"Wen Ziren?"

Ding Cheng looked at the script, a big fish came just after the New Year?

"This time it's not a horror movie, it's a comic adaptation. Su Yao smiled: "You shouldn't have seen Aquaman, right?"

Ding Cheng shook his head, to be honest, he didn't know much about American comics, and he watched Spider-Man Superman from movies, but he was still looking forward to Wen Ziren.

There are only two directors who can be recognized by Chinese Americans in Hollywood, one is Ang Lee, who makes literary films, and then Wen Ziren, who makes horror films.

"In fact, in my opinion, in terms of film commercial achievements, Wen Ziren has long surpassed Ang Lee in Hollywood and become a legendary existence. ”

Yao Tsai explained: "Because of the commercial film market where the box office is supreme, he has never missed!"

Ding Cheng nodded, whether it is a horror movie or an action movie, this Malaysian Chinese can handle it easily and respond to all changes without change.

In 004, he became famous with "Chainsaw", and since then, he has gone smoothly and steadily in the past 15 years.

For him, most of the ups and downs in life seem to be concentrated before becoming famous?

After receiving the information collected by Yao Zai, Ding Cheng looked at it and said with a smile: "The university actually studied the history of Chinese ethnic classification?"

After graduation, Warner, a good friend who studied screenwriting, entered Melbourne TV to work as a host, but Wen Ziren ran into walls everywhere because his major was too remote and could not find a job.

The two shared a basement and spent the most difficult time of their lives together, and under the pressure, Werner couldn't help but wonder if he had a brain tumor.

Inspired by this, he created the most classic character of horror movies, a psychopathic murderer with terminal cancer - Jigsaw.

Tell Wen Ziren his thoughts, and he fills the story with the plot of his nightmare. After a year of polishing the script, the two created their first story in the damp bathroom in the basement.

He also conceived a sketch of the bathroom game designed for Saw 1, and after creating it, he spent another year looking for investment in Australia.

As a result, the script went unnoticed.

When cornered, Werner's status as a child star had an unexpected effect.

His agent told them that he was going to Hollywood in the near future and was willing to try their luck there.

In order to better present the script, the two used $4,000 to make an 8-minute DVD short film in two days.

It was this short film that ended up bringing them good luck.

Lionsgate executives were both surprised and frightened when they saw the short film.

Surprisingly, the brain-opening concept of this film is very groundbreaking for existing horror films, and the horror is the shaping of the thriller atmosphere and the in-depth discussion of human nature and life in the film, giving people a chill that goes deep into the bone marrow.

18 days of shooting, $1.2 million investment, good friend Werner as the starring role.

Wen Ziren's debut novel was born in this way under humble conditions.

The film ended up making a $103 million box office myth worldwide.

Since then, Salted Fish has turned over, and as the number one horror IP of Lionsgate, it has successively invited Wen Ziren to serve as a producer and shoot seven series of works.

This series has been officially certified by Guinness for 10 years as the most successful horror film series in film history!

With "Chainsaw" as a high starting point, Wen Ziren started the road of box office harvesting in Hollywood.

"Latent" cost $1.5 million and grossed $97 million worldwide;

"The Conjuring" cost $20 million and grossed $320 million worldwide;

"The Conjuring 2" cost $40 million and grossed $320 million worldwide......

It can be called a small and big seed player!

Ding Cheng put down the information and began to study the script, this time it was not a low-budget horror film, but a ......

DC Universe Manga Heroes?

What the hell is Aquaman?

After reading the script, let Yao Zai contact each other and meet and chat two days later.

Flying straight to Hollywood, the first time he came to the world's most powerful film industry center, Rao is a well-informed self, and he can't help but be excited.

"You're more suitable than I thought!"

Seeing Wen Ziren, the other party's first sentence was to say enthusiastically in fluent Chinese: "Finally met the legendary actor who swept away thousands of armies!"

Ding Cheng laughed, although the other party was only Malaysian-Chinese, his yellow skin and black eyes still felt very cordial, and responded: "I am also honored to meet the legendary horror master, please take care of me." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, sat down and began to talk about the script, Wen Ziren was very excited, the first transformation into a hero film is actually very risky, and the reason why Ding Cheng was invited to cooperate is also because of the box office appeal of the other party in Southeast Asia and France.

"Western Christian Culture, Asian Murder House, Hong Kong Island Ghost Film, Adaptation of Real Events, Childhood Shadow ......"

"These are all important elements of my early horror films!"

"In my opinion, horror films need three elements: the first is the fear of the unknown, the second is the fear of life, and the last is the fear of losing the people we love. ”

Ding Cheng nodded secretly, comparing the three fears that make Wen Ziren's horror films explore a new path that is completely different from traditional Hollywood horror films.

His horror films are often not thrillers for thrillers' sake, but gore for gore's sake.

And his core is always to interpret human nature with the atmosphere and gore of horror movies.

It not only has a subversive visual impact, but also a profound philosophy of life.

"So I hope that when the audience is lost in life or facing failure, they can go and watch these movies, and feel the beauty of life more when they have palpitations. ”

Ding Cheng looked at the Chinese director in front of him, although he was very thin, his confident temperament was admirable.

And in addition to being a genius in filmmaking, he is also a genius in marketing. In particular, he was recruited by Warner, and now he is working hard to create a unique conjuring universe.

Annabelle, Ghost Nun, Hunchback, Twisted Man......

Through the linkage between each other, the past and present lives of each character are fully restored.

Once successful, the achievements are limitless, and the commercial value is definitely not comparable to the existence of Ang Lee, who only knows how to make literary films.

"I've always wanted to make mainstream commercial films!" Wen Ziren looked at Ding Cheng and said seriously: "I have worked hard for so many years, just to wait for such an opportunity." ”

After speaking, he took out a thick stack of renderings and displayed: "The Aquaman I designed is the underwater world where a superhero movie first appears in a big scene. ”

"Prepare to shoot with a large number of green screens and blue screens, and find the most professional team to carefully carve out some scenes full of imagination and artistic sense......"

"Look at these scenes, magnificent underwater buildings, churning ocean ships, mysterious forest waterfalls, ancient Roman-style ruins, ......"

"In addition, the props and makeup are also the top technology, Arthur of the Sea King, Mera, King Orm, Black Manta Ray, and the strange species of the Fisherman Clan......"

"Warner's investment budget is $200 million......"

"What do you think?"