it took two months, and during the National Day of 2017, he basically decided on several leading actors.

For the heroine A Zi, because only a vase was needed and the acting skills were not high, Wu Yuan finally chose Tang Yan, who was the most suitable in terms of image.

The reason for choosing her is very simple. This girl is quite suitable for the image of "Fairy Zixia". In the original time and space, she was really bold to take on the sequel of "A Chinese Odyssey". Although the movie was a bad movie, the acting was not very good, the box office was a disaster and the reputation collapsed, but her appearance was indeed very stunning like the Zhu Yin version of that year.

The role of A Zi in "The Monkey King" actually has an image background derived from the Fairy Zixia in "A Chinese Odyssey", which can be regarded as a tribute.

Wu Yuan finally decided on Qiao Shan for the comedy role of Lu Yicheng, not for anything else, just because his face is funny enough.

He also performed very well in "Sewing Machine Band" released this year, so there is no problem in playing a comedy in a movie.

Wu Yuan found Zhang Hanyu to play the final Dapeng demon king, no other reason, because he has a good figure!

Because this character has a human body and a bird head, although the eyes, chin and other parts will be exposed, most of the face will have to be made up with special effects, so this role mainly depends on the figure. The setting in the movie is that when it turns into a human form, it will be naked.

Among the male actors with good figures, if Peng Yuyan is not used, then Zhang Hanyu is the most suitable!

In this way, Wu Yuan has selected the leading cast for "The Monkey King", and he still does not seek the highest fame, but only seeks the most suitable character image! (End of this chapter)