The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 376 Paying You a Leading Role
As a key film project of DreamWorks, "Edge of Tomorrow" did not live up to the expectations of the company's internal and external parties. Wuyi gear fought hand-to-hand with its competitors, and the winner was quickly determined, taking the top spot and suppressing it. All challengers.

Dreamworks has dominated May [-]st since the release of "Source Code" two years ago.

In a film market with strong schedules like Huaguo, every important schedule is a battle for every inch of land.

It doesn't exist that because your DreamWorks movie is in this schedule, other film studios will give in or avoid you. Huaguo has only four major schedules. If you avoid DreamWorks in each schedule, what kind of movie will you make?What money do you earn?

Therefore, it is destined that there will be a steady stream of challengers who will challenge DreamWorks and want to snatch the cake from the elite soldiers it sent.

Before the coming of the May [-]st, the recognized most powerful challenger is not the domestic film, but the Hollywood blockbuster-"Misty World".

Chen Jingxing opened the North American market with sci-fi movies, which made many Hollywood media start to reflect, and even criticized the crime of the two giants for "the great promotion of comics and squeezed a large amount of funds to invest in other types of movies, especially original movies".

As the object of criticism, Warner is not indifferent. A year ago, he approved a sci-fi movie with an original script.

It is about a high school student who went to another wonderful world in his dream, and even found that the characters in that world had a one-to-one correspondence with some people he knew in the real world.

Afterwards, the protagonist went through a series of adventures, and found that the big boss of that world was another consciousness of himself, and that evil consciousness wanted to kill the noumenon consciousness in this wonderful fantasy world, so as to replace it in the real world.

The story is very interesting, and it can be called the fantasy version and special effects blockbuster version of "Fatal Identity".

It's just that the setting is not rigorous enough, the adventure plot is a bit clichéd, and there is a feeling of forcibly blending "Alice in Wonderland" with a high-concept.

If it is just regarded as a special effects adventure blockbuster, it is not without its merits. However, with the background of "Edge of Tomorrow", the mediocre setting and plot of "Misty World" seem a bit prominent.

After all, "Edge of Tomorrow" perfectly integrates the high concept of time reset and fighting against alien monsters, and plays a novel trick on the vulgar plot. The viewing and entertainment are more than "Source Code" two years ago. .

Therefore, "The Lost World", which was able to compete with "Edge of Tomorrow" on the premiere day, was widened on May [-]st.

"Edge of Tomorrow" followed the 1.1 million on the premiere day, and announced the official start of the rule of the May Day schedule with a box office of 1.8 million on the second day.

While netizens and movie fans were arguing about the time reset of "Edge of Tomorrow", Chen Jingxing went to the set of a project of DreamWorks to visit the filming situation.

In a postmodern sci-fi building built in a national forest park.

"Director Chen!"

"Hello Director Chen!"

"Director Chen is here?"

Chen Jingxing greeted the director and the actors with a smile, and chatted with the director Wen Zhian, Luo Chen and other actors standing beside him under some cautious gazes.

"How was it? Did the filming go well?"

Under Chen Jingxing's gaze, Wen Zhian seemed to have lost the shyness he had when he participated in the "Actor" program at this time, his eyes did not dodge in any way, and his words were sonorous and forceful without trembling: "I was a little flustered at the beginning, but it will be much better if the filming goes smoothly later on." Alright, I'm in a rush for work these days."

"There's no need to rush the construction period." Chen Jingxing waved his hand: "Just shoot according to the rhythm you like and can adapt to. I have been delaying the construction period for the past two years. You all completed it on time, but it seems that I am lagging behind .”

This joke made the atmosphere much lighter.

Wen Zhian is one of the five directors handpicked by Chen Jingxing in "The Birth of a Director", and is in charge of filming an episode of "Black Mirror II".

The filming of this episode in charge of Wen Zhian is relatively difficult. The story tells the story that the founder of a technology company invites the male protagonist, a talented programmer from his company, to a secret research base of the company to learn about the latest production of the company. A robot in the world conducts a Turing test to determine how far its artificial intelligence has reached.

During the test, the male protagonist developed empathy and even love for the robot, and tried to help the robot escape, and then the robot killed her creator and the male protagonist together, and escaped from the scientific research base.

Generally speaking, Chen Jingxing made some changes to the general story of the low-budget sci-fi movie "Ex Machina" in the plane of Chen Jingxing's previous life.

Although the number of actors is very small, the difficulty of filming is the most difficult among the five stories of "Black Mirror II".

It is precisely because there are few actors, few lines, and a simple script that it is even more necessary for the director to use lens language to express the absurdity, treachery, mechanical beauty, classical beauty, and strong sense of technology of this story.

Props, industrial design, and special effects don’t need to worry about the director. Today, DreamWorks is the most industrialized film company in China, and it started with science fiction films, so its professionalism is guaranteed.

But the storyboard and light and shadow are things that are not in the script, and they are also the soul of a movie.

What kind of temperament a sci-fi movie can finally show depends on the director.

It is also controversial within the company that Chen Jingxing throws such a tough nut to crack to a new director, and it is also very risky.

Fortunately, this can only be regarded as an online movie, and the production cost is only 2000 million yuan—mainly because the construction of this sci-fi scientific research base hidden in the forest is expensive, and this risk is not great for DreamWorks.

However, in Chen Jingxing's view, it was worth it. The reason why Wen Zhi'an caught his eye was because the mirroring of the short film he shot had a strange calm tension, and even revealed a sense of suffocation.

This is more vividly reflected in his competition short films. With a professional camera and film, he is very good at using a telephoto lens to blur the perspective relationship, so that the elements of the picture are highly abstract and symbolized, so even if it is a commonplace The scenery is also full of strangeness.

Moreover, there is a calmness of sexual indifference everywhere, but the calmness gives people a strong tension and oppression.

When he used this unique lens language to photograph the life in the city, it would give people a serious sense of alienation, which is why Wen Zhian's competition works were not liked by the audience or other judges at that time.

But Chen Jingxing took a fancy to Wen Zhian at a glance. This is a director who is as good at using the camera to narrate as Tian Xinye, if he uses it properly.

He is a seedling who is naturally suitable for sci-fi movies, a seed judged by Chen Jingxing as "the future is promising".

But Chen Jingxing never told anyone how much he valued Wen Zhian, even Wen Zhian himself didn't know that the big boss had such high expectations of him.

After nearly a month of filming, Wen Zhian's changes were somewhat beyond Chen Jingxing's expectations. It seemed that after managing so many people on the crew for such a long time, the youthfulness in the show had basically faded away. The youthful face calls the shots without any trace of stage fright.

Chen Jingxing is still very satisfied with this, it seems that sometimes it just has to be spoiled.

Wen Zhian and Chen Jingxing were about the same age, and Chen Jingxing didn't have any prejudice against young people. Experienced things can be accumulated and tempered slowly, and aesthetic talent can't be cultivated casually.

Chen Jingxing chatted with Wen Zhian and several newcomers, and gradually everyone's topic became more interesting.

"No one is playing big cards."

As soon as Chen Jingxing said this, the two newcomers who played the male lead and "Machina Ji" from the central opera were shocked and a little uneasy.

Good guy, did someone sue Director Chen?
The problem is that I have been conscientious and conscientious since filming. After all, such a rare opportunity, as a student of the Film and Television Academy, who would dare to neglect, who would dare not be serious?
Wen Zhian was also a little surprised, and just as he was about to answer, Luo Chen said angrily: "Director Chen, don't accuse Sang Huai so much, I'm going to complain, others don't know how I film, don't you?"

When everyone heard this, they felt relieved. It turned out that Director Chen was teasing Luo Chen.

In the past few days, there have been some rumors on the Internet that Luo Chen was exposed to be a big name in filming, and even the crew of "Kyushu Sky City" swore to reveal Luo Chen's evil deeds.

As a first-line star, this kind of negative news naturally caused a lot of trouble.

However, after getting in touch with Wen Zhi'an and others for so long, Luo Chen is really a big star who is easy to get along with, and the problem they were worried about at the beginning did not appear.

Luo Chen is the second male lead in the episode "Black Mirror II", playing the role of the founder of a technology company and the creator of "Ex Machina".

Originally, this was an impossible thing to happen. With the specifications of an online movie like "Black Mirror", it is impossible to invite a first-line star like Luo Chen, and he is still the second male lead.

In fact, it was Luo Chen himself who recommended himself, and the actor had already been decided at that time, and he was willing to play the role with zero pay, so DreamWorks naturally had no reason to refuse.

Chen Jingxing's words were of course joking, he really didn't know whether it was true or not that Luo Chen played big names in other movies, but he knew that Luo Chen was quite dedicated in his movies.

Whether it was "Fatal Identity" or "Signal", Luo Chen had never put on airs in the crew.

Of course, it might just be that he didn't dare to put on airs in front of him. During "Fatal Identity", Luo Chen was also at a low ebb in his career, but when it came to "Signal", he seemed to devote himself wholeheartedly. After all, "Fatal Identity" was considered a help. Works in which Luo Chen stepped out of a trough and even took a big step upward.

Chen Jingxing was even regarded by Luo Chen as his bole, even though in Chen Jingxing's view, the first cooperation between him and Luo Chen was considered to be mutual use, and at that time he only had an online movie result, and he was able to invite Luo Chen, a first-generation traffic niche. It is very fragrant.

Thinking of this, Chen Jingxing seemed to have made a decision in his heart, and said to Luo Chen who had a misunderstood expression of injustice: "Stop pretending, I know you're not someone who plays big names, just make fun of it, so I'll pay you back How is the hero?"

"what?"

Wen Zhi'an coughed twice in shock, and the other actors couldn't help looking at Luo Chen in surprise and envy.

Luo Chen still had an unresponsive expression.

(End of this chapter)