Chapter 253: The Beginning of the Blockbuster: Source Code
In fact, Chen Xi now has a question about his blockbuster, and everyone is more curious.
For a long time, Chen Xi has had a pretty good performance in terms of commerciality and literature at the box office of the movie, especially the recent "Beijing Meets Seattle", which is even more powerful to the extreme, with a box office of 400 million yuan that blinded many people's 24K titanium alloy dog eyes.
The box office of "Beijing Meets Seattle" is too strong, and it also makes many people feel what kind of Cheng dù a movie can achieve at the box office.
However, whether Chen Xi gets a high-grossing movie or a movie with a very good reputation, after all, it is only some low-budget movies, and the genre is basically love or drama, and there are few movies with big scenes...... But now Chen Xi seems to be planning to make a big move.
In fact, many people are looking forward to Chen Xi being able to have more performances in high-investment movies and be able to create his own blockbusters......
In this era, Chinese movie fans, after all, still have a strong yearning for blockbusters, and other movies, even if the box office of the movie is particularly high, after all, it is just a feeling of being small and big, and everyone wants to see real blockbusters.
However, blockbusters often imply a very scary investment, but they may not pay for themselves.
Of course, the two blockbusters "Assembly Number" and "Casting the Name" are still okay, but the blockbusters in 2008 basically all went wrong, especially Zhang Yimou, a vane of Chinese blockbusters, kept having problems, and the movies were at a low ebb one after another, which made everyone feel the problems in the middle.
And the overseas cousins of Chinese films are now facing more and more problems...... Of course, there are still some influences of Chen Xi, Chen Xi's films are always small and large in terms of return rate to the extreme, so that many filmmakers begin to fantasize about climbing to the sky in one step and getting a high return with a very low investment.
As a result, China's blockbusters have indeed been greatly affected, anyway, now comedy and romance films are gradually getting together. Many people want to replicate the success of "Beijing Meets Seattle" and "33 Days of Broken Love".
Following the trend is not a patent for Hong Kong films, and the mainland is the same, of course, in fact, the whole world is the same.
But it's risky to follow the trend, as is the case with many movies.
Because a movie goes from having a script to preparing to actually starting shooting, and then to editing and releasing after the movie is filmed, everyone is not Chen Xi, and has this ability to directly copy the movie, so under normal circumstances. It takes a film a year or two to complete this process, and after a year or two, the wind direction is likely to change...... That's the big problem that following the herd can bring.
So now many people are also looking forward to Chen Xi using a blockbuster movie to adjust the market...... After all, according to Chen Xi's current situation, everyone believes that if he makes a movie, it will be popular at the box office, which should be no problem......
But everyone now especially believes in Chen Xi's movie, Chen Xi didn't say much before, however, at this moment. He actually broke such a super big news.
Blockbuster!
Chen Xi's blockbuster is coming!
"Director Chen, what type of blockbuster is yours? Is it an action movie or what? Who are you looking for to play? When will the movie be released? "The reporters' questions were indeed simple and crude, to the point, and the situation is different now. There's nothing taboo about asking this kind of question: it's certainly not appropriate to ask it during the release of other films, but it's okay now.
Chen Xi had nothing to hide, and just took this opportunity to come to the first wave of publicity.
"My new movie, the main genre is sci-fi, action ......," Chen Xi said, "As for the starring role of the movie...... This is kept secret for the time being. Because I also need to communicate with the actors, as for the release of the movie, it is tentatively scheduled to be released in December this year! ”
This is obviously planning to set his new movie to be released in the Chinese New Year. It seems that this year's Lunar New Year stalls are going to have new masterpieces.
It's just that there is another problem that everyone has noticed, that is, his new movie will actually be a science fiction film......
Sci-fi!
In fact, many people know that Chinese movies have no science fiction ......
Even some movies under the guise of science fiction don't actually have much to do with science fiction, even if it's Zhou Xuanchi's "Yangtze River No. 7", it is still not a science fiction story in essence, but a parent-child story.
Of course, the so-called sci-fi film does not necessarily have to be as luxurious, fierce and grandiose as "Star Wars...... Mainly talking about the core of the movie, after all, even "The Moon" and "Butterfly Effect" are still science fiction films, because the core is science fiction, and the core is the most important.
And Chen Xi's films, the core is science fiction, and the scene table is surreal.
The word science fiction has made many people feel the super attention to this movie.
"Director Chen, why do you plan to touch science fiction movies? You must know that so far, there are basically no such successful sci-fi films in the Chinese market...... What do you plan to start with your sci-fi film? Special effects? The reporter asked directly.
Sci-fi films, even if they are really filmed, are easy to become another style in China, including the later "Future Police" or something, especially "Machine Qì Hero", "City Alert", and "Time and Space Rescue", which are even worse to Saturn.
Chen Xi actually came to touch this kind of theme that basically has to cause an accident if he touches it, and everyone thinks that Chen Xi is really bold enough.
Chen Xi said: "There are many things to try, science fiction has always been a favorite subject, in elementary school, the biggest dream is to be a scientist, although now this dream is obviously impossible to achieve...... But, I hope that science fiction movies can make my dream come true. Chen Xi's words were a bit categorical: "However, many things in the movie are the same in the core, my "Border Storm" I believe everyone knows that there is no zài problem in the plot, and my new movie I will let everyone see the novelty in the plot and the novelty in the structure of the film." ”
Chen Xi's movies are indeed no problem, so many have proven this, so now, in fact, if fans hear the news of Chen Xi's new movie, most of them will only believe in Chen Xi's strength, even if it is another type of movie.
Chen Xi is now more satisfied with the fact that this group of people finally changed their title from Chen Laoshi back to Director Chen.
"And what's the name of your new movie? Can you give us a rough story? Are you still writing and directing the movie? The reporters then began to ask, in fact, Chen Xi's films are always written and directed, which can be regarded as a feature of his films.
Chen Xi nodded: "The script of my new movie has been written, and now the general plan has been written, and what is missing now is the official start of filming!" ”
The reporters immediately began to exchange words now, Chen Xi's speed is really fast, a movie from the beginning of the plan to the official release of the movie, often only in a short period of time, maybe within a few months, this speed is very amazing, but it always happens.
It looks the same this time.
Chen Xi paused slightly, and then said: "As for the name of my new movie, it is called "Source Code". ”
This sounds like a very compelling name, which sounds more awesome than "Machine Qì Hero" or something, but at the same time, the name actually doesn't really make people feel popular.
"Does the name Source Code have any special meaning?" At this point, the reporters turned their attention to this.
Chen Xi opened his mouth directly: "Source code (also known as source program) refers to the uncompiled text written according to a certain programming language specification, which is a series of human-readable computer language instructions......"
Chen Xi's words made the reporters want to vomit blood:, Chen Laoshi, do you dare not to memorize the Encyclopedia?
Chen Xi looked at everyone's helpless expressions and smiled slightly: "This is a literal explanation of the source code, as for the specific meaning of the movie, please watch it in the movie, and we will soon put some general and specific explanations of the movie on the official website of Deep Space Film and Television." ”
Chen Xi also finally explained a little bit about "Source Code", whether everyone is satisfied or not......
…… After the press conference of "Beijing Meets Seattle", soon, the news of "Source Code" has spread throughout the Chinese film industry, and now many people are shocked by it, but they are also looking forward to it, after all, Chen Xi is also a director who has been famous for many years, and several of his previous films are also quite good, the box office table of each one is great, and the reputation of each movie is good, after all, on the two major movie review websites, the score of this film is more than seven points, which is also very good.
Many of you are so excited now......
After all, science fiction films have always been one of the most lacking film genres in China, of course, if many other directors come to shoot, everyone will think that this will be a bad shot, and they don't even look forward to it, but this director is Chen Xi'...... Everyone immediately became anticipatory.
Because Chen Xi really hasn't made even a movie!
This is Chen Xi's capital, and it is also the reason why everyone likes him, now in the media, and on many social networks, are talking about this matter, the smoke of "Beijing Meets Seattle" has not yet dissipated, but the news of Chen Xi's new movie is growing wildly, and there are people discussing this matter everywhere.
The official website of Deep Space Film and Television also released a promotional concept map of "Source Code", but on this concept map, there is only a promotional image that looks a bit like a fragment of the world, but there is no one on it......
In fact, the deep reason is that Chen Xi didn't find a good actor at all...... (To be continued......)