Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Lu Hang
Recently, the movie "Decryption" directed by Chen Sicheng and starring Liu Haoran, Daniel Wu, Chen Daoming was announced to be finalized and is expected to be released in 2024. The film is adapted from the first novel "Decryption" by Mao Dun Literature Award winner Mai Jia. It tells the story of Rong Jinzhen, a mathematical genius who was recruited to the secret unit 701 because of his extraordinary talent to crack the "Purple Secret" code.
As a leader in suspense-themed films, Chen Sicheng's works have been popular with audiences and have achieved great success in this field. The cumulative box office of his director's " Chinatown Detective 3" has exceeded 2.5 billion yuan. The cumulative box office of his works has exceeded 10 billion yuan, making him the first director in Chinese film history to have a box office of 10 billion yuan. The suspense film "The Disappearance of " produced by him not long ago became a hit throughout the summer vacation.
It is reported that "Decryption" is a project that Chen Sicheng began to prepare in 2018. At that time, he said: "I want to make a movie about mathematics and passwords. I think this is a very interesting subject." Chen Sicheng also revealed, "Decryption" will be a series, each one will have a different protagonist and story. Mai Jia, the original author of
, is the first contemporary Chinese writer whose works are included in the British "Penguin Classics Library". His novels "Decryption", "The Conspiracy", "The Wind", "Wind Whisper" and "The Point of the Knife" have been made into movies or TV series. and popular among readers. Mai's creation of "Decryption" spanned 11 years, and the manuscript was rejected 17 times. He wrote a total of 1.21 million words, and finally published 210,000 words. In 2002, the novel "Decryption" was finally published. On March 18, 2014, the English translation of "Decryption" began to be launched in 35 English-speaking countries including the United States and the United Kingdom, and it achieved the best ranking of Chinese literary works in 24 hours. On June 20, 2016, the spy drama "Decryption" adapted from the novel was broadcast in mainland China.
