Huang Lei is really muffled to do big things.
After the recording of "Longing for Life" finished the season, I thought that Huang Lei would leave the variety show circle for the time being and pick up his acting skills again.
After all, "Xiaomin's Family" and "County Party Committee Compound" have made his reputation fall again and again.
If it continues to be consumed like this, for Huang Lei, it is very likely that the audience will be lost.
As a result, he never expected that Huang Lei did not intend to give up the cake of variety shows, he pushed away all variety shows.
did not settle down to polish his acting skills, but put all his energy on the new variety show "Cat in the Box".
Just looking at the name, I really can't guess what "Cat in a Box" wants to film.
After all, it's not like "Extreme Challenge", "Let's Run", "The Voice of China", which are variety shows with a very clear type just by looking at the name.
Huang Lei played big this time, and almost used his lifelong connections and brain circuits in this variety show.
Novel program format
"The Cat in the Box" is Huang Lei's first time as a variety show producer, so the form and style of the show are almost all decided by Huang Lei.
"Cat in a Box" is a variety show "Truman's World", and he will tailor ten comedy healing journeys for his ten groups of friends in the circle.
The so-called tailor-made, as the name suggests, is to create scripts based on the characteristics of these star artists, and from this point of view alone, Huang Lei is going to expose the "short" of his friends.
I have to say that this kind of creativity of being ruthless to his own people has already made people have full expectations, but Huang Lei's ambition does not stop there.
He will create ten box spaces and create hundreds of characters, and the stories that happen in the boxes are closely related to the life experiences of mysterious tourists. After entering the box, visitors need to interact with the characters in the plot, push away the plot to unfold, and uncover the truth step by step in various bizarre, hilarious and reversal to get out of the box.
If you look at the creativity, you can know that the guest lineup required for this variety show is likely to be the sum of other variety shows in recent years.
For example, just interacting with the plot characters requires experienced and professional actors, and ten boxes, hundreds of plot characters, and hundreds of actors, it can be seen from this point how big Huang Lei plays.
And the pilot trailer released by this show has also told the audience the highlights of the show, that is, everything is unknown.
100 professional actors are online to play, there are no fixed lines, let alone variety show routines, and the direction of the plot is only in one thought.
But the acting duel is only one aspect, this variety show itself is also an open-world escape game, and the tasks set by the game are unprecedented, which is also interspersed with camp confrontation with hidden killing machines.
This variety show has neither hardcore reasoning nor brainless funny, but integrates the two classic elements of suspense and comedy.
One of the highlights is that there are laughs, hilarities, and tears.
Not only that, in this variety show, there is also a high-concept visual design, incorporating AR virtual technology, paying equal attention to the movie texture and game experience, hitting the preferences of young people.
Judging from these settings, there is indeed no such variety show in China at present, it is more like a fusion of all popular variety show elements, testing the acting skills of the guests, the adaptability of the guests, and their sense of variety show.
Overall, this is a show with an unprecedented sense of experience and a very innovative form.
An unprecedentedly strong lineup of guests
So, Huang Lei has put so much effort into having such a variety show, which guests will be invited?
Judging from the current Reuters, the first to bear the brunt is the extremely picky men's gang, including Huang Lei.
In addition to not seeing Sun Honglei, Huang Bo, Zhang Yixing and Wang Xun all appeared at the recording site.
Although after quitting the recording of "Extreme Challenge", Huang Bo has also participated in other variety shows, but most of them are flying guests and rarely reside. Zhang Yixing is resident with Huang Lei in "Longing for Life".
Wang Xun is the only veteran of "Extreme Challenge" who insists on the later stage, but as more and more newcomers join, Wang Xun, who has no traffic, lacks popularity, and has relatively low popularity, is naturally eliminated.
Huang Lei called the three of them to record a variety show together, not only to let everyone witness their brotherhood, but also to use extremely provocative men to help set off a wave of memories to kill.
At present, just these four confirmed guest candidates have made him create another group of "men's gangs".
However, judging from the guest lineup spread on the Internet, the original lineup of "Extreme Challenge" is just an appetizer, and Zheng Kai and Chen He, the original resident guests of another variety show "Let's Run", which can also be called a trump card, also appeared at the recording site of the show.
It can be seen that Huang Lei wants to bring together the guests of the first two head variety shows of domestic variety shows.
In addition, there are also guests such as He Jiong, Zhang Zifeng, Peng Yuchang, and Zhou Xun, who has worked with him several times, these are Huang Lei's relatives and friends, and they are also old friends of the audience.
If it is really like the setting of the show, digging out their B side, there will be more unknown insider gossip presented to everyone, and it is not a problem for the show to detonate the topic.
In addition, there are many powerful actors in this show, such as Tang Wei, Xu Zheng, Duan Yihong, Hu Ge, etc. Among them, Tang Wei, Duan Yihong, and Hu Ge all maintain an absolute sense of mystery in front of the audience, and rarely show their faces in variety shows.
Huang Lei invited them to the show, obviously to give full play to their acting advantages, but for the audience, the highlights are more than that.
And the popular top Wang Junkai, Bai Lu, Song Yaxuan, Liu Yaowen and other artists will bring higher popularity and heat to the show, whether it is to test the acting skills of these young actors or to dig out their inner world, it will also add a lot of color to the show.
Judging from the order of recording and broadcasting of artists on the Internet, the first to go into battle are Huang Bo, Sun Honglei, Zhang Yixing, He Jiong, Peng Yuchang, Wang Xun, Zhang Zifeng, and Wang Xingyue. Except for Wang Xingyue, the other artists are all guests who have cooperated with Huang Lei in resident variety shows.
Sun Honglei's artist team is cooperating with the adjustment of the schedule, He Jiong is communicating and adjusting because of the collision with "The Sound of Life", once this lineup is completed, the first episode will be Wang Bang.
It is rumored on the Internet that this show will start recording at the end of January, and it will be broadcast in mid-to-late March, with a total of ten episodes, and the artists to be invited in each episode are full of highlights, which really hangs the audience's appetite.
This time, Huang Lei is going to raise domestic variety shows to a new height, which is really exciting!