"But in this way, there will be a lot of problems!" Jon Landau shook his head and said, "With so many plots under the first movie fortress, I'm afraid a movie will be more than 150 minutes long!" ”

"Not enough, give 180 minutes, like Lord of the Rings Part 1, we'll give him three hours!" Boss Jia said.

"Three hours!" Jon Landau hesitated even more.

According to the long-term experience of the Chinese film market, two hours is a perfect duration for a movie, and if it is more than that, it will give rise to a lot of problems.

For example, the audience's attention will decrease, they will be impatient, they can't stand the lengthiness of the plot, and the number of screenings per day will be reduced, and the ticket price will be higher, which will lead to a decrease in the willingness to buy movie tickets.

Therefore, the industry generally sets the length of the movie at about 120 minutes, and there are very few movies that exceed this length.

Either they don't expect this movie to make money, but just want to make a literary film that they want to make.

There is also a big production that is extremely confident in the movie and can make money even if it is three hours.

For example, "Titanic", "The Lord of the Rings Series" and so on, these movies are more than three hours long.

But because the Titanic has the blessing of top international directors, and the Lord of the Rings series has the world's popular fantasy masterpieces as the foundation, these are sold for three hours.

Although the Romance of the Three Kingdoms itself is also epic, this is Chinese after all, and it is not well accepted in the world market, or it has no fame at all, and it is too dangerous for such a movie to sell for three hours.

"It's just three hours, even if you lose money, it doesn't matter!" Boss Jia smiled.

To be honest, Boss Jia actually doesn't have any confidence in this movie, because this is a movie that has no reference in the previous life, and it is a completely original new movie born in the hands of Boss Jia in this era.

So Boss Jia can't be as sure of the final box office of the movie as Titanic and The Lord of the Rings, and he even feels in his heart that the first movie of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is likely to end up hitting the streets, after all, the box office of Chinese movies in the United States has always been like this, this is a matter of culture.

However, Boss Jia still decided to go for three hours, the reason is very simple, because Boss Jia wants to make this movie a high-quality product, even if this movie has a huge loss, it must also be a high-quality product.

Because only high-quality products can make the audience remember, even after the movie is released, it can also make this movie appear in the world of all Mi people by selling DVDs.

At the same time, there is another truth in this world, that is, as long as a movie is good enough, then sooner or later it will be valued by people.

For example, the hero, when it was released for the first time that year, he was scolded in China and was bloody.

But 20 years later, when the Chinese people saw the hero movie again, they found that this may be the most perfect martial arts movie in China.

Therefore, many movies need the fermentation of times and time, and Boss Jia can wait until the fermentation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms movie.

Finally, and the most critical point, it is only an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, even if it is lost, it doesn't matter, for Boss Jia, it is drizzling!

After that, Jon Landau and Boss Jia talked for a full day, and when the two of them finished talking, they found that the two of them didn't even eat lunch and dinner, so they were hungry and had a pain in their stomachs, and they didn't feel hungry at all, until they finished talking, they felt a huge sense of devouring.

"Let's have dinner!" Boss Jia laughed, and waited for the secretary to immediately order the food to be served, and then the meal that was already made for the tenth time was served.

Boss Jia hasn't eaten all the time, so the secretary ordered the kitchen to cook all the time.

And the dignified Boss Jia, he can't eat those dishes that have been cold, or reheated, if Boss Jia eats, it must be freshly baked and freshly cooked.

So the kitchen keeps cooking dishes, and when these dishes are cold, they are all poured out and then recooked, so that Boss Jia can eat freshly cooked dishes anytime and anywhere.

The boring life of having money!

In this more than 10-hour conversation, Boss Jia and Jon Landau confirmed more details of the movie, in addition to the filming of the next 5 movies.

Originally, Jon Landau planned to shoot a trilogy, but as soon as Boss Jia talked about it, he directly made it into a 6-part trilogy.

The first part is about the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

The second part is the 18 princes' crusade against Dong Zhuo, starting from Zhang Fei's whipping of the post governor, the climax is the three British battles against Lu Bu, to the Luoyang Palace turned into ashes, and Sun Jian died tragically at the hands of Liu Biao.

Part 3 is the flying general dancing, this section of the plot is more complicated, the story has to be divided into multiple lines, part of it is Lu Bu killing Dong Zhuo, and Cao Cao narrowed the prince to order the princes, and began to blacken, as well as Liu Bei's three Xuzhou.

In the end, the story line converged, Liu Bei and Lu Bu lived in Xuzhou together, constantly falling in love and killing each other, and finally ended with Liu Bei's fiasco and Lu Bu's generation of heroes dying in Baimen Tower.

The fourth part is the three visits to the thatched house, at the beginning it was Guan Yu's five passes and six generals, as well as the battle of Guandu.

The second half is that Liu Bei lived in Xinye and looked at the thatched cottage three times, but in the end, Liu Bei and Cao Cao, two once like-minded best friends, launched the final decisive battle, Liu Bei was defeated all the way to Jiangdong, and met Sun Quan, the son of another friend Sun Jian, and the two worked together to fight against Cao Cao.

At the end of Part 4, Cao Cao defeated Huarong Road as the end.

The 5th part is Liu Bei's complete home field, entering Xichuan, collecting Hanzhong, appointing five tiger generals, and finally ascending the throne after the death of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and calling the emperor the ending, which is the most peak period of the entire Shu Han Dynasty.

As for the sixth part, it is the end of an epic, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei died one after another, and finally Zhuge Liang died in Wuzhangyuan as the end of the entire series of movies, which can be regarded as the completion of the entire Three Kingdoms epic movie.

In fact, Jon Landau is very opposed to whether to make the 6th part, he feels that the part of Chibi can be stretched a little more and divided into two movies to shoot, and the final movie ends with Liu Bei ascending the throne as emperor.

As for the later plot, I won't shoot it, the reason is very simple, Jon Landau is afraid that the audience will not be able to accept such a perfect three heroes who have been portrayed, but in the end they died tragically at the hands of the villain, and the entire Shu Han was completely defeated.

It's like when you look at the Avengers, in the end, almost all the Avengers died with Thanos, and there wasn't even a single surviving hero, which will definitely make the audience explode.

However, Boss Jia still insisted on making the 6th part, because only by filming the 6th part and giving the whole series a tragic ending can the entire series of movies be sublimated in the end, instead of becoming a bad movie like Star Wars.

As for the final tragic ending, the Avengers will be scolded if they shoot like this, but Daqian will never be scolded if they shoot like this, because this is the real history, and if Daqian changes history, then he will be really scolded.

There is real history, this is a death-free gold medal, and it is impossible for the audience to scold Daqian for this.

Of course, the box office of the sixth part will fail miserably when you think about it, after all, when Boss Jia himself watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, after watching Liu Bei's ascension to the throne and becoming emperor, he jumped directly to the Southern Barbarian Rebellion.

After Zhuge Liang's 7th meeting out of Qishan, the later plot was directly given up and he didn't watch it at all.

I can't stand this pain, so it's better to pretend not to see it.

But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if the box office explodes, as long as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms can be promoted to the world, even if Boss Jia loses billions of dollars, it doesn't matter.

In this way, the next day, under the orders of Boss Jia, Jon Landau began preparations for the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the first step was to go to Huaxia to find actors.

And this actor is still very easy to find, because it has only been a few years since the filming of the TV version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and those old actors are basically still in their prime, just recruit them directly according to the characters of the TV series version, and no one needs to be changed.