Back at the office, Lu Ping'an didn't care about Yang Mi anymore and focused on the things of "Wonderful Night 2".

The script of "Wonderful Night 2" is now finalized.

It's similar to the original structure, but the content will have more adaptations than "Wonderful Night 1".

The original "Wonderful Night 2" is actually not particularly good.

The original "Wonderful Night 2" has significantly more special effects than the first episode.

If IMAX is counted, it is said that the second part has many more screening channels than the first part.

The first part was only screened on more than 3,700 screens in Lao Mei, and the sequel was nearly 300 screens.

The second installment had a budget of $150 million, grossed $176 million in the United States, and grossed $410 million worldwide.

Although this achievement is not trivial, it can be said to be a drop in the bucket compared to the first part's U.S. box office of $250 million and the global box office of $570 million.

You know, the budget for the first part is only $12 million.

So the box office results of "Wonderful Night 2" show that this sequel is lazy in some ways.

The original "Wonderful Night 2" tells the story of the male protagonist who has achieved great success in his career and became a big boss after the first part.

Then I returned to the museum after many years, only to find that the museum was going to be replaced, the old friends were going to be replaced by high technology, and the old exhibits were going to be sent to Washington for storage.

After saying goodbye to his old friends, the protagonist receives a distress call, which turns out to be a monk's hat monkey who has stolen the gold medal, so that the entire warehouse exhibits are resurrected, and the old friends are hunted down, and the protagonist goes to the rescue.

In Washington, D.C., the protagonist meets several new NPCs, including Albert Einstein, the sincere Lincoln, and the aviator Emilia who always fascinates him, and the historical elements involved include the Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C., the Space Museum, etc.

In the end, the protagonist defeats Carmenra and their gang, stops the legions from underground, successfully rescues his friends, and returns to the old museum.

Overall, the museum of "Wonderful Night 2" is bigger, there are more characters, the heroine is more beautiful, and the movie is still lively.

But after the excitement, I always feel that something is missing.

If you analyze it carefully, the reason is actually very simple.

The story of the original "Wonderful Night" is based on fairy tale books.

Amazing creativity, as well as a complete story and plot, plus Hollywood eye-catching special effects, complete this commercial blockbuster.

In contrast, "Wonderful Night 2" is a simple copy of the plot mode of the previous work by the screenwriters.

"Wonderful Night 2" is still the protagonist who saves NPCs in the museum.

The characters and plot have not developed much.

As a result, people can't make more impressions of the plot than shouting at the amazing visuals during the viewing process.

And all outstanding sequel movies have story and plot extensions.

For example, "The Godfather 2" tells the story of the new mafia family leader Michael Corleone's growth and transformation into a father's role.

"The Mummy 2" has developed a child, and although the story routine is basically the same, there are more clues to the child.

Another example is "Iron Man 2", which began to uncover clues about S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers.

Aside from anything else, these films surpass their predecessors in terms of action and visual effects.

It can be seen from this that the fancy changes in special effects and production quality are just inevitable means, and in order to make the sequel a bumper box office and word-of-mouth, we have to work the storyline.

In "Wonderful Night 1", there is Larry's transformation from "can't" to "I can", and there is also the emotional transmission between father and son.

In the sequel, there is no room for development of the relationship between father and son, but there is an optional acting vase of a female pilot.

And the villains such as Pharaoh's brother, Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon and the Mafia are only formal bluffs, more than enough jokes, and not enough gold content to promote the plot.

Although the director spared no effort to show special effects and humorous ridicule, and even added tributes to "The Mummy Series" and "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta", it made people unable to leave too much impression after watching it.

So to put it simply, "Wonderful Night 2" is an authentic bowl of egg fried rice.

Cold rice is stir-fried hot, not fresh enough.

So how do you adapt it?

At the beginning, Lu Ping'an was also faced with two options.

The first is to copy.

The total box office of "Wonderful Night Trilogy" is not bad, and now Lu Ping'an can eat two fish again, which is equivalent to six movies.

In this way, even if the last two films are the same as the original time and space, and the box office is worse than the other, he can still make a lot of money.

And in addition to copying, there is a second option.

It's about optimizing the trilogy and adding a more ambitious theme and worldview.

This comes with huge risks.

For example, the adaptation was unsatisfactory, so that the box office waterloo.

After all, since it has been adapted, there is no reference, and no one knows what the future results will be.

But Lu Ping'an finally thought about it and felt that it still had to be changed.

Because he has confidence.

The confidence does not come from the ability to adapt, but from "one fish and two eats".

If the Chinese version is not changed well, wouldn't it be good to shoot the old American version back to the original version?

This means that he has two test sites, and the two test sites will not have much of a related impact.

Because Chinese films about culture are not very good, this also leaves plenty of box office space for the American version.

Two editions of Fantastic Nights 1 have proven this.

Of course, if the Chinese version of "Wonderful Night 2" goes out, even if it causes a global sensation, it will not affect the American version of "Wonderful Night 2" to continue to use the original version.

Chinese and Western cultures are different, after all.

So the soil for trial and error is already there.

The next step is to make bold assumptions and try carefully.

As a result, the Chinese version of "Wonderful Night 2" now has the following changes.

The first is structure and theme.

This version of "Wonderful Nights 2" can be the same as the original, the same is to save old friends.

That's fine.

But in the process of salvation, a lot of content and details can be added, as well as a bigger theme can be added.

For example, the protagonist of the first part has grown.

The second part can be the protagonist with his son and let him grow.

What does my son need to grow?

The theme that can make a son go from cowardly to brave, which is applicable to all teenagers and children.

On this basis, because it is a "museum", it can increase the change of attitude of sons who have grown up a little more, and after receiving a lot of Western cultural baptism, they have grown from contempt for their own history, characters, and cultural relics to realizing the freshness and weight of history, being proud of their own 5,000-year history, proud of the 5,000-year-old spirit of the Chinese nation, and willing to continue to pass it on.

This is something that can be applied to both the son and the protagonist, and it can also be applied to all audiences.

The so-called revival of museums is not only a hodgepodge of hype, but also a string of people to show a deeper meaning.

This is not reflected much in the first part, it just makes history come alive, and the focus is more on the personal growth of the protagonist, and the portrayal of the theme of history is just point-to-point.

So it's just right to use now.

Lu Ping'an couldn't think of such a movie being made in China, and there could be a more suitable theme than this.

can do this, Lu Ping'an feels that this movie will be better than the second part of the original version.

In addition to this, the background of the "turtle back plate" also needs to add some more attractive elements.

Just like what many fans are curious about now, everyone is guessing why the turtle back plate has such a magical ability, it is not explicitly stated in the first part, and the king played by Jay does not know the source of this thing.

Therefore, in the second part, you can decrypt more, and you don't need to decrypt it all, so you should dig a deeper pit and pave the way for the third part.

Once you've decided on the structure and theme of the general direction, the next step is to shape the skeleton and flesh (end of this chapter)