Chapter 1007: Chinese Magic (Part II)

When Lin Youlun adapted "Game of the Brave", he only put the background of the story in Hong Kong, and the rest of the parts basically retained the content of the original drama in his memory, and after showing the script to Teddy Robin, he felt that some could be improved.

In the plot, some strange creatures will emerge from every step of the game board, and Teddy Robin thinks that these animals can be some species unique to the East, such as pandas, crested ibises, and Chinese alligators, and the one who has been chasing and killing the male protagonist in the film is no longer a strange musketeer, but an oriental warrior with a bow and arrow.

These changes in details do not have much impact on the plot of the film, but they can give the audience a completely different viewing experience, and Lin Youlun certainly adopted this suggestion.

The level of special effects produced in the most beautiful film is no less than that of "Jurassic Park", which is better than the original drama in Lin Youlun's memory, and some oriental elements are also amazing and fascinating.

Lin Youlun made such a high evaluation of this film in front of reporters, on the one hand, to help promote the film, and on the other hand, it is actually a hint that Hong Kong filmmakers can learn more inspiration from this film for the fusion of Eastern and Western films.

Because of the delay during the interview, Lin Youlun, Yi Bixia, and Zhang Baizhi finally stepped on the time to enter the premiere site, which was that the seats in the screening hall were basically full.

When the three of them came in, it aroused a lot of people's ideas, but at this time, it was forbidden to take pictures at the scene, and the surrounding media reporters were not good at openly violating the rules, so they could only regretfully watch the three of them walk to the front row like this.

Seeing Lin Youlun coming, the main creators and guests sitting in the front row all stood up together. shook hands with Lin Youlun in turn. When it was the turn of Xu Ke and Shi Nanwei. Lin Youlun found out that his actions were next to Xu Ke.

Xu Ke came to cheer this time because of Teddy Robin, and the two were both members of the "seven-person creative group" of New Art City, and their personal relationship has always been very good.

Of course, it was Xu Ke who took the initiative to ask for a seat with Lin Youlun, and taking advantage of today's opportunity, he also had a few topics he wanted to discuss with Lin Youlun.

After the premiere began, all the main creators of "Jumanji" were invited to the stage, and the seats next to Xu Ke and Lin Youlun were immediately vacated, without the interference of others. Xu Ke was very relieved and chatted with Lin Youlun.

"Mr. Lin, when "Jumanji" was filming, Teddy Robin and I discussed some related plots, this film should be classified as one of the most oriental magic films, right?"

Lin Youlun glanced sideways at Xu Ke, "Then it depends on how you distinguish it." ”

Xu Ke pondered for a moment and said: "All the elements of magic, discrimination, and Warcraft in movies should be classified in the category of Western magic films, and the appearance of samurai, magic, and monsters should be regarded as oriental magic films." ”

Lin Youlun pursed his lips: "According to what you say, "Game of the Brave" is actually just a side of the genre of oriental magic. If you want to talk about pure oriental magic movies, it is still the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern 2" that you are filming. ”

Xu Ke brought up the topic. In fact, I want to lead to "Ghost Blowing the Lantern 2", the post-production of this movie is nearing completion, and it is expected to officially meet the audience in the summer of next year.

Lin Youlun invested almost 140 million US dollars in this movie, and Xu Ke also spent almost a year and a half to shoot this film with all his heart, this cooperation between the two sides should be considered very pleasant, and according to Lin Youlun's meaning, as long as the box office performance of the film is acceptable, the third part can start filming immediately, and the director still hopes that Xu Ke can continue to stay in office.

"I also wanted to tell Mr. Lin about this, I think I can participate in the filming of the series "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", and I may not be able to come up with better ideas and ideas than before, so I will fall behind in filming."

Xu Ke offered to no longer be the director of the third part of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", which surprised Lin Youlun.

The first part of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" was directed by Wang Jing, and although the box office handed over a satisfactory answer sheet after the release of the film, the audience also had a lot of controversy about the style of the film, so the second part should be taken over by Xu Ke.

In Lin Youlun's opinion, Xu Ke should be the most suitable person to direct this series of films, and he has also watched some of the well-made samples of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern 2", and the effect still satisfies him.

This year, the fourth part of the "Once Upon a Time" series was released coldly, and many movie sequels supervised by Xu Ke did not respond as well as the previous work, maybe Xu Ke's own confidence was also hit a little, so he had such an idea.

Lin Youlun originally wanted to comfort Xu Ke for a few words, but he didn't expect him to say another reason.

"Some time ago, when I was discussing the shooting concept of "Jumanji" with Teddy Robin, I suddenly had an idea that if martial arts leaned in the direction of magic, it should be able to present more new things to the audience."

Lin Youlun understood as soon as he heard that Xu Ke refused to continue to serve as the director of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" because he had a plan for a new film.

Although there are some regrets, Lin Youlun does not intend to force Xu Ke, on the contrary, he shows great interest in Xu Ke's upcoming new film.

"Speaking of which, this matter has something to do with Mr. Lin." Xu Ke looked at Lin Youlun and deliberately sold Guanzi.

"Something to do with me?" Lin Youlun became more and more curious, and at the same time began to secretly guess which movie Xu Ke was going to make.

"Some time ago, TVB and ATV were broadcasting different versions of "Bao Qingtian" at the same time, and then I remembered that Mr. Lin seemed to have invested in a similar TV series before, and the movie I wanted to make was related to that TV series."

As soon as Xu Kecai said this, Lin Youlun immediately knew the answer.

"You want to shoot "Di Renjie"?"

Xu Ke nodded, and then added: "Mr. Lin, the TV series you invested in before was about Di Renjie's investigation story in his later years, and what I wanted to shoot was Di Renjie in his youth, a new attempt to integrate martial arts, suspense, and magic." ”

This kind of subversive thing Xu Ke did a lot before, just like before the "Huang Feihong" series, everyone's impression of this character stayed on the image of Guan Dexing who wore a melon skin hat, wore southern kung fu, and had a forbearant personality, and in "Undefeated in the East", no one thought that the villain who was not impressive in the original novel could also be so captivating, so this time Xu Ke hit the idea on Di Renjie, Lin Youlun was not particularly surprised, and in his memory, Xu Ke has indeed made several similar films. (To be continued......)