Romance of the Three Kingdom (China)
Director: Xin Li
Producer: Cindy Mi Lin
Production: Infotainment China
Screenplay: Hong Li
Genre: Feature Shooting Material: 35mm Length:100 min
Stage of Script: Finished
Language: Chinese Mandarin
Production Budget: 2,000,000 USD for below the line, 750,000 USD for P&A, total equal 1,897,000 RMB
Finance in place: 290,000 USD(2,000,000 RMB)
Business Partner Involved: Intl sales agent attached
Seeking: Co-investor, Territory Rights Buyer
Synopsis:
Da Fei (a tiger) and Dong Zi (a young man) of a circus have been mind swapped by the mysterious spell of ''Wooden Ox and Floating Horse'', with Da Fei's mind in Dong Zi's body and vice versa. With the same spell, Xiao Qing, Dong Zi's younger sister and also Da Fei's trainer, tries to swap the two back, but ends up with getting Da Fei and herself back to the ancient period of Three Kingdoms (220 A.D – 280 A.D). In order to relieve the spell, Xiao Qing decides to seek help from Zhuge Liang, inventor of the spell as well as IT of Liu Bei, the King-To-Be who is still a trader of straw mattresses in a village market. Xiao Qing has to disguise Da Fei as Zhang Fei, and make him go with Liu Bei and Guan Yu to realize the famous ''Blood Oath in Peach Garden''. Going along with his two blood oath brothers for years, Da Fei becomes established in battlefields, but behaves like half-beast half-human. Xiao Qing briefs to Zhuge Liang about the future landscape of Three Kingdoms and helps him with future state governance for Liu Bei. The two fall in love with each other. He even gets her an ''Everlasting Peony'' and the Moon with magic. Xiao Qing in love even hopes that no such Wooden Ox and Floating Horse can be invented by her lover. Dong Zi the tiger, trapped in a jungle, is looking for his sister Xiao Qing to his rescue. Zhuge Liang invents the Wooden Ox and Floating Horse for Xiao Qing with the Spell Reliever. Xiao Qing decides to fight along with Zhuge Liang when she finds Liu Bei has been defeated by Cao Cao. She brings back Da Fei to help defeat Cao Cao.
Getting back to normal life, Da Fei, now full of human desires in mind, does not want to be swapped back to tiger anymore. Xiao Qing can do nothing but let the Wooden Ox and Floating Horse disappear into distance, with the Everlasting Peony in her hands.
Director's Statement:
A back to future fantacy story inspired by Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the most well known classic Chinese novelsin history.
Director's Biography:
Xin Li
Born to a film family, Xin Li graduated from Beijing Film Academy and has 18 years' industry experience.
Awards winner in Berlinale and St. Sebastian
One of the 6th generation film directors, with unique combination of commercial and art elements in creation
A pioneer in fantasy genre of Chinese film
Credits include:
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Dazzling
Master Of Everything
Production Company and Producer:
Infotainment China
Infotainment China has been long involved in distributing Chinese films in world market.
Producer:
Cindy Mi Lin, a school mate of director Li Xin at BFA, has 17 years' industrial experience mainly in financing analysis and production supervision, and is excellent in coordination between director and script writer for better combination of art house and commercial elements.
Contact:
Infotainment China
Add: No. 34 Fuwai Dajie 19-2-702,Beijing, China
Postcode: 100832
Email: infotainmentchina@gmail.com
Web: www.infotainmentchina.com
