Chapter 222 216. Nolan: I always feel like I’m living in Su Chen’s shadow!

When Nolan spent the afternoon in the sun, his body was covered with a faint smell of burnt skin.

When he leisurely held the wine glass, stood up from in front of the swimming pool, and walked back to the living room, his eyes stayed on the pop-up window of the computer.

Then he frowned.

The movie "Interstellar" had this idea as early as 2008.

Originally, I wanted to find director Spielberg to produce it, but because there were other movies in preparation, time passed by, and Nolan temporarily put down the movie script.

During this time, he wanted to restart the project.

But it also takes time to perfect the script and fill in the details.

The current so-called "Interstellar" script and the final script shot by Su Chen are completely different.

It can be said that apart from the similarity of the overall background, there is no similarity.

Moreover, the script currently in Nolan's hand is not called "Interstellar", but "Planet Login".

When Nolan saw this email, he was shocked.

After that, I immediately searched the Internet for the source of the movie Interstellar, and finally found that I couldn't find it.

It turns out that it is being shown in the far east.

Moreover, it is said that it will be released in theaters around the world in half a month.

This shocked Nolan!

Because as far as he knows, isn't Dongfang very good at making martial arts movies? No, all their energy seems to be focused on palace dramas, as well as various movies and TV series about the Second World War against Japan.

There is no soil for science fiction in the East at all.

Moreover, the more information he learned, the stronger Nolan's surprise became.

It seems that after this movie was released in the East, it broke the single-day box office record one after another??

That means that this movie is not a gimmick or a bad movie. This is a good movie with your eyes closed!

"Director Su Chen."

As soon as Nolan searched for this name, he saw Su Chen's scarf.

There is a wall in China, but not abroad. After translating it with the browser, Nolan's finger moved the mouse to the behind-the-scenes and documentary of "Interstellar".

Time passes minute by minute.

The expression on Nolan's face changed from curiosity at first to shock.

Then admire.

He could hardly describe his inner excitement in words.

At the same time, a strong sense of crisis unconsciously surged deep in my heart.

Oriental science fiction movies have actually developed to this level!

He immediately called his brother.

Jonathan Nolan is a famous screenwriter and novelist, and he was also the core of the creative team of Westworld.

"Jonathan, did you see it? It's so shocking!"

Nolan's first sentence was filled with emotion: "We have wanted to make a movie for nearly three years, but a talented young director from the East has actually made it happen!"

"I saw their behind-the-scenes footage, and it was breathtaking."

"More powerful than our imagination!"

Immediately afterwards, Jonathan quickly went online and turned on the phone, and then saw everything Nolan sent him.

Jonathan was also shocked.

"God, they actually thought of such an advanced shooting method two years ago. The Eastern film industry seems to be on the rise!"

"And, this movie..."

Jonathan took a brief look at the trailer.

"It seems to be somewhat similar to our ideas, but their content is more detailed and shocking! There are many things that we can't imagine."

Nolan couldn't describe his excitement at this moment. He even wanted to take a plane immediately to meet the young director in the east.

In fact, the type of script is about the earth gradually coming to an end and human beings starting to look for their next home in space.

Almost everyone in Hollywood receives five or six similar scripts in each mailbox a year.

This first draft of a script is of little significance.

The main thing is how to tell this story and how to make it so that everyone can believe it.

The reason why Nolan spared time was to perfect this idea, but when he saw that Dongfang had actually started filming two years ago, it also broke box office records after it was released.

He now feels that he is far inferior to this young director from the East.

To be honest, the script in his hand is just an outline and a prototype of an idea, so when he saw "Interstellar", Nolan was shocked, envious, and everything.

But even if he was beaten to death, he would never have imagined that "I have become a substitute."

On the contrary, Nolan still felt a little apologetic in his heart.

The other party has taken pictures, but you still want to take pictures? How can you take better pictures than others?

Fortunately, we didn't start filming early, otherwise I might have really called this Oriental director to apologize.

Although he wanted to see how wonderful this movie was right away, after learning that he could watch the movie overseas in fifteen days, he suppressed his desire to get to know Su Chen.

I'm going to wait until I finish watching the movie.

…

And in Shanghai.

Su Chen was in Zhao Qingren's company communicating with representatives from theaters in Japan and South Korea about film arrangement issues.

Because for the Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian markets, "Interstellar" is an imported film. Logically speaking, the number of films scheduled will not be too large.

However, because the domestic box office performance was better than expected.

Therefore, Su Chen has a strong backbone and has an absolute advantage in negotiation.

Whether it is an imported film or not, as long as it is a profitable film, then if the theater chain does not arrange more films, it will be a loss for the theater chain.

The interests of the country are not stable at all in front of capitalists.

So after the negotiation was over, Su Chen only showed the record-breaking real box office data, and these overseas theaters went back to arranging films.

Because they have faith.

The more you queue, the more you earn. Who would have trouble with money?

…

All theaters in Japan, South Korea, Europe, and North America are sure to release it at the same time, which has the advantage of a massive flow.

If the box office performance is good, the film scheduling rate of the theater chain may be temporarily increased.

By nine o'clock in the evening.

Su Chen was studying carefully about how to raise children, when Li Duoyu walked up to him with an excited expression.

"What's wrong?"

"Brother Chen, how is your English?"

"It's not good, what's wrong? Do you want to provide English prenatal education for my future daughter?"

Su Chen raised his head with a smile.

Li Duoyu shook his head: "No, no, it's an overseas long-distance call. There's a translator there. It's the director Nolan."

Li Duoyu admires Nolan very much. He is the international director of "Inception" and the Batman series!

When Su Chen heard this, he understood it as soon as he thought about it.

With Nolan's resources in overseas film circles, it would not be easy to find a distribution company for "Interstellar".

"Director Nolan said that he admires you because you did something he wanted to do but didn't have the confidence to do."

Li Duoyu's excited words were a little hard to explain.

Su Chen raised his eyebrows.

"Ah this..."

The look in Li Duoyu's eyes at Su Chen once again rose to a new level.

"Brother Su Chen, you are already connected with a top director."

Before Su Chen could say anything, Li Duoyu continued: "They'll call back in five minutes. What should I say? Just tell them you'll get back to them when you're free."

Su Chen smiled and said: "That's not necessary, I can just answer it directly. It doesn't matter if they don't have an interpreter over there. Your sister, Qing Ren, is a lousy English speaker."
To be continued...