Back home, Christina is filming Chainsaw 2 and her home is empty.

took out the phone and wanted to call Robert Jr. for a drink, but remembered that this guy and Jeremy were busy filming on the set, so he could only throw his phone on the table.

As soon as he threw it on the table, the phone rang, and when I picked it up, I saw that it was Frank from Lionsgate.

"Hello Frank!" Zhou Shaoming answered the phone.

"Haha, my God of Wealth, the filming rights of Resident Evil were bought by Constantin in Germany, but I spent a lot of effort to get those money fans to take a big advantage before they agreed to sell the copyright, how about it! I'm efficient! Frank's exaggerated laughter came from the microphone.

"Well, that's good." successfully got the copyright, Zhou Shaoming was finally a little happier.

Frank excitedly asked, "When are you going to start?" Need my help with the character actors? If there is any commandment, just open your mouth. ”

"Okay, I do need your help finding some actors!" Zhou Shaoming tilted his head and took off his suit, and then hurriedly said: "I'll give you the list of actors I want in a while, you sign a contract with them as soon as possible, like this, goodbye!" ”

As soon as he hung up the phone and let out a sigh, Zhou Shaoming fell heavily on the sofa, but he was a little at a loss.

Now that the filming rights have been settled, the most important step is nowhere to start. If Mira doesn't agree to enter the dream, then she has to start over with the heroine, everything is a castle on the beach, and a wave can make it disappear.

Forget it, let's forget about those annoying things and let it be!

Since you want to enter the world of zombies, you must first figure out what is going on with this terrible and crazy creature, what are its weaknesses, and how to improve the survival rate is the key!

Although I have watched a lot of novels and movies in my previous life, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, so let's find more things to understand this monster that only exists in movies or games, which makes people feel frightened but never tired of it.

Thinking of this, Zhou Shaoming hurriedly got up and called around to ask for information, he planned to watch all the zombie movies, and then go to the Internet to find something to learn more about zombies.

A few hours later, assistant director Ben knocked on the door of Zhou Shaoming's house with a large number of zombie films.

"Ben, you're finally here!" Zhou Shaoming grabbed the disc and took a closer look, this guy was quite careful, and even found the approximate box office data of these movies, which was clearly written on the box.

"You're in such a hurry, I've only found these, but the well-known ones should be here, such as this 1978 by George? Romeo's "Dawn of the Living Dead", this guy used $500,000 to earn more than $55 million worldwide! Ben looked at Zhou Shaoming, who looked unhappy and showed a little fierce light in his eyes, and hurriedly added: "But I think he is much worse than you!" ”

"Haha, I'm really smart!" Zhou Shaoming's face turned cloudy and clear, and he touched his round head with a smile.

"This is the Resident Evil game disc, okay, you can read it slowly, I'll help you find some information." Ben touched his head and smiled innocently.

"Okay, thank you!" Zhou Shaoming gave Ben a bear hug, thanked him sincerely, and then sent him out.

After coming back, Zhou Shaoming sat in front of the TV and stuffed one by one into his mind one by one of the weird or terrifying or bloody or exaggerated zombie movies.

According to the information on the Internet, Zhou Shaoming can be regarded as having a deeper understanding of zombies.

A zombie is an undead creature, commonly known as the living dead. Chinese netizens always like to call foreign zombies zombies, but these are fundamentally two different things, zombies and zombies are fundamentally different, zombies are generally directly transformed by the living, and zombies must be transformed by the dead. Zombies are afraid of light, but zombies are not afraid. Zombies move fast, zombies move slowly, and when they see the flesh of a living person, they are extremely fast. Zombies are predominantly East Asian. Zombies and zombies are not within the Six Realms of the Three Realms.

Zombies can be understood as corpses that are not completely dead, and the brain in charge of thinking is severely damaged, but they can still retain some of the lower animal-like thinking. The cerebellar function is preserved in large quantities, and the movements are slow but not out of shape. Pain, fear, and other innate human weaknesses have been eliminated. It can be said that zombies have evolved from humans to creatures with serious brain degeneration. The behavior is the instinct of all animals on the earth, such as the instinct to find food and remove dissidents, in contrast, zombies will simply think, rest, move, use tools, and live in their own territory.

To deal with zombies, headshots with firearms are the safest way, find a safe place to hide yourself, have plenty of food and clean water, Zhou Shaoming firmly remembered these points.

It was dark, and I didn't know how many days it took, Zhou Shaoming finally watched all the zombie movies and cleared the Resident Evil series of games.

Paying attention to those disgusting monsters all the time, Zhou Shaoming's mentality was finally a lot calmer, and when he closed his eyes, those roaring zombies would not let him be nervous.

Synthesizing those zombie films, and then thinking back to the original time and space, the classic films such as "Twenty-Eight Weeks of Shock" and "I Am a Legend", Zhou Shaoming began to think about the difference of "Resident Evil".

After pouring a cup of coffee, Zhou Shaoming took a shallow sip, took a pen, scribbled on the white paper, and repeatedly played the footage of "Resident Evil" and other zombie movies in the original time and space in his mind, and then added his own understanding.

Thinking and considering, Zhou Shaoming wrote a few directions for the new version of Resident Evil:

First, the original Resident Evil is a popcorn movie in any direction, except for the gripping sense of crisis and the impactful picture, it can be said that there is no connotation at all, which is also what was criticized in the previous life.

And Zhou Shaoming feels that even if he wants to make a commercial film, he should dig deep into the meaning behind "Resident Evil" and try to make a breakthrough, rather than the game mode, which is a simple one-man ride to survive alone.

There is a masterpiece in later generations, "I Am a Legend".

The portrayal of surnames and hidden connotations in that movie make the whole movie very plump and perfect no matter from any point of view, and the two open-ended endings are even more ingenious, and people can't help but admire its uniqueness.

But this movie, which is diametrically opposed to what I want to make, is difficult to learn from and imitate.

What I want to shoot is the savior who strives to take responsibility and has the courage to save the world, and the thorny rose that blooms in the howl of the night.

This is actually quite obvious.

Whether it is a zombie movie or a disaster movie, the ultimate goal is through two completely different lines of expression of good and evil.

Goodness is a sonorous ode to the depiction of the remnants of human beings helping each other to survive in the face of a catastrophe-like global panic, intending to turn the tide, which is also the method that mainstream zombie or disaster movies have always adopted.

Evil is that in the face of the frenzy of powerlessness to resist, the fear hidden in the depths of human beings distorts the surname, releases the devil, and does everything possible to survive, even to the detriment of others, indifference, and madness.

And almost all directors use goodness as the main theme of the movie, and occasionally some people have evil surnames, which are also mentioned in passing or used as a background introduction, and this situation was not changed on the screen until a few years later.

For example, in a paragraph in the American drama "The Walking Dead", the male protagonist Rick drove a car, and a backpacker chased after him desperately, hoping to get his help, and even begged twice in a row to beg for the same reason, but Rick never paid attention to him, and finally the backpacker was bitten to death by a zombie, leaving only blood stains all over the ground.

This can be said to be the evil in the human surname, but this is the real human surname when facing the crazy zombie world.

Zhou Shaoming wants to do this, which is different from other zombie films. Biochemical viruses originate from the madness of human beings themselves, and this madness spreads because of the selfishness of human surnames, otherwise, this crisis would not have spread at all, and it would have been extinguished in the bud.

Therefore, he decided to show the annihilation and incomprehension of those surnames in the face of suddenness, revealing the theme idea that it is not zombies that are terrible, but human hearts, and then use this theme to force the audience to desire and accept Alice's appearance and save the ultimate goal of this collapsed world.

It's not the zombies that are scary, it's the human heart!

Zhou Shaoming wrote this sentence heavily.

However, in this way, the script will be greatly changed, but Zhou Shaoming believes that this will not stump him.

The theme idea is determined, and then, it is to strive for the whole movie to be more faithful to the original book, "Resident Evil" is a masterpiece with proud achievements on the PC platform, it can be said that fans are all over the world, if you can't make the movie pay tribute to the original book, then the hardcore fans of the game will scold your mother.

Zhou Shaoming also hopes that loyal fans of computer games will become loyal viewers of his movies, so as not to make these parents angry.

Therefore, Zhou Shaoming concentrated on putting some of the original pictures from computer games directly into the movie, so that fans of the game can see the scenes they are familiar with, in order to gain their favor.

This version of "Resident Evil" will not only limit the perspective to the "hive", the entire raccoon city will become a stage for zombies to run wildly, roaring, howling and pounce on humans, the bloody sunset, and the chaotic city will become an integral part of the whole movie on the silver screen.

And in the biochemical game, those famous and well-known characters for game fans, such as Wesker, Chris and others, Zhou Shaoming have found a few places for them to show their style, although it has nothing to do with the overall situation, but these game characters have huge appeal and must not be underestimated.

The structure of the entire film is still based on the original movie, serving itself to establish the central idea of "what is terrible is not the zombie, but the human heart".

Loyal to the original work is only similar in some pictures and some of the characters that appear, Zhou Shaoming is self-aware, his time as a director is still too short, and he really wants to create a new world, but there is still a certain radical and adventurous way to do so, although Zhou Shaoming has directed two movies, whether it is "Chainsaw" or "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class", in essence, it is just a small production, in order to accumulate more experience, so simply use the overall structure of the original Resident Evil to make certain modifications.

The advantage of this is that it is more secure and within your own ability.

(To be continued)