1 April 2003.

Today is a good day, and it is also the day when Yi Feiyang's TV series "The Walking Dead" was launched.

For this legendary Chinese-American director, the condescending first TV series, major American media have paid great attention.

At least at the opening ceremony, there were 18 TV stations in the United States that broadcast it live.

According to the rules formulated by Yi Feiyang, the boot ceremony is very Chinese, that is, worship God to turn on the machine.

The so-called worship of God is to bow to the second brother Guan, roast suckling pig, and light incense candles.

Such traditional ceremonies are common in Hong Kong and are also common in fantasy entertainment, but now facing 18 TV stations in North America, people are curious.

"God, is this the key to the long-term success of Dream Entertainment? Before turning on the machine, you want to bow down to this Mister? It is said that this Guan is a giant god in China, who is in charge of wealth and luck. Seeing no, Guan's face is red, and red in China represents joy and luck. A TV reporter said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what we are seeing in front of us is the traditional Chinese opening ceremony, which is called worshipping God in their Chinese language! This kind of worship is different from our belief in Jesus Christ and our worship of Mass, but it is a very mysterious personality worship ritual. See, that poor crispy suckling pig is a gift from the crew to this Guan Shen. Similar to how we pray and offer gifts to God...... And the thick incense candle, don't think it's repelling mosquitoes, it's a unique Chinese incense candle, it is said to be a kind of sandalwood, it smells very pleasant, this incense can often be seen in Chinese temples. But the audience in front of the TV is careful to imitate. Because this kind of incense candle can easily start a fire! Another TV station explained very "expertly".

With the end of the mysterious and Chinese worship ceremony. Major TV stations and media reporters have turned their cameras to prepare for the great director Yi Feiyang.

Yi Feiyang also lived up to expectations, and after a few simple words, he announced loudly: "The Walking Dead is officially launched!" ”

Firecrackers crackle!

Red pavement all over the ground!

Immediately, the team invited from Chinatown began to dance the dragon and lion dance, which feasted the eyes of the surrounding audience.

"Wow, that's amazing! It's even better than the movie! ”

"I was attracted to the traditional Chinese culture! I'm in love with China! ”

"Yi is not only a director, but also a messenger of cultural communication!"

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Ignoring the people who were talking about it, Yi Feiyang led his film crew and went straight to the shooting destination. The first scene of the play "The Walking Dead" begins.

The plot of the story, Rick Grimes, a small town police officer with a happy family, is accidentally shot during a chase for a fugitive, and when he wakes up from a hospital bed, he finds that everything around him has changed drastically, the entire hospital is empty, and there are corpses all over the ground, and when Rick is terrified and dazed, he finds that he is not the only "living" creature in the hospital......

The shot was shot at a private hospital in Los Angeles, and the crew spent a lot of money to get ten minutes of shooting time. In order to show the horror of the hospital being empty more realistically, Yi Feiyang emptied almost all the personnel in the hospital. However, for those who are seriously ill, they can't delay their treatment because of filming, so they have to concentrate in one area, and the camera hides from the past when shooting.

In addition, Yi Feiyang also has to bear the responsibility of emergencies, in case something happens to that patient in this gap, he is responsible. Fortunately, smoothly and smoothly, the shooting of this set of shots also made Yi Feiyang breathe a sigh of relief.

The next shot is the shot of the actor Rick's first encounter with a zombie. After shooting three or four times, Yi Feiyang always felt dissatisfied.

Especially the fixed pattern of the zombie's grinning, tilting his head, and shaking the slow walking shot, which made Yi Feiyang feel that he lacked novelty.

"Hey guys, don't you guys find this set of shots boring?" Yi Feiyang sat behind the monitor, touched his chin and asked Tom and the others beside him.

As the director of the production department, Tom is also the director of the TV series, and he watched the replay with the big guys, and he was puzzled and said, "It's okay, it's good!" ”

Yes, in the eyes of all of them, this set of shots shot by Yi Feiyang, although it is not a classic, is also decent, without the slightest flaw.

"No, it looks boring, lacks movement, and visual impact!" Yi Feiyang said fiercely.

"To be precise, this zombie is not the kind I want, what I want is to elevate the visual effects to the height of everyone's amazement!"

The original "The Walking Dead" was forced by financial pressure, and the visual effects in many places were all brushed off, and the picture was rough and dull, and Yi Feiyang confidently smashed $30 million in shooting funds, and then decided to invest $25 million just for visual effects, he has reason to believe that the visual impact of the new version of "The Walking Dead" will be far greater than the original version, which is also the most critical step to change the scale of TV is not as good as the movie.

In fact, since the birth of the TV industry, it has been at the point of being cautious and cautious in terms of scale production, and has never dared to surpass the big casts and shoot TV dramas like movies. In fact, blockbuster TV dramas in the past life and future are rampant in North America, and the excellent production exceeds the movie, which proves the absurdity that TV can only belong to small productions.

Recalling the "Game of Thrones", "Under the Sky", and "Downton Abbey" in that life, which of these TV blockbusters that swept the world wildly swept the world, which one is not outstanding in visual effects, challenging the audience's vision and subverting the audience's imagination?

Thinking of this, Yi Feiyang decided to use special effects to change the attributes of the zombies in his play. In a word: my zombies must be different!

The zombies of this era still maintain an aging and stiff performance mode, although they are unstoppable in their teeth and claws, in fact, as long as a random seven or eight-year-old boy can calm down and not panic, he can knock down one with one shot!

In the previous life of "The Walking Dead", didn't the actor Rick's son Carl just take a gun and shoot the head one by one, killing the walking corpse until his face did not change?

If you just copy the original. Repeating this on the surface is creepy. Actually face with a gun. What's the point of a zombie who can calm and calm humans as weak as babies?

To change!

Yi Feiyang couldn't help but think of the 2013 zombie blockbuster "Doomsday War", also known as "World War of Zombies", which was crazy and bloodthirsty, running faster than a normal person's 100-meter charge, walking like flying and even having a certain amount of wisdom, and would take a ladder, densely packed with zombies like a man-eating ant colony sweeping across the continent. can be regarded as the destroyer who really brings destruction to mankind!

Only this kind of lens can be called subversion and reconstruction!

Bring endless panic to the audience, and then highlight the style of the leading actors' "Jedi Escape", which is the perfect step to create a zombie explosion drama!

Of course, Yi Feiyang knows deeply that once he changes the behavior pattern of zombies, or even shows the evil side of his surname, it will naturally make many stubborn people raise objections, and those who like to discredit themselves Newspapers and media will definitely grasp this point.

You will be bombarded!

But so what? What I want is a zombie world in the true sense. Not a false world full of moral preaching!

Thinking of this, Yi Feiyang had already made a decision. Revise the script and reshoot the shot.

Moreover, the zombie films of the previous life focused on the horror scene of cannibalism, and even talked about how a group of zombies surrounded a person on the camera, and then tore apart the victim's body, the bright red flesh and intestines, like gnawing on chicken feet, kept gnawing on fingers, arms, thighs, etc.

This thing has made Yi Feiyang, who was tormented by the chainsaw, vomit until he vomited......

Is this the only thing in zombie movies that can make the audience scream and be afraid?

And that's not all!

You know, fear comes from not being able to break free, not being able to face it, and not being able to imagine it.

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Thinking of this, Yi Feiyang called the original author of this play, the comic book author Fat Robert, after all, this is someone else's work, and he wants to greatly modify the attributes of the zombies in it, so he must respect people's opinions and ask for their suggestions.

As expected, when Yi Feiyang proposed to modify the character attributes of the zombies in the original comics, turning sluggishness into speed, and dullness into smartness, the fat man Robert shook his head, "No, this won't work!" Zombies aren't like that, you're not talking about zombies at all! ”

Yes, in the mind of the fat Robert, in the nerves, in the mind, that fixed zombie pattern is very difficult to change.

Many Americans have been exposed to some ghost stories since childhood, such as the tooth fairy, the green-haired man, and the big-headed monster, pumpkin head, etc., zombies are also one of these monsters, and even in many entertainment dictionaries in the United States, the explanation of zombies is: zombies, commonly known as the living dead, move slowly, when they see the flesh and blood of living people, they are extremely fast, have a strong sense of hunger, and like to eat the living.

Because of this, the fat man Robert felt that Yi Feiyang turned the zombie into that and completely lost the characteristics of the zombie itself.

Yi Feiyang had expected Robert's reaction, so he said, "That's right, man, the zombies in the past were indeed what you said...... But what zombies look like, no one knows! So why don't we redefine a new kind of zombie......" Yi Feiyang said in inducing language, "Our zombies will gain a running speed far beyond ordinary people on the screen, and their crazy chase will make every audience stiffen their bodies, widen their eyes, and then cling to the people around them." ”

"The corpse tide, composed of countless zombies, swept like a tsunami, pouring into the city, destroying everything in front of it, overthrowing, and even, drowning!"

"There is nowhere to hide, there is no way to shelter, the sense of black oppression is everywhere, using suspense to drive the audience's heartbeat, and using unimaginable lens images to directly subvert all zombie films!"

"Mutation, the alienation of zombies is out of the dull and boring setting of all zombie films, and finally the boss has a human form and a zombie form, and after switching, it has a variety of incredible abilities, and then with special effects to enhance the visual impact, it will make the audience involuntarily fall into panic and the excitement of extreme adrenaline secretion!" Yi Feiyang banged on the table with some excitement, and a series of complaints made him look a little hysterical.

The fat man Robert was stunned by Yi Feiyang's behavior, especially Yi Feiyang's series of extremely inflammatory words, which made him a little undecided.

Seeing this, Yi Feiyang patted him on the shoulder, looked at the sky with his eyes and said, "Robert." Have you ever seen God? ”

Robert shook his head hurriedly. "Nope!"

"Then I can tell you. As long as you and I are willing to cooperate, then we are God, the God of the recreated zombies! ”

This sentence was like a giant hammer, smashing Robert's little proud heart.

He shook and said, "Director, I listen to you!" ”

……

The re-adapted script redefined the "zombie" attribute. This makes the shooting speed even slower, because it requires a lot of special effects shots, such as the speed at which zombies can run like vampires, climb rooftop walls like geckos, and chase on all fours, etc., all of which need to be done by special effects crews.

At this time, the benefits of Yi Feiyang's previous large purchase of New Zealand Weta Digital Company were revealed.

In the past, when encountering such special effects shots, you need to contact those professional special effects companies, and then analyze the type and sign a contract. Production, as well as post-editing...... A litany of affairs down. Not only is it a waste of time, but it is also a waste of money.

As long as it is a movie or TV series shot by Fantasy Entertainment, it involves special effects, and they only need to send them a scene script, and they can produce it in the shortest possible time.

The powerful power of Weta Digital once again proves the prescience of Gigalight's acquisition of this company.

At the same time, another acquisition plan of Yi Feiyang is also quietly underway.

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As mentioned earlier, when Yi Feiyang was preparing for "The Walking Dead", he thought of the trend of using mobile phone video to watch TV series in the future, so he thought of acquiring Samsung in South Korea and Apple in the United States in advance. You know, in the previous life, these two companies accounted for about one-third of the global mobile phone market share, and they can be said to be the super predators in mobile phone products and Internet electronic products.

For Yi Feiyang, his foresight investment is to specialize in fishing predators!

For example, Google Network, Weta Digital, and AMC TV have already been caught, and now he is starting to play the idea of smartphones and tablets again.

So before the filming of "The Walking Dead" started, Yi Feiyang arranged for the two closest people around him to perform this task. These two people are Dures, vice president of Dream Entertainment, and Alex, manager of the investment department.

Although Dures and Alex don't quite understand why Yi Feiyang thought of buying these two companies for no reason, especially now that Dream Entertainment has only acquired AMC TV, it is just when they need to recuperate, and they should not make such a big move. However, in the blind trust of Yi Feiyang - no way, Yi Feiyang's investment acquisition seems to have never made a mistake, and it is a big profit, so the two began to implement Yi Feiyang's acquisition plan.

First of all, starting from South Korea's Samsung, this electronics company belongs to South Korea's Lee Enterprise, with a history of more than 70 years, second to none among South Korean enterprises, and the tax payment accounts for 6.3% of the country, which can be said to be a pillar enterprise in South Korea, so it is almost impossible to acquire this company, because Koreans are very xenophobic, and they are also very hanging, and would rather the company go bankrupt than sell the power of the enterprise to foreigners, not to mention that even if Samsung is willing to sell, the national government will not agree.

Conservative protectionism in South Korea has made it almost impossible to acquire South Korea's Samsung. In addition, at present, South Korea's Samsung has total assets of 200 billion in the world, is it possible to acquire Samsung? That's a big joke!

However, at present, Samsung is going through a very severe expansion stage, with development zones in more than 70 countries and regions, including the United States. Due to the fact that they have to expand so many regions at once, their cash flow is not very sufficient, especially the entry of foreign assets into the United States is subject to strict scrutiny by the US government, so Samsung US is eager to find a suitable partner to develop the US market together.

For this small country from Asia, many large American companies are not very optimistic, because in the field of electronics industry, Americans still trust the technology of the Japanese, such as Sony and Toshiba in Japan, as well as Panasonic, etc., for Samsung to enter the United States, more Americans are scoffing, waiting to see the joke.

At this time, with the sincerity of Dream Entertainment, Dures met with the chairman of Samsung, communicated and negotiated very friendly, and finally both parties felt that this buddy was not bad, so Dream Entertainment easily became Samsung's development partner in the United States, to be precise, Samsung's largest distributor in the United States!

Although it is very different from his previous plan, Yi Feiyang also understands how funny his previous plan is, to acquire Samsung? It's so YY! It's better to face the reality, as long as you can control the circulation of Samsung products in the U.S. market in the future, this is an astronomical profit!

From contact, communication, negotiation, and finally injecting $300 million to help Samsung open the U.S. market, this series of cooperation plans took less than half a month, which is enough to prove Samsung's thirst for the U.S. market and its desire to take root and bear fruit.

In contrast, another acquisition plan proposed by Yi Feiyang, the acquisition of Apple in the United States, is even more difficult. Unlike South Korea's Samsung, Apple has not been established for too long, and it does not belong to the pillar industry of the United States, to be precise, the reason why Apple is so famous is because of Jobs!

Who was Jobs?

The heroes of the American electronics industry can be said to be in the field of American electronics, no one knows Qiao Daxia!

Why do you say he's a hero? Because Jobs was very righteous and made a heroic move...... (To be continued......)