About 80% of the movie "Ready Player One" takes place in the virtual world, and 20% of the scenes take place in Ohio in 2045, which means that almost 80% of the scenes will be shot in a studio
Completed, the rest of the content will be filmed in the country of Yu.
On the way to the crew, Lin Yuan didn't forget to read the script, even though he didn't have much of a role.
In the movie, he plays Xiu, one of the "Oasis Five". In the original work, he and Dadong were both players from Japan, but neither Spielberg nor the investor Warner Brothers were willing to do so.
I let go of the big cake of the Chinese film market, so I also made a lot of changes in the role of "Xiu".
Make money, don't be shabby.
Just like in recent years, there are occasional Chinese elements in Hollywood commercial movies, which are said to be Easter eggs, but in fact they are just staring at the money in the pockets of Chinese audiences.
After a night's drive, Lin Yuan finally arrived at the studio where the crew was located the next morning.
Since most of the scenes in "Ready Player One" are shot in studios, the crew also spent huge sums of money to rent out all the surrounding studios. After filming one scene, they can go directly to another studio to continue shooting the subsequent scenes.
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Almost as soon as Lin Yuan approached the studio, the crew spotted him.
After confirming his identity, the crew took the initiative to help him carry things such as salutes, while bringing Lin Yuan to Director Spielberg.
Before the filming of the movie started, Spielberg did not act like a world-famous director, but asked Lin Yuan to sit down and rest.
As the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot overwhelm a local snake.
When "Ready Player One" is released in the Chinese film market, Lin Yuan, who is a world-famous director, may not necessarily have the box office appeal. Let's take advantage of the free time now to chat and get to know each other.
, then we can let Lin Yuan do his best to promote the movie when it is released, and secondly, we can also see what the strength of this popular actor in China is.
After a few pleasantries, Spielberg also turned the topic to the movie script.
There was no way, the two of them had never dealt with each other before, and apart from talking about movie scripts, there was basically nothing else to talk about.
Spielberg displayed the character "Xiu" composed by the designer on a tablet in front of Lin Yuan, and asked very seriously: "Lin, are you satisfied with the image of the character Xiu?"
Lin Yuan put his eyes on the tablet, glanced at it, frowned and shook his head.
Percival's image comes from a rock star in the 1980s, Artemis's image has strong punk rock elements and street racing culture, Edge's image comes from a mechanical body, and Daito is a mecha warrior with a strong Japanese style.
Only Xiu's character image seems a bit nondescript.
Wearing a golden ninja uniform, carrying a Taoist sword on his back, and having a stereotypical money rat tail in his hair.
After seeing Lin Yuan's serious expression, Spielberg quickly explained: "We originally wanted to design Xiu as a Chinese kung fu master, but this image is really difficult to design, unless we design him as a character like Li Xiaolong
, but you also know that if you do it this way, the character Xiu will not have his own style."
This is not wrong.
There are only a few profound characters in Asia: Indian monks, Chinese kung fu, Chinese Taoist priests, Japanese samurai and Japanese ninjas, etc.
Spielberg is not a research expert in this field, and Xiu is a character with only a small role. It is simply not worth spending so much energy on such a character in the early preparations.
"Director Spielberg, can I make some suggestions for this role?" Lin Yuan said tentatively.
After hearing what Lin Yuan said, Spielberg readily agreed: "Of course."
It would be great if Lin Yuan could make suggestions. After all, people know their own domestic culture very well. Modifications according to Lin Yuan's ideas will be able to cater to the Chinese film market.
Why didn't he agree to something like this that was effortless and yielded benefits?
Lin Yuan smiled and said, "I wonder if Director Spielberg knows that China has a dynasty called the Three Kingdoms."
Seeing Spielberg nod, Lin Yuan continued: "In recent years, many famous games have been designed based on the background of the Three Kingdoms, such as "Three Kingdoms", "Three Kingdoms Warriors" and "Three Kingdoms"."
As he spoke, Director Spielberg used a tablet computer to search for relevant information on the Internet.
Soon, Spielberg opened his mouth. Unexpectedly, games with the background of the Three Kingdoms not only have a market in China, but are also very popular in Japan.
After reading the influence of the Three Kingdoms series of games, Director Spielberg also understood Lin Yuan's thoughts: "Do you want to redesign Xiu's character image based on the Three Kingdoms generals?"
"That's right." Lin Yuan nodded.
If there weren't any games set in the Ming Dynasty, Lin Yuan would have directly suggested that Spielberg design and modify this character based on Qi Jiguang.
This is a Hollywood movie. The Shining, The Iron Giant, Jurassic Tyrannosaurus and other tribute elements appear in the movie. Lin Yuan can also accept it. But why does the movie market share of Xiaoliang not have much market share? The scenes in the movie are not at all.
Shao, it’s Gundam and Samurai.
Is this a beaver?
Director Spielberg didn't know Lin Yuan's idea of resisting the Japanese, but he thought his proposal was quite good.
So he continued to ask: "Do you think there is anything about Xiu's scenes that needs to be modified?"
Lin Yuan flipped through the script. He didn't have many roles to begin with. The only role he could play was in the final decisive battle.
After thinking for a moment, he gave his own suggestion, which was to use special effects to create thousands of cavalry to support the battlefield during the final decisive battle, just like the Battle of Gondor in "The Lord of the Rings". It was shocking just thinking about it.
After Lin Yuan gave his suggestions, Director Spielberg couldn't help but think deeply.
I have to say that Lin Yuan's suggestion is very pertinent. Since it is the final decisive battle, the more grand the scene, the better. When the two armies confront each other, the cavalry will undoubtedly have the greatest impact, and it will also have the greatest impact on the audience in front of the screen.
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"This is a good idea. I'll talk to the screenwriter and delete the scene of the final battle." Spielberg didn't bother to stay and continue talking to Lin Yuan, and left happily.
Not even two days passed.
As the crew members arrived on the set one after another, the filming of the "Ready Player One" movie has officially begun.
When filming, Japanese actor Morisaki Wen suddenly discovered that his scenes were not many in the first place. As a result, after being temporarily deleted by director Spielberg, the scenes basically only left the scene where he transformed into Gundam during the final battle.
, how could he not feel puzzled.
On the contrary, Lin Yuan, who originally had fewer roles than him, suddenly had more roles.
The most important thing is that Lin Yuan's appearance as a warrior from the Three Kingdoms directly threw him away from the image of a Japanese samurai. Even the photographer couldn't help but tilt the camera towards Lin Yuan.
For the scenes that could be filmed, Lin Yuan had to make up the scenes for two more days on the crew.
It wasn't until the ninth day after joining the crew that Lin Yuan ended his role.
Originally, the filming time for this movie was short and could be completed in just over a month.
What really takes time is actually the final special effects production of the movie. Even if the crew hired three special effects companies: Industrial Light & Magic, Digital Domain and Framestore, it would still take at least three or four months on it.
Before leaving, Director Spielberg also gave Lin Yuan his personal contact information and hoped to have the opportunity to collaborate with Lin Yuan again next time.
Whether this was a polite comment or not is unclear.
Returning to the crew of "Tang Detective 2", after a day's rest, Lin Yuan also re-entered the filming process without stopping.
Finally, the filming of the "Tang Detective 2" movie ended at the end of October.
Except that Xiao Yang, the leading actor, has nothing to be busy with after filming the movie, Lin Yuan, Wang Baoqiang, and even Chen Sichen still have a lot of things to deal with.
Needless to say, Chen Sichen has to be busy with the movie submission for review, and strive to have the movie "Tang Detective 2" successfully released on February 16 next year, the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Lin Yuan and Wang Baoqiang are also busy with similar things as Chen Sichen. Lin Yuan is busy with the post-production of the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine", while Wang Baoqiang is preparing to advance the movie "Havoc in Tianzhu" to November.
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The reason for the early release is very simple.
Because Wang Baoqiang knows in his heart that his "Havoc in Tianzhu" cannot be compared with Huang Bo and Lin Yuan in terms of the starring cast and film investment.
Rather than releasing it on the first day of the Lunar New Year when competition is fiercest, it would be better to release it three months in advance, which can be regarded as stealing the box office cake of the Spring Festival period in advance.
In this way, after everyone returned home, they immediately devoted themselves to their own affairs.
On November 15th, "Havoc in Tianzhu" was officially released in China.
It was supposed to be the pioneer of the Lunar New Year festival and the most important blockbuster before December, but "Havoc in Tianzhu" did not cause a huge sensation when it was released as the investors and Wang Baoqiang thought.
It’s not that Wang Baoqiang isn’t popular, it’s that the film’s promotion is not adequate.
The most popular movies at the moment are "Thor 3" and "Justice League". The former is the sequel to Marvel's Thor and the biggest dark horse of this year's Marvel movies. The latter, as a DC superhero-themed movie, also has a large audience. Two foreign commercial films
It can be said that the movie stole the spotlight from "Havoc in Tianzhu".
Two days after the release of "Havoc in Tianzhu", Wang Baoqiang, Lin Yuan, Huang Bo, Chen Sichen, Feng Xiaogang and many other stars from the film industry attended and organized a grand film conference for "Havoc in Tianzhu".
The movie "Tianzhu" has become a hot topic, and it has directly reached the top of the hot search topic list.
The box office of movies has also increased, and it has begun to show a trend of three pillars, gradually catching up with the box office of "Thor 3" and "Justice League".
Fortunately, a week passed, and when the approximate box office statistics were released in the early morning of the 22nd, all investors, distributors, and Wang Baoqiang breathed a sigh of relief.
One week after its release, 47% of theaters had scheduled films, and the film's cumulative box office has reached 500 million.
You must know that the investment in this movie is only close to 100 million. Judging from the current results, it is definitely not losing money. When Wang Baoqiang saw the data in his hand, he really didn't know what to say.
He knew very well that the real score of "Havoc in Tianzhu" was definitely worse than 500 million. It was no exaggeration to say that judging from the reputation and reputation of netizens, even when the movie was released, it might not be possible.
Able to get 500 million box office.
The reason for this achievement is not only the hard work of friends in the industry such as Huang Bo, Lin Yuan, and Chen Sichen, but also the "tragic" marketing of the movie.
In August 2016, a series of incidents such as the breakdown of his marriage to his wife swept the Internet. Private incidents rose to the public platform and are still a topic of discussion among netizens. Now that "Havoc in Tianzhu" is released, people are calling for him.
The best opportunity to cheer.
Relying on the sympathy and support of netizens and fans, the movie can achieve such high box office results.
On one side was the audience's complaints, on the other side was the audience's support, which made Wang Baoqiang have mixed feelings in his heart, but he needed the performance of this film to prove himself. Only with good box office performance, capital would be willing to invest in him.
Wang Baoqiang's "Havoc in Tianzhu" made 500 million in box office in its first week, which also gave Lin Yuan and Huang Bo a shot in the arm.
You must know that the three movies "Havoc in Tianzhu", "A Good Show" and "I'm Not the God of Medicine" are the first works of their respective directors and actors. It is definitely impossible to say that they don't care about the box office of the movies.
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Now Wang Baoqiang's "Havoc in Tianzhu" can still achieve a box office of 500 million in the first week despite various circumstances such as an average cast, insufficient early publicity, and a collapse in word-of-mouth, which shows that the film market during the Spring Festival period still has great operations.
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Judging from these results, there is no problem that the two movies "A Good Show" and "I'm Not the God of Medicine" can surpass the box office results of the movie "Havoc in Tianzhu" if the preliminary publicity work is in place.
While "Havoc in Tianzhu" kicked off the Spring Festival schedule in mid-November, other movies during the Spring Festival are also intensively carrying out publicity work. For example, the crew of "Monster Hunt 2" has launched a national roadshow; Huang Bo participated in "Monster Hunt 2".
"Extreme Challenge" program recording, the entire "men's gang" helped him promote the movie "A Good Show"; Director Tang Jili began to release the trailer of "Kung Fu Yoga"; Wanda Pictures began to operate the movie topic of "Tang Detective 2"
Not to be outdone, Lin Yuan prepared to contact Xu Zheng and Ning Hao to start full-scale promotion of the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine".
With the crazy promotion of major movies, the attention of netizens has naturally been attracted. Five movies with big-selling potential are now known to be released during this year's Spring Festival. The competition is unprecedentedly fierce. This year's movie market is destined to be unstoppable.