Chinese Showbiz: This Extra Just Wants to Be a Director

“Some no-name extra thinks he can become a director and make movies? Is he crazy?”

“If he actually makes one, I’ll eat shit upside down!”

“Uh-oh, that movie made by the extra is a box-office smash!”

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Down-on-his-luck director Zhou Yuan is reborn in 2009 as a struggling extra in Beijing.

Given a second life, Zhou Yuan decisively gives up his unrealistic dream of becoming the next Wang Baoqiang and returns to his old line of work: directing.

From then on, the entertainment industry is turned upside down by a director who used to be an extra.