477 Chen Xueqian's popularity crisis

With the advent of summer vacation, Hollywood blockbusters are being released, and "Mission Impossible 4" is also coming strongly in this trend. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

For this movie of Tom Tom who challenges the limits again and again, the Chinese audience is very welcome. However, this momentum suddenly declined a lot after the release of "Transformers 3" on July 20.

In the face of the "Transformers" series, which has a strong box office appeal in China, there are very few movies that can compete with it. However, even so, "Mission Impossible 4" also won 675 million at the domestic box office.

Chen Xueqian is not surprised by this achievement, and it turns out that his box office appeal is not enough to reverse the life and death of a movie. Even with him starring, "Mission Impossible" can't break people's love for "Transformers". Although the Internet is full of posts complaining about the movie, it still can't stop people from entering the cinema to see this visual feast.

As for Chen Xueqian, he didn't watch any of these two movies, in fact, before the movie was about to be released, Chen Xueqian had already flown to Japan to prepare for the live-action movie "Attack on Titan".

This time, Chen Xueqian handed over the script to three top screenwriters from China, Japan and South Korea to co-write, and for this comic, Chen Xueqian plans to shoot it into a series of movies. The ideal plan at the moment is to make a movie for one season of the comics. In terms of the protagonist of the movie, Chen Xueqian is also starting to look for it.

This time, in the choice of roles, Chen Xueqian considered his influence in the world. Another point is to match the manga prototype as much as possible. And the most difficult choice among them should be Mikasa as the heroine of this film.

This woman, whose strength exploded in the comics, Chen Xueqian felt that she had to be played by an actress who was proficient in martial arts. In fact, this alone is enough to make many people lose this opportunity.

In addition, in the comics, the heroine is a person with oriental roots, which further limits Chen Xueqian's range of choices.

However, the reason why Chen Xueqian flew to Japan this time was not for casting, but to solve the copyright problem of the film.

In Japan, there are many issues involved in the copyright of a manga, especially an anime adapted from an anime, which involves the original author of the manga, publishers, TV stations, etc.

The post-production of Chen Xueqian's comic still invited Japanese cartoonists to carry out follow-up creation in the name of the studio, which made the right to change this comic even more complicated.

In addition to solving the copyright issue of "Attack on Titan", Chen Xueqian is also ready to prepare for his new movie.

However, when Chen Xueqian arrived in Japan, he found that he had not been to Japan for a long, long time, and even he had not paid attention to himself and even the recognition of his works in Japan for a long time.

I think that at the beginning, Chen Xueqian was a fledgling, and when he held the signing meeting of "My Youth Love Story is Really Problematic" in Japan, he already had a large number of diehards. Immediately, Chen Xueqian launched comics one after another, making his fame in Japan skyrocketing for a while. Many people regard him as the only cartoonist who can compare to the three pillars of the Shonen Comics Club.

However, as the focus of his career shifted and the later manga was basically handed over to others, he stopped paying attention to his popularity in Japan.

But when he visited Ayumi Hamasaki, whom he hadn't seen for a while, his sister, who had been very close to him since the beginning of his acquaintance, told him that he was now an outdated manga artist in Japan.

"Now many people on the Internet are saying that you have exhausted your talents. So your appeal in Japan has plummeted. Although the popularity of your comics is not bad, it is not comparable to the heyday. ”

Hearing Ayumi Hamasaki answer himself like this, Chen Xueqian felt a little painful for a while.

In fact, when he came to Japan this time, the most important thing was to come to promote it, originally he thought that several of his company's anime movies were selling well in Japan, and he had some influence in them, but he never thought that he was already an outdated character.

To be honest, Chen Xueqian was full of confidence that his movie would achieve a good box office in Japan, but when he heard Ayumi Hamasaki say this, he suddenly felt a little drummed in his heart.

These are really the two films he is about to launch, both of which are very dependent on the box office of the Japanese market, after all, in Chen Xueqian's previous life, the box office of these two films was mainly supported by Japan. If he loses his appeal in Japan, then he will have a lot of fun.

And the next work is his first Chinese background work, if the box office hits the street, it will be really ugly, although he believes that the domestic box office will not be bleak, but relying on the domestic box office alone, Chen Xueqian is really a little embarrassed, anyway, he is also a world-class director, even if it can't be popular all over the world, at least it will be popular in Asia, right?

Now Chen Xueqian feels that he is very painful. This is simply the rhythm of being out of the teacher and dying first.

Although the animated films produced by Summit Entertainment have achieved good results in Japan, those movies are actually copied by Chen Xueqian in Hollywood, and the distributor is also an American company, so it is still possible for Japanese audiences to buy it.

But the next animated film will definitely not be released in the United States, and it may not even be released in the United States, which is called how Chen Xueqian can do it, if it is really because he no longer has appeal, so that this movie is cold in Japan, then he will be in pain.

For this reason, Chen Xueqian feels that he must do something, but the movie is about to be released, what does Chen Xueqian have to do to regain his popularity?

After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Xueqian felt that if he wanted to regain the recognition of the Japanese market, he still had to make a fuss about comics. Since it was widely believed in Japan that he had exhausted his talents, he would draw another manga to revive his reputation.

Thinking of a reliable way, Chen Xueqian directly called his branch in Japan.

The next day, an advertisement appeared on major websites in Japan.

"Ghost cartoonist, the former genius boy will release a new comic, and this time he will draw to the end."

As soon as this news came out, it immediately attracted the attention of many readers, for Chen Xueqian's comics, although the popularity has dropped a lot, but after all, there are still a considerable number of readers, and more importantly, Chen Xueqian's comics are not one, but many.

And although many people abandon the book because of the change of author of these comics, they still have expectations for Chen Xueqian, and now Chen Xueqian actually said that he is about to publish a new comic, which suddenly surprised those old readers.

And Chen Xueqian's comics this time are no longer juvenile comics, but focus on youth comics, which surprises readers who have grown up watching his comics.

It's true that as they get older, they can't read a lot of comics that used to be enthusiastic, but if it's a youth comic, then they can consider it.

For a while, as the release of Chen Xueqian's new film was getting closer and closer, such publicity was also overwhelmingly promoted in Japan. And Chen Xueqian himself locked himself in the studio and began his comic creation again.

Unlike before, this time Chen Xueqian is no longer alone, but with a team. These teams are all from Chen Xueqian's studio, and their task is mainly to improve Chen Xueqian's works, after all, time is really rushed, Chen Xueqian wants to bring new comics to the market before the release of the movie, and achieve certain results, then it is necessary to launch new works very quickly, and the number of new works is not less.

It's best to launch a super long story at a time, which directly reflects the charm of the work and regains the confidence of the Japanese market.

In this way, his painting speed was put to the test. And Chen Xueqian had no choice but to use some unconventional means.

In this way, Chen Xueqian's studio gathered a group of top painters to retouch, beautify, and finally produce according to the rough draft given by Chen Xueqian.

In just over a month, Chen Xueqian drew a lot that many cartoonists can't draw in a year. In the face of this amazing efficiency, everyone was a little surprised, and the most shocking thing for these participants was Chen Xueqian's seemingly well-flowing talent, in the past month or so, Chen Xueqian almost did not stop, as if these stories were already in his mind, just need to be temporarily moved out. What they don't know is that, in fact, Chen Xueqian really did this.