The reason why Aiming Eye withdrew from "Jue Ji", in addition to being scolded a little cowardly, the most important thing is that they estimated the return on investment ratio and felt unreliable...

The "Jue Ji" trilogy, Guo Jingming plans to create all CG, such a genre film, not only has a huge investment, but also belongs to a niche film...

The most important thing is that Guo Jingming has prepared an all-star lineup.

The initial investment is at least 10 billion!

Zheng Zihao hesitated, and then called Zhang Junsheng to consult, who directly dissuaded:

"Pure CG movies - "The Polar Express", "Beowulf", "A Christmas Carol" are all thankless genres in Hollywood, Guo Jingming wants to make a breakthrough in the genre, but his research on the genre is insufficient. ”

"On the other hand, "Jue Ji" is a bit against the production method of genre films, and it is rare to use stars on such a large scale in North America. In fact, in China, except for "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic", other movies rarely use this kind of model. It is precisely because the filmmaker lacks self-confidence in this kind of experimental film that he has to invite many stars to support the scene, and simply do a commercial calculation is the accumulation of fans. ”

"Films like "Jue Ji" are particularly industrialized, and it is not very suitable for a director with a level of qualifications like Guo Jingming to try!"

"Guo Jingming himself wants to try OK, so do the production companies and investors clearly recognize the risks? What is this type like in Hollywood? How much will they spend? How long will it take? If there is no such investigation and cognition, it is just the face of Guo Jingming plus a few big stars, and the release is in a hurry, and the results are predictable!"

"I still suggest that you don't invest, it can be seen from "Little Times" that there are only so many people who are willing to buy Guo Jingming's account, 1 billion investment, I don't think it can be recovered!"

Then, Wanda enters...

Zhang Junsheng looked at Tang Ningyu a little strangely: ""Bounty Hunter"?

"The latest news, estimated to be September!"

Liu Sisi spoke again: "I know the Korean restriction order, because of the Harder system!"

Zhang Junsheng was speechless: "... Hehe, baby, you can continue to play "Honor of Kings"..."

……

The Korean restriction order has spread vigorously, and there are many voices of discussion on the Internet.

Many people say that 'there is no idol in front of the country', and some people follow the trend of 'no parents in front of the country'...

I don't understand why some people hold the latter view: idols can come to China to make money, but if you are a little sorry for my motherland, I can support you and step on you.

What kind of idol can you stand this?

Looking at the little flowers and fresh meat that have been hacked in China, I think netizens are still more restrained when dealing with foreign idols.

The meaning of this sentence is: When it comes to national interests and national image, the country and idols stand on opposite sides, sacrificing the small for the big.

The forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds...

Every country in the world has a boycott of China and Chinese culture, why can't we boycott them?

Needless to say, Japan and South Korea, the Indonesian massacre, the Chinese exclusion incident, the Philippine monkeys, India, the United States, France snatched the torch...

What's wrong with resisting it?

If you protest solemnly, you will say that the state is cowardly and incompetent;

Take action to fight other countries economically, and you say that the country is stingy and conservative;

has no brains and is not looking forward to a war, and then who knows how many traitors and lackeys will come out...

Sometimes I really sympathize with the upper leadership, and the quality of the people is worrying...

In the past, whether it was a Korean singer, an actor, or this or that to make money, Lee Min Ho was on the Spring Festival Gala, and the country did not interfere with anything...

Now I don't know much about what South Korea has done, the THAAD base, the insulting of China by parliamentarians, the Great Wall...

But the THAAD plan does threaten China's interests, and South Korea does not oppose it, so we really can't shrink back anymore, and of course we have to counteract!

……

On June 23, Zhang Junsheng, Liu Cixin, and Guo Fan attended a Weibo movie interview.

The host was probably a fan of Da Liu, and pulled him to ask a bunch of questions: "Why do you want to create science fiction?"

"The motivation for writing science fiction is actually just to find something to do for myself, because when I first worked, I would often be pulled by my colleagues to play mahjong, and then one day and one night I lost a month's salary, just to quit mahjong, I started writing science fiction. ”

"Affected in any way?"

"Influenced by "1984", the first two works, "China 2185" and "Supernova Era", were actually political fables similar to "1984" in the guise of science fiction, which would definitely not have been published under the circumstances of the time. ”

"The Wandering Earth" is actually a series, and this series is mainly about how human beings save themselves in the face of solar catastrophe. I originally planned to write a few more series, but after writing "The Wandering Earth" and "Micro Era", I conceived that when human beings could not escape, they only had to build a monument to themselves on Pluto, and then found that this idea had already been written by predecessors, so I lost interest and gave up this series. Later, this idea was used in "The Three-Body Problem". ”

"Speaking of "The Three-Body Problem", Director Zhang, I heard that Yuehua bought the adaptation rights of "The Three-Body Problem", do you have any plans to build it?"

Zhang Junsheng thought for a while: "It's a bit difficult, the time is not very ripe now, the display of high-dimensional and low-dimensional space, the way of communication of the three-body people, etc., these things may be beyond the scope of movies, and need to rely on scientific progress... I talked to Guo Fan before, if you want to adapt the movie, it's best to abandon this part of the content, because it is difficult for you to show these things in a convincing way on the basis of the existing scientific level, but if you eliminate it, it will not be "The Three-Body Problem", so it is very tangled!"

"Then why did you choose director Guo Fan?"

"Actually, to make science fiction movies in China, our conditions are mature, what is lacking is only people with feelings, director Guo Fan is one of the most affectionate people I know, after "You at the Same Table", a bunch of people asked him to make films, and he refused... For five years, from scratch, the entire Wandering Earth Base was built by him!"

"I heard that the investment in "The Wandering Earth" has reached 3 billion?

Glancing at Guo Fan, Zhang Junsheng replied: "... It's about the same, but Yuehua only invested half, and the other half is the film and television base investment. ”

"Such a high investment, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to recover the cost?"

When the project was set up for "Gravity", they also asked me, aren't you afraid that you won't be able to recover the cost? As a result, making a movie itself is an adventure, otherwise, there wouldn't be so many film companies going bankrupt, but someone has to do it, and we are willing to be the leader!"

"Then how did you and Teacher Liu Cixin meet?"

Zhang Junsheng looked at Da Liu and decided to do something big: "I like a traditional literati like Da Liu very much, it's very comfortable to chat with him, and he is also a very interesting and low-key engineer in his own life, especially able to drink, don't look at the interview when he is very shy, in fact, he is very good." The first time I met Da Liu, we talked about "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Avatar", and then came to the same opinion: "Avatar's imagination is too weak!"

"Do you think Avatar is imaginative enough?"

Of course, the positioning of commercial films can only allow directors and screenwriters to dance with shackles. If you focus too much on creating a world that is different from Earth, then the film will inevitably neglect to explain the background setting due to time constraints, which will make the whole film difficult to understand, and the audience will be confused. ”

"'Cloud Atlas' has enough imagination, and then what? Does the audience like it? A film that keeps most people in the fog usually doesn't succeed at the box office, and The Matrix is an exception!"