Comrade Wang is going crazy!

He was already busy flying—

Dunhuang is in terms of production, this year is a big year, well, at least in terms of the number of productions.

And Wang Wei's house completely belongs to the bear blind man breaking buds -

He is not like some producers, who have to intervene in everything, of course, the conditions do not allow it;

He breaks one and loses another, and in most cases is only responsible for making requirements and adjustments, and the specific things are managed by the people in each main creative department.

Lao Wang can only help him "match" the right department creator.

How busy is he?

was so busy that even the domestic box office of "Charlotte's Troubles" officially exceeded one billion, and he could only take the time to look up to the sky and laugh three times, and then continue to be busy.

In this case, he received a project proposal for the pioneering work of the "Dawn" production company -

The new label jointly held by Shen Zhenyi and Dunhuang was officially named "Dawn", and its meaning is self-evident.

Lao Wang is going crazy!

"This is a female-themed movie??"

The theme of "fighting zombies" is not new, but unlike the absolute weakness of human beings in most zombie movies, this movie was renamed "Resident Evil", in which zombies are violently beaten by girls, and the scene is not ordinarily grand.

Also, the budget of 50 million made Lao Wang want to scold his mother.

It's not that there is no money, it's-

What about the positioning of "art films and women-themed films"? Have you seen an art film or a film with a female theme that requires such a high budget?

This is not his positioning for the "Dawn" production company!

"Why isn't it a female-themed movie?"

"It's women who fight zombies, and most of the main creators are women, do you want all the zombies in it to be women, so they can be considered female-themed movies?"

Wang Wei had an expression of don't discriminate against male zombies.

The corners of Lao Wang's eyes twitched, and he turned to Xu Daoxing, who was silent: "Lao Xu, you are the director of the production department, let's talk about it, is it appropriate to draw this movie to the side of the dawn?" ”

Lao Xu didn't dare to pick up the stubble casually, made a contemplative state, and said slowly: "It's not unreasonable to classify this film as a female-themed movie; However, this kind of bloody violence, fighting and killing themes, if she is handed over to a female director to shoot, can she handle it? ”

Wang Wei pursed his lips and said, "So I am the only honest person, you are all pretending to be honest in your mouth, but you are shouting in your heart not to." ”

"Female directors only stay in their comfort zone, you say that they always put artistic personal expression first, and it is difficult to break through the shackles brought by the female perspective."

"They are out of their comfort zone, and you suspect that others are not capable enough and are not willing to invest big investments in them."

"The problem is, never give people a chance, how do you know if people can't shoot subjects outside their comfort zone?"

"Dawning is originally a new company, and in order to enter new fields, don't stick to rules and regulations, and limit yourself to the limit."

Wang Wei's rather critical words made Lao Wang and Lao Xu speechless.

They asked themselves, although they said they wanted to support female directors, did they really break the stereotype of female directors?

The answer is obviously embarrassing – no.

Their impression is probably still stuck in-

Art film: A female director, she must be delicate and artistic, and she can vote;

Commercial film: The female director's must be very meaty and procrastinating, don't vote or don't vote.

At this point, they are far less courageous than the older generation in Dunhuang!

- Don't look at the old man's pot of chicken soup to go all over the world, but he is really qualified to pour chicken soup for people.

——He created a bigger stage for women in the Chinese entertainment industry, broke countless precedents, and is still blessed with Dunhuang, which is also one of the important reasons why Shuguang has responded to the female group in the circle after its establishment.

Wang Wei is right, as the descendants who have been blessed, they don't even dare to take a little risk, which is really unreasonable.

Of course, about Wang Wei's self-proclaimed honesty, then he can only hehe.

Not to mention the "wall grass" Lao Xu, it was Lao Wang, who originally insisted on opposing it, and his attitude was loosened.

"Although you say so, I still think that you clearly see that the company can afford to lose money now, and then choose to jump on the verge of death."

"That's right, but isn't the tradition of Dunhuang 'taking the initiative to die'?"

Wang Wei nodded,

"So let's not worry about whether to invest or not, let's directly study the details of the project."

"Okay!"

Comrade Wang sighed helplessly,

"It turned out exactly as you wanted!"

"Because I'm always right!"

Wang Weiluo smiled meaningfully.

Although Lao Wang wanted to say that he was shameless, he was silent when he thought about his past achievements.

I didn't know for a moment that I hoped that this guy would continue to be undefeated and let him continue to be proud; I still hope that this guy will make a mistake and make him more humble in the future.

So, "Resident Evil" was so happily decided as the first film produced by Dawning Studios.

Lao Xu said on the side, "Speaking of which, this is the first time Dunhuang has made a science fiction movie that requires a lot of special effects, is the special effects production outsourced, or is it ......?"

This is a serious matter, Wang Wei's face became serious,

"I plan to set up my own special effects studio and undertake some special effects and post-production of my own films in the future."

Lao Wang's face also became serious: "That's not an easy thing!" ”

"yes."

Xu Daoxing nodded, and also said: "A special effects studio, but it needs a lot of technical personnel, and there is not enough business, so you can't afford to support them, so it's just burning money." ”

"In addition to this "Resident Evil", are there any suitable projects for us to do?"

"Well...... this"

Wang Wei knew that what they said was not wrong.

In this time and space, regardless of whether it is Hollywood or the Chinese entertainment industry, if a director or production company creates a special effects studio, it is generally based on the needs of the film he shoots.

In Hollywood, the most famous in both lifetimes is Industrial Light & Magic;

In China, the most popular special effects studio is the "Phantom Special Effects" under Tang Yu Media - Tang Yu Media is the most favorite studio in China to shoot science fiction, fantasy and other big productions, and many demand for special effects has strengthened this special effects company.

Therefore, Lao Xu's question is actually whether Wang Wei will get involved in science fiction, fantasy and other themes?

After all, Dunhuang's current investment strategy is that Wang Wei went first, had a successful template, and then followed later.

From this point of view, "Resident Evil" can be regarded as breaking this precedent.

"The Resident Evil series alone has a lot of demand, and we need a special effects studio."

Wang Wei didn't hesitate too much and finalized this.

Not to mention that there are blockbusters that need special effects in the future, just talking about the strategy of film and game linkage, it requires close cooperation in special effects, and people are not as good as themselves.

Of course, when it comes to the film and game linkage that is officially on the agenda, Lao Wang and the two are even more helpless to cover their foreheads.

This "Resident Evil" really breaks too many conventions!

Generally speaking, if a project is so unconventional, it really has no lower limit.

It's just that when the person who "died" became Wang Wei, everyone's tolerance seemed to be much higher.

In particular, he also prepared some special means.

……

On the day of the Lantern Festival in the first lunar month, the box office of "Charlotte's Troubles" officially crossed the billion mark and became a milestone work at the box office of Chinese films.

How the media touted it and didn't say it, Wang Wei received the unexpected joy of Tongzi, who had almost no sense of existence, on the same day-

Two raffle chests!

As a producer and screenwriter, the reward for breaking the record of one billion in a single film!

In addition to being a director, there was no reward for breaking records as a producer and screenwriter.

With the urine nature of this salted fish system, Wang Weichai is either rewarded by it before, or he is not a director, and only milestone records are rewarded.

What the real situation is, it can only be done and verified.

- With such an unreliable gold finger, in addition to guessing, there is only time to verify.

However, there is an occasional surprise, which is a good feeling.

Two treasure chests, one of which has harvested the "Traceability Aura" - this one has been used before and is a good thing.

The other has opened a new "common aura".

[Common Aura (Disposable) - Wearing an item designated by the host, and the members can establish a communication connection with each other. 】

Wang Wei pondered a new hanging.

And then...... Didn't figure out much.

After all, this broken system has always been eager to be summed up in just one word in the introduction.

To understand, the best way is to use it to know.

As a result, the "Resident Evil" project, which planned the linkage of film and games, quietly became Wang Wei's "guinea pig".

It turns out that a certain system is still the son of the salted fish, but what is released is also a good thing as always.

……

Gu Jinguang of Weibo Technology, as the game project director of "Resident Evil", imagined many problems encountered in the film and game linkage link from the beginning.

——To study the proposition of "film and game linkage", the success or failure of previous video game adaptations has become the best reference.

Well, it's "success or failure", but in fact there is only "failure".

Yes, it's so miserable. So far, there has been no successful tour reform movie; Being able to recover the production cost is a successful example.

After research, Gu Jinguang feels that one of the important reasons is that the mainstream film industry has a contemptuous attitude towards game reform, even if the growth rate of the game market is much higher than that of the film market.

Therefore, no game movie will involve the original personnel of the game, and a group of movie creators who look down on the game from the bottom of their hearts, if the adaptation is not a bad movie, then it is called a myth.

Therefore, the first principle of film and game linkage that he determined was to involve both game developers and movie creators to create for what they loved.

But this raises new questions.

How do two teams that may have completely different ways of thinking communicate?

For example, most of their game development team are instrumental rational people.

However, in any kind of literary and artistic works, especially film and television works, this kind of instrumental rationality is fatal.

If they were to make a zombie movie with their hearts, it would be like this-

After the outbreak of the virus, the protagonist grabs a zombie slice for research, buries himself in the laboratory to develop vaccines, then organizes factory production, and finally popularizes vaccines step by step, zombies are no longer a threat, and the whole play ends.

- Anyone who tries to make such a film should shoot himself or be shot to death by the audience.

But more likely, they will start from the source to argue, what is the mechanism of zombie generation? The generation of zombies is not scientific...... Then it was concluded that there could be no zombies for zombies, and there was no point in making such a movie, so give up.

Think of such a group of rational people who only talk about the highest efficiency, and a group of emotional people who want to mobilize the audience's feelings to the greatest extent, make them cry and laugh, be frightened, and hold their breath, probably Mars hit the earth!

In particular, the main creative team of "Resident Evil" is still dominated by women.

Oh, my God! Women can't be reasonable!

Then, while slandering the big boss and deliberately increasing the difficulty, Gu Jinguang, who had a headache for communication problems, was beaten in the face after contacting the main creative team of the movie led by He Wenying-

"This kind of other party often only needs a few words or even a look, I can clearly understand the situation of their intentions, what the hell is ?!!"

You know, not to mention the cooperation between two teams with very different thinking, it is their own team, a big reason for affecting cooperation, is also the communication and tacit understanding between each other.

In many cases, team members are not incapable, nor are they unable to identify problems, but they are unable to communicate and feedback problems efficiently.

Of course, there are also times when they subconsciously find some problems, but for various reasons, they don't say it at all.

- Such cases are not uncommon.

Generally speaking, small teams often rely on long-term running-in and tacit understanding to solve these problems, so as to reach the level where everyone tacitly understands each other.

As for big teams, big companies...... How do you think the "big company disease" came about?

However, the cooperation with He Wenying's team broke Gu Jinguang's consistent cognition -

What the other party says, their team seems to understand;

For example, the other party's simple scene description, they seemed to see a movie scene in a trance - dark and cramped streets, hideous-faced zombies swaying and wandering around with teeth and claws; Haunting lickers and tyrants, hissing and footsteps far and near where they can't see......

And even if there is something that you don't understand, all kinds of questions hidden in your heart will be asked unconsciously, and then everyone will communicate and optimize.

"Could it be that our team still has hidden skill points for making movies?"

For this kind of tacit understanding, Gu Jinguang could only think half puzzled and half self-comforting.

In fact, not only him, but also the film creation team led by He Wenying also feels the same way.

Many of them don't even play games, but in a short exchange, they have a rough idea of what kind of game the other person wants.

Survival thrillers, puzzle elements, and thrilling gunfights are layered on top of a suspenseful and intriguing storyline......

Some of these settings are definitely not suitable for movies, but there are also many that are applicable, and even give them new inspiration.

The point is, this kind of efficient communication is so comfortable!

There will be no chickens and ducks talking, and no one can say the powerlessness of stupid X; There will be no accusations that you will turn around, but you will never know what you are doing is useful, and even simply feel that you are being irritable and helpless in vain.

Of course, this is just a simple communication in the initial preparations, and with the refinement of various settings, how to seek common ground while reserving differences while respecting the logic of the two products of movies and games is the real difficulty.

But working in such an atmosphere is already unstoppable.

"Is it really a combination of men and women, and they are not tired of work, so they have such a miraculous effect?"

Director He Wenying couldn't help but feel it.

"It can't be that everyone has a heart, so it makes sense?" Shen Zhenyi, who learned to be a producer in the team, smiled a little mysteriously.

He Wenying was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

"Two people have a heart, it is possible, that is called a heavenly marriage; A group of people have a soul, what the hell is it called, multiple births, impossible. ”

……

It's another day of lazy stamping~~~

(End of chapter)