The King of Comedy, a TV adaptation of Stephen Chow's masterpiece, starts filming and is exclusively broadcast on iQiyi

Today, December 2, the TV series "The King of Comedy", adapted from Stephen Chow's 1999 movie "The King of Comedy", started filming. The series will be exclusively broadcast on iQiyi.

It is understood that the drama version of "The King of Comedy" is directed by Jiang Long, Li Bingqiang, Wang Jianhua, Zhang Kang, and Song Tianshuo, written by Peng Xu ("Legend of Que Dao Men"), and starred by Jiang Long, Yang Chaoyue, Zhang Chi, Jiang Shimeng, Song Muzi, Shi Ce, Wang Hao and others.

According to reports, the play will use a creative approach to interpret the spirit of contemporary young people who are actively engaged in the construction of their hometowns and unremittingly pursue their dreams. It will be a joyful team building, and will start a collision between new-generation comedy and classics, "reheating old stories" and stage a "rural business war" with laughter and tears.

Douban shows that Stephen Chow's movie "The King of Comedy" scored 8.8 points, with over 1 million Douban netizens rating it, of which 52.1% gave 5-star reviews, 38.1% gave 4-star reviews, 9.1% gave 3-star reviews, and only 0.1% gave 1-star negative reviews.