"Di Renjie" series of movies: lost IP treasures In recent years, there are only a handful of popular IPs in the domestic film market, and a few works such as the "Detective Chinatown" series and the "The Wandering Earth" series have emerged, but other movie IPs are almost difficult to continue.
It is worth noting that "Di Renjie's Heavenly Empire" once set off a movie-watching boom, and this costume suspense masterpiece directed by Tsui Hark and starring Andy Lau and Li Bingbing won 2A good box office of 8.6 billion.
Its hit also indicates that the "Di Renjie" series will become a leader in future costume suspense films. However, although the subsequent sequel "Di Renjie's Divine Dragon King" achieved a box office of 600 million, five years later, "Di Renjie's Four Heavenly Kings" both failed in terms of word-of-mouth and box office
failed to continue the glory. This result has made countless fans feel regretful, after all, this kind of costume suspense IP is not common in the film and television market. Recently,
Wang Zhonglei, the big boss behind the Di Renjie series, revealed in an interview the real reason why the series failed to continue. Wang Zhonglei pointed out that although the film is original, it uses some details of "Di Gong's Case".
The main reason why the series failed to continue was the plagiarism of the Internet University. He mentioned that after he finished filming, "I was able to give birth to a hundred Di Renjie movies, all of which were shot in Hengdian, and at a very low cost, continued your style and concept, and dismantled this intellectual property right."
There's no way to make any more movie series. However, this statement sparked heated discussions among netizens. They questioned how these big online movies could really affect theatrical masterpieces, after all, in the minds of the audience, online universities and theatrical movies cannot be compared.
And even if there are some intellectual property issues, this is not enough to be the main reason why the "Di Renjie" series has not been continued. Therefore, Wang Zhonglei's statement that he shifted the responsibility to the University failed to win the approval of netizens. In fact,
The more critical reason why the "Di Renjie" series has not been continued is the movie itself. Despite their strong casts, all three of them have a poor reputation, poor suspense, and kung fu is almost entirely spent on special effects and action scenes.
The audience has gradually developed aesthetic fatigue about this. To sum up, the reason why the "Di Renjie" series of movies failed to continue filming was not entirely due to the plagiarism of the Internet University. The quality of the movie itself is not up to par is the more critical reason. Hopefully, one day in the future, this series will be able to reboot and regain the lost IP treasure.