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In Wu Yuan's eyes, "The Accidental Murderer" is a famous movie!

The subject matter of the film is a bit like the movie "The Heart Labyrinth", both of which tell the story of a family planning to protect a child who has made a mistake, but this father is more far-sighted and has better anti-detection methods.

Although the ending of the movie is tragic, it is full of human colors and is thought-provoking.

As one of the few Indian films that can break the circle, "Alamy" can be regarded as one of the few excellent Indian films that Wu Yuan knew in his previous life.

Of course, Wu Yuan also knew about "The Guilty", which was adapted from this Indian film.

The film retains the essence of "A True Story", but does not copy it completely. Instead, new plots are added in many places in order to give the audience a fresh feeling.

The film was released in mainland China on December 2019, 12, with a total box office of over 13 billion yuan. It was then re-released on July 11, 2020. However, this re-release was mainly due to the epidemic, and there were no movies to show in theaters, so the film was re-released.

In general, if we only consider the box office, perhaps the box office performance of this movie is not that amazing.

But from the perspective of word of mouth, the reputation of this movie is undoubtedly very good, and it is not easy to make a breakthrough during the Lunar New Year holiday.

In particular, the male lead Xiao Yang performed very well. As an actor who changed his career halfway through, he left a very deep impression on Wu Yuan.

Before this movie, Wu Yuan's impression of Xiao Yang had always been that of a funny comedian, and the classic scene was the famous line "He slandered me!" in "Detective Chinatown".

But after the release of "The Accidental Detective", it can be said that Wu Yuan's view of Xiao Yang was refreshed, and he truly recognized the actor's performance for the first time.

"'A True Story' is indeed a very good movie." Putting down the documents in his hand, Wu Yuan said to Li Xiaoping with a smile, "Does the company plan to buy the copyright and remake it?"

"I think it's okay."

Hearing Wu Yuan's approval, Li Xiaoping was obviously relieved. She raised her lips and said proudly, "It seems that my vision is not bad."

Yes, this is the movie that Li Xiaoping liked.

As the head of a film company based in China and looking to Asia, Li Xiaoping certainly will not limit his vision to the domestic market.

If there are excellent movies released in other countries, she will definitely be the first to find out about them.

She learned that a movie was released in India last month and achieved very good results, so she paid close attention to the matter and found information about the movie and even the original film footage.

After watching the movie, she felt that this Bollywood movie, which is completely different from the style of mainstream Indian movies (basically no singing and dancing), is also very suitable for the Chinese film market.

Family, ethics, suspense, any one of these three points will not be incompatible!

After just watching it once, Li Xiaoping thought this movie was worth a remake!

However, she rarely made decisions on the direction of the company's filming in the past. It was usually Wu Yuan who made the decision and provided the script, or the directors signed by the company would come to the company with the script to solicit investment.

Although Li Xiaoping had judged the scripts of the company's co-directors many times, it was the first time for her to choose a script on her own. This made her a little unconfident, so she wanted to ask Wu Yuan for his opinion. Now it seems that her vision is still good.

Wu Yuan also saw what Li Xiaoping was thinking, so even though she had a proud and smug expression on her face, Wu Yuan still sighed and said, "Boss Li, you have always had a good eye. You have hardly made any wrong judgments since you joined the company. You can be more confident."

"As long as you like the movie and want to make it, just go ahead and do it. Don't ask me. This is also your right as the general manager."

Well, Li Xiaoping did not make any wrong choices in the general direction of the company. The main reason was that whenever there was a sign of this, Wu Yuan would correct it behind the scenes to ensure that the company did not go astray.

But it is already 2015, and Wu Yuan no longer has much foresight. In addition, Li Xiaoping has been the helmsman for so many years and has already been trained. So Wu Yuan hopes that she can be more confident and more "domineering", and there is no need for her to ask for his opinion every time she reads a script.

Just take pictures if you want.

To put it another way, even if the final box office results are not good, Guangying Times is a big company and can afford the losses!

"Yeah, I get it." Facing Wu Yuan's encouragement, Li Xiaoping nodded heavily. She was already in her early 40s, but she still looked a bit girlish. She said with full vigor, "I will continue to work hard!"

"Good, very energetic." Wu Yuan clapped his hands and stood up. "Then I'll leave if there's nothing else. The post-production of Ready Player One is almost done, so I can save some time on polishing. I still can't slack off on this last bit of work."

"Hey, wait." However, to Wu Yuan's surprise, Li Xiaoping was not willing to let him go, and quickly asked, "What about the director?"

"After we buy the adaptation rights for this film, which director should we find to shoot it?"

"Ask Leslie if he's interested." Wu Yuan sat back down, crossed his legs and said, "Leslie has been slacking off since he finished filming Along with the Gods, right?"

"The structure of 'The Accidental Murderer' is actually quite similar to Hong Kong films, and has the style of Hong Kong crime films. Let him give it a try."

"If Leslie doesn't want to shoot it, we can consider finding a Hong Kong director to shoot it. Hong Kong directors are more knowledgeable about this kind of crime and suspense film."

It has to be said that due to the censorship standards, the mainland does lack directors who can make good crime films, and almost no mainland director is good at making crime films.

In Hong Kong, however, there are quite a few films of this scale. There is a group of Hong Kong directors who are very good at making films on crime, police, and suspense themes. This theme is also basically shot in Hong Kong in the Chinese-language film market, and many of them are adapted from real stories.

Wu Yuan also had no intention of finding a mainland director to make this movie; there was no need for that.

Although he has opinions about some Hong Kong directors who move north, he will not condemn them all. He can also cooperate normally with some directors who are quite excellent and do not discriminate against mainlanders, and who make money from mainlanders while scolding them.

"Oh, right." Wu Yuan thought of something else and said, "Even if we buy the rights to remake the movie, the background story of this movie has to be changed. If it is released in China, it will definitely not pass the review."

"After all, the powerful in the movie are not just, and the plot is about revenge for justice."

"How about this, let's change the setting of the story to Southeast Asia. There are many Chinese people there, and it's very chaotic." (End of this chapter)