Shrimpy

Probably after LOCH wraps up, in order not to take away the hype. There was a melon yesterday that actually they ended up extending the stay in Mongolia after all for a few days because they needed some extra scenes to be shot. I think we won't know until probably late November earliest.

This drama picked up two awards at the Beijing TV drama festival - 2023 Beijing Radio Audiovisual High Quality Drama and Development Fund Broadcast Award Project.

Here's hoping it is just the start 🤞

It's inevitable, there are lots of group fighting scenes that will take time to film. We can only hope that all will turn out well, it's a really big project. I have faith in Tsui Hark and XZ both!

Latest melons differ on the start of the next one, from mid - December to early January. It's possible they don't have a firm date because this isn't wrapped up yet. Once it is, there should be an official announcement and we shall know.

Unknown at this point but the official announcement should come soon.

The crew is done in Inner Mongolia and now final shootings in Beijing are all that is left.

It's actually irrelevant. All the info we have says they simply bought the copyright to get rights for the character and some inspiration but the script itself is essentially an original script. The author of the original work is also not involved with this drama. We don't know for sure yet who is the screenwriter.

It will, Tsui Hark is a huge name, it will show internationally. His movies always do. I don't know how big the distribution will be in the USA but that depends on many things we can't predict now.

Just ignore it. You can't argue these things.

There should be but it's not the focus, his revenge is. We don't know much though, they haven't even started filming yet.

Unlikely I am afraid. You have to keep in mind this is a big male lead so while there is a FL, it's going to be a much smaller part.

This unfortunately deletes ZLY as an option right away. Bai Lu is traffic, so out and he acted too many times with LQ. If it is not Sun Yi it's possible it's going to be someone completely unexpected, who has good acting skills but may not be that famous.

She is very ok but who knows. There are melons that say it's not her either 😂

Not her after all, she has a different drama about to start. The latest melon says Sun Yi.

Censorship has not affected any of the other firefighting dramas, there is absolutely no reason for it to affect only this one, especially when it already contained plenty of realistic material including deaths.

The OE was planned from the start, it was in the script that leaked. Now the way they did it, everyone can of course interpret and judge on their own of course.

Yes, I think that in their minds tragedy means it is somehow more meaningful when in reality people just get really angry because it's obviously forced and it just ends up annoying us. I am also annoyed because it implies that happy endings cannot be meaningful which is just rubbish.

I already had this drama marked as one to rewatch for comfort in the future and now nope. How frustrating.

I understand, they did the same thing with The Longest Promise. The book has a normal happy ending and then the drama suddenly had an open one, where you are also left wondering wth happened.

I think they believe a sad or open ending makes it more deep and will make the drama more talked about. They don't understand it only ends up annoying people because these things aren't natural progression of the plot but forced. I think I am going to give up watching dramas in real time soon because I can't take these kinds of surprises.

Imo it's a terrible drama, even with the questionable ending, this one is like 10x better.

No problem, I wish I had better news. I knew how the book ended so I walked in without a care and was left going what, what at the end. I don't understand these choices by directors and writers.

Not really?

The way it was cut, the empty central seat, the four people eating dumplings where two of them are dead already and then the end is just a simple question of whether he died or not. Most Cnetz think he died. There is even a hot search up on Weibo now that he died.

The original script had an open ending and HJY said in a livestream that he didn't die but the way that ending was actually cut it sure looks like he did. Of course anyone can interpret it as they like but it was unnecessary considering the book ending.

No, it can't be interpreted that way because the ending in the theatre can't be looked at like a warning.

Yes, with the empty seat and all, that all screams he died to me.

I wasn't paying attention to this drama before but I just read on Douban the script for this was leaked, with an open ending. Unfortunately it would not be the first time these types of leaks cause a change in what is filmed or how it is finally edited.