Adapting a novel into a TV series is a challenge. Especially novels with well-written novels and many original novels, once made into TV series, will certainly attract many people's attention. In the original party, many people will resist making novels into TV dramas because there is still a gap between novels and life. The TV series can't produce the effect in the novel, which will leave a bad impression on the original party. They will be crazy about the cast, writers or actors.
When people talk about Xian Xia's plays, they are beautiful antique pictures and cool special effects. If Xian Xia's drama doesn't have special effects, it is definitely an unsuccessful drama, and it is a drama that has been madly spit out. Director Zhang Yimou occupies an important position in China, and one high-quality film after another appears in his hands. This time, director Zhang Yimou took a fancy to the novel Covering the Sun, and it is not easy to make it into a TV series.
Before filming this drama, Zhang Yimou's team did a lot of preparatory work. They need to gather huge manpower, material resources and huge capital investment, which is no small matter for a film team. Moreover, they have to find actors who meet the characters' setting, and even the last late team has to find top teams, otherwise those beautiful special effects in Xian Xia's plays will not be easy to present, and their efforts will be in vain.