Since Cheng Peng's identity was exposed, netizens knew that he was the singer of "Myth", and many people hoped that he could make "Myth" into a movie.

In Cheng Peng's post bar, someone even launched an activity of 10,000 signatures asking him to shoot "Myth". There has been a steady stream of signatories, and now there are more than 100,000 people.

Everyone loves the song "Myth", loves the story, and loves Yushu!

Cheng Peng was very moved, but he had some concerns about filming this story. "Mythology" is a big deal in terms of plot, photography, and editing, but the movie is too ambitious and ignores the processing of many details, resulting in low evaluation, and what is worse is that the box office is not particularly good.

This still has the name of Jackie Chan, and if someone else plays it, I'm afraid it will be worse.

No, Cheng Peng really likes this story, and he started with "Myth", so he is a little unwilling to give up like this. After the overseas sales of "Invasion of Darkness", he had a better understanding of this overseas market, and finally made up his mind to shoot this story.

"Mythology" has a good selling point, action scenes can attract male audiences, love scenes can attract female audiences, and there is also Jackie Chan, it stands to reason that it should be a big hit overseas, why is it unsatisfactory overseas performance?

Cheng Peng feels that the main reason is that the ratio of love scenes and action scenes is a bit out of balance, and love is the theme of this movie, but there are too few love scenes between two people; And the content is a little messy, and many things are not explained clearly, such as the scene before Qin Shi Huang's death, Chinese people can definitely understand it, but there are definitely not many foreigners who can understand it.

Other than that, the war drama of "Mythology" is a problem. The movie uses a lot of people. But it's the same as the war scenes of many domestic movies. lacks sufficient visual impact and is unattractive to European and American audiences who are accustomed to seeing big scenes.

In fact, there are not many people who need to shoot this kind of scene, when Tom Cruise in "The Last Samurai" and they rode horses to charge, there were only dozens of people, but they gave people the feeling that they were overwhelming; It doesn't have to be dressed in nice and neat armor, "Braveheart" is completely a group of peasants, and the war scenes still look impactful, mainly a matter of composition.

There are a lot of things that need to be revised to make "Myth". For example, the identity of Yushu, the original version is the princess of Goryeo, there was no Goryeo in the Qin Dynasty, only North Korea, and North Korea at that time was a different concept from later North Korea. Cheng Peng changed Yushu to Princess Yue, Yueshi is a neighbor of Qin, and the relationship with Qin is relatively friendly, but the relationship between Yueshi and the Xiongnu is in a state of war, and Princess Yue's marriage to Qin Shi Huang can not only show friendship, but also jointly deal with the Xiongnu. It makes sense.

The protagonist of the movie, Meng Yi, is really a person in history, Meng Yi is the younger brother of the general Meng Tian. He was the secretary of Qin Shi Huang, and in the later years of the first emperor, he was one of the most trusted ministers. Travel to be Qin Shi Huang's attendant, and enter in front of the emperor's palace. After the death of Qin Shi Huang, Zhao Gao's design killed him. The idiom "fame and fame" originated from Zhao Gao's design to kill Meng Yi.

However, Meng Yi is a civil official, not a general, so Cheng Peng considered changing Meng Yi to Meng Tian. Meng Tian made great contributions in the war to destroy Qi, and after the unification of Qin, he led an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north and recovered the Hetao area.

But Cheng Peng finally gave up this idea, because when Qin Shi Huang died, General Meng Tian and Gongzi Fusu led a large army to garrison the frontier and did not travel together, which is seriously inconsistent with historical facts.

In addition to these details, the structure of the film also needs to be revised, and although "Myth" is also a three-act structure, it does not conform to the theory of fifteen nodes.

Therefore, Cheng Peng adjusted the structure of the script, and the entire structure came in completely according to the fifteen nodes, deleted a lot of content, and added some things.

The revised story is like this, Meng Yi was ordered to take the princess Yushu of the Yue clan back to Qin as a concubine, but the Xiongnu got the news and sent troops to attack in order to prevent the two families from marrying.

The escort led by Meng Yi was only a hundred people, and in the face of the siege of thousands of Hun cavalry, a bloody battle began. In the end, only Meng Yi protected the princess to kill the repetition, and under the pursuit of the Hun cavalry, Meng Yi and Yushu, who were hit by several arrows, fell into the valley......

Yi Xiaochuan had been dreaming about it for many years, and he didn't understand why, so he had been engaged in the study of the ancient kingdom of the Yue Clan, hoping to solve this mystery one day.

One day, his friend Liang Jiahui invited him to join an archaeological team, and they discovered the ruins of an ancient city, probably the ancient kingdom of the Yue Clan, and they needed the help of experts in this area. Hearing the ruins of the ancient kingdom of the Yue Clan, Yi Xiaochuan agreed without thinking about it.

At this point, the story enters the second act, the original version of the film in order to pursue internationality, put this part in India, this part is very interesting, especially the fight scene on the production line, which is particularly exciting. However, there are also many illogical places in this part, such as the appearance of the portrait of Yushu is more outrageous, how could Qin Shi Huang reward the portrait of the concubine to a foreign prince, who would give the portrait of his wife to other men! It is different at the Yueshi site, this is Yushu's home, and the portrait may have been given to Yushu's parents.

Cheng Peng placed the second act at the Yueshi ruins in order to turn this part into a story like Raiders of the Lost Ark, full of mechanisms, murderous machines, and mysterious exotic cultures, making the whole story more attractive.

After Yi Xiaochuan and the others entered the ruins of the ancient city, they found that there were many traps and traps inside, and people kept dying because of triggering the mechanisms. Under Yi Xiaochuan's guidance, the rest of the people broke through the obstacles and came to the center of the ruins.

They found a coffin hanging in the air, and the Liang family took off the gems on the sacrificial sandalwood, and the coffin suddenly lost its buoyancy and fell to the ground. Yi Xiaochuan found the portrait of Yushu inside the lid of the coffin, but at this time the main hall collapsed.

The Liang family escaped, but Yi Xiaochuan was trapped inside. I don't know how long it took, Yi Xiaochuan had a dream, in which Yushu described the situation of the Yue's palace to him, and after waking up, he found a passage and escaped with Yushu's description.

Seeing that Yi Xiaochuan would not die, the Liang family decided to go to the Qin Warriors Museum together to find the truth. Yi Xiaochuan hopes to find his dreams; The Liang family is eager to find the mystery of the gem. At this time, Liang Jiahui learned that the person who had been funding him for several years was Mr. Gu, who was deprived of the title of professor by Yi Xiaochuan for exposing the tomb robbery, and the two secretly cooperated because of selfishness.

At this point, the story enters the third act. Yi Xiaochuan and the Liang family took a helicopter to the sky above Lishan Mountain and entered the canyon of the waterfalls. There is an artificial tunnel inside. It leads to the suspended Heavenly Palace.

Yushu and the deputy general Nangong Yan appeared alive in front of Yi Xiaochuan's eyes, and Yushu, who had been waiting for thousands of years, thought that Meng Yi kept his promise and came back to her, and was very moved; Yi Xiaochuan finally found the answer in his dream.

At this time, Mr. Gu followed to the Heavenly Palace, and a big battle began, although Nangong Yan's kung fu was high, he could not match the gun in Mr. Gu's hand, and when Mr. Gu pointed the gun at Yushu, Yi Xiaochuan stood in front of her. It's like using the back to block the arrows shot by the Huns for the jade gargle.

When everyone was fighting, the Liang family accidentally pried out the gems on the mechanism, and the Heavenly Palace lost its buoyancy, causing the imperial tomb to collapse.

When Yi Xiaochuan and Yushu were about to leave the tomb, Yushu found that Yi Xiaochuan was not the real Meng Yi, and flew back to the tomb despite Yi Xiaochuan's dissuasion, insisting on staying and waiting for the fulfillment of the two-thousand-year promise. On the line between life and death, Yi Xiaochuan escaped with the Tianxing Gem in his hand, and Yushu, Nangong Yan, Mr. Gu, Liang Jiahui, and others were buried deep in the ground forever.

The theme of the movie is love spanning two thousand years, and Cheng Peng always feels that he does not describe the love between the two enough. So after completing the storyboard, when discussing the script with the relevant people in the crew. Xu Jinglei was invited, and several students from the directing department and department of the film school were also invited to participate.

After everyone finished reading the storyboard, Cheng Peng's eyes swept over everyone's faces and asked, "Let's talk about our own opinions, if you have any opinions, just ask!" ”

Chen Shaoping is very satisfied with this story, which is especially suitable for his skills: "I think it's very good, the plot is somewhat similar to "Ancient and Modern Wars of the Qin Warriors", but it is more masculine than "Ancient and Modern Wars of the Qin Warriors", especially the two war scenes, just looking at the composition makes my blood boil!" ”

"I wrote the script, and I know what the advantages are, but I'm not particularly satisfied with the details, so I want everyone to talk more about the shortcomings!" Cheng Peng glanced at Xu Jinglei and said, "Old Xu, I just want to hear your opinion as a talented female director, tell me!" ”

Xu Jinglei pondered for a moment and said, "I think the emotional drama is a little weak, and the interaction between Yushu and Meng Yi is too little, if you add one or two scenes to them, it may be better to make some foreshadowing." ”

Wang Qinian agrees with this opinion, the emotional drama is weak: "Meng Yi died heroically, but his death was not related to the theme of love, I think at the beginning Yushu can give him a token, such as a sachet, jade pendant or something, here Meng Yi takes out the token to see, and then dies, only one action is needed to show his inner feelings for Yushu." ”

Cheng Peng's eyes lit up, and he said: "Yushu is the emperor's concubine, and Meng Yi's feelings for her have always been forbearing, but at this time, he is about to die, and he has no scruples, so he naturally reveals his true feelings, this idea is good." ”

Xu Jinglei thought about it, looked at Cheng Peng and said with a smile: "At the end of the script, Yushu said, you are not Meng Yi, you are not Meng Yi!" You can make the following changes. Meng Yi was hit by several arrows in order to save Yushu, and there were scars on his body, and these scars were always engraved in Yushu's heart, but Yi Xiaochuan did not have these scars. At this time, Yushu saw that Yi Xiaochuan had no scars on his body, and knew that he was not the person he was waiting for. ”

Cheng Peng clapped his hands and said: "This idea is very good, much more reasonable than my setting, and it echoes from beginning to end!" ”

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After discussing for a while, one student said, "Director, I have a question, why do the characters in the script always say 'hi' when they say 'yes', it sounds weird, like Japanese." ”

Cheng Peng, who learned the use of this "hi" from the TV series "The Great Qin Empire", explained with a smile: "The pronunciation of the language used in China in the pre-Qin era is close to today's Minnan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Cantonese dialects, and the pronunciation of "yes" in Cantonese is "hi", so there is no problem for people in the Qin Dynasty to say "hi". ”

As soon as this remark came out, it caused a discussion among everyone, and it turned out that the Qin people said "Hi".

After discussing the script, Zhao Linlin finally spoke: "This movie has a big scene, there are two important war scenes, the ruins of the ancient kingdom of the Yue clan need to be modeled, and this part of the Heavenly Palace needs a lot of computer special effects, tens of millions of dollars will definitely not be able to take it, what is the budget?" ”

The original Myth costs 1. 600 million Hong Kong dollars, close to 20 million US dollars, and Cheng Peng's version has more war scenes, more special effects, and the cost is naturally higher: "It is estimated that the preliminary estimate is about 200 million, and the specific amount will have to wait for the production department to calculate and come up with a detailed budget table to determine!" ”

Hearing this number, everyone present gasped, 200 million, this time it's really big! (To be continued......)