What's next?

Liu Yifei showed a curious look on his face, and reached out and pulled Wu Yuan's sleeve: "Senior brother, what is the new movie?" ”

For the person next to him, Wu Yuan naturally has nothing to hide.

"It's a sci-fi film, and I'm going to shoot it with an IMAX camera," he laughs and says. ”

“IMAX？” Liu Yifei repeated it suspiciously.

Now IMAX is still a very new concept in China, and people who generally don't contact directors don't know much about it, let alone Liu Yifei, an electronic bitter hand.

"yes, IMAX." Wu Yuan sighed: "This is a very awesome technology, a technology that changes the world of cinema. ”

Who would have thought that next year, there would be an IMAX movie "Avatar" sweeping the world, directly changing the global film ecology and prompting IMAX cinemas to explode around the world.

Although the plot of the movie "Avatar" is really simple, and even a little bit of a glorification of the colonists, the appearance of this movie is indeed epoch-making and has brought the world film industry to a new era.

It was a wrong choice to fight against the torrent of the times.

Wu Yuan is not like some literary film directors, who always firmly believe that movies must be shot with film, and should not use too many special effects, and 3D and IMAX are even more bells and whistles.

He is very willing to embrace new technologies, and even in his dreams, he mainly made special effects movies later, although it was the kind of online movies on major video platforms.

"Avatar", a movie that took ten years to prepare, Wu Yuan certainly had no way to cut off the beard.

But after "Avatar", he is still very willing to deliver an IMAX sci-fi blockbuster to the global audience.

The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the shade.

With "Avatar" Yuzhu in front and opening up the market, isn't it good for him to follow behind Meizizi's leakage?

"It's going to be a very big investment, with an estimated investment of $200 million, and every minute of footage will cost more than $1.3 million."

As soon as the figure of 200 million US dollars came out, Liu Yifei immediately asked: "Then this must be a blockbuster." ”

Haolaiwu blockbuster, which means that the main actors must use Haolaiwu actors, and it is an English dialogue, and there will be no roles suitable for Chinese actors.

As if guessing what Liu Yifei was thinking, Wu Yuan smiled and pinched her little nose: "Don't worry, I left you a role." ”

"The film is tentatively titled "Interstellar", and it is a hard sci-fi blockbuster on a much larger scale than "Gravity"."

"The story is set in the distant future, where the earth's crops are often lost due to climate change and blight......

Yes, the movie Wu Yuan wants to make this time is the movie "Interstellar" that made Nolan a god in the mainland of China!

Putting aside the praise of those fanatical fans, from the perspective of the movie alone, this movie is indeed very good, and Wu Yuan likes it very much.

In the previous life, the film was shot in 2013 and released in the United States on November 5, 2014, and finally won nearly $700 million at the global box office.

If you want to make more money, then no.

But the compulsion of this movie is really high, whether it is in Asia, Europe and the United States, it is known as the best hard science fiction movie of the 21st century.

Before the advent of the superhero era, Wu Yuan wanted to leave his own mark on Hollywood, and after thinking about it, he felt that this movie was the most suitable.

After all, "Gravity" has been sinicized by him, and there are only a few Hollywood blockbusters with a good enough spiritual core.

While Nolan's "Inception" is still in the making, this movie can be cut off as soon as possible!

Even now, if you make Interstellar, it will cost more than a few years later, when the price of IMAX cameras and special effects is reduced, and it will cost 40 million dollars more.

But it's worth the money!

At least the title of the world's second IMAX blockbuster is worth $40 million!

He plans to shoot the entire film with a digital IMAX camera!

It is worth mentioning that the movie itself is not actually a Nolan movie, at least the script has nothing to do with Nolan.

"Interstellar" is premised on the premise that filmmaker Linda Obst and theoretical physicist Kip Bush are set in the background. Conceived by S. Thorne.

The two had already collaborated in the 1997 film "Chrono Contact" and were introduced to each other by astronomer Carl Sagan.

Based on the results of Thorne's scientific work, the duo conceived two proposals, and the magical topic of space exploration attracted the interest of filmmaker Steven Spielberg, and the film began to be developed in June 2006.

At that time, Spielberg and Paramount Pictures announced plans for an eight-page science fiction film written by Linda Obst and Kip Thorne.

In March 2007, Jonathan Nolan was hired to write the screenplay for the film.

If all goes according to plan, the film should have been shot by Hollywood director Steven Spielberg.

However, when the time came to the second half of 2008, things changed a little.

Spielberg does not plan to continue working with Paramount, and plans to move his studio "DreamWorks" to the Disney Group next year.

And the relationship between Disney and Paramount, although it is not a home, has never had a cooperative relationship at all.

This led Paramount to start looking for partners for Interstellar again.

It was then that Christopher Nolan suggested that his younger brother Jonathan Nolan get involved in the project in 2012.

In the end, the film was produced by Jonathan Nolan's independent film production company, Pioneer Films, and Linda Obst's Linda Obst Productions.

Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures have partnered to distribute the film.

What Wu Yuan has to do is to take a step ahead of Nolan, first cut off the Hu film project, let Light Times cooperate with Linda Obst to invest, and then introduce Paramount and Universal, the four of them will cooperate to fund this movie.

And the light era has to be the main control!

In theory, he could convince Universal and Paramount.

Because the current Hollywood is not optimistic about pure science fiction movies, especially hard science fiction themes, this kind of film investment risk is too high.

$200 million is not a small amount of money, even if it is only half of it, Universal and Paramount will not dare to take this risk.

Light Times is willing to be the main controller, and the two companies are still eager to do it.

"That's how it goes, and in the end, Cooper and his daughter embark on a new adventure on a next-generation rover to Edmonds......"

At this time, Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei also introduced the whole story, although the script in Jonathan Nolan's hands may not have been perfected to this extent.

"I want you to play the role of Professor Brand's daughter in the story."

"Then ask Anne Hathaway to play the daughter of the male protagonist Cooper."

"You are a big beauty in the Eastern world, a big beauty in the European and American world, but you can compete on the same stage."

Yes, Wu Yuan is pondering his vase plan again.

Although "Interstellar" is a hard sci-fi movie without any love line, the two main female characters must still find beautiful actors, at least to make the audience enjoy watching it.

One Liu Yifei takes care of the Asian market, and one Anne Hathaway takes care of the European and American markets, how perfect is this!

"For the specific details of cooperation, I have to go to the United States in person and have a good chat with Paramount."

"However, this matter has basically been finalized, and if it goes well, it will enter the actual preparation stage in the first half of next year, and strive to start filming in the middle of next year."

"If it is released, it should be in time at the end of 2010."

Wu Yuan slowly explained the situation to Liu Yifei.

Don't look at the fact that others have been in China, but he still has some contact with Haolaiwu.

Warner, for example, is still trying to convince him to direct "Green Lantern."

The Interstellar project is no secret in Hollywood, and Spielberg is not alone.

It is normal for Wu Yuan to have a connection with Paramount.

Paramount, after basically determining that Spielberg was going to break up with them and switch to the opposite family, was indeed thinking about the new director.

At this time, Wu Yuan came to the door, of course, it was an instant hit.

Although Wu Yuan is not as famous as Spielberg, he is definitely one of the top business directors in Hollywood.

To put it bluntly, as long as he wants to direct all the commercial film projects of Hollywood, the six will not refuse.

Only a few directors such as Spielberg and Cameron have a higher priority than him!

Even Nolan doesn't have as much priority as him now!

In addition, now that "Gravity" is released in Asia, it is also very good, although Paramount is also on the same front with Universal and is reluctant to introduce "Gravity" to be released in North America, but it still recognizes Wu Yuan's level of science fiction films.

In commercial companies, there is not so much love and hatred at all, everything is driven by interests, and it is normal to cooperate while confronting.

Preventing the North American release of "Gravity" will not affect Wu Yuan and Paramount's cooperation in "Interstellar".

After opening the company for so many years, Wu Yuan's thinking has gradually shifted from a simple director to a businessman's perspective.

Like no one, he actively held several conference calls with Paramount, and the two parties basically finalized the follow-up cooperation.

Even Wu Yuan did not refuse Paramount's suggestion to pull Universal to do this project together.

To do science fiction movies, it is good to come to the six miles, and it is indeed Paramount and Universal that are more professional.

Globe in 1982 was already working on ". Aliens", and "Transformers", which was released last year, is also their work.

With the help of Universal, "Interstellar" can indeed be filmed more smoothly.

Of course, Wu Yuan's crew refresher class can also steal some teachers from the staff of Universal.

He and Paramount just made a rough appointment on the phone, but the matter of the crew's refresher class was finalized as soon as possible.

This time to shoot "Interstellar", he will still bring 20 crew members into the group to comprehensively learn the industrialization of science fiction movies in Hollywood!

"When the Olympics are over, I'll go to the United States with you." There was a fragrance on Liu Yifei's face, and Wu Yuan said happily.

Calvin

(End of chapter)