my movie years

Chapter 232 The Eve of the Screening
"Professor, I know that you are an expert in the study of black holes and gravity. I have an idea in my mind now. Please help me to see if it is possible."

In a corner coffee shop in Los Angeles, Charles Rowan enjoyed afternoon tea with Kip Thorne. Zhang Hao needed to ask Kip Thorne about a movie in his mind.

Kip Thorne and Hollywood producer Linda Obst, who produced "Contact", are good friends and are quite familiar with the film industry.

He also wondered that a film director would ask him a physicist if he had any questions, so he said with interest: "You tell me!"

Zhang Hao organized his words, and then said: "Sometimes I think that the most remote phenomenon in the universe suddenly becomes easy for human beings.

Chinese sci-fi writer Da Liu put forward the theory of technological explosion in "Three-Body Problem". Intelligent civilizations complete high-tech research and development in a very short period of time, and develop rapidly in the form of explosions on the cosmic timeline, just like the industrial revolution in human history. . "

Kip Thorne didn't expect Zhang Hao to put forward such an interesting point of view, he smiled and said, "This idea is very interesting, do you have any specific ideas?"

Zhang Hao smiled, and continued: "My initial thought was that, according to Einstein's theory of relativity, time can be stretched and stretched, but it cannot be reversed or traversed.

So is there such a thing, maybe force, that can pass through the dimension of time and space? "

Zhang Hao didn't directly mention gravitational waves, because it seems a bit too scary for a layman who is engaged in the film industry to say such a professional physical term.

Kip Thorne's eyes lit up, which was exactly in line with his research direction: "Zhang, are you really a film director? I thought you were a physicist from which year!"

After Zhang Hao nodded affirmatively, Kip Thorne said: "Actually, my team and I are observing something called gravitational waves.

In my opinion, gravitational waves can break through the limitation of time and space. "

"Can gravitational waves be used to transmit information? For example, through gravitational anomalies, to transmit coordinates, or the data of black hole singularities." Zhang Hao continued to ask.

Kip Thorne fell into deep thought, then asked the waiter in the cafe for paper and pen, and began to calculate.

Charles Rowan raised his eyebrows at Zhang Hao. He didn't expect that Zhang Hao, a filmmaker, would ask a scientist to think about it.

Therefore, Charles Rowan gave Zhang Hao a thumbs up.

Zhang Hao smiled. Originally, the original idea of ​​the "Interstellar" project in his previous life came from Kip Thorne.Even at the beginning of the script creation, it was planned to ask Spielberg to direct it.

It was only later that Spielberg changed houses and left the project at Paramount. Jonathan Nolan, the screenwriter of "Interstellar", recommended his brother Christopher Nolan to take over.

Thus, the classic science fiction film in film history was born: "Interstellar".

But now, it seems that this movie can only be proposed by Zhang Hao.

Although he remembered the plot of the film, he was a filmmaker, so he couldn't understand all kinds of complicated astrophysical knowledge in the film.

So he asked Charles Rowan to introduce him to Kip Thorne.

Kip Thorne, who didn't know that he had become a villain, patted Zhang Hao on the shoulder excitedly after performing the calculation happily: "Zhang, you have provided me with a brand new idea.

If this were to be made into a movie, I believe it would be no worse than "2001: A Space Odyssey". "

Zhang Hao said: "Actually, professor, I have already started to plan the script, but I think the film needs a theoretical basis. If possible, I would like to ask you to be the scientific consultant of the film."

Kip Thorne didn't think much, and agreed after thinking for a moment: "No problem, as long as you need, Zhang."

After finishing this matter and enjoying afternoon tea, the three of them dispersed separately.

It is not a big problem to ask a foreign professor to be a scientific consultant for Chinese-language films.

There are great restrictions on chips, some high-tech industries, and aerospace technology, but there are not many restrictions on basic frontier theoretical scientific research.

Because of the limitation of research in this area, it is not necessary.

In addition, Zhang Hao also wants to invite several domestic astrophysicists to serve as consultants, maybe domestic scientists in this field will cooperate with Kip Thorne, and then they will win the Nobel Prize together.

This picture is a bit beautiful when you think about it.

But it's still a bit early to mention these things now. The project will start next year at the earliest.

In April, all the post-production of "The Dark Knight" has been completed, and three rounds of trial screenings have been held, which have been generally well received.

Although due to the request of Warner Pictures, the film critics and senior movie fans who participated in the test screening did not disclose the tone of the film.

But it is still inevitable, revealing a little bit, as film critic Kenny Turance said: "I can be sure that "The Dark Knight" is the superhero movie you have never seen before, and it will go far beyond people's understanding of superheroes." Dimensions of cinematic understanding."

That's all Kenny Turance said, and he won't reveal anything else.

In addition, in terms of theaters, "The Dark Knight" scored 96 points, and senior movie fans scored A+.Although there are some objections to the heavy style of the film, the theater will still maximize the guarantee of "The Dark Knight" in theaters.

However, it was not "The Dark Knight" that kicked off the summer season, but the next-door Marvel masterpiece: "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron".

Although it is a sequel movie in the non-traditional sense, the fans accumulated by Marvel movies are very scary.

This time "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" specially held its premiere in Shanghai for the mainland market. All the leading actors and creators attended and were warmly welcomed by Chinese fans.

Because of the time difference, in fact, mainland audiences saw the movie a day earlier than those in North America.

Don't look at the previous publicity that you are lively, and various activities are going on non-stop, but the box office of "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" on the first day did not reach the 1.85 million RMB expected by the producer, but got [-] million at the box office.

To make matters worse, after watching the movie, many viewers commented that they didn't feel good about the movie, but felt a bit average.

More criticisms of the film focus on the fact that the film is too fan-oriented, and that the villain Ultron is not as distinctive as the first Rocky.

Although the quality of the film is a bit mediocre, the film still scored 5.65 million RMB at the box office in the first week in the mainland market, successfully leading the box office list.

Although the mainland box office did not meet expectations, in North America, "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" released an extremely box office figure. It won 8442.4 million US dollars at the box office on the first day, and directly won 2.47 million US dollars at the box office in the first week.

This box office data created the best first-week box office of a Marvel movie in North America, which made Disney and Marvel executives smile.

However, it is worth noting that in North America, where superheroes have a more profound influence, the film has also been criticized by many fans of Marvel Comics and passersby.

Comics fans believe that Marvel movies do not follow the comics' settings and do not conform to the original comics.Passers-by fans said they couldn't understand the interpersonal relationship in it, such as why the black widow somehow fell in love with the Hulk.

Is it simply because the Hulk is big?
However, in the face of the huge success of the box office in the first week, these voices were ignored by Disney and Marvel.

Next week, it will be the time for "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" to land in the film market in other parts of the world.At the same time, the film will also meet the challenge of "The Dark Knight".

Although, neither Disney nor Marvel believe that "The Dark Knight" can pose a threat to their own films.

　I have something to do today, two updates first...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)