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Chen will serve as executive producer, responsible for the script and involved in every aspect of the series, from casting to editing to cinematography.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Eight<\/em> is set in both Paris and China amid the turmoil of the early Republican era. It tells the story of a young Chinese man who has grown up at the intersection of Chinese and Western culture and gets drawn into the criminal underworld while fighting to save China&#8217;s independence against a variety of hostile forces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rise of premium internet dramas has opened up a huge space for creative innovation,&#8221; said Chen. &#8220;With this freedom, directors can now approach storytelling from many different dimensions and create deeper, more richly drawn characters.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iQIYI is working with Chinese film director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine, The Emperor and the Assassin) on the online drama The Eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":9594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1534],"class_list":["post-9593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-iqiyi","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>iQIYI &amp; 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