"Brother Bo, Brother Teng, the two big brothers are here to guide you, welcome!"
Huang Bo kicked his feet and scolded with a smile: "Don't be poor, there is something wrong with us over there, rest this afternoon, we come to see you!"
As I mentioned before, Huang Bo and Shen Teng's new film "Crazy Alien" also happened to be filmed in the Oriental Movie Metropolis. Engage in joint publicity or something
At present, these two films are receiving a lot of attention, and they are also adaptations of Da Liu's works. On one side is Shen Teng + Huang Bo, and on the other side is Yuan Hua + Wu Jing. This battle is really going to be fought!
Everyone is looking forward to the championship battle in the next year's Spring Festival. If there is no accident, it should be the two of them fighting in the ring!
Yuan Hua led Shen Teng and Huang Bo around, introduced the other actors of the crew, and mainly visited the four parts that had completed the set - the dungeon, the ice field, the planetary engine, and the space station. Shen Teng and Huang Bo were amazed , was shocked!
Huang Bo couldn't help touching it with his hands: "Tsk tsk, you can do a good job setting! This prop is so well done! The sci-fi atmosphere feels much stronger than ours!"
Shen Teng echoed: "Isn't it? Compared with them, it feels like we are just playing around"
In fact, Yuan Hua has watched these two movies in his previous life, so there is nothing wrong with what he said.
Compared with "The Wandering Earth", isn't "Crazy Alien" just like a joke?
However, I can only think about this in my heart, and Yuan Hua definitely can't say this:
"Hey, you can't say that if the genres are different. Our side is hard sci-fi, and your side should be in the direction of comedy, right?"
Huang Bo nodded: "Well, comedy. Is your filming going well?"
Yuan Hua smiled wryly and shook his head: "To be honest, it didn't go well. To tell you the truth, we have basically been working overtime every day since the filming started, but the filming progress still can't keep up"
Shen Teng said in relief: "Take your time, sci-fi films are definitely not easy to shoot, we are all stuttering, you don't need to think about it to know that it is difficult to do!"
The filming of "The Wandering Earth" was really not smooth, after all, neither the director nor the actors had much experience to be honest.
Sci-fi movies themselves are basically a desert in China. For mainland filmmakers, it is a completely blank field. There are relatively few places to refer to. Basically, all work has to be started from scratch!
The director has never been touched, and the actors have never been filmed. Everyone is crossing the river by feeling the stones, and naturally the progress will not be fast.
Facing unfamiliar sci-fi genres, the director team learned from overseas teams on the one hand, and on the other hand, internally discussed practices. The team repeatedly corrected themselves, from unfamiliar to familiar, from bewildered to mature, and gradually figured out the division of labor.
If it is another subject matter, Yuan Hua's solid basic skills and rich acting experience may be able to stand up, but science fiction films are indeed a completely unfamiliar field for him, and he can only learn by groping.
However, compared with the previous life, this movie has at least two advantages. The first is abundant funds.
In the previous life, the filming of this film was quite difficult, but the biggest difficulty was not the breakthrough in technology and genre films, but that it was difficult for a smart woman to cook without rice and money.
This film has experienced two funding crises, and it was on the verge of dying twice. The first time it ran out of money after filming the ground part, and there was no money to shoot the rest of the space station part!
Director Guo Fan had to consider planb, delete most of Liu Peiqiang's scenes, abandon the father-son line, one of the two main lines, and focus on the main line of the adventure journey of Liu Qi, Han Duoduo, Wang Lei and Han Ziang
If it is really made like this, then this movie is completely over!
After the film itself was released, the roles of the hero and heroine were not pleasing enough. If there was no father-son line and Wu Jing, the most tearful father-son line in the whole film, to polish it, the box office performance of this film can be imagined.
Even under the banner of Wu Jing's promotion, the first-day lineup of the film in the previous life was only 11.4%, and the box office of the new film released on the same day ranked fourth, and the box office on the first day was even only half of "Crazy Alien"!
If Wu Jing's role is really deleted as soy sauce, then this movie will automatically become cannon fodder for the Spring Festival in all likelihood, and it will be a five-day or a three-day tour!
However, Guo Fan had a drink with Wu Jing later. At the beginning, Wu Jing did not make any promises. Guo Fan, who poured a bottle of beer after drinking for three rounds, quickly complained about the "revolutionary family history" while drunk, and Wu Jing who drank too much was also arrested.If you don't want to dye it, you will accept it.
In the end, the "guest star" turned into a 31-day filming and zero-pay starring role. Wu Jing was also "fooled" into investing 60 million yuan in the film, and only then did the part of the space station be added
This is also why when watching a movie, I found that many lines did not match the mouth shapes. The main reason is that most of Liu Peiqiang's scenes were added later, so many places are re-dubbed!
The second time that the funds were exhausted occurred during the post-production period of special effects of the film. Director Guo Fan had no choice but to pay for it twice out of his own pocket when he had nowhere to turn for help. With an investment of 9 million, it is barely guaranteed that the post-production special effects of this film can be successfully completed.
Hard work pays off, and hard work will pay off. The behavior of Wu Jing and Guo Fan seemed silly at the time, but fortunately, the movie was a big success at the box office, and the two of them also reaped enough rewards.
The reason why "The Wandering Earth" is so stretched is largely because Wanda, one of the investors, withdrew its capital halfway!
It is understandable that at that time, Pharaoh himself was in danger and he was busy cutting his own flesh to save himself. The Wanda Group as a whole tended to shrink its strategy. For high-risk projects such as "The Wandering Earth", it was reasonable to choose to give up rationally.
Of course, now that this project is supported by Huazhang Film and Television, the funding problem will naturally cease to exist!
Now that Huazhang has just completed listing and financing is quite convenient, not to mention the company's own capital chain is quite healthy, even if the movie doubles its budget, it is not a problem for Yuan Hua at all.
But in addition to funds, there is a very serious hidden worry during the filming of the film in the previous life, and that is trust.
"The Wandering Earth" is a milestone film that opened the first year of Huaguo's science fiction, and its difficulty in shooting can be imagined, but Guo Fan said that the most difficult thing in shooting is not the financial problem, but the trust.
Before "The Wandering Earth", director Guo Fan did not direct any science fiction-themed films, but made two small-budget films for a short time. For the first time, he challenged Da Liu's adaptation of science fiction novels. Many people were full of enthusiasm for him. distrust.
Who is Guo Fan?
Didn't he make youth films? Does he have the strength to make sci-fi movies?
Guo Fan said that everyone doesn't trust him, not because he is hypocritical and miserly, and it is reflected in many aspects.
Many people may not know that the original actor of "The Wandering Earth" was not Qu Chuxiao, but Chen Ruoxuan, but he was not optimistic about this movie, and would rather pay 50,000 liquidated damages to leave after it started!
It was such a little-known 18th-line actor who would rather give up the chance of leading the actor and run away. It is conceivable that the actors at that time did not trust the director to what extent?
After Chen Ruoxuan seamlessly followed up with the TV series "The Road From Tonight", the crew had no choice but to contact Qu Chuxiao urgently. After the film was released, "The Wandering Earth" received a good reputation at the box office, and "The Road From Tonight" was a hit None, presumably Chen Ruoxuan's mood should be quite complicated
Another investor, Wanda, suddenly withdrew its capital. Isn't it a direct manifestation of its lack of confidence in Guo Fan?
In the previous life, Wanda suddenly withdrew its investment and switched to another movie of the same period, "Love Saint 2", but never thought that "The Wandering Earth" finally won a box office of 4.686 billion. up!
This "Love Saint 2" is worth mentioning, because the hero and heroine of this movie are Wu Xiubo and Bai Baihe.
In fact, it's pretty good. If only one of the male and female protagonists has an accident and the movie is implicated, the film crew will feel a little bit wronged, but if both of them have accidents, the film crew will feel much more at ease! How about making blood j¦Â!
This cannot be called picking up sesame seeds and throwing watermelons, because at least there is still a sesame seed, and there is not even a fart left.
But the situation is much better now. Although most people still don't have much confidence in Guo Fan, because he was chosen by Yuan Hua, although everyone still doubts him, they believe in Yuan Hua's vision.
Facts over the years have proved over and over again that Yuan Hua is unlikely to be wrong when looking at people. Since he has a good opinion of Guo Fan, then there must be something about him, and it is worth looking forward to. At least you can trust him for a while.
Precisely because "The Wandering Earth" is a project led by Yuan Hua, everyone wants to get a share of it, even Wanda wants to get in
However, this copyright has long been placed by Yuan Hua in another company, and it is not in the copyright library of Huazhang Film and Television. Even if Wanda wants to intervene, it will not be so easy. If he didn't get something in exchange, Yuan Hua probably wouldn't let go easily ?