The news needs to slow down! I shut my eyes for four hours and more news comes out. The new adaptation of Gu Long’s novel has dropped its first English-subbed trailer. It’s three-minute long with an instrumental background, but keep your volume at a low level because at some point, Yang Rong lets out a high-pitched scream after her fallen lover, Hawick Lau. Girl hasn’t been watching wuxia dramas, no one dies falling off a cliff. heee!
Stills:
Older characters. Li Xun Huan “Yan Kuan” VS Shang Guan Jin Hong “Zong Feng Yan”. heh!
Li Xun Huan’s grandson, Li Huai (Hawick Lau).
Top assassin (Yang Rong).
Eve Chen Meng Yao.
Such a beautiful place to brood!
Adorable cast.
Poster.
Three-Minute Trailer:
Produced by Heli Chen Guang International Media (Tiny Times), Fortune Media Corp (Women on the Breadful Tree), and Olympus Films (Ah Boys to Men 3: Frogmen). In charge of editing the drama script is Rao Jun and the three directors are Liang Sheng Quan (Legend of the Ancient Sword), Huang Jun Wen (Legend of the Ancient Sword), and Liu Guo Hui.
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17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
Something about the setting makes me not a 100% satisfied with it. Not sure what exactly, but mehh. The palace is gorgeous, but it still feels off for some reason. Is it the CGI? not sure…
Excited to see Yang Rong as the lead in something NOT produced by Yumama. She looks good good good! From the trailer, I don’t feel any Chemistry with Hawick Lau though :/
Also, I wonder why they put English sub.
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
I’m guessing they want to reach a bigger audience with the English subtitles. Game adaptations are hot with the gamers too. heh.
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
Niiice. Better than I expected. Not that it tells us much because the first trailer of HQG made it look much darker than it was and we all know how it turned out in the end.
Is anyone here familiar with the original story? When I watched the previous version with Julian and Ruby nobody looked so, hhmmm, rich. Weren’t Li Huai and his friends homeless? Wasn’t he even an illegitimate child? Also, our top assassin didn’t look so well-off either.
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
Haha I actually tried watching part of the Ruby Lin version…well because it had Ruby Lin, and Han Xue looked really pretty in it too. But only like the first few eps.
Li Huai grew up homeless, but he eventually was found by the Li family and I think he became like the rich kid on the block-ish. I didn’t watch it completely, but I’m not sure if he was completely accepted by the Li family though.
Ruby sort of wandered with her nomadic dad as a kid, then after he died, she was taken in by Han Xue’s character…I mean I don’t think she was rich, but she definitely didn’t have money issues either. Sort of like one of those peeps in wuxia dramas who are awesome swordsmen in beautiful single-outfit clothes who mysteriously have money for a spy-meal without having to work or steal.
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
LOL, yeah. I used to wonder how the people in jianghu support themselves, as they only seem to wander, fight, and fall in love (not necessarily in this order) but not working. Of course I now only take it for granted, LOL.
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
One thing to take away from Wuxia is….they don’t have to work much. LOL. Money and gold coins be falling out of the sky as they wander and wander jiang hu. XD
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
well, according to my limited knowledge, the heroes are usually rich and in powerful positions already (these people) and they don’t have to worry about clothes and food. Or they are not rich but their martial arts level is so high that they don’t have to eat or they survive just on honey and veggies (Xiao Long Nu).The last category theoretically should have problems finding nice clothes but somehow they never do in dramas. :))
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
I would have thought those Wuxia Characters live by eating meat and vegetables and drink wine. They may earn money by using their martial arts or they don’t need much money hahaha.
Zhan Zhao is an exceptional wuxia characters who earn money though.
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
Yes. Zhan Zhao works his butt off for the paycheck. Deservedly so. =D
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
Yeah, looks like they changed a lot from Julian’s version, but I don’t know compared to the original story. I think the biggest change is probably that Yang Rong’s father is still alive when she falls in love with Hawick? He died when she was a kid in Julian’s version, which is the reason why she had a hard time letting of getting revenge since it was everything she worked for and her only goal growing up. Honestly, I think this will be a big hit with the viewers. Hopefully it does not disappoint. Not a fan of too much CGI, but I can look past this as long as it is a good story and decent acting. Yang Rong never disappoints but I have never been entirely amazed by Hawick despite his good looks.
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
So then, the “older characters” get more than just a flashback? Also fine by me, the actors are handsome. 🙂
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
I don’t think I can stand a non-cold-stiff Hawick character tbh. Cold and stiff are like the only characters he plays passably convincingly. Lol. Li Huai is most definitely NOT cold and stiff.
Yang Rong really really looks amazing both in costume and in character!
Can I just say Yan Kuan looks younger and hotter than his grandson? Haha I kind of wish their roles were reversed. Yan Kuan and Yang Rong would look so good together! And Yan Kuan totally pulls off the bad boy smirk way more naturally. Yan Kuan as Li Huai…sigh. Such a dream 🙂
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
The funny thing is Hawick is actually older than Yan Kuan (36)!! Hawick has a babyfaced for a 41-year old man. LOL. So funny!
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
Just watched the trailer…the overall feel is interesting but…sigh. The idol trend these days. The palace is super lavish and nicely designed, but it’s so so obviously fake and it just looks like a green screen image. Like it’s so obviously. And seriously. I’ve grown to accept flashy lights and crazy inner-kungfu in fighting, but Li huai’s daggers?! Did you have to do that? Now they’re like thought-controlled autobot children or something. They just automatically change shape in midair?! The prowess of Little Dagger Li is that he can do amazing things with just small flying daggers. Key. They’re still effing daggers. Not the descendants of autobots.
That said, Yang Rong looks AMAZING! Gui Gui, in what little screentime and face shots she had, looked great. And man! Kenny Kwan (Gwan Zhi Bing) looks SO. GOOD! Why is Hawick the main character again?
On a side note, what did YR say when Li Huai fell down? I heard Husband Huai and I almost burst out laughing. Like I heard “Xiang Gong Huai” and since his name sounds like “bad”, I just couldn’t. Lol. It just sounded like the most awkward phrase to come out of YR’s mouth. Ha. How did she scream that with a straight face and tears?
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
The one thing that REALLY annoys me about the wuxia productions these days are the “idol” trends! What happened to the good old jianghu/wuxia stuff? All replaced with overly bright rainbow colors and ridiculous CGI that make the finished product look more like a game or animation than an actual movie/drama.
Thank God for Nirvana in Fire cuz at least their battle/fight scenes actually looked realistic with all the blood and guts and gritty dirt and without all that crazy colorful anime CGI bullshit…
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
Yeah I used to love Wuxia for its grungy faded look. It’s very realistic and outdoorsy and very adventurous. Like Wuxia productions are supposed to be epic sagas with wandering heroes who have advantures. And now, everything just looks too polished and nice! Like I highly doubt the sanitation and colors back then were so…vivd and spotlessly HD clean. Where’s the texture, the atmosphere?!
17 thoughts on “Stylish first trailer for The Legend of Flying Daggers”
Wait, all these clothes and stuffs are in the right period? The palace is like a divine one, like Journey of Flower. I thought this drama is not about fantasy things? When I said “fantasy”, I mean people have power, divine palaces, etc. It seems so off, but Yang Rong does look beautiful.
P/S, what is wrong with Chinese productions this day? One example is Fan Bing Bing’s Empress of China. I like this drama though. However, it’s not really accurate about history. They said they wanted to show how the most prosperous period during Chinese history is like. You know, all the clothes, and accessories they wore in the drama. It doesn’t seem accurate to me. I doubt back in time they have those high quality clothes, bright color, etc. Also, I don’t think they wear thick clothes like Fan Bing Bing did. The 60s to maybe 90s dramas/movies are more accurate about clothes and accessories in history to me.