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At Wu Yuan's home, Liu Yifei, who had already completed the filming of "Cohabitation" and "X-Men: Dark Phoenix", was picked up by Wu Yuan and returned home after a long journey.

As soon as she got home and threw off her bag and shoes, Liu Yifei put her arms around Wu Yuan's neck and said curiously: "Hey, I thought you would cast Ya Wen to play the role of the Dapeng Demon King. Ya Wen has a good figure. It’s pretty good too.”

Although she is filming in North America, Liu Yifei is also paying attention to Wu Yuan's new movie, and Wu Yuan will also inform her of the progress during the phone call.

The casting of the role of Dapeng Demon King was the last one decided, and it went through a lot of turmoil in the company.

At least at the beginning of the casting process, most people in the company thought that this role would be won by Zhu Yawen.

After all, Wu Yuan himself publicly teased internally, saying that this role was just to "sell meat" and he had to film the entire film with his upper body naked.

As we all know, among the artists under the Light and Shadow Era, Zhu Yawen is the most masculine.

So when the casting dust finally settled, many people in the company were surprised that this role was actually taken by an outsider.

Liu Yifei also talked about this matter with Wu Yuan on the phone, but when they met, she still couldn't understand and asked again.

"There's nothing strange about this." Wu Yuan patted her butt with a black look on his face, motioning her not to press on him, and calmly explained: "Yawen is full of male hormones and has a good figure, but His face is really not suitable for a role like the Dapeng Demon King."

"Have you read the character setting? The Dapeng Demon King is a demon king who has been sealed for thousands of years. He was defeated and sealed by Sun Wukong when Tang Monk went to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures."

"And before he was sealed, he was already an old monster who had been practicing for thousands of years."

"Although it is not possible to find a grandpa in his 50s or 60s to play the role, we definitely need to find a more mature actor to play this role!"

"And Yawen is too young. Although he is in his thirties, he still looks very tender."

Some special roles are just not suitable for actors with tender faces.

Take the emperor for example. Most of the emperors in film and television dramas are played by actors aged 40-50. Is this consistent with historical facts?

of course not!

Most emperors were actually relatively young when they were in power!

Not to mention those young emperors, it can be said that the emperors who normally succeed to the throne and rule in person usually succeed to the throne when they are around 20 years old and die when they are around 40 years old.

Qin Shihuang was only 13 years old when he ascended the throne and was less than 40 years old when he unified the six kingdoms. But most of the TV series involving him were played by actors in their 40s.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, succeeded to the throne at the age of 16, defeated the Huns at the age of 26, and completely defeated the Huns at the age of 36. Huo Qubing died of illness at this time.

Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, was only 27 years old when the Xuanwu Gate Incident occurred. He was 31 years old when he defeated the Turks, captured Jieli Khan alive, and was revered as the Tian Khan.

But if you really find a group of actors in their twenties and thirties to play these emperors, can they portray that kind of imperial aura?

Zhu Zhanji, played by Zhu Yawen in "The Ming Dynasty", was criticized by the audience for being too feminine in the early stage. When he put on a python robe, he looked more like a eunuch than a grandson. However, later on when he ascended the throne and became an emperor, after growing a beard, he became more like a eunuch. The image of the emperor was improved, and he was praised for his good performance.

It is because everyone cannot accept that the "Emperor" is too frivolous and has strict requirements on temperament and image.

In the same way, roles like the Dapeng Demon King in "The Great Sage" are not suitable for actors with tender faces to play, because they cannot portray the temperament of the demon king at all, and will only make the audience lose their sense of involvement.

The Demon King is very imposing, and he must have the kind of temperament that looks down on the world. At worst, he must be on the level of the Demon King.

In this regard, Zhang Hanyu is undoubtedly more suitable. At least he can perform this kind of temperament. The general he played in "The Great Wall" is very magnanimous. Of course, he is the one in Zhang Yimou's new version of "The Great Wall".

It was also because of watching this movie that Wu Yuan fell in love with the actor Zhang Hanyu.

It's just that if you really want to explain these things to Liu Yifei, you will have to spend too much time. Wu Yuan simply changed the subject and said: "In short, the actors have already been decided. Unless there is a temporary problem with the subsequent schedule, it will not happen." Change it again.”

"Let's not talk about this anymore. How did you feel about filming "X-Men" this time?"

"That's fine." Liu Yifei shrugged: "After staying on the crew for a month, most of the time was spent shooting group scenes with other actors and acting as a background. Flashing has become more and more prominent in the "X-Men" movie. He’s like a tool that opens a portal.”

"My presence is only needed when the portal is to be opened. At other times, it is mostly used as a backdrop."

"I also heard that it seems that the "X-Men" series is planning to restart again. After "Dark Phoenix", Fox plans to restart the "X-Men" series again, this time in cooperation with Marvel."

"It seems that Fox is also coveting the interests of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and wants to bring the X-Men back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I don't know the specific situation."

"Oh." Wu Yuan nodded, this should be "New Mutants".

"The New Mutants" is another mutant IP movie that 20th Century Fox launched at the same time as "X-Men: Dark Phoenix". It is a collaboration with Marvel and preparations began in July 2017.

It seems that Marvel deceived Fox, saying that it was considering introducing "mutants" into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

After Fox saw the good results achieved by Spider-Man's return to the Marvel Universe, he was naturally excited. He agreed to Marvel without saying a word, and then organized the "New Mutants" and planned to let several protagonists of this movie Enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a group of mutants.

However, Wu Yuan clearly remembered that before he woke up in 2022, he never saw "mutants" joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Instead, Marvel launched "The Eternals".

I don’t know if Marvel later regretted it and gave up its plan to introduce mutants into the movie universe. Anyway, this matter should be over, and the "New Mutants" movie is also very profitable.

"This matter has nothing to do with us. If we don't make "X-Men", we won't make it." Wu Yuan said nonchalantly: "Anyway, Fox's "X-Men" IP is about to expire and it will return to Marvel, and I The relationship with Marvel is very delicate now, and I probably won’t participate in their projects in the future.”

"You should now prepare for the literary film directed by Zhang Yimou next year. Haven't you already decided to make "Cai Wenji"?"

Speaking of which, Wu Yuan is also a little confused. I wonder if it is because of his butterfly effect that there has been no movement in the global auditions for "Mulan" that should have started long ago. Disney has never officially started preparations for "Mulan". Mulan" live-action movie!

And he heard that the script for this live-action movie has been made in four versions, but there is no final version.

This is really strange.

"Forget it." Wu Yuan shook his head, too lazy to think about it. Anyway, he really didn't like Disney's version of "Mulan" and didn't want Liu Yifei to act in it.

Looking up at the calendar hanging in the living room, Wu Yuan smacked his lips: "It's almost December again, and the Spring Festival is coming again."

"It seems that the company has movies to release in the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival this year." (End of Chapter)