Beijing, in an office building in Zhaoyang District

As the elevator door on the ninth floor slowly opened, a middle-aged man in a white shirt hurriedly walked out.

"Producer Zhang, Mr. Wang is waiting for you in the office."

Seeing the arrival of the middle-aged man, a woman standing at the reception reminded with a smile.

"Thanks, got it."

With a casual reply, the middle-aged man, known as Producer Zhang, hurried to the door of an office with the general manager's nameplate and knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

Hearing the sound and pushing the door open, I saw a square-faced man in a gray T-shirt sitting behind a desk, looking down and studying something.

If it is a reporter in the entertainment industry, he will immediately recognize that the square-faced man sitting in front of him is Mr. Wang Zhonglei, who is known as the big butler of Huayi Brothers.

And here is the office headquarters of Huayi Brothers in Beijing.

After noticing the visitor in front of him, Wang Zhonglei, who was studying the company's information, pointed to the sofa next to him, "Please sit, it's hot outside, do you want to have some drink?" ”

"I'm a little thirsty, so I'll just take a glass of mineral water myself."

In addition to planning the development of the film and television department, he also directly participated in a new film called "Paradise in the Army" that Huayi Brothers will focus on this year.

Putting down the leather bag he was carrying, Zhang Wei walked to the water dispenser, took out a paper cup from below and drank two glasses of mineral water in succession, as if this completely moistened his thirsty throat.

"Is this in such a hurry? Can you make you come here to me without even drinking water? ”

Faced with the abnormal behavior of the film and television department executive in front of him, Wang Zhonglei asked with a puzzled smile.

"Anxious, you must be in a hurry, Mr. Wang, is your computer connected to the Internet? There's something I think you'll have to see for yourself. ”

While replying, Zhang Wei put down the cup in his hand and stepped forward, as if he wanted to show the general manager something.

"Connected, how..."

Looking at the other party's mysterious posture, Wang Zhonglei moved his seat back and motioned to the other party to do it directly.

"That's good."

Then Zhang Wei came to the computer, opened the web page, and directly entered a website from the URL navigation interface.

“aacc？”

Seeing this other party clicking into this website, Wang Zhonglei couldn't help but whisper silently, as if he realized something, "They have launched a new work again?" ”

"You'll know when you see it."

After clicking on a video on the homepage of the AACC official website and playing it in full screen, Zhang Wei got up again and stood aside, looking at the screen.

Hearing this, Wang Zhonglei also looked at the monitor in front of him, curious about what the other party planned to let him see.

I saw that the screen was first plunged into pitch darkness for two or three seconds, and then a metal block with strange patterned lines appeared in the center of the picture.

As the lens quickly lengthened, the metal block also rapidly changed and expanded, and finally what appeared in front of him was a spaceship-like battleship, flying in the vast interstellar space.

For a moment, Wang Zhonglei even had a delusion, could it be that the United States launched another spacecraft with cash into the sky? But it seems that this kind of thing is too big for the previous space shuttle......

As the camera zooms out again, more types of warships appear in sight, as if they are conducting an interstellar military parade.

After a few seconds of freeze-frame, a burst of stirring music suddenly comes out, and the picture, which was already displayed in a static way, suddenly enters a state of motion, and the camera begins to switch one by one, joining the movie scene.

A city in another world without any sense of disobedience, all kinds of fierce beasts that are beyond the reach of Avatar, fierce artillery fire, familiar actor faces running in it...

If he hadn't realized in advance that this was a work of art, Wang Zhonglei would have thought that he hadn't woken up yet, looking at the dream he had sketched.

Full of bloody battles, crazy destruction, fast-paced twists and turns of character scenes... Everything seems to drag the watching mind to the limits of imagination.

For ordinary viewers, the biggest feeling is probably how this kind of thing is filmed.

As a senior investor in the film and television industry, Wang Zhonglei's biggest emotion is that even the Jewish tycoons in Hollywood may not be able to make such a work, let alone burn billions of dollars, even if they have money, it may be difficult to replicate a work with the same effect.

Not to mention what models the various spaceships in it are made of, the urban background and shooting techniques alone are by no means possible by relying on traditional blue and green or 3D special effects, unless the actual scene is really based on the actual scene, in the desert or the Gobi Desert to create the same proportion of realistic studios!

The subsequent fights between Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen and others and various monsters and savages further confirmed Wang Zhonglei's idea - this thing will never be so realistic in the later stage!

In just three minutes, Wang Zhonglei seemed to have witnessed a real future Star Wars.

And unlike the "money-burning scenes" that I used to watch American sci-fi blockbusters, even though I knew that these things were fake, I still had a feeling of "witnessing it happening" in the end, which made people believe that the things in the film did happen, and these things should be real, especially the various strange animals that appeared in this trailer, and there were no traces of "production" at all.

When everything finally calmed down again, and the universe finally flew into several pieces, piecing together a few Chinese characters for "Sinking Country", Wang Zhonglei only felt that he suddenly had goosebumps all over his body.

"This thing... Did they really do it themselves? ”

Without waiting for Zhang Wei next to him to speak, Wang Zhonglei couldn't help but click on the progress bar, playing the trailer again, and asked in amazement while watching.

"Compared with this kind of technology, the dozens of seconds of special effects we did in "The Great Earthquake" were completely ancient, and I don't think even if it took a year to piece together all the elites of Industrial Light & Magic, Weta Digital, and Sony Imaging, this kind of effect would not be able to be achieved."

Revisiting this trailer, Zhang Wei still can't calm down the excitement in his heart, and even forgets the purpose of his trip.

"How long did it take them?"

Although subconsciously it seems that he has paid attention to the news related to this movie, because he is not very familiar with this media company, Wang Zhonglei did not pay too much attention to it. After all, dealing with the outside world is the business of his brother Wang Zhongjun, and he is basically only responsible for the business within the group.

"From the opening ceremony to the release of this trailer, twenty-eight days."

Zhang Wei shook his head and said blankly, "To be honest, I am inclined to believe that they are hiding an alien base now, otherwise how could they take out such a technological thing that spans the ages in an instant." ”

Twenty-eight days...

Hearing this answer, Wang Zhonglei was completely stunned in his seat, this is too...**, right......

"That's... Is this trailer currently only airing on their official website? Did they get some tidbits out of the shoot themselves? What about the actors, did they say anything? Probably what's going on..."

Immediately, after reacting, Wang Zhonglei asked a series of questions like cannonballs, which made Zhang Wei beside him seem a little overwhelmed.

"The trailer has now begun to go viral, on mainstream or non-mainstream video social networking sites, buses, subways, square LED screens... As long as people can see the place where they can basically start to appear this trailer, the release date is preliminarily scheduled for July 31 according to the publicity of Bluegrass Media, and the reason why they chose to release it on this day seems that they have another publicity gimmick..."

According to the boss's questions, Zhang Wei patiently replied one by one.

"What gimmick?"

His gaze was still on the screen, and Wang Zhonglei asked.

"Because AACC's clothing industry Phantom Bow Camouflage is also responsible for the development and production of military uniforms, and has a close relationship with the army, so this work is also named a gift to the 'August 1st' Army Day, and there has been gossip that in addition to recognizing this work, the political axe has also begun to consider letting Lancao Media produce a national image propaganda film."

Hearing this, Wang Zhonglei couldn't help but sigh, "This gimmick is really clever..."

The August 1st gift, in addition to satisfying the strong self-improvement psychology of the local audience, is also a direct ride on the national propaganda express to win the policy support of all parties.

Not to mention the technical content of this work, the level of the actors, an image film that has been officially recognized and promoted at the highest level, in China and Western films with a Hollywood technical background, what is the result, just look at the original "Founding Ceremony", the audience size of more than 80 million party members alone is enough to envy Western film companies.

Not to mention that this film is full of filmmaking technology that is beyond the reach of the world's first-line special effects companies such as Industrial Light and Magic.

"As for the tidbits and the information revealed by the actors, because of the confidentiality agreement signed before the shooting, I am afraid it will not be known in a short time, but this should also be another hand of AACC, hoping to attract more tourists to the filming base with the help of mystery - as far as I know, the Phantom Manor and the film and television base in Sichuan Province are completely open to the outside world, and even the surrounding commercial real estate has been renovated, and you can move in at any time..."

Zhang Wei continued to answer the question Wang Zhonglei just mentioned, and then he thought of the same purpose of his trip, and added, "But this has nothing to do with us, I mean, should we stagger the schedule of our "Paradise in the Army", you know, the release date of our film is also within this time." ”

In fact, Wang Zhonglei had previously thought of taking advantage of the opportunity of the August 1st Army Day to give away his new work under the banner of gifts.

It's just that unlike the in-depth cooperation with AACC, he and the political axe have no more exchanges except for the occasional tourism promotion exchanges, and the connection with the army is nothing more than inviting some companies to participate in the filming of war films, so the most publicity is to appear on CCTV.

Like Li Mo, he can directly communicate face-to-face with the top senior generals of the General Rear Department, and even unite local political axes to organize primary and secondary school students to collectively watch the movies produced by AACC, which is completely beyond his reach and imagination.

"Yes, you have to think about it..."

In this regard, Wang Zhonglei nodded in agreement.

If it was a Hollywood movie this time, with his local strength, he would really have the heart to fight it, but seeing that it was AACC that was invincible across various fields, he couldn't help but feel a little stunned.

Especially the three-minute preview just now, which made him even more in awe of the opponent he faced for the first time, not to mention that he also hung the banner of an army collaborator to rush to the scene on August 1st...

This is still a trailer, and it is clearly an early warning! (To be continued.) )