As night falls, the lights come on.

An authentic Korean restaurant in Seoul.

On the way here, Bong Joon-ho had already told Xu Promise the basic situation, and Xu Xu also knew the ins and outs of the matter and knew the situation of Yeon Sang-ho.

So after a few simple chats when we met here, the promise was not in the clouds, and said very frankly: "Director Yan, tell me which movie you want to make?"

"I wanted to make a zombie movie. ”

Yan Shanghao knew that this was a promise to give himself a proposition, and whether he could hand in a satisfactory answer sheet was related to whether he could get the promised investment below.

"The main story of the movie is this, about a single father Seok Woo and his daughter so-an take a high-speed train to Busan, and the zombie virus brought by a young girl on the train begins to rage and spreads, and the train falls into a catastrophe in an instant......"

Yan Shanghao is telling, promising to be calm on the surface, but his heart has already made waves.

No way?

Isn't the movie that Yeon Sang-ho wants to shoot "Train to Busan"?

Before coming here, I promised that I didn't know that this movie was "Train to Busan", and if I knew, I would have decided to invest in it a long time ago.

Even now, he has made up his mind in his heart.

Invest in "Travel to Busan"!

You must know that from the moment this movie was released, it set a new record for the highest number of moviegoers on the first day of Korean film history with 880,000 people on the first day.

And later, it also set a single-day box office record of 1.29 million people in Korean film history. At the end of the year, it had a total of 11.57 million people, making it the highest-grossing film in South Korea.

When the film was released on Hong Kong Island, it grossed a total of HK$66.31 million, making it the 16th grossing film in the history of Hong Kong Island and the first grossing film in Asia in history.

When it was released on Treasure Island, the total box office revenue exceeded 340 million Taiwan dollars, making it the highest-grossing Korean film in the history of Treasure Island.

And regardless of the box office or word of mouth, this movie is a blast.

Few zombie movies have been made like this, and it is definitely a huge success.

"That's my way of thinking, I don't know what Mr. Xu thinks?"

After Yan Shanghao briefly narrated it, he looked at the promise with burning eyes, this was his last hope, if he said that the promise was not interested, he would really have to give up.

"You're a friend of director Bong Joon-ho. ”

"Director Gore even recommended you before I came over. ”

"But none of this matters, the important thing is that after listening to your story, I can feel the most burning desire of a director from your story. I know what I'm most afraid of is that a director has no desire, and a director without desire can't make a movie full of passion and tension, so you don't care, I decided to invest!"

The promise was sonorous and powerful.

"Really?" Yan Shanghao was a little surprised.

He thought that he had to continue to explain and explain, who thought that these promises were meaningless at all, and people didn't even have the idea of listening, so he made a decision categorically.

And so it came to pass.

"Of course it's true, I've always been decisive in what I do, if you don't believe it, you can ask director Bong Joon-ho, when he came to me with the script of "Parasite", I did it, and that's the same. Xu Promise smiled.

"Yes!"

Bong Jun-ho said: "Director Yeon, don't think about it, since Mr. Xu said so, then he will definitely invest in your movie, you can relax!"

"Great! I thank you. Yeon Sang-ho raised his glass.

"Cheers!"

After draining the glass of wine, he promised, "In the next two days, I will acquire a company that will become my base for activities in Korea." ”

"When the time comes, whether it's an investment or something, it will be done through this company. Director Yan, you also have a contract and other things on your side, and I will try to sign a contract with you before I leave, so that you can get the money to start filming sooner. ”

"Okay, thank you so much!!"

Yan Shanghao was already excited and didn't know what to say.

"How did you and Director Gore meet?"

After negotiating the matter, Xu Yu began to ask about this kind of idle matter, and Yan Shanghao didn't think much about it, and said very casually: "Director Gore and I can't be considered very familiar friends, but we have crossed paths at foreign film festivals." ”

I see.

With this explanation, Xu Promise knows how Gore defines the relationship with Yeon Sang-ho. If you guessed correctly, when he knew that Yeon Sang-ho was going to shoot a zombie movie, Gore might not want to step in.

Can zombie movies have a future?

If we say that it has a future, how many of our countries have already made in the United States, I don't know if the United States is the originator of the movies on this theme? Of course, what Gore thinks is his business, and the promise is definitely to talk about it.

After all, Gore is also a big director in Hollywood, and it is important to have a good relationship.

"I'm going to participate in the recording of "Runningman" tomorrow, let's do it today!" After a full meal and drink, he promised to take the initiative to leave.

"Good!"

Promise to leave.

This time, it was Bong Joon-ho and Yeon Sang-ho who sent each other.

After watching Xu Yu walk into the hotel, Bong Joon-ho said to Yeon Sang-ho: "Find a place to continue drinking, and I can tell you how to get along with Xu Yu, and how you set up a crew to shoot." ”

"Good!"

in the hotel.

After Promise came back, he went directly to Gore, and the two sat down in the room, and Promise told him the type of movie that Yeon Sang-ho was going to make, and as he spoke, he saw that Gore's face had become gloomy.

"Zombie movies? How can Yan do this? What he is best at is commercial movies, and there are so many themes in commercial movies that can be made, why choose the zombie genre?"

"This is a genre that Hollywood will not try easily, it belongs to a niche theme, I said that he couldn't find investment in South Korea, it turned out that it was because of this, and if it were me, I would not invest in him. ”

Gore looked disapproving.

And so it was.

Xu didn't think about explaining anything, just showed his attitude, and after the province, Gore said that he didn't say, "Director Gore, I think there may be a market for zombie movies, I decided to invest in this movie, or you ...... too."

"No!"

Gore flatly refused without even thinking about it.

"Yes, it's your choice if you want to invest, and I would never invest in a movie that I know will fail. And I also advise you to be cautious in your investment, and don't pin your hopes on this movie, because the provincial investment will be planted after it is entered. ”

"I'll invest. Xu Xu said with great certainty.

"Then it's up to you, I won't invest. ”

Gore shook his head and said.

That's it.

Promise does not want to persuade.

Gore didn't listen to persuasion.