The company owns the copyrights of a series of popular film and comic films such as "Toy Story", "Monsters, Inc.", "Finding Nemo", "Up" and "Coco".
In addition, Mr. Joe, the founder of Pixar, is also one of the most creative people of this era.
And he was only thirty years old at this time.
It is a time when you are young and energetic, and it is easiest to make friends.
Cao Weidong feels that if he has the opportunity in the future, investing in Mr. Joe and Pixar will be a hugely profitable thing.
He made up his mind that if he had the chance, he would go to New York to meet Master Qiao and build relationships in advance.
Bury this idea in your heart.
Cao Weidong described his ambition simply and straightforwardly.
"I plan to use this unique digital green screen technology and gather the power of the entire Hong Kong city to create a fantasy epic movie that belongs to the Chinese!"
Zou Wenhuai said excitedly.
"What movie are we going to make?"
Cao Weidong's eyes were dark and he said decisively.
"Become a God!"
"Feng Shen? Fengshen Yanyi?"
"That's right, it's "Fengshen". I hope this movie can challenge the gods!"
Cao Weidong said firmly.
"The Romance of the Gods" is a novel written by Xu Zhonglin, a novelist of the Ming Dynasty. It mainly takes the history of Jiang Ziya assisting the Zhou Dynasty in conquering the Shang Dynasty as the background. It describes the story of explaining religion, intercepting the teachings, fighting wits and courage among the immortals, breaking the formation and beheading the generals to become gods.
story.
The story contains a lot of folklore and mythology.
It is a rare cultural treasure.
It is also the enlightenment work of many mythological literature.
The first mythological fantasy film that Cao Weidong will shoot will be based on "The Romance of the Gods"!
Zou Wenhuai agreed with Cao Weidong's idea with both hands.
.......
Under Cao Weidong's mobilization, the entire Hong Kong city's film and television forces were completely mobilized.
Everyone is working hard to prepare for the filming of "Fengshen".
Four talented people in Hong Kong led a group of newly graduated screenwriters to work together to create scripts and music.
The actors were personally selected by Cao Weidong.
After being selected, they are sent to a centralized training camp for special training in riding and shooting, martial arts, literature, poetry appreciation, etc.
The rest of the film workers gathered in Shaw Brothers Studios to demolish and construct the buildings in the studio, trying to recreate the real movie scenes.
The digital green screen special effects company wholly controlled by Cao Weidong also entered the market.
They personally built three large green screen studios for visual effects shooting in the movie.
During the filming and preparation process of the movie, at the most, there were nearly 10,000 people.
This is an extremely scary number.
For this movie, Cao Weidong also spent a lot of cash.
This is because he controls the entire entertainment industry chain in Hong Kong City and makes money every day, so he can withstand such horrific consumption.
Mr. Shao, who prides himself on being wealthy, accidentally took a look at his daily expenses.
His eyelids jumped with fright.
"Weidong, did you spend a little too much?"
Cao Weidong waved his hand and said nonchalantly:
"It's okay, I can handle it. This kind of big-investment movie is actually a test of the entire industry chain."
He is not short of money.
The reason why Cao Weidong invested heavily in the filming of "Fengshen" was based on two considerations.
First, we must break the Western world’s stereotype of the ancient Eastern countries.
He wants to tell the Western world, a real Eastern world, through movies.
Second, he wanted to verify his achievements in building the film industry chain through this kind of high-intensity, large-scale film shooting.
At present, it seems that the entire crew is in a "panic" mood.
But this is just because everyone is shooting such a big-budget movie for the first time and has no experience.
Overall, Cao Weidong is still very satisfied.
After walking around the training camp, looking at the built studios and real scenes, and asking about current difficulties and problems, Cao Weidong finally walked over to the screenwriting team.
At this time, the four talented men were working on the script and had a great time arguing.
Cao Weidong walked over and listened.
I found that everyone is discussing whether to add a love main line in the movie.
Many people believe that a touching love story can increase the recognition of a film and enrich its attractions.
Cao Weidong quickly stopped this idea.
"Feng Shen" is an epic mythological movie. Adding a love line will dilute the epic feeling in the movie.
Everyone was suddenly enlightened.
Cao Weidong also put forward a lot of opinions on this script.
After some integration, the script of "Fengshen" was finally released.
The convention adopts the model of the movie universe.
The "Fengshen" filmed this time is only the first one.
If the box office expectations are good, there will be a second part, a third part, and individual movies for many characters in Fengshen.
It just so happened that the scene was set up at this time, and the actors in the training camp were almost trained.
So Cao Weidong gave the order.
Film shooting officially started.
.......
The filming of the movie went very smoothly.
In this shooting, digital green screen technology showed its power, cleverly combining scenes and lighting to create visual effects that are difficult to distinguish between real and fake.
This made everyone present exclaimed that it was amazing.
Cao Weidong smiled.
Where is this?
Later, when digital technology really develops, it will even be possible to create visual effects that look real and fake.
At this time, a big plot happened to end. Cao Weidong saw that the cast and crew were working very hard, so he gave everyone a holiday.
He slowly returned to the office, made a pot of tea, picked up a copy of Ming Pao and started reading.
After coming to Hong Kong for so many years, he has unknowingly developed the habit of reading Ming Pao.
Cao Weidong flipped through it casually.
At first I was a little careless.
But when he turned to one of the pages of social commentary, Cao Weidong was suddenly stunned.
There are two pieces of news in this newspaper.
First, a girl was discovered in the Mainland who can recognize words through her ears. As long as she puts her ear to the paper with writing on it, she can recognize the words.
Second, foot pot chicken, that is, in Japan, the country plans to revise the content of the Japanese Medical Qualification Examination, and "Kampo medicine" is popular, becoming an international business card of Japan.
Cao Weidong frowned.
This corresponds to two major events.
One is the far-reaching Qigong trend.
There are many farces that are ignorant and even violate scientific principles.
For example, you can retrieve objects from afar, cure all diseases, and hold a pot lid on your head to sense heaven and humans, etc.
In this Qigong trend, many swindlers appeared, which seriously damaged the interests of the people and caused extremely bad effects.
The second is the shameless stealing behavior of Foot Pot Chicken.
And what they covet and want to steal is the Chinese medicine that has been passed down for thousands of years in China!