The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 560 Hiring the Biggest Actor at the Lowest Cost

The Daguang Cinema in Shanghai is star-studded.

Chen Jingxing and Luo Chen exchanged pleasantries in a corner.

"It's my first time acting in a comedy role." Luo Chen was a little excited but hesitant.

Chen Jingxing waved to the entertainer who greeted him at the side, turned his head and comforted him, "It's not a comedy role, it has a slightly comedy element."

To shoot all the stories of "Death on Mars", to some extent, the form of TV series is more suitable, but Chen Jingxing has money, but he is not the kind of artist who generates electricity for love.

It is still necessary to pursue cost recovery and even profitability as much as possible.

The first point is to invite celebrities, and hire celebrities at a low cost.

The protagonists of "Death on Mars" are male and female protagonists and a robot, so at least the male and female protagonists must be first-line stars, and even the dubbing of intelligent robots is best to invite big stars.

Of course, DreamWorks is definitely attractive to celebrities, and they don’t have to worry about not being able to invite them. Besides, "Death on Mars" is still a big project, the first space science fiction drama in China.

But to keep the remuneration as low as possible, Chen Jingxing had to do it himself, not only to name the producer, but also to issue invitations in person.

By now, the roles have basically been finalized.

The heroine is Zhao Liying. As an actress who is quite popular among the 85 flowers, she has always been the guarantee of TV drama ratings. In addition, Xiao Zhao has also cooperated with DreamWorks to play the heroine of "Mirage". She is still the leading role. highest-grossing film.

The male lead chose Luo Chen, who is considered to be the most commercially valuable actor from China so far.

After "Inception", Luo Chen only took on "The King of the Sky" and starred in one of the units of the movie "My Youth and Me".

As for the olive branch offered by Chen Jingxing, he agreed without even thinking about it, and the remuneration was only a symbolic price.

Although with his position, he has no shortage of film resources and would not accept TV dramas under normal circumstances, DreamWorks is naturally qualified to make an exception for him, not to mention that it is an unprecedented space science fiction drama in China.

Even Hollywood movie stars have started to appear in TV dramas frequently in recent years, and Chinese actors are even less reserved.

In addition to the male and female protagonists being first-line actors, even Lei Jiayin has been finalized as the dubbing candidate for the intelligent robot, and it is free.

Although there are only three characters, this lineup and the gimmicks made can also allow DreamWorks to sell as high a price as possible in negotiations with domestic streaming media.

In addition to casting, more efforts are made to increase the viewing friendliness as much as possible in the plot.

The most important thing is to set the tone of the whole play-light comedy.

Of course, the places that should be exciting and sensational must be in place.

The more works that discuss nihilism and existentialism, the more they must be presented in a comedic way, which can be seen from works such as "Rick and Morty" and "The Transient Universe".

The routine with the highest commercial value is the form of comedy that carries the core of tragedy.

And this is in line with the tone of the original novel.

Therefore, the story of "Death on Mars" should create a feeling similar to "the joy of cancer patients finally traveling around the world".

"Fang Dao, long time no see, your face has turned dark again."

"Hey, I got too tanned during the filming, and I haven't returned after a month of delay."

At this time, the one who could break into the conversation between Chen Jingxing and Luo Chen was naturally not an idle person, but Fang Yucheng, the director of "The King of Sky".

"The King of the Sky" is a tribute film of Jianghe Culture, and it will be released in the summer. This time, the opening crew of the Shanghai Film Festival came to promote it.

The Shanghai Film Festival has always been an important opportunity for domestic film promotion, especially since Chen Jingxing took over as the chairman of the jury for two years.

For example, the opening film of last year's Metropolis Film Festival was "The Wandering Earth", and this year's opening film is "Skyhawk Warrior", and the media attention is also getting higher and higher.

Of course, this is not Chen Jingxing's selfishness, or not all of it.

Although in the eyes of many laymen, doing so may even tarnish the palace of art and the like, they do not know that the palace of art would like to be tarnished like this.

Even the three major European companies often have commercial films from Hollywood and other regions screened. It is not clear who borrows the light from whom. This is a matter of mutual benefit.

The commercial brand influence of the three major film festivals in Europe far surpasses that of the main competition films, which all rely on these popular commercial films, stars from five continents and the film trading market full of money.

Otherwise, how could it be possible for the literary and artistic films in the main competition unit to attract media from all over the world to report.

Shanghai Metropolis and the Film Bureau invited Chen Jingxing to be the chairman of the jury, and it was for two consecutive terms in order to get more attention for the film festival.

Chen Jingxing did this by himself. Not only did he put the premiere of heavyweight films at the opening of the film festival for two consecutive years, but he also used his own influence to promote the launch of the trading unit of fantasy and science fiction works at the Shanghai Film Festival.

Invite fantasy science fiction, comics, animation, and film and television from all over the world, especially East Asia, South Asia and other regions to participate in this exhibition, so that everyone can trade with each other, buy copyright, adapt or remake film and television.

It was quite a gimmick and attracted the attention of many media and netizens. After all, it is said that there is only one chance in the whole country to see horror films from East Asia, South Asia and other countries in theaters, because the film festival does not need Dragon Label.

To a certain extent, it has robbed the business of the Orlando Fantastic Film Festival, but the two film festivals are separated by half a year, which is fine.

Of course, this has also attracted some criticism. For two consecutive years, his own film has been used as the opening film, and many commercial screening units have been expanded. Artistry", "The Shanghai Film Festival has become the DreamWorks Film Festival".

However, most ordinary people do not take these criticisms seriously. After all, the films and awards in the main competition unit of the film festival have nothing to do with DreamWorks.

In fact, Chen Jingxing knew very well that some film companies were just envious and incompetent and furious.

After all, DreamWorks can only be regarded as a rising star when it comes to turning film awards into its own annual meeting.

In the past few years, DreamWorks has been able to win domestic awards such as the Golden Rooster Award and the Hundred Flowers Award every year. It is a big winner in almost every year from grand awards to technical awards.

Even the so-called public selection awards like the Hundred Flowers Award mostly take care of other companies in the actor award.

Naturally, a hundred individual companies that once overshadowed the sky with one hand in Golden Rooster or Hundred Blossoms were upset, and weirdness is inevitable.

Going back to the opening of the film festival, although Chen Jingxing had a feud with Jianghe Culture, and even had a controversy about stealing the box office, but times have changed. Although DreamWorks and Jianghe have no cooperation, time has long since eliminated the past grievances .

Now the two companies are no longer at the same level in terms of market value and revenue. Even DreamWorks is not weaker than Jianghe in terms of investment and foundation in the middle and lower reaches of theaters.

As the director of Jiang He's direct lineage, Fang Yucheng didn't have too many worries when facing Chen Jingxing. After a few words of pleasantries through Luo Chen's recommendation, he tentatively asked about the scheduled time of DreamWorks' gift film.

Chen Jingxing sighed: "The National Day file is hopeless, and I plan to bring "Li Yannian" to August...

"[-]"?The post-production will not be up soon, at least until the fourth quarter. "

Fang Yucheng heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the words. It was rumored that DreamWorks would schedule a gift film for the summer, and the most interesting one was of course the first military-themed film directed by Chen Jingxing.

"[-]" is divided into two parts, and everyone has known for a long time. Although "[-]" has only been completed not long ago, the first part may have already finished filming and started post-production. It can't prevent people from setting a summer file. ah.

In addition, there is "Spike III" filmed by Wu Jing, which is also a big IP, and even weighs more than "[-]" in the industry's opinion. After all, "[-]" is a propositional composition.

"The King of the Sky", as Jiang He's trump card gift film, is scheduled to be released at the end of July. It is a full month after "Skyhawk Warrior". It is definitely not a competitor with "Skyhawk Warrior", the competitor is August movie of.

The gift film that DreamWorks will release in August is neither "8" nor "Spike III", which is naturally the best news.

After all, "Li Yannian" is basically a character documentary, a movie based on the battle experience of Li Yannian, a medalist of the Republic and a combat hero.

It can be regarded as a proposition composition in a proposition composition, and the investment is not high, only in the early 1.5 million, which is really inconspicuous in a star-studded military gift film.

(End of this chapter)