Chapter 378: Demacia: Glory
This is an alternate history that fictionalizes an era similar to the ancient northern frontier of China. The Great Liang Dynasty swept across Kyushu and established a unified dynasty. The state of Wu was the last to be destroyed, and the princess of the state of Wu was taken captive by Lou Wen, the general of the Liang Dynasty, and the princess of the dead country became a concubine and gave birth to a child called Lou Ji.
Xiangshi once issued a prophecy: If this son closes his mouth, he will be a good man who rules the world, and if he opens his mouth, he will be a hero in troubled times.
This is where the story begins.
As a child of the old country, Lou Ji is a person who is imprisoned, even if he is the son of a general, because of his mother, he cannot be an official in the Liang Dynasty, and there is no way to rise. Later, he did a lot of things. Assassinated the emperor, colluded with rebels, traveled among many forces as a counselor, and even became king......
This is a good story, and it should be adapted into a film and television drama to be seen by more people.
Li Ze, who is the leading actor, is currently one of the many actors and artists under the "Dimension Brokerage", who has both a good appearance and the most outstanding acting skills. The protagonist of Lou Ji is very complicated, except for him, among the actors under Wedo Brokerage, there are really few people who can control it.
And the director invited Xie Peihe.
Looking at it this way, this is almost the main creative lineup of "Emperor Ruzi".
In fact, despite the radically different subject matter, the style of the two works is indeed relatively close.
Of course, the stories are definitely completely different, and the core and concept of the story are also different.
However, since the styles are similar, it is normal to use a main creative team that has proven itself before.
Needless to say, director Xie Peihe also agreed quite happily after receiving the invitation from Weiwei. Even, the 'Dimension Broker' has begun to contact this old comrade and try to dig him directly into his own company.
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At present, Fan Zhe is holding the title of chief producer of the two new projects opened by Wedo Entertainment.
As for the actual production work, it is difficult for him to take care of it all at once.
But Wedo Entertainment has quite mature experience in this regard. A number of experienced producers will be assigned to control the filming process of the film.
Of course, Fan Zhe will also participate in a lot of practical work. Especially in the project "Dreadnought Assault", he did the initial design.
However, although these two projects are now in the preparatory stage, there are many places that Fan Zhe needs to keep an eye on, but in the recent period, he still tried to spare his efforts and pay attention to another matter.
The movie "Demacia: Glory" has been completed and is in the stage of post-production.
This project, Fan Zhe himself must keep an eye on, it is too important.
Let's not talk about the meaning or not, first of all, the scale of investment alone cannot be careless.
The total investment budget of "Demacia: Glory" reached 800 million yuan, which is converted into US dollars, nearly 120 million.
It's a huge investment, and no one would joke with that much money. Even if half of this proportion is produced by Penguin Pictures; Even if Dimension Entertainment actually didn't pay a dime, more than half of the 800 million invested funds went into the accounts of 'Dimension Technology'...... But so what? The huge computing power of the 'dimension' system, the hard work of a large number of artists, and the collaboration of multiple subsidiaries and departments of the entire group are not for the purpose of making a street-fighting movie.
Using so much manpower and material resources to smash on this movie, Fan Zhe never wants to see failure.
What's more, this is the first work of Wedo Entertainment to open its own large-scale production mode.
The investment scale of "Martial Arts Grandmaster: War" is not small, but to be honest, this is a film project that has been continued from the TV series "Martial Arts Grandmaster". The experience and lessons of the TV drama project have been carried over to the film project with great inertia, making the film seem to be very smooth in the production process.
But Demacia: Glory is different. Although, the LOL it is rooted in is also a national-level IP, but it is a game after all, and it is still a MOBA-type game with a very simple original story, and it is more difficult to adapt.
If you want to make LOL into a movie, it is two difficulties to change from a TV series to a movie.
If "Glory" fails, it will be a heavy blow to Dimension Entertainment, which has just entered the blockbuster movie industry.
In this case, Fan Zhe cannot pay too much attention to this project.
In fact, he participated in a lot of work during the preparation of the film, and when the filming officially began, he always kept in touch with the two producers who were resident in the crew.
After the filming of the film ended, Fan Zhe also joined the audit team of the head office for the first time to review the completion of the filming and evaluate the quality.
After reading the rough cut version, Fan Zhe is still quite satisfied with the overall quality.
Although the effects calculated by the 'Dimensional' system have not yet been composited with the shots, it looks rough and has a lot of green screens in it. However, the whole story seems to be quite complete.
At the same time, the action and scenes of the fight are also quite okay.
If you really want to say anything about the fly in the ointment, it is that the whole film is shot steadily, as if it lacks a little aura and a special style.
But that's not a problem at all.
This kind of commercial film produced by the big-budget film industry does not need any so-called 'special style'. This thing relies on the flash of inspiration of the director and producer, which is indeed rare.
It's a good thing, it's the finishing touch, it's a masterpiece that can be created. But usually, this kind of thing is tantamount to poison and disaster for commercial films.
Demacia: Glory doesn't need any of that.
To be like this, Fan Zhe expressed his satisfaction. If he himself can give a passing grade to this rough cut of the unfinished production, that would be enough.
But what follows is still not easy.
This rough cut, which is four hours long, has a redundant content and is not fast enough, and it definitely needs to be further streamlined.
The WEB version and DVD version that will be launched in the future can be appropriately lengthened, up to three hours, but the theatrical version is absolutely impossible.
Of course, it's not cut to 90 minutes like "War". After all, "War" is relatively simple in terms of storyline, but "Glory" is not like this.
But in any case, the length of the film must be controlled to one hundred and fifty minutes, that is, less than two and a half hours. Preferably, it will be done in 120 minutes.
Editors, directors and production crews, there's still a lot of work to be done.
At the same time, the key factor that determines the quality of the whole movie is still in the special effects.