CEE started with Nortel lecturers

Chapter 13 Science Fiction Daji - Guo Fan

"Long time no see, Director Guo!" In the living room, Gu Zhongyu warmly shook hands with Guo Fan. Jiang Shuying looked at the two of them in surprise. The boss was about to fall asleep after hearing so much good news just now. Why did he look so happy when he heard that this person came?
Seeing Gu Zhongyu's eager eyes looking at Guo Fan and his grasping hands, if she didn't know the basics of her old version of XP, she would almost doubt whether Gu Zhongyu had awakened some special habit!
"Ah! Don't dare to be, dare not be, I've only directed a small-budget movie, and I can't afford to be a big name like Mr. Gu." Guo Fan was flattered, he didn't expect that a veteran in the entertainment industry like Gu Zhongyu would be so polite to him.

In fact, both of them are from Nortel, but Guo Fan is a graduate student of the Department of Management, and he doesn't usually have much time to go back to school, and Gu Zhongyu is just a visiting teacher, and there are not many courses.

Looking at Guo Fan, who was just in his early thirties, Gu Zhongyu sighed in his heart. He never imagined that a few years later, the male banker in front of him would almost single-handedly open the door to domestic heavy industry sci-fi movies!

The success of the two parts of "The Wandering Earth" not only opened the door to domestic sci-fi movies, but also made the name Guo Fan synonymous with "doing bad things, being lazy and greedy"!
Doing bad things means that the films produced are at least 10 years ahead of the Chinese film industry and reach the top level of Hollywood. How can you let those mediocre directors have the face to survive?

Lazy and greedy, treacherous refers to making two movies and selling them for the price of one ticket. Isn't this bullying?

Lazy, means that "The Wandering Earth 2" has been released for several months, "The Wandering Earth 3" hasn't premiered yet, even the trailer hasn't been released, the donkeys of the production team don't dare to rest like this!

Greedy, I have never played Guoshi in the domestic market, but I dare to look forward to the overseas market. There is no announcement overseas, but YouTube and Facebook are still applauded.

Slip, find excellent actors, do solid basic skills, spend your money wisely, make good movies, and truly know what the masses think. Obviously you should find small fresh meat to gain traffic, but you want to break the routine and please the audience by making movies that the audience likes. How cunning!
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"Come on, sit down and talk, you're welcome." Gu Zhongyu pulled Guo Fan to sit on the sofa, and at the same time told Jiang Shuying that if there are other meetings, discussions, or meeting plans, they should all be postponed.

Seeing that Gu Zhongyu paid so much attention to the conversation with himself, Guo Fan, who was already reserved, immediately straightened his back to ninety degrees!I am afraid that the other party will feel that I am not serious enough.

"The Adventures of Li Xianji, which you directed before, I watched it through internal channels. It's pretty good, for a new director."

Guo Fan smiled a little embarrassedly, he was very pleased with the praise of a well-known actor like Gu Zhongyu and the owner of a film and television company.

"But! Because the plot of the movie is a bit obscure, and the leading actor's acting skills are not so good, and domestic sci-fi themes have not always been favored by people, I'm afraid the box office will be smashed!" Gu Zhongyu told the truth, although "The Adventures of Li Xianji", which is an adaptation of the animation of the same name, is not a bad movie, but in today's movie market, there is no hope of making money back.

In the end, the film with an investment of 1500 million yuan only recovered less than 1000 million yuan at the box office, which can be described as a disastrous failure!

Of course, the investor didn't grasp the focus of the publicity and the charm of the original work at all, so it's right to die at a loss!This movie was originally intended to praise the Dragon Prince, and this guy can be described as a typical example that mud can't support the wall.

Guo Fan was doused with cold water once, but his expression didn't change. After thinking for a while, he opened his mouth and said, "Actually, the box office of "The Adventures of Li Xianji" is not ideal, and I also have psychological expectations. The original work is really a very good sci-fi animation, but during the filming, I had conflicts with another director Li Yang's ideas. Coupled with some opinions and arrangements from the investors, the final effect is completely different from what I thought at the beginning?"

"Well, do you feel a little pity? After all, this is the first time you directed a movie, but it didn't succeed."

"It's okay! I'm a newcomer, and someone thinks highly of me. I'm flattered to ask me to direct a theater movie! I have a lot of director friends, and up to now they can only make some microfilms and commercials. Compared with them, I'm already very lucky. I didn't shoot well this time, learn from my lessons, and just work harder next time!" I have to say that Guo Fan's attitude is still very good, which is why he was able to shoot "The Wandering Earth".

Guo Fan from the original time and space signed a contract with Wanda Pictures after filming "The Adventures of Li Xianji".Then in 2013, he terminated his contract with Wanda and started directing the youth love movie "You at the Same Table" in the same year. The film won a box office of 4.5 million, which was regarded as a success.

It was at this time that the production of the movie "The Wandering Earth" was put on the agenda by Guo Fan.

Guo Fan showed his interest in science fiction very early on, and he is Liu Cixin's die-hard book fan.I have always dreamed of turning these novels into reality.At that time, people around heard that Guo Fan was going to make "The Wandering Earth" and found it too difficult, because in those few years, the production team of "Three-Body" movie had been disbanded, and Chinese science fiction genre films had already been blown up before they sprouted. No one dared to touch Da Liu's novels anymore.

But Guo Fan still under great pressure, started the filming of "The Wandering Earth".Because there is no precedent for domestic sci-fi films selling well before, Guo Fan's box office expectation for the first part of "The Wandering Earth" is as long as it does not lose money!

He also said that if "The Wandering Earth" really loses too much, he will go back and make "You at the Same Table 2" again!Then learn the lesson, continue to save money and talents, and then re-shoot science fiction films until the Chinese people's own science fiction masterpieces are filmed!

From the observation of Guo Fan, he can really do this kind of thing!
"I heard that you have always been very interested in sci-fi themes, and you want to make a sci-fi film of the same level as Hollywood?" Gu Zhongyu began to plan to enter the theme. He has been thinking about this movie for a long time, and it must be Guo Fan!
"I'm very interested! Because this is my ideal! I really like Liu Cixin's science fiction novels. I don't know if you have read the novel "Three-Body Problem".

"Then I think we can have a second chance now." Gu Zhongyu liked Guo Fan's mentality and persistence very much, so he took out the things he had prepared and put them on the mahogany desk in front of him.

Guo Fan leaned forward and took a look. It was a book with a movie script and production plan beside it. There were four large characters written on the book—"Ball Lightning"!
　The last one was swallowed, wait for it to be released
　　
　
(End of this chapter)