As a plug-in user, what is the most worrying thing? It's not that you can't block your account, it's not that you report it, but one day your plug-in suddenly tells you that "your plug-in has expired, and you haven't found a renewal entry yet." ”

Mu Ming is facing this situation right now.

Theoretically, there is still more than a year left before the point of his rebirth. However, in the past few years, because of the butterfly effect brought about by his participation, coupled with the natural decline of memory, the remaining time advantage is really not as long as the theory.

Of course, with Mu Ming's current status, even if she doesn't have those time advantages, it's no big deal. But just like when I was learning to ride a bicycle when I was a child, I knew that I was already very proficient, but when I really went on the road alone, I still couldn't help but feel apprehensive.

Mu Ming's momentum during this period of time can be regarded as hot cooking oil, or rather, his popularity has not come down much over the years. As the saying goes, the higher you stand, the worse you fall. And just in time for such a delicate time node, Mu Ming chose to refrigerate herself.

The reason is also easy to find, a "God of Medicine" and a "Wandering Earth" two projects are pinched in his hands, each of which needs to be polished and prepared for a long time, as the main person in charge, he naturally has to put the focus on it.

Anyway, in the entertainment industry this year, as long as he doesn't buy traffic, not many idle marketing accounts or water armies will care about him. And the public's attention is always short-lived and easy to be diverted, and there is a cooling time of half a year and a year, and the heat will naturally drop.

Besides, as a serious filmmaker, it's not normal to dive for a year and a half.

Mu Ming in "diving" began the preparatory work for the "God of Medicine" project.

As early as more than a year ago, when Mu Ming was still filming "Room", she had seen the news of the "Lu Yong case". Although I didn't know much about the process behind the case at the time, the information revealed in the news alone was enough to make people feel the drama.

Mu Ming remembered this incident at the time, but later due to various reasons, it was delayed. Until this time, when she found that there was no suitable work in her memory, Mu Ming picked up the project again.

It can be regarded as an "ostrich strategy", in case this movie fails, at least you can use the excuse of "realistic theme" to save your respect. In the same way, there is also the project of "The Wandering Earth".

"On the road independently", Mu Ming was still a little scared after all.

Of course, the ostrich is the ostrich, and you still have to run seriously when it's time to run. Before the script was written, Mu Ming personally went to Wu Su and found Lu Yong, who witnessed the incident, as well as the patient who had bought medicine in his hand, as well as the prosecutor and judge who were in charge of the case at the beginning.

Of course, in addition to the rigor of the entire script, these behaviors are more to get Lu Yong's letter of intent for authorization. Otherwise, once the movie is released, there will definitely be countless trolls or bars who will take this point to talk about.

After these preparations, Mu Ming first determined not the script, but the male protagonist, that is, the actor of the role of "Lu Yong" - Xu Zheng.

As for the reason...... As a director who likes to use his own people, Mu Ming knows several images that match and his acting skills are competent enough, which are none other than Xu Zheng, Deng Chao and Huang Bo.

Huang Bo is very in line with Mu Ming's requirements, but first, he has already taken over Chen Zhengdao's "Master of Memory"; second, the so-called "acting and excellent directing", seeing that several of his friends have made achievements on the road to directing, he is also ready to direct a work by himself.

As for the Deng Dynasty, Mu Ming's relationship with him is farther away than that of Xu Zheng and Huang Bo. And he also took over Zhang Guoshi's long-prepared new work "Shadow", and he also didn't have time.

In this way, there is naturally only Xu Zheng. After the word-of-mouth failure of "Hong Kong", this uncle was very depressed for a while and decided to postpone his career as a director for a while. In addition, he went to work with Ning Hao to engage in the "Bad Monkey Project" that supports and encourages young directors, so he has neither directed nor participated in this year, at most he has served as the producer of a certain movie or something.

Therefore, the project of "God of Medicine" is actually not Mu Ming's "single-tree support", Xu Zheng and Ning Hao, who was pulled by him, are also helping to plan together.

In fact, the domestic director circle is not as discordant as the audience imagined. is a little different from the independent situation of the national teacher and Feng Xiaogang's generation, Mu Ming, Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, and this group of directors, including Han Han, have more or less cooperation and contact.

Today I will help you produce the project, tomorrow you will make a cameo appearance in his work, and the day after tomorrow he will be the screenwriter in my film, which is very interactive.

From an objective point of view, as long as this kind of interaction and cooperation can be prevented from degenerating into gangs in the circle, it will play a very good role in promoting the development of the domestic film industry. Or it can be said that this kind of unified standards and unified system is itself the prototype of the industrialization of the film industry.

Despite being based on real events, the script still had many difficulties in constructing it. From Mu Ming's point of view, one of the biggest problems at present is how to avoid similarities with another well-known work.

That's right, it's the "Dallas Buyers Club" that comes to mind when it comes to the tag of "selling fake drugs, really saving people".

is also adapted from real events, both point to the problems of the medical system, and even the behavior of the two protagonists is the same, and it is really hard not to connect them with many commonalities.

At this time, it depends on the director's adaptation ability. It is necessary to keep the difference - why should the audience pay to watch the same thing again - but also not to forcibly change the plot because of this, which affects the logic and authenticity of the movie.

In other words, it has to be plausible.

This part of the change is divided into two parts. The first is the external changes, such as changing the male protagonist from one of the patients to a normal person, and changing the withdrawal of the true ending of the charge and acquittal to a five-year prison sentence.

The inner change is the change in the core of the story. The focus of the narrative in "Dallas" is to accuse the old and rigid American medical system, that is, "there is a medicine, but it is not approved", while on the side of the "God of Medicine", Mu Ming and they focus on the argument between human feelings and the legal system, that is, "money is life, and law-abiding is not life".

Secretly, this kind of core change is also more in line with national conditions and multi-party restrictions. One of the important reasons why even the movie can pass the review is because the targeted drug Gleevec, which is the "protagonist" of the incident, has been drawn up to the following list of medical insurance reforms.

Of course, this is understandable. No matter how well this movie is made, it will inevitably cause a great response after its release. Once the drug that appears is not a medical insurance drug, it will inevitably trigger a round of public opinion. At that time, if we do not approve it, the people's sentiment will be turbulent, and if we do approve it, it is easy for public opinion to force the judiciary.

The so-called "dancing in shackles" is nothing more than that.

The point is that this "shackle" is sometimes really necessary, which is very helpless.

Mu Ming is the protagonist of this book, but it does not mean that he is the protagonist of the entertainment industry. During the time of Mu Ming's "diving", the industry was operating normally as always.

"Jue Ji", "The Great Wall" and "The Ferryman", the three films took over the scolding of domestic films in the second half of the year in an orderly manner. The three films also used their own sacrifices to tell the producers of the domestic film industry three lessons

"The economic potential of fans will be squeezed out, Americans can't save me from China, you can control me, and you can control who the audience likes to watch. ”

Of course, they may not listen to it. After all, no one can say whether the money they make from making movies comes from the box office.

Although the biggest row of Shuimu Film and Television is Mu Ming, it also has many other businesses. For example, in cooperation with the Palace Museum, the film version adapted from the documentary "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" was released, the filming of "Wolf Warrior 2" was launched, and the post-production of "Descendants of the Sun" was completed, which was bought by Mango Satellite TV and set for New Year's Day in the 17th year, in order to fight against the enemy's "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" broadcast by Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV at the same time.

In addition, because of the previous "horizontal development strategy", Mizuki has many projects other than film and television. For example, the Guoman theme park in cooperation with Wanda, the development of the domestic League of Legends peripheral market with Teng Xun, and the cooperation with the global streaming media boss FLIX, etc.

In the midst of all this, time crossed 2016 and entered 2017, the origin of the timeline.