Chapter 137: Timing, Scary Revelations, Genius Director

Women are very sensitive a lot of the time, especially when it comes to the man they like.

Therefore, Liu Yifei naturally instinctively disliked Yang Mi's exposed clothes as soon as she entered the door, and maybe there were some elements of secretly vigilant, but she didn't show too much on her face. Should say hello to Yang Mi or greet her, should I talk about the old or the old, this is still the point of Chengfu Liu, but the relationship between the two is unlikely to return to the past.

And what about Yang Mi? She was just about to show her plump dedication, but she bumped into Liu Yifei's eyes head-on, and she was a little embarrassed at first, but then she was immediately relieved.

It's okay if you break up, if you have to do something that may hurt Liu Yifei in the future, the psychological burden is not so big.

Li Mu chatted briefly with Yang Mi, Wang Baoqiang and others, and even if the signing of the contract was completely decided, the start time of "People in Embarrassment" was also set, which will be next month.

Li Mu didn't want to see Wang Baoqiang's girlfriend Ma Rong, but he didn't show it on his face. She is now Baoqiang's girlfriend, and the two have a good relationship, in a sense, Li Mu can't look down on her in person, but he can't look down on Baoqiang in person.

Besides, Li Mu is not a god, and at the same time, he has no interest in interfering too much in other people's lives.

First, even if Baoqiang marries another woman, it may not be very good; Second, Li Mu was also thinking, if he found Bao Qiang before the crossing and told him that he was about to cross over, and now he has a chance to change his previous marriage, then will Bao Qiang ask Li Mu to stop his marriage to Ma Rong?

Possibly, because it hurts; But it may not be the same, because if he doesn't marry Ma Rong, what will happen to his current pair of children? Disappear?

As the official start of the movie "Doomsday Collapse" is getting closer and closer, Li Mu is also seizing the time to arrange the company's next stage of work.

Three days later, Li Mu met with a management talent recommended by a headhunting company who specialized in comics at a café in Beijing.

Manwu comics should be published in China and the United States respectively, and "Pacific Rim" and "Frozen" should be serialized in China and the United States respectively, and with Liu Siying's talent and energy, there is simply no way to take care of the work of Huashang Media and Manwu Comics at the same time.

The person recommended by the headhunting company is named Tu Dalong, and Li Mu felt that he was quite satisfied after seeing it, so the matter was settled.

In addition to looking for intermediary companies to recommend talents, Li Mu also personally went to other large companies to poach people.

For example, Shen Li, the person in charge of Baidu LBS and one of the core managers of Baidu O2O. Of course, her status in Baidu is not so high now, so Li Mu easily dug it up through a fool and absolutely favorable conditions.

In the original history, Shen Li would eventually be poached by Wang Xing to Meituan in September 2014 and become one of Meituan's core executives, one of the senior vice presidents, and even once considered the second person in charge of Meituan besides Wang Xing.

After joining Meituan, Shen Li's position changed many times, and finally she was in charge of Maoyan Movies and made great achievements.

Li Mu, who has been in the film and television industry for half his life, knows the extreme importance of distribution to a movie, and Maoyan is such a weapon for film distribution.

Therefore, Li Mu began to set up the third company under his name - Maoyan Film.

In a sense, now is also a good time to develop online ticketing for movies.

Although the first online movie ticketing website in China was created as early as 2005, its business development has been very slow, until 2009, when the proportion of domestic online ticket purchases accounted for only 2% of the total, and the turnaround came in 2010.

In January 2010, the movie "Avatar" officially landed in the mainland, and soon there was a hot scene where it was difficult to find a ticket, and there were even newspapers at that time that it was difficult to buy movie tickets and transport train tickets.

It is also from this time that the audience found that buying tickets on third-party platforms is not only the original price, there is no need to queue, but also they can choose seats online, which is very convenient.

With the help of "Ah

Fanda" is hard to find, and the number of registered users of online ticketing software has skyrocketed.

Since he knew that there was an opportunity here, of course Li Mu had to lay out the layout in advance, and this Shen Li he had worked so hard to dig up was the person in charge of Li Mu's preparation for the future Maoyan movie.

After completing the construction of the leadership teams of the two new companies under his name, Li Mu and Cheng Long, Yang Ziqiong, Liu Yifei and other film creators went to the United States.

At the end of June 2008, the movie "Doomsday Collapse" was officially launched in the United States.

Time flies, and soon it came to July 14, 2008, when the crew of "Doomsday Collapse" was filming in the United States.

At the same time, a very important film in the history of world cinema - "Batman: The Dark Knight" directed by Nolan officially premiered in New York!

With a premiere in 4,366 theaters, The Dark Knight won the crown as the largest film released in American film history.

With a first-day box office of $67.85 million, it is the undisputed first-day champion in American film history.

The box office in the first three days of the opening weekend was $155 million, the first weekend result in American film history.

IMD ranked No. 1, with a rating of 9.7 that puts it ahead of the classic movie The Godfather.

Rotten Tomatoes has a 94% positive rating, and commercial films have finally raised their eyebrows under the pen of film critics.

The box office exceeded $400 million in 18 days after its release, and "Batman: The Dark Knight" once again broke the mark in film history.

It grossed $441.5 million in 24 days of release and managed to become one of the three highest-grossing films in American cinema history.

With a Douban score of 9.2, although "Batman: The Dark Knight" failed to be released in China, it was regarded as a generation of god films by many Chinese fans.

The film industry shook and everyone was boiling, these should have little to do with Li Mu, but with the sweep of "Batman: The Dark Knight" across the world, it inevitably affected Li Mu himself.

As the most internationally influential director in China, he can even remove one or two words; As an international director who has always been known as a genius director, Li Mu has boosted the confidence of domestic fans in domestic films, but he is also inevitably compared with other big Hollywood directors.

Compared with James Cameron and Spielberg, it is certainly not qualified, but Nolan By, who is also known as a talented director, is more reliable.

Nolan's previous famous films include "Fragments of Memory", "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night", "Deadly Magic" and "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow".

Among them, "Fragments of Memory" has a global box office of 39.7 million US dollars, "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night" and "Deadly Magic" have a global box office of about 100 million US dollars, and the highest box office is "Batman: The Mystery of the Movie", with a global box office of 370 million US dollars.

Li Mu's three most internationally influential films, "Hurricane Rescue", are $280 million, and "Assassin" is $355 million; "Super Body" $360 million.

Although Li Mu's highest-grossing work "Super Body" is not as good as Nolan's highest-grossing "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow", the gap between the two is not so big, and the global box office is only $10 million.

And the most important thing is that the total box office of Li Mu's works has clearly surpassed director Nolan.

Therefore, when domestic fans were arguing about who was stronger of the two, netizens who supported Li Mu to be stronger had a greater advantage.

Even if there are die-hard fans of director Nolan who beat Li Mu with the results of a single work, they are speechless by Li Mu's fans with three Hugo Awards, 60 million best-selling authors, and works that are original.

Nolan's "Batman" series has so many fans around the world, and in the end, it is only $10 million higher than Li Mu's pure original work, what else is there to say?

Is it true that Chinese directors are discriminated against internationally?

Li Lianhua didn't have much international influence before, and she was still a yellow race, so this disadvantage is quite obvious, right?

But even so, the box office of "Super Body" directed by Li Mu is only $10 million lower than that of "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow", so is there any need to fight?

What an obvious thing, director Nolan is sure

It's really very strong, but compared with our native Chinese director Li Mu, there is still a certain gap!

Although Nolan's fans are still unconvinced, they have to admit that Li Mu is really strong.

Then the second installment in the Batman trilogy directed by Nolan was finally officially released.

And as soon as it was released, it set ten new box office records, and countless professional organizations predicted that the final global box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" would probably break the $1 billion mark!

The box office word-of-mouth has exploded, and the global box office has exceeded 1 billion!

What does Li Mu want to compare?

The combined global box office of all Li Mu's movies is only worth more than $1 billion, and a movie directed by Nolan is $1 billion!

Now Li Mu's fans are really not easy to refute, because the Dark Knight is too fierce.

Do you want to say that director Li Mu's "Inception", which has not yet been released, and "Doomsday Collapse", which has just started, can fight with "Batman: The Dark Knight"?

What about dreaming?

Even Li Mu's die-hard fans don't dare to think so, everyone thinks that "Inception" and "Doomsday Collapse" can get a global box office of 400 million US dollars, even if it is a high incense, even if it is an extraordinary performance, 500 million US dollars will be over.

In a sense, the $1 billion global box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is a mountain that Li Mu will find difficult to cross in his life.

In the end, most of Li Mu's fans can only grasp the fact that "Batman" has a very large number of fans around the world to find a little bit of a field.

Does the Dark Knight T mean Nolan? Not necessarily, without Batman's popularity, can Nolan get this box office result?

But after all, there is still some lack of confidence.

At this time, someone finally began to pay attention to the screenwriter column of the movie "Batman: The Dark Knight", and then everyone found a very familiar name in the screenwriter column - Li Mu!

After Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, and David S Goyer, you need to click more buttons on Douban to see it.

Everyone's first reaction was to be confused.

Director Li Mu and Batman? The two are not next to each other at all!

"Douban is coming to auntie?"

"Wouldn't it? Unless my aunt is also contagious, I just took a look, and Time.com also has it."

"I deliberately went to see the information on the Internet, and the screenwriter column does have the word LiMu, this is a problem with domestic translation, right?"

"*** The translator didn't run away from playing bad fun, LiMu is Li Mu? Couldn't it be Lim?"

"Okay, it could be Li Mu, the general of Zhao Guo!"

Nolan's fans couldn't help but make mockery, while Li Mu's fans called on everyone not to get excited, and to wait for verification before talking, while starting to collect various information.

Then finally the staff of the "Super Body" crew stood up and broke the news.

"Everyone, don't make any noise, I am a staff member of the "Super Body" crew, and everyone in the "Super Body" crew knows this matter - that's right, the screenwriter of "Batman: The Dark Knight" should have Director Li Mu's name!"

Then whether it was Nolan's fans or Li Mu's fans, everyone gathered under the whistleblower's post, and after finally confirming that this person had really worked in the crew of "Super Body", everyone was anxiously waiting for an answer.

"Actually, don't mention how fantastical this is, I remember that the crew was filming at the time, and suddenly I heard that a director named Nolan came to see Director Li. Later, I heard that it was this director named Nolan who took a fancy to Director Li's film adaptation rights, that is, "Inception", and I heard that the price was very high."

"However, Director Li is a great director himself, and "Inception" is one of Director Li's favorite works, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is Director Li's child, how could he sell the adaptation rights to other directors? But director Nolan really likes the story of "Inception" so much, so- guess what this Nolan did?"

Countless netizens began to refresh the webpage non-stop waiting for the landlord's update, and finally after ten minutes, the landlord again

appeared.

"Then came the most shocking scene, of course, I wasn't there at the time, I also heard it."

"I heard that Director Nolan at that time directly took out part of the storyboard manuscript of "Inception", and confidently told Director Li that he Nolan is the best director candidate to shoot this "Inception", even if Li Mu is the original author, but when it comes to who can better express it, Director Li Mu is still not as suitable as him."

"I heard that Director Li's face was quite embarrassed at that time, and there was even a hint of shame. "Inception" is Director Li's own original, and no one can deny it. Of course, he knows best, but at that time, director Nolan said that he was the best director to make this film. Nolan's statement somewhat underestimated Director Li, right? But why did Director Li Mu feel ashamed at that time? He didn't copy it, and he didn't copy Nolan, so what did he have to feel guilty about?"

"Then there is only one conclusion, that is, the storyboard of "Inception" drawn by Director Nolan really shocked Director Li Mu. Director Li Mu thought that as the original author of the story, his understanding of his work was not as good as that of an outsider, of course he had to be ashamed. Only this explanation is logical and reasonable."

At this point, Nolan's fans are boiling.

"Look, what am I talking about? Or director Nolan is better! Li Mu wrote it himself, and as a result, Director Nolan drew the most amazing storyboard. Even Li Mu himself is ashamed, what do you Li Mu fans have to fight for? I admit that Director Li Mu is indeed very good, but compared to Director Nolan, he is still almost hot."

"Nolan, what if you're the original author? I'll throw a stack of storyboards in your face, and then say to you loudly: I know your work best, I'll be the director!"

"Damn, it's all like this, Li Mu didn't sell the copyright in the end? How do you feel that the pattern is too small."

"Not only did it not sell, but I also arranged for my girlfriend to play the heroine! Such an awesome story may have been ruined by Li Mu's small pattern."

"Li Mu should have received applause as the screenwriter of "Inception", but unfortunately the pattern is too small and he has to use the identity of the director of "Inception" to ruin the work."

Then just when Li Mu's fans began to think about how to refute it, the whistleblower spoke again.

"And then guess what Director Li Mu did? It's just against the sky, I'll tell you! He directly asked people to find pen and paper, and then told Director Nolan that he liked Nolan's "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow" very much, and said that when he was bored, he would reasonably infer the plot of the second part based on the first plot of the Batman series."

"Then Director Li Mu began to draw the storyboard of the second part of the Batman series, which had not yet started filming at that time, in front of Director Nolan, which is now in theaters. And at that time, how many storyboards of "Inception" did Director Nolan bring, and how many storyboards of "Batman: The Dark Knight" that Director Li Mu drew on the spot, and then guess what?"

"It is said that after Director Nolan read the draft inferred by Director Li Mu, his whole face directly turned the color of pig liver. No need to ask, Director Li Mu's manuscript must have scared Nolan to death. Either he guessed Director Nolan's script directly, or he drew something better than what Director Nolan was going to shoot. In short, Director Nolan was completely suppressed."

"How many days and weeks did he ponder when he drew the manuscript of Inception? And what about director Li Mu? People draw directly on the spot! Director Nolan has a plot as a reference, and Li Mu directly deduced the second part that Nolan was going to shoot from the plot of the first Batman. So who is better?"

"Anyway, I heard that Director Nolan has been in regular contact with Director Li Mu since then. It is said that the two will study the plot of "Batman: The Dark Knight" together, and how to shoot the desired effect together - the name of director Li Mu is written in the information of the film!"

As soon as this breaking news came out, the entire Chinese Internet world was completely boiling, and even those friends who had never seen any of Director Nolan's films were actively discussing this matter.

It's really a bit too fantasy in the content of this revelation.

After watching the first part, you can deduce the plot of the second part? How many storyboards did you draw on the spot?

Don't dare to write like that!

"It's a good story, but no one really believes it, right?"

"Okay, I know, Li Mu is not a human, he is a god! That's all right, right?"

"The higher you hold it, the worse it falls, and remember not to mythologize idols."

"What about drawing storyboards on the spot?! Anyone who has really done a storyboard knows how this is!"

"Li Mu is the best, director Li Mu is the best in the world, Li Mu is as famous as Cameron Spielberg - no, director Li Mu is more awesome than Cameron Spielberg! That's all right, right?"

"That's right, director Li Mu's next movie has a global box office of $100 billion, right?"

"Lazy to refute, fake at a glance."

"It's a plot."

The Chinese Internet was noisy, and then it successfully spread to the Internet.

When director Nolan participated in the promotion of the film, a reporter from Huaxia directly asked Nolan about the inclusion of Huaxia director Li Mu on the list of film screenwriters.

After the reporter briefly retold the so-called revelations on the Internet, Director Nolan replied:

"Director Li Mu's talent is very amazing, I also thought it was very incredible at the time, he suddenly drew a storyboard on the spot, and many of the content of the storyboard coincided with the ideas in my mind, some of them were even more amazing than the ideas I came up with for a long time, Director Li Mu is the hero of this "Batman: The Dark Knight", there is no doubt about it, and I also helped Director Li Mu to shoot "Inception", the two of us have a private agreement, he will be "Batman: The Dark Knight" I'll also be on the list of Inception's writers."

The content of the interview was transmitted back to China, and the entire Chinese Internet was instantly detonated:

"My mother, Nolan directly endorsed it, Director Li Mu is so good!"

"I'm rubbing, fortunately I couldn't help but scold *** directly, otherwise I would really be ***!"

"Director Li Mu is awesome!"

"It's really good, you can directly guess the plot of the second part of Batman when you watch the first part, can you believe it?"

"Genius, Director Li Mu is definitely a genius."

"You say it?!"

"As a fan of Tianxian, what I want to say now is that Tianxian is willing to take the initiative to chase Li Mu and secretly kiss Director Li at the premiere, these are not without reason, who can still remain gentle and humble in the face of this kind of genius?"

"Give Li Mu ten years, and give you back to Cameron Spielberg-level director!"

"Are you suddenly looking forward to Inception?"

The time soon came to the beginning of August 2008, when the filming progress of the movie "Doomsday Collapse" was nearly halfway through, and Li Mu also officially announced that the crew would take a temporary holiday for 10 days.

Yes, the crew is going to shut down!

There's no way to keep swinging.

Because Li Mu, Liu Yifei, Cheng Long and others have to return to Beijing to watch the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. The main personnel of the crew all have to leave, and the crew can't help but temporarily stop work.