409. Pathfinder

At noon, everyone got together for dinner and then went home.

Since several people drove the car, there was no drinking during the meal. The meal was equivalent to wishing the release of "The Wandering Earth 2" in advance.

"Xiaomi, come with me." Cao Yang greeted.

Ai Xiaomi was stunned for a moment, followed closely behind Boss Cao, and then returned to the company with his boss's Band.

When she saw the words Bomi Building, she breathed a little relieved.

It turned out that I was going back to the company, otherwise I would have thought the boss was going to do something strange to her?

However, Ai Xiaomi immediately slapped herself in the face, and the boss couldn't do something strange to her!

...

After the two returned to the office, Cao Yang asked about Bomi Pictures’ future plans.

"Now "The Wandering Earth 2" has been completed," Cao Yang said. "No matter what the result is, the new film and television must still be done, right? What are we planning?"

Boss Cao always uses [us] instead of [you] or [you]. This is actually a kind of speech that can bring closer and reduce the sense of oppression and show its position. It is easier for everyone to discuss.

The most taboo thing for a boss is to always hold the boss's airs, making people feel that you are arrogant, and then everything will be hidden from you, and there may be a situation where the relationship between the upper and lower levels is isolated.

However, this problem should not have existed between Ai Xiaomi and him before.

Ai Xiaomi thought for a while and answered truthfully, "We are preparing to produce "Three-Body Problem". Now the two-part Wandering Earth has been filmed. It will be more difficult for Wandering Earth to dig deeper things in the future.

It just so happens that Liu’s “Three-Body Problem” is quite popular now and is very popular in the science fiction circle, so we plan to use it as the second subject for shooting.”

"Yeah." Cao Yang nodded, "This idea is correct."

The trilogy of "Three-Body Problem" is the pinnacle of Liu. It started serializing the first part in 2006. It has not been finished yet. In May this year, the second part of the Three-Body Problem was released.

This novel is very popular in the science fiction circle, but it just doesn't go out of the circle, so it is very suitable to adapt movies.

It was very difficult to adapt the Three-Body Problem in my previous life because the worldview and related ideas of this thing were really too big.

Therefore, it is a better choice to proceed step by step and start from the wandering earth. After laying a solid foundation, it will be smoother to "The Three-Body Problem".

Now Ai Xiaomi proposes to continue shooting the Three-Body Problem, which is actually a good idea.

However, it is indeed very difficult to shoot the Three-Body Problem because the period involved in the first part is more sensitive, and the description of the Three-Body Problem is too abstract. In addition, Liu likes to use macro narrative techniques, so it is really not easy to put this movie into the ground.

Cao Yang discussed it with Ai Xiaomi for a moment and said, "Do this slowly, spending more time to craft the script should be OK."

"Yeah." Ai Xiaomi nodded.

"What about the others? Do you have any plans?" Cao Yang continued to ask.

"Hmm?" Ai Xiaomi was stunned for a moment and said, "Actually, I have an idea to make a more unconventional love TV series."

"Well..." Cao Yang couldn't help but frown when he heard the love TV series.

Ai Xiaomi continued, "What I think is, suppose a female blood clan has been sleeping for thousands of years, and then wakes up now and meets a male protagonist. A series of magical stories happening between them, which must be very interesting.

The male protagonist lost too much blood due to a car accident and then met the female protagonist. She successfully saved the male protagonist by sucking her blood for the male protagonist, and then the male protagonist's body began to change.

The TV series focuses on relaxed and cheerful daily life, and do not have extra blood fights or something. The male and female protagonists were forced to fake marriage because of their mutual bonds at first, and then after getting married, they fell in love with each other through slowly getting along..."

Ai Xiaomi's idea must have been born for a long time, so he talked endlessly, and even many details were quite clear, including how the male and female protagonists met, how to develop in the future, what laughs and tears were there, how to give them sugar... etc., and he was very careful.

As Cao Yang listened, he felt something was wrong.

Huh?

This plot sounds familiar.

Isn’t this a very famous book written by a writer named Meng Sanwan in his previous life, called “What is the experience of having a silly blond wife?”

It turns out that you are dreaming of 30,000?

Cao Yang was startled and looked at Ai Xiaomi in front of him and was in a bad mood.

But after thinking about it, this must be just a coincidence. Many people in the world have similar ideas. This is what the so-called lack of completely new ideas.

"Hey? What's wrong?" Ai Xiaomi asked him.

"No," Cao Yang smiled, "It's pretty good, you can just make the decision. Anyway, you are the CEO of Bomi Pictures. I must support you if you have any ideas to do it."

"Thank you, boss." Ai Xiaomi laughed happily.

...

"Your ideas are all very good, but that's how I think." Cao Yang frowned and said, "I hope that when our company plans future movies, in addition to some more valuable subjects, we can think more about the big framework."

"Big Frame?" Ai Xiaomi raised her head in confusion.

"Have you watched "Iron Man" released in April this year?" Cao Yang asked.

"Iron Man" is a science fiction adventure film produced by Marvel Film Studios in the United States. It is adapted from the comic series of the same name. It is directed by Jon Favreau and starred by Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges and others.

This work is also the first movie in the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" series.

The film was released in the United States on May 2, 2008 and was released in mainland China on April 30, 2008.

This is also a miracle. For the first time, Marvel attached so much importance to the Chinese market and regarded China as the premiere region.

"Of course," Ai Xiaomi immediately became excited when she heard of "Iron Man". "I went to the cinema to watch the IMAX version, which was always shocked. Especially the steel suit, it was very cool."

"Very good, do you know the Marvel Universe?" Cao Yang explained, "There are many heroes in the Marvel Universe, Spider-Man that was released before, and Iron Man now, and Hulk that was a long time ago... These all come from the Marvel Universe. They all seem to be independent of each other, but under the same worldview, if you want to integrate them together in the future, you can make a blockbuster that is related to them.

In Marvel comics, these superheroes formed the Avengers.”

"Boss," Ai Xiaomi reminded in a low voice, "Spider-Man is no longer Marvel's, so it was sold to Sony a long time ago."

"I know." Cao Yang said angrily.

This feeling of being picked on the bones is really uncomfortable.

Ai Xiaomi immediately closed her mouth, "Boss, continue."

Cao Yang paused and continued, "The reason why the Marvel series was so successful is that in addition to the single hero movie being attractive enough, there is also a joint Marvel Universe worldview."

Independent movies of a single hero are equivalent to chemical elements one by one, but when there are too many chemical elements, they can combine with each other and produce many chemical reactions, which greatly increases the value of the entire Marvel.

Bomi Company now does not have such things.

Or "The Wandering Earth" can be regarded as part of Liu's past system of the earth, but it is also very far-fetched. It is more difficult to form a large network.

In the future, it is basically impossible to expand more dimensions and form your own Bomi Universe or other larger-frame movie series.

This means that it is impossible to have enough influence like Marvel.

This is the problem that Cao Yang is more worried about.

...

After Cao Yang's explanation, Ai Xiaomi understood a little.

"But where do we create so many Chinese heroes?" Ai Xiaomi was very confused.

How many years have Marvel's heroes been polished and settled?

Marvel has been working on creating these superheroes since 1950. The comics have been around for decades. I don’t know how many generations have been washed, and Marvel’s superheroes have become household names in the US.

Especially Spider-Man, Iron Man, how easy is it for us to rebuild a heroic universe in China?

You also need to distinguish superpowers from others.

Ai Xiaomi felt that this was simply an impossible task.

"We didn't let you create new superheroes. We and Marvel felt that we lacked an advantage in this regard." Cao Yang said with a smile, "I'll show you something good."

"Hey?" Ai Xiaomi looked confused.

...

Cao Yang showed Ai Xiaomi a 7-minute animated short film made by two Tsinghua University students Liang Xuan and Zhang Chun in 2004.

The name of the short film is "Big Fish and Begonia"

In his previous life, in 2004, Liang Xuan had a wonderful dream, which was the original source of the creativity of "Big Fish and Begonia".

In May of the same year, I put this dream into a 7-minute animated short film with Zhang Chun online, which soon attracted attention.

Then in 2013, they launched crowdfunding online, raising more than 1.58 million yuan from 3,996 netizens, and made the most anticipated animated film in China's history.

It's a pity to say.

The animated film "Big Fish and Begonia" can be said to be first-class in terms of picture quality, creativity, and dubbing and music, and has reached international standards.

Before the release, domestic audiences were mostly expecting "Spirited Away" at the level of "Spirited Away".

At that time, most people on Zhihu were not paying much attention to domestic animations. Dayu might be the only domestic 2D animation that many people have seen in recent years. With the promotion of fans, they naturally have high expectations.

People who have been paying attention to domestic animation for a long time, such as many people on B station, know what domestic animations are currently like. At that time, the domestic animations "The Fox Demon Little Matchmaker", "One Under One" and "Soul Street" were already quite excellent domestic animations. Most of them are better than big fish and begonia in the plot, because they are all adapted from popular comics, but the picture is really far apart and it is difficult to attract the public. Domestic animations are niche even on B station.

At that time, the comics and novel industries were so popular, domestic animations were actually not particularly lacking in good themes and scripts, but what they lacked was the pictures and dubbing.

Many people no longer expect to see such good pictures in domestic animations, as long as the story is interesting, it is enough.

At this time, a domestic animated movie suddenly appeared, and the pictures and dubbing reached international standards. It is conceivable how much shock it has brought to many domestic anime fans.
To be continued...