director of the millennium

"The Legend of the Gods" is a top-notch big-budget bad movie!
The cast of this movie looks pretty scary.

Jet Li, Fan Binbin, Louis Koo, Huang Xiaoming, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Louis Koo, Wen Zhang, Xu Qing, Zu Feng, Angelababy...

Look, they are all big stars!

However, this movie, which was made by the boss to promote his son, with all the "Night of the Gods" activities and the "going to heaven and earth, showing great magical powers", was fancied up very loudly, but in the end, the box office was only 2 million on the first day, and 2.79 million in the first three days, and the total box office was only million.

The box office revenue in the first three days of the weekend was 2 million, but the total box office revenue in the following month was only 7000 million. This shows how badly the reputation of this movie collapsed three days after its release. The fans who went to the cinema to watch the movie as soon as possible cursed it online and expressed how much they regretted watching the movie.

Well, Wu Yuan’s only impression of this is that Lei Zhenzi, played by Xiang Zuo, is so ugly and so outrageous.

All we can say is that Boss Xiang is really rich. He acted as the producer and invited so many well-known movie actors from both sides of the Taiwan Strait to accompany the prince to study, but he still failed to make this prince famous.

This also once again proves the truth in the circle - small fame depends on promotion, big fame depends on luck!

Even if the boss spends hundreds of millions to make an IMAX 3D blockbuster, it is still very difficult to make his own son famous.
In fact, "The Legend of Conferred Gods" was just treated as a capital money-making game rather than a cultural commodity. The filming of this movie was mainly for "money laundering". Until now, no one knows how much the production cost of this movie is, and how much was actually spent on filming.

This is also an old routine and an old operation in Hong Kong films.

This is why Wu Yuan hates Hong Kong’s film capital, certain directors and some actors in Hong Kong.

They are truly disgusting and are specifically designed to destroy the thriving film market in the mainland and disrupt market order.

However, the good news is that 2016 is the end of the "money laundering". As the mainland film industry becomes more and more important, supervision from above is becoming more and more stringent. It will become increasingly difficult to cook the books and play yin-yang contracts as in previous years.

There will be fewer and fewer movies like "The Legend of the Gods", which is a good thing.

After the release date of "Ready Player One" was confirmed, the second good news came soon. The film successfully passed the release approval and remained uncut.

Since Wu Yuan deliberately did not discuss politics in the movie and deliberately blurred the background of the story, only setting the background to 2045 without any description of the country, the superiors were still very reasonable.

Although the General Administration's review has become increasingly strict in recent years, and some films that passed review in the 1990s cannot pass review now, big directors like Wu Yuan still have some privileges.

Some topics that might be sensitive for smaller directors can be filmed by larger directors, and they can even walk the line; their bottom line is very flexible.

From Wu Yuan's perspective, this is a good thing, but from the perspective of a young director, it's quite depressing.

Unfortunately, Wu Yuan has no time to care about these things. After "Ready Player One" passed the review and was scheduled to be released, the film entered the pre-promotion period.

"Legend of the Gods" held a special release conference in Beijing on April 4st, and is planning to carry out several promotional activities in June. Naturally, Light and Shadow Era is not inferior to others.

On April 2016, 4, the crew of Ready Player One also gathered in Beijing and held a press conference to announce the release date. At the press conference, the male lead Peng Yuchang and the female lead Liu Yifei became the focus of reporters' interviews, and they asked all kinds of questions, trying to get some spoilers or behind-the-scenes stories from them.

Fortunately, although Peng Yuchang is young, he is not a big sieve, unlike Tom Holland.

Not to mention Liu Yifei, she is extremely familiar with how to keep the movie confidential and prevent spoilers during the promotion period.

As for Wu Yuan, the reporters did not dare to launch an attack on him, nor did they expect to get any official spoilers from him. The director's majesty was still very scary.

At the press conference, when the media reporters interviewed Wu Yuan, the thing they were most curious about was why Wu Yuan chose Peng Yuchang, a little-known newcomer, to play the leading male role.

Although he had hired complete newcomers to shoot movies before (Hu Ge was a complete newcomer when filming "Your Name"), that was a long time ago, and Wu Yuan was not yet a top director at that time, and he himself was a director who had just debuted.

Since then, Wu Yuan has never used a completely new actor as the leading actor.

Ten years later, in Wu Yuan's last two films, whether it is Chen Xingxu in "Sisters Who Make Waves" or Peng Yuchang in "Ready Player One", Wu Yuan boldly used newcomers. Does this mean that Wu Yuan's casting method has changed? He used to like to use veteran actors, but now he is learning from Zhang Yimou and starting to train new actors?

In response to such questions from reporters, Wu Yuan answered:

"It's not that I deliberately wanted to use newcomers, but the male protagonists of the two recent films were all teenagers in their teens, so I could only look for suitable candidates among new actors under the age of 20, and finally I chose Peng Peng."

I have always believed that actors serve their roles, not roles serving actors. Some actors in their thirties are still playing 17 or 18-year-olds, which is something I cannot accept.”

"Although Peng Peng is young, he is indeed a very talented actor. During the filming of Ready Player One, he is growing every moment, which also makes me feel very accomplished."

"This also makes me understand why director Zhang Yimou likes to use new actors. Training actors is indeed a very interesting thing. Maybe I will discover some new actors to play the leading roles in movies in the future."

"Of course, everything depends on fate. It depends on the role requirements."

It's no wonder that after successively recruiting two new male actors, Peng Yuchang and Chen Xingxu, Wu Yuan does seem to have some interest in training new actors.

In the past, he didn't like to use new actors because he thought they were too immature and he didn't know how to train actors. It took him more than ten years to train Liu Yifei by words and deeds. He was not a director like Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige who were good at training actors.

But in the past two years, Wu Yuan discovered that with the passage of time and his improved directing skills, he can now actually coach actors. It's nothing special, it's just that practice makes perfect.

In this case, he naturally no longer rejects it, and will even take the initiative to try to use more new actors.

After all, the entertainment industry in recent years has been completely dominated by young and popular actors, and these actors really can't match Wu Yuan's face, so it's better for him to discover new talents himself (End of this chapter)