Seeing that Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang were both looking at him expectantly, Lin Youlun couldn't hide it anymore. Although he didn't plan to throw himself into Golden Harvest, he had an idea that he could give Golden Harvest a try.

"I heard that Baohe Company is making a zombie film, and this movie is invested by Golden Harvest?"

Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang glanced at each other, and they didn't understand why Lin Youlun suddenly asked about this. Before the 80s, there were not many ghost thrillers in Hong Kong, and zombie films were even more forgotten themes, and occasionally there were a few, but they were only simple works that imitated Western vampire movies, and did not cause much repercussions, even the Shaw Brothers Film Company, which was in the limelight 10 years ago, also planted a shadow in zombie films.

At that time, Shaw Yifu was also ambitious to enter the overseas market, Shaw Brothers Film Company invited a British director, and filmed a collection of Western blood-sucking zombies and the legend of "Xiangxi Chasing Corpses" film "Seven Golden Corpses", Shaw Brothers launched a strong publicity, but due to the strange style of the film, mixed content, both Eastern and Western audiences could not accept, and the box office finally failed miserably, but in the next ten years, no one in Hong Kong dared to touch zombie movies.

In the 80s, tide movies flourished, and the "Ghost Fighting" series launched by Hong Jinbao's Baohe Company combined kung fu comedy and ghost elements to launch the "Ghost Fight" series was a great success at the box office, and then created the trend of "fantasy kung fu films". This kind of low-cost "psychedelic kung fu film" made Baohe taste the sweetness, and then Hong Jinbao tried to integrate zombie films into "psychedelic kung fu films", which led to this cooperation with Golden Harvest.

"This movie is called "Mr. Zombie", and the director is called Liu Guanwei, who used to do photography, and was later discovered and promoted to director by Hong Jinbao. This time, Hong Jinbao came to me with the script and said that he wanted to make a different ghost movie, and for the sake of his face, I agreed to invest. The film cost 4.5 million at the beginning, and it was filmed intermittently for more than three months, during which additional investment was made, and it has almost cost 8.5 million to shoot it now, but I predict that this film will have a box office of 6 million It will be very good, and it will have to lose at least 2 million. He Guanchang obviously does not have much confidence in the zombie theme of local folklore, and is not optimistic about the box office prospects of this film.

"If you want me to say, this movie can have at least 20 million box office." Lin Youlun's words are amazing, because in his memory, the movie "Mr. Zombie" was released at the end of 1985, and the audience flocked to it, ranking fifth among the top ten grossing movies of the year, and then zombie films began to flood.

When others say this, He Guanchang will only listen to it as a joke, but when Lin Youlun said this, his expression became solemn, wondering if this film was overestimated by himself.

Zou Wenhuai was also thinking about Lin Youlun's words, but he was thinking about something else.

In Zou Wenhuai's view, this movie is just a kung fu movie borrowing the corpse to resurrect the soul, many of the most common elements in kung fu films, such as the background of the early Republic of China, the relationship between master and apprentice, fighting fun and other plots have been directly put into this film by the screenwriter, the shape of the zombie is based on folklore, designed to be dressed in Qing Dynasty official uniforms, hands straight, feet together and jumping image, but the design of people being bitten into zombies is a reference to Western vampire movies.

Lin Youlun will not mention the movie "Mr. Zombie" for no reason, could it be that he wants to use zombie films as a stepping stone for Golden Harvest to enter the overseas market?

The more Zou Wenhuai thought about it, the more he felt that there was such a possibility, and his brows furrowed. This road has been proven impassable by the Shaw Brothers, and when it comes to Lin Youlun's hands, can he play more tricks?

"Using glutinous rice, ink thread, peach wood swords, and yellow paper charms to subdue zombies, foreign audiences will definitely not be able to understand them, but what if these things are replaced with more modern weapons?" Lin Youlun explained unhurriedly: "If you want to break into the overseas market, you have to get closer to the movie-watching tastes of overseas audiences, of course, the premise is not to lose our own characteristics." At least in my opinion, zombie movies and Western vampire movies have a lot in common, such as zombies and vampires are afraid of sunlight, and people will be infected if they are bitten, and these settings are relatively easy for foreign audiences to accept. Hong Jinbao is wearing the shell of a zombie movie to make a kung fu movie, and I am going to wear the shell of a zombie movie to shoot a gunfight action movie. ”…,

"Bullets don't seem to work against supernatural beings like zombies, do they?" He Guanchang couldn't help but interject.

"This is the cleverness of Hong Kong zombie film screenwriters, they generally choose the background of the story in the early years of the Republic of China, when the weapons were backward, and the only way to deal with zombies was Maoshan Taoism, in fact, killing zombies in the movie doesn't have to be so difficult, and the background can also be very modern, just need to make some articles on the bullets."

Lin Youlun's point of view is very novel, and Zou Wenhuai is not interested.

"Foreigners feel that spells have no scientific basis and can't accept them, so let's play science with them! Aren't zombies afraid of sunlight? You can have special ultraviolet bullets to deal with zombies, and then use the Western vampire movie set selectively, I don't believe that this will not open the door to the Western film market! ”

He Guanchang finally heard some doorways, "Lin Sheng's meaning is like the production of electrical appliances, we take other people's core components, use our own packaging, and then sell them to each other." ”

Lin Youlun nodded, "Mr. He's analogy is very vivid, but it is not accurate enough, in the movie, we use the foreigner's set, but we don't need to pay any patent fees." ”

"I understand, this is called 'mastering the long technique to control the enemy'?" He Guanchang changed his words again.

"The key is to have a good storyline." Zou Wenhuai's faint gaze seemed to be able to penetrate people's hearts, "Lin Sheng has talked to us so much, it won't be just talk on paper, right?" ”

"Don't worry, Mr. Zou, I have prepared the script."

"I have one more reluctant request." Zou Wenhuai said with a solemn face: "I want to ask Lin Sheng to be the producer of this movie." ”

When these words came out, not only Lin Youlun was surprised, but even He Guanchang was surprised.

The producers and producers in Hong Kong films are similar in nature, but there are great differences in the specificity of different people. Like the movies produced by Yongsheng, the previous producers and producers are generally the names of the Xiang brothers, but the Xiang brothers just put up a name, and they don't ask about the filming of the film.

And some producers are different, how the film is made is completely up to them, and the most famous of them is Xu Ke in the future. "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Smiling Proud Jianghu" are Xu Ke's recognized masterpieces, but the directors are not Xu Ke. And the reason why these two movies have a strong "Xu style" is because director Cheng Xiaodong is only responsible for making movies, and the editing power is in the hands of producer Xu Ke.

Zou Wenhuai wants Lin Youlun to be the producer, of course, he will give him the greatest power, how to shoot the movie, the director doesn't count, he must nod.

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