Li Qian's fanfare to publicize the project of "The Wandering Earth" also spread throughout the Internet through the mouths of two or three hundred reporters at the press conference.

Although Da Liu has not yet won the Hugo Award, he is the most well-known science fiction writer in China, and is known as the first person in domestic science fiction by many science fiction fans.

Although "The Wandering Earth" is not as famous as "The Three-Body Problem", "Country Teacher", and "Ball Lightning", it is also a well-known novella sci-fi.

Li Qian personally held a preparatory press conference, even if he is not a fan of science fiction, he began to understand what this is like.

Just like the title, the earth is going to wander, and at first glance it is hard science fiction.

Whether you are a science fiction fan or not, even if you are an ordinary movie fan, you are very excited to see the original book.

"Damn, Li Qian actually wants to adapt Da Liu's "The Wandering Earth", this is too difficult, although the number of words is small, but the content is too wide, how can a movie be told!"

"Before, Youzu was going to shoot "The Three-Body Problem", I don't know how it went, and now Li Qian is going to shoot "The Wandering Earth" again, we finally have our own sci-fi film!"

""The Wandering Earth" is properly hard sci-fi, I didn't expect to see domestic hard sci-fi, and I don't know if Guo Fan can shoot it well. ”

"Watching the news, doesn't it mean that Guo Fan has gone to Hollywood to learn about other people's industrial systems in the past two years, and he should be sure that he is willing to calm down and study for two years. ”

"I think "The Adventures of Li Xianji" is a good shot, it feels like science fiction, but I don't know which plot I will choose, if I choose the part where the earth wanders away from the sun, it will be awesome!"

"That's too difficult, I think there are two possibilities, one is to make a cataclysm, make a sci-fi disaster movie, like "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012", or just shoot the rebels, maybe it's a little better. ”

"It's really enjoyable, "The Three-Body Problem" and "The Wandering Earth" are going to be made into movies, as well as "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "Tomb Robbery Notes", and "Breaking the Sky" is also going to be made into a TV series, turning these wonderful words into pictures, it's so exciting!"

"It's just started filming now, and I don't know what will be released yet, and I don't know when Li Qian's next movie will be filmed. ”

"That's right, "The Wandering Earth" didn't invest 400 million, this kind of big-budget sci-fi film is definitely not so fast, Guo Fan is not a fast gunner like Li Qian, I still look forward to Li Qian's new film. ”

......

Li Qian personally held a preparatory press conference, even if it is not his new film, he can invest 400 million in hard science fiction, plus the original work, "The Wandering Earth" immediately overshadowed the momentum of several Hollywood blockbusters that are being released.

Having the original book means knowing the general story, and the earth cataclysm, human beings take the earth to wander and find a new home, it seems to be a very majestic story, and fans are also keen to discuss the content of the movie.

The industry is also quite concerned about the filming of a large production with a production cost of 400 million.

After all, compared with the large-scale productions of major companies that cost hundreds of millions of dollars at every turn, Li Qian and Future Pictures' films are basically medium-cost, and the only big production "Ghost Blows the Lamp" has not yet been released.

For the first time, such a big battle also made major companies look sideways.

However, there is no one who knows how to do science fiction films in China, and there are basically no people who know how to do it.

Compared with the forty and fifty-year-old executives of major companies, perhaps those in their twenties and thirties can understand the charm of science fiction better than them.

Moreover, there is not an investment of 100 million dollars in "Asura" in front, compared to the 400 million cost of "The Wandering Earth" is not an exaggeration.

......

"The Wandering Earth?"

Teng Huatao, who was concentrating on studying "Dragon Family", was slightly surprised, but he didn't expect Guo Fan to go to Mi Lijian for two years and come back to make such a big sci-fi production.

He has basically read Da Liu's, and of course he knows the plot of the original work of "The Wandering Earth".

If it weren't for selling dog meat on a sheep's head, it would be very interesting, and the scene would not be small.

Teng Huatao looked down at the book in his hand again, and felt a sense of boredom in his heart for no reason.

"The Wandering Earth" was established in two years, and he didn't even think about which direction he wanted to shoot in the past half a year.

Originally, I planned to take out the feelings of the hot-blooded youth and boys and girls in the book, and use the background to synthesize a movie.

But later, Teng Huatao had some regrets about the big scenes of the bombing of the Three Gorges Dam and the flooding of the East Longitude, and it was touching to think about restoring these scenes on the big screen.

But after thinking about it again, the General Administration would definitely have to kill this kind of shot, so I gave up.

Now he is wondering if many places in "Dragons" are similar to "Harry Potter", and whether he can go in this direction.

However, there is still no clue.

Seeing the news of the establishment of "The Wandering Earth" again, and which "Asura" with an investment of 100 million US dollars, seeing this kind of heavyweight blockbuster, Teng Huatao felt a little itchy in his heart.

Putting down the book in his hand, Teng Huatao paced back and forth in the study.

Suddenly, he stopped, turned around and went to the bookshelf to find a few books.

"Country Teacher", "Ball Lightning", "Omnichannel Jamming", "Supernova Era", "Chaowen Dao", ......

are all his favorite works in Da Liu's works, except for "The Three-Body Problem".

After much deliberation, Teng Huatao put them back again.

"Hey!"

sighed, Teng Huatao didn't have the heart to think about the plot, so he put the "Dragon Family" in his hand back to the summer vacation.

However, when I caught a glimpse of Jiang Nan's other "Demon Capital Fortress" next door to the "Dragon Family" series, I was suddenly stunned.

Then Teng Huatao thought for two seconds, and pulled out "Demon Capital Fortress" with some joy.

I thought about it, made a phone call, and went out with it.

......

"You want to shoot "Fortress of the Magic City"?"

Looking at Teng Huatao, who was slightly excited in front of him, Li Qian's voice unnaturally raised two tones.

"Yes, I want to listen to Director Li's opinion. Teng Huatao didn't know why Li Qian reacted so much, and said a little confused.

Li Qian also realized that he was too excited, and took a sip of hot tea from his cup, suppressing his shock.

Of course he has seen "Demon Capital Fortress", a classic romance.

At the same time, I also watched the movie, and at that time I wondered which cane-making thing was made of the coin movie.

I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it to be filmed by Teng Huatao, it stands to reason that his level is still there, especially the adaptation, as long as he is given a good story, he can shoot it well.

"Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" was filmed well, just because of the advantages of the story itself, and "Waiting for the Wind" has no story at all, it is just a travel travelogue, and Teng Huatao himself does not have the ability to tell a 90-minute story, so he hit the street.

But the story of "Fortress of the Demon City"... Well, this story is really not good, good looks don't mean the story is good, it's a very successful and good-looking vulgar love.

However, the movie is so bad that there is no one left, and most places can't blame the story itself, Li Qian once thought it was made by an amateur director.

"Wasn't it still preparing for the adaptation of "Dragon Family" before, why did it change to "Demon Capital Fortress" again?" asked Li Qian.

"The adaptation of "Dragon Family" is a big project, and if you want to do it, you must make a series, and "Demon City Fortress" can be finished in one movie, so I plan to do this first. ”

Of course, Teng Huatao would not say that he had no clue about the adaptation of "Dragon Family", and saw that Guo Fan was going to adapt "The Wandering Earth", so he made a temporary decision.

"The original book of "Magic City Fortress" is really good, and it is a romance that I particularly like. Li Qian didn't ask how to change the target, they all came to find themselves, they must have thought about it.

"This is actually a romance dressed in sci-fi skin, how are you going to adapt it, is it heavy sci-fi or heavy romance?"

"I want to do both. Teng Huatao said with confidence, in fact, this story is very easy to shoot, and it is very simple, it is a love story in the background of the end of the world, and it cleverly inserts the personality and growth of the characters in the details.

Li Qian shook his head, "You should have read this book many times, the military knowledge reserve is weak, and the excessive space opera elements in it make the science fiction attribute seem light and shallow, and the so-called science fiction in it is just a background, used to create an apocalyptic atmosphere, and set off the love-hate entanglement of the protagonists, which can't stand scrutiny at all."

And if you want to have both science fiction and romance, you must first set up the world view and background of science fiction, it will not work at all by relying on the original book, you have to build a post-apocalyptic background that the audience believes. ”

"It shouldn't be difficult, and I watch "The Wandering Earth" about the same, it's more of an insight into human nature. Teng Huatao didn't care, the feasibility of adapting "The Magic City Fortress" is much stronger than that of "The Wandering Earth", and with the story of the latter's long span, a movie can't be made at all.

It seems that Teng Huatao hasn't thought much about it at all, and Li Qian suspects that he just wants to shoot this because his head is hot.

Li Qian also did not say that Guo Fan's background concept of "The Wandering Earth" is a science fiction style that is very different from Hollywood, which is in line with the science fiction style of China.

"Actually, I don't think this book is suitable for adaptation at all, the whole story is too middle-class, that is, when you see the extinction of human beings, the male protagonist still has only the female protagonist in his mind. Jiang Nan laid a grand background, the invasion of alien civilizations, the sinking of the land in New York, the cannon of the magic capital, and the entire human race is at the point of life and death, but the male protagonist is still struggling with how to send you text messages, and whether the heroine really likes others or herself a little bit.

This is not a science fiction story in itself, who didn't like a girl in middle school, and then imagined the destruction of the world, and then stood up for himself, it doesn't matter if he died, and then the whole girl also understood your mind, and then liked you, this is the story, that's how the middle two.

I very much cooperate with Jiang Nan's writing to render such a story of secondary two to the fullest, but this style, junior high school students like to watch, is suitable for adapting animated movies, but it is definitely not suitable for live-action movies.

Looking at the history of human literature and film, I can say that the more psychological activities are depicted, the more difficult it is to adapt them into movies, and the more they focus on inner contradictions, the more difficult it is to adapt them into excellent movies.

The original work of "Fortress of the Demon Capital" is an emotion full of descriptions of a lot of psychological activities, which focuses on the inner conflict of the protagonist, but does not spend much energy on the performance of external conflicts.

Just for the role of the male lead, you need an actor in his twenties who has a sense of youth and actor-level acting skills, there are few such actors themselves, and even fewer are handsome enough to play the male protagonist in romance dramas. ”

Li Qian mentioned a lot of difficulties in adaptation, but he still wanted to persuade Teng Huatao not to shoot this, after all, it was really rotten.

However, Teng Huatao really refuted them one by one, although every solution is idealized and difficult to achieve, and he said that it can be solved, but Li Qian can also see that he has made up his mind and cannot be persuaded.

couldn't persuade him, and Li Qian didn't bother to bother with saliva.

Teng Hua Tao saw that he had persuaded Li Qian, and he was very complacent, after all, it was not easy for Li Qian, a great director, to find fault with his own ideas and have nothing to say.

He said happily, "Then I'll go back and prepare to work on the script first." ”

... Li Qian was really speechless.

Big brother, this kind of sci-fi film must be prepared first, not a script, and there is no hurry to get that thing next year.

Now Li Qian really knows, Teng Huatao really doesn't know anything about science fiction films, if it is science fiction like "Interstellar", the priority of the script is greater than others, but "Magic City Fortress", "The Wandering Earth", a new background, all weapons, equipment, buildings, world view... Everything is brand new, that's not the same.

"Fortress of the Demon Capital" is better, after all, the story is set in the Demon Capital, but what about the rest.