"This is the photo of the Black Pearl, I haven't paid much attention to it before, but after I really saw it, I realized that although the ancient warships are much smaller than the modern warships, they are also dirty, and the design in many aspects is quite humane, I think that hundreds of years ago, there was really a pirate ship like the Black Pearl, which could indeed run rampant in some sea areas."

Wu Yusen has been in charge of the preparation of "Pirates of Malacca" for a long time, and he has watched almost all the props and filming locations, and he has learned a lot in the process.

At this time, he was sitting in Mo Fei's office, and said to Mo Fei: "In addition to the Black Pearl, we have already built five large ships, including two armed merchant ships of the kind you mentioned by the boss, and a few simple hulls that will not take long to build, even if we want to make a movie about ancient naval battles."

The two aqueducts have also been completed, the big one is on the side of the snake bay, which is almost two miles along the coastline, and extends more than 600 meters, and there is a large section with a sandy beach, according to the terrain you can take pictures of various landscapes such as bays and seas; The smaller one is on the car bay and can take pictures of the boats coming in and out; The military port was built in Ant Bay, close to the big pool; A little further to the sea is Huangmaozhou, which has been contracted according to the boss's plan, and the scenes of the small island can be filmed there.

In addition, we have borrowed a pool of water storage facilities in Kuching, Malaysia, and the coast has a tropical scenery at a glance, and there are local buildings to rent. Coupled with the set on the Phang Nga Bay side in Thailand, this can solve all the shooting of sponge shots, but then the prop boat needs to be towed over there by tugboat. We don't have one on our side that can do that, and besides, some of the ships are just a look. Boss you still have to get an idea about this tugboat, see which one is better to work with......"

After saying a sigh, Wu Yusen was also a little thirsty, and he picked up the cup and drank half a cup without caring about the image, before he smiled again. "But, boss, you said we spent so much money on this movie. I calculated in advance that all the props and background buildings will cost more than 400 million Hong Kong dollars, and this movie will have to sell at least 150 million US dollars before we can make back the cost. Not to mention that I'm under a lot of pressure. ”

I don't think it's inappropriate to spend so much money. You have to know how much money was spent on props and filming in the previous life of "Pirates of the Caribbean", and now it is really not too much. No matter how to say that these props and landscapes are also really visible, when the real movie starts, it will make people start, two million Hong Kong dollars a day to spend is considered less, it is an invisible bottomless pit, it is estimated that Lao Wu will be in a hurry at that time, and he has to hold back his strength to finish the filming as soon as possible.

Smiled and nodded. said: "Lao Wu, you think it's enough, then your heart really needs to exercise a little more to help." The production cost of the film will continue to rise in the future, maybe it won't be too long, we will invest in a movie with more than one billion Hong Kong dollars, so don't be shocked when the time comes. ”

Wu Yusen still believes in Mo Fei's words, Mo Fei has never been stingy in film investment, and every film will try to do the best in every detail, and the most critical role in this is, of course, money. But even so, Lao Wu is a little uneasy to accept, a movie is more than one billion Hong Kong dollars, what a big scene, I can't help but sigh: "Oh my God, more than one billion Hong Kong dollars, it's going to catch up with the box office in Hong Kong for a year." ”

As a person who has come over, he has long been numb to this kind of big production, and said with a smile: "You should also know that the director should also know that "Cleopatra" in 63 years invested more than 40 million US dollars, and now it will at least more than double, almost more than 100 million US dollars." As early as more than 20 years ago, people have already played a big production that we can't play now, and we still have to catch up.

Besides, the current film industry is developing too rapidly, and the addition of scientific and technological means has not only enriched the means of film production and enhanced the viewing effect, but also brought more huge investment. This film industry will soon enter the era of money, in addition to comparing actors and technology, the competition between technology and money will not become more and more fierce, and it will not be long before hundreds of millions of dollars of movies will rise and fall, and the pace will be so fast that we can't accept it.

Recently, I am planning a science fiction movie, which is Philip K. Dick's "Total Recall", and I have bought the rights to the adaptation, and the planned investment will be more than 40 million dollars. You've also seen "The Terminator", I plan to use Arnold Schwarzenegger to star, if the effect is okay, I will continue to make a sequel to the Terminator, and the investment is estimated to be more than 80 million US dollars, which will not be smaller than the investment of "Pirates of Malacca", and even then our investment will not be the largest, and those Hollywood companies are much more ruthless than us.

And these investments we have now are not spent on one film, my plan for this film is to schedule at least six or seven, and most in a series of more than ten. Therefore, our current investment is really nothing, and among so many movies, it is only tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, which is much less than spending this money in the future. ”

Wu Yusen already roughly knew the filming plan of "Pirates of Malacca", although he was more excited about making more than ten series of movies, but when he heard that there were films with an investment of nearly 100 million US dollars, he immediately turned his mind around, and Song Zhe's shoulders looked very incongruous and said: "Forty million, eighty million, it's all dollars, boss, I don't dare to think about more, but in the Hong Kong film industry, this is definitely an unprecedented investment, and I don't know how big a storm it will be when the time comes."

I have also noticed that Arnold Schwarzenegger, he is indeed a good actor in action movies, but the boss, I didn't say anything about using him to play "Total Memory", but I remember that he only invested more than six million dollars in the "Terminator" he played before, how can it cost nearly 100 million to make a sequel? ”

"Hehe, you may not know much about Old Wu. When "The Terminator" was first filmed, James Cameron was just a small role, and it was too difficult to find an investment. In order to prove his ability as soon as possible, it is not necessary to start work immediately with almost a little money. So a lot of props and other things are not perfect, and only half of the original script was filmed, and the remaining half was cut due to funding and other problems. ”

Mo Fei also said: "If we want to shoot the other half, we have to work more on props and post-production, so that we can make a much better film than the first one, like that kind of sci-fi film." You have to have an investment of tens of millions, otherwise you really can't shoot anything. Of course, it is not without benefit to invest so much, and the first part invested more than six million dollars. won a box office of almost 80 million, so if you invest 80 million in the sequel, you have to get a box office of 400 million, and the income will become greater if the investment is large. As the saying goes, 'bananas are big, and banana peels are big'. ”

Wu Yusen can also see the trend of increasing film investment. It's just that he didn't expect it to be so exaggerated, seeing that Mo Fei said it so firmly, most of his heart believed it, and when he looked back and thought about the investment of hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars in "Pirates of Malacca", he didn't think it was too big.

pouted and said: "If you say what the boss said, in the next twenty or thirty years, a big-budget movie will not have to invest hundreds of millions of dollars, it makes people's hearts beat when they think about it." I just don't know what the box office will look like. ”

Mo Feixin said, you probably wouldn't think of it now. In the future, there will be a box office of nearly $3 billion, and if you really want to say it, you will have to hand over an ambulance.

After thinking for a while, he turned back to the topic: "The times are constantly developing and progressing, and everything related to our lives will continue to improve, and we don't know to what extent it has progressed, in short, it is unimaginable to people now." No one can say what will happen in a hundred years, now let's talk about our first plan, which one to cooperate with to tug in the end, don't worry about it now, just look for it when you need to shoot, so many boats in Hong Kong are easy to find. It's Lao Wu, now you have to put the matter of "Pirates of Malacca" on the go, help me catch up with a film and release it in the summer, and then turn back to shoot your "Pirates of Malacca", which happens to be able to coordinate the schedules of the actors, after all, "Pirates of Malacca" is the biggest action in the history of Phoenix Culture, and the more secure the better. ”

Phoenix Culture's current director is a bit insufficient, and Wu Yusen also understands it, so if he has to rush to shoot another film, he has no opinion at all, as long as "Pirates of Malacca" is still in his hands, everything else is floating clouds. asked: "I'm completely fine here, I don't know what kind of film you arranged this time, boss?" ”

Mo Fei changed into a cigarette, took two puffs and said: "There is a TV series in the United States called "Legal Recovery", I don't know if you have heard of it, it is about a doctor's wife was killed, and the doctor became a major murder suspect. Doctors once found a man with a prosthetic leg snatching out of his home, but he couldn't prove it.

The judge and jury found the doctor guilty and sentenced him to death. On the way to escort the doctor and others to the prison, the prisoners in the same car attempted to carjack and escape. The driver was killed, and the prisoner car overturned on the tracks. A train roared in, and in the nick of time, the doctor jumped out of the car and fled. Sergeant Gerrard, who was in charge of the case, came to the scene and ordered a full manhunt for the doctors. Only by finding the real culprit can doctors prove their innocence. He came to the hospital to treat his wounds and changed his image. But someone still recognized him. The Medic and Sheriff Gerrard engage in an uphill chase and finally escape by falling off the waterfall.

Doctors found a hospital that could order a prosthesis. He disguised himself as a cleaner and obtained information. Just as he was leaving, he found a child who had been misdiagnosed. The doctor's work ethic allowed him to save the child, but it also made him reveal his identity. Once again, the Medic escaped from Gerrard's hands, but this time his actions changed Gerrard's opinion of him. He believed the doctor's words and began to search for the real culprit.

The doctor found the suspect Hitch and searched his home, found that his colleague Dr. Lin was involved in the incident, and also understood that he had been carefully plotted and framed. He brought in the police, who led to Gerard's discovery of the clue. But Dr. Lim also died in a suspicious car accident on the night of the doctor's accident. The doctor retrieved Dr. Lin's file and found that Dr. Lin was in charge of the development of a new drug with toxic side effects, and the doctor's report on the drug had been tampered with. From this, the doctor deduced that the mastermind behind the whole incident was Lin's superior, his friend Dr. Nigau.

The fact is, just as the doctor had speculated, Nigao was the master of all this. In order for the new drug to go into production, he changed the doctor's report and wanted to get rid of him. He orders Hitch to kill the doctor at all costs, and Hitch intercepts the doctor on the subway. The two engaged in a vicious fight. At the critical moment, the police arrived. The doctor skillfully used the police to arrest Hitch and once again managed to escape.

The doctor began to fight back. He came to the hospital. Just as Nigao was holding a celebration and giving a speech on the success of the new drug in his capacity as chairman of a pharmaceutical company, the doctor suddenly appeared and exposed Nigao's crimes. Nigao made a desperate fight with the doctor. Just then, Sergeant Gerrard also found out the truth and rushed to the hospital. In the chaos, Nigao knocked a policeman unconscious, picked up and pointed his gun at Gerrard, and in the nick of time, the doctor knocked Nigao to the ground and saved Gerrard. The truth of the case was finally revealed, and the doctor cleared his name.

I have bought the adaptation rights of this TV series, the script and actors have been completed, I will give you a month and a half to take this movie down, and I have also started to arrange the schedule of the actors of "Pirates of Malacca". (To be continued......)