Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings (2018) on Netflix
TV-MA20182h 12mActionAdventureDrama
Emperor Gaozong gives Dee Renjie the Dragon Taming Mace and command of the Court of Judicature and Revision. Empress Wu Zetian sends Yuchi Zhenjin and sorcerers to take it.
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Dee Renjie leads the Court of Judicature and Revision, and the Dragon Taming Mace that Emperor Gaozong gave him has made him a threat to Empress Wu Zetian's drive for absolute authority. She assigns Yuchi Zhenjin, who heads the royal guard, to take a band of mercenary sorcerers and steal the mace. Yuchi agrees reluctantly, on the condition that Dee is neither harmed nor punished, but Wu has given the sorcerers a secret instruction to kill him. Aware that the empress will try to remove him, Dee hides the mace and then goes into hiding himself, aiming to work against her plans and learn who is conspiring against him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings (2018)
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- William Feng, who plays Yuchi Zhenjin, said he accepted the third Detective Dee film as soon as the second wrapped, but had to wait so long that he feared he would be replaced in the part.
- Tsui Hark was still revising the screenplay of the third Detective Dee film while it was being made and repeatedly asked playwright Chang Chia-lu to rewrite it, having started work on it when the second film's script was finished.
- Executive producer Chen Kuo-fu said director Tsui Hark kept having new ideas during production, which raised the film's cost, and that Huayi Brothers founder and CEO Wang Zhonglei approved the bigger budget out of trust in Tsui.
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