The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 410 The reputation of "Special Mobile Team"
The sci-fi drama named "Once Upon a Time on Earth" was quietly established under the screenwriting team led by Chen Jingxing. After all, the script was not even written, but the general main line framework was set up.

"Earth's past?"

Xu Wenshen sat across the desk and listened with great interest to what Chen Jingxing explained while signing.

Chen Jingxing is going to go abroad for filming soon, and he has to take care of some things that require his signature or approval. Although he has a mobile phone, a computer, and an office system, the work cannot be handled remotely, but Chen Jingxing's principle is that he generally ignores other company affairs during filming. Work.

"Is it a movie series?" Xu Wenshen's tone was a little excited. He really has a soft spot for the series of movies, or any practitioner in this industry likes the series of movies.

Hollywood is the best example in this regard. A successful series of films can bring more profits to the company than a single film alone.

Although "Matrix" only released the first film, according to Xu Wenshen's prediction, the benefits that the "Matrix" series can bring to DreamWorks now and in the future, even movies such as "Source Code", "Gravity" and "The Martian" It doesn't even add up.

And most importantly, movie series IP is hard currency in the capital market.

In Hollywood, where the film and television industry is very mature, the price-earnings ratio of film and television companies is quite low. Even the market value and annual revenue of major Hollywood companies are in a one-to-one relationship.

Investors in the secondary market are looking at the company's future profit margins. Unless it is the special national conditions of the Huaguo film market where the entire market is rising, the future of film and television companies is too unstable. The street phenomenon is also very common in assembly line factories like Hollywood.

Movies are the seventh art, and commercialized movie projects are more or less inseparable from the logic of art. You can only use the mature movie industry to try to level its defective rate, but you can’t really turn it into an industrial product .

Even if everything from special effects to script rhythm is above the standard, whether it can get a good box office, how much box office it can get, and whether it can touch the hearts of the audience are unknowns, which cannot be completely controlled by the industrial process.

Not only are audiences fickle, but they often don't even know what their needs are.

The quality of a movie cannot be determined by a few parameters like an industrial product. This is the charm of art.

Therefore, no matter how much the media and many audiences criticize the trend of Hollywood manga reform, it will not stop the influx of funds, and it will not stop the giant companies from going their own way.

Because the risks of manga reform projects are more controllable and the profits are more stable.

In Xu Wenshen's view, the movie series is second only to the superhero universe.

Even if Chen Jingxing's "The Martian" has just achieved extraordinary success, the media of "Inception" he is filming cannot say for certain that it will achieve commercial success.

But "Matrix" is different. The media may not be able to say whether "Matrix II" will be a word-of-mouth success, but they can say that 90.00% of it will be a commercial success.

Even if "Matrix II" is a follow-up work.

Just like the newly established "Tang Detective III", apart from DreamWorks, Chen Sicheng is currently the most popular piece of cake in the film industry. Even DreamWorks' investment share in this film has been suppressed to less than 100%, because the capital [-]% believes that "Tang Detective III" will definitely make money, even if it becomes a piece of shit.

Therefore, even when "The Martian" hit the global film market in October, the market value of DreamWorks did not exceed [-] billion.

Until three days ago, Dreamworks rose 3% at the opening of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and finally crossed the threshold of a market value of [-] billion, becoming the film and television stock with the highest market value in Huaguo.

What is the opportunity?

Known as a masterpiece by anime fans, it became more and more out of the circle after the end. It was amwayed by many public figures, and it also set off a big momentum overseas. Mecha special effects blockbuster.

Even the project team was not formed, it was just the wind that Wang Peng, the vice president of DreamWorks, participated in the "China, Japan and South Korea Film Industry Exchange Conference" held in Magic City in front of the media.

The next day when the Hong Kong stock market opened, DreamWorks shares soared, closing over [-] billion.

It can be seen that the movie IP series is the imagination space that capital can understand.

Seeing this, Xu Wenshen, who originally disapproved of DreamWorks investing huge sums of money in the development of animated films, has gradually changed his attitude since this year, even though the profits from animated series and animated films are still not considered by him. in the eyes.

"It's just that the name is not a big gimmick, not explosive enough, and a bit tame." Xu Wenshen was pleasantly surprised at first, and then frowned. He was not satisfied with the name.

"Once Upon a Time on Earth"?As soon as he heard the name, he thought of realistic works such as "Once Upon a Time in Huaguo" and "Once Upon a Time in America". , not like the name of a science fiction work.

Names like "Source Code" and "Matrix" have a more sci-fi texture and sound cooler.

Chen Jingxing carefully read an investment plan and signed the chairman's name. DreamWorks currently has a lot of cash in hand, so naturally it can't be idle. The current stock is running at a high level, and it is not worthwhile to buy back stock. It is better to follow the industry The upstream and downstream of the chain consolidate their foundation.

After signing, Chen Jingxing closed the document, turned his pen and leaned back on the seat and said, "It's not a movie series."

"Not a series?"

"It's the universe!"

Xu Wenshen raised his eyebrows and thought for a while, then asked, "Is it similar to "The Wandering Earth"?"

"Hmm... maybe about the same." Chen Jingxing was not easy to describe, "The Three-Body Problem" was quite different from "The Wandering Earth".

"The Wandering Earth" is closer to a world view, and you can paint freely on such a world view.

"Three-Body Problem" not only has a more complex and broader world view, but also has a richer story.

"In short, in my plan, it should be a grand story and worldview that includes multiple episodes and movies."

A sci-fi concept like "The Three-Body Problem" is not only dense and grand, but also covers all aspects of human society from individuals to groups. string down.

Movies alone cannot tell this story.

Therefore, TV dramas and even animations are needed to pave the way for many of them, while movies should try their best to focus on a small plot, and use fast rhythm and big scenes to shoot the climax of the plot.

Therefore, Chen Jingxing thinks it is not an exaggeration to position it as a "movie universe".

Chen Jingxing's bold words made Xu Wenshen excited, and at the same time let go of his dissatisfaction with the name.

It's not that Chen Jingxing doesn't want to use the Three-Body Problem directly as the name, but in the initial planning and conception with the screenwriter team, the first drama and the first movie revolve around the revelation of the Three-Body Problem, and you both use the Three-Body Problem as the title of the play and the movie Well, what else is there to reveal?

What suspense and excitement is there in the three-body game?
In the movie, the three conditions of the hero, companion, and Ye Wenjie are intertwined, and synchronous advancement will lose the excitement.

Novels and videos are different. Videos need more suspense than novels, especially since he has to adopt Nolan's narrative style.

Chen Jingxing will not underestimate the IQ of the audience, the name is Three-Body, and after watching the plot for a while, the audience can easily guess that the aliens must come from the second and third South Gate star system closest to the earth.

"Once Upon a Time on Earth" does not appear to be sci-fi enough, but there is another epic and heavy weight, which makes this story more thick.

And what he really talked about was not about a certain person, but about human civilization and how the earth is going to end.

Xu Wenshen didn't have much doubt about the project that Chen Jingxing and the screenwriter worked out. The longer he worked in DreamWorks, the more he believed in the talent and creativity of the big boss.

Although "The Wandering Earth" has not yet started filming, and the so-called "Once Upon a Time on Earth" has only one character and does not even have a script, Xu Wenshen naturally believed in Chen Jingxing's big cake.

"The Wandering Earth", "Once Upon a Time on Earth", the zombie movie that will be co-operated with Universal, and the mecha movie series of "Skyhawk Warrior", at least Dreamworks has a pillar for its development in the next few years, and other film companies are afraid. To die of envy.

And the animated series "Special Mobile Team", which has recently sparked a topic on the Internet, also has great potential to expand into a movie IP.

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"...the fine mechanical structure, advanced special effects, plump and uniquely charming characters, intricate and closely linked plots, all of which are of extremely high level from the plot, the depth of thought to the picture and production, all these together make up this film. A wonderfully deafening animation masterpiece.

DreamWorks has once again created an amazing fantasy world this time:

Well-developed productivity, clear social division of labor, and infinitely broad network make the power of individuals falsely magnified.

A top-level hacker can wantonly alter memories to fabricate lies, erode reality with the power of personal technology to change part of reality, just like a god.

Individual existence becomes less unique and is replaced by silent ones without any effect.Reproduction and upbringing can be completely replaced by technology. Maintaining traditional human relationships seems to be only because of tradition. I feel confused about the existence of myself. How can I fully identify with the existence of others, and then generate my own sense of security from others?

In many sci-fi works, human beings are always human beings, at most they are enhanced versions of human beings, but in "Special Mobile Team", the body can be mechanical, the vision can be invaded, the memory can be tampered with and transformed, and even the so-called soul , It can also be stuffed into a doll to become a toy.

It deeply confirms the prophecy that technology has changed human beings.

...Values ​​are the sum of your understanding of the world, so if you live in the future world of "Mobile Team", where your body is immortal and human and machine are difficult to distinguish, what will your three views be?
The chilling thing is that "Special Mobile" may not be just an allegory, or that what he alleges may be the present.

The development of technology and the Internet has brought us closer to this kind of life experience. In the words of education experts, we have a sense of virtuality in our daily life and a sense of reality in the online world.

... "Special Mobile Team" is a typical Chen's sci-fi work. He inherited the core value and questioning of director Chen Jingxing's sci-fi works, namely:

What has technology brought to mankind?
What kind of future is human beings pursuing? "

Fu Sheng, the boss of Beijing Film Studio, slapped the newspaper on the table: "Guangming Daily has no more articles to write? Has it reached the point where even cartoons are lavishly placed on the front page of cultural reviews?"

(End of this chapter)