On October 22, 2002, Tiangong Chongcai was established in Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park. Zhang Ran didn't make a big fuss, only Ning Hao and a few of his director team were present, and Zhang Ran didn't notify the others.

Now the company is only in its infancy, with only more than a dozen technicians and a few managers. A real special effects company often includes multiple parts such as talent training base, public relations department, technical department, etc., with a scale of hundreds of people.

Zhang Ran plans to go to the United States after the Tokyo Film Festival, sign some pre-contract contracts for the film, and then hire a few special effects artists to come back as the backbone of the company. UCLA has corresponding majors, and many graduates are engaged in special effects work, and many Chinese are engaged in special effects, so it should not be too difficult to dig a few people back.

Zhang Ran has confidence in his special effects company, everyone is young, their morale is very high, and they basically really like movies. Everyone was holding back their energy and wanted to do something. Of course, he doesn't have the luxury of becoming a world giant like Weta, but he just hopes that ten years later, when Chinese films want to make special effects, they won't all be Korean teams, and don't mention that Korean teams seem to be very good!

He doesn't know what others think, anyway, he thinks it's a shame for Chinese filmmakers!

Zhang Ran took a breath and announced loudly to everyone: "Tiangong Chongcai was established today!"

The employees of the company heard that Zhang Ran had learned Taizu's tone vividly, and they all laughed wildly.

It's not serious!

When the laughter stopped, Zhang Ran continued: "Whether the company can develop or not depends on the efforts of all our entire team! There is a give-and-take, so I won't treat everyone badly. and so on for the company to develop. Everyone will definitely be the direct beneficiary!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Ran paused: "Special effects is not a money-making industry, and special effects companies are established every day in Hollywood. There are also special effects companies that go out of business every day. I think so, let's not talk about taking on other companies' jobs, if we take our own jobs, the special effects company will get a 3% profit share after the movie is released! And when the company is done, I will take out the shares to share with everyone! Of course, this has to wait until the company does it, so let's work together!"

In this era of the information explosion, a piece of news is often fleeting in front of people's eyes. The establishment of Tiangong Chongcai is just a small wave in the long river, and it will fall silent in an instant. Nobody cares, and no one cares.

In the afternoon, Zhang Ran took the director team to a meeting in the conference room. The special effects company was established, and some materials that needed to be prepared in advance could be prepared.

In the first half, Zhang Ran said to Ning Hao that he was willing to invest and let Ning Hao make a movie. In the past few months, Ning Hao has been changing the script. It's November now, and I don't know what happened to the script. He couldn't help asking, "Ning Hao, it's been so long." Your script should be finished, right?"

"'Crazy Stone' is still a bit more complicated for me, and I'm going to put it on the go. You said that you can't smash the first movie, and if you do, there will be no future. So I was going to make a relatively simple story, and I bought a novel called "The Broken Heart". I'm going to shoot this story!" Ning Hao said succinctly.

""Heartbreaker", is it He Xi's "Heartbreaker"?" Zhang Ran's eyes widened suddenly, which was really a bit unexpected for him.

Ning Hao scratched his head embarrassedly: "Yes." Last month I went to "Science Fiction World" to buy the rights to the film adaptation of "Love Farewell". As a result, the editor told me that it would be better for He Xi to write it again. The magazine is going to publish it in January next year, and I suggested that I take a look at it, which is "The Broken Heart". ”

There are almost no domestic science fiction fans who don't know that "Heartbreaker" is He Xi's masterpiece. Originally, Zhang Ran also considered filming "The Broken Heart", but "The Broken Heart" was somewhat similar to the story he had been revising, so he chose "Time Prisoner".

"Heartbreaker" has two lines, one is the protagonist He Xi's pursuit of science, and the other is maternal love.

He Xi researched something that the tutor did not support, his girlfriend did not understand, and everyone did not understand, only his mother Xia Qunfang firmly supported it. She handed over all her savings to He Xi and asked her son to publish a book. As a mother, Xia Qunfang's request is very simple, that is, she wants her son to be happy. But despite her efforts, the world is ruthless, and He Xi finally went crazy under various blows!

One hundred and fifty years later, the scientist He Hongwei accidentally discovered He Xi's book "Micro Continuity Original" in the library of the elementary school where his daughter studied, and through this book, he solved the problem that has plagued the entire human race for more than 100 years.

The reason why this book has been preserved is precisely because of He Xi's mother, Xia Qunfang. She had no idea how great "Micro Continuity Original" was, and she couldn't understand the content of the book. She just wanted to make her son happy and tell him that his books had been bought by the library. In fact, she's just going to be secretly hiding in the no-brainer corners of the various libraries. In this way, this monumental tome, which shimmers with immortal brilliance, was preserved!

Zhang Ran told the general content of the story to others, and continued: """Heartbreaker" is easy to film, but it is actually difficult to shoot well. The story is relatively simple, lacking obvious conflict, and it is easy to make a dull humanistic film. I'm not worried about anything else, it's just the rhythm. To be honest, most of the domestic directors are not in a good rhythm, which is a major gap with Hollywood. But I'm sure you'll be able to shoot it well. How's the script changing?"

Ning Hao nodded: "The script has already been written twice, and Xing Na is helping me polish the details." It's true that as you said, the story is relatively simple and easy to shoot dull, so I adjusted the structure. That's what I think, taking He Hongwei as the first perspective. The beginning of the movie is He Hongwei seeing "Micro Continuity Original" in his daughter's school library. This book is an absolute genius and has given He Hongwei great inspiration. But He Hongwei had never heard of He Xi, and he was very strange, how could such a genius not have any traces in history? So, He Hongwei began to track down He Xi's clues. It is very difficult to track down an ordinary person one hundred and fifty years ago, and He Hongwei has only found two photos of He Xi and his mother after going through hardships, as well as a recording of He Xi before his death. Of course, the movie doesn't show the content of the recording here. The movie will be released at the end.

With the help of "Micro Continuity Original", He Hongwei published a series of papers in less than half a year. He completed the equation of the Grand Unified Theory at great speed, and built a space-time conversion device based on the Grand Unified Theory. With curiosity about He Xi. He Hongwei went back to 150 years ago. Next is the content of the novel, He Hongwei saw He Xi's dedication to science and his mother's love for He Xi. When He Xi goes crazy, the story will come to an end, He Hongwei speaks on the stage of the Nobel Prize in Physics, and plays the recording of He Xi before he dies, and calls twice, Mom, Mom! What do you think?"

"It's been changed pretty well. In this way, the story will be suspenseful, and it will be much better. You kid really has a special habit of multi-line storytelling, there were only two lines, but you added another line!" Zhang Ran smiled and applauded Ning Hao, this is not a compliment, he really thinks it is good, "But you have a lot of future scenes like this, the cost must be relatively high, how much does the budget of the movie need?"

"There aren't many big scenarios in the future part. On the contrary, the details are more laborious, such as how to watch TV in the future and how to surf the Internet, which test the director's imagination. I gave a rough estimate. According to my standards, it is expected to be 5 million. 2 million for the filming of the film, 300 for post-production and special effects. Ning Hao said slowly.

"An investment of 5 million. It takes 15 million tickets to recoup the cost. It's difficult, how are you going to recoup your investment?" Zhang Ran didn't expect this film to make money. Even if it's a real loss in the end, he can accept it. Ning Hao is still young and immature in all aspects. It is understandable that the shooting was unsatisfactory, and he values Ning Hao's future.

Ning Hao dared to ask for an investment of 5 million, and he was still confident in recovering the cost: "The movie channel can sell for 500,000 yuan, and the VCD can sell for 500,000 yuan." With the success of Lenovo MP3, it is not a problem to win ad placement. Do you want people to use electrical appliances in the future or Haier and Lenovo, how good is that publicity? My goal is to implant 2 million, which will not be too difficult. With 2 million left, it will not be difficult to recoup the cost at the box office. "Science Fiction World" can sell nearly 300,000 copies a month, and the actual readership will be even more. When the time comes, they will definitely be promoted together. As long as there are no problems with the quality of the movie, the box office should be good. In addition, domestic audiences like this kind of touching movies involving family affection, such as "Mom Is in Me Again" in the 90s, and "My Brothers and Sisters" last year, all of which were very good at the box office. If we do a good job of marketing, we can hope to reach the box office of "My Brothers and Sisters"!"

"My Brothers and Sisters" is a small production with a cost of only 2.8 million, and the distributor seized on the touching point to make a big fuss, forming a topic effect, and finally achieved a box office of nearly 20 million. Ning Hao can see this, which shows that he really has a business vision.

"What do you think about the actors?" Zhang Ran smiled and nodded.

"He Hongwei, I plan to invite Hu Jun to play, the age is right, and the acting skills are good. He Xi wants to invite Teacher Huang Lei to act, Xia Qunfang plans to find Teacher Lu Zhong to act, He Xi's friend Lao Mai plans to let Huang Bo act, He Xi's girlfriend Jiang Xue wants to invite Jingchu to act, but I don't know if she has a schedule, and I don't know if she is the heroine of your play. Ning Hao very much hopes that Zhang Jingchu will play Jiang Xue, "Time Prisoner" has a good reputation, and Hu Jun and Zhang Jingchu appear again in science fiction films, which is a good publicity stunt. However, he knew that Zhang Jingchu was Zhang Ran's queen actor, and Zhang Ran was likely to let Zhang Jingchu be the female number one in "Six Beings".

"It's still uncertain, "Six Beings of the Six Realms" involves some policy things, and I still don't know. Although the movie is my investment, the story is set in the United States, and most of the actors are also Hollywood actors. Will radio and television count us as foreign films, will they require Chinese actors to play the leading roles? These things are not clear. When I finalize the producer, I can only decide on the heroine after I have learned about the situation with radio and television!" Zhang Ran was also quite helpless about this.

"The operation of your movie is too complicated, only you dare to play like this in China, and I don't know when and when I will have the opportunity to make such a big production!" Ning Hao said with envy.

"Take your time, there will definitely be a chance in the future! You act quickly, and start building a group when the script of "The Heartbreaker" is finished, I am looking forward to your movie!" Zhang Ran said with a smile.

"I'm under a lot of pressure when you say that, but don't worry, I'll do my best. Although Ning Hao said it very easily, his expression was very serious. A senior can get an investment of 5 million, if it had been a year ago, it would have been a dream. Therefore, whether it is for himself or for Zhang Ran's trust, he will go all out.

Zhang Ran secretly smiled proudly, in the previous life, Ning Hao wanted to shoot Liu Cixin's science fiction novel "Country Teacher" but it didn't work, this time the first movie was made into a science fiction film! )