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Chapter 1627: Zhou Buqi's Star Wars
"Avatar" grossed 26 billion U.S. dollars at the global box office. Many movie fans watched it again and again, and felt that only this 3D movie was too satisfying.

Fortunately, the summer holidays are here.

The first summer blockbuster to hit the world is "Iron Man 2" by Marvel Pictures, a subsidiary of Ziweixing Universal.Under Zhou Buqi's early suggestion, "Iron Man 2" was also converted into a 3D version.

Zhou Buqi is also paying attention to the box office trend of this blockbuster.

It really exploded.

As of May 5, the global box office of the film has exceeded 15 million US dollars.

The movie caused a lot of controversy in professional circles.

Many Hollywood bigwigs are even criticizing, saying that this is not a movie at all. Although "Batman" and "Superman" in the past are also superhero movies, they have movie elements and expressions of emotions and themes. What's in Iron Man 2?There's a lot of noise and flack, and then the good guy beats the bad guy, and the movie's over, just inexplicably.

However, the public's evaluation of this film is relatively positive. The IMDB score reached 7.6 points, and the freshness index of Rotten Tomatoes also reached 78%.

The global box office is moving towards the $6 million mark.

This trend is horrible!

"Iron Man 2" is just like the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, the "Transformers" series and the "Harry Potter" series. This is to completely subvert Hollywood's perception of movies in the past century.

Is a movie still a movie?
What about the theme?
What about thoughts?
What about artistry?

What about the pursuit of filmmakers?
None of these, only the carnival of capital in the box office market.

Many old-school filmmakers lamented this.

But no matter what, driven by new technology, movies have entered a new era.At least in the field of Hollywood blockbusters, I'm afraid it will be difficult to have any more thoughtful masterpieces.

But Nolan disagreed, so he made a public appearance, saying that his masterpiece "Inception" in June will not disappoint everyone, it is a real movie.

Hollywood in the summer has never been short of gimmicks and infighting.

As the boss of Zhou, he naturally wouldn't participate in such low-level activities. He was involved in the discussion of a big project under Ziwei Star Global - "Star Wars".

Lucasfilm has completed the acquisition.

Next, the "Star Wars" series is time to restart!

There is a small problem here, that is, George Lucas' conception of this story cannot be adopted, and his set of thinking is no longer in line with the current trend of the film market.

The current movie market should be like Marvel blockbusters, with rich plots but not deep, interesting content and action scenes, visual effects must be shocking, and the continuity of the story must be maintained. It's enough to fight monsters one by one.

However, Zhou Buqi hated the Disney version of "Star Wars" in his previous life. The script was so badly written, and a big boss was created. Everyone thought it would have a big background, but Disney said, we don't care Who is the big boss and where does it come from? Just fight the boss.

Depend on!
Is this treating fans all over the world as fools?

Where is the continuity of the story?

Out of nowhere, a villain appeared out of nowhere, and it took 3 whole movies to defeat him, and then this person jumped out of a crack in the rock, so what's the point of defeating this person?
Another point is that the thinking of movies is too rigid, as many years have passed in reality, so many years have passed in movies. "Star Wars 6" was released in 1983, and then the timeline of the story of "Star Wars 7" in the movie will follow the reality and happen more than 30 years later... Is this necessary?
When the time is short, it is necessary to explain the important roles in the past.

But because the salaries of these old actors are too high, Disney can't afford them, so they can only forcibly design the plot, let these old characters die, and then replace them with new characters.

is it necessary?

100 or 200 years have passed directly in the movie story, and a new map has been opened directly.When the new heroes and heroines explore the new map, they discover little by little traces of the existence of the first six old characters in this world, and learn little by little about their legendary stories in the past hundred years.Every discovery is a surprise for the audience, isn't it better?
Anyway, no matter how the plot is designed, it must be better than the new trilogy produced by Disney.

Disney later discovered that the box office of the three films "Star Wars 7", "Star Wars 8" and "Star Wars 9" continued to drop, and their reputation became worse and worse.

The new plan adopted is to let Kevin Feizi, the creator of the Marvel Universe and CEO of Marvel Pictures, participate in the Star Wars series to design new stories.

This model of the Marvel Universe is fantastic.

But now it's just getting started, and Kevin Feizi is also a new recruit.

How to do?
Zhou Buqi thought for a long time, and finally decided to go out in person.

He is somewhat proud now, and has achieved great success in all walks of life, so he intends to build a new Star Wars universe based on his understanding of the design concept of the future Marvel universe.

Then, he was so confident that he brought Michael Moore, President of the Film Division, Kathleen Kennedy, President of Lucasfilm, Bob Friedman, President of MGM Pictures, and Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios Qi Du called to tell his own Star Wars story.

Originally he also contacted George Lucas.

But Mr. Lucas refused to come, he said that this is not his Star Wars, he is not interested, and he can't bear to watch others spoil his hard work.

This made Zhou Buqi very unconvinced.

Times have changed.

When foreigners watch "The Three-Body Problem", there are two biggest feelings.

One is the magnificent, huge and shocking science fiction world created by the novel, and the other is pleasure.Compared with other sci-fi novels that are mysterious, complicated, and difficult to understand, "Three-Body Problem" is a very refreshing and enjoyable story, a bit like an online article, which makes people feel comfortable and expectant to read.

This is exactly the same idea as the Marvel Universe.

One needs to be big, the bigger the background of the universe, the more points can be tapped, the more elements can be added, and the more movies can be made; Keep the audience hooked and on.

Zhou Buqi decided to bite the bullet. He wanted to personally host the Star Wars project direction discussion meeting, "I have read all three proposals you gave, but I can't do it. I have an idea, and you follow my lead."

In the small conference room, everyone was shocked.

Zhou Buqi ignored their surprised expressions, and said lightly: "The box office results of "Iron Man 2" are very good, which further proves that Marvel's movie plan is feasible. "Thor", then the Avengers assembled, and then there are many superheroes such as "Spiderman" and "Ant-Man", creating a systematic and coherent Marvel movie universe like a TV series .???

This is the plan, but it has yet to be verified by the market.

Kevin Feizi was a little excited.

There are too many movie plans in Hollywood. Only the success of the previous step can promote the continuation of the next step. Once it fails, it will be cut in half early.

Zhou Buqi said: "This model is correct, now is a new era, and the film model and film concept have changed from the past. Look at the "Harry Potter" series, and then look at the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series. What kind of movie is this? Including our "Fast and Furious" series and "Twilight" series. This is the new movie trend, and audiences prefer to watch stories with continuity, which is what I have summarized before The 'inertia' element."

"Yes, a series of movies can have better continuity and be easier to market. A trilogy is a very good choice."

Kathleen Kennedy was previously the CEO of Lucasfilm until George Lucas sold the company and he left.This famous female producer became the new president of Lucasfilm.

"Trilogy?" Zhou Buqi shook his head, "This layout is too small, we need to innovate and change all the inherent concepts in the past. How many "Harry Potter" films have you made?"

Many Hollywood blockbusters are basically based on a trilogy, including the past six Star Wars movies. The prequel is a trilogy, and the sequel is also a trilogy.

There is really no need for this.

It's too rigid.

Zhou Buqi said: "A good movie and a good project should be made continuously, endlessly, until it is no longer popular in the market. After the shooting of "Iron Man 2", there can be "Iron Man 3" "Iron Man 4", this should be determined according to the schedule of the actors and the plot design of the Marvel Universe, rather than rigidly defined as a trilogy. Is the "Spider-Man" trilogy necessary? Based on the "Spider-Man" With the volume of Marvel stories, it is no problem to shoot [-] films in a row."

Catherine took a deep breath, "So the sequel to Star Wars will give up the phased plan of the trilogy?"

"Give up!" Zhou Buqi was decisive, "This is something we should learn from Kevin. Marvel can have a Marvel movie universe, and Star Wars should also create a Star Wars movie universe. Remember, this is a universe, Rather than just building a story background around a few planets or banking systems, the entire universe can be used as the design framework, and there must be layers of progressive Boss settings."

Knowing that this big boss came from the Internet industry, Michael Moore is best at playing subversion, which is very different from Hollywood's traditional ideas, and said frankly: "Zhou, if you have any good ideas, just say it , we will cooperate with you in your work.???

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "It's not about cooperation, it's about us working together to create a more magnificent, magnificent, richer and more exciting Star Wars world. Well, then let me talk about my ideas?"

"it is good."

"I have copied all the materials, take them down and have a look, and let's discuss them one by one."

Zhou Buqi got up and distributed the materials to everyone.

Not much, just one A4 paper per person.

There is no script, not even a script outline, just an overall story design framework.

(End of this chapter)