director of the millennium

When the wrap photos of "Doctor Strange" were posted on Twitter, it was early morning Beijing time, but someone immediately reposted the relevant blog posts and photos from the Internet back to China, and immediately triggered heated discussions among Weibo users.

"So Director Wu went to Hollywood to shoot a new Marvel movie?"

"I didn't know this news until I finished filming!"

"Isn't that Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock Holmes? He's the leading actor in Director Wu's new overseas movie?"

"Doctor Strange? What is this movie about? Is there any guy with a big dick who can introduce it to you?"

The Marvel series of movies has indeed received a lot of attention and box office results in China in recent years, but the number of people who truly understand Marvel comics is still a very small minority in China.

Perhaps many people know Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Thor and other Marvel superheroes that have been adapted into movies, but for other superheroes that have not yet been adapted, their popularity in China is close to zero.

The superhero Doctor Strange is only well-known in China among Marvel Comics fans.

However, there are really a lot of fans of Marvel movies now.

"Avengers: Age of Ultron" was released worldwide last year, in May 2, and achieved a total box office of 2015 billion US dollars worldwide, and the box office in mainland China also broke 5 billion RMB!

It was also Avengers 2 that completely made the Marvel movie series a huge hit in China, attracting and cultivating a large number of Marvel fans. The effect was the same as when the League of Legends LPL won the S championship for the first time.

It can be said that overnight, there were countless fans in China who paid attention to Marvel movies. It was also when Marvel movies became popular in China that the news that Wu Yuan became the director of Marvel's new movie "Doctor Strange" also spread in China.

Later, in November, Wu Yuan went to the United States for filming, and the domestic Marvel approach was to repost all the Reuters photos, videos, and news related to the filming of "Doctor Strange" on the international Internet.

That’s why the final photos of “Doctor Strange” were transmitted back to China so quickly, sparking heated discussions in the early morning.

However, even so, not all netizens know about Marvel movies. Those who know "Doctor Strange" don't even know that Wu Yuan has gone to the United States to make a movie again.

The final photo of "Doctor Strange" now topped the hot search list. A large number of netizens who were surfing the Internet late at night and were unaware of the situation only realized it belatedly after seeing Wu Yuan with a face full of cake and a bright smile in the photo. Then they started asking around on the Internet about the details of the movie "Doctor Strange".

Well, this wave of publicity may be more effective than the 10 million US dollars Marvel invested in publicity in the mainland.

After all, Wu Yuan is currently the only world-class commercial film director in mainland China.

His every move and news about his new movie, as long as it can spread in the country, will inevitably generate national fame.

The next morning, some print media and television news channels even reported the news that Wu Yuan had completed filming of his new Hollywood movie.

So much so that some uncles and aunts in their 40s and 50s, for the first time ever, talked about this with their children during breakfast or lunch, asking what kind of movie "Doctor Strange" was.

Well, after more than ten years of hard work, Wu Yuan’s movie audiences are finally no longer just young people.

On the one hand, Wu Yuan’s earliest fans have indeed grown to this age now.

On the other hand, after the release of the movie "Dear", Wu Yuan's popularity successfully spread to the middle-aged and elderly groups.

After all, a movie about lost children and fighting against kidnapping is bound to move middle-aged people who have raised children.

Although these "old babies" will not pay special attention to Wu Yuan, they will also become curious when they see news media reporting on Wu Yuan's new movie.

Unfortunately, the audience of movies like "Doctor Strange" is mainly teenagers, and middle-aged and elderly people are probably not very used to movies of this theme. But Wu Yuan's influence is indeed real. At least in the next week, the Hollywood movie "Doctor Strange" will become the front page headlines of major platforms and media, and will be paid close attention to and dug up.

While a large number of domestic media and Marvel fans were actively promoting "Doctor Strange", Wu Yuan also flew back to Beijing in a low-key manner.

After the filming of "Doctor Strange" was completed, he almost didn't have to participate in any subsequent work.

Marvel has professionals in charge of post-production aspects such as editing and special effects production, and even Wu Yuan did not worry about the editing rights.

Marvel's film editing skills are still trustworthy, at least in the first and second phases, they were still very good, unlike DC next door, which can make Zack Snyder so angry that they have to make their own director's cut.

When it comes to Marvel movies, Wu Yuan is still very confident in being a hands-off boss.

Of course, he will eventually watch the finished film, and Marvel has agreed that if he is not satisfied with the finished film, he has the right to ask Marvel to make changes, even according to his opinions.

This is the status of a top commercial film director.

On April 4, Wu Yuan returned to Beijing, but before he had a day's rest, he went back to Guangying Times Company.

After being abroad for such a long time to film, the company naturally had some things piled up that needed to be signed and handled by him, the big boss behind the scenes.

And there is another very important matter that also requires Wu Yuan to make a decision.

After a long year and a half, the post-production of "Ready Player One" is finally basically completed.

As Wu Yuan’s latest commercial special effects blockbuster in mainland China, this movie is a highly anticipated work by Light and Shadow Era and even all Chinese movie fans!

Since Wu Yuan is relatively satisfied with the final result of the film, the film will be submitted for review and its release date will also be confirmed.

"How was the National Day box office?" Wu Yuan asked directly as soon as he saw Li Xiaoping.

When in doubt, choose the National Day release date. This is Wu Yuan's concept of release date. Most of his Chinese-language films are also released on the National Day. Even in the past few years, the National Day release date was tacitly agreed to by Light and Shadow Era.

However, the situation has been different in the past two years.

"Three films have been scheduled for release during the National Day holiday this year, namely Bona Film Group's Operation Mekong, Guangguang Film Group's Passing By Your World, and Guo Xiaosi's The Legend of Zu."

"The National Day period is still not comparable to the Spring Festival period. The overall box office is only around 30 billion. If Ready Player One is added to the National Day period, it will be too crowded."

Hearing this, Wu Yuan frowned.

"Operation Mekong", "Passing by Your World", and "Jade Dynasty". The last one is okay. It relies on fan economy. The people who go to see this movie will only be fans of Guo Xiaosi, and they are all young girls, who are not in Wu Yuan's fan audience group.

But the first two are different. Li Xiaoping is not clear about it, but Wu Yuan is very clear. "Operation Mekong" and "Passing by Your World" can both be considered box office dark horses, with one having a box office of 11 billion and the other 8 million. Both are considered to be popular works in the 2016 movie industry.

Although he is very confident about his blockbuster, if it is released together with these two movies, some box office revenue will be diverted away more or less. This is not a good thing for "Ready Player One", which aims to break the mainland box office record or even create a box office miracle.

"What about the summer season?" Wu Yuan asked again. (End of this chapter)