director of the millennium

After reading the project book of "Life Events", Wu Yuan immediately wrote the word "approved" on it and asked the company to try its best to sign director Liu Jiangjiang.

Times are changing, and the training of new directors must also keep pace with the times.

Liu Jiangjiang is less than 35 years old, which makes him a very young director in the circle. In addition, "Life Events" itself is indeed excellent. After training, he may become a new pillar of the light and shadow era.

After all, the old pillars of the light and shadow era are not doing well now.

The "old man" Zhang Guorong felt that his life was complete after filming "Glass Love". Wu Yuan was afraid that if this movie really won an award, he might not make movies again in the future and would completely start his retirement life.

Speaking of "Glass", due to the "black swan incident", the film's road to winning awards had to be paused.

Originally, Zhang Guorong planned to take this movie to the Venice Film Festival or the Cannes Film Festival this year, but now due to force majeure, all the crew members have to stay in China and it is impossible for them to go abroad to attend the film festival.

His situation is different from Wu Yuan's. Wu Yuan went to the United States in December last year, before the incident happened, so he could stay there for a few months and finish his business before returning to China.

But the crew of "Glass Love" cannot go abroad to participate in the film festival now, which is a bit difficult.

Moreover, whether Cannes and Venice can be held normally this year is also a question. On March 3, the organizing committee of the Cannes International Film Festival issued a statement saying that in view of the global epidemic, the 19rd Cannes International Film Festival originally scheduled for May has been postponed, and the specific postponement time is still uncertain.

As for the Venice Film Festival, there has been no news yet. After all, the Venice Film Festival is held in September, so it is too early to talk about whether it will be postponed or not.

Wu Yuan vaguely remembers that this year's Cannes seemed to have been finally changed to an online event, and a lot of reforms were carried out, but in the end it was a failure.

The Venice Film Festival, however, had little impact and was eventually held successfully in September.

So Wu Yuan also suggested to Zhang Guorong that he should participate in the Venice Film Festival instead of joining the fun in Cannes.

Anyway, he is the Venice Film Festival's best actor, so he is considered one of the insiders in Venice.

Closer to home.

In short, Wu Yuan now urgently needs to discover a group of new directors to take over the development strategy of self-made films in the era of light and shadow in the next ten to twenty years.

Although all famous directors these days like to set up their own studios or film and television companies and do not like to work for other film companies, and all adopt a cooperative approach, Guangying Times is still the most suitable film and television company for cooperation in the circle, and it still has a strong appeal.

However, when Wu Yuan read four or five project proposals for review, he didn't see any amazing or familiar movies from his previous life.

It can only be said that as time gets closer to 2022 when he wakes up from his dream, the film industry is becoming more and more unfamiliar to Wu Yuan. The situation in which he used to rely on foresight to make decisions is gradually changing to making decisions based purely on experience.

Fortunately, Wu Yuan is still very satisfied with his directorial career over the past nearly 20 years. He has accumulated enough experience and believes that he can face the new future head on.

"what"

"Here it comes, familiar face!"

Just as he was thinking about it, Wu Yuan saw another familiar movie.

But this movie looks awkwardly familiar.

It is Happy Twist’s new project – “The Lone Moon”!
Wu Yuan is the second largest shareholder of Happy Twist. Since Happy Twist developed, although it has a close cooperative relationship with Guangying Times, it no longer wants to seek investment from Guangying Times at the beginning, and the proportion of self-made films is increasing. For movies like "Mr. Donkey", "Half Comedy", "The Shameful Iron Fist", "Li Cha's Aunt" and "The Ringing Bell", Happy Twist basically invested the majority of the money itself, and then asked Guangying Times and other network resources to invest the minority.

When it comes to making a movie, if it’s a box office success, investing it yourself will definitely be the most profitable.

But this time it was very rare that Happy Twist actually took the initiative to invest in a project with Guangying Times, inviting Guangying Times to be the main investor, while it only participated as a minor investor.

The reason is simple, that is, this movie has a lot of science fiction elements and it costs a lot of money.
Happy Twist plans to make a blockbuster in which 95% of the shots involve special effects!

They even used motion capture technology in the movie and created a space kangaroo entirely through CG modeling.

According to the project plan, in order to make this movie well, it is estimated that tens of thousands of staff will be needed to complete the production of this movie.

Therefore, Happy Twist alone cannot afford to spend so much money. It needs to find at least three to five production companies to collaborate on the production, and the biggest spender has to be the most wealthy company.

If Guangying Times doesn't work, then we have to find big companies like China Film Group and Alibaba that have the money and confidence to take over.

But when Wu Yuan finished reading the outline of the script, he felt very embarrassed.

The story of "Alone on the Moon" is really similar to his "The Martian". It can be regarded as a funny and light-hearted version of "The Martian", except with the addition of a funny King Kong kangaroo.

If "The Martian" is a space opera written by science, then "Alone on the Moon" is a big mess of space comedy.

It certainly couldn't be considered plagiarism, but this sense of familiarity still made Wu Yuan feel a little weird.

However, when he saw the source of the script, he immediately understood.

It turns out that this script was adapted by Happy Twist from a Korean comic, and the copyright of the original comic was purchased.
Cao!
Once the country steals, we will know whether it is possible or not!
The original version turned out to be from a Korean comic, and Wu Yuan understood it immediately. After all, they steal everything from Chinese people, so it is completely understandable that they steal the ideas of an American novel!
The script of this movie was not original, but it immediately made Wu Yuan feel better.

Even if this movie is finally released and is criticized by many people for plagiarizing the idea of ​​"The Martian", it doesn't matter. After all, the original version is a Korean comic, so if you want to criticize, just blame the Koreans.

Once the firepower is dispersed, the Light and Shadow Era can hide behind and secretly count money.

Yes, although Wu Yuan felt a little uncomfortable, after reading the script he still felt that this movie would be profitable.

The combination of Happy Twist's comedy strengths and the never-before-seen space comedy genre will definitely be a hit as long as there are no major problems during filming.

Especially since the male and female protagonists are the classic Shen-Ma combination, it will further guarantee the box office success.

As we all know, whether Happy Twist’s movies can be a hit depends on whether their “Tencent content” is high!

Judging from the script, the movie "Alone on the Moon" has a very high box office value, which is similar to "The Martian"!

What else is there to say?
Wu Yuan slammed the table and signed the electronic document.

"Shoot!" (End of this chapter)