Zhao Mingyang asked Ning Dongsheng to meet with several young directors. All of these directors were new directors, but it was not that they had never filmed before, but that they had never been a chief director, and had never filmed a film in which they were named chief directors. There were also two
One of them is working on a major online movie. He has been on the set for quite some time and has never been popular.
It’s just that no one wanted to let them make theatrical films. When Zhao Mingyang found this group of people, he said that he wanted to make big-budget, hard science fiction films. In fact, these directors knew better than anyone else what Zhao Mingyang wanted to do.
After all, it’s not just a day or two in this industry anymore. For a big-budget movie to find a director with no works and no reputation, it’s just to save costs. The actor can get some traffic and just pay the bills. It’s a bad movie, but it’s a good thing.
It’s just easy to shoot.
And it’s really hard to say how much a science fiction movie will cost. There is no upper limit, because this mainly depends on post-production, and there are only a few companies of this kind in the world. Which ones are the most expensive and professional, but you can do it yourself
Register a new post-production company, then outsource it to some small companies in the later stage. Anyway, just come up with a miscellaneous sci-fi special effect, commonly known as fifty-cent special effects.
And this cost is directly calculated according to the world's top companies. In order to make it look good, can we cooperate with the world's top companies and ask them to help make a few props? When the time comes, we will invite the world's top production companies to participate.
This type of investment basically involves investing one to two billion dollars first, and then the company can just walk away from the accounts and calculate the operating income directly.
The directors Zhao Mingyang found have a common characteristic, that is, they can write scripts themselves. Basically, the things produced by such directors can completely restore the integrity of the work.
These people have actually thought about what Zhao Mingyang is going to do in their minds, but Zhao Mingyang is a bit too big, right? The production cost of a drama is five to six billion?
How to do this? The director is worried, and the producer is even more worried. They can only think about how to deal with this.
However, it is easy to get a high salary for this kind of film. If you help with the filming, you can get paid and leave, and the other party will not put too much pressure on the director. Just make it.
But Zhao Mingyang made them completely confused the next second. Zhao Mingyang actually wanted to give a group of them a script outline and let them create it.
This is the biggest taboo. If investors participate in writing the script, it can only be called a bad movie among bad movies. Will even the money to buy the copyright of the script be left?
Are they the heads of various departments of humanity in the universe, or are they the leaders of humanity on earth?”
"Should we use big names or newcomers as actors?" someone asked.
What’s more, it basically just shoots people fighting, which doesn’t require any special effects. However, this is 100% a science fiction movie, so it’s a bit vague. The production cost is high, right? It’s quite expensive to make some robots.
, after all, we still need to make dinosaurs, but it doesn’t seem to cost much, and the characters are still mostly used.
But the same problem happened on Mars. Technology was too developed, and in the end it was a cycle. Human beings kept choosing new living environments, trying to escape this fate. The earth had no ecological environment before, and human beings tried their best to escape from this fate.
We have to repair it, because humans have discovered that there is nothing in the universe more suitable for human habitation than the earth, because humans have discovered that the earth can actually repair itself, and no other planet can."
"The earth is the only planet that humans have discovered that can repair itself. This is where humans ultimately belong. But dinosaurs are a problem, so humans dropped a missile on the earth that can instantly destroy the ecology. The missile was codenamed Pangu, allowing the earth to repair itself. This way
The dinosaurs just disappeared."
The filming started at the same time, everyone was responsible for one part, and they acted together, and finally handed it over to the editor. He would edit the first part first, and then edit it slowly. Anyway, he had to get rid of the money quickly.
In short, you have to spend money so that no one can see it, rather than seeing what you want to do at a glance.
"All this is about to unfold, so stay tuned."
Everyone is eager to see what Zhao Mingyang has written. What Zhao Mingyang wants is their full-hearted devotion. Otherwise, people will see what they want to do at a glance. It will be difficult for Zhao Mingyang not to be targeted. Director
If you can see it, then the work must have dealt with it. The audience will make various guesses after seeing it, and then the relevant departments will investigate it and directly find out for you one, two, three, four, five, six or seven.
After Zhao Mingyang was reborn, he knew very clearly that the audience's glasses are sharp and cannot be too fake. If he wants to find a way to make people feel that he has tried his best, it is not a good shot, and it is not purely for the purpose of collecting money, so he cannot make this into a movie.
A fake movie at a glance.
"They are actively communicating with humans and feeding back intelligence. In the end, humans on Mars developed another uncontrollable creature because of powerful technology. It can be said that after making repeated mistakes, humans must choose a new place to live again.
Already."
As soon as these words came out, everyone was confused. Wasn't he just trying to make money?
Do you really want to make a good work? The mentality of all the directors changed instantly, but they also had a headache. It seems that the money is not easy to get. He will not participate in the whole process, right? That's terrible. The shooting period can turn from three months to three years.
ah.
"Uncontrolled robots like Taotie are called a symbol of evil by later generations. These robots were originally developed by humans on this planet.
Whenever I see the current audience supporting foreign science fiction movies and belittling our own movies, I feel sad. This is a group of people with crooked ideas who have harmed our film and television drama industry.
In this film, we filmed the beginning of Chinese civilization, and in the second film, we filmed how the highly civilized human beings on this planet pushed themselves into desperation step by step. I have already thought about the third to sixth films, and shot them
Humans in the universe have developed a time machine. They want to go back to before humans entered the technological era and kill several scientists who changed the world. The filming started from the period of the four great inventions. Then the modern people living on the earth discovered this secret and went back to fight with them.
The ancestors who returned from the universe fought desperately to prevent this catastrophe on the earth. If necessary, we can restore the buildings of some dynasties, and we also ask history professionals to help us restore the costumes and props of these periods one-on-one.
The reason for making three movies is to prevent others from saying that the purpose of this movie is to make money. After making three movies, no one will suspect it, and the money was spent in one go. It cost more than ten or two billion.
Why do all the bankers like to work in movies? You may not be able to use up three to five billion in whatever you do in three to five months, but you can make a movie. The movie cycle is short. The money will be spent after two or three months of filming, and it will be spent later.
Editing is a waste of time, and these hundreds of millions of cash are divided. It is difficult to check how much it is, because the movie involves a lot of technical and artistic things, and there is no price limit for technical and artistic things.
This money can also increase the actor's value, making Zhao Mingyang a win-win situation.
I spent ten years polishing this manuscript. I revised it repeatedly. I can’t say how good it is, but my content is not outrageous, and it incorporates our traditional culture into it, as well as science fiction elements and super science fiction elements.
I am not bragging about my brain power. I have been sharpening my sword for ten years, and my work still has some content, but my ability is limited, so I hope you can help me complete an overall story.
"For thousands of years, a group of human beings have been searching for habitats on the earth and in the universe. Finally, in the past hundred years, the seal of the descendants living on the earth seems to have been lifted, and they have regained their high intelligence and completed the task in an instant.
Something I never dared to think about before.”
They have evolved into another intelligent biological form. They want to become the master of this planet, so some uncontrolled robots started a fierce battle with humans. In the end, humans won miserably and took a spaceship to live on Mars, because the earth
Those who were destroyed can no longer survive.
"Human beings feel that powerful wisdom will cause them to self-destruct sooner or later. Human beings are born with powerful wisdom. Everyone is a top scientist. In order to prevent human beings from self-destruction, humans decided to let a group of people cut off or hinder this innate function, so that
Human beings start from scratch, with the same intelligence as animals.”
The people present saw that this idea was indeed interesting, but why did it start with Pangu?
Most of the myths on the market now start from Nuwa, and most of them start from the list of gods. The one Zhao Mingyang gave is indeed interesting. His one has nothing to do with myths, but it has elements of myths, and the imagination is very good.
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Zhao Mingyang's speech instantly ignited the young directors present. As expected, young people are the most impulsive and moved, so young people are prone to blowing off losses and being used as a weapon.
Only those who have to do things without leakage are masters. Would Zhao Mingyang tell them that they had to go to Africa and spend hundreds of millions to build a ruin? Anyway, believe it or not, this waste really cost hundreds of millions, like a shovel and 10,000 yuan.
cost.
"This group of humans with sealed intelligence were brought to Earth by a group of intelligent robots codenamed Nuwa who were responsible for this project. After returning to Earth, the ancestors asked Nuwa to tell humans some misleading information, that is, not to tell humans that science exists.
, don’t let humans make inventions and let humans believe in fairy tales, otherwise it will be an endless cycle again.”
Zhao Mingyang stood up and held a manuscript and said: "I have had a movie dream since I was a child. I like to write some scripts when I have nothing to do. Of course, I still have self-awareness. If I don't have a decent script, I won't find one."
You guys come and shoot it, I just want to prove to the world that we can also make good science fiction movies in our country.
But the current market environment is too impetuous, and all kinds of bad movies are popular. To put it bluntly, are they just to make quick money and make money? I firmly denounce this approach. I think this is disrupting the market and sorry for the audience, so I firmly resist this
Such chaos."
"Human beings accurately dropped dinosaur eggs on Mars. The factory settings of the dinosaur's intelligent system were not high and had no self-learning function. It only had one function: to eliminate all living things of the same kind on the earth."
You are all carefully selected by me. I have seen from your career the fire of hope and the heart of dreams beyond professionalism. I know that you want to make good movies. Whoever enters this industry does not do it for
Dream came in, who wants to make a bad movie, right?
According to Zhao Mingyang's idea, there would be no way to finish this thing in ten movies, and Zhao Mingyang asked one or two of them to be responsible for one movie and start shooting at the same time.
Don’t forget, on the first day you entered this industry, you were absolutely doing it to better the market and to produce great works. So what are you hesitating about?”
"Daotian Entertainment has ready-made films and enough actors. One film per person and one film per person. We must complete three films this year. It's as simple as that. We can't wait. Chinese-language movies can't wait. We must act quickly.
This is a bit too stingy, and the food looks too ugly.
I did this drama with the intention of not making money. If one movie doesn’t make money, I will shoot the second one. Until I, Zhao Mingyang, go bankrupt, I want to give this industry a glimmer of hope to survive and leave it to
There is a pure land for Chinese-language filmmakers in the future, and our efforts today may save them many detours in the future.
But when it comes to special effects, we must also pursue top-notch production and invite top international production companies to participate.
As for the seventh part, I have already thought about it for you, and it will be about Human Crisis. It turns out that the Nuwa robots are still on the earth, and they were ordered to destroy the earth and start over. However, these robots have their own thinking and are unwilling to destroy the earth.
Descendants of the earth fight side by side against their ancestors.
Let’s finish these parts first, and we’ll think about it later, what do you think?”
"In the end, future generations will explore the universe again and study intelligent creatures again. The only difference is that the ancestors in the universe don't want this to happen, so they have to start over again. The most terrifying thing is that these descendants don't want this to happen in the universe.
The ancestors came back because the humans on earth believe that humans in the universe are aliens and dangerous existences."
No, Zhao Mingyang showed his manuscript to everyone.
Although together we may be just a drop in the ocean, if we don't do it and try, we won't be qualified to criticize those people who messed up the market in the future. What's the difference between us and them?
Someone has to stand up, why not you and me? As long as we have a glimmer of hope, we have to give it a try. Do you dare to take a gamble with me?
Zhao Mingyang will not let anyone say that the international production team he is looking for is a lie. He is planning to actually establish a movie special effects company and directly poach a group of technical personnel at a high price. Zhao Mingyang is planning to use two hundred million US dollars to poach a complete
We have a technical team, and this team will be the output point in the future. There will be a long time to come, and it is impossible to just one team and be done with it.
Zhao Mingyang looked at them and said: "This is the idea. Let me give you an idea. In the first part, we will film the creation of Pangu and everything back to zero, and then how the biological robot Nuwa returns to the earth with humans whose intelligence has been weakened.
Starting from scratch, there are conflicts between this group of humans and the creatures that have survived on the earth, as well as the battle of wits and courage among the few intelligent biological robots that have not been completely eliminated.
"Dinosaurs were very powerful and quickly wiped out intelligent creatures. However, their power caused them to be uncontrollable and use absolute violence to destroy everything, even the earth. However, not all intelligent robots on the earth are capable of destroying everything.
Those who hate humans, such as Kirin and Suzaku."
Directors, I believe you can do it. Future filmmakers will thank you, and I thank you on their behalf." Zhao Mingyang bowed deeply to the people in front of him.
"And there are still robots on the earth that have not been eliminated. They are rising. Humans want to come back, but they are more afraid of these robots launching interstellar pursuits, so humans have cultivated more powerful biological robots to fight against intelligent robots."
Others looked confused. They were rushing to shoot seven movies, but what is the shooting technique? After shooting, then shooting before, then shooting in the middle. Finally, according to this, it is very possible to shoot the front again, an infinite loop?
I just put forward an idea, just use your names. I really don’t care about this, and I will not interfere with your shooting. Professional things are left to professional people. I still know this. I just want to help the Chinese
The movie has made every contribution it can.
Originally, the humans on this week were called ancestors [immortals]. A war broke out between the ancestors and uncontrolled robots with independent thinking. The uncontrolled robots wanted to rule humans and rule the earth. These robots are not traditional.
Robots, they always have a bionic body with a powerful AI algorithm chip built in, which is stored in the brain-computer interface.
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A group of people looked at this script and were confused. They had good ideas, but how to film it?
Moreover, generally this type of investor thinks that his or her literary talent is better than that of literary writers, and it is easy for them to be moved by themselves when writing, but when it comes to filming, they will be wrong.
"Pangu opened the world. Is there any possibility that it was the opening of a cyclic world? The earth was originally a highly technologically civilized society, and human technology was in the past than it is now. For example, the intelligent biological robot Qinglong, White Tiger, Xuanwu Suzaku was called by later generations.
Mythical beasts, they are just intelligent biological robots."
Many people divide science fiction into soft science fiction and hard science fiction. This is easy to understand. The audience knows that soft science fiction focuses on content and low shooting costs, while hard science fiction pays attention to pictures. Why can't they be combined with high shooting costs?
And science fiction, we want to make our own science fiction. If you look at the science fiction produced by foreigners, the content is just that, there is not much content, but what if we film our culture? If we film a series, we will have five thousand years of cultural heritage.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to shoot a dozen movies.
Zhao Mingyang looked at them and continued: "What is science fiction? We have to combine tradition and technology. For example, we have to make some scenes into real scenes, so that they have a sense of picture. The audience is not a fool. You can model it. Some
It's too fake. It looks fake at first glance, but we have to make it real.
The approximate content of the script is as follows, which is a simple introduction to the background of the story:
"If I told you that the world is a cycle, would you believe it? The cycle I am talking about is not the cycle you think it is."
What Zhao Mingyang wanted was this effect. In the first film, it cost hundreds of millions to create ruins. In the second film, he used more technology to create some special effects and added money. In the third film, he could spend money to reconstruct the real scene. Many movies built a ruin out of thin air.
City, this is the fastest way to pay the bills. Zhao Mingyang wants to shoot three movies a year.
If you build a ruins in Africa, you must have a visual premise and add a story. Otherwise, if you spend hundreds of millions on a ruin without a story, wouldn't it be too fake?
What kind of deception is the most brilliant? You must first deceive yourself before you can deceive others.
"The new history of mankind is unfolding, but the innate attributes cannot be completely erased. Human beings will still create and invent for thousands of years, but this technology is basically the state that the ancestors wanted most, just like the oldest telephone.
The gap between landline phones and the latest smartphones is that it is best to stay in the landline era forever and not evolve any further.”
Zhao Mingyang's only special effects preparation was at the beginning and in the promotional video, and then after the first part was shot, a lot of special effects were added to the trailer for the second part. When the second part continues like this, the special effects will be added one by one.
The script is a bit big and I don’t know where to start. Everything from mythology can be combined with science fiction, but how to film it is a problem.
"Human beings have conflicts again. The ancestors in the universe have reached the point where they have nowhere to go. The only place they can survive now is the earth, but the earth cannot tolerate the return of such a huge group. More importantly, the right to speak
, to whom?
But I'm a little confused, because if you say this thing is a myth, it's not at all. If you say it's science fiction, it's really science fiction, but the story line is too long. You can make a prequel and a postquel.
How many films will be shot?
This bow only increases their sense of mission and moral kidnapping. The film can be as good as it can be, and it should be a hit. If it is not, others will tell that it is a money-making movie.
"One more question, does this movie have to be shot abroad?"
"It has to be. The first part must go out. We have to pursue the most original state. I have always been meticulous about art. I will let people decorate the venue first." Zhao Mingyang said with a serious face.
Later, he asked Ye Chuan to register a construction company in Africa to take over the project, and asked Gu Man to register a post-production company and art design company, mainly responsible for costumes, props and scene construction.
Wouldn’t this money just go out and be digested internally?
