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C-ent Bracing for Big Male Lead Battle in December 2024 as Dylan Wang’s Guardians of the Dafeng and Yang Yang’s The Immortal Ascension Both Air

So the big female lead drama battle this month in November 2024 between Zhao Lu Si in The Story of Pearl Girl and Yu Shu Xin for Love Game in Eastern Fantasy is looking more and more like there will be a clear winner. But this is just a prelude for an even bigger battle coming next month in December with two A-list male leads in S++ budget level dramas arriving. There is Guardians of the Dafeng with Dylan Wang on Tencent and over on Youku there will be Yang Yang in The Immortal Ascension. Both are based on popular IP source materials and will be a true test of these actors ability to bring in viewers.

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  • How about iQIYI? What's iQIYI doing in this competition? I hope iQIYI will release FSM: Love in Pavilion to compete with Tencent and Youku.

  • I was looking forward to immortal ascension so will be checking that out for sure. It does look a tad darker and more serious than Guardians, which looks honestly abit comedic and light-hearted. Might check it out if I have the time. But could go either way, can never tell with audiences these days and big names don't mean the story or acting is good.

  • I'm definitely looking forward to Guardians of the Dafeng. As for The Immortal Ascension, I'm not feeling its trailers so far.

  • Wang Hedi has such atrocious lines that I just can't listen to him. His acting also isn't something to write home about. The team has been going crazy on both Weibo and Douban proclaiming how this is a huge hit, major victory etc when the drama hasn't even aired. That happens when they actually doubt the product on their hands.

    Yang Yang can't act but this is a character that doesn't require much plus it's an incredibly popular IP. He has a large popularity base in China and they will watch.

    It's the time for quite a few of these male centric dramas. Yu Zheng predicted that they will all flop. Let's see ah? I have popcorn.

    • Yu Zheng is a known hater. Dylan and Yang Yang are two of the biggest traffic stars. Even when there dramas are straight garbage (Only for Love & Fireworks of my heart for example) people will still tune in and watch.

      • @HL

        Quite recently he went on a major rant how all the male centric dramas, including these two, are going to flop. Sounded like he was drinking vinegar because he wishes he could but can't.

      • @Eeeeh, 🤣🤣 he does sound like he had drunk a jar of vinegar. His male actors are not able to pull such ratings..

      • He didn't just diss these two. He dissed male centric dramas as a whole, which includes Xiao Zhan's Zang Hai Zhuan, Luo Yunxi's Shui Long Yin, Cheng Yi's Fu Shan Hai etc. Altho what he said is prob true, most male centric dramas (男频) flopped over the years.

      • Probably they both rejected working with him at some point ? I don't know whether its true or not but its YZ anyway so lol. The guy is such a narrow minded person, the type either you're with me or against me. And he also thinks he's the next big thing since cheese that everyone must be queueing to be in his drama and don't take rejection well. And if its still not clear enough, yeah i don't like YZ much lol

      • So with that logic, does he predict his IT boy Wang Xingyue's next drama is gonna a flop too? LOL. I heard WXY's next drama is male centric.

      • @Somebody

        He said WXY's drama won't flop because it's male centric in a female genre or something like that but then later said that it has no emotional/romantic plotline (when asked how it compared to Tang Palace and in spite of the reuters of a kissing scene) so it's all his usual nonsense lol

  • If they flop it’s nothing to do with the concept of male hero drama per se (frankly, I could do with a good male-led Wuxia drama instead of the umpteenth female revenge/business plot), but more with the fact that they cast traffic stars who can barely act as ML instead of choosing a strong actor.
    I can see neither YangYang nor Wang Hedi successfully carry a drama.
    All they have is water and will be unlikely to draw in many passers-by.

  • I usually go for a more serious-tone costume drama than a comedic one but the trailer for Guardian of Dafeng grabbed my attention more. I found myself dozing off a couple times while watching the Immortal Ascension trailer.

  • I feel like the writing and directing will make or break the drama more than the male actors? Both guys have lots of fans. I'm curious to see which one will be the first to piss off fans of the original IP by betraying the original story and characters.

    One seems like an irreverent comedy and one is serious/straight. I like this mix so that if you're not into serious, you can pick the comedic one and vice versa. And if you're into both, you get both!

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