The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 462 The Big Scene of "Matrix III" and the Female Version of Zhang Beihai

On August 8, the "comedy" movie "The God of Medicine" produced by Ning Hao and starring Xu Zheng was released-at least in the announcement, comedy is an important marketing label.

This movie, which had an extraordinary reputation in the screening, became a new star in the film market immediately after its large-scale release.

From 34% to 58% within two days.

The box office also doubled from 1.6 million, 2.8 million, and 3.5 million. In just three days of the first weekend, it got 7.9 million box office.

The movie-watching frenzy of "Matrix II" has begun to subside, and the blockbuster "Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox" has not yet been released. I originally thought it would be the intermission of the summer war.

Unexpectedly, a mid-to-low-cost domestic film unexpectedly became the second box office bomb.

Although some people were deceived into the movie theater by "comedy" marketing, they did not feel angry because of being deceived, but began to praise and Amway passionately.

It can be seen that the most important thing about a movie is an excellent storyline. The quality of the movie is good, and no audience will care whether the movie is not right.

The sudden emergence of "The God of Medicine" hurts the most is "Flashpoint Paradox", which is only a week later than "The God of Medicine". dollars.

However, in the Chinese market, the release date in North America, which was thought to be a safe distance away from "Matrix II", is facing a head-on challenge from a local dark horse. .

In addition to "Flashpoint Paradox", the second biggest victim is "Matrix II". After all, "Matrix II" gave up its share in the crazy improvement of "The God of Medicine".

This also caused the ticketing platforms to drop the box office of "Matrix II" from 38 billion to 34 billion, which is comparable to that of "Gravity".

However, at this time, the global box office of "Black Mirror II" has reached 11 billion US dollars, and grand celebration parties have been held in Los Angeles and Beijing respectively. The shrinking domestic box office has not affected DreamWorks' top-to-bottom good mood.

However, although the popularity of "Matrix II" has decreased and was covered by "The God of Medicine", the opening ceremony of "Matrix III" still attracted the attention of many media.

Although "Matrix II" has been considered an extremely action-intensive special effects blockbuster, it is still slightly inferior to "Matrix III".

In the previous world, the second and third parts of the original "Matrix" were limited to investment and technology at the time, and it was actually cramped to show some big scenes.

On the other hand, it is not short of money and as a movie owned by DreamWorks, the budget is naturally full. The production cost of nearly 7 million is the second most invested movie by DreamWorks so far, second only to "Gravity".

The reason why the production cost is 60% higher than that of "Matrix II" is that the actors' remuneration has been greatly increased. Mo's employees' wages have risen sharply this year, so the labor cost has soared, and "Matrix III" is more important. The workload of scenes and special effects is even greater.

In "Matrix III", the number of large-scale action scenes is less than that of "Matrix II", only two, but the difficulty is more than that of "Matrix II".

The first one is the defense of Huaxu Kingdom throughout the film.

In the defense of Huaxu Kingdom, there will be many new weapons, amazing battle scenes, and even mechs.

Just the defense of Huaxu Kingdom itself is equivalent to a heavy industry movie, which requires a lot of cg, as well as enough industrial design and models.

However, DreamWorks has accumulated a lot of experience in "Edge of Tomorrow", "The Martian" and the military action trilogy. Except for the outsourcing work assigned to other domestic special effects companies, the core special effects production has no major problems.

Another action scene is the battle between the hero and the man in black on Tianwang Mountain.

This fight in the matrix went from the city to outer space, and from outer space to the moon.

The workload of cgi special effects is very amazing.

The sci-fi battle scene in reality and the superman action scene in the matrix, two different styles and types of action scenes will elevate the "Matrix" series to the peak of the series in terms of audio-visual spectacle expressiveness, and draw a complete end at the same time.

However, after the opening ceremony, Chen Jingxing was unable to fully devote himself to the filming of the final chapter of "The Matrix", and he still needed to keep an eye on the preparations for the drama "Once Upon a Time on Earth".

After the casting of the "Sky Eagle Warrior" project in charge of Tian Xinye has basically been settled, the main roles of "Once Upon a Time on Earth: Prelude" are also basically determined.

"Everyone sit down." Chen Jingxing greeted the confirmed protagonists of "Once Upon a Time on Earth".

"You should have read the script at least once before, right? It's really tight to give you the time to study the script yourself, but it doesn't matter, we have plenty of preparation time, and the script reading is to help everyone sort out and even recreate the script process."

Chen Jingxing gave up the chair of the conference table to the director Wen Zhian.

"Director Chen, you're underestimating me. I've read it N times, but there are a lot of rough concepts in the script. I checked it online before, but there are still some doubts."

After all, Wan Qian had already cooperated with DreamWorks more than once, and had also filmed Chen Jingxing's movie, so although it was the first time for the leading actors to get together to read the script, there was no sense of awkwardness.

In contrast, Zhu Yilong, the leading actor, was a little nervous.

The casting of "Sky Eagle Warrior" was handed over to Tian Xinye, and Chen Jingxing did not interfere in any way. After all, he just won the Palme d'Or, and he can be regarded as a rising international director. This year's Golden Rooster Award for Best Director is also a big popular.

Although "Skyhawk Warrior" still poses certain challenges to Tian Xinye as a blockbuster of heavy industrial mechs, in Chen Jingxing's eyes, he is already a mature business leader similar to Guo Fan who does not need to follow up and interfere.

And "Once Upon a Time on Earth: Prelude" is only a TV series, but as the beginning of the Three-Body Problem, it is naturally impossible to give all the authority to the new director Wen Zhian.

Therefore, the casting is basically selected by Chen Jingxing himself, especially the male and female protagonists in the play are the most important.

The prototype of the heroine in "Prelude" is actually Lin Yun, the heroine of "Ball Lightning".

It can be regarded as one of the most charming characters created by Da Liu.

Although Chen Jingxing integrated "Ball Lightning" into the universe of "Three-Body" and presented it as a prelude and beginning, the plot and characters have been changed. departmental police.

But the heroine Lin Yun's personality is still preserved as much as possible.

In layman's terms, Lin Yun is a female officer with a cold, white and even slightly fragile appearance, the captain of the investigation team of the special department, and the boss of the male lead.

In essence, his character is not only highly rational, decisive, and a ruthless soldier who stands on a collectivist stand that transcends individual interests, but also has a philosophical view and world view that transcends human perspectives, as well as scientific rationality and the madness of persistent truth. Mad scientist character set.

In other words, it was a combination of Zhang Beihai, Wade and Ye Wenjie.

And it's a woman's perspective.

At the same time, a love scene between her and the male protagonist is added to the script. At the end of the movie "Once Upon a Time on Earth" after "Prelude", Lin Yun, who has become a quantum ghost, reminds the male protagonist to escape in time before the guzheng operation is about to come.

It's not easy to find an actor who can interpret such a complicated character. It's not that there are suitable candidates in one aspect in China, but either they are a little older, they are not tall enough, or they have poor looks.

Finally passed the audition and decided on Wan Qian.

Although Wan Qian has been cooperating with Chen Jingxing since "Source Code", the heroine of "Source Code" and "District [-]" have always been borderline heroines along the way.

Even after she became famous in "Source Code", she played the heroine of "Xiuchun Knife II", but this is actually a border heroine.

To put it bluntly, Huaguo movies and even world movies themselves are full of yang and yin, and most of them are male characters who take the lead and take care of the box office, while female characters are responsible for their beauty and play the role of the male protagonist's girlfriend and wife.

The bigger the commercial blockbuster, the more obvious it is.

This is a problem in the market at this stage, especially in the Huaguo market, which does not really buy movies with female characters.

A heroine like "Gravity", and a movie with a brilliant heroine is rare.

TV dramas are popular with big heroines, but Wan Qian's starting point is too high, because Chen Jingxing is a butterfly, the first movie encountered "Source Code", and broke the domestic box office record.

Then she took over "Xiu Chun Knife II" smoothly, so she was a little bit held back, and she was directly positioned as a movie star. "Going down to earth" to make a TV series became a threshold, and the actor fell into a trap under the unwilling mood. Some sort of indecisive crossroads.

Even "The Ninth District" did not change her embarrassing situation-of course, this kind of embarrassment is probably enviable to most female stars.

Even if you act in a Palme d'Or movie, it won't change that you are still a rimmed heroine, and your role is not as good as that of an alien child.

It is of course quite embarrassing for an actress who boasts of acting skills every day to always play the role of a border heroine who does not need much acting skills in movies.

"Once Upon a Time on Earth" is undoubtedly rain from heaven for her.

In the script, the heroine Wan Qian wants to play is even more brilliant than the heroine.

Although it is a TV series, not a movie, DreamWorks' TV series cannot be treated in the same way as outside TV series, and it will not have any adverse effects on her personality and status.

A first-line movie star like Luo Chen has filmed Dreamworks's Wang Da, who would laugh at him?

It is more difficult to choose the heroine because of the character she is in charge of, while the hero has to consider the continuity of the universe of "The Three-Body Problem" and ensure that the actors can continue to play the following series of works, so the casting also needs to be very careful.

Movies are not novels, and it is not convenient for a series of movies to change a character.

The male protagonist of "Once Upon a Time on Earth: Prelude" will also be the male protagonist of the next few movie versions, and it is absolutely impossible to change the male protagonist one by one.

Looking at all the series of films at home and abroad, the coherence of the protagonist is the most important thing.

This is a huge difference between the video and the novel. If "Three-Body Problem" is adapted into a movie based on the perspective of each protagonist in the novel, then wait for it to hit the street.

Even if you want to change the protagonist, you have to change the protagonist in the main story, sequel, and side story just like "Star Wars".

In the planning of "Once Upon a Time on Earth", "Ball Lightning", "Three-Body I" and "Three-Body II", which are equivalent to novels, are all considered as main stories, and the continuity of the male protagonist must be maintained.

Because the hero’s story line is to investigate the truth about the death of his parents in "Prelude", the ball lightning and the ETO disguise of the Garden of Eden, during which he experienced some weird things, such as the suicide of a physicist, the failure of high-energy physics theory in the microscopic field, and ghosts. matter.

Then he was caught by ETO at the end of "Prelude", and he finished the "Three-Body Problem" designed by ETO in the subsequent movies. In the subsequent movies, he was selected as the Wallfacer because he had personally competed with ETO.

And considering the need to sign a bundled contract and combine the weird plot in "Once Upon a Time on Earth: Prelude", this drama needs to be filmed in a weird style similar to "Arrival" or "Annihilation".

Therefore, a young actor who is sensitive, has a sense of story, is suppressed by the heroine's aura, and can interpret the growth curve.

That's why Zhu Yilong was chosen.

(End of this chapter)