In the small courtyard, Sun Yi sat in front of the computer, typed the last word, and stared at the screen for a long time before slowly exhaling a breath of turbidity.

After more than half a month, the first version of the script adaptation was finally completed.

The whole script can be said to be based on the tragic story background of the first generation of air force soldiers in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, supplemented by the love stories of the male protagonist Huang Guoxing and the heroine Yang Wanyu in the special period.

Among them, Huang Guoxing and Yang Wanyu are based on the secondary creation of real people in history.

Although the script is mainly based on the two, Sun Yi also used a lot of space to introduce the heroes of the first generation of the Air Force.

Including Gao Zhihang, Li Guidan, Yan Haiwen, Chen Huaimin, Shen Chongzhi and so on.

The remaining problem is to hand over the script to the air administration for review, and then hurry up the preparatory work.

After passing the script to Uncle Wang, Sun Yi came to the small courtyard to smoke a cigarette and slow down his brain.

At this moment, I faintly heard the sound of a car engine outside the courtyard gate.

Sun Yi opened the courtyard door and just saw Liu Yifei standing at the door waving to Zhang Xin.

"Xinxin, go back and drive slower."

"Got it, Sister Yifei and Director Sun are good."

"Well, slow down, it's hard work today."

"It should."

After Zhang Xin drove away, Liu Yifei immediately stepped forward to hold Sun Yi.

"Why are you so kind to come out to pick me up today?"

"My daughter-in-law goes out to work, shouldn't I do this?"

"As far as you would say. Reward you with one, mua. ”

The two returned to the house.

Sun Yi looked at Liu Yifei, who was tired and even had some difficulty changing clothes, walked over, helped her pull the zipper on the back of the dress, and asked with concern, "What, I'm tired today?" ”

The black dress brushed the floor and slid to the ground.

A delicate body was exposed to the air in vain.

Looking at the waist and white and smooth back in front of him, Sun Yi, who didn't have any dirty ideas, couldn't help but start to feel uneasy.

Liu Yifei didn't care about it, just turned her head slightly and lazily threatened: "Don't look at it." Then he turned his back to Sun Yi and took off his chest sticker, brushed his hair, changed into a home vest, and put on pajamas.

When he turned around and looked at Sun Yi, who was standing here and hadn't come back to his senses, he couldn't help but smile, and said with a slightly crimson coquettish look on his face: "I haven't seen enough!" ”

"Oh, oh."

helped Liu Yifei put away the dress and hung it in the closet, and then took her a glass of water before sitting back on the sofa.

"Good work."

Liu Yifei leaned her head on Sun Yi's shoulder, frowned slightly, and whispered: "It's not that I'm tired, it's just that the movie is very uncomfortable to watch." ”

Sun Yi lowered his head, a little helpless.

"Look?"

"Hmm." Xiao Nizi nodded aggrievedly.

Sun Yi couldn't help but wonder, "It's all said that don't look at it." ”

"In that case, how can you not look at it, besides, why don't you look at me, you are not here."

"Uh, okay, blame me."

"Hmph, brother, have you seen the movie?"

Sun Yi smashed his mouth, nodded and replied: "At the beginning of the month, I was invited to watch it at the film viewing party of China Film, but it was the first cut version. ”

Liu Yifei sat up suddenly, grabbed Sun Yi's arm, and asked with a puzzled expression: "Then you say, is his movie good or not, I feel special and tired when I look at it, and I really feel a little angry as you said." But the film critics and directors on the scene all said that the movie was made well, and I wondered if it was my own problem. ”

Sun Yi couldn't help but ask, "Then how do these so-called professionals evaluate it?" ”

Liu Yifei thought for a while, and then Balabala spoke.

Sun Yi smiled and said guidedly: "If you think about it carefully, these evaluations of theirs are all good, but are they all praising what they are talking about, but are the words of praise very general, and they are applicable to any movie?" ”

Liu Yifei tilted her head, thought for a while, her eyes became brighter and brighter, and suddenly "snapped", slapped Sun Yi's thigh, and exclaimed: "Yes, it's true, so to speak, they all did it on purpose, it's not that I can't appreciate it."

Here, Liu Yifei finally got back the explanation for her appreciation, and the tired look on her face was swept away, and she was so excited that she couldn't do it.

Sun Yi over there was bitter, grinning his teeth in pain and pressing his thighs, rubbing back and forth.

"I'll go. You don't slap yourself on the leg. ”

"You treat me stupidly, how much it hurts!"

“.”

"Liu Qianqian, you let me shoot back!"

"You want to be beautiful."

"Then tonight is not over with you, you don't want to sleep."

"I hate ~~~ at most let you touch it."

"Twice!"

Taking advantage of the time for Uncle Wang to review the script, Sun Yi hurriedly contacted Yang Fan and Mike to prepare the preliminary work for the movie.

Sun Yi is confident that his book should not be rejected, even if it is modified and estimated, it will be a small-scale modification.

The name of the script is tentatively set as "The First Air Force", and this name issue must be given specific guidance by the Air Politics, so Sun Yi is too lazy to name it now.

Yang Fan looked at the project plan of "The First Air Force", stroked the hair on his head, and asked Mike with a sad face.

"How much do you need for special effects?"

Mike spread his hands, made an exaggerated expression, and then tried to pout at Sun Yi, and said, "It depends on what kind of effect our boss wants to achieve, in a sense." Special effects can be done without a cap. ”

Sun Yi rubbed his nose, thought for a while, and asked Mike, "Who made the special effects of "Pearl Harbor"?" ”

"Boss, ILM."

"How much money was spent on the special effects part of the film?"

"The total production cost of "Pearl Harbor" is $150 million, of which about $100 million is used for special effects."

"I'm rubbing, so much!"

"Taller than Pacific Rim?"

Not only Sun Yi, but even Yang Fan sat up in shock, and both of them looked at Mike with disbelieving expressions.

“easy，easy！”

Mike stretched out his hand and pressed the two of them, and then explained: "In similar war movies, the application of weapons and equipment is also included in the cost of special effects, and the rent of weapons and equipment of the US military is not cheap at all. And those war scenes and explosion scenes, all of which are like this, if you just count the computer special effects production, it will look like about 40 million to 50 million dollars. ”

"Surprise me, the company is about to do it again in the account now, if this number is reached, it might as well kill me." Yang Fan patted his chest and complained vigorously.

Speaking of which, Sun Yi is also concerned about the company's economic situation, and with the company's successive investments in "Untouchable" and "The Legend of Zhen Huan", the original surplus money has been almost used.

As for the production funds of "Pacific Rim", the part of China Film has been burned out, and the additional $8 million has also consumed the last bit of the starry sky.

If it weren't for Sun Yi's previous foresight, he used the special effects department to develop several small games such as Renren Farm and Grab Parking Spaces, and now he can make a stable profit of more than 10 million per month, and he is constantly investing in it, and the capital chain of the "Huantai" project would have been broken long ago.

But now that there is another "First Air Force", it is really difficult for some clever women to cook without rice.

Thinking of this, Sun Yi sighed, and asked Mike tentatively: "If according to the special effects level of "Pearl Harbor", it will be jointly produced by my digital domain and Star Digital, how much will it cost?" ”

Mike thought about it for a long time, and when Sun Yi and Yang Fan couldn't wait, he finally replied:

"Sorry, boss, I can't figure it out."

"The cost of computer special effects is a very accurate thing, even to the extent of "Pearl Harbor", you have to calculate the specific shots, the number of explosion scenes, the man-hours that need to be rendered and composited, etc., I really can't calculate."

Yang Fan's face was helpless, and so was Sun Yi.

This foreigner is more real, and I don't want a specific number, just an approximation.

"So, Mike, under the same conditions, the digital realm and Starry Sky Digital, to remake a "Pearl Harbor", the cost of special effects, probably note, is it about how much is needed?"

Given the specific request, Mike finally nodded knowingly, frowned and began to calculate.

After a while, he said to the two very solemnly: "About $20 million, the highest will not exceed $25 million, and it may be lower." ”

"Damn, how much worse can it be?"

Yang Fan couldn't believe it, and Sun Yi was also puzzled.

Mike shrugged and explained: "Boss, after your arrangement, the digital field and the starry sky digital division of labor cooperation, the cost of special effects in the United States has almost doubled, and again, "Pearl Harbor" is the technology of 10 years ago after all, and the level of special effects has improved a lot now." ”

"Oh, that's right."

After Sun Yi heard this, he was a little clear.

According to his calculations, the special effects level of the movie "The First Air Force" can reach that of "Pearl Harbor", and it will definitely cost less than 20 million US dollars, half of which is about the same, after all, there is no naval battle here, and in the early War of Resistance against Japan, the models of various aircraft were backward after all, and the scale was small, and there was basically no bombing of hundreds of planes in "Pearl Harbor".

There are often dozens of sorties here, and hundreds of planes are extremely large-scale battles.

Therefore, the special effects budget of this movie should probably be about 10 million US dollars, that is, less than 80 million RMB, and the rest depends on what price Uncle Wang offers for various weapons, equipment and personnel.

"80 million? No, the company will definitely not be able to come up with it now, you can choose one between "Huantai" and this "First Air Force", and you must not be able to put the two on it together, there is not so much money. ”

Even though it has decreased a lot, Yang Fan's head still shook like a rattle when he heard the number of 80 million.

Sun Yi can't help it, Yang Fan is right, several big projects are launched at the same time, which does have a great impact on the company.

Counting Audi's advertising revenue and the album copyright income saved in his hand, there is about 30 million, but there is still a gap of 50 million, and this is only the special effects fee, and the cost of the whole film is 20 million for the Air Force Art Center, so I have to prepare another 100 million.

That's it, it's not necessarily enough.

Looks like we're going to have to go out and borrow money.

After hesitating for a long time, Sun Yi made up his mind.

took out his mobile phone in front of the two of them, then put a finger to his lips, signaled the two to silence, then rubbed his cheeks, coughed lightly, pulled the corners of his mouth, dialed the phone, and asked in a gentle and slightly deep voice:

"Daughter-in-law, what are you doing?"

"I'm going to cook for you."

"Oh, my wife is hard."

"Tell me something, I'll pinch it."

"That, daughter-in-law, are you interested in being a producer?"

"Poof" Yang Fan almost didn't squirt out a sip of tea, and said secretly in his heart.

This dog is more than his own daughter-in-law's wool!

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