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Chapter 899 Make another "Shushan"... (13)

From "Flying Swords of the Dragon Gate", Xu Ke has been stuck in the position of the first person in China's 3D movies.

Maybe he really likes new technology and cutting-edge special effects...

Xu Ke is called "Old Freak Xu", a large part of the reason is his unrestrained imagination, and his imagination is often realized by special effects.

However, it is not imaginative. Strong special effects are a good thing, and control is also required.

What is mastery?
I personally think that the special effects serve the plot, not the plot serves the special effects!

In fact, the problem with his movies has always been "there are good sentences but not good chapters". Many movies are really amazing when you just pick out some passages. Let people overlook the major flaws in the overall architecture.

As we get older, there are fewer and fewer "good sentences", and naturally the whole paragraph will collapse!
But... To be honest, the special effects of Xu Ke's movies are too fancy, such as Fu Yao, Di Renjie, these all look cartoony!
Especially in "Four Heavenly Kings", the white-haired orangutan is completely animated!
The monsters are of course stunning, but the characters don't interact with the environment...

Especially in the last battle, the white-haired orangutan fought against the flying monster, and none of the tiles fell off. As soon as the white-haired orangutan took the flying monster to the roof, there was no change in the roof...

Such a big monster jumped up and down on the roof, and the roof didn't change at all, not even a speck of dust;
Even with what looked like a thunderous blow, the roof remained motionless, unchanged.

A battle between monsters that can destroy the world cannot knock down a house or destroy a road...

The special effects that can't bring the audience in are just face-saving!
It is said that "Four Heavenly Kings" was made by a Korean special effects company, but it is not - the Korean special effects company relied on the government to pay taxes and desperately lowered the price, and then what?Outsourced to small domestic studios to produce...

Forget it, the quality of "Four Heavenly Kings", I don't even know how to boast if you give me money.

A bunch of problems, the special effects problem is not the most serious!
But compared to the special effects in "The Novelist", Xu Ke really felt that "The Four Heavenly Kings" was weak!

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""The Novelist" will probably not be released until 2019... On the one hand, we need to leave enough space for the later stage, and on the other hand, our film schedule for next summer has already been set!"

"Such a large cost, are you sure you can recover it?"

In the studio, Shen Changlin poured a cup of tea for Xu Ke, and the two sat down to chat...

"It's not a big problem. Netflix came to see our simulated shooting effect and gave us an offer of 2600 million dollars..."

"Netflix? Doesn't it become an Internet university?"

"...The Internet University is the Internet University. Anyway, if it is out of Asia, even if "The Novelist" can be released, it will be on a small scale..."

Xu Ke is over 70 years old, and his energy is not as good as before.

Even if the love for movies remains the same as before, many times, the body does not allow it.

His face is still clear and strange like that of a Jianghu, the sharpness in his eyes has weakened, and he said: "The script of "Nine Nether Generals" after "Nine-story Demon Tower" has been completed, and the special effects scenes..."

"Let them follow up, Qin Wangxuan Palace, Xixia Queen's Ancient Tomb, they are almost done..."

"Nine Nether Generals" belongs to the side story of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern". After experiencing the mystery of the Dixian Village in "Wuxia Coffin Mountain", Hu Bayi decided to wash his hands...

From the prophecy in the ancient city of Jingjue to the prophecy in the village of Dixian, going round and round through many life and death choices, and witnessing the impermanence of the fate of several generations of tomb robbers, Hu Bayi finally understood his fate and began to admire him sincerely. Zhang Sanlianzi, the senior of the Jin School, understood why he wrote "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Fengshui Secret Art" and achieved the supreme achievement of tomb robbery, but he retreated bravely to wash his hands and destroyed half of the secret book.

He decided to go to the United States with Shirley Yang. Just half a month before going to the United States, Da Jinya heard that a man named Ma Wazi in Xi'an picked up a treasure on the mountain. Da Jinya and Fatty Wang lobbied Hu Bayi, Then Xue Liyang joined, and the group of four started the story of "Nine Nether Generals"...

General Jiuyou is actually considered a tomb-robbing sect, with black donkeys as sacred objects...

The story is pretty compact!

"Using virtual shooting technology?"

"...Yes." After a pause, Shen Changlin asked back: "Master, do you think there is still a need to dig into the "Ghost Blowing Lantern" series of movies?"

Xu Ke was surprised: "You don't want to do it?"

"... such a profitable series, I will definitely continue to do it... not to mention that there are too many special effects companies supported by this series!"

The "Ghost Blowing Lantern" series has almost supported more than ten domestic special effects companies.

From a commercial point of view, as long as the series continues to sell well, there are infinite possibilities for filming!

From "Exquisite Ancient City", "Longling Miku" to "Nine-story Demon Tower", the "Ghost Blowing Lantern" series has been released in more and more countries and regions, and almost all of Asia has been released simultaneously...

Moreover, Netflix bought out the overseas network copyright, and the three plays were packaged for a price of up to 3000 million US dollars, which were 500 million, 1000 million and 1500 million US dollars...

But Shen Changlin really lost interest in the "Ghost Blowing Lantern" series!

The type and review decided that it can only go in the direction of adventure + monsters...

Horror can be there, but not scary...

This is quite boring!
Why is "Nine-story Demon Tower" released first?

Because the production cycle of "Yunnan Insect Valley" is too long-the tomb of Xianwang was originally the most difficult tomb in the "Ghost Blowing Lantern" series. This tomb once wiped out Chen Yulou's tomb robbery team, which directly led to the "Changsheng Mountain" Fall apart.

Insect Valley itself is one of the four major tomb robber sects of Tianke:

The feng shui secret technique of touching the golden hair mound cannot be used due to the climate and magnetic field of the insect valley;

The mountain-moving Taoist's technique of moving mountains and unloading mountains uses the method of natural generation and restraint of change.There are a bunch of man-made objects in the worm valley, and the mountain-moving Taoist is not good at things he has never seen;

As for Xiling, what happened to Chen Yulou represents everything!
Moreover, the monsters in "Yunnan Worm Valley" are too dense: bees, pythons, people, Huo's undead insects, corpse caves and other monsters with high mobility and high lethality. In addition, there are other monsters such as Boa constrictors, saber-toothed vipers, shivas and other messy things.

Of course these things can be a little scary...

But no, it's too scary to pass the trial!
It's still Xu Ke's opinion: since horror can't be done, then go in the direction of nausea!
Disgusting people, Xu Ke has another set, "A Chinese Ghost Story" series, especially the last two are a bunch of sticky things...

By the way, "Yunnan Bug Valley" will be released next year, and there will be a 24-episode web drama "Nuqing Xiangxi" online as a preview...

Speaking of which, Xu Ke currently has the unreleased "Four Heavenly Kings", "Nine Nether Generals" that has already begun preparations, and "The Code of Famen Temple"...

belong to different companies.

"Four Heavenly Kings" is produced by Kung Fu Films and Huayi;
"Nine Nether Generals" is Changlin Film and Television Chunping;
"The Code of Famen Temple" is said to be Shanghai Film + Huayi, and the protagonists at the beginning are Huang Zitao + Fanfan. Isn't this "Journey to the West" fell down!

Hearing Shen Changlin's question, Xu Ke immediately suggested: "Do you want to take over "The Code of Famen Temple"?"

Shen Changlin shook his head: "I don't have much idea about "Famen Temple"..."

After a pause, he continued: "I am interested in "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman", and I am very interested!"

(End of this chapter)