Chapter 437: Cinematic Universe, Activate!
After the reply email was sent, Wu Yuan did not get a reply immediately.
Actually, that's normal.
He also doesn't care if Chen Kaige will take his script modification suggestions, and whether he will make more commercial changes to "Zhao's Orphan" according to his ideas.
Anyway, after he finished sending the email, he called Li Xiaoping and asked her to take over the follow-up contact.
If Chen Kaige is willing to revise it according to this script, Light and Shadow Times will participate in the investment of "Zhao's Orphan" and become one of the investors.
If Chen Kaige is unwilling to make changes, then this cooperation may not be reached.
However, Wu Yuan privately thought that Chen Kaige would not agree to his revised version.
Any director has his own screenwriting style, and Chen Kaige is famous for being a screenwriter who loves to eat and play, and is also very stubborn.
What was "Wuji" sprayed at the beginning, Chen Kaige didn't think that the script was not written well, but that the audience didn't understand it, and the audience's level was not good.
It can be seen how blindly confident he is in his script.
Even if Wu Yuan changes the script for him this time, Chen Kaige probably won't necessarily listen to it.
This is different from inviting him to shoot "Painted Skin 2".
Wu Yuan, who didn't think that this cooperation could be successful, turned his head and left this matter behind.
Chen Kaige has no shortage of investors, and there is no shortage of investment projects in the era of light and shadow.
The Cinematic Universe Project of the Light and Shadow Era, after Wu Yuan held a meeting to discuss, has officially begun.
Recently, the company's senior management and the screenwriting department have been meeting every day, constantly refining the first phase of the plan, doing the world view and background to fill in the script, and then some of them are busy with their own projects.
After Wu Yuan set this development strategy, he didn't continue to pay attention to everything, but began to enjoy his holiday life.
At least until June, he won't be able to do any more work, and he will have to relax.
Liu Yifei is the same, Salted Fish Qian wants to rest more than him, and the little couple happily arranged a travel plan.
To mention, Liu Yifei is a person who likes to travel very much, if she doesn't have a job arrangement, she can travel abroad for half of the year, and spend the rest of her time at home reading books or singing K.
Wu Yuan also plans to experience Liu Yifei's rest life this time, and booked a South American tour with her, starting from Cuba, passing through Brazil, Uruguay, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, and then returning from Chile, the entire tour is expected to last for two months.
It's also good to walk around the world while you're still young.
He didn't want to wait until he was seventy or eighty years old to retire to experience some global tours, and by that time he might not have the energy to do so.
However, just as he and Liu Yifei were planning their travel arrangements and were about to leave, Wu Yuan received a call from Han Dong.
The Golden Rooster Award softened, and through Han Dong's message, he hoped to invite Wu Yuan to participate in the 2011 Golden Rooster Award.
In fact, the Golden Rooster Award has long been softened.
In 2009, when the 27th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards were held, the organizers of the Golden Rooster took the initiative to invite Wu Yuan to participate.
The golden rooster took the initiative, in fact, it was hinting to Wu Yuan, the previous contradiction had already been turned over, give a step to cooperate, and we will give you a reward if you come.
But at that time, Wu Yuan had just finished participating in the Venice Film Festival and Paris Fashion Week, and the later stage of "Interstellar" had been delayed again and again, and it had been delayed until it was too bad, and he had to go back to the United States directly to do the post-production.
In addition, the Golden Rooster also hinted at him that the best picture could not be awarded to him, but it had to be awarded to Chen Kaige's "Mei Lanfang" and Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly Number".
to Chen Kaige, that's because Chen Kaige himself is a member of the Beijing faction, and after his reputation has fallen sharply in "Wuji", he needs "Mei Lanfang" to be disgraced.
And also sending a cake to "Assembly Number", just like Wu Yuan's situation, is also to reconcile with Feng Xiaogang.
It can only be said that the golden rooster has really offended too many people, and it is a little too late to reconcile.
In the 2009 Golden Rooster Awards, if Wu Yuan was willing to go, he could only win the Best Director Award.
This made Wu Yuan laugh angrily.
"Levin" is the film that won the best picture in Venice, and you send me the best director award, is this trying to reconcile with me or make a feud?
Maybe in the eyes of the group of masters of the Golden Rooster Organizing Committee, the great, the most beneficial in China, no one can question the Golden Rooster Award, and it is already an act of giving you face.
But Wu Yuan didn't look down on this face.
The Chinese film industry, in the past ten years, can be said to be a step a year, with rapid progress, excellent actors and excellent directors emerging in an endless stream, and the film market is also exploding.
But the Golden Rooster has not kept up with the development tide of mainland films at all, and even has a bit of a backward meaning, the more it is closed, the more "niche" it is, and the Golden Horse and the Golden Statue, which are both listed as the three golds in Chinese, gradually widened the gap.
It is said that the selection of the Golden Statue is too closed and too biased towards Hong Kong Island movies, but compared with the Golden Rooster, it is still a big deal.
If Wu Yuan remembers correctly, the 2011 Golden Rooster Award was also quite special.
The Best Feature Film Award was not awarded to the black humor "Piano of Steel", nor to Feng Xiaogang's "The Great Earthquake", but to "Flying Sky" produced by Bayi Film Factory, which praises the aerospace industry.
This is understandable, after all, the Golden Rooster Award has its political significance.
So the question is, let him participate in the 2011 Golden Rooster Awards, what awards do the Golden Rooster men want to give him?
He doesn't have a planned Chinese movie released this year, right?
"What the Golden Rooster means is that I hope you will make a Chinese film this year and next year, and then I will send you a double yolk egg for the best feature film."
Han Dong's words on the other end of the phone made Wu Yuan happy on the spot.
"You mean, Golden Rooster wants to give me an award, but because I haven't released a movie recently, let me make one now?"
"Han Dong, do you think it's necessary for me to make a movie for a Golden Rooster Award?"
"Is this the golden rooster giving me gold, or am I here to put gold on the golden rooster?"
To put it mildly, now Wu Yuan takes the movie to the Golden Rooster Awards, and winning the Golden Rooster Best Film Award has no value for his personal reputation.
On the contrary, for the Golden Rooster, it can allow the Golden Rooster to use Wu Yuan's fame to regain its gold content in the mainland.
Yes, Wu Yuan won the award, but it can bring gold content to the Golden Rooster.
Because of several big directors in China, Wu Yuan has never won the Golden Rooster now, but he has won a lot of awards abroad, he didn't get the Golden Rooster, whether it is the problem of the Golden Rooster or his, the discerning people know it in their hearts.
"Han Dong, you thank Jin Rooster for your kindness for me." Wu Yuan said indifferently on the phone: "But I don't have any plans for a new movie this year." ”
"There may be one next year, but it is definitely not specially filmed for the Golden Rooster, and it will most likely be a commercial film, I am afraid it will not be favored by the Golden Rooster."
"This" Han Dong said with some hesitation: "Director Wu, everyone is a Chinese filmmaker, so we still have to maintain unity." ”
Yes, a sentence rises directly to the point of destroying unity.
Wu Yuan's eyes were about to roll to the sky, but he didn't retreat, he just said in a tough tone: "Let's talk about it next year, I'm going to enjoy a rare vacation next." ”
"Whether you can participate in the Golden Rooster or not, it depends on fate."
"Hey" said this, Han Dong is not easy to persuade hard, and he doesn't need to persuade hard, so he can only smile and say, "Okay." ”
"Then I wish Director Wu a happy holiday!" (End of chapter)