Chapter 698: The Conscience of Science Fiction
The field of fiction is the cornerstone of Lin Han, and here he stands very firmly and steadily, even if one or two books fail once in a while, it will not affect his status. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Every time Lin Han's book is not a one-shot sale, but will be a repeated bestseller, because he always has endless topics to talk about, when he wins awards and when the movie is released, it will drive the sales of existing books!
This year, his focus has not been on novels, and he has only published two or three books, but he still firmly controls the throne of book sales.
There has been no attenuation at all because of the transfer to the film field, and Lin Han will definitely not make any more movies in the short term, because there are still two sequels to "The Matrix" waiting for him to work on them.
That's when he returned to the field of fiction, after all, it was a bit unreasonable not to write a new book for so long!
The book "The Fall of Hyperion" has been on the agenda for quite a long time, but Lin Han didn't have the heart to write it, and he felt a little absent-minded while sitting in front of the computer typing, and he had to wait until this time was over.
It seems that in the blink of an eye, this year has gone from January to December, and time flies too quickly.
When Lin Han calmed down and thought about his work this year, he realized that the whole year's work revolved around "The Matrix"!
First, I wrote the script, then wrote the novel according to the script and published it, set up a crew to select the actors, and then carried out filming and post-production for half a year after completing the preparation work, and now the movie is released at the end of the year.
This is the time it takes for a movie to be truly born, Lin Han has shortened this time to a year or even less, and put it on the rest of the directors, if you want to make such a shocking sci-fi film in less than a year, you can't finish it at all!
"I'm so tired that I've spent a whole year on this, and I'm going to have a good rest next year. Lin Han couldn't help but sigh, before he became a director, he thought that movies were very simple things, especially in novels, a few words could make a movie from project approval to release.
After really going through it, I found that things are not so simple, I worked hard to make a good movie, and now I have to worry about the box office.
Finally, when the box office improved, it began to suffer from gains and losses again, can it go up to $500 million? Can it go up to $800 million?
Chen Jiaxuan sat on the rattan chair beside Lin Han, she snorted softly with her nose, "It's good to be released within a year, you look at the "Out of the Galaxy" made by Chang'e Pictures, they started production at about the same time as us, but they won't be released until next summer, which is even more terrifying." ”
"Just now, Miao Hong told me that after investigation and analysis, they think that "The Matrix 2" will also be released in the summer next year, and "The Matrix 3" will be released in the Spring Festival next year, almost every six months. ”
"Wouldn't this be too anxious? Other sequels are basically one every two years, let's one every six months, and I always feel that the audience will be bored to watch!"
Lin Han also knew that these two situations had their own advantages and disadvantages, and he couldn't talk about which one was better.
He replied with a pout: "The audience actually already knows the plot of the second movie, and my novel completely spoils the content." However, according to the results of the current sample survey, 80% of the viewers who have watched "The Matrix" want to see "The Matrix 2" as soon as possible, so it will be better in next year's summer season to take advantage of the current popularity. ”
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The rest of the film series are one every two years or one a year because they need time to shoot and produce movies, and it is impossible to use the method of set shooting with Lin Han to get all three movies in one go.
What's more, if they use their way to shoot the movie, the cost of "The Matrix 2" is estimated to increase several times, at least the actors' salaries will not be so shabby!
Netizens almost didn't believe that such a large-scale film, and it was also three consecutive films, only gave a few leading actors a salary of several million yuan each, which is not even comparable to the price of some small fresh meat to shoot an episode of a TV series!
When Xu Jiayan talked about this matter in Luyu's appointment, the whole network was boiling!
An actor of the same level as him, which one is not paid tens of millions?
Even himself, the salary is definitely not low, and he usually asks for box office dividends.
But in "The Matrix", he only got a salary of five million yuan, a cost of one or two hundred million, and the money spent on the actors was not even as good as the money spent by the props team, let alone on special effects!
The actors, including Chu Guang, all know that a good movie is hard to come by, and although they don't earn much on "The Matrix", they have opened an upward channel.
In the past, you could only make a few million, but now you don't even talk about less than ten million!
Not to mention movies, Chu Guang, who even has to play a supporting role in TV series, has now staged a big turnaround, and while sitting on countless fans, he has also received a lot of invitations to fashion magazines, variety shows, and movie and TV series scripts, which can be said to be the biggest beneficiary of "The Matrix", and even signed several advertising orders!
Even Shen Yanling, who has already become famous, has made great progress, she wanted to break into the United States when she was at the peak of her popularity, but unfortunately when she returned to China after a few years in Hollywood, she found that her identity was a little embarrassing.
Now, after winning the box office in North America for two consecutive weeks with "The Matrix", many Hollywood producers have seen this peerless stunner in the movie!
So Shen Yanling actually got many heroine invitations that she had never thought of before, such as the latest 007 wants to find her as a Bond girl, this kind of sexy and hot beauty who can shoot action scenes has always been the favorite of Bond movies.
Another reboot version of "Thunderbolt" also wants to invite Shen Yanling to star, she matches Alex played by Lucy Liu in the movie, Sony Pictures certainly does not want to miss this opportunity to collect box office in Chinese mainland!
It is said that the female version of "Ocean's Eleven" is also in contact with Shen Yanling, and it is rumored that the most powerful female group in history also hit her with the idea, I don't know whether to play the leading role or a supporting role.
She can be regarded as entering the mainstream Hollywood film and television circle in the real sense, instead of playing soy sauce in Hollywood's low-budget movies!
Every actor has made great progress, and Xu Jiayan is certainly no exception.
He originally showed his face in front of Hollywood with the two movies "The Martian" and "Immortal", which is impressive.
This time in "The Matrix", people can see his plasticity, the domestic script is completely at his disposal, and Hollywood has also sent a lot of top productions, including the male number one and the villain number one!
However, Li Wenyuan didn't choose too much content, but just took over a new mummy and another "Devil in the White City" that is biased towards the theme of literary films.
He wants to enter Hollywood steadily, not enter with a high profile and be kicked out at the speed of light!
As things stand, "The Matrix" is undoubtedly on the last train of the awards season, and according to the plan of the distributor Twentieth Century Fox, the film will make a difference in several awards.
Among them, the Saturn Award is definitely no problem, and the Golden Globe Award is to have a good strategy, maybe you can get the nomination, as for the Oscars, you can only resign yourself to fate and see God's arrangement!
These are all things that the salary can't bring them, and they are also what they dream of!
Many actors sharpened their heads and wanted to drill into these award ceremonies, and even tossed all kinds of farces because of this, and now Chu Guang, Xu Jiayan, Shen Yanling and others can walk on the red carpet of Hollywood's mainstream awards in a bright and justifiable manner.
This is estimated to make many celebrities envious, they would rather take less money and have this kind of treatment!
Of course, now that the box office of "The Matrix" is a big hit, Lin Han can't eat alone, he has asked Galaxy Pictures to contact the agency of these actors to see how much the reward is.
After all, the promotion of the latter two movies is inseparable from the actors, and at the same time, certain rewards are also given to those staff, and Lin Han is ready to spend 50 million to do these things.
However, everything is still in a state of secrecy, and how to get it still needs to be negotiated slowly!
Netizens praised "The Matrix" for such a reduction in actors' salaries, and even called them the conscience of science fiction and even the conscience of Chinese films!
The well-known screenwriter Xu Xiaoping wrote on Weibo: "It is said that the combined salary of all the actors in "The Matrix" is not as high as the cost of a popular little fresh meat. This is the power of innovation! Some film companies can find popular actors at a large price, and it is the market rule that they are willing to be killed. And a production company like Galaxy Pictures improves the quality of the film from the perspective of subject matter, script, visual effects, etc., which is called innovation! But the value of the entire cast of "The Matrix" will skyrocket, which is also a market force!"
"Kudos to Mr. Lin and Brother Jia Yan!"
"This is the right way to shoot movies, if the rest of the movies can put the actors' salaries into film shooting and post-production, there will not be bad movies today!"
"Although the actors in "The Matrix" are handsome and cool most of the time, they can also handle it when they need acting skills. Confess Chu Guang and perform Neo's transformation from an ordinary person to a savior very realistically!"
"Mr. Lin is the one who really wants to make movies, science fiction movies must focus on visual effects, unlike some movies that claim to have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on special effects and invited a Hollywood special effects team to barabala, but the effect is still ugly. ”
"It's simply the conscience of the film industry, Xu Jiayan is so charming to play a villain, so bad that people love and hate, it's amazing!"
"To be honest, when I was in the movie theater, I once discussed with a friend that this special effect is definitely not five cents, especially the high-speed slow-motion scenes and bullet time of those fights are beyond imagination. I think this is a first-class scene in Hollywood! Lin Han is very smart to save the stars' salaries and put them on post-production, and the next movie should not be short of money, right?"