My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 1543 Technology Stream Successor and John Woo The Second
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March [-], [-], Weta Digital Studio in Wellington, South Island, New Zealand.

Richard Taylor took off his welding cap and showed his signature smile like "Dasha Chun", and looked at "Wu Zong Wu" who was accompanied by John Zhu and Peter Jackson and many secretaries.

Compared with the team of secretaries who are as glamorous as models around 'Mr. Yuan', he still cares more about the financial support brought by Mr. Yuan, the big benefactor.

Weta Digits is a big money eater. It seems very simple at the beginning, but I want to study it down...then the difference between the first level and the second level of "a sheep caught a sheep".

Wu Xiaozu's investment in Weta Digital has successively exceeded more than 800 million US dollars.

That's more than $90 million in the 800s.

Do you know that all the money is hoarded in 'maozi', how much will it increase in the future?
However, the money was placed on Weta Digital without any waves. This kind of technical support itself is not a short-term profit.

It belongs to the old technology industry and trade. ~
In the case of continuous additional investment, in order to ensure that the technology and management shares of other people will not be greatly diluted, several parties have signed supplementary agreements many times, and Wu Xiaozu's shares have also "changed hands" many times.

After the commercial success of "Into the Deadly Island", Weta Digital has gained fame in a small circle, and its latest valuation has reached 2700 million US dollars.

The employees in Wellington, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong Island are combined, and the overall number of employees exceeds [-].

In New Zealand, proper big business.

Uh, compared to the time when 'Dasha Chun' and his wife opened a studio in the garage, it is very different, and compared to the same period in the previous life, it is even more different.

"We recently conducted technical discussions and communication with ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) and Autodesk.

ILM invited us to work on the special effects makeup part of the latest "Mask in Mask" and part of "Mahuali the Gambler".

By the way, Luc Besson handed over all the post-production special effects of "The Fifth Element" to us.

The design scene of "Source Code" here is also a model scene of one of "The Matrix".In order to save costs, we chose to build in Los Angeles.

Moreover, compared with pure green screen, believe me, such hand-made models will make the audience feel more involved. "

Unshaven Peter Jackson in a plaid shirt with a 'grab bottle' of pale ale in hand and gesticulating.

"ILM will hand over part of the business to us?"

Beside him, with his shirt sleeves rolled up, the handsome Bi Wu Xiaozu, who was also holding a bottle of beer in his hand, looked at the scene in front of him curiously.

Wellington's reputation as the "craft beer capital of the world" is not for nothing. New Zealanders' love for beer will not lose to Jingde.

even……

The beer in the hands of the two is the wine of the 'beer house' run by the 'Weta Digital' company itself.

Beer, coffee, and sweets can be seen everywhere in Weta Digital Company. The whole company has no so-called level distribution of workstations, and managers have no separate offices. The entire office environment is extremely flat.

The Los Angeles and Hong Kong Island branches are also in the same style.

"Of course, those guys from ILM counted all the electricity bills clearly." Speaking of the competitor who is also the leader of the industry today, Peter Jackson, an otaku, looked very arrogant.

"But their technology is really good, and their technology accumulation is deeper than ours."

Yes, ILM also does outsourcing.

The fledgling Weta Digital is now even more "unscrupulous" and accepts any job.

At this stage, technology accumulation is the most important issue that Weta Digital needs to solve and pay attention to, especially in terms of software.

For the company's current state of making ends meet, Wu Xiaozu had already expected it.

"The good news is that John Zhu's "Taxi Express", "Slaying the Wolf 2", "Terror Live" and "Dragon Tiger Gate" post-production work has been completed, and we will have some progress in the near future." Peter Jackson, a solo mother, said The income also reveals the face of the nerd when he sees 'Sister Pao'.

Obviously, this guy is also a businessman who is about to qualify.

"Boss, do you lack an assistant director for your movie? I think I will be a qualified assistant. I'm so interested in the three movies you mentioned, second only to "Lord of the Rings."

"No problem, but you must complete the docking procedures as soon as possible, so as not to delay the current work process."

Wu Xiaozu glanced at Peter Jackson, and was quite moved by the addition of a technical representative among his disciples and grandchildren.

From now on, when it comes to the Wu family, Qian Jiawei, Hou Yimou, Zuo Quentin, and You Peter are surrounded by a group of representatives of various subject circles. The three Mexican heroes can only be regarded as peripheral...

It cannot be said that Wu Xiaozu is an old artist.

It can only be said that he is the godfather of movies... At that time, he is probably close to death from Hitchcock, Fellini and the others.

In fact, Wu Xiaozu is not worried about the economic situation of Weta Digital.

I believe that with the completion of "Source Code", "The Truman Show" and "The Matrix", Weta Digital will also get out of the current embarrassing situation, and at that time will not worry about customers at all. This is Wu Xiaozu's three series Works with confidence.

"Source Code" cannot be regarded as a top-notch work in later generations, and its setting itself is not outstanding, but it is definitely novel enough in this era, and even Wu Xiaozu can make many definitions.

Including The Matrix.

The commercial value, film art, social thinking and public influence represented by this series are enough to make a director eat for several lifetimes.

The ingenious communication between commerciality and artistry, philosophical exploration and in-depth, this work even gave the sisters a bonus for decades.

It can be seen.

At the same time, it is also a very ingenious attempt in the exchange between Eastern culture and Western culture.

In line with Wu Xiaozu's personality.

Of course, these works are believed to push Weta to the spotlight that truly belongs to him.

Yes, apart from being interested in these films, Wu Xiaozu mainly wanted to advertise for 'Weta Digital'.

Just a commercial.

His understanding of technology is now more "advancing with the times" than many directors. Although he cannot be compared with the technical madman truck driver, he has far surpassed many directors in terms of technology cognition and use.

In the future, if you only teach Peter Jackson, you can't make random connections and imagine that Wu Xiaozu is just a comprador who doesn't understand technology.

Oh, let alone Xiao Wu Xiaozu, Xiao Xiao Wu Xiaozu.

Little Wu Xiaozu's "Gao Flying" has achieved relatively indifferent results in North America.

The setting of the protagonist Tauren is really unpleasant.

Even if that person is Zhou Runfa.

That doesn't work either!
What happened to Fa Ge's tauren was a reality, but it couldn't be made into a movie.ah?Didn't talk about it?That's all right!

However, executives inside Universal have seen his previous work styles and think that his 'John woo II' has a good chance to become the second John Woo.

John Woo The Second.
So, after communicating with 'Gold Digger Productions', he was given a chance to direct a Hollywood movie.

He was given a screenplay based on Richard Cornell's 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game."

Gold Digger Production Company also participated in the production of this film, and Zhang Jiazhen personally served as the third producer of the film.

The purpose is self-evident——

Let's use John Woo Ⅱ as the topic!
Compared with John Woo II, as III...The Third, recently, Tsui Hark is preparing to restart "The Butterfly Lovers".

The leading actor got Hua Zelei in F4 - Zhong Hanyu to try out the play, and now the four people in F4 have constant play appointments.

Of course the most popular is Daoming Temple.

Daoming Temple-Golden City Bird is favored by many directors.

Wang Jiawei's "Trilogy of Redemption and Debt Repayment - the first "Chongqing Forest"" chose him as the protagonist. He was one of the protagonists in "Dragon and Tiger Gate", and he also participated in "Slaying the Wolf 2", and Chen Xunqi also appeared in the big Price invited him to star in "Silent Mushroom Cool"...

Ximen-Feng Delun and Meizuo-Hawick Lau are also both film and television songs.

"The Butterfly Lovers" female number one chose a newcomer Yang Caini.

Obviously, after the filming of "Green Snake", Mr. Xu became interested in classical works.

It's just that because of Yang Caini, it seems that there are some contradictions in the relationship between him and Shi Nansheng.

In addition, he also intends to prepare "Black Man" together with Ye Weixin. This work is regarded by him as his attempt to "battle" the field of special effects again. It is said that he has already drawn a lot of sketches.

Uh, two days ago, I made a special phone call to discuss the story of "Shushan" with Wu Xiaozu in a 'tactful' manner, and Teacher Wu, who was waving her hand behind Aunt Lin Mitao, disarmed in fright...

This is "The Legend of Shushan"!
When these three words are mentioned, it looks like shrimp and pig's heart!
Wu Xiaozu expressed his understanding of Tsui Hark's thoughts on special effects films, and specially invited him to come to Wellington to discuss with these technical masters.

In the previous life, this "Black Man", which was not taken seriously by Tsui Hark, is definitely a typical representative of Chinese-language movies that bloom inside the walls and smell outside the walls.

It can even be regarded as one of the most successful Chinese masterpieces.

This urban superhero story, which now seems to have a bit of crude special effects, has a moderate box office performance in the local area, which can break through tens of millions of box office.

However, in the North American market that year, it was an exaggeration to get a box office record of 1250 million US dollars, which is rarely achieved by Chinese-language films later.

Scary or not?

The world has even achieved a record of 2360 million US dollars, which is really Qin Shihuang eating peppers and touching wires - he won the numbness!

Even this movie made a crazy $3600 million in the North American rental market, making the film company a lot of money.

It also laid the best foundation for Li Lian's outstanding career and completely opened the door to Hollywood.

In comparison, the "Legend of Shushan" is really hard to describe.

Can't say bad.

I thought it was the Waterloo of Xianxia, ​​but I didn't expect to find out later that it was the pinnacle of Xianxia.

Maybe Tsui Hark didn't think of it himself.

But still,

The success of the commercialization of films of this kind is not solely dependent on technology.

There is still an age factor.

In short, it is difficult to make a profit or even recover the cost of such a film subject rooted in the local market without a film market that can carry it.

Hong Kong Island market itself is not a suitable place to flex its muscles.

The audience in this place has always been petty in their liking for local movies.

They themselves may not have confidence in their own culture.

Why talk about "Shushan"?

In addition, the storyline of this movie is really... pull the cross, in short, Wu Xiaozu is quite cautious about such a movie.

Although Teacher Wu is an artist, he is also an excellent businessman after all.

We must not learn from the formidable teacher Chen.

It doesn't fit the figure of an artist to fix a computer on weekends and let people all over the country see his exhausted works for free.

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