The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 235 Building Zombie IP
The history of zombie movies in this plane is also very long. This theme was born in the 60s. It originated from voodoo legends in Africa, but it has always been a very niche genre, similar to the development history of Chen Jingxing's previous plane.

However, in the 90s here, there was no such phenomenal game work as "Resident Evil", and naturally there was no "Resident Evil" movie, which directly broke the zombie theme and created a classic world view and setting.

Of course, it’s not to say that there are no successful zombie movies in this world. There are not only a lot of them, but also one of the common themes of horror and thriller movies. However, most of these zombie movies are horror movies with small and medium costs, and they have different worldviews. , some are cursed, some are voodoo, and some are zombies in the tomb. Of course, there are also settings of viruses, bacteria or strange diseases.

But there is not a complete world view that is well known to the whole world. Even how to contagion has different settings in different movies. Some zombie movies do not have contagious settings at all, that is, viruses, bacteria or some kind of curse spread , Those who have antibodies are normal people, those who can't bear it are zombies, and then normal people fight zombies.

Most of the settings with contagion are varied, and different movies have different settings. In short, the theme of zombies in this plane is a niche horror theme in Hollywood. There are many movies of all kinds, and the box office is good. Bad, but there is no classic worldview work that canonize the theme of zombies and can be accepted by the public.

Of course, Chen Jingxing did not have the ambition to make a movie like "Resident Evil" that uses niche themes to achieve mass communication and establishes a classic worldview system.

First of all, the market for zombie works is not wide, not to mention that themes like Huaguo cannot be shown in theaters. Even in the world, it is already a miracle that a zombie movie can exceed [-] million US dollars at the box office.

Secondly, the box office of "Resident Evil" in the previous world was not high, and the first three films added up to more than 2 million US dollars. This is still the glory of the "Resident Evil" game. After the zombie movies began to be brought into the mainstream market, the ceiling of zombie-themed movies was significantly improved.

Zombie theme, a subculture in the horror subculture, can be cultivated into a classic theme with a box office limit of hundreds of millions of dollars that almost surpasses the boundaries of the niche. The games and movies of "Resident Evil" really contributed a lot, T-virus, umbrella , Lickers, Rampage Zombies and other perfect settings and fashionable worldviews make the theme of zombies truly have commercial value that can attract audiences with tastes of the masses, making novels, comics and other literary and artistic works of this kind of theme bloom everywhere.

But this process was long and full of uncertainties, and the income was not high. Chen Jingxing didn't intend to shoot a blockbuster movie directly to reap the box office. To be honest, there was no box office to reap.

However, TV dramas are still very popular. Zombies are rampant in web dramas and online ghost movies. At least for now, there is no problem with online dramas involving zombies, and the difficulty of spreading zombie subculture through TV dramas is much lower than that of movies. If the TV series can generate popularity at home and abroad, then it is not without commercial value to make a movie based on the world view of TV.

That is to say, Chen Jingxing regards the zombie TV series as the "Resident Evil" game in the cost plane. Through the TV series, he will bring out a complete and attractive world view, and see if he can gain enough audiences before developing games, movies, animations and other commercial forms.

Therefore, in Chen Jingxing's planning, this "The Walking Dead" should try to lay out a rigorous, complete and grand world view, and make it an acceptable and mainstream doomsday theme-most zombie movies in Hollywood in this plane are It is rare to raise this theme to the level of doomsday. Of course, this is also the reason why the general low-to-medium production cost cannot support such a magnificent world view, and at the same time, no film company is willing to mobilize screenwriting resources on this niche theme to shape a grand world view—— ——In the future, when the audience of this plane thinks of the end, it will not be a nuclear war or a nuclear winter, but the end of the T virus.

The main storyline of the show's first season involved a young man waking up in a hospital ward to find the world was empty, and then discovering that he, too, had no memory of what happened before he lost consciousness and that he didn't have a cell phone with him. And ID cards, nothing that proves who you are.

The whole story of this season is the road zombie drama where this young man seeks refuge, meets like-minded friends or enemies, fights wits and courage with zombies, and retrieves memories by the way.

At the same time, the experiences of the protagonist’s companions will also appear in the first season. Some were on the train when the zombie virus broke out, some were in the city, etc. Basically, it is based on Chen Jingxing’s previous life "Resident Evil", "Train to Busan", "Zombie" and so on. The story of the fusion of classic works such as "War of the Worlds" and "The Walking Dead".

It is basically a group drama, everyone's experience is the "protagonist", but the real male protagonist has more roles, more mysteries and stronger abilities.

In the second season, the protagonist team found a secret base through hardships and sacrifices. In fact, it is the experimental base of the mastermind behind the scenes. It turns out that the T virus researched by the company is what infects humans into zombies. Fast advanced version, with many monsters made by T virus.

The hero will also discover his true identity in this season and retrieve all his memories. He himself is a successful test subject of the T-virus human experiment, so he has strength and speed beyond normal people.

In the third and fourth seasons, the male protagonist rebelled against the mastermind behind the scenes and found a way to resist the infection and even eliminate zombies and other monsters.

In short, it is a zombie-themed TV series with a grand world view that combines various fashionable elements such as road adventure, horror and suspense, supernatural powers, powerful monsters, and human struggle. The initial script plan is the structure of the four seasons. If so, the entire world view can be completed or even extended through art forms such as movies, games, and animation.

At present, the script of the first season has almost been released. According to the estimates of the TV drama business department, there are about 15 episodes, and the production budget may exceed 1.5 million. The average episode is 1000 million, which is larger than "Black Mirror" and "Person of Interest high.

There were quite a lot of objections at the meeting. After all, no company had tried this zombie theme before in Huaguo, and they hadn’t even been involved in online dramas or online dramas on video sites. It is also an extremely niche theme in Hollywood.

However, Chen Jingxing still went against the crowd and agreed to the establishment of this project. If the response after the first season is not good, the 1.5 million DreamWorks can still afford it, but what if it creates a project that can be accepted by the public and popular at home and abroad IP, then it's all worth it.

A set of worldviews that can be accepted by the public is a golden hen, which can continuously bring benefits and can play too many tricks.

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