director of the millennium

How to push?
Wu Yuan thought about it, but couldn't think of a suitable project.

Liu Yifei is obviously only suitable to be an actress, but in the next few years, there will be no outstanding movies with female protagonists in Hollywood.

If we go back a few years, there were several movies such as "Black Swan" and "La La Land" that allowed Liu Yifei to try her hand, but in the current era of superheroes, only superhero movies and animated movies in Hollywood can occupy the top ten box office.

As for the movie that didn't even make it into the top ten at the box office, it was not a boost for Liu Yifei, but rather a regression in her performance.

After all, although she didn't appear in many Hollywood movies, each of them was among the top ten global box office hits of the year!
Even a clever woman cannot make a meal without rice!

Judging from the form of Hollywood movies in the next few years, if Wu Yuan wants to force Liu Yifei, he has to write an original script with a female lead.

But to be honest, he still has some understanding of himself. The response to his attempt to adapt the original "Love Letter" in China was average. Although the box office performance was okay among romance films, it was obvious that most fans regarded this movie as a playful work for Wu Yuan to satisfy his interest in being an "actor". Few people took this movie seriously.

Even many articles and videos reviewing Wu Yuan's films ignore this romance film and don't pay much attention to it.

Under such circumstances, asking Wu Yuan to make an original movie that could break into the top ten in the global box office would be too risky.

It's not impossible, but the chances are really slim.

In this case, Wu Yuan only had one choice left, and that was the movie "Mulan".

If it weren't for the impact of the epidemic, the box office performance of "Mulan" might not have been so bad.

Although this movie is indeed not loved by mainland Chinese audiences, after all, Chinese people have a deep self-understanding of "Mulan". Whether it is the "Jiji fu jiji, Mulan danghu weaving" learned in junior high school, or the various artistic images of Mulan later, they are all in stark contrast to the "Mulan" in the Disney movie.

In fact, Wu Yuan didn't understand either. The Disney animated version of "Mulan" was very well made. It not only had a good box office in Europe and the United States, but was also widely acclaimed in China, becoming an animated film that CCTV Movie Channel regularly broadcasts.

Although it may not be compared with "Huluwa", it is also one of the few animated films that are deeply remembered by many people born in the 80s and 90s in their childhood, and its status is comparable to "The Lotus Lantern".

But after Disney adapted the film into a live-action movie, they changed the story of the animated film a lot, inexplicably added some wizard elements, pretended to understand the concept of "qi", and did not study the most basic history of China. They used the Yongding Tulou as Mulan's home and gave her early Tang Dynasty style makeup.
All I can say is that the stitching was very poor, with the man wanting this and that, and ultimately a pair of elements that would be good individually were mixed into a pot of poisonous soup that is extremely toxic to the Chinese people.

However, for foreigners who don't understand Chinese culture, "Mulan" is not bad. At least after the movie was broadcast online, Disney+ had a good number of views and good word-of-mouth reviews. There are even a group of movie fans in Europe and the United States who made various Mulan stand materials and spontaneously promoted and praised the movie on the Internet.

At least for foreign movie fans, mainly in Europe and the United States, "Mulan" is not a bad movie and still has its merits.

It seems that Disney has always been like this. Disney's live-action movies, whether it is "Beauty and the Beast" or "The Lion King", have all received mediocre responses in China and even have poor box office, but have good reputation and box office in the global market.

The 2019 "The Lion King" even grossed $16.53 billion worldwide, but the response in China was mediocre.

Ultimately, it's a matter of cultural differences. Just like Jackie Chan's "The Karate Kid" was criticized as a bad movie in China and had poor box office performance, but it made $1.76 million in North America and $3.59 million worldwide, making enough money that Sony Columbia Pictures has been looking for Jackie Chan to make "The Karate Kid 2".

Although "Mulan" is not that good, if the original script can be released normally, it will have no problem making $300 to $400 million at the global box office.

If Wu Yuan could take the time to revise the script (which is actually not necessary), and directly expand the 1998 version of "Mulan" slightly and make it a live-action version, the global box office would not be bad, and the domestic performance would also be good.

After all, the 1998 version of "Mulan" has stood the test of time, proving that this version of "Mulan" not only satisfies European and American audiences, but also satisfies Chinese audiences, who believe that it fits the image of Mulan in the minds of the public.

No matter what, it is definitely much better than Disney's live-action version of "Mulan".

To this day, Wu Yuan still cannot understand why Disney did not just copy the successful precedent, but instead changed it into a hodgepodge.

I can only say that finding a female director to shoot a "war film" is a really wrong thing to do.

If this movie had been produced and released a year in advance, and the script had been compiled based on the 1998 animated version, avoiding the impact of force majeure, this Disney princess movie would have had a very high chance of success.

After much thought, Wu Yuan felt that this arrangement was the most reliable, and it would be best to start filming in 2017 and release it in 2018!
"But before that, I'd better take a good rest." Wu Yuan thought with a smile.

In December of 2016, the annual Lunar New Year movie season is about to arrive.

This year's Lunar New Year holiday also has several "heavyweight" works.

On the second day of December, "The Swordsman" directed by Derek Yee took the lead in opening this celebration of the years.

Following closely in the second week were a number of domestic small and medium-cost films, including the Hollywood blockbusters "Hacksaw Ridge" and "Young Babylon".

The highlights in the third and fourth weeks of December include "The Last Romance", "The Ferryman", "Journey to India", and "Railroad Tigers".

The three big characters "Wang Jiawei" are written on the poster, but he is only the producer of "The Ferryman", which is currently the most anticipated by the audience and is hailed as the movie with the greatest possibility of becoming the box office champion during this Lunar New Year period.

Originally, there was another movie competing with it in this summer season, that was "The Great Wall" directed by Zhang Yimou.

However, in this time and space, because of the strong emergence of Light and Shadow Era, coupled with Zhang Yimou's unrestricted creation, both the distributor and the producer are full of confidence in this movie, so they decided to put "The Great Wall" in the more competitive but larger box office Spring Festival period, so this movie will be released again in a month!

Just when the film industry was filled with tension and a big battle was about to begin, a piece of news suddenly spread within the industry.

Director Wu, who has been busy non-stop for several years, is finally going to take a break!
The mainland film market, which has been dominated by Director Wu for a whole year, has finally opened its arms to other films!
This is really good news that will move all directors in the industry! (End of this chapter)