133: The Revolution of Cinema!
"Civilization Star, play the 2035 version of the "Three-Body Problem" trilogy again, and then feel the unprecedented shock. ”
"Okay. "Civilization Star Path.
Then, a huge virtual screen unfolds.
A film that can be recorded in film history and played from the beginning.
Wang Huan was once again fascinated, and was once again shocked like never before.
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To be honest, filming "The Three-Body Problem" is indeed a hellish difficulty.
The six giants of Hollywood have all made it clear and clear.
The change in this work is extremely difficult.
"World of Warcraft" is already a world-renowned super IP, and there is no shortage of protagonists who can make the audience feel emotional, although there are many protagonists, Sal, Illidan, Arthas, Silvanaras, even King Varian, any one can be used as the protagonist of a certain movie.
But it has a huge difficulty in changing, because these plots are too closely connected, have a causal relationship with each other, and the historical span is too long and too long.
If you start shooting from the beginning of history, there is no suitable protagonist.
started filming with a wonderful protagonist, but found that there were too many plots in front of me that could not be explained.
After several years of operation, the first film of "Warcraft" was completed, and although there are such and such shortcomings, and there are also places that make people complain, it is still a movie with a good degree of completion after all.
However, the film hit the streets, and the global box office barely recovered its costs, and there was basically no second part.
And the difficulty of changing "The Three-Body Problem" is even higher than that of "Warcraft".
In another world, there was once a company that bought the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem" and filmed the first one.
As a result, after a very high-level leader went to see the finished film, the film was directly sealed and not released.
It's useless to make up shots and add shots.
After that, "The Wandering Earth" hit a box office of more than 5 billion yuan with a super high degree of completion, and this year became the first year of Chinese science fiction films.
But to tell the truth, the plot in the "The Wandering Earth" movie is still very, very different from the original.
Of course, the movie adheres to the essence and setting, but other than that, the relevant characters and plots hardly have much to do with each other.
The Wandering Earth is very short, but the story is shocking, and the time span is not short.
The movie "The Wandering Earth" is more like intercepting a certain period of time in it, and then adapting it in this blank space to fill in its own story, so it has a very complete story.
But ...... "Three-Body Problem" is difficult to do this.
At least the first three-body problem, it can't be like this.
Because the first three-body problem original has a very complete story in itself, and it can't even change the plot.
Wang Huan didn't think about filming "The Wandering Earth", which would also get huge praise and box office success.
But...... Tell the truth.
"The Wandering Earth" is a science fiction movie, and it should be regarded as a pawn of "The Three-Body Problem", which is used to accumulate experience.
"The Three-Body Problem" is the king of Chinese science fiction.
It's just that this king fried is too difficult.
Otherwise, so many years would not have passed, and none of the real giants dared to make its own films.
As a result, Netflix in the United States bought its rights and went to make a TV series.
In another world, until 2021, no real movies have come out.
In the future history learned by the Tower of the End of the World.
Wang Huan knew that in the following decades, a total of many versions of "The Three-Body Problem" were filmed.
If you talk about the box office alone, they have basically been a huge success.
But......
In terms of word-of-mouth and completion, almost all of the previous versions were scolded.
It's all very dissatisfying.
It will not be until 2035 that the most perfect "Three-Body Problem" trilogy will really appear.
This version, whether it is the picture, or the lineup, or the structure of the script, the degree of completion, etc., has reached the limit.
It is this version of the "Three-Body Problem" trilogy that has truly conquered the world.
It was this version of the trilogy that really beat the Hollywood masterpiece from the front.
In the mid-20s of the 21st century, Chinese films surpassed the United States at the domestic box office.
But the global box office has always lagged far behind the United States.
Few films can compete with Hollywood, even if China's GDP has surpassed that of the United States to become the world's first.
Until the three-body problem in 2035.
It really beat Hollywood blockbusters head-on in the global market.
Therefore, this version of "The Three-Body Problem" has become an extremely important work in the future of Chinese film history, even in world film history.
And this version of "The Three-Body Problem" adopts a very bold adaptation.
The first part, the adaptation is not large.
In the second part, the adaptation is a little bolder, but it still follows the structure of the characters in it, and still follows the timeline and world framework of the book, but it has begun to add to the story.
The third part, the adaptation is the most daring, still according to the world framework, world view, and timeline in the book, but many stories and characters have been recreated. But there is one point, there must be the soul of "The Three-Body Problem", and it definitely does not violate the timeline in it or the cause and effect relationship in it.
This is a very risky act.
However, in the end, it worked, and it was a big success.
And this version of the trilogy took a total of more than four years.
has almost dragged down three investors, finished the budget again and again, fooled the filmmakers they really love again and again, tricked them into the crew and said cameos, and then inexplicably turned cameos into starring roles, and finally inexplicably became investors.
In this way, the entire trilogy cost 4.5 billion yuan.
This is almost three times more than the original plan of 1.6 billion.
And the total duration of the entire trilogy is close to 11 hours.
This is a very exaggerated duration, generally a movie is around 100 minutes, even "Avengers 4" is only 182 minutes.
There are even some movies that are obviously only one, but they desperately inject water, and then divide them into two parts.
The first time I played like this, I cheated a lot of box office.
The second time I played like this, it was completely over, and I cried wolf, obviously the movie was okay.
The longer a movie is, the more it affects the box office, because there are fewer shows that can be played.
And this version of the "Three-Body Problem" trilogy averages more than 200 minutes, which is completely twice the time of other movies.
Therefore, the idea of the filmmaker and the investor at that time was.
Forget it, let it out.
Anyway, we have a head iron.
It took more than four years to shoot in total, and I experienced countless hardships and tortures in the middle, but now that it is released, I am relieved.
Whether it is dead or alive, stretching out and shrinking the head, it is also a knife.
Lao Tzu just won't cut it, and if you press me again, I won't cut it either.
As a result, it was a great success.
Far from imagining success.
Broke all previous box office records, and it was a far, far away from the previous records.
That is 2035, the Chinese film market is already saturated, and the market size has not risen for several years.
It's not like before 2020, because of the rapid development of the market, a film broke out inexplicably.
There was a record that everyone didn't expect.
For example, for some reason, a small-budget comedy exploded more than one billion at the box office, becoming the box office champion of domestic films.
Immediately afterwards, another fantasy film of average quality broke out, directly more than 200 million.
Immediately afterwards, a wolf warrior 2, 55.68 billion.
Then, an animated movie "Nezha" soared directly to 5 billion.
The entire film market is full of miracles and constantly refreshes people's perceptions.
But the miracle stopped almost a few years later.
Until 2035, this version of "The Three-Body Problem", which most restores the essence of the Three-Body Problem, but in some respects, the story is the most daring Three-Body Problem.
Therefore, to some extent, the Chinese are definitely not resting on their laurels.
Look at "The Return of the Great Sage", look at "Nezha Demon Boy Descends to the World", which one doesn't have a huge adaptation?
But it can't be changed randomly, and it requires a strong spiritual core.
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Therefore, Wang Huan directly adopted the 2035 version of the "Three-Body Problem" trilogy that went down in history.
Of course, it is to adopt its script, and you can't just take the original film.
Then according to this version, shoot again.
It's also a huge undertaking.
That...... What about stunts?
This is the hardest and hardest part of the movie, and the entire trilogy, almost two-thirds of the time, has stunts.
According to the current level of China's film industry, it can't be done at all.
Even if Wang Huan doesn't care about the cost, he is crazy about using money.
The effect is also very much worse than Hollywood.
After all, this is not 2020, and the level of stunts in China at that time is already good, and many Hollywood movies are outsourcing some stunts to Chinese companies.
It's 2005 and the stunt is really ...... It's hard to put into words.
Basically, movies that require special effects are produced by foreign companies.
But Wang Huan has already said that he will never find a foreign company, and it will all be done in China.
So, he'd buy a stunt company and recruit the best talent in the country to do the stunts.
But...... This is far from enough.
The effect of that kind is probably still more than ten years behind Hollywood.
That kind of film effect will become the laughing stock of the world.
At that point, it's time to hand over to the Tower of Doom for final rendering.
Or, buy the artificial intelligence and computer stunt software in the Tower of Doom directly and come to the real world.
In short, it is a little bit of the future technology in the Tower of the End of the World, upside down to the real world.
The end result is.
The technology company established by Wang Huan can really complete the world's top stunt production.
He had learned about the history of another world.
2016 was the first year of VR and virtual reality, and then it was completely silent for several years.
It wasn't until the release of Half-Life: Alex that virtual reality was activated again, and it became a new era.
Since then, driven by several giant companies, virtual reality has grown incredibly rapidly.
In just ten years or so, it changed the entertainment of the whole world.
Virtual reality has a rapid development of computer graphics technology, three-dimensional and other technologies.
Because the game in VR has far more realistic and delicate graphics than PC and console games.
So Half-Life: Alex is only a few hours long, and the map is small, but the game is 50G.
And a hundred years later.
The production of the virtual world is completely in full swing.
It's completely indistinguishable from the real world, and it's completely fool-like software, with countless elements, even a novice can create an incomparably real virtual world, let alone movie stunts.
So this time, Wang Huan not only wants to shoot a movie that shocks the world.
It is also necessary to directly promote China's film industry to a new height, an astonishing height.
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3D movies have been around for a long time.
But the film that really promoted 3D movies thoroughly, and hyped them up, and even promoted the film market and the development of IMAX theaters, is James Cameron's "Avatar".
This is also a film that can go down in history, not an artistic achievement, but also a technical achievement.
Stunning IMAX format, a completely virtual planet world, and incredible 3D stereoscopic effects.
At that time, the audience all over the world was crazy about it.
There are even some viewers who travel thousands of miles to first-tier cities just to experience the effect of IMAX3d.
So at that time, the real IMAX theater in China actually raised the ticket price to 160 yuan, and there were still people waiting in a long line outside.
Queuing up to buy movie tickets, this kind of thing can happen.
And at that time, the IMAX theater was eager to play 24 hours a day, which led to a malfunction, so the theater manager even knelt down to apologize.
There are even some who chant that "Avatar" is a revolution in the film industry.
It is this movie that soared China's box office record from 400 million to 1.4 billion yuan.
The world box office record soared from $1.8 billion to $2.7 billion.
The U.S. box office record rose to $760 million.
It's just that this movie was released in 2009.
What a pity!
In this film revolution, it may not be the turn of the card god.
Wang Huan's "Three-Body Problem" trilogy will create this revolution.
Even more violent, more crazy.
With the help of Tower of Doom futuristic technology, the stunts will be even more amazing.
The plot will be even more shocking.
3D effects, IMAX power, everything, all for that.
In short, it is to give birth to an unprecedented film revolution.
is to hype up the effect of the previous "Avatar".
This is a new visual revolution, this is an epic masterpiece, this is an epoch-making work that has turned the history of cinema on its head.
Why don't you come in and have a look?
And the cost of hype this time should be much lower than that of "Avatar".
Because this movie has not even started filming, it is already famous all over the world.
As long as you watch TV, as long as you surf the Internet, as long as you read the newspaper, it is impossible not to know about the earth-shattering gamble between Wang Huan and the President of the United States.
And "The Three-Body Problem" is selling like crazy all over the world.
In comparison, "Avatar" is a brand new IP, relying entirely on the reputation of the card god.
So after that, another super IP broke the US box office record of "Avatar", that is, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens".
The global box office record was also broken by another big IP, "Avengers 4: Endgame".
Because of the crazy hype of several major events, "The Three-Body Problem" has a more amazing popularity than another history, and even a geometric multiple.
It has also become a super big IP.
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Next!
Wang Huan registered a film company, and for convenience, he directly acquired one, which cost him 30 million.
Next, he spent another 20 million to acquire a film and television stunt production company and recruited nationwide.
The salary has been three times the average salary in the industry, the number of recruits is more than 300, and the average salary of the company is more than 10,000.
10,000 yuan in 2005 is very staggering.
In other words, the movie has not yet started filming, and it has cost almost hundreds of millions.
Exactly two months later.
Finally, the company framework was reluctantly formed.
Then, Wang Huan officially held a press conference.
The crew of the "Three-Body Problem" trilogy was officially established. ”
"Trilogy films, with an investment of 1.5 billion yuan in advance, there is no cap!"
As soon as the news came out, the whole country was shocked.
An investment of 1.5 billion RMB?!
This...... This...... It's crazy.
Now the biggest investment in Chinese films is "The City Full of Golden Armor", which is claimed to be 360 million, and it has not yet been released, so I don't know how it will work.
And you have to invest 1.5 billion, it's crazy.
How do you run out?
However, in the film industry now, the so-called investment amount is all injected with water, and it is all bragged and shouted.
But...... Wang Huan is a real 1.5 billion.
He took out all the royalties of the "Three-Body Problem" trilogy.
In another history, Da Liu's "Three-Body Problem" sold more than 20 million copies in total.
Thanks to the fact that so many big events have happened, coupled with the crazy hype effect, the public opinion effect.
In this world, the sales of the "Three-Body Problem" trilogy have increased much, much.
In addition, European and American books are super expensive, one is $35, the royalty of the first part is 12%, and the royalty of the second and third books has risen a little.
Therefore, the royalties earned by Wang Huan are astronomical, even after paying the taxes, they are astronomical.
Because people all over the world think that this is a loss-making movie, Wang Huan is not embarrassed, he does not pull any investment, and he is a sole proprietor.
Next, it's time to build a group.
It went very well, but it also didn't go well.
The reason for the success is that all the professionals almost flocked to it, and they all wanted to enter Wang Huan's "Three-Body Problem" crew.
The best props, lighting, production and so on in the country.
Brokerage companies across the country are desperately going through the back door, wanting to stuff actors into Wang Huan's crew.
All the film and television bases in the country sent faxes, and even the person in charge came to see Wang Huan and asked Wang Huan to go to their film and television base to shoot.
All the abrasive manufacturers are crowded in front of Wang Huan's company every day, unwilling to leave.
Because this project is so big, countless people want to make money and make a name for themselves.
And if it doesn't go well, it's the selection of assistant directors.
Because the film is so big, I don't know how many assistant directors are needed.
Because Wang Huan wants to make this movie to the extreme, he invites the top directors in China.
But......
The targets he invited, almost without exception, all declined.
"I'm very sorry, Mr. Wang Huan, I have a schedule, I really don't have time, thank you very much for the invitation. ”
"I'm very sorry, Mr. Wang Huan, I've not been in good health lately, and I want to rest for a while, I'm sorry, I'm sorry......"
"I'm sorry, I'm studying abroad and I'm not going back anytime soon. ”
The first-class directors from China to Xiangjiang all rejected Wang Huan.
Because the stake in this movie is too great.
And Wang Huan's slogan is too big, claiming to destroy the "Star Wars Prequel" trilogy.
They feel unreliable and doomed.
And once it fails, Wang Huan will take responsibility, and they may also have to take responsibility.
There is one more key reason.
The thinking of domestic directors is relatively "advanced", so they don't like Wang Huan from the bottom of their hearts.
I especially don't like Wang Huan and the United States.
Of course, there are also very leftist directors in China, the kind full of idealism, very good.
But that big director is very domineering.
Most of the movies will become his works when they come into his hands, even if he is just an actor.
There used to be such a "Looking for a Gun", this director Jiang is just an actor, and the director is Lu.
Jiang looked at it and said that you can't shoot like this, you can't shoot like that.
Forget it, you go to the side, I'll come!
So it is completely impossible to want him to be a deputy.
The search for a famous director as a deputy was a complete failure.
But the top producers have managed to find several of them, all of whom are the most professional.
In the end, Wang Huan found an assistant director as an assistant.
Almost completely unknown, although he is already the assistant director of "Chinese Divorce".
But in the film industry, there is no fame, let alone the experience of participating in any big productions.
This person's name is Ning Hao, his first education is a technical secondary school, and he is currently a graduate of the Beiying Photography Department, but he is just from the School of Continuing Education, which is commonly known as a teaching student, and he spends money on it.
As soon as the news came out.
Once again, there was an uproar in the world of public opinion.
Hahaha!
You, Wang Huan, invited so many professional-level directors before, but all of them were rejected.
Whether it is the mainland or the big directors of Xiangjiang, they all rejected you.
There have been about fifteen well-known directors, all of whom rejected Wang Huan's invitation and were unwilling to become his deputy.
Even if you can't find the top-notch one, you can find a second-tier director.
With such a big production and so much money invested, it shouldn't be difficult to find a second-tier director to be an assistant director.
You don't have to look for such a crooked melon and cracked date.
Secondary school students, adult teaching students.
There has never been a decent film and television drama from the independent faction.
You, Wang Huan, have never made any movies, nor have you studied filmmaking.
Therefore, the so-called assistant director may be the real director.
No wonder all the previous first-line directors rejected you, because they were afraid that they would not be able to bear the responsibility.
Then now you have found such a secondary school student, a teaching student?
It means that this big production with an investment of 1.5 billion yuan will be filmed by him alone?
Crazy, just crazy.
That's throwing 1.5 billion into the water.
Why don't you find an undergraduate student or a master's student who has graduated from Beiying or Chinese opera to be your assistant director.
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After scrapping all the efforts, Wang Huan finally found enough for the assistant director's team and the production team.
The actors have not been recruited yet, and the entire crew has already exceeded hundreds of people.
Before filming started, this drama had already spent a lot of money.
The best costumes, the best music, the best lighting, the best props, and so on everything is the best.
Completely regardless of the cost.
In addition to the director, other professionals flocked to it.
Because you can make money, you don't need to bear the cost.
In music production alone, I found two masters, Hu Weili and Gu Jiahui, and Zuo Ling also entered the group to study.
Costumes and props are the top talents in the industry.
Action manufacturing, Yuan Baye's team is not enough, and two other action teams have been found.
Next, it's time to find actors.
The first actor to be decided is the diva superstar Lin Bing, who will play the heroine Ye Wenjie.
Of course, it was obviously an actor interview, but it turned out to be an inexplicable interview in bed again.
"Is this an unspoken rule?" Lin Bing asked with a smile.
Wang Huan said: "You obviously enjoy it so much, but I am the one who suffers." ”
Then Wang Huan said: "I owe you, and I will pay it back now." ”
Because, in order to help Wang Huan before, Lin Bing lost two Hollywood film contracts.
Now, Wang Huan has given her the heroine of a world-class masterpiece.
Lin Bing said: "It's enough for you to give me a dollar salary." ”
Wang Huan said: "Nonsense, I obviously gave you billions." ”
"Phew!" Lin Bing chirped: "You take advantage of my safe period to mess around, in case you get pregnant, what will you do?"
Wang Huan said: "I will give you 20 million for the movie salary." ”
Lin Bing said seriously: "I really don't need to, I'm willing to charge a dollar." ”
Wang Huan said: "This film bears a very big mission, but the more this is the case, the more moral kidnapping must not be carried out, otherwise it will destroy the film ecology." ”
Wang Huan hates a certain film ecology in another world.
There is a kind of movie that is crowned with a certain lofty name, and countless stars are shot with a very low salary.
Therefore, the movie is not good at scripting, it is to watch hundreds of stars show their faces, and then make a lot of money.
Even if it is a tribute movie, we are looking for the most professional actors, the best scripts, and the best attitude to shoot.
Therefore, Wang Huan's movie will definitely not be a star-studded event, let alone a traffic star.
I will definitely find the most professional and excellent actors.
Then, give the most appropriate salary.
There will definitely be no moral kidnapping just because this is a movie full of mission, and then let countless stars come to make cameos, giving people a symbolic remuneration.
This is a normal movie, you can give as much as you should give.
Lin Bing said: "I understand, this is an allusion to Zigong's ransom, then I will collect the 20 million, and it will be regarded as the alimony for you to sleep with me so many times." ”
Damn, you woman can really say anything.
Wang Huan said: "How much is it once?"
Lin Bing said: "I am an international actress, and I need at least a thousand yuan at a time." ”
My God, a thousand dollars at a time.
20 million, at least 20,000 sleeps?
That's going to be the Year of the Monkey.
At this time, Lin Bing said: "Come on, come on, collect so much money from you, I want meat...... Repay, come again. ”
And at this moment, there was a knock on the door outside, and a very familiar and cheerful and excited voice sounded.
"Wang Huan, open the door quickly, I know you're inside. ”
"I'm training in a closed camp, and I sneaked out to find you, are you surprised?"
Wang Huan was suddenly frightened, because outside the door was Bai Xue, the diving queen, who had always regarded herself as Wang Huan's legitimate girlfriend.
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