director of the millennium

"Operation Red Sea" and "Operation Mekong" are both movies that performed well at the box office in their original time and space.

Moreover, both movies can be said to be adapted from true stories.

Among them, "Operation Mekong" is a film adapted from the 2011 Golden Triangle murder incident. Bona seems to be preparing for filming now.

Bona also started to reap the benefits of adapting movies based on real events with "Operation Mekong". After that, it made a large number of movies of this type, which really made Bona a lot of money.

As the boss of a film and television company, Wu Yuan felt that he needed to compete with his peers for food.

Now that the domestic film market has developed, Wu Yuan's previous idea of ​​not making too many domestic films is no longer his guiding principle.

On the one hand, he hopes that the company can develop a "Xianxia Movie Universe" and make Chinese people's own special effects blockbuster. On the other hand, he also hopes that the company can walk on two legs and invest in other profitable movies.

In everything, walking on two legs is the most stable.

Therefore, Guangying Times has been investing in and producing other films, and the directors signed by the company are also making their own films.

For example, after the success of "Ex-Files", we are now preparing for the second part.

Su Lun is finally preparing for "Time Raiders", which she originally planned to release three years later.

Lu Yang's "Blade of the Assassin 2" is also in the process of being approved.

Han Yan is also working on his second film, "Send You a Little Red Flower," which focuses on the cancer community.

The company is even cooperating with Han Han to help him realize his movie dream and take on the production work.

The only pity is that the company did not cooperate with Guo Xiaosi.

Originally, Li Xiaoping was planning to cooperate with Guo Xiaosi. After all, he is indeed an influential author of youth books. Moreover, in the past two years, it has become a trend for people from all walks of life to cross over to become directors. Li Xiaoping also hopes to invest in a few crossover directors, and maybe she will be successful.

However, when the film project of "Tiny Times" was sent to Wu Yuan's desk, he rejected it immediately.

Although, he knows that the "Tiny Times" series actually makes money, and a lot of it, and can be considered the most successful fan economy movie.

But Wu Yuan really couldn't bring himself to let the company make this series.

It has been more than ten years since Guangying Times was established, and it has accumulated a huge reputation and brand value.

As for generally bad movies, Guangying Times can still make one. After all, no matter how powerful a film company is, it is impossible to say that it has not made bad movies for more than ten years. This is impossible.

So in the past few years, Light and Shadow Times has indeed produced some movies that performed well at the box office but not so well in reputation, and some have even been rated as bad movies.

But "Tiny Times" is not just an ordinary bad movie, it is the king of bad movies, a super bad movie that can be nailed to the pillar of shame and will be constantly mentioned by people even five or ten years later.

The bad thing about this movie is not the graphics, in fact the graphics are quite good and beautiful, but the values ​​and outlook on life of the entire movie are completely rotten to the core, it is meaningless, and it doesn't even deserve to be called a product of the movie.

If Guangying Times really made the "Tiny Times" series, it might have made a few hundred million yuan, but the infamy it carried and the reputation accumulated over more than ten years would have been gone, and this is not something that is worth a few hundred million yuan.

At that time, it might affect the company's other films. When films with the Light and Shadow Era logo are released in the future, movie fans will not trust them and will instead question them again and again.

Thinking of this terrible consequence, Wu Yuan immediately stopped Li Xiaoping's idea. There is nothing wrong with cooperating with Han Han. Although Han Han's movies have received mixed reviews, they cannot be considered bad movies. It can only be said that movies made by real literary youths are indeed more sincere than those made by Guo Xiaosi, a fake literary man.

All I can say is that it’s a good thing that he is still at the helm of the company, so there won’t be any major mistakes.

Soon, another two months passed and it was August 2015.

The pre-promotion for "Riding the Wind" is about to start. The company has already cut two versions of the trailer and also prepared a sum of money for publicity and distribution. Everything is ready.

As a tribute film, "Riding the Wind" actually does not need too much publicity from Guangying Times. When the movie is released, the higher-ups will take the initiative to help promote it, and public departments will definitely organize movie viewings.

It can be said that as long as this kind of tribute film can be released, it will naturally have a basic box office, and there is no need to worry about publicity.

However, trailers and the like must definitely be edited by the producers themselves, and Guangying Times cannot do nothing about the online promotion of the release date and release information.

Therefore, Wu Yuan, who was focusing on the long post-production of Ready Player One, also took some time to watch the trailer edited by the company’s editing department.

The two versions of the trailer are one and a half minutes and two minutes respectively. One is considered an advance warm-up, and the other is the official trailer.

The company's editing department is full of veterans, so there is no problem in cutting a trailer. Wu Yuan was very satisfied after watching it once, and did not have any suggestions for revisions. The sense of anticipation, grand atmosphere and tragedy were all there.

However, just when he finished watching the trailer and felt that there was no problem and was about to go back to the computer room to discuss some special effects processing issues with the special effects company of Ocean Department Store, Li Xiaoping's secretary stopped him halfway and took him to Li Xiaoping's office.

"What's going on?" Wu Yuan sat down in front of Li Xiaoping, who was busy processing documents, and asked in confusion, "Do you want to talk to me about something?"

"Snap." After closing the folder she had just signed, Li Xiaoping looked up, took out a document from the drawer and handed it to Wu Yuan.

"Director Wu, have you heard of Drishyam?"

“The word is not English, it’s Malayalam and it means ‘vision’.”

"This is an Indian film. The original was shot and released in 2013. After the film became a huge success, it quickly sparked a remake craze in India."

"Since India is a multi-ethnic country, in order to meet the needs of audiences of different languages, five versions of the same film were remade based on the original script."

"Last month, the latest version was released in India and once again set off the Indian film market, becoming the highest-grossing film in India this year."

"I found an old version of Drishyam and watched it, and also learned about the film. In fact, the inspiration for this film came from Keigo Higashino's novel The Devotion of Suspect X."

"'The Devotion of Suspect X' tells the story of a single man who covers up the truth about the murder of his neighbor's mother and daughter. 'The Accidental Murderer' is a story about a man who hides the truth about the murder of his wife and daughter."

"The difference between the two seems to be that things that happen outside the family are moved inside the family."

"I think this movie and this subject are very good and have a lot of potential. We can also make a Chinese version, and it would be best if it is adapted from the Indian movie."

"Drishyam?" When Wu Yuan first heard this movie name which was not in English at all, he was completely confused.

But after listening to Li Xiaoping's introduction, he suddenly realized which movie she was talking about.

"A Record of an Accidental Manslaughter"!
Later it was adapted into a Chinese film - "The Accidental Murder"! (End of this chapter)