132: Wang Huan returns to China!
In fact, Wang Huan has always had a group of enemies in China.
Even this wave of enemies is very strong, the number is still very large, and they have a lot of right to speak.
Before they and Wang Huan, they were definitely incompatible.
There is not only a conflict of interests, but also a struggle of positions, and even a struggle of consciousness.
In short, Wang Huan has a large group of enemies in China.
The more successful Wang Huan is, the more it hurts their interests, and the more uncomfortable they are.
But most of the time, they can only hibernate their own voices.
But now, they can unleash as much as they want.
Because Wang Huan did the most stupid thing, he completely tied himself to the country.
And a most ridiculous gamble was made, which could never be won.
Because it's completely irrelevant to a person's abilities.
You Wang Huan is awesome, at most you are awesome, can you change the status quo of the Chinese film industry?
No way!
So, you're going to lose the game.
Some industries are so important that they are called too big to fail.
And Wang Huan is too big to lose now!
Wang Huan, who has always won and Wang Huan, who has always been a miracle, has reached the point where he can't afford to lose.
You can't lose once.
Not to mention that this challenge is so important that it is tied to the interests of the country.
Once lost.
Not to mention that he was ruined, but it wasn't enough.
But...... The real consequences are even more serious than this.
Once you lose, then as Wang Huan said, go straight into hiding, and completely disappear from the vision of countless people.
But...... It's a challenge that's a huge disparity.
There is absolutely no hope of winning.
There was no hope at all.
At present, the highest box office record of domestic movies is only 260 million.
If you want to defeat "Star Wars Prequel 3", you need at least 1 billion US dollars, that is, more than 8 billion yuan.
This...... This is impossible to achieve even with all imagination.
There is a limit to domestic cinemas, and there are limits to domestic audiences.
It can be said that the ceiling of the current Chinese market is almost "Avatar" in 4 years, with a total of 1.4 billion yuan.
So, if you want to exceed $1 billion at the box office, the key is to rely on the global box office.
But......
If you want to win the global box office, it is even more difficult than at home.
At present, only Hollywood can take over the whole world, and all distribution channels are in the hands of others.
So to speak.
The most successful non-English-language film at the world box office is Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" in Japan, totaling about $250 million.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Heroes" are also at the top, with only more than $100 million at the US box office.
So......
How difficult is it to make money at the global box office?
Hollywood has more than $1 billion in movies that grossed more than $1 billion a year worldwide, that is, about one, or even none.
Only the top Hollywood A-list blockbusters are likely to make $1 billion at the global box office.
In 2005, the global box office of Chinese films exceeded 100 million US dollars, which is not only a celebration of the whole world, but also the light of the nation.
I couldn't find one for a few years.
Therefore, in the eyes of everyone, Wang Huan's challenge seems so ridiculous.
It seems so stupid.
Something you never dreamed of.
Do you dare to say it, and you dare to make such a bet?
No wonder that part of the people in the country can't wait to scold.
Even, directly accused of betraying the country.
Wang Huan's supporters, of course, have many fans, countless of them.
However, they were also frightened.
I felt that this was impossible to do, and I felt that it was a gamble that I had to lose.
Even, it is completely unimaginable, why did Wang Huan put forward such a challenge?
There's no need for that.
And even when they want to refute, they don't have confidence in their hearts.
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After returning to the consulate.
Everyone looked at him with a little oddity. And Wang Huan hadn't discussed it with them beforehand.
So, I just stepped forward and patted my shoulder, not knowing what to say.
Soon, Wang Huan received a phone call, which was from Wu Sansi.
"Boss, how much does it cost to shoot this "Three-Body Problem" trilogy? ”
According to Wu Sansi's conjecture, filming these three movies is definitely an astronomical investment, which may exceed three or four billion yuan.
His family can afford this money, and the key is that Wang Huan helped his family win more than that.
"No, I'll pay this money alone. Wang Huan said.
Wu Sansi was stunned and said, "Boss, do you have so much money?"
Wang Huan said: "Not now, but soon." ”
Next, Li Changsheng, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, came to Wang Huan.
"Mr. Wang Huan, although I think this challenge will definitely be lost, it is completely an egg hitting a stone, but we are willing to invest. Li Changsheng said: "In the United States, I know too well that the power of movies is too great, and its influence far exceeds that of books. So even if we lose money, we are willing to invest in your movie. ”
Then, Li Changsheng said: "According to the United States, this trilogy needs at least about 500 million US dollars, but in China, it shouldn't cost so much money, so hundreds of people in our chamber of commerce raised a sum of money and are willing to pay 100 million US dollars to shoot this movie." ”
Wang Huan said: "Thank you very much, Mr. Li Changsheng, but I really don't need to, I have to pay this money alone." ”
Li Changsheng was stunned and said, "You, do you have so much money? How much money do you want to invest in this movie?"
Wang Huan said: "There is no cap!"
Suddenly, Li Changsheng was also frightened by this tone.
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Next, Wang Huan ushered in a very familiar visitor.
Charlie, who once helped him publish the first part of "The Three-Body Problem".
Of course, not long ago, when Zhang Enci framed Wang Huan and forcibly annihilated her, this Charlie directly drew a line with Wang Huan, and publicly announced in the media that he was disgusted with Wang Huan and no longer had any cooperation with Wang Huan.
Never again any cooperation.
But, now he's here again.
"Mr. Wang Huan, it's great to see that you're okay, the moment you were shot, I suddenly felt that my heart was also shot, and my whole body seemed to be empty. Charlie said emotionally: "You don't know how happy I am when you read the danger period, I haven't even touched a woman for a whole week to pray for you, you are my best and best friend." ”
Belch!
Then, he pulled out a newspaper.
"Oh my God, Mr. Wang Huan, your book is still at the top of the New York Times charts, it's terrible. ”
"You've been dominating the charts for almost three months now, and the hell knows how many books you've sold now. ”
Alas!
It's ridiculous.
When Zhang Enci slandered Wang Huanqiang's case, his book sales fell from the No. 1 New York Times list.
And countless bookstores have taken his books off the shelves, and countless people have also burned and tore up his books.
After that, that video proved that Wang Huan was innocent and pure and flawless.
Immediately afterward, he was assassinated.
Suddenly, countless bookstores moved his books back to their most prominent locations.
Countless people have to run back to buy the book because they burned it.
Inexplicably, the sales of "The Three-Body Problem" have risen a lot.
Until now, it has been dominating the first place on the list.
It's not just the United States, it's the same all over the world.
Especially two days ago, when Wang Huan and the President of the United States were engaged in this shocking gamble.
"The Three-Body Problem" is on fire again.
Once again, there was a sales frenzy.
Publishers all over the world, making money so softly, are constantly republishing and reprinting.
I don't know what version it is.
The total sales volume is already an astronomical figure.
Of course, these royalties haven't come in that quickly yet.
No, Random House immediately begged again.
Wang Huan said: "Charlie, I remember you said that you are disgusting to cooperate with me, and you will never cooperate with me again." ”
"Slap, slap, slap, slap......" Charlie didn't say a word, and slapped himself directly, and very hard, directly slapped a dozen times.
"Dear Wang Huan, everything I say is a fart, and everything we Americans say is a fart. Charlie said.
Wang Huan said: "But I ...... It's not!"
Charlie didn't say a word, and knelt down directly and said: "Mr. Wang Huan, I have made a huge mistake, my boss has already told me, if I can't ask for your forgiveness, then I can get out of my current position." ”
"Mr. Wang Huan, as long as you can forgive me, let me do anything, I can really do anything, even if I offer my wife, if you are interested. ”
Because of this business, the amount involved is not millions of dollars, not tens of millions of dollars, but hundreds of millions of dollars.
What is there not to pay for the sake of such great benefits, and what is there not to sacrifice?
Wang Huan looked at Charlie who was kneeling on the ground, ignored it, and walked back to his room.
Next, the two bodyguards threw Charlie out directly.
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Next!
It was in the newspaper that Random House published a news that Charlie, the manager of the New York branch, had been dismissed from the headquarters on suspicion of business corruption.
But that's not the end of it, and then Random House filed another complaint against Charlie.
He was charged with misappropriation of more than $5 million in company assets, a charge that would carry him several years if convicted.
It's ruthless!
Next, the CEO of Random House came to visit Wang Huan and sent an extremely rich gift.
There are also two checks.
Both are astronomical.
The first check is to settle the royalties of the first part of "The Three-Body Problem".
The second check is an advance payment of the royalties of the second and third parts of "The Three-Body Problem".
Wang Huan had never seen so much money.
"I know that with your pride, you will never borrow money or raise funds, so we paid the royalties in advance, hoping not to affect your big things. The CEO said, "By the way, is this money enough? If it's not enough, we can add more." ”
Wang Huan said: "You gave me the royalties for the second and third parts now, aren't you afraid that the next two parts will be very, very badly written?"
The CEO of Random House said: "You really like to joke so much, sometimes I doubt my own morality, and I don't doubt how wonderful your book will be, maybe you will think it is ridiculous, I often appear in my dreams during this time The content of the last two parts of your "Three-Body Problem". ”
Wang Huan said: "Then, the cooperation is pleasant. ”
The CEO of Random House said: "It's a pleasure to work together, and I know that you may not like the words Random House. We set up a company specifically for you, so we signed up for this new company. But the distribution channel is still exactly the same, and I hope this little bit of my thinking can make you a little more comfortable. ”
Alas!
I have to say that capitalists are sometimes so hateful that people grit their teeth and want to break their corpses into pieces.
But sometimes, even more considerate than your family.
Wang Huan took the contract and found that the name of the new company above was called Advent Faction.
Completely full of three-body style.
I have to say that this mind is really used to the extreme.
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The second and third parts of "The Three-Body Problem" are all ready-made.
Both Chinese and English are available.
Ten days later, the next two parts of "The Three-Body Problem" were released simultaneously around the world.
Suddenly......
The sales frenzy caused by it is completely indescribable.
Originally, the fame of the first part was already very, very huge.
Coupled with the recent gamble between Wang Huan and the president, and the movie he wants to shoot is "The Three-Body Problem".
So the world's popularity of this book is simply unbelievably high.
More than all the books released in these years.
In the first part of "The Three-Body Problem", he still had two opponents.
And the second and third parts were released, and there was no rival in the whole world.
Almost all of those celebrities avoided this schedule release.
Sales swept the world.
Swept countless lists.
On the New York Times sales list, the first place is "Three-Body Problem 2", the second place is "Three-Body Problem 3", and the third place is "Three-Body Problem 1".
The top three were all dominated.
What's even more terrifying is that this situation will go on for a long, long, long time.
Because until 2007, the book will have an amazing popularity.
Wang Huan and the president of the United States are a shocking gamble.
Of course, this gamble aside.
Countless readers were once again shocked by the imagination of "Three-Body Problem 2" and "Three-Body Problem 3".
Just looking at the plot, the first part is the best written and very delicate.
The second part, the plot and human nature, are superb, and the imagination is more grand, and the scene is also converted to the universe.
And by the third part, the imagination is already boundless.
The survival of the entire universe has been written.
The entire Earth, and indeed the entire solar system, became insignificant dust.
As for the three-body problem, the early civilization that soared to the sky, it had already perished for countless years.
A drop of water destroyed all the fleets of the earth.
The advanced alien civilization, using the dimensionality reduction strike, turned the solar system into a piece of gold leaf, into a two-dimensional plane.
Countless people were completely shocked by this imagination.
It's really mesmerizing and stunning.
But......
But......
But......
How do you shoot this?
Even with the American film industry, it can't shoot such a magnificent picture of the universe.
"Star Wars Prequel" is already the pinnacle of galactic warfare.
But...... It's about interstellar warfare, about space battleships, that's what it's all about.
The epic space war in your "Three-Body Problem" can't be filmed at all.
Even many scenes can be expressed in words.
But...... I can't show it in the movie.
For example, there is no description of the appearance of the three-body man.
How do you shoot?
And the space of the universe, that space?
How do you shoot?
How should these space battleships be designed?
It has to be scientific, it has to be professional, and it has to be imaginative.
When countless readers see these words, they are only huge, too awesome, and too mysterious.
They only have a very vague impression in their minds, and they can't really imagine what it looks like.
But, they've become very, very mysterious, very, very dick.
Although they don't know exactly what this kind of scene looks like.
However, as long as you don't look good and don't have the awesomeness they imagined, then you are a failure.
We'll spray you.
Immediately afterwards, a senior executive of Paramount, the current boss of Hollywood, said in an interview: "Even with the American film industry, if you want to shoot "The Three-Body Problem" better, it will take about ten years to reach the relevant level, and it is not even enough." ”
The reporter asked, "How much money would it cost to let Paramount shoot this work?"
Paramount said: "The cost of the trilogy, the cost of light shooting, is about more than 1 billion US dollars. The most important thing is that this work is very, very difficult to shoot, and it is difficult to form a script. His scenes are very grandiose, full of extraordinary imagination, and are epic works. But it's very bad for changing into a script, and it's hard to measure depth and great precision. ”
"The first one, the story is very delicate, but it has several perspectives, which makes it difficult for the film to be coherent and cohesive, especially the virtual game, how should it be filmed? If you put a lot of effort into it, it's just a game. If you don't shoot, it's very important. ”
"There is also the second part, the encounter of the wall-faced, and before the Trimaran Fleet is about to reach the earth, the changes in human beings, and the world catastrophe, should it be filmed in detail, or should it be filmed in the form of a documentary from a third perspective?"
"There is also the plot of the Trisolarans expelling all human beings to Australia, should it be written from the first perspective, or should it be documentary?"
"Finally, how should the plot about the destruction of the universe be filmed?"
"Because the time span of this work is very large, if you put it in the book, there is no problem. But the movie is continuous, and it requires a certain amount of emotion, and this huge span of several times is very easy to cause emotional disconnects. ”
"So "The Three-Body Problem" is a great work, but even if it is handed over to Hollywood, it is difficult for him to do it, and we dare not do it. ”
Next, not only Paramount, but other Hollywood giants also voiced their opinions.
We didn't dare to do it.
Even the senior management of Lucasfilm, which filmed Star Wars, said bluntly: "The three-body problem is a good book, but it is not suitable for adaptation into a movie, the first part is already a hellish level of adaptation difficulty, and the second and third parts are more difficult to change and cannot be completed at all." ”
This should be the top company that makes science fiction films and interstellar movies.
Even they said that the "Three-Body Problem" movie could not be successful and could not be adapted.
Fox Films said: "First of all, even with the current film industry in the United States, it is impossible to shoot "The Three-Body Problem" perfectly, maybe in more than ten years. But this is destined to be a project with no return. Because by the middle and late stages, it lacks a main character, and it lacks a complete story even more. And if a movie does not have a protagonist, the audience's emotions cannot be substituted. So as a book, he is super classic. But as a film adaptation, it's disastrous. ”
"And there's a very serious point, if this work is not adapted, it can't be made. If it is adapted, it may lose its original connotation, which will greatly reduce its color. ”
"So, it's a classic, but it can't be adapted into a movie. ”
Basically, all the giants of Hollywood spoke.
The attitudes are all the same.
With the current film industry, even with the strength of the United States, it cannot well show the picture required for the space war of "The Three-Body Problem".
And in China's film industry, which is extremely weak, it is even more impossible.
The extremely rubbish five-cent special effects will only completely ruin this movie.
Wang Huan's decision to complete the filming of these three films in China is completely stupid, and the final result can only be unsightly.
Secondly, the work is almost impossible to adapt.
In short, Wang Huan is definitely in the water of his brain, so he will challenge the United States on this project.
This is no longer a doomed thing.
It's a question of how bad he will shoot, and it is a complete disaster for the Chinese film industry to complete a work of this level.
And in the midst of this questioning, Wang Huan took a flight, left New York, and returned to China.
After landing.
Wang Huan did not hold a press conference or accept any interviews, and directly returned to Hangzhou and returned to his home.
After returning home.
Once again, he entered the Tower of the Last Days.
Went out for almost half a year.
It's finally back!
Wang Huan sighed and said: "Civilization Star, I'm back, it's time to start performing a real miracle to the world, a real miracle of light and shadow, let them know what the real peak of the movie is, let them know what the real magic picture is." ”
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