C-ent’s puppy love for teen actor Wu Lei will get a treat and a test at the same time when his first major leading role in wuxia C-drama Fights Break Sphere (斗破苍穹) comes out later this year. It’s yet another nth adaptation of a wuxia novel and this one sounds just like Louis Cha‘s bread and butter of a young martial arts master on his hero making journey, with plenty of ladies, rivals, sage masters, and one true soulmate along the way. Wu Lei is only 17 years old and is currently on the Yoo Seung Ho trajectory, but if he doesn’t show that he can hold down the fort in a major epic drama then it’s going to be a huge letdown for folks who have him in such high hopes. His leading lady in Fights Break Sphere is 20 year old movie actress Jelly Lin (Lin Yun) who got her big break as one of Stephen Chow’s leading ladies that he shoots into the stratosphere by casting in his hit movies, and in this case it was the 2016 box office smash The Mermaid. This drama looks visually solid from the character stills, and maybe it’s the layers but Wu Lei has morphed from scrawny teen to substantial young leading man. Continue reading →