Last year's "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" grossed 230 million at the box office in China, which made New Line Cinema attach great importance to the Chinese market.
This year's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" is about to be released, and Peter Jackson personally led a team to China to promote it.
Except for China, Japan, and South Korea, I didn’t go there. This made the people of Japan and South Korea extremely bitter.
"After Lord of the Rings ends, do you have any new plans?"
Xiao Qian has nothing to do with the movie promotion.
Starlight and Dongying are now very mature and have been able to perfectly connect with Hollywood. What he is more concerned about is Peter Jackson's follow-up plan.
As the top director in Hollywood, Peter Jackson is definitely not a representative of high productivity.
This guy has been a director all his life, and his masterpiece is only remembered for "Lord of the Rings".
However, Peter Jackson is Xiao Qian's only partner in Hollywood. If you want to make more money, you still have to monitor this guy's movements.
Even though Jackson doesn’t have many works, this guy has a lot of ideas.
This is basically a common problem among creators. They have countless ideas in their minds. Of course, only one-tenth of them may be realized.
Having just finished filming "The Lord of the Rings", Jackson has already found a new target. He already knows Xiao Qian very well, and knows that asking this means Xiao Qian may invest in his new plan.
"Boss, there is an old movie called King Kong. Do you want to watch it?"
Xiao Qian slapped his forehead and had to admire the inertia of history. Even in another world, Jackson still fell in love with that gorilla.
"Peter, listen to me, King Kong can't do it, Transformers can."
Fortunately, Chinese and English are different, otherwise Jackson must have suspected that Xiao Qian was playing tricks on him.
In the next few years, there were actually not many good movies in Hollywood, and they were gradually turning into big IP movies. The most valuable among them is undoubtedly "Transformers".
After "Transformers" passes, it will become an anime adaptation such as Marvel.
As for "King Kong" filmed by Jackson, forget it.
Of course Jackson knows what "Transformers" is, which is a bit surprising.
“Would Transformers be a good project?”
Xiao Qian was very determined.
"It will definitely be stronger than the King Kong you want."
He wasn't just talking nonsense, he even gave a reason.
"Transformers has countless fans, and these are the most considerable consumer markets. As long as we are technically perfect, we can succeed. As for King Kong, although it was a sensation back then, it was in the 1930s after all.
That’s the thing. The current animal-themed movies are not in line with today’s trends.”
After entering the new century, the United States looked around and saw that it was invincible. For a while, it was quite lonely and seeking defeat, and it suddenly lost its goal.
What is the prevailing trend of thought in the United States at this time?
The pursuit of a higher ideological realm is what later became a bad street term—universal value.
So things like anti-war, equality, environmental protection, anti-discrimination, freedom, saving the world, etc., all came out.
As a result, because there were too many and too many chaotic thoughts, it eventually backfired on the United States itself.
Under this trend, if you get a gorilla to mess up human society, how can the people accept it?
The most important thing is that the special effects production of "King Kong" is not very good, which completely wastes the strength of Weta Digital.
"As far as I know, the copyright for Transformers seems to be in the hands of Paramount. If we want to produce it, I'm afraid it won't be that easy."
Xiao Qian didn't even know how to complain.
"It doesn't matter who owns the copyright. We can all discuss cooperation. Now that you have the results of Lord of the Rings, as long as you put forward your willingness to film, I think Paramount will be happy to cooperate."
Xiao Qian is confident.
Who is the most influential director in Hollywood today?
Peter Jackson.
The epic-level works provided by the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy are absolutely unsurpassed in this era.
Other filmmakers learned a lot from this film, and Weta Digital has become the most popular special effects studio today.
It can be said that now it is not him trying to find other people to invest, but others waving banknotes begging to invest in his movies.
He said he wanted to make "Transformers", would Paramount refuse to agree?
Michael Bay is still busy with "Escape from Clone Island". Even if there is time, who will Paramount choose between Peter Jackson and Michael Bay so far?
Well, Jackson was convinced by Xiao Qian.
"I'll try."
After convincing Jackson, Xiao Qian was very happy. After all, as long as he got the filming of "Transformers", he would make money again.
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" truly lives up to its title, perfectly embodying the return of the King. After a year, fans have long been impatient to wait.
On December 1, "The Lord of the Rings" officially landed in domestic theaters, synchronizing with its world premiere.
This is the change brought about by Xiao Qian. Domestic movie fans do not have to wait until March next year to see the movie.
That is to say, the copyright protection in this time and space is very good. Otherwise, like in the previous life, piracy would have been rampant on the Internet, and the revenue after being released in theaters would have shrunk significantly.
When "The Lord of the Rings" was released, the outside world did not know that a big event was brewing in China's television industry.
"Bright Sword" was formed at the headquarters of Starlight Film and Television.
This is Starlight's tribute work for the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Xiao Qian is personally responsible for it, and everyone in the company attaches great importance to it.
Not only Xingguang attaches great importance to it, but also the General Administration of Government attaches great importance to it.
Because it is a work involving military and war themes, it must pass the review of the General Administration.
After the script was completed in October, Starlight completed the submission.
The General Secretary saw the script and quickly discovered its value, and the speed of approval was enough to make many colleagues shed tears.
Xiao Qian has a close relationship with the military.
His first musical piece was a tribute to the soldiers fighting floods. Later, he helped the military develop a new generation of rifles, and even registered with the military boss.
But later on, Xiao Qiang did things in the east and west, and never had any interaction with the military again, which made the big bosses very regretful.
Unexpectedly, on such an important day as the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Xiao Qian finally came.
During this period, the General Secretary received a lot of literary and artistic works. But overall, there was no difference from previous works.
Only the script of "Bright Sword" is different, with a completely different style. The flesh-and-blood story is addictive, and the tearful emotions are all amazing.
Not only did the General Secretary quickly approve the script, he also specially sent a colonel named Zheng.
"Xiao Qian, you said you can write such good scripts, why don't you write more."
Colonel Zheng chattered, his tone full of unfinished thoughts.
In the General Administration, he is responsible for the review of literary and artistic works. Although he has a lot of power, this job is really painful to the human soul.
It's a script about ripping off Japanese enemies with your hands and hiding thunder in your crotch. After reading this script, it's good even if you don't vomit.
Finally, when Leng Buding saw "Bright Sword", he really crawled out of the cesspit and turned around and entered the Yao Chi.
Seeing Colonel Zheng sighing, Xiao Qian had no choice but to find an excuse.
"Uncle Zheng, you also know that creating this kind of thing requires inspiration, and you can't force it. But don't worry, we have prepared a TV series and a movie for this gift. Soon, the movie will be released
The script will also be submitted."
Colonel Zheng slammed the table excitedly.
"Hey, I can live a good year just by saying this to you. As for Xiaoqian, uncle, thank you. You have to film well and give our People's Liberation Army, our military dramas, and war dramas a good name."
Xiao Qian nodded heavily, doing her part.
Soon, the main creative staff arrived one after another.
Sun Li lives not far from the company and arrived very early. Although she is a famous actress, she also knows that she has little qualifications. As soon as she came in, she greeted her seniors.
"Hello, Teacher Li Yushuang, I am Sun Li. I am very happy to cooperate with you."
Li Yu didn't even raise her eyelids, still staring at the script, and said "hmm".
If this were replaced by another popular little girl, I would probably have to do a lot of work.
I'm a traffic star. I'm saying hello to you because I care about you. How dare you ignore me and let my fans scold you to death if I don't expose you.
However, Xingguang's education was good, and Sun Li was not a hot-tempered person. She was more aware of Li Yushuang's status and had heard about Li Yushuang's temper, so she didn't take it seriously.
Anyway, I got what I wanted, and no one else could find him polite, so I turned around and went to find Xiao Qian.
"I told you you didn't need to come over, so why do you have to go all the way?"
Xiao Qian was very surprised by Sun Li's appearance.
Sun Li didn't perform much in the film, only a few scenes with Zhao Gang in the finale.
If it weren't for the tribute to the classic, Xiao Qian wouldn't have even planned to cast Sun Li in the role.
After all, Sun Li is so famous now that it would be a bit of a waste to only let her play such a cameo role.
But Sun Li didn't see it that way.
"So many teachers have appeared in this play, and they are all experienced seniors in the entertainment industry. Being able to learn a little bit from them will be enough for me to benefit from for a lifetime."
Her voice was crisp, she spoke clearly, and the conference room was quiet, so everyone nearby could hear her.
Hearing this, he looked up at her with admiration in his eyes.
