Romance of the Three Kingdoms (TV series)
More than 400,000 civilian participants were recruited, including divisions of the PLA. It is CCTV s most expensive TV series production up to date. Most of the dialogues spoken by the characters were adapted directly from the novel.It spanned a total of 84 episodes, with each episode being approximately 44 minutes long. A production team of about 1000 people took four years to complete the massive project. Another example is Zhang Liao, who is played by Xu Shaohua in episode 12, Zhang Yakun in episode 39 and Wang Weiguo in episode 54. The music for the series was composed by Gu Jianfen, Li Yiding and Wang Xian. .
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (simplified Chinese: 三国演义; pinyin: Sān Guó Yǎn Yì) is a 1994 historical drama TV series produced by CCTV. Extensive battle scenes were live acted, such as the Battle of Guandu, Battle of Red Cliffs and Battle of Xiaoting. The series are divided into five parts and each part with a different executive producer and director(s). Note: There were numerous instances of multiple actors playing the same character and the same actor taking on different roles.
For example, Wu Xiaodong played Sun Jian in episode 5 and maintains his role as Sun Quan for the rest of the episodes. It is based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the Four Great Classical Novels.
