Eternal Love of Dream / Three Lives Three Worlds, The Pillow Book follows the two thousand year-long romance between a nine-tailed fox deity (Dilraba) and the much revered Lord Donghua (Gao Weiguang).
The 56 episode drama releases 2 eps every Thurs-Sat with six additional episodes for VIP members and additional episodes for ordering beginning Feb 20th. English subs will be available on Tencent / WeTV app.
Despite a change in the male lead from Arthur Chen to Wang Hedi, the trailer for the new season of Ever Night looks imo even better than the previous one, with better CGI and a more crispy edit. The drama brings back director Yang Yang as well as most of the first season’s cast – Song Yiren, Yuan Bingyan, Dylan Kuo, Sun Zujun, etc. Yang Chaoyue joins the cast as the god Haotian, while Lian Lian replaces Tong Yao as the princess. There’s still no broadcasting date announced.
Upcoming fantasy wuxia drama Ever Night (Part 1) stars Chen Feiyu, Song Yiren, Yuan Bingyan and Meng Ziyi in the leading roles, and will release 2 episodes every Wed-Fri on Tencent and Youtube beginning tonight. VIP members get a 6 episode head start.
Theme song by Jane Zhang ; Tan Weiwei
Xianxia epic Ever Night: Dawn of the Empire 将夜：帝国的清晨. released another trailer to announce its streaming on October 31st. The new trailer seems to focus on the male lead, played Chen Feiyu, and his love interests – Song Yiren, Meng Ziyi, Yuan Bingyan, and Tong Yao. We’ve seen a string of xianxia flops, so don’t get your hopes too much despite how pretty it is.
How much chemistry will real-life couple Fu Xinbo and Ying’er have?
Ancient Sword/Swords of Legends 2 古剑奇谭2 begins streaming today on Youku here. Like most Youku dramas, it’s not blocked in the US. It’s eight episodes per week for members and one episode per day for free.
Starring Fu Xinbo, Ying’er, Aarif Rahman, and Jiang Wen the series is loosely based on the video game of the same name and not a sequel to the first one. They’re joined by Ken Chang, Dylan Kuo, Zeng Li, Hu Bing, and Shao Bing.
Theme song by Jane Zhang; character posters ; stills ; Trailer below:
Even though the female lead looks twelve and the male lead looks twenty, he was seventeen and she twenty-two when they filmed this last year.
The biggest xianxia/ fantasy wuxia drama starring newcomers, Ever Night将夜, has released a full trailer. Based on the book of the same name by Maoni (Fighter of the Destiny), the series will be released in three parts, with the first one being Ever Night: Dawn of the Empire 将夜：帝国的清晨. Relatively new actors Chen Feiyu, Song Yiren, Sun Zujun, Meng Ziyi, Yuan Bingyan head the cast of seasoned actors like Hu Jun, Leo Lai, Ni Dahong, Adam Cheng, Dylan Kuo, and Tong Yao.
Ning Que is a soldier who has came to the capital to clear his family. Yet when he finds out that his servant Sangsang is the embodiment of Ever Night, the foretold forever nighttime of humanity, the two go on the run.
The series was shot on-location in Xinjiang, an increasingly popular filming location where you can get the desert, vast grasslands, forests, and snowy mountains all in the same location around the same time. If you ignore the whole castle at the beginning, the sets, clothing, and definitely directing/editing appear to be some of the most promising of recent xianxia dramas . The on-location scenery shots are beautiful, the cast seems to have great chemistry based on the trailer, and the romantic BGM is gorgeous.
Last few posters we missed.
Win the World 赢天下 posters today. Starring Fan Bingbing, Gao Yunxiang, Yan Yikuan, Ma Su, Zhang Guoli, Guo Pinchao (Dylan Kuo), Xu Fan, Pan Yingzi, Pan Hong, Jiang Hongbo, Xie Yilin, Ren Shan, Lin Peng, Xiao Haoran, Peng Xiaoran, Guo Jing, Zheng Yawen, Zhu Jiaqi, Liu Xiaohu, Tian Li, and Yuan Xiaoxu, hopefully they will start releasing stills soon.
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More character posters have been released for Fan Bingbing’s (I Am Not Madame Bovary) upcoming Mary Sue historical romance drama Win the World, which follows the life of Qin Dynasty entrepreneur Ba Qing and her relationship with Gao Yunxiang’s (Legend of Mi Yue) Ying Zheng and Yan Yikuan’s (Ice Fantasy) Crown Prince Ji Dan.
… with costumes like these at least we probably won’t run the risk of being stuck watching big heads on screen…?
Win the World 赢天下 has released it’s character posters. With an extensive cast including Fan Bingbing, Gao Yunxiang, Yan Yikuan, Ma Su, Zhang Guoli, Guo Pinchao (Dylan Kuo), Xu Fan, Pan Yingzi, Pan Hong, Jiang Hongbo, Xie Yilin, Ren Shan, Lin Peng, Xiao Haoran, Peng Xiaoran, Guo Jing, Zheng Yawen, Zhu Jiaqi, Liu Xiaohu, Tian Li, and Yuan Xiaoxu, let’s see if Fan Bingbing can top her own production The Empress of China in terms of extravagant costuming and production.
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Cover art of the book, which is in the process of being made into a manga
In recent news, Huang Xiaoming just replaced Dylan Kuo as Ou Chen in the Summer of Bubbles after investors complained to Peter Ho, the producer and co-star (as Luoxi) of the drama. Huang Xiaoming apparently liked the script so much that he agreed to be paid a fraction of his worth just to be in the drama. Other than the fact this’ll be the first Taiwanese drama starring a mainland actor, it’s also significant as Summer of Bubbles is one of the several mainland books that’s been recently picked up as dramas. A word on the direction of Chinese literature and dramas.