"Because I know how to make money at home, and I know how to respect the audience abroad!" Wang Tian sneered: "It is common for a series of movies to change directors, which can bring a different feeling to the audience, such as Twilight." ”

Harry Potter is eager to change each one, which also brings a lot of freshness and different visual experiences to fans. But if the sequel is not a director, but an actor, can you still accept it?"

Ding Cheng nodded, choosing actors has always been an important part of making movies, and choosing an actor who is not very expensive can reduce investment, but the box office appeal brought by it is not strong.

If you choose a good actor, you need to invest more salary in advance, but the box office appeal brought is immeasurable, because many audiences are going for the star.

Michael Bay chose Shia LaBeouf, who is not well-known but has extraordinary acting skills, when filming Transformers 1, which not only saved costs, but also made him popular in the end.

But if a very wonderful film moves the audience, and people like the protagonist in the film very much, who can accept the sequel if the actors are changed?

Seeing the original cast of the previous episode can bring a sense of intimacy, which is a preconceived stereotype. If you really want to change people, you always feel that the old role played by the new actor can't play that role at all, right?

"Recently, I heard that many movies say that the sequel will change actors?" Wang Tiandao: "Spider-Man 4 changes the heroine, and Tomb Raider 4 actually wants to replace Julie with Megan Fox?"

"The investor's heart is really big!"

"It's still a matter of layout at the beginning, or the size of the ambition!"

Ding Cheng analyzed: "Like Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor, they all belong to Marvel's artists, and they all have ten-year contracts, so it is natural that they must play the sequel." ”

"Only the third part of the Fast and Furious series is a big change, and as a result, the box office reputation has collapsed, and it was not until the original cast returned that fans were satisfied again. This kind of big IP can not only guarantee the box office, but also give the actors a greater chance of becoming famous, so why not?"

What is IP?

In the vernacular, it is intellectual property.

If you say sequels, all the movies that revolve around "Journey to the West" belong to this IP, regardless of sequels, side stories, main stories, etc.

The first part of the American team has a bad reputation, because it is too politically correct, the story is too thin and the characters are too face-painted.

Marvel looked at it, this is not good, the American team is the core of the Avengers, the reputation is so poor, this series is a quick pill.

Quickly replaced director Joe with the Russo brothers, and the reputation of the second part came up all of a sudden, why?

Because people have ingenious ways to elevate the IP of the American team from the original confrontation between good and evil to a political thriller, it is awesome!

After that, the third part was innovated again, splitting the Avengers camp, and the directors were still the Russo brothers, winning a double harvest at the global word-of-mouth box office.

Therefore, the six giants have never insisted on the practice of a director to shoot to the end, but in terms of the popularity of the work, the sequel does surpass the previous work.

In my opinion, many Hollywood scripts are themselves a continuous story, and the actors selected at the beginning of filming are prepared for the series, such as Harry Potter, Charlotte, The Lord of the Rings, ......

There are no major changes and will not change the actors casually, plus the Hollywood circle attaches great importance to acting skills, especially the special interpretation of a single role is very demanding, and the replacement will only change the role, and generally no newcomers will play old roles, such as Spy in Spy, Mad Max......

After years of development and accumulation, the observance of the spirit of the contract has become instinctive, whether it is a big-name company or a big-name star, they attach great importance to the contract reputation in the circle, and they will not take the risk of violating the contract to skip the ticket casually, and the bad reputation will outweigh the losses.

In fact, the relationship between Journey to the West and Journey to the West is quite delicate, from the story to the story, it should be in the same vein, but the director changed from Stephen Chow, who won the plot, to Xu Laowei, who relied on special effects.

The change of actors is also very mysterious, Sun Wukong's predecessor should be not easy to invite, Tang Seng's change on the one hand is the death of the predecessor on the other hand, there is probably an exchange of interests, whether the pig and the fish are exchanged or not is not a big problem, anyway, one with a mask and the other almost became a fish from beginning to end.

The heroine's predecessor can only live in memories after being beaten, the villain in the predecessor is the positive side in the posterior, and the boss in the back is a new appearance......

You can't even completely think that Demon Suppression is a sequel to Fu Demon, you can only say that you can use Fu Demon's bones to build a foundation and perform a new story, this kind of thing can only be done by Lao Xu.

To put it bluntly, the whole process of creation, casting, investment, and filming in China has not yet fully formed a system, and the arbitrariness is very large, the overall development of the film industry is still relatively immature, and the integration is not enough.

Especially in the past two years, as long as the original team changes, it is definitely rubbish. For example, what is "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Blue Sword", just to cheat money with the original feelings.

The audience doesn't believe in publicity, but only believes in their own memories, so it is convenient for unscrupulous films to take out their memories and sell their feelings.

"Hey, the IP of the ghost blowing the lamp was so popular at the beginning, if it was all handed over to a big company, all the copyrights were bought, and then made into a movie, the leading actors should not be changed back and forth, and then the success of the Marvel Universe could not be applied, it was really possible to create a super IP!"

"It's a pity that it's ...... now"

Ding Cheng is also very helpless, this kind of thing can't be done overnight, and the development of Hollywood's century-old film industry to this day has also stepped on countless pits to get to the present.

Anyway, his first two works have achieved good results, whether it is Wen Ziren's Aquaman or the innovative Venom, he has finally gained a firm foothold in Hollywood and fought his way out of the mainstream heroes.

The next one is the speed series, and it's quite risky to say that the first two are quite successful, and Reeves is also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, hoping to have a good result.

"Doctor Strange?"

Ding Cheng took the script that Marvel had just sent and asked curiously: "It's also a superhero?"