"Edge of Tomorrow". After a series of ups and downs, Lan Li's next work has finally been decided, which is not only Lan Li's first challenge to a sci-fi action movie, but also the first time he has played the leading role in a commercial blockbuster.

Interestingly, this is the first time Lan Li has been involved in the production of a work, and although Lan Li strongly doubts that how many of his opinions about the script and the director will be used, it is indeed a new experience.

Needless to say, this is a very different and daunting challenge.

The most obvious difference between commercial films and art films is that the future of works of art is predictable to some extent, the quality of the performances, the depth of the script, and the skills of the director, good is good, bad is bad, but the future of commercial works is unknown, even if it is a well-recognized and excellent finished product, the box office performance is still no longer in the control of the crew, and the first criterion for measuring the work is the box office data.

If nothing else, Edge of Tomorrow is the best example. In the previous life, Tom Cruise's blessed and well-known "Edge of Tomorrow" had only $100 million at the North American box office, so what about this life? What's more, not only the actor has changed, but there seem to be many variables in the entire cast lineup.

"Edge of Tomorrow" with Tom as the core, screenwriter, producer, photography, soundtrack, lighting, costumes, makeup, etc., all links are all brought by Tom himself, everything is the top configuration in the industry, and the same is true of the cast, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton (Bill-Paxton), Brendon-Gleeson, these are well-known actors in the industry, although director Doug was not selected by Tom, but during the filming process, Doug was well versed in the cooperation routines of first-line actors, cooperated with Tom, and made many adjustments to the finished product.

In addition, the crew also spent a lot of money and collectively went to the set in London for on-site shooting, showing a real world as much as possible, and then implanting science fiction scenes with computer special effects, which detonated the viewing effect. During the entire filming process, the cost of the crew every day was a staggering amount.

It has been estimated that the cost budget for commercial blockbusters to shoot in first-tier cities is between 700,000 and 1 million US dollars per day, which is why many crews are keen to go to Philadelphia, Toronto, and Atlanta to shoot in these cities.

The rich crew filmed London in London, and the poorer crew filmed London in Atlanta.

But now, Lan Li has replaced Tom, but it also means that it is very likely that the entire crew will be replaced, from the producer and director, to the props and scheduling, and even the shooting occasion and special effects team, just because Lan Li is a little butterfly, the entire crew has been replaced from top to bottom, from the inside out, so, is the "Edge of Tomorrow" still the "Edge of Tomorrow" in memory? Will the quality of the finished product be better or worse?

However, these variables are still within control. Picking the right director, communicating more with the screenwriters, finding the right crew members through the producers, and then strictly abiding by the Hollywood commercial film production process, the final quality of the finished product is still guaranteed, after all, the Hollywood industry has formed an assembly line operation, and the magnitude of the quality deviation will not be too outrageous after all.

No matter how bad it is, Lan Li, as a reborn, still has the image of the previous life in his mind, and he will actively participate in the creation during the shooting process.

For Lan Li, the biggest variable is actually the previous schedule, "Edge of Tomorrow" was released in 2014, and now it has to be advanced to 2012, or 2013 at the latest. What kind of impact will the schedule change be?

The success or failure of a work is closely related to timing, in fact, it is also the so-called right time, place and people.

In 1995, "Future Water World" was released, at that time, post-apocalyptic disaster movies were still an emerging genre, and the mainstream market audience could not accept it at all, and the shooting style based on computer special effects was too avant-garde.

In the end, the film ushered in the most loss-making film in the world before the 21st century in the form of a Guinness record.

Ten years later, when people look back at this work, they suddenly find that in fact, the subsequent disaster movies of the same genre have more or less continued the framework structure and narrative of the "future water world", and the quality of the finished product of this work is far from being as bad as imagined. It can be asserted that the release of "Future Water World" will be postponed for another two years, then, perhaps, it will not be the "Titanic" that will make history, but it.

In turn, in 2009, when "Avatar" was released, 3D imaging technology had matured, all the ideas in James Cameron's mind could be successfully realized, and an unimaginable and wonderful movie-watching experience was created, and the historical record was born. However, if the release of "Avatar" is postponed for two years, people are accustomed to 3D technology, and even visual fatigue, or if it is released two years in advance, and the technology still does not meet the requirements, can the movie still achieve such incredible box office results?

The same film, placed in different era backgrounds, cultural atmospheres and characteristics of the times, has different repercussions.

This is only the first level that Edge of Tomorrow needs to face, and in addition to this, the schedule of Edge of Tomorrow is also extremely important.

It's like the head-to-head duel between "Fast & Furious 5" and "Thor", and the head-to-head duel between "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II)" and "Captain America". A correct schedule can often make a movie burst out with more box office potential, or even double or triple the expected results, and a wrong schedule may bury a movie's box office prospects.

In addition to the summer schedule, the impact of these schedules is very obvious on Independence Day, Black Pride Month, Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, etc.

In 2014, "Edge of Tomorrow" was scheduled to be released in the second week of June, and in the previous three weeks, movies such as "X-Men: Future Past", "Maleficent" and "Godzilla" had been bombed in turn;

This is not a dangerous schedule, but it is a trap with frequent dark horses.

So, what about 2012? What will be the fate of the "Edge of Tomorrow"? Objectively speaking, the aesthetic fatigue brought about by the "abandoned battlefield" in 2013 was avoided, and the "edge of tomorrow" was advanced from 2014 to 2012, which is a positive factor, but the problem is that the summer file of 2012 is full of strong players.

Suppose that "Edge of Tomorrow" has been moved from the second week of June in 2014 to the second week of June in 2012, then it will face the collective encirclement and back-and-forth attacks of "The Avengers", "Men in Black 3", "Snow White and the Huntsman", "Madagascar 3", "Prometheus", "Valorant", "Teddy Bear", "Magic Mike", "The Amazing Spider-Man" and other works.

According to the historical trajectory, among these works, there are a total of five that exceed 200 million, and all of them have exceeded 100 million at the box office.

Whether the "Edge of Tomorrow" wants to fight its way out of the encirclement has increased or decreased, and whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is really difficult to say and predict. Compared with the quality of the work itself, the changes in timing, schedule, and opponents are immeasurable and uncontrollable.

To put it simply, everything is brand new, and Edge of Tomorrow is a completely new work!

In this case, Lan Li has long expected that the trajectory of history will definitely be different from the previous life, which is also the goal that Lan Li has been trying his best to achieve, sooner or later, the "future" that Lan Li knows will be unrecognizable, but Lan Li did not expect that this day will come so quickly. Now it's a "Edge of Tomorrow", who could have predicted what the next step would be?

In the period of rapid rise of Lanli's career, "Buried Alive" and "Love Crazy" have made great contributions, and "Speed and Excitement/Love 5" has made amazing breakthroughs, and everything has gone smoothly, but now it is facing severe challenges, and the emergence of "Edge of Tomorrow" is a blessing or a curse, which is really unpredictable.

However, what Lan Li felt was not fear and fear, but excitement, irrepressible excitement.

The future has always been unknown for him, he not only needs to break the shackles of the previous life, but also needs to break the shackles of fate, starting from scratch, step by step to the present, which is a phased victory for Lan Li. As for the success or failure of the "Edge of Tomorrow", the future is not determined by panicked speculation, but by down-to-earth efforts.

The surging emotions in his chest really couldn't be calmed, as if he had once again tasted the opportunity to win the "Pacific War" performance. Life is like a box of chocolates, never knowing what the next one will taste like. Lan Li raised his hand and motioned to the waiter, took a glass of champagne, and the cold touch passed through his fingertips, and then calmed down a little.

Between Jeff's introductions, Lan Li traveled most of the party. This is different from the Golden Globes at the beginning of the year, which was a social occasion where everyone just nodded their heads and just made a show in front of the camera, but today with Jeff's threading of the needle, Lan Li not only met the actors, but also the producers, screenwriters, photographers, magazine editors, and so on.

In an instant, Lan Li became the protagonist of the afternoon pool party, appearing as "fresh meat", and it seemed that everyone wanted to come and take a bite.

After going around for nearly an hour, the champagne in Lan Li's hand did not seem to decrease, but the number of "friends" he made was already in the triple digits.

Lan Li has been trying to find Paul Walker, but there are too many people in the whole party indoors and outdoors, upstairs and downstairs, and there is a crowd in every corner, and he has never been noticed. Finally finding a gap, Lan Li left the surging crowd and found a quiet corner where he could breathe a sigh of relief for a while.

No, this corner is already occupied.