The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 449 Science fiction has already begun to involve quantum physics?
DreamWorks.

Wen Zhian walked out of the chairman's office in a daze.

"Master Wen... Director Wen?"

"Ah, Assistant Zeng."

Wen Zhian came back to his senses and looked at Zeng Shunyang, the assistant to the chairman of DreamWorks, who was chasing after him. He was about 30 years old and wearing glasses, looking very refined.

"Chen Dong will attend the Shanghai Metropolis Film Festival the day after tomorrow, so the script discussion meeting has to be changed to the 26th. One more thing, "Once Upon a Time on Earth" has been approved, and the chief producer is Liu Wenfang. The post-production of the second season should come back tomorrow, and then you can meet with Sister Wen Fang and talk about the formation of the crew."

"Okay, okay, Sister Wenfang and I met when we were filming "Black Mirror"..."

The two walked to the elevator door while chatting.

"Assistant Zeng, there's no need to send it, you can return."

In the mutual politeness between the two, Zeng Shunyang watched Wen Zhian get on the elevator and closed the elevator door.

"Brother Zeng, I heard... What kind of project did the director take on?"

Usually, those who can get such a polite gift from the big boss' assistant are big directors like Guo Fan and Tian Xinye. Even popular first-line actors like Lei Jiayin and Luo Chen don't get this kind of treatment.

In addition, Wen Zhian stayed in Chen Jingxing's office for several hours, which made people curious.

"Once Upon a Time on Earth"

Zeng Shunyang smiled, and only uttered four words, which made the other party suddenly realize, and then he was amazed.

"Chen Dong's courage is really amazing."

"Once Upon a Time on Earth" is said to be a big project that Chen Jingxing personally followed up. It is said that it will be made into a series of IP like "The Wandering Earth" that Director Guo Fan is currently producing, but it is said that the first stage started with a TV series.

Chen Jingxing also revealed this project to the outside world when he was interviewed before, and the media and netizens also had a lot of speculation and discussions about it.

Moreover, ten days ago, the company's OA preparatory project added a TV series called "Once Upon a Time on Earth". What caught people's attention was that Chen Jingxing himself acted as the producer, but the other actors and directors were not confirmed.

The company has also guessed who will direct this project. Among the contracted directors, Guo Fan and Wu Jing are both filming. Tian Xinye, who has been the most beautiful recently, has already decided to be in charge of the filmization of "Sky Eagle Warrior", but Ning Weiqiang is strong. After filming the second season of "Suspect Tracker", the schedule will be free, other than that, I will be looking for an outside director.

But not many people would have imagined that this project would fall to the fledgling Wen Zhian.

At the beginning of last year, he was selected by Chen Jingxing from "The Birth of a Director" to direct the last episode of "Black Mirror II" "Prometheus". Rising up, it was a fight with Tian Xinye back then.

By the way, the first project that Tian Xinye joined DreamWorks was an adaptation of Chen Jingxing's "Signal" TV series of the same name, and Chen Jingxing was also the producer at that time.

Now I know why Assistant Zeng's attitude is so polite, maybe this is the second Tian Xinye.

In the underground parking lot, Wen Zhian was sitting in the car. The initial excitement and surprise had gradually faded away, replaced by a heavy sense of responsibility, deep gratitude for being valued, and the absurdity of impermanence.

He is only 27 years old this year. At this age, he is alone. To be a director of a serious film and television project can be said to be too young. Of course, he cannot be compared with such a monster like Chen Jingxing.

This year has been like a dream for him.

No, crazier than dreaming.

At that time, participating in "The Birth of a Director" did not expect to win an award or be selected by Chen Jingxing to win the opportunity to direct "Black Mirror II".

In fact, he, like many others, thinks it might just be a gimmick.

Run a directing competition program, and then select five people from it to directly direct the sequel of "Black Mirror", which is known as a sci-fi drama?Or a film-level production mode?

This is so nonsensical. Even if the investment in "Black Mirror II" is not large, it is a project worth tens of millions. How can it be treated like a joke?
Maybe it's just to give a director the name, do a scene, hello, me, everyone, and it's over. After all, even having a name is good for the director himself. In the entertainment industry, it doesn't matter whether it is in front of the stage or behind the scenes, fame is profit.

Moreover, Wen Zhian didn't think so far at the time, and even felt a bit broken. He regarded the variety show "Director" as his last fight for his ideals. If he can't make a name for himself this time, then He just listened to his parents and, like his classmates at Beijing Film Academy, changed careers and gave up his dream of being a director.

I didn't expect to be able to meet Bole's appreciation, and I was actually in charge of filming one of the stories of "Black Mirror II", which was the last episode of the story.

Of course, the production cost is indeed very low. There are only four actors in "Prometheus". The camera shot out.

DreamWorks has a very mature professional team, including motion capture special effects for female robots, and has a professional process, so he doesn't need to worry too much.

This experience is smoother, more professional, easier and more fulfilling than the shooting process he experienced in the previous company and crew.

With a script that is excellent in itself, you don’t need to rack your brains to delete or modify it. You only need to do your job well to get good results.

After the popular broadcast of "Black Mirror II" sparked discussions at home and abroad, he already felt a little dreamy. The "Prometheus" he directed was praised by many viewers as the most exciting episode of "Black Mirror II".

After that, he joined the crew of "Inception" as an assistant director, and experienced the shooting of heavy industry blockbusters.

Even though he had imagined that one day he would be in charge of a TV series or movie on his own, he didn't expect this day to come so soon.

And it is not an ordinary project, it is a project supervised by Chen Jingxing, and it is the birth of a big sci-fi IP. According to his understanding, it is probably similar to "The Walking Dead", creating a magnificent world view.

Thinking of this, Wen Zhian didn't start the car anymore, but turned on the headlights, took out the script and couldn't wait to read it.

Although he didn't do well in the former company's crew, so he didn't have much savings, but DreamWorks would give out red envelopes to outstanding film and television drama projects.

The effective broadcast volume of "Black Mirror II" on Huanshi.com has exceeded 6000 million, and the average episode has exceeded 4 million. Top five.

The five movies of "Black Mirror II" have a total of more than 2.9 million views on Netflix, and the average broadcast volume of episodes exceeds 5800 million. "Black Mirror II" is also played in the form of movies on Netflix, which is considered to be five. A collection of movies, all five episodes were among the top ten original movies watched online on Netflix in 2018.

Such excellent data also allowed DreamWorks to generously distribute a red envelope. As the director of "Black Mirror II: Prometheus", Wen Zhian received more than 200 million yuan in salary plus red envelopes. Although he still couldn't afford a house in the capital, But the car is still fine.

In fact, this has completely exceeded his expectations. His director's remuneration is only 30 in the agreement. As a fledgling rookie, he can see the top domestic film industry production process, and fame as a reward. Many people pay for this opportunity. Everyone is willing to experience it.

"Ball lightning?"

"Hong Electronics?"

"What is an excited state?"

"Elementary particles are curved spaces on the microscopic scale?"

"Macro proton?"

"Quantum effects?"

"What is an observer?"

"What is a wave function? What is a collapse?"

"Macro Fusion..."

The script was not thick, and Wen Zhian's reading speed was already very fast, and he did not read carefully. The time passed very quickly, and soon his expression changed from excitement and complacency to confusion and astonishment.

The first script discussion will be held the day after tomorrow. As the producer, Chen Jingxing, the screenwriter team, the producer, and the director Wen Zhian will have a direct dialogue on the script.

The director, producer and producer need to obtain a unified understanding of the play, including what kind of tone and style, and they must reach a consensus before forming a crew.

Therefore, Wen Zhian had to read the script well in these two days and form his own shooting opinions.

But soon the amount of information in the script exceeded Wen Zhian’s expectations. He is a standard liberal arts student and an art student. Many sci-fi concepts of DreamWorks, such as time and space, time reversing, or artificial intelligence It's science fiction, but it's actually not difficult to understand.

Even if it is a hard core such as "The Martian", some special terms may seem unclear, but their functions are not difficult to understand.

Wen Zhian himself is not a sci-fi fan. Even though he has learned more about sci-fi over the past year, it is limited to dreams, intelligent robots and the like. He has no experience in physics.

He has heard of ball lightning, and he also knows about electrons and protons. Adding a macro in front means bigger electrons and protons.

But what quantum effect, uncertainty principle, wave function, what collapse, what will happen if you observe, what will happen if you don’t observe, what are these things? !

It's serious, but mysterious.

Why did even the ghosts come out in the end?

How is ball lightning connected to these things?

Could these concepts be fabricated by Chen Jingxing himself? The nonsense makes people dizzy, even more dizzy than "The Night the Comet Came".

The key is the quantum decoherence in "Comet", whether you can understand it or not, it doesn't affect your understanding of the plot. You don't need to understand the process and principles, you just know it's about parallel universes and that's it.

But he can't understand these concepts in "Once Upon a Time on Earth". These concepts are even closely related to the plot, and he is the director. If he doesn't understand these concepts, can he make the drama?
Wen Zhian dubiously searched the Internet for wave functions, observers, quantum effects, and then the mouth grew bigger and bigger.

Good guy, science fiction has already begun to roll into quantum physics?
It's too hardcore.

This is too unfriendly to him, a liberal arts student.

In the script discussion the day after tomorrow, Director Chen will not want to test his own concepts, right?

Originally, he thought that two days would be more than enough time, but now Wen Zhian felt a strong sense of urgency, just like the urgency he felt when he was in college and there were only two weekends before the final exam.

(End of this chapter)