The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 234

In Chen Jingxing's opinion, the list of actors listed by Tian Xinye was very suitable, and he immediately decided to send out the film appointment. Of course, the audition process still had to go.

With the current status of DreamWorks and the director of the recent phenomenon-level drama "Signal", I believe that most of the actors are unlikely to refuse, unless the schedule is really unavailable.

For the film business department of DreamWorks, the project schedule is quite full. The three directors Chen Jingxing, Guo Fan and Tian Xinye all have a project to undertake.

In addition to Tian Xinye's "Mirage" with a budget of 7000 million, which is considered a small and medium-cost production, Chen Jingxing's "Matrix" and Guo Fan's "Edge of Tomorrow" are both large-scale productions with an investment of hundreds of millions. The factory, starting two heavy industry films at the same time will also bring a lot of pressure.

The construction of the crew is indeed a bit stretched. It seems that in addition to the need for expansion, DreamWorks itself also needs to introduce a wave of talents. Of course, mature and high-level talents are not easy to get, especially in the production of many film and television dramas. In the field of professional division of labor, whether it is high-level photography or fine arts, it is often a semi-closed inheritance, and it even stays at the stage where the master guides the apprentice, and talent is also extremely important, and it cannot be mass-produced.

DreamWorks currently has one or two fairly good teams, but there is still a certain distance from the five major studios. Maybe the box office may surpass them, but this kind of background will not be surpassed in a short time.

Fortunately, there are two major shareholders of DreamWorks, United Cinemas and Tianrun Pictures, and the relationship with Guoying is also good. Coupled with the attraction of DreamWorks and Chen Jingxing, the relationship is relatively good It is not difficult for a large company to find enough talents for three film crews. The industry itself is full of food, and many top film practitioners in the industry are also mobile. The control of resources by large companies belongs to the "grazing model". , rather than "captive mode".

But it is also necessary to cultivate and absorb high-level film and television drama production talents, because DreamWorks not only has a film business department, but also a TV drama business department.

The first TV series "Signal" produced by DreamWorks became a hit once it was launched, and it aroused a lot of discussion on the Internet.

Domestic film and television companies that make both movies and TV dramas are the norm. The five major studios are all comprehensive companies that span film and television dramas. Even Guoying has companies that specialize in TV dramas. This is the current film and television drama industry in Huaguo. ecology.

Including most of the crew and actors are also interoperable in film and television, which is far less clear-cut than Hollywood.

Naturally, DreamWorks also wants to develop TV drama business, but the next development direction has not been determined. Chen Jingxing established the development direction of DreamWorks TV drama business at this high-level meeting, which is "small but refined, refined and beautiful" .

The focus will be on the online drama market. On the one hand, with the rise of streaming media at home and abroad, online dramas will be the main form of TV dramas in the future. It is still a new thing to go online first, and TV copyrights can still compete with online copyrights. In a few years Streaming media will become the main communication platform for TV dramas.

Secondly, compared with TV stations, the review standards of online dramas are much looser. The TV series that Chen Jingxing wants to shoot in the future basically have no hope of becoming stars, and the habit of watching dramas cultivated by domestic TV stations for many years and the standards of purchasing dramas have led to a vicious circle. , There are more and more episodes of TV series, and the more episodes, the more money they sell.

Just relying on the TV series "Signal" or DreamWorks alone can't change the current TV ecology, and it can't make domestic TV viewers get used to the weekly drama mode. Either follow the trend and work hard on the number of episodes, or simply Give up the platform of TV station.

For DreamWorks' next TV series, Chen Jingxing has given the screenwriter team three story frames, which are currently being perfected.

One is "Black Mirror", the other is "Suspect Tracker", and the last one is a TV series about zombies.

"Black Mirror" was hailed as an allegory of sci-fi dramas in Chen Jingxing's previous life, and some even considered it the pinnacle of sci-fi dramas. It simulated a fable world full of black technology, artificial intelligence, and future social ecology. Basically, every episode is a separate story.

The biggest feature of this drama is not how big a brain hole it is. Although it does have rich imagination and creativity, the shock it brings to the audience mainly comes from the destructive reflection on "black technology".

If the "Signal" and "Source Code" shot by Chen Jingxing are a positive development of sci-fi creativity, and a positive deduction of "black technology" and sci-fi elements, then it means that technology can serve human beings and enable human beings to continue to progress, and The last is happy ending.

Then "Black Mirror" emphasizes the alienation, deconstruction and destruction of human beings by technology. The audience of the era can get that kind of strong metaphor, which makes you feel that this is what may happen in reality.

For example, in the first episode of "Black Mirror", a little girl was kidnapped, and the kidnapper made a request to let the Prime Minister of Britain live broadcast the pig ML, otherwise he would tear up the ticket. This is also the most popular one in "Black Mirror" in the previous world Story - The Prime Minister fucks a pig.

Of course, in Chen Jingxing's opinion, this episode is far from the most exciting episode of "Black Mirror", but the irony of the public's human nature that likes to hunt for novelties and is good at moral kidnapping in this story is extremely exciting. Of course, "Black Mirror" that DreamWorks will shoot is natural It is necessary to carry out the "Chinese version" magic modification, but in fact, most of the episodes of "Black Mirror" are not too difficult to adapt.

For example, the story of the pig can completely replace the prime minister with other public figures, and the politicians will make some audiences feel that they deserve it. If it is replaced by a very well-known star, this ironic effect may be strengthened.

And "Suspect Tracker" revolves around an artificial intelligence machine that can prevent and stop criminal behavior in advance through big data. In addition to suspense, action, and crime, which are more eye-catching commercial themes, it also deeply discusses the relationship between people and people. The story of AI's deeper competition can be called another type of "The Matrix".

The last script was about zombies. Chen Jingxing named it "The Walking Dead". Of course, it was quite different from the classic American drama in the previous life.

The zombie drama that Chen Jingxing is going to film is a hodgepodge, it can almost be regarded as a collection of several classic zombie works from previous lives.

(End of this chapter)