As soon as the plans for the four films were announced, they immediately aroused the eager eyes of all the artists of the light and shadow era present.

Don't think that the number of four movies is very small.

Although the mainland film industry is now on the rise, and hundreds of films can be made a year, when it comes to a single film company, there are not many shooting plans in a year.

This is not the time when a few Internet companies monopolized the industry.

At present, there are at least more than 100 film production companies in China, of which there are 20 or 30 with strong capital.

Even so, film companies such as Huayi, Orange Sky, Bona, and Guangguang only control about four or five films a year, and there are no more than 8 films at most that are invested in them.

Among them, it can be regarded as a blockbuster, and there are generally only one or two.

Like the Light and Shadow Era, there are very few mainland film companies that make two blockbusters in a year, "Walking with God" and "Painted Skin 2".

And now, Li Xiaoping announced that the company is going to set up four blockbusters!

What is a blockbuster?

The investment is at least 100 million or more, generally between 150 million and 200 million, and it can be called a blockbuster!

This kind of movie, the mainland only makes about ten movies a year!

If you want to play this kind of blockbuster, every role will compete with more than a dozen actors of the same level, and even compete with actors from Hong Kong Island and Taiwan Island.

At least among the actors under the light and shadow era who are here, few of them can really have the opportunity to act in blockbusters.

In many cases, even if it is a blockbuster of his own company, the protagonist has to find outsiders to play, such as Chen Kun and Zhou Xun in "Painted Skin", Huang Bo and Yan Yikuan in "Walking with God".

This time, the company notified its artists of the news in advance, which means that this four blockbusters are good cakes for their own artists in the era of light and shadow!

Compared with competing with actors in the entire industry, just competing within the company, this competition is still much less difficult.

"I know, you guys want to know the details." Li Xiaoping beckoned everyone to sit down, and said with a smile: "Then I won't talk nonsense." ”

"The four blockbusters approved this time are the first phase of the company's cinematic universe plan."

"The first of them is a big movie of "Soul Ferry", but because the story told is what the actor Zhao Yan experienced a thousand years ago, except for Yu Yi, there are no other TV series starring roles."

As soon as Li Xiaoping's words came out, Yu Yi, Liu Zhiyang, Jiang Comying and others who were sitting in the corner of the conference room had complicated expressions.

Yu Yi looked excited, and there was a kind of beauty that fell from the sky and hit him.

In comparison, Liu Zhiyang and Jiang Combing looked disappointed and uncomfortable, a thousand years ago, it was obvious that there would not have been Xia Dongqing and Wang Xiaoya, and they had no chance with this blockbuster.

"This movie needs two heroines, one is a little older, preferably around 30 years old, and the image is sexy."

Li Xiaoping didn't have time to pay attention to the lost Liu Zhiyang and Jiang Combing, and continued to introduce: "The other heroine should be younger, about 18-25 years old, not more than 25 years old. ”

"The roles of these two heroines in the story are that of a mother and daughter."

"In addition, there is also an important actor, who needs a young, feminine-looking, bookish and juvenile actor."

Yes, the movie told by Li Xiaoping is "Soul Ferry: Yellow Springs".

However, unlike the original "Soul Ferry: Yellow Springs", at the request of Wu Yuan, the company's screenwriting department broadened the background of this movie.

Originally, the story of this movie was limited to Meng Po's Huangquan Inn, considering that this is just a big online movie, the pattern is enough.

But as a cinema blockbuster, the pattern is definitely not enough, and it cannot bear the requirements of broadening the movie universe in the era of light and shadow.

So under the pen of the company's screenwriting department, this story has been broadened, and the master behind the actor's immortality and his master are no longer a background board.

Changsheng's master is a sword-wielding elder in Shushan in the human realm, because he is about to end his life and is unwilling to return to heaven and earth, so he instructed Changsheng to come to Meng Po's Huangquan Inn, intending to steal the book of life and death, trying to cross out his name from the book of life and death, and vainly seek immortality.

Moreover, he is also the former lover of Meng Po and Meng Qi of the previous generation, and the father of the heroine Sanqi.

In the light and shadow era version of the script of "Soul Ferry: Yellow Springs", the story will be narrated together in the two lines of Huangquan and Shushan in the world.

The line of Huangquan starts from a personal Aiqin that was snatched by the King of Hades without a name, and stepped into the Hades with a living body and came to the Huangquan Inn.

As an enlightened monk, he did not choose to force Meng Po to ask him how to find the Hades King, but tried to reason with him, but Meng Po did not give him directions at all.

And in the process of pestering Meng Po Sanqi, the mother and daughter, Changsheng came to the Huangquan Inn and began his mission of stealing the book of life and death.

The core of the story mainly revolves around stealing the book of life and death, or the story of Changsheng and Sanqi, two ill-fated teenagers and girls.

It's just that a larger world view is introduced, and a few huge fights are added.

In the end, the climax of the movie ends with the battle between Meng Po and the ghost army of the underworld and the Shushan sword cultivation led by the immortal master in the sand sea of the underworld.

The ending is different from the original, Meng Qi is still dead, but he died under the sword of his former lover.

Sanqi's lover Changsheng finally gave up stealing the book of life and death for his master, but lived for love, and was willingly devoured by Sanqi, so that Sanqi's soul was consummated and became the new Meng Po.

And the sword elder of Shushan did not achieve his goal, it turned out that Meng Qi was not Meng Po for a long time, since she gave birth to Sanqi, the real Meng Po has already been Sanqi.

After witnessing the death of his mother in front of him, and the two heart-rending things of his lover turning into a soul and integrating into his body, the soul of Sanqi was completely complete.

After knowing what love is and experiencing the seven emotions and six desires, he returned to the Sanqi explosion of Meng Po's divine position, killed the sword cultivators who invaded the underworld in Shushan, and killed his nominal father with his own hands to avenge his mother.

At the end of the story, because Nameless stood on the side of Meng Po in this chaos and helped Sanqi, so after everything was over, Sanqi told Nameless how to go to Hades to see Hades, but persuaded him not to do so.

Nameless just smiled, didn't listen to persuasion, and walked firmly to the depths of the other side.

A few years later, when he returned to the Huangquan Inn, he had lost all his memories and had the same personality as the ghost Zhao in the TV series "Soul Ferry".

This can be regarded as a suspense, and you can continue to do "Soul Ferry Movie 2" in the future, telling the story of how he finally became like this after leaving the Huangquan Inn without a name and entering the depths of the underworld.

And in this "Soul Ferry: Yellow Springs", it can be said that there are no winners in the whole story, they are all losers.

Meng Qi and the Shushan Sword Elder both died, and they also died after giving up their souls to fulfill Sanqi's immortality.

Nameless also paid the price of losing his cultivation and forgetting his "self", his soul and body were separated, his soul entered reincarnation, and his body incarnated as a poor Zhao Yan.

Knowing how the last seasoning of Meng Po soup "Meng Po tears" was born, the new Meng Po Sanqi, although he lived to the end, became Meng Po.

But the price she paid was the loss of her relatives, her lover, and the 800-mile Yellow Spring alone.

How warm and sweet the first half of the whole story is, how tragic the second half is.

But this is precisely one of the best routines for commercial films, which can play with the audience's emotions in applause.

And Meng Qi, Sanqi, Changsheng in this movie, as well as the funny Lord Sun, the "behind-the-scenes boss" Shushan Sword Elder, this character is full of character charm, as long as it is played well, it will be very brilliant!

In addition to the fact that the sword elder needs a middle-aged and elderly actor, there is no way for the contracted artists in the era of light and shadow to compete.

The rest of the characters, each one is fragrant!

After listening to the general story plot told by the company's screenwriting department and reading the biographies of the characters that were distributed, all the actors in the conference room looked at the colleagues beside them with great interest.

From now on, they are competitors! (End of chapter)