The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 197 The shooting opportunity of "Operation Red Sea"
When Chen Jingxing was explaining the general plot of "Edge of Tomorrow", Guo Fan also stopped reading the script and listened carefully. Watch slowly.

After Chen Jingxing finished telling the main story of the first script, he looked at the second script on the table and said, "This script is a war action movie, which is the same genre as "Operation Mekong". Of course, the scene is bigger than the Mekong River. It is an African evacuation The story triggered by the overseas Chinese incident does not have any complicated settings. You can think of it as a comprehensive upgraded version of the Mekong River operation, but the Mekong River is the armed police to show their skills, and this script is the navy and naval special forces as the protagonists.”

"Evacuate overseas Chinese?" Guo Fan was a little surprised: "You can't be inspired by the evacuation of overseas Chinese in Yemen just past, right?"

In March this year, troubles broke out in Yemen, and the country organized a large-scale evacuation of overseas Chinese.

Chen Jingxing admitted bluntly: "That's right, it was the inspiration brought by the evacuation of overseas Chinese. The screenwriter team has been perfecting the first draft of the script that I taught them this month, and even my new film has been delayed."

"That happened at the end of March and the beginning of April, right?" Guo Fan looked at Chen Jingxing with the eyes of a monster: "It's only been over a month, right? You even worked out the script?"

Seeing Chen Jingxing showing a familiar beating smile and preparing to speak, Guo Fan hurriedly stopped: "Forget it, I already knew you were a pervert, so don't show it off to me, or I'm going to do it."

As early as in the "Study Tour to the United States", when they discussed the hit of "Fatal Identity" and led to Hollywood's big productions gradually eliminating original scripts, Chen Jingxing showed similar perverted abilities. Even Chen Sicheng conceived the script of "Detective Chinatown" at that time. After a certain plot got stuck, it was Chen Jingxing who gave the idea in one sentence. This made the directors agree that Chen Jingxing's brain is abnormal. As an ordinary person, he is born to be a writer of commercial film scripts.

After making a joke, Guo Fan put the two scripts in his hands and asked, "Which script do you think I should shoot for my next project?" After returning home, he would naturally read the script carefully to see which one suits his taste more, but Chen Jingxing was the main creator of the two scripts, and he wanted to hear Chen Jingxing's opinion.

And he could see that when Chen Jingxing gave these two scripts, he hoped that he could direct. This is equivalent to solving the two projects in his contract at once. Since they both have to be filmed, he doesn't care which one to shoot first. As long as Chen Jingxing gave a suggestion, he would not refuse it.

""Edge of Tomorrow"." Chen Jingxing is not hypocritical, he has already considered the whole thing: "The filming of "Operation Red Sea" is not something we can do alone. Just like the Mekong River, "Red Sea" also needs the support of relevant departments, otherwise Where can we find a warship? Even if you use special effects, you can still pass the audit if you make 054 with special effects technology? It involves the actions of the navy, and it cannot be filmed without the support of the navy."

Guo Fan was a little puzzled when he heard this: "Since there are so many difficulties in filming, you still...ah, I see, are you waiting for Director Qin to come to you again?"

Chen Jingxing shook his head: "It doesn't have to be Director Qin, I'm waiting for the right master to come to the door directly, or we can go directly to Shanghai Haijun."

"How could the navy come to us directly? We're going to go to the navy with a project, and I'm afraid it's very difficult to pass, especially if it involves the navy ships you mentioned appearing in commercial movies, and the navy special forces go abroad to participate in the evacuation of overseas Chinese. I am afraid that more sensitive things can only be done with the nod of very high-level executives, I think it is a bit slim, and it will take a long time."

"Whether it will take a long time or not depends on whether there is a suitable opportunity." Chen Jingxing seems to be well aware of this.

"Opportunity?"

A smile appeared on Chen Jingxing's lips, and he looked at Guo Fan: "Your "Operation Mekong" is an opportunity."

""Operation Mekong"?" Guo Fan immediately reflected: "You mean that the military will pay attention to Mekong after its release? Do you have such confidence in this movie?"

Although Guo Fan is quite confident in the quality of Mekong's movies, his heart is always in the air when it comes to the box office, especially when it comes to this kind of blockbuster with a cost of up to [-] million, which is still a proposition composition confessed by the Ministry of Public Security. The heavy pressure from all aspects made him feel a little out of breath. The pressure brought to him by his last film "You at the Same Table" is simply a world of difference compared to the Mekong River.

The investment of "You at the Same Table" is only more than 2000 million. It was produced with a small cost, and there is no pressure to recover the cost. It depends on how much he can earn, and even if he hits the street, he doesn't have that much burden. If his reputation is damaged, he can at most come back again. , he already had no worries about food and clothing, and making movies is his dream.

But the [-] million cost of the Mekong River is too heavy on his shoulders. Even if he has confidence in the quality of the film itself, he will still tremble when facing the test of the market. This is because Chen Jingxing can't wait to assign him a task, and he feels a little relieved. The reason for taking a deep breath is that he wants to relieve his anxiety by being busy.

Under such heavy pressure, all he can think of is that the box office of the Mekong River should not be too ugly. Unexpectedly, Chen Jingxing has completely skipped this stage, and is already thinking about what kind of impact this movie will have on the military, and even thinking about it. Using this influence to lay out a new film project is up.

As if he was still on the first floor, Chen Jingxing had already crossed the entire atmosphere, and this was not the atmosphere anymore, he was simply being a prophet.

The Ministry of Public Security is completely different from the military. Even if Mekong is successful in the market, how can he be sure that the military will be attracted and put down its arrogance to cooperate with film companies in publicity?Maybe the military doesn't care about this stuff at all?People's funds are not obtained by film promotion.

Could it be that the above task was assigned?Incorporate the military's propaganda work into the performance appraisal?Qin Zhonghe didn't say anything about it either. If the various departments really start to change their propaganda methods and use the medium of film to promote, then they should also go to the National Film Corporation as soon as possible?I have never heard of his family background.

Chen Jingxing had no idea that in such a short period of time, Guo Fan had already positioned him in his heart as a giant in the film and television industry who was more informed than Qin Zhonghe.

"Will I invest in this movie if I don't have confidence? [-] million yuan is not Japanese yen, so don't worry. While the domestic film market is developing, audiences are hungry for genre movies, especially genre movies that were lacking before. The popularity is also on the rise. We Chinese audiences are very tolerant. They don’t need you to be as good or even better than Hollywood’s films for the same type of commercial films. As long as you can reach the standard, they will buy it. , Mekong is not just a rare genre film, but a genre film above the standard."

(End of this chapter)