Chapter 376: The Wandering Earth
Although Liu Cixin is known as single-handedly pulling Chinese science fiction to a world-class height. But the price of his copyright is quite cheap.
First, it was sold early, and Da Liu was not famous at that time, and the concept of "hot IP" had not yet been hyped.
In the past few years, who could believe that the Chinese film market could make hardcore sci-fi blockbusters?
So in this world, Longlin Pictures won "The Three-Body Problem", "The Wandering Earth", "Ball Lightning" and "Country Teacher", and China Film bought "Micro Era" and "Supernova Era".
Over the years, Longlin Pictures has hoarded a large number of IP copyrights, but there is only one big director Lu Lin, and filming two films a year does cause some idle waste of resources.
And when Ning Hao revealed the idea of filming "Country Teacher", Lu Lin transferred the copyright to him at a low price, just agreed that when the film was produced and distributed in the future, Longlin Pictures could participate in it.
In another time and space, the connection between "Crazy Alien" and "Country Teacher" in the Spring Festival of 19 is not big, and it can only be said that he was inspired by some inspiration, and Liu Cixin was even embarrassed to sign the name of the screenwriter.
But as a Spring Festival family comedy movie, a commercial film for profit, "Crazy Alien" is quite qualified, and there is no reason not to make this money.
And several others, film and television adaptation rights, are targeted by several other companies in the industry. "The Wandering Earth" and "Ball Lightning" in the hands of Long Lin, "Micro Era" and "Supernova Era" in the hands of China Film, have frequently appeared in the mouths of some industry bigwigs and investors during this time.
Compared with China Film, which lacks a commercial film director, the remaining two films of Longlin Pictures are obviously more exciting to investors.
Yu Dong called and asked Lu Lin if he had any thoughts of setting up the remaining two films. Lu Lin didn't hide it, saying that for the time being, he only planned to start "The Wandering Earth", but he was not filming, but preparing to use a new director.
Yu Dong was shocked when he heard this, "Rookie director, this is too risky, isn't it?"
Lu Lin said: "The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, it's time for some newcomers to come out of the film industry!" Yu Dong felt that the risk was not small, and his attitude became ambiguous.
As for several other companies, Huayi, Leshi and Long Lin do not have a good relationship, and they are glamorous and keen on small and medium-budget films. Penguin and Ahri have not yet gained a firm foothold, only Wanda Pictures is more generous, coupled with the relationship between Jing Yan, I really want to do the project "The Wandering Earth" with Longlin Pictures.
However, when he thought of another time and space, Wanda Pictures withdrew its investment in "The Wandering Earth" and switched to "Love Saint 2", Lu Lin always felt weird and found a reason to decline.
In Beijing, the office of the boss of Longlin Film Company, Song Ge was still a little surprised when he heard Lu Lin finish saying the "Chinese New Director Plan". Because in his opinion, the average speed of Longlin Pictures' two special effects blockbusters a year is not slow. Clinker Lu Lin, I actually want to go faster!
"The plan is a good plan, if there is no Liu Dehua's 'Asian Rising Star Guide' plan, I am afraid that there will be no current director Ning Hao. But if you come up and let the newcomer shoot a special effects blockbuster, it's a bit risky, right?" Song Ge hesitated.
Lu Lin smiled, "The risk is naturally a bit big, so let's screen the director!"
Song Ge saw that Lu Lin was smiling a little strangely, and the look in his eyes was even more suspicious.
Lu Lin hurriedly restrained himself and said, "Anyway, the person who can be supported by our 'Chinese New Director Program' must be recognized by you!"
The reason why he laughed just now was because he felt that Song Ge's vision was still quite good. 17 years of "Wolf Warrior 2", 18 years of "I Am Not the God of Medicine", 19 years of "The Wandering Earth", the three hit films are all produced by Yanjing Culture, the directors used Wu Jing, Wen Muyan, Guo Fan, are not famous directors in the industry, but they have successively achieved good results, which shows that Song Ge is still quite visionary and courageous.
So Lu Lin felt that as long as he could recruit Wen Muyu and Guo Fan over and talk to Song Ge, everything would fall into place.
It's one thing to plan a plan, it's another thing to implement it. Song Ge thought about it and felt that it was not impossible to have himself and Lu Lin to check and enable newcomers to shoot special effects blockbusters.
Then he said: "Then which one are you going to try out for newcomers, should it be a sequel to "The Three-Body Problem", or is it a personal hero movie in "League of Legends"?"
Because of the impressive box office results of "Company of Heroes", this has made many people see the huge box office prospects of the game's film and television.
Toho Co., Ltd., which has always wanted to buy the film and television adaptation rights of the three Ionian ninjas Kenan, Shen and Akali in "League of Legends". It's just that in terms of price, it has never been negotiated.
The other party thinks that ninjas are originally the unique culture of our country, but they just borrow a character design, and we make up the stories ourselves, and we have a bit of a loss when we pay for it.
When Song Ge and Lu Lin heard this, they decisively refused. It's not that you can't sell it, and it's not that you have to sell it at a high price, but you can't sell it at the price of cabbage!
And Toho Co., Ltd. is probably not very confident in the market of game to movie, after all, Japanese benzene is popular for anime and love action, and live-action movies are not particularly powerful.
So the two of them talked like this, maybe the conversation collapsed that day, and maybe they reached a cooperation that day!
"Of course it's not a sequel, it's "The Wandering Earth", just shoot the part that escapes Jupiter's gravity!"
Song Ge said: "It's just a short story, and a lot of the content is not written in detail, should we find someone who understands?"
Lu Lin said with a smile: "Of course, please ask those people from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, they are quite supportive of "The Three-Body Problem", and the matter of "The Wandering Earth" is expected to be completed by them!"
It is said that before the filming of "The Wandering Earth" in another time and space started, in order to determine the worldview in the film, scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences were really invited to demonstrate.
As soon as one of them entered the door, he blurted out: "The earth cannot be pushed away, the earth cannot be pushed away." ”
The reason is that if the earth is an egg, and the inside is liquid, and the earth's crust is the same as the eggshell, it will not be able to hold it at all if it is pushed by high pressure.
Director Guo Fan was stupid and hurriedly said: Don't mind, teacher, so the project will be yellow, and we have to assume that it can be pushed away. And then to find that rationality...... What is science fiction, that is, we are based on science, gradually rationalize it, so that this thing from impossible to possible, will not be falsified .......
A few scientists were convinced, sat down and began to discuss the rationality of the worldview with Director Guo, and the blackboard was full of formulas that people couldn't understand.
In the process of reasoning, there was also a "disagreement" between several scientists, with one directly rejecting the theorem of the other. So, the two of them each occupied a blackboard and began to calculate.
Guo Fan and the screenwriter sitting below are suspicious of life, why is the gap between people so big?
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