Showbiz: Starting with Filming Bright Sword

After transmigrating to Haiven Star, he discovers that his original body was adopted by a wealthy older woman as a child. To repay her, Yan Ci decides to spend 40 million of her money on a production of Drawing Sword, helping her become the head of a television station… “As a director, I never care about the budget!” And so Yan Ci starts finding new ways to burn through money. He doesn’t make the best films, only the most expensive. He recreates sets down to the smallest detail, blows up luxury cars, and mobilizes hundreds of thousands of extras for his shoots… He terrifies plenty of investors, yet many still wave their cash around, eager to have Yan Ci make a film for them. “Making movies? Anyone can do that. I’ll redefine wuxia and xianxia dramas for my fellow directors. You people don’t even know how to make a romantic idol drama.” Yan Ci says this during his acceptance speech at the National Drama Awards. “I honestly never wanted to be a director. It’s just that your films are so bad.” So says Yan Ci, the world-class director hailed by movie fans as “Dongguo’s famous 5A-rated mobile attraction,” “a national calling card,” “a cultural nuclear bomb,” “a money-burning machine,” and “the box office king.” He has already radically reworked Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers, The Wandering Earth, and other works…