133: The Revolution of Cinema! Unprecedented!(1/4)
"Civilized star, play the 2035 version of the "Three-Body Problem" trilogy again, and then feel the unprecedented shock again."
"Okay." said the civilized star.
Then, a huge virtual screen unfolds.
A movie that can be recorded in film history and plays from scratch.
Wang Huan was once again intoxicated and was once again shocked.
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To be honest, filming "The Three-Body Problem" is indeed a hell-level difficulty.
The six giants in Hollywood have already made it clear and clear.
This work is extremely difficult to change.
"World of Warcraft" is already a world-renowned super IP, and there is no shortage of protagonists who can allow the audience to immerse themselves in emotions. Although there are many protagonists, Saar, Illidan, Arthas, Silvanaras, and even King Varian, you can be the protagonist of a certain movie by pulling it out.
But it has huge difficulty in changing because these plots are too closely connected, have a causal relationship with each other, and the historical span is too long.
If you start shooting from the beginning of history, there is no suitable protagonist.
Starting from the exciting protagonist, I found that there were too many plots in front of me that I couldn't explain.
After several years of operation, the first movie of "Warcraft" was completed. Despite all the shortcomings and some complaints, it is still a good movie.
However, this movie was a failure, with almost no cost recovered at the global box office, and there was basically no second one.
The difficulty of changing the Three-Body Problem is even higher than that of Warcraft.
In another world, a company once bought the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem" and filmed the first one.
As a result, after a very high-level leader went to watch the finished film, the film was sealed up and not released.
Re-shooting or additional shooting is useless.
Later, "The Wandering Earth" scored more than 5 billion yuan in box office with a super high completion, and this year became the first year of Chinese science fiction movies.
But to be honest, the plot and original version of the movie "The Wandering Earth" are still very different.
Of course, the movie adheres to the essence and setting, but apart from that, the relevant characters and plots have almost nothing to do with each other.
The wandering earth is short, but the story is shocking and the time span is not short.
The movie "The Wandering Earth" is more like an intercepting a certain time period inside, and then adapting it in this blank space to fill in its own story, so it has a very complete story.
But... it's difficult to do this in "The Three-Body Problem".
At least the first three-body, this is impossible.
Because the first original work of the Three-Body Problem itself has a very complete story, and it is not even able to change the plot.
It’s not that Wang Huan thought that he could also win huge praise and a huge box office success.
But... tell the truth.
In science fiction movies, "The Wandering Earth" should be regarded as a pawn in "The Three-Body Problem" and used to accumulate experience.
"The Three-Body Problem" is the king of Chinese science fiction.
But this king bomb is really too difficult.
Otherwise, so many years would have passed, and no real giant dared to make a movie.
As a result, Netflix in the United States bought it and went to film a TV series.
In another world, no real movies came out until 2021.
In the future history learned in the Tower of the End of the Times.
Wang Huan knew that in the following decades, many versions of "The Three-Body Problem" were filmed.
If you only talk about box office, you will basically achieve great success.
but……
In terms of reputation and completion, almost all of the previous versions were scolded.
All of them are very dissatisfied.
It was not until 2035 that the most perfect "Three-Body Problem" trilogy truly appeared.
This version, whether it is the picture, lineup, script structure, completion, etc., has reached its limit.
It is this version of the "Three-Body Problem" trilogy that truly conquered the whole world.
This is the trilogy of this edition that truly defeated the Hollywood masterpiece from the front.
In the mid-21920s, Chinese movies surpassed the United States in the domestic box office.
However, the global box office has always been far behind the United States.
Almost no film can compete with Hollywood, even if China's GDP has surpassed the United States and has become the world's number one.
Until this Three-Body in 2035.
It really defeated Hollywood blockbusters in the global market.
Therefore, this version of "The Three-Body Problem" has become an extremely important work in the future history of Chinese film, even in the history of world film.
This version of "The Three-Body Problem" adopts a very bold adaptation method.
The first part is not very adapted.
The second part, the adaptation is a little bolder, but it still follows the character structure in it, and it still follows the timeline and world framework in the book, but the story has begun to be added.
The third part, adaptation is the most bold, and it still follows the world framework, world view, timeline in the book, but many stories and characters have been recreated. But one thing is that it must have the soul of "The Three-Body Problem", and it will definitely not violate the timeline and the causal relationship inside.
This is a very risky act.
But, it was a success in the end, and it was a great success.
This version of the trilogy took more than four years in total.
He almost dragged down three investors, finished his budget again and again, fooled the filmmakers he really loved again and again, tricked them into the crew and made a guest appearance, then made a guest appearance inexplicably into the starring actor, and finally became an investor for no reason.
In this way, the entire trilogy spent 4.5 billion yuan.
It is almost tripled from the original plan of 1.6 billion.
And the total duration of the entire trilogy is nearly 11 hours.
This is a very exaggerated time. Generally speaking, a movie costs about 100 minutes, and even "Avengers 4" only has 182 minutes.
There are even some movies that only have one, but they try hard to fill the water and then divide them into two movies.
The first time I played like this, I even cheated a lot of box office sales.
The second time I played like this, I was completely finished. I was so sad that the movie was obviously OK.
The longer a movie is, the more it affects the box office, because there are fewer episodes to play.
This version of the "Three-Body Problem" trilogy has an average of more than 200 minutes, which is exactly twice the time of other movies.
So, the idea of the film company and the investors at that time was.
Forget it, let's go.
Anyway, we are hard-working.
It took more than four years to shoot, and I experienced countless hardships and tortures in the meantime. Now I am released, I feel relieved.
Whether it is dead or alive, stretching your head and shrinking your head is also a knife.
I just won’t cut it anymore. If the publisher forces me to do so, I won’t cut it anymore.
As a result, it was a great success.
A never-before-expected success.
It broke all previous box office records, and put aside the previous records very far.
That is in 2035, the Chinese film market has been saturated, and the market size has not increased for several years.
Unlike before 2020, due to the rapid development of the market, a film was inexplicably released.
A record that unexpectedly appeared appeared and unexpectedly appeared.
For example, for some reason, a small-cost comedy made more than one billion in box office, becoming the box office champion of domestic films.
Immediately afterwards, another fantasy film with an average quality was released, which was directly worth more than 2 billion.
Immediately afterwards, a Wolf Warrior 25.68 billion.
Then, an animated film "Nezha" directly soared to 5 billion.
The entire film market is full of miracles and constantly refreshing people's cognition.
But this miracle stopped almost a few years later.
Until 2035, this version of "The Three-Body Problem", the most restored the essence of the Three-Body Problem, but in some ways, the story is the boldest.
Therefore, to some extent, the Chinese are definitely not self-confidence.
To be continued...