China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 497: Feeling sorry for Director Wu for a few seconds
Some of the story content of Ghost Blows Out the Light is really suitable for adaptation into an adventure movie.

Some famous domestic directors have tried it, such as Lu Chuan's "Nine-story Demon Tower" and Wu Ershan's "Mojin: The Lost Tomb".

Wu Ershan's "Mojin: The Lost Legend" is the best among them, both in terms of box office and quality.

The box office of "Mojin: The Lost Tomb" is about 1.6 to 1.7 billion, which is a great result.

Wu Ershan won the honor of being among the top ten box office in Chinese film history with this movie.

However, Li Yu had already bought out the exclusive film and television adaptation rights of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" early on.

His buyout period is twenty years, so Wu Ershan will not have the opportunity to film "Mojin: The Lost Legend" for more than ten years unless he cooperates with Li Yu.

Speaking of which, Li Yu felt a little sorry for Director Wu.

Director Wu is so miserable. The exclusive film and television adaptation rights of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" were acquired by Li Yu early on.

Director Wu missed out on a movie called "Mojin: The Lost Tomb".

Due to the huge influence brought by "The Great Wall" series, the national teacher saw the power of the combination of history and mythology.

The national master actually slapped his thigh and thought of filming "Fengshen".

Director Wu's two important works were unexpectedly snatched away by Li Yu and Guo Shi.

By the way, the first part of The National Master’s Conferred God is currently being preheated for release, and it will most likely be released during the Lunar New Year holiday at the end of the year.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Stephen Chow and Wang Jing announced that they will lock in the Spring Festival slot next year.

The national master is definitely not afraid of Stephen Chow and Wang Jing, but with so many big guys crowded together, someone will definitely suffer.

This is the truth: when two tigers fight, one of them will be injured.

He has already reached the status of national master, and now he doesn’t need to prove himself by defeating anyone.

Domestic audiences will question why Guoshi’s films are getting worse and worse and the quality of his star girls is getting worse and worse, but they will not question Guoshi’s status as the number one person in Chinese films.

This is the powerful benefit behind the Olympic gold medal.

At that time, someone advised Li Yu to run for the election of the director of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

He said that even if he was not selected, it was still a resume.

Li Yu laughed at that time and then chose to refuse.

Every director can participate in the election, but people will not choose a small director with little influence, no matter how talented you are.

The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is a major event that has risen to Guo Jia's level. People will give priority to veteran directors who have qualifications, good reputation, and are reliable.

On the surface, everyone can participate in the election, but in fact, there are only two final answers: the national teacher and Chen Kaige.

If Chen Kaige's performance of "The Promise" had not been so bad and he had not proposed the bold move of reciting a poem, he would be the strongest competitor of the national master.

Unfortunately, there is no if. Chen Kaige is an old intellectual. He likes to do some weird things that are difficult for others to understand and give away heads.

The national teacher should really thank Chen Kaige for his current status.

As for the idea of ​​running for election as a resume, Li Yu wanted to laugh even more.

In addition to the national teacher and Chen Kaige, do people remember other people who participated in the selection of the Olympic chief director? No.

Instead of doing this useless work, Li Yu at that time might as well do his own thing.

This is what Li Yu thought at the time. Looking back now, his choice was wise and correct.

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A month later, Li Yu's "Ready Player One" secretly started filming without any warning.

This time Li Yu was very low-key and did not disclose any information about "Ready Player One" to the public during the preparation period.

Many small media outlets only received the news on the day of the launch.

This time, Li Yu did a good job of keeping the secret. The main reason for keeping a low profile is that "Ready Player One" is a science fiction movie.

As mentioned before, the current Chinese film industry is a desert of science fiction films.

There haven't been many good science fiction films produced in China.

If the publicity is too aggressive and the audience's appetite is whetted too high, the quality of the work will not meet everyone's expectations and it will easily become another "Fortress of Devil City".

The reason why "Magic City Fortress" had such great early publicity was that it almost touted itself as a work that opened the door to domestic science fiction.

The result was a big mess, which almost closed the door to domestic science fiction.

Of course, it is difficult for ordinary directors to replicate the "glory" of "The Fortress of Devil City".

It is easy to make a bad movie, but it is a technical job to make a bad movie the best.

If we want to break the science fiction film floor set by Director Teng, we may have to ask Director Bi to come out of retirement.

During the interview, the reporter asked Li Yu why he chose to start the filming quietly.

Li Yu answered truthfully: "Because this time I am challenging a science fiction film, and science fiction has always been our weak point.

We haven’t produced any good works in this field.

I'm afraid that it's too high-profile and that making a work that doesn't meet everyone's expectations will disappoint everyone.

It’s better to shoot secretly, so people don’t have too many expectations. Even if the work doesn’t impress people, they won’t be disappointed, right?”

There will always be reporters who ask sharp questions.

A reporter asked Hu Ge: "When you were acting in Nirvana in Fire, your character Mei Changsu was suppressed by the new Liang Emperor played by Huang Xiaoming.

Many people think that you don’t have much acting talent. Their evaluation of Mei Changsu is that they can see that you are trying very hard to act, but the results are not as good as those of real talented actors.

Are you confident that you can act well in Director Li's new film? Movies require much higher acting skills than TV dramas."

Such a sharp question left Hu Ge stunned on the spot.

Even Fat Fan who was standing next to him was stunned.

It's bad, we met a tough opponent. Even Hu Ge's acting skills were questioned and he was made difficult on the spot.

Would she be embarrassed later? She knew how bad her performance was in The Empress of China.

That was her performance of being lazy and slacking off. She was several blocks away from Hu Gedu, Mei Changsu and so on.

The audience can see that Hu Ge is playing Mei Changsu well, but they cannot see that she is playing Wu Meiniang well.

Hugo didn't know how to answer such a difficult question.

When Hu Ge was in a dilemma, Li Yu spoke up to help him: "What you said is all old news. How long has Hu Ge been in the industry since his debut in Nirvana in Fire?
It is inappropriate to use the Hu Ge during the Nirvana in Fire period to fit the current Hu Ge.

In recent years, Hu Ge has been performing in dramas to hone his acting skills, and his acting skills have made great progress compared to before.

Otherwise, why would I choose him to play the leading male role? I am the director, you guys don’t know the character better than me, the director, do you? "

At the end, Li Yu retorted to the reporter.

Li Yu was also annoyed by these reporters. They always liked to ask tricky questions to embarrass people so that they could write eye-catching news reports.

Afterwards, both Li Yu's humble attitude towards the movie and his domineering support for Hu Ge were praised by netizens and Hu Ge's fans.

"Director Li is so humble. He is such a great director and actually said that he is afraid that the movie will not be well made and will disappoint us, the audience."

"Director Li is so domineering. He helped my idol to confront that reporter."

"Director Li is really my mouthpiece. He said it so well. Can Hu Ge back then be the same as Hu Ge now? Except for some actors who don't make progress, who would stay where they are?"

(End of this chapter)