Scriptwriter Services

Chinese screenwriting draws on a literary canon unmatched in scale — from the Jin Yong and Gu Long wuxia tradition that defined a century of martial-arts cinema, through the Mo Yan Nobel 2012 catalogue that Zhang Yimou adapted into Red Sorghum and Coming Home, the Yu Hua adaptations behind To Live and Brothers, the Su Tong source novels for Raise the Red Lantern, and the Liu Cixin Three-Body Problem Hugo that has reshaped Chinese science-fiction screenwriting through the Wandering Earth franchise and the Netflix and Tencent adaptations.

Here is how this works in practice. Our network is anchored to graduates of the Beijing Film Academy screenwriting track, the Central Academy of Drama, and the Shanghai Theatre Academy — the three programmes that produce most of the senior writers staffing the iQIYI, Youku, Mango TV, and Tencent Video streaming originals — and to the Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige collaborator pool led by Zou Jingzhi, Liu Heng, Lu Wei, Wang Hailin, and the Ye Yingyi-Yang Wei period-drama lineage.

Practically, the writing engagement runs through a defined sequence. Concept and logline, treatment and beat sheet, outline and step outline, first draft, director and producer notes, polish, and the NRTA-mandated pre-shoot script registration and pre-approval that governs every Chinese theatrical and streaming release. Mandarin-English bilingual writers handle the international co-production track enabled by China's bilateral treaties with France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy, with deliverables in Chinese and English side-by-side and the cultural-sensitivity flagging that international producers need to navigate the Sarft-to-NRTA content guidelines.

The picture on the ground is more specific. Writers are scaled to the format — single feature writer, episodic writers room of three-to-six for streaming series, commercial copywriting for the Spring Festival advertising cycle. And replacement writers are placed inside seventy-two hours when development stalls. Productions get IP-clearance support, MCSC-affiliated music-rights paperwork, and on-set polish coverage at Hengdian and Qingdao when production pickups need extra scenes.