The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 161
Ordinary netizens ridiculed this as another money laundering project upon hearing such news.

Chen Jingxing's movie fans were quite entangled, after all, because of his love for his house and black people, it was hard for them to believe that Chen Jingxing, who had already made three high-profile sci-fi movies, would participate in any money laundering project.

Some movie fans are very good at thinking, and they have no moral filter for Chen Jingxing, but they don't want to speculate that their favorite director is laundering money in the worst way, so they made up a decent conspiracy theory, thinking that Chen Jingxing has been coerced by capital , I can't help myself.

Soon a well-founded article was widely reprinted on the Internet and won the approval of many netizens.

[In fact, since DreamWorks suddenly announced that it would shoot a TV series when "Signal" was in theaters, I felt something was wrong.

Because there has been such a TV series or movie that suddenly became popular before, and then the movie version or TV series version will be filmed. What is the final result?

Without exception, they are all money-making works!

Capital finally found a golden hen, and of course couldn't wait to urge it to lay eggs.

A popular movie like "Signal" can't escape such a fate. This movie is already very complete in terms of story. I believe those who have watched it should be very clear. But can capital let it go?
Of course I can't, since I can't make a sequel, I'll make a TV series version, anyway, I have to eat and drink while the heat is hot.

To be honest, I have absolutely no expectations for the TV series version of "Signal". The reason why "Signal" is good-looking is because he condenses the story in two hours, so that there can be constant reversal and rapid development. Rhythm, can you imagine making such a story into a long and smelly TV series with dozens of episodes?This can only be done by flooding with water.

What's more, Sun Li and Deng Chao were also invited. It is rumored that their salary alone is as high as 5000 million. Think about it, don't the bad movies and dramas we usually see all have this model?

Inviting the most popular star with the highest ratings to play the TV version of "Signal", a billion-dollar movie, doesn't it prove that the producer or even Chen Jingxing himself has no confidence in the quality of this drama?

And what is the reason for all this?I don’t know if you have noticed this news, but just before DreamWorks announced the filming of the TV series “Signal”, DreamWorks just went through the second round of financing since its establishment!

This round of financing is led by Penguin Video Network and Fantasy World Network!

The DreamWorks founded by Chen Jingxing received a large amount of financing at the beginning of the year, and the scene of blowing up the bubble in the film and television industry is still vivid in my mind. I can only say that if you succeed with it, you will die with it.

As long as you take this path of negotiating peace with capital, you will be kidnapped by it. Chen Jingxing has changed from a genius director with independent thinking to a tool and accomplice of capital.

If you don't believe me, then you can check the director of the "Signal" TV series. This director is named Tian Xinye. Before taking over such a big production, he only made two small-budget online dramas before. Guess which platform's online drama it is. drama?
Penguin Video Network!
You can search for these two web dramas made by this director. None of them scored more than 6 points on Douban. Such a director suddenly started making TV dramas of DreamWorks. Don’t you think Chen Jingxing doesn’t know?Thinking about what I said before, the TV series version of "Signal" is definitely a bad money-making drama, and the capital behind it, including Chen Jingxing himself, is well aware of it.

Thinking back to when "Signal" was first released, the slogan of the tap water "produced by Chen Jingxing must be a boutique", don't you think it is ironic?I was also the one who yelled this slogan happily at the time, but I didn't expect that DreamWorks would turn sour just after reaching its peak.

These reckless Internet capitals don't understand the laws of film creation at all, they only know how to make quick work and blindly compare, but they don't know that this is completely exploiting weaknesses and avoiding strengths.

What are the advantages of domestic films?It is definitely not to compete with Hollywood for visual spectacle, because you can’t compare, so the films that have been successful in the film market in the past two years are often small and medium-budget films, and there are one period blockbuster.

For example, Chen Jingxing's small and medium-budget sci-fi films do not have brilliant special effects, but both in terms of word-of-mouth and performance, they are better than most Hollywood blockbusters. They rely on creativity and stories to win. This is also the best part of Chen Jingxing, which Hollywood blockbusters cannot do. The place.

And what Chen Jingxing is doing now is to give up his strengths to compete with the opponent's strengths. No matter how good the special effects are, you can be as good as Hollywood, okay? 10 billion RMB is enough to make 20 "Signal" films!

Telling interesting stories with a small cost is the genius director in my mind. I don't think Chen Jingxing doesn't know what fans like and what he likes. It can only be said that he chose capital between audiences and capital.

Geniuses fall, dreams shatter. ]
Chen Jingxing held back his laughter, turned to the end, and suddenly had a question mark on his face: "No, how can you start cursing me to death?"

Tang Xin, who was paralyzed on the sofa with Chen Jingxing, also swiped his phone: "Don't keep reading pessimistic articles, here are a few comments to defend you, they should be written by your fans, can you take a look?"

Chen Jingxing tilted his head and found that it was a comment on Zhihu. Regarding the 10 billion space science fiction movie launched by Chen Jingxing, related issues were also on the hot list on Zhihu.

Most of the answers are cautiously optimistic or cautiously pessimistic. Of course, there are also remarks that "the genius is dead and DreamWorks has deteriorated", or fans who are worried about whether the film can recover its cost.

There were, however, a handful of very upbeat reviews singing their praises.

For example, Huaguo can also make blockbuster films with special effects, or the optimistic estimation of the global box office believes that the cost will definitely be recovered. What’s more, it is said that Chen Jingxing will make Huaguo’s version of "Star Wars". When it comes to sarcasm, after all, "Star Wars" has a lot of fans in China, and this kind of answer that is like touching porcelain will definitely cause a backlash among Star Wars fans.

Tang Xin suddenly said in surprise, "Someone in my circle of friends also posted that bad-mouthing article about you. It seems to be out of the circle. Why do I think this is someone's black marketing targeting you? Our company also concocted it. After such an article similar to attacking your friends, why don’t you make a PR?”

Chen Jingxing looked like an old god: "What's the point of public relations? Isn't it just to criticize the "Signal" TV series as a bad drama? Even if all the audience think it is a bad drama, there are Sun Li and Deng Chao Now, will this affect the purchase of the TV station? No, with the "Signal" movie and my title, will it affect the network copyright? No.

So in fact, ordinary viewers have no right to choose and decide at all, and I wish everyone would think that the quality of the "Signal" TV series is not good. The lower the expectation, the greater the surprise. "

(End of this chapter)