Lin Yihua： Rene Liu will not play Zhang Ailing.

Rene Liu once played Zhang Ailing in She Comes from the Sea.

▲ Zhang Ailing

　　Following the great success of dramas such as Half Life and Madame Bovary in entering the mainland drama market, Lin Yihua, a famous Hong Kong director, revealed that Zhang Ailing’s little reunion would be put on the stage next. It is said that Lin Yihua is a fan of Zhang, and he adapted the Guan Jinpeng version of the film Red Rose and White Rose in 1994, and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

　　Hong Kong director Lin Yihua recently arrived in Shanghai with actors David Wang and Yinxuan Xie to perform the drama "Life and Survival of Gorgeous Office Workers". Lin Yihua, a prolific producer, told reporters that besides inviting Zhan Ruiwen and Rene Liu to create a play for the Shanghai World Expo, a stage version of little reunion is also being planned and is expected to be released in November.

　　The actor of "Jiu Li" is undecided.

　　Little reunion, Zhang Ailing’s posthumous work, was published this year, and Lin Yihua vacillated between A Dream of Red Mansions and little reunion when planning her performance plan for the second half of the year, so she sent emails to ask her friends for advice. According to the reply, he finally decided to choose "little reunion". "In my opinion, without all the topics shrouded in this novel, Zhang Ailing’s life actually seems to be floating in this world. The novel played a symphony of life, and finally it was the sad music like the Hu Qin, which was disturbing. This gave me a starting point for music. If I did, I might divide the whole play into several movements, such as sacrifice, dedication and return … "

　　When asked if Rene Liu, who once played Zhang Ailing in the TV series "She Comes from the Sea", would be invited to play the heroine, Lin Yihua thought for a moment and said with a smile, "I have invited her to do another play with me, as well as Zhan Ruiwen in the Hong Kong drama circle. We plan to bring this play to the Shanghai World Expo. As for the content of the title of the play, it is still confidential. Let’s call it’ Mystery Lady’ for the time being. " At present, Lin Yihua is discussing copyright issues with copyright owners, and the actors will still be his regular cast, such as "David" David Wang and "Sophie" Yinxuan Xie in "Gorgeous Office Workers", which are scheduled to premiere in Hong Kong and Taiwan in November, but when they will come to the mainland has not been determined.

　　It won’t be a "happy reunion"

　　Someone next to me said that many people think little reunion is not easy to read. Lin Yihua nodded and said, "It is a bit, but I read it for a third and found the password." Lin Yihua, who never follows the rules in filming, said that the play will definitely not follow the narrative order of the novel, but it will definitely extract the most important characters and story clues. "The most important thing is that Zhang Ailing and our present era can overlap."

　　According to Lin Yihua’s current conception, the stage version of little reunion will not be completely arranged according to the plot of the novel, nor will it rely on the direction of Zhang Ailing’s autobiography. "What matters is not to make little reunion a’ happy reunion’. Characters will jump in and out, for example, in some scenes, several different actors will play the role of Zhang Ailing’s father, even without excluding actresses. I hope that after the stage play is staged, the audience who have never read the novel will want to read the book, and the audience who have read the book will want to read it again. " (He Bian)

Editor: Li Xiuwei