The 2018 gangster crime film "Reverse Scale" is the last train to be released this summer. Although he was scolded bloody, he still relied on Shen Teng's super popularity to get more than 100 million box office in theaters. It's also a gangster crime movie, but I wonder

The gangster crime film " reverse scale " shot in 2018 is on the last train of this summer's release.

Although it was scolded bloody, it still relied on the super popularity of , Shen Teng, and to get more than 100 million box office in theaters.

are both gangster crime movies. I wonder if anyone still remembers the movie "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast: Twenty Years"?

The film was originally planned to be released on May 1, 2019. It was later withdrawn and there has been no news since.

html Thirty-five years later, it has not had the good luck of "Reverse Scale". It is marked on the Douban homepage that it will be released in 2024, but I don't know whether it is true or not.

The director of the movie Kong Ergou is a very popular Internet celebrity writer. He became a god with the book "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast: 20 Years of Underworld". He personally wrote the movie script adapted from this book.

This film brings together powerful actors such as Xia Yu, Hu Jun, Zhang Jingchu, and Wu Yue. This lineup is still viable today.

As we all know, China’s movie theaters are extremely short of films this year, which has given many backlogged bad films the opportunity to be released.

So why hasn’t this film directed by Kong Ergou been released yet?

1, the past and present life of "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast: Twenty Years"

In 2008, Kong Ergou began to create "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast: The Underworld".

The stories he wrote dominate the popular websites and are sought after by countless readers, making his popularity comparable to that of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty".

After the book collection was published in 2009, it has been on the best-selling lists of major books for 18 consecutive weeks. Kong Ergou is known as "the first person in the underworld novels". Due to the huge popularity of the book,

was adapted into an online TV series in 2012, setting off a Northeast gang craze on the Internet.

However, many years later, the most well-known character in this drama is only the chivalrous gangster Liu Haizhu (played by Xu Juncong ).

This web drama also allowed the original author Kong Ergou to get a ticket to enter the film and television industry and establish a film company with his friends.

When Kong Ergou transformed into Mr. Kong, he boasted a lot.

is going to make the cartoon "Dinosaur Racing" with Wu Siyuan, the mythical blockbuster "The King of China" with Gao Qunshu, and adapt Cai Jun's best-selling book "Hell Change".

Many years later these projects became jokes, but one is the most famous.

He should be the first domestic filmmaker to put "三级" on the big screen. At that time, he boasted that he would invest 1.2 billion, but the result was nothing.

In 2017, a super bad movie "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast: Broken Horse Zhang Fei" was released, which obviously took advantage of the popularity of Kong Ergou's book IP. Even though it was bad, it sold 106 million yuan.

This may have inspired Kong Ergou. He has been in the film and television industry for many years (he has boasted so much), but there are very few big projects that can really be promoted. Isn't he just begging for money from a gold mine?

Hence the book "Twenty Years of Past in the Northeast".

Kong Ergou, who hates young fresh meat, has a vicious eye in casting. The leading actors Xia Yu, Zhang Jingchu, Hu Jun, Wu Yue and others are all capable actors.

The key is that they are talented in both virtue and art, and have not collapsed so far, nor have they hindered the film's release in this regard.

In addition, several of the supporting roles he chose are more famous than they were 5 years ago, such as Ma Yuke and Yu Ailei .

But there is also a regret, There is no Liu Haizhu of Xu Juncong in this film!

was withdrawn on the eve of the film's release. Kong Ergou joked that it was because his face was broken after drinking and it lost its important selling point.

He also did not forget to make up for the damage: the movie should not rely too much on the director’s appearance.

Normally, it is normal for some films to be adjusted and then released.

Especially when it comes to sensitive themes, even the national master Zhang Yimou is often suppressed. For example, " is as solid as a rock " also faced similar problems.

But Kong Ergou’s film seems to have not been adjusted.

2. What movie did Kong Ergou make? The reasons for the withdrawal of

movies can be roughly divided into two categories, either due to commercial considerations, or due to temporary "technical adjustments" due to content and review.

Kong Ergou’s film most likely belongs to the second category. People can’t help but think about the content of the film, and it still hasn’t been improved after 5 years.

A fan once asked director Kong Ergou on a social platform how "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast" compares to "Southern Station"?

He expressed his love for the works of director Diao Yinan and said "What I photographed was a party in a Northeast disco, which is the stage of Wild Wolf disco."

Fans who are curious about this film can only find out the details from the trailer that was scheduled for May Day.

Xia Yu, Hu Jun, Wu Yue and others' overwhelming hormones were swayed in the tense gang fights.

The brotherhood and love of the protagonists are all wrapped in a romantic cloak, especially the scene where Xia Yu wears armor and wields two swords to challenge a gang alone.

What kind of underworld is this? They are simply knights in martial arts novels.

Except for the trailer, movie introduction and a few stills, we cannot get a glimpse of the whole film. Perhaps we can only go back to the novel of the film to find the answer.

3, the correct way to open the film and television drama adapted from the novel

Although the movie adaptation of "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast" has removed the word "gangster" from its name, the core of the story is to show the epic story of gangsters. This is probably difficult to change.

The protagonist Zhao Hongbing and his eight-man brother group are not "good people" from a certain perspective.

They all joined the underworld and broke the law, which is a fatal original sin.

Although their final fates are different, some repented, some went to jail, some escaped, and some reached the peak of their careers...

The original character "Mei San" added to the movie does not seem to be Used to pass review.

It’s more like Kong Ergou’s use of pen and ink to create characters is not satisfying, and it adds to the ruthlessness in his mind.

combines a brotherly underworld brother, a knight with explosive fighting power, and a handsome man with love.

On the other hand, the film and television works that have been successfully released in recent years, such as "The Silent Truth", "Undocumented Crime", " Bianshui Past Time ", etc., are all adapted from novels.

are not all involved in criminal elements, which may bring some enlightenment to Kong Ergou.

Take "Once Upon a Time on the Bianshui" as an example. The novel is filled with the author Shen Xingxing's personal experiences, but in the adapted series, it has been changed beyond recognition.

The two male protagonists played by Guo Qilin and Wu Zhenyu have been "whitewashed" one after another, and basically only a small part of the story that happened in the novel has been retained.

To be precise, the director bought this collection and re-told a story based on it.

If "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast: Twenty Years" is to be released, it may be necessary to "whitewash" Zhao Hongbing.

Postscript

After screwing up the movie project of "The Three-Body Problem" and directing "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast" which he personally directed, it has been delayed in being released. Kong Ergou has been having a hard time these years.

According to him, 90% of what is written in the book is true, so the adaptation into a movie can only be artistically processed.

If there is no "technical adjustment" in 5 years, it can only mean that the difficulty may be equivalent to making a new film.

Of course, maybe "Once Upon a Time in the Northeast" will be released soon. Compared with making it realistic, it is a good thing that it is poorly shot.(Written by Mu Weizhou)