Millennium director

Chris Columbus.

A name that Wu Yuan was very familiar with.

He is the director of the first three films in the Harry Potter series.

But what makes Wu Yuan even more familiar is that according to the original trajectory, he should have been the producer of the Night at the Museum series.

He and his friends first spotted the original story of Night at the Museum and bought the rights to adapt it. Chris Columbus personally took charge as the producer and initiated the production of the film.

However, in this life, because of Wu Yuan's intervention, Chris Columbus missed Night at the Museum.

After filming Harry Potter, he acted in several movies, served as a producer for several low-budget comedies, and was the producer of a movie. His resume is quite impressive.

Disney did not recruit Gore Verbinski, the director of the original Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy who had been contacted by Wu Yuan before.

Nor did they find Rob Marshall, the successor who originally took over Pirates of the Caribbean 4 in time and space.

Actually found Chris Columbus!

This made Wu Yuan extremely surprised.

He understands that Gore Verbinski was not hired. When making the first film, Disney itself was not confident, so it is understandable that Gore Verbinski, a young director, take a gamble.

But now that the trilogy has become popular all over the world and has become one of the most influential film IPs in the world, Disney does not dare to gamble on such a hot subject for a small director like Gore Vibbins.

But Rob Marshall, the successor who was supposed to be hired by Disney, is a great director!

In 2002, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the musical film Chicago. Memoirs of a Geisha, a famous film in China that made the International Chapter an international film, was also directed by him.

How come in this life, under the instigation of Wu Yuan, a little butterfly, Rob Marshall missed out on Pirates of the Caribbean 4?

Wu Yuan asked Depp sideways, but Depp also didn't know the details of Disney's choice of director.

He only knew that Disney may have chosen Chris Columbus because of his experience in directing fantasy movies.

After all, there are many magical creatures in Harry Potter.

When talking about this, Depp also curiously asked Wu Yuan: Daniel, why don't you continue making fantasy movies?

I think you do a great job making this kind of movie!

A few years ago, when Pirates of the Caribbean was still at its peak, Wu Yuan was considered an authority in the field of fantasy movies. I don't know how many Hollywood directors have to find out Pirates of the Caribbean when making movies with magic and fantasy themes. I watched Pirates of the Caribbean over and over again to try to figure out Wu Yuan's shooting techniques.

Even Painted Skin, which he shot in China, is quite well-known in the Hollywood director circle because it is under the banner of oriental fantasy. Many directors who make fantasy films have bought the disc to watch.

Although it is most likely a pirated disc.

This shows how influential Wu Yuan is among Hollywood fantasy film directors.

After all, his three Pirates of the Caribbean films have grossed nearly $3 billion in global box office

However, this fantasy master, after making three Pirates of the Caribbean films, turned his back on art films and science fiction films, which surprised countless people in the industry.

Faced with Depp's confusion, Wu Yuan smiled and explained: Depp, taking over the Pirates of the Caribbean series is just a job for me.

And science fiction is what I really love.

Wu Yuan gestured with joy and said: Since the creation of movies, over the past hundred years, the art of movies has gone through several innovations, from the era of silent films to the era of sound films, and from the era of black and white films to the era of color films.

Now, film technology is about to usher in a new era again. The mature IMAX technology and 3D visual images will bring comprehensive innovation to the current film industry!

In the next ten or twenty years, world movies will enter the era of IMAX 3D movies!

This new era will not completely replace the 2D movie era, but it will usher in an unprecedented drastic change in science fiction movies!

You will know it when you watch Avatar. Facts have proved that the success of this movie proves the audience's desire for a comfortable visual experience, and they are also willing to pay higher ticket prices for advanced film technology and advanced sensory enjoyment.

Only science fiction movies can make the most of this new technology! Bringing high-level sensory enjoyment and exciting movie-watching experience to the audience!

IMAX plus 3D movie technology has given science fiction movies a new lease of life!

The 21st century will be the romantic era of science fiction movies!

The emergence of IMAX 3D movies will have minimal impact on other types of movies, such as romance movies, war movies, comedies, reality movies, literary films, etc., and may even have negative effects.

But for science fiction movies, the emergence of IMAX 3D technology has simply set off a technological revolution.

In the future, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, DC Cinematic Universe, Transformers series, and even mecha monster movies such as Pacific Rim will all be able to take the world by storm because of the emergence of IMAX 3D technology.

Although, these movies are often criticized for being just stacked special effects, industrial garbage, and popcorn movies with simple stories.

But it is undeniable that with the innovation of IMAX 3D technology, global audiences have been conquered by special effects blockbusters, and Hollywood's box office performance has shown explosive growth.

In the next 15 years, the number of Hollywood movies with a global box office of over 1 billion US dollars will suddenly increase from less than ten to more than 100, of which 90% are IMAX 3D movies, and science fiction movies account for the majority of them!

Superhero movies are also science fiction movies!

Everyone in the world, including Cameron, who shot the first IMAX 3D movie, has no better understanding than Wu Yuan of how much this technology has changed the global film industry.

There is no doubt that in the next 15 years, global commercial movies will be special effects blockbusters, and only special effects blockbusters can easily sell more than one billion US dollars at the global box office.

In special effects blockbusters, science fiction movies are the main force.

Wu Yuan is a person who is good at embracing the future, so he naturally chooses to bet in the field of science fiction movies.

In Hollywood, his focus for the next five to ten years will be to make IMAX 3D science fiction movies.

At home, he also wants to embrace the new era and usher in the era of Chinese-language special effects blockbusters!

As for Chinese special effects blockbusters, they are not only about science fiction, but also about fairy tales that are unique to Chinese culture!

Light and Shadow Times has long been ambitiously laying out its own universe of works, using the TV series Soul Ferry to unify the worldviews of several magical movies.

The soul ferryman in Along with the Gods and the demon and demon hunter in Painted Skin are just appetizers.

In the next five to ten years, Wu Yuan plans to create his own Xianxia movie universe in the country that belongs to the era of light and shadow!

From Shushan Sword Immortal to Gods and Ghosts to online novels, the future prospects of China’s special effects blockbusters are no less than those of Hollywood superheroes!

Wu Yuan, who has always walked on two legs, has to grasp both science fiction and fairy tales, and both hands must be strong!

Depp, my next new movie is still a science fiction film, but it's a pity that the leading actor has already been cast as Matt Damon, otherwise I would still like to work with you again. Wu Yuan said to Depp with a smile. (End of chapter)