The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 196 "Edge of Tomorrow"

If Guo Fan invested in the film himself, it would be fine to test the waters with a low-budget movie, but the film contract signed by DreamWorks with him is obviously not suitable for this kind of low-budget movie. When Chen Jingxing recommended him to direct the Mekong River, he would Knowing that DreamWorks must have asked him to make industrial films.

Of course, Guo Fan really likes to make industrial films, otherwise he would not abandon his company and sign three film contracts with DreamWorks. At present, Guo Fan’s company is mainly responsible for some advertisements and artist brokerage business—Trust DreamWorks to sign with him Like Fu Fu who filmed "Operation Mekong", his company has done quite well in advertising and brokerage business.

In addition, he participated in the investment of the Mekong River. Of course, his share of the investment in the Mekong River can be regarded as negligible. He invested a total of 200 million, but his investment is genuine and he can get a share of the box office and copyright. The project is packaged as a financial product, which is called film investment, which is actually a fundraising rebate to fool laymen.

Chen Jingxing was not surprised by Guo Fan's answer. Industrial film scripts, even if they are just a feasible idea, are not easy to find. After all, not everyone is a time traveler.

Of course, if Guo Fan really finds a film project he wants to shoot, he will seriously consider it. Isn’t the classic work in his mind produced by many people with a flash of inspiration?

However, since Guo Fan has no plans for the next movie, he is not polite. There are not many directors in China who can control heavy industry movies, so naturally he has to "exploit" one if he catches one.

Seeing that Chen Jingxing took out two scripts and handed them to him as expected, Guo Fan couldn't help being dumbfounded.

Chen Jingxing couldn't wait to drag him to the office, and as soon as he sat down, he began to discuss the plan for the next film project. Most likely, Chen Jingxing had a project that he thought was suitable for him. Guo Fan was prepared for this, but his preparations were not enough. It was because Chen Jingxing had an idea or a story outline, but he didn't expect that the latter would directly come up with a completed script, or two!

The script of an industrial blockbuster is very time-consuming, because the investment is huge, involving various elements such as industrial design, special effects shots, and the realizability of the screen scene of the script. Cost recovery must also be considered, and there must be quantifiable drama rhythms and conflicts and Market research and the creation of original scripts are even more difficult.

Even though he knew that DreamWorks had a lot of screenwriting teams—the number and scale of which were beyond Guo Fan’s knowledge, few companies in China could match them, but it was far beyond his imagination to come up with two scripts at once, because the scripts of industrial blockbusters are not The speed cannot be increased by more people, if you want to ensure its quality, and as far as he knows, the script of Chen Jingxing's next film project has not yet been finalized.

Chen Jingxing watched with a smile as Guo Fan picked up one of the scripts and began to flip through them, explaining: "These two scripts have basically been finalized. Of course, if you have any objections to the scripts and want to modify them, you can, but the completion of these two scripts is very high. It is relatively high, and every plot will affect the whole body, so it will be more troublesome to modify.

The script in your hand is a sci-fi movie, in the style of an RPG war game. The concept is actually similar to "Source Code", a time loop.

The main story is very simple, that is, in the distant future, aliens invaded the earth. In the war with aliens, a rookie soldier died tragically on the first battle, but he regained his strength due to some unknown reasons. Freshman, in the cycle of life and death again and again, he became more and more aware of the method of defeating the enemy, and won the last time reset. "

This story is actually "Edge of Tomorrow", a sci-fi blockbuster starring Tom Cruise in Chen Jingxing's previous life. For Chinese people, such an excellent script is enough to achieve box office success in China, and the production cost must be much lower than the original version—Chen Jingxing intends to assign most of the special effects work to domestic special effects companies.

Calculated in this way, this project is still very profitable, and he doesn't care even if he doesn't make much money. Making classic sci-fi movies is his goal in itself.

Of course, the plot of "Edge of Tomorrow" is not as simple as what Chen Jingxing said, even this film is more complicated than "Source Code", and it is more commercialized. It is a genuine special effects blockbuster.

The reason why the heroes and heroines in the movie can reset the time—resetting back to 30 hours before the first death—is because they were accidentally contaminated with the alien substance in the blood of the alien monster at the moment of death, that is to say Death reset itself is the ability of alien monsters, so both pros and cons have the ability to reset time.

Alien monsters are also divided into three grades, Grade A (Level [-]), Grade B (Level [-]) and Grade C (Level [-]). After resetting, only the body is refreshed, and the memory is retained. After the reset of the Class A monster, the body and memory will not be refreshed.

C-level monsters are responsible for fighting, and B-level monsters are responsible for collecting information and keeping them in the reset memory. Once the B-level monster dies, the reset function will be automatically triggered, and the time will be reversed by about 30 hours.

And Class A monsters are the energy source of Class C monsters and Class B monsters, and they are responsible for resetting and starting tasks. In other words, as long as Class A monsters are still alive, the death of Class B monsters will inevitably lead to resets, but if However, Class B monsters will lose their energy sources and perish. It is precisely because alien monsters have the ability to reset/rewind time that the war between humans and aliens has not achieved a real victory.

So the whole movie is a battle between humans and aliens under the high concept of time reset. A sci-fi commercial blockbuster with no threshold - even if you don't understand all the settings after watching it, it will not affect the extremely enjoyable viewing experience.

In a sense, it is somewhat similar to "Inception". The setting is more complicated. The audience may not be able to understand the details and all the settings, but most people can understand the plot and have a very good sense of immersion. It can also make your brain feel like "understanding a brain-burning movie" in high-speed operation.

It is precisely because of this complicated setting that Chen Jingxing called it an RPG war game movie. It has a sense of game, and the experience of watching the movie is just like playing a game. method, and pushed down the boss before the last life is used up, which can bring the audience an extremely strong sense of substitution.

(End of this chapter)