The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 200 The hero of "Edge of Tomorrow"

What surprised Guo Fan was that the "Edge of Tomorrow" project contract provided by DreamWorks gave him a 10/5 treatment, that is, a film salary of 1000 million plus a 5% dividend clause.

Of course, the 5% dividend here does not refer to the box office dividend. This kind of dividend directly at the box office is probably only available to filmmakers like Master Xing or Cheng Long, and it is also an old calendar in the past.

So the dividend clause here refers to the dividends in the box office profit, that is, the box office share obtained by the producer minus the remaining profit of the production cost. If DreamWorks’ box office profit is 1 million, 5% is 500 million, 2 million It is 1000 million. Many big directors and actors have signed this kind of clause, even 10%, 20%.

Of course, this so-called box office profit can be manipulated, saying that no profit means no profit, but these tricks are generally used against laymen. Many film projects often do this when they fool laymen or even ordinary people into investing. Watching the box office of the movie explode, but people just tell you that you don’t make money, and then return the principal plus bank interest to you to make you vomit blood.

But this kind of gimmick is generally not played by people in the industry, especially by directors or producers.

On the whole, this treatment already belongs to the category of first-line directors, and it is extremely generous for Guo Fan, a director who has only released two movies in theaters.

However, Chen Jingxing doesn't think that the contract is too generous. There are not many directors in the country who can control heavy industrial films such as "Edge of Tomorrow", and compared with small and medium-budget films or literary films, directors of special effects films have to worry about it. There are many more things, and it can even be said that directors of small-budget films and directors of industrial films are not considered a job at all.

In addition, he already basically believes that Guo Fan is the helm of "The Wandering Earth" and "George Lucas" of DreamWorks. Naturally, he wants to tie Guo Fan tighter. It's mosquito legs.

And if "The Mekong" was a box office success after it was released, Guo Fan's salary in the next movie would definitely be able to reach this level, or even worse, Chen Jingxing was just cashing in ahead of time.

Regarding Guo Fan's surprise and touch, Chen Jingxing joked with a smile: "Old Guo, calm down, don't get excited, don't cry, if you really want to repay me, just promise me with your body."

"...Get the hell out of here." Guo Fan's words were held back in his stomach.

Chen Jingxing withdrew his hippie smile: "Didn't I say it before? The Mekong River will definitely succeed, and you will be a billion or even 20 billion director by then. I have paid for this salary in advance. After the Mekong River explodes, don't ask me for it." If I get a raise, I will be Amitabha."

"20 billion..." Guo Fan said angrily, "Do you think RMB is Vietnamese Dong? Can a movie break the record?"

Chen Jingxing had a look on his face that you could believe it or not: "When the time comes, you'll just have to watch it. That's fine. You've also finished reading the script. Do you have any thoughts on casting?"

The casting of "Edge of Tomorrow" is an urgent problem to be solved. The film requires the cooperation of the actors during the preparation process, and even needs to receive training in advance, especially the exoskeleton needs to adapt to the actor's body shape, and the actor may have to adapt to it before shooting. It's a long time, so casting can't be delayed for too long.

In the original movie, the male protagonist is played by Tom Cruise. Of course, this mainly considers the box office appeal. After all, the movie is not a big IP, and the investment is huge. It will not work without the participation of first-line actors.

The second is the ability and adaptability of the actors themselves. Tom cruise is a top-line action actor in Hollywood, and he is also an idol. His "style" is basically unique, especially in the original film shooting. , The requirements for actors' action skills are very high, and Tom Cruise is the perfect choice.

For the Huaguo version, the box office appeal of the actors is not so high. Huaguo audiences still have a strong hunger for high-quality sci-fi movies in their country, plus the brand bonus of DreamWorks and Chen Jingxing——Chen Jingxing If you are a screenwriter, you can also name the producer. In addition, there is Guo Fan. After the success of "Operation Mekong", Guo Fan can also get a certain amount of word-of-mouth blessing.

Of course, the most important reason is that Huaguo really does not have a ready-made candidate like Tom Cruise who has box office appeal. The actors who have both solid action skills and box office appeal are mostly older generations. Adaptation, among young and middle-aged actors, most of the young and middle-aged actors who can really talk about box office appeal are comedians, or actors who are partial to comedy.

As for traffic, which is useful in ratings or broadcast volume data, it has extremely limited effect on movie projects that need real money to go to theaters. Domestic filmmakers will realize this in a few years.

And let’s not talk about the professional ability of traffic stars, they are still debating whether they are willing to endure this hardship, most of them even think it’s hard to hang on to Wia, let alone this kind of real-action action scenes, and the action scenes themselves also need business ability-based.

The first thing that Chen Jingxing thought of was Wu Jing. His professional ability in action scenes is definitely not bad. He is not tall, but Liangtang is also of average height. In this respect, the two are actually similar.

The only downside is his good looks. After all, Tom Cruise can fall in love in most of his movies. Not only is he really handsome, but he also always follows the handsome guy line in the movies. Wu Jing can’t say he’s not handsome, but he rarely Go this route, but it's not a big deal.

In terms of age, he is a round younger than Liangtang, and he has a little baby face, so he doesn't look old. There is no problem playing the leading actor in "Edge of Tomorrow".

The biggest difference is the box office appeal, but in the view of Chen Jingxing, who has already made five films, except for a few comedians - a sense of comedy is a kind of talent and a strong personal trait, which can maintain the audience's stable sense of expectation , the box office appeal of other types of actors is very unstable, and it is very empty. Is Wu Jing from the previous life plane born with box office appeal?The success of a movie is its box office appeal.

Taking all things into consideration, Wu Jing was the first candidate for "Edge of Tomorrow" in Chen Jingxing's mind. What surprised him was that Guo Fan thought of going with him.

Of course, Guo Fan has no memory of Chen Jingxing's previous life. He didn't "prophesy" Wu Jing's "future" box office appeal to propose this candidate, but just happened to have a movie starring him that is currently showing in theaters—"Killing" "Broken Wolf 2", this movie has just been released, the box office is good, the response is very good, and the word of mouth is not bad.

Wu Jing is the leading actor in the movie, and it is also the second time he has played the leading role in a movie after the military-themed film "Spike Fang" which he directed and acted in and adapted from the novel.

"Spike Fang" itself has achieved great box office success, ranking tenth in the box office list of Huaguo movies in 2012. If "Slaying the Wolf 2" also achieves box office success-according to the box office on the first day and the audience's reputation in the market Look, success is a high-probability event, so two consecutive movies starring in the film can achieve impressive box office results. Wu Jing didn't have the so-called appeal before, but now he has it.

(End of this chapter)