The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 452 The new summer vacation and the appearance of a dark horse
The film "I'm Not the God of Medicine" was originally what Ning Hao wanted to make, but Ning Hao has been thinking about his own movie script for the past two years, so he has been delaying it.

Until he signed the new director Wen Muye.

Wen Muye had never made a feature film before, and the few short films were all very realistic themes, which made Ning Hao think that maybe he would be suitable for this theme.

Later Ning Hao found Xu Zheng, and then Ning Hao left and Xu Zheng entered.

Ning Hao focuses on the early stage, providing advice on the script, film positioning, actor selection, etc., while Xu Zheng provides assistance in the shooting and marketing stages.

This film was finished at the end of last year. It is not a secret in the industry. Although Ning Hao and Xu Zheng have great appeal, the director is a novice after all, the investment is not large, and the production cost is less than 5000 million, so it is not a big deal. An attention-grabbing film.

But Chen Jingxing actually noticed and even cared about such a movie. Although "The God of Medicine" is going to be released in summer, but there are too many low-budget movies like summer, how can Director Chen care about it?

Chen Jingxing's movie this summer is "Matrix II". It can't be said that domestic movie fans have been waiting for a long time, but it is a blockbuster movie that audiences and media all over the world are looking forward to.

Although it has been nearly two years since the first film of "Matrix", the two years not only did not let the reputation of "Matrix" fade away, but even accumulated and fermented a larger group of fans, attracting more people's attention.

After all, DreamWorks' distribution capacity is still limited. 8 million of the 4.6 million US dollars box office of "Matrix" was contributed by China, so there are still many people abroad who have not seen this movie in theaters.

Quite a number of overseas viewers saw "The Matrix" on DVD after "The Matrix" was released. After nearly two years of active publicity by movie fans on the Internet, the reputation of the sci-fi masterpiece has not diminished but increased.

This also brought the popularity of "Matrix II" to its peak. In addition, Universal Pictures has tasted a lot of sweetness in "District [-]" and also has an investment share in "Matrix II", so it is also doing its best to promote it.

How could such a blockbuster movie, which will be released simultaneously in [-] countries including China and the United States, put other domestic movies in the summer file in the eyes?
Let alone a small-to-medium-budget movie from Bad Monkey Pictures?
"I have heard the prototype story of this script. If this story is adapted into a film, as long as the screenwriter has a certain level, it is not difficult to write a very dramatic work, let alone Brother Zheng and you jointly promote it. This proves that The script is certainly not bad.

I think such a movie has the potential to become a dark horse at the box office. "

Chen Jingxing gave his thoughts from the standpoint of a screenwriter.

"The God of Medicine" is a movie that Ning Hao has wanted to make for a long time, and the script has been deleted and revised several times, but Chen Jingxing has no intention of cutting it.

However, these words made Ning Hao and Xu Zheng look at each other, in addition to being surprised, there was also a little bit of strange peace of mind.

Although Ning Hao said that he would be proud to participate in this film, in fact, he, Xu Zheng, and director Wen Muye did not have much confidence in this film.

This movie was originally called "Medicine You Smile", and later changed its name to "Life Like Summer Flowers". Obviously, it was going to follow the comedy marketing route, and wanted the audience to mistake it for a comedy and fall into the trap. It was renamed "I'm Not the God of Medicine" again.

And the name "I'm Not the God of Medicine" is obviously intended to take the comedy marketing route to "deceive the audience" to buy tickets.

This can't be helped, the hottest themes are either science fiction or military blockbusters, or comedies.

"The God of Medicine" is definitely not a blockbuster with visual effects. If you want to have a high box office, you don't have to sell romance, you have to sell comedy. It has to take the lead.

And this summer file is highly competitive, not only "Matrix II", but also a Hollywood superhero blockbuster "Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox", which tells the story of The Flash being used by his old enemy Reverse Lightning, in order to save his own The mother traveled across time and space and changed history, but in the end it triggered the butterfly effect and triggered the story of the Third World War.

After the Film Bureau began to open the summer file for blockbuster films last year, and after "Spike II" made a miracle, this year it continued to be confident and chose to open the summer file again this year. pride.

This can be regarded as Chen Jingxing's butterfly effect, but it has suffered for other domestic film companies.

In addition to "Matrix" and "Zhenglian", other domestic companies have naturally prepared various types of movies to challenge, including special effects movies, and comedy movies will not be absent.

Under such fierce competition for the summer archives, Ning Hao was hesitant about the finalization of "The God of Medicine", and even wanted to continue to delay it. It was not until August 8 that the internal decision was made a few days ago. After more than half a month, and "Zhenglian" is a week away, it is obvious that Ning Hao is still more afraid of "Matrix II".

Although Chen Jingxing is a director, he is also a recognized screenwriter master, belonging to the "top singer-songwriter" in the director's circle.

On the one hand, his judgment and speculation on "The God of Medicine" once again showed the "monster"'s sensitivity to the story, and he can see at a glance the strong dramatic tension contained in the experience of the prototype characters in "The God of Medicine".

On the other hand, the speculation from this "monster" that "The God of Medicine" might become a "dark box office" really boosted Ning Hao's confidence a lot.

Ning Hao has no doubts about the quality of the script and the movie, otherwise he would not have said: "I will be proud to participate in this movie", but a good movie is not necessarily positively related to a high box office.

Although the domestic high-grossing movies in recent years are usually well-received, if you look closely, most of them are science fiction or war blockbusters, and then comedies.

"The God of Medicine" doesn't stick to both sides. In the past few years, there have been good story movies that are not comedies and special effects blockbusters in China, but there is obviously a gap between box office and word of mouth.

Ning Hao is confident that "The God of Medicine" will recover the cost, but his expectation is far beyond that, otherwise he will not insist on releasing it in the summer, and he gritted his teeth and took out 6000 million yuan for publicity, and the publicity cost is high on production costs.

There are quite a few people cheering for his decision, so it depends on who said it, right?
It has to be said that whether Chen Jingxing's words were a compliment or from the heart, they were indeed very effective in calming his anxiety.

Seeing that Ning Hao and Xu Zheng looked at ease, it seemed that Chen Jingxing's comments were indeed convincing and could reduce anxiety. Chen Sicheng also began to "pray to gods and worship Buddha".

He also invested in a movie, and the script has already come out, which is adapted from a movie in Tianzhu, called "Manslaughter and Concealing the Sky".

Chen Jingxing also gave a high commercial evaluation after listening to the plot.

"Over a billion?"

Regardless of whether it was Chen Jingxing's comfort from his old classmates, Chen Sicheng still took this wave of placebos, and the effect was quite good.

The ceiling of domestic suspense movies is still very obvious. Chen Jingxing's "Fatal Identity" broke the box office record of suspense genre films when it got 4.5 million box office. It was enough to satisfy Chen Sicheng.

The first part of "Tang Detective" only had a box office of 10 billion, and it was still a comedy.

Chen Sicheng still quite believed in Chen Jingxing's vision, after all, Dreamworks had never made a movie.

Chen Jingxing is not flattering, the script of "Manslaughter" sounds like a masterpiece of suspense movies, this kind of movie script is the most important, otherwise Tianzhu would not have remade six versions in a few years.

This "Manslaughter" in Chen Sicheng's hands is already the seventh remake of this story, and it will definitely be remade by other countries in the future, so it can be seen that gold cannot be hidden at all.

It can also be seen that the entire world film industry is quite hungry for good stories.

So after a round of communication, Chen Jingxing's kind comments were still exchanged for "siege".

"When will your "Inception" be released? Give us a way out."

"That's right, it's from "The Wandering Earth" and "Once Upon a Time on Earth". I've been so mysterious all day long, so what's the big move?"

It is precisely because a good script and a good story are so rare that it takes several years to delete, delete, modify, and remake a story that has been remade countless times, so Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks are particularly impressive. dislike; despise.

All kinds of stories and scripts that are whimsical and imaginative emerge in endlessly, and even rich in TV dramas, Internet universities, and animations.

Among other things, the five stories of "Black Mirror II", especially the last "Prometheus", are so good that they are willing to go online in the form of online streaming.

Even so, he earned a lot of money, but it still made people jealous and greedy.

The heavens treated Chen Jingxing too kindly.

It's just that although everyone has a good relationship, Dreamworks is now cooperating with China Film or Universal. Even Bad Monkey, Huanxi Media, or Chen Sicheng's Chengya Films can't reach it, so it makes people jealous up.

In the end, under the cover of Guo Fan, Tian Xinye and others, Chen Jingxing had no choice but to flee in embarrassment after promising to write scripts for everyone when he had time in the future.

(End of this chapter)