The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 233 The Film Plan with a Full Schedule

DreamWorks, which has been dubbed by netizens as "the best in film and television", held another high-level meeting at this turbulent time to determine and sort out the company's next project plan.

At present, DreamWorks has completed production and is waiting to be released. There is also a film "Mekong River". Although DreamWorks accounted for half of the investment share, the main production of this film is actually in charge of the national film, and it has been scheduled for next year's Spring Festival.

With the strength of National Film, there is basically no need for DreamWorks to do anything in publicity. Of course, Guo Fan as the director and Chen Jingxing as the producer and main screenwriter must still participate in the promotion, but although the promotion work for the Spring Festival movie It needs to be prepared and started in advance, but there are still more than five months before the Spring Festival of 16, and it is still too early.

There is also a project in post-production - "Gravity", which will not be completed until at least next year, and will also be the highlight of DreamWorks next year.

In addition to Chen Jingxing's own "Matrix", Guo Fan's "Edge of Tomorrow" is also under preparation.

The leading actors of "Edge of Tomorrow" are already in place. Wu Jing and Li Bingbing are both well-known actors, and the cast is not bad. In addition, the theme of the film is a sci-fi war movie. At present, many brands have approached them. Sponsored, DreamWorks is negotiating with each other.

If it goes well, it will also reduce a lot of pressure on the production cost. The production budget of "Edge of Tomorrow" is as high as 3.5 million yuan, which is the second largest film project invested by DreamWorks. It's in the first gear.

However, Penguin Video and Huanshiwang also participated in the investment, coupled with the hits of "Source Code", "Tang Detective", and the hit broadcast of "Signal" - the copyright income alone has already recovered the production cost of the TV series and also paid for it. Some earn.

Although the on-demand advertising account of the video website has not yet arrived, there is definitely a lot from the existing data analysis, and it has also attracted many overseas TV stations to purchase. DreamWorks is cooperating with Japan, South Korea, Siam, South Vietnam and other countries TV stations in China are talking about copyright prices. Of course, the bids of TV stations in these countries will not be very high. The market in their own countries is not large, and TV stations are far less rich than domestic first-line TV stations.

In addition, there are overseas online copyrights, and it is still Netflix. The agreement is almost finalized. If there is no accident, the final copyright price will reach 800 million U.S. dollars, making it the most expensive TV series purchased by Netflix in Asia.

It can be said that although "Signal" is a TV series, its revenue will never be much less than many box office hit movies.

The three big-selling film and television dramas allowed DreamWorks to not experience any financial pressure even under the consumption of Mo and "Gravity", two continuous gold-eating giants.

"Edge of Tomorrow" is mainly due to the time-consuming industrial design of alien monster images and futuristic sci-fi equipment such as mechs and airplanes, and the training of actors will take at least two months, so the film's producer and Guo Fan both It is expected that the launch of "Edge of Tomorrow" should wait until November.

In addition to Guo Fan's project, another star director of DreamWorks——Tian Xinye is also not idle. Because of the phenomenal performance of "Signal", his reputation has soared, and he is second only to Chen Jingxing in the company. After all, Guo Fan's "The Mekong" has not yet been released, and its reputation is not obvious, so in the eyes of outsiders, Tian Xinye is already the number two director in DreamWorks' ranking.

Although most of the media and netizens attribute the credit to Chen Jingxing, after all, Chen Jingxing is the screenwriter of "Signal", the audience will pay more attention to the script and screenwriter when evaluating TV dramas, and Tian Xinye's previous works are all bad dramas, many people naturally They felt that Tian Xinye was the "overall champion" of Chen Jingxing, and there was even an argument that Chen Jingxing was behind the scenes during the filming.

However, the high quality of "Signal" is all-round, and there is no shortcoming. Most people may only see whether the script is good or not, but there are still many people, especially audiences with higher reading volume and professional media. It can be called an artistic lens language in the play.

In addition to the discussion of actors' acting skills and plots in the major forums, there are also heated discussions on the shot, transition, lighting, composition, etc. of "Signal", various screens that can be directly used as screen savers and the analysis of the composition of the screen It also confuses many viewers.

Tian Xinye, whose fame has soared, has also received a lot of interviews and invitations to events, but he still keeps a low profile. It's not that he doesn't have fame and fortune, but that he is busy with the completion and creation of the script of "Signal: Mirage", which will be directed by him. For the first film, any director would have a movie dream, and Tian Xinye, whose dream was waving ahead, had almost no extra energy to cope with the surging fame and fortune.

With the efforts of Tian Xinye and several screenwriters, the script of "Mirage" has been basically completed. In this meeting, this project has also been unanimously approved, and it will soon enter the preparatory process.

For the casting of the film, especially the choice of male and female protagonists, Tian Xinye already had a list of candidates when he perfected the script. Although Chen Jingxing gave the script's creativity and main line framework, "Mirage" has already been formed in the process of script formation. It's Tian Xinye's movie. Chen Jingxing respects the director's autonomy, whether it's Guo Fan or Tian Xinye.

The heroine candidate provided by Tian Xinye is Zhao Liying. First of all, she is of the right age. She is good at simple, kind and tough characters. Although she has not acted in many modern dramas, she is actually more malleable in modern costumes.

In addition, because it is not a movie directed by Chen Jingxing, Tian Xinye does not have enough fans and fans. He is not that kind of topical director, and he needs a well-known star to bring enough starlight and popularity.

The casting of the leading actor is due to the narrative structure of the movie—the reversal of the leading actor’s identity is a highlight of the movie and a surprise for the audience watching the movie. It is a help to ensure that the audience’s positioning of the leading actor in the early and mid-term of the film The heroine recovers her identity as the police supporting role. In order to match this narrative trick, the script also sets up corresponding interference items. The husband and male friends of the heroine's first timeline are part of the blindfold.

Therefore, well-known actors cannot be used in the casting of the leading actor, otherwise it will overwhelm the guests and destroy the final reverse narrative structure. From the audience's point of view, can the role played by such a famous star be an ordinary police role?There must be other speculations, which will cause the last surprise of the movie to be broken in advance.

Out of such considerations, Tian Xinye's candidate is Bai Yu, an actor who has collaborated with him in Penguin Video.

Bai Yu used to play the male number two in an online drama filmed by Tian Xinye, and he is still struggling in the online drama circle, but his acting skills are good among young actors. He is a very talented and hardworking actor, but there is no one Great opportunity to prove yourself nothing more.

(End of this chapter)