Why did Jia Zhangke get involved in commercial films and play humor with Adam Perlin?

Recently, Guangdong Star Media told the media that it will invite Jia Zhangke to produce, and domestic and foreign movie stars such as Luo Jialiang, Adam Palin, and Han Sanming will co-star in the movie "Script Flying". The film has passed project approval and is in preparation in Shenzhen. This is Jia Zhangke's first commercial film after many art films.

"Xi Fei" is a black humor writer. It tells the story of a grassroots screenwriter in the film and television industry in the form of "play within a play", satirizing the current situation of plagiarism in many industries in China and the "big plagiarism of articles in the world" . In the film, Sun Laifu, a hero from Shanxi, comes to Shenzhen in search of a good opportunity that he has created for many years. However, he accidentally lost the script and fell into the hands of the profitable film and television giant Octopus. Since then, he launched a "script war" in various ways

It is worth mentioning that the reason why Jia Zhangke changed his style this time was that he was willing to make a purely commercial film like "Script Flying" The producer of the film, and the protagonist Han Sanming of "Script Flying" also enthusiastically invited him. Han Sanming won the best actor at the 14th Chilean Film Festival for his role in Jia Zhangke's "The Good Man" and was once known as "China's failure". This time, he will play the role of a simple, honest and talented grassroots screenwriter, but a grassroots villain who dares to fight against power.

Adam Palin is a famous British movie star. He has collaborated on many films with famous directors such as John Woo, Lu Chuan, Zhang Ziyi, and Nicolas Cage. He is the international producer of "The Vanishing of Adam Palin" people. He said that he liked Jia Zhangke's movies very much when he was in Europe, and it was Jia Zhangke's transformation that attracted him to join them. In addition, Little Sun Li, Hong Kong TVB's brothers, post-80s actresses Gao Xiaofei and Yang Zhiyao will also play important roles in this film. Luo Jialiang. "The Director" written by Li Chunyang and directed by famous Taiwanese photographer Zhan Ruiwen, the emerging director Huang Jialuo will start shooting in Shenzhen this summer and will be released nationwide by the end of 2014. Can this "Southern comedy" with a novel and interesting lineup sell well? Let's see.