I think the rumored woman you’re thinking of is Ming Ming it something like that. The girl that WWX helped during the turtle monster. I mean if you read the novel it did show WWX flirting with her before he died so...
As for the drama they’re focusing on friendship- due to China regulations or something- I haven’t heard of any romance or news of the drama in general. But there was a clip in a “trailer” where it does show the scene LWJ was forcing WWX to sleep on his bed putting him under bind spell
I heard that the plot is almost completely different from the novel so i am planning not to watch it.
As I say I don't like live action. It can destroy my beautiful MDZS's world XD
Ugh....if they do that they’re literally changing the whole plot. Might as well call it something else or like alternative universe idk.
But... they're calling it something else. It's called "The Untamed" not "Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation" (or similar)
I personally looking forward to it. Not as a correct adaption of mdzs but as a stand-alone fanfiction-y type of thing. And also I want to see what they're doing with the female Lan sect leader who invented the assassination technic since she seems to play a bsomwhat bigger part in it.
And I also want to see how they're doing the fantasy stuff things like monsters/corpses/talismans/swords etc.
What I've heard is that they had to change the script for most part and change the 1 of the lead -forgot who- with an actress instead. (By Liu Yifei who's also casting for Mulan live action movie in 2020)
And for that change they change the title to The Untamed.
So I think this would become a straight version of MDZS?
I dunno what's real or not.
I hope Lan Shizui and Jin Ling arent straight....
clearing up some stuff:
- they were supposed to pair wu xian with wen qing, a lot of drama went down bc there were rumours the actress paid the team and someone leaked the script that she has as much scenes as lan zhan. there was a witch-hunt for the actress during the beginning of filming. but i think it got settled on something that they were saying there won't be any romance inside. bromance at best (kinda like zhen hun). it was just a big bundle of mess, basically.
- they can't titled it mo dao zu shi bc of the word 魔道 which basically mean black magic. But chen qing ling sounds good as well which literally translate to (As Chen Qing Commands, rather than the Untamed, for anyone who forgot, chen qing is the name of wu xian's flute)
- changed some plot about reincarnation bc it goes against China regulations as well so we probably might not see mo xuan yu. in chinese belief, once you passed, your spirit goes to rest, but wu xian's spirit was instead called back. a lot of these dramas usually don't allowed these sort of things to happen, at best is reincarnation.
also, china's regulations is probably one of the strictest in the world with its heavy amount of censorship so its basically impossible for it to follow the work closely unless they don't plan on showing it in china. also, rumours and whatnot are all from weibo so just take it as a grain of salt
The Untamed
Behind the scene
https://twitter.com/jingyismom/status/1092052597135925249
Thank you for feeding us this info :3 ♡
Oh rite, I heard the rumoured woman is Wen Qing. Still glad no romance and only bromance ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ
But I’m pretty sure the drama’s called The Untamed instead of As Chen Qing Commands tho. I thought they can’t name it Mo Dao Zu Shi cuz of copyright lolol. But if it was ever called Mo Dao Zu Shi, I won’t acknowledge it. Mo Dao Zu Shi is too precious and it would be low for MDZS to be “The Untamed”.
Yea I also wonder about what the author thinks. If I was the author, I would never agree to a live action drama that literally changes the whole plot of my own masterpiece. Besides, if they were gonna change most of the plot, why not just make an original play then? Still wonder about that lol. And I think the author could actually do something tho? She’s the original creator. Why couldn’t she do anything? Unless ofc she’s also looking forward to it. There’s also the matter if the higher-ups pressures the author to accept the drama which sounds like some kind of shitty cliche drama lololol.
Anyone seen or know of the so-called live action based on Mo Dao Zu Shi? I don’t wanna call it MDZS cuz apparently they changed like most of the plot so I’m gonna call it by its actual name, The Untamed (maybe called Chen Qin Ling?). I don’t know why I’m also annoyed that this live action is approved. Hearing about my most favourite BL novel gets based on with a not-so-exciting live action drama makes my heart boiled so I just needed to vent. If there’s anything that I’m wrong of, do tell me tho. But probably nothing could change my bad impression of the live action drama.
There are some rumours saying that they’re gonna pair up Wei Ying with a woman which would make me so angry and annoyed if it’s true. I’d rather a bromance than a romance between Wei Ying or Lan Zhan with another woman. Well I wouldn’t mind if they wanna do hetero romance but please do it with another character, other than Wei Ying and Lan Zhan cuz ALL characters (excluding Wei Ying and Lan Zhan) are straight. Glad it’s only a rumour tho.