The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 337 "The Ninth District"

"Okay, you can figure it out, you must pay attention to safety! You must contact the embassy if you want to transfer the shooting location!"

After Chen Jingxing instructed, he hung up the video call, sat back on the sofa, and watched a puppet show next to Tang Xin.

"Ah..." Tang Xin sank into the sofa looking for that one, next to Chen Jingxing on the left, and rubbed Corgi's dog's head with his right hand, and sighed for a while.

Chen Jingxing was a little nervous: "What's wrong? Are you uncomfortable?"

Tang Xin had just been diagnosed with pregnancy not long ago, Tang Xin herself was the same as before, she should work and live, Chen Jingxing seemed a little taken aback.

"It's all your fault."

Chen Jingxing had a question mark on his face. He knew that girls might become emotionally unstable due to stress or hormones after pregnancy, but this was too endless.

"I can't even watch TV dramas anymore. You have really lowered my tolerance for stupid dramas." Tang Xin looked at the dramas on TV and couldn't help feeling angry.

Originally, she was not picky about film and television dramas. Ever since she got together with Chen Jingxing, almost none of DreamWorks' works had been dropped. In addition, because her position has been getting higher and higher and her work has become more and more busy in the past few years, the idol dramas she liked to watch before , especially ancient puppet shows, which rarely find time to watch.

Because she is pregnant, although she is still working, she has also received some care. After all, she is the company veteran who holds the shares. Her work has also been adjusted accordingly, and her workload has been reduced. five lives.

When I have free time, I want to find some dramas to pass the time. I don’t know if the level of puppet dramas has dropped, or her threshold has increased. While watching, I can’t stop complaining in my heart, and I can’t get into the drama at all.

In the end, it can only be attributed to the fact that the film and television dramas made by her husband have changed her standards for watching dramas, and she has fallen into the dilemma of having no dramas to watch.

Although DreamWorks has been producing film and television dramas, the production speed is too slow. There are only one or two dramas a year, and each drama has at least [-] episodes and at least five or six episodes. The combined number and duration of all the episodes that have aired so far is not enough for any TV show right now.

Chen Jingxing couldn't help laughing, and took the opportunity to propose: "Isn't this a good thing? How about we watch "Heart of Steel Body" or "X-Men 97"?" As a straight man of steel, he has always lacked interest in puppet shows, but It's rare for him and his wife to have so much time to watch TV together, so he can only hold his nose and endure it, but since Tang Xin said this, it suits him.

"Don't look, how do I remember that you said before that the plot of "Heart of Steel" is brainless? You also said that the second season of the female Iron Man has changed, and she is not as good as the first season?"

Tang Xin is not interested in the super-English movies or super-English TV dramas of the country on the other side of the ocean. There is no love scene, and even if there is, it is sex. The reason for most European and American TV dramas is that they lack the process of gradually establishing an oriental relationship—in fact, this is the main course in her eyes.

"Ahem, when did I say that the Iron Man in the second season is not as good as the first season? Don't distort my original intention, okay? I said that the acting is not as good as the first season." Chen Jingxing hastily clarified.

Of course, he also knows that TV series like "Heart of Steel" also have various shortcomings, but which man can refuse mechas?Or a mech worn by a female superhero?This generation of female Iron Man suits are quite well designed, where the protruding part is protruding...

It seems that both men and women are the same, and they can ignore some flaws in the plot for certain things.

"Are you so free every day? Isn't "Matrix" coming out soon?" After the two of them endured the bloody and stupid plot for a while, Tang Xin forcibly suppressed the desire to complain in his heart, and changed the subject to care about Chen Jingxing. work.

"Everything is ready, it's only due to Dongfeng, there is no need to do anything else, let nature take its course." Chen Jingxing said lightly, but his tone was still uncontrollably revealing some complacency.

The current publicity of "Matrix" can be called "self-promotion", and there is no need for more promotion from DreamWorks. The topic discussions caused by the two animations have not only not dissipated, but have become more and more intense.

Not only is the appeal of the animation itself, known as a depressing masterpiece, but the content and worldview revealed in the two trailers also make the audience's expectations for "Matrix" stronger and stronger.

Putting aside the entanglement between robots and humans, the Omnic Crisis is a very classic and ancient theme, an "ancient" idea that can be compared with the voyage of the universe, but even in Europe and the United States where these two sci-fi ideas originated, the classics about robots There are not many film and television works.

Compared with the series of classic IPs that gave birth to "Star Wars", "Star Trek" and other space and voyage themes, the movies of robots, especially robots rebelling against humans, are much bleak. The main reason is that such stories are not easy to shoot, and The box office potential is not high, and it is a thankless type, especially after the rise of the comic film trend.

And Chen Jingxing, a sci-fi master who has created many sci-fi masterpieces, wants to make a movie about robots in Huaguo and even Omnic Crisis, and judging from the trilogy claimed by DreamWorks, it is basically sure to be an epic masterpiece, at least towards this point. direction to work hard.

Not to mention the Kung Fu element, Omnic Crisis plus Kung Fu, most people can't imagine, the curiosity and the mysterious style propaganda of "Matrix" will only arouse greater expectations because of the inability to imagine.

Therefore, Chen Jingxing has a lot of leisure this time, and his regular job every day is to track down the filming of "Spike II" that has already started in Africa. After all, it is a foreign country with hundreds of people thousands of miles away, and DreamWorks can afford it. Without taking any risks, I have to make video calls with Wu Jing and the producer every day to confirm the basic necessities of the crew and the location of the next stage of shooting.

There is also "The Walking Dead" filmed by Tian Xinye, although it is a TV series, but the difficulty of filming is not inferior to industrial films. So far, only three-quarters of the progress has been completed, and it is estimated that it will not be completed until November at least .

In addition, "Operation Red Sea" is also in the process of preparation and casting, which is mainly in charge of Guo Fan. At the same time, he is also working with a screenwriter team of DreamWorks to create the script of "The Wandering Earth".

As for Chen Jingxing himself, the shooting of "The Martian" can start immediately after the premiere of "Matrix", and he is also thinking about another script in his free time.

That is "The Ninth District". This project is actually a co-production that he deliberately promoted when DreamWorks and Universal signed a co-production agreement before the release of "Gravity".

This is also a fairly classic sci-fi work. Of course, due to the depressing nature of the work itself, this magical film may not be able to achieve high box office results, but DreamWorks has no shortage of high-grossing films. Chen Jingxing always believes that the brand of DreamWorks It is its greatest wealth. Shooting high-quality sci-fi works is itself enhancing its brand image, and it cannot be lost.

In the previous life, this work failed to get much box office in the Huaguo market, which has not yet exploded in capacity, but now DreamWorks' "Ninth District" will definitely have many actors from Huaguo, with the same theme and the same quality The box office potential of domestic films is higher than that of foreign films, which can be proved by countless precedents.

For example, in the previous life, could Hollywood's "The Wandering Earth" which filmed foreigners' faces get close to 50 billion at the domestic box office?Of course not.

In this plane, if "Gravity" is not an out-and-out domestic film, it will not get close to 34 billion box office in China.

Even if national and patriotic sentiments are thrown away, the level of subtitles in English and Chinese characters alone blocks most of the potential audience.

People who are used to watching foreign movies and dramas, and thus have the ability to watch foreign languages ​​+ Chinese subtitles fluently are actually a minority in terms of absolute numbers, and they are basically young people.

Most Chinese people actually don’t watch American dramas, Korean dramas, and Japanese dramas online, and they don’t even watch foreign movies in cinemas. The voices of these people on the Internet are invisible and ignored.

With the addition of the domestic market, the box office of "The Ninth District" will only be higher than in the previous life, and it will be much higher.

However, if "The Ninth District" is directly placed in the background of Huaguo, it will definitely not be able to pass the review, so the background can only be chosen abroad, either the original South Africa, or it can be placed in Southeast Asia.

The story background of "The Ninth District" is that alien creatures finally had their first close contact with the earth. Human beings waited anxiously for the possible invasion and attack of "alien advanced civilization", but discovered that these alien creatures had The planet where he lives has been devastated by war, and he has become the last group of survivors. They came to the earth not to invade, but to seek refuge.

So these aliens are actually "alien refugees".

After meetings of important heads of state around the world, they unanimously decided to set up a special area at the place where the alien spacecraft landed, which will become a temporary shelter for "alien refugees" and focus on the management of these "heterogeneous" in the eyes of human beings.

This is an extremely different alien story, which is quite innovative in terms of setting. Whether it is the "refugee attribute" or the degree of ugliness of the alien civilization, it is a setting that is rarely seen before.

"The Ninth District" is quite suitable for a gorgeous co-production. After all, the background of the story is an international cooperation organization, and there is no sense of contradiction with some foreign actors and characters.

Of course, this project will definitely be handed over to other directors. His work schedule for the next few years is basically full, and he has no energy to make another film like this. Tian Xinye, who is currently filming "The Walking Dead", is a suitable candidate for him.

However, there is no rush at the moment. Universal looks down on the "Matrix" he proposed to co-produce, so it does not work hard on the North American release of the first part of "Matrix". It is unknown whether it will be able to reach [-] theaters for market release.

Chen Jingxing is not short-tempered, naturally he won't put his face on other people's cold buttocks, there are many foreign film and television companies who want to cooperate with DreamWorks, and even DreamWorks' own exclusive investment and distribution is not out of the question, maybe overseas, especially in Europe and the United States There are far fewer box offices in the region, but the Huaguo film market has given him enough confidence to face even threats from Hollywood giants.

(End of this chapter)