This is really a coincidence that everything came together, Lin Han patted his head: "I won't tell you, I'm writing a new script now, and I'm writing three at a time, I guess I don't have time to get the script of "Out of the Galaxy". Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Li Wenyuan didn't think that Lin Han was making excuses, he asked curiously: "Writing three scripts in a row, shouldn't it be preparing to shoot "The Three-Body Problem"?" ”

"No, no, it's The Matrix." Lin Han hurriedly explained that he didn't want his friends to misunderstand, "Now "The Matrix" is serialized on the Internet just to add some popularity to the movie and make it into a series of movies. ”

"I mean, how did you come up with the idea of going to serialize novels online, it turns out like this. Someone said before that you were carried away by money and were ready to pan for gold in online novels! ”

Lin Han jokingly replied: "If I were in it for the money, I would definitely make more money by publishing this novel." ”

Li Wenyuan did not doubt the authenticity of Lin Han's words, basically Lin Han's book can now sell at least a few million copies, and millions of books can earn tens of millions of dollars according to Lin Han's super high royalties!

Now, according to Lin Han's online serialization, it may only be half or less than one-third of the original income, which is equivalent to giving up his immediate interests and putting them on longer-term interests.

For the sake of the movie, giving up the opportunity to earn tens of millions of yuan, Li Wenyuan also felt from the side that Lin Han attached great importance to the "Matrix" movie, which is by no means a lip service!

"That's it, I want to think about what other screenwriters are really talented and learned in the circle, and I'll ask Director Zheng Shuping about it."

Li Wenyuan yawned and said, "By the way, I just remembered it now, why should I worry about it." Obviously, there is an investment of tens of millions of yuan in this movie, but the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuch is in a hurry. You must have more ideas than I do! ”

Lin Han came back to his senses when he said this, and it was still his own business for half the day, Li Wenyuan's agent signed an appointment with Galaxy Entertainment, so helping him was helping himself.

The two laughed out loud in unison, and Lin Han said: ""Out of the Galaxy" is mainly in charge of Chang'e Entertainment, I can only say that I suggest it and see if they adopt it." ”

"Anyway, I don't have to worry about you to check it, the box office doesn't need to be too high, it's almost one billion and eight billion!"

"How dare you think that a billion mouths will come."

Li Wenyuan heard a strange sound on the other end of the phone, and he said anxiously: "Then that's it for the time being, I'll talk to you another day when I'm free." ”

"Then you're busy, let's talk!"

After hanging up the phone, Lin Han began to face up to his novel, and "Out of the Galaxy", which was partly invested by his company, was also being filmed.

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A sense of urgency surged in Lin Han's heart, now the film market is changing very fast, if you don't catch up, you will be eliminated.

He looked at the script he had completed, sighed and said, "Send the script to them first, and then you can revise it slowly." ”

After the end of his self-talk, Lin Han sent the script to Chen Jiaxuan and Miao Hong, and the script must be kept secret.

From writing the script to the release of the movie, there are too many processes to be done, so Lin Han has no time to waste.

To shoot this kind of blockbuster, it is impossible to find a few random actors like "Immortality" and shoot it directly in your own house.

It takes at least three months to select actors and let them train in martial arts; At the same time, it is necessary to prepare for the crew, and the crew members here may be dozens, or even hundreds!

After finding the person, it is also important to determine the shooting location, whether to shoot in a ready-made place, or to build your own studio, whether to shoot in Yanjing or to Hengdian or other places?

Post-production is also necessary to find a good one in advance, not to say that you have to find a special effects company after the filming part of the film is completed.

Before shooting, these special effects companies use computer modeling to do a good job of auxiliary work for shooting, these are the props team and special effects companies combined, 100 million investment may be spent on modeling places!

For example, in the explosion scene, this is the time to burn money, and blockbusters will basically make a separate model for one shot.

Which scenes need to be split and which props need to be implemented?

Many scenes are shot with one or a few shots, and there are thousands of shots in a movie, and there are generally more than 100 such scenes, which is not a small amount of money cumulatively!

Seriously, the filming stage is actually the least expensive link, mainly the cost of various photographic equipment, the pipeline bureau, the cost of three or five hundred staff, extras, and the daily life expenses of the crew, such as eating, sleeping, drinking, transportation, etc.

The most expensive thing is post-production, which is a bottomless pit, and no amount of money is enough for special effects companies to burn!

After a simple set up and green screen shooting, the post-production began to do special effects, synthesize the trajectory or do rendering, and even simply synthesize the person directly into the scene in the later stage to do trajectory matching.

However, Lin Han is still looking forward to his ability to make money for this movie, at least the advertising sponsor should be able to have a lot of money, not to mention anything else, computers, mobile phones, windbreakers, and sunglasses can be said to run through the "Matrix" trilogy, and don't think about implanting it if the sponsorship fee is less than 10 million!

In fact, advertisers have always been very generous with film placement, and the original production cost of "007: Skyfall" was 94 million pounds, and Heineken alone sponsored 28 million US dollars, plus sunglasses, Sony mobile phones, Aston Martin sports cars, Jaguar cars, Mexican tourism boards, vodka, whiskey, these ads made the film pay for itself before it was released.

The most powerful salesman in history is none other than 007, and every movie has a huge income in advertising placement, and the effect is also amazing!

Whether or not "The Matrix" can be better post-produced depends on whether these advertisers are willing to dig out their wallets, anyway, Lin Han knows that his 100 million investment is only enough to pay for the actors' salaries and pre-shooting, and it is not enough to pay for the post-production of the three films.

This 100 million is purely used to shoot movies, and each movie needs at least 50 million yuan for post-production, and after "The Matrix 1" is released to make money, you can use the money earned for the post-production of "The Matrix 2", so that the healthy cycle continues!

However, the risk is also very large, if the box office performance of "The Matrix 1" is not ideal, the cost recovered is not enough to support the post-production costs of "The Matrix 2" and "The Matrix 3", so should the two films that have been filmed be abandoned, or continue to invest in additional costs?

The reason why Lin Han dared to take such a risk was that he was confident enough in this series of movies, and he might not make much money, but it was impossible to lose money.

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After Miao Hong received Lin Han's email, he first browsed the idea of Lin Han's three films being filmed together and released in batches in the email.

Even when he was in Sony North American Pictures, he had never seen such a crazy and radical plan, obviously he only had 100 million yuan in his hand, just like pushing a film plan with a total cost of more than 300 million!

"Crazy, just crazy!"

He couldn't help but pick up the cigarette on the table, lit it with a lighter, took a sharp puff, and then exhaled a puff of smoke.

The smoke rose, Miao Hong slapped the table with his hand, his mind was very messy, obviously his boss was just a writer and director, but why was this business courage much stronger than himself?

Could it be that the layman is really more energetic, and the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers?

He knew that Lin Han would toss big news, but he didn't expect that he couldn't help but want to make a big fuss with him.

But the past experience made him gradually calm down, read the script first, and if the script was suitable, he would seriously discuss the feasibility of this set of shooting plans with Lin Han.

The words "The Matrix" appeared in the document, and a password is required to open this read-only document, Miao Hong knew that this was Lin Han's recent serialized novel, but he didn't expect the novel to serve the script!

The script is different from the novel in that detail, there is no excessive psychological description, and most of the time the content of a few hundred words in the novel is only a simple line in the script.

Miao Hong's browsing speed is not slow at all, when he sees Trinity disappear from the phone, when he sees Neo leaving the matrix world, when he sees the nature of this world, the first part is a standard sci-fi blockbuster, which will make the audience feel refreshed.

A person in a virtual world awakens to become a savior, and then leads the struggling human beings to resist the tyranny of machines, which uses high technology to bring out the accidents and inevitabilities in philosophy, the opportunities and choices in life, and the reversal of fate and the awakening of human nature.

Miao Hong is very enjoyable to watch, this script is very long, after all, it is a fusion of three movies, the plot is getting more and more interesting later, machines will evolve like humans, Agent Smith actually has his own personal consciousness Neo There are many former saviors who compromised with the matrix, Trinity sacrificed......

The logic of the whole film is very strict, and the plot has ups and downs, so that Miao Hong can't help but applaud!

When he finished reading the script, he found that the sky outside had already darkened, and the employees outside the office had already left work.

Rubbing his neck vigorously, Miao Hong walked to the window to let his eyes rest and relax, and he whispered: "If this script is placed in Hollywood, it will definitely be snatched away by several major film companies, this talent is really amazing." Try it, take a gamble! ”

After speaking, he found Lin Han's number from the mobile phone address book, and then dialed it.