In the two days that Lin Yuquan was resting at home, there was a major event that caused a sensation in the entire Chinese film industry and even the Asian film industry, the light of the Chinese, the first Chinese director to leave his mark on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Wu Yusen, was going to return to China to shoot a movie.

For the name Wu Yusen, no one in China who pays attention to movies will probably not know the meaning of this name, he is a master of violent aesthetics, one of the representatives of the most glorious period of Hong Kong films, and the films created by him such as "The True Color of Heroes", "Bloody Heroes", "Across the Seas", "Spicy Detective" and other films are still the most memorable memories of those glorious years in the minds of countless people, Chow Yun-fat, Leung Chaowei, Leslie Cheung, Liu Qingyun, Dillon, a benchmark actor in Hong Kong cinema, burst out with incomparably dazzling light in his films.

Among them, in 1997, "Changing Face" starring Nicolas Cage and Travolta pushed his film career to another peak, making him a world-class director in one fell swoop, and 2000's "Mission Impossible 2" did not get rid of the fate of the dog's tail and mink, but created the history of the supreme glory of Chinese directors, with a box office of 545 million US dollars to win the global box office champion of the year, surpassing the second-place " Gladiator is nearly $100 million.

Time flies, after 13 years of absence from the Chinese film industry, such a great Chinese director is finally returning.

"The reporter learned that "The Battle of Red Cliffs", directed by Wu Yusen and invested by China Film Group and Lion Rock Pictures of the United States, has been officially launched and will start shooting at the end of this year, and will meet the audience at the end of next year at the latest.

"Director Wu Yusen revealed the cast for the first time, and Zhang Fengyi will play Cao Cao, and Chow Yun-fat will play Zhou Yu."

"The investment in "The Battle of Red Cliffs" has set a new record for Chinese-language films, and it is reported that its investment will reach an unprecedented $50 million."

A super director who is well-known in the Chinese circle, an unprecedented huge investment in the Chinese film industry, the combination of John Woo and "The Battle of Red Cliffs" immediately attracted the first reports of major media after the press conference of China Film Group, and then detonated the entire Chinese film industry in a short period of time.

Lin Yuquan naturally lay down, and almost every report will piggyback on him and "Red Cliff", acting as a green leaf, so as to set off how amazing Wu Yusen and "The Battle of Red Cliff" are.

As early as the beginning of the year, when it was reported, Lin Yuquan, Wu Yusen, and Xie Jin were already noisy about the theme collision between the three major directors, not to mention that now the realistic version of the Three Kingdoms War is really going to happen, even if according to the shooting time, the movies of the three will not collide head-on, fight to the death, just a duel in the air, see who is better, but this is enough to make people look forward to it.

And John Woo's handwriting this time is really too big, although in the past two or three years, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Lin Yuquan, and Feng Xiaogang have successively launched movies with an investment of hundreds of millions, and investing hundreds of millions of dollars no longer seems to be so unimaginable, but John Woo's investment of $50 million is still shocking, which is equivalent to 413 million yuan, when did the Chinese film industry have such a big investment, almost doubled sharply on the basis of Chen Kaige's "Wuji" $30 million record, compared with him, Zhang, Chen, Lin, Feng Siren's previous amazing skills were simply weak.

Among them, the saddest is Feng Xiaogang, who just announced in mid-June that the new movie "Night Banquet" would invest 20 million US dollars, and joined hands with Zhang Ziyi, Ge You, Zhou Xun, Wu Yanzu, Huang Xiaoming and other well-known actors to strive to create a Chinese version of Hamlet, but within a month, the scenery was robbed by John Woo.

There is Lin Yuquan's "Red Cliff" in the front, and there is Wu Yusen's "The Battle of Red Cliff" in the back, Feng Xiaogang and "Night Banquet" sandwiched between the two have a hard time, they are really uncomfortable, this is not the end, it is said that Zhang Yi will also make a big move next, this time he will not make literary films, but return to commercial films again, according to his previous consistent style, the investment in new films can be imagined.

Speaking of which, when did the investment of hundreds of millions of domestic films become so worthless, looking at the domestic movies released in the past few years.

In 02, Zhang Yi's "Hero" invested 30 million US dollars, equivalent to 260 million yuan.

In 03, there was not much production, and the $9 million investment in "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" directed by He Ping and starring Jiang Wen has been proud of domestic films.

Last year, Zhang Yimou's "Ambush on All Sides" invested 250 million yuan, and Zhou Xingchi's "Kung Fu" invested 20 million US dollars.

This year, Xu Ke's upcoming "Seven Swords" will invest 120 million yuan, "Mythology" released in September will invest 160 million yuan, Lin Yuquan's "Red Cliff" is expected to be released during the Chinese New Year, and Chen Kaige's "Wuji" will invest 300 million yuan.

And next year, "Night Banquet" will invest $20 million, John Woo's "Battle of Red Cliffs" will invest $50 million, Lin Yuquan's new movie will be determined, Zhang Yi's new movie will be determined, and it seems that Jackie Chan and Emperor also plan to start filming new movies at the end of the year.

It can be clearly seen that in recent years, the number of films with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars has shown a straight upward trend, and in this form, the competition for films is becoming more and more intense.

Far away, back to John Woo and "The Battle of Red Cliffs", because of John Woo's generosity, Lin Yuquan's fans can't help but worry about him again, after all, the difference between the two film investments is too great, one is 200 million yuan, and the other is more than 400 million yuan, which is more than double the difference.

Although the ability to invest is not an indication of the quality of the film, generally speaking, high-investment films tend to perform better at the box office than low-investment films.

And in front of John Woo, the light of the Chinese with countless brilliant achievements, Lin Yuquan, who only has one "Huo Yuanjia", is really not enough to watch, even if he likes Lin Yuquan again, no one thinks he can win, in their opinion, Lin Yuquan as long as the box office loss is not ugly.

This is also the mainstream argument at the moment, and almost everyone thinks so.

Of course, John Woo's high-profile return and sudden move to advance the filming also aroused doubts from some people, speculating that he may have been pressured by Lin Yuquan to shoot "Red Cliff", and was forced to advance.

It seems that in response to everyone's doubts, in an exclusive interview with the movie channel on the second day, director Wu Yusen specially said that the advance of "The Battle of Red Cliffs" is mainly because they have accelerated the preparation of the film recently, so that they have the ability to shoot at the end of the year, and he is indeed influenced by Lin Yuquan, but it is definitely not pressure, but Lin Yuquan's excellent performance has inspired him to create a movie, and he has never been in the mainland film industry before, seeing that the mainland film market is getting better and better, Some can't wait to bring their works to meet the audience who like him.

And in the interview, he also talked about what the Three Kingdoms he wanted to shoot were like, and laughed about the story of many famous screenwriters such as Zou Jingzhi, Liu Zhenyun, and Lu Wei, who changed their drafts, and will definitely bring everyone a different feeling from Lin Yuquan.

After the interview, whether you believe this statement or not, anyway, for a while, the topic of Wu Yusen and "The Battle of Red Cliffs" became a mess, and various post bars on the Internet also began to discuss the cast of Wu Yusen's "The Battle of Red Cliff", guessing how many Lin Yuquan's "Red Cliff" lineup he would use, and whether it would be because of Lin Yuquan's relationship, he deliberately did not use the actors used by Lin Yuquan.

At the same time, Xie Jin, one of the three directors, has also attracted much attention, since Xie Jin announced last year that he would shoot "Red Cliff" even if it was a lawsuit, there has been no big movement, it is said that he wants to improve the script and prepare for the preliminary work.

But according to Zhi**, the biggest reason is that there is no money, and until now Xie Jin has only raised tens of millions of yuan, which is undoubtedly far from Lin Yuquan's 200 million yuan and Wu Yusen's 50 million US dollars.

And if you want to raise the investment quota of Lin Yuquan and Wu Yusen, even if it is Xie Jin, even if it is backed by Shanghai Film Group, it is difficult. After all, although Xie Jin has won numerous awards, box office results have never been his original intention and appeal for making movies, so the investment risk of hundreds of millions of yuan is unimaginable, no investor is willing to waste their own money, and Shanghai Film Group has reduced production in recent years, and the investment of hundreds of millions of yuan at every turn cannot be afforded by their own strength.

Many people are speculating that Xie Jin's preparation for filming may be miscarried this time, and the reason why he said that it will be because since the beginning of the eighties of the last century, in the past twenty years, Xie Jin's "Battle of Red Cliffs" has been aborted several times.

The most obvious one was in the middle of the 80s, when there was Liang Xin's script and a suitable starring lineup, it can be said that everything is ready, only the money is missing, but after a long time of preparation and running-in, "Red Cliff War" suddenly dismounted, just because the filming of "Red Cliff War" needed too much additional funds, in order to create a real and spectacular war scene, under the circumstances at that time, additional funds were needed about 1000 yuan, in that era when 10,000 yuan was rich, The astronomical figure of 10 million is simply unimaginable, and no one has the ability to get this money, including Xie Jin, including Shangying at that time.

A penny is difficult for a hero, because there is no money, "The Battle of Red Cliff" said that he would get off the horse, and the preparation progress at that time was much more than now, not to mention that now he is just improving the script, there is no actual plan, and the miscarriage is just a matter of one sentence.

Some media even speculated that this was just a hype by Shangying and Xie Jin, but it was actually a fictitious thing.

As a result, a large number of media magazines began to flock to Shangying and Xie Jin, wanting to find out, and a large number of film and television fans also paid close attention to the progress.

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