China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 170 Time Magazine

“Chen Jingxing appears on the cover of the American version of Time Magazine!”

“my country’s talented director appeared on the cover of Time and was praised for not using English to cater to globalization.”

"Chen Jingxing's Times Magazine US edition cover and part of his interview released"

"Chen Jingxing appeared on the cover of Time, with the keyword 'The Biggest Discovery', which is a bit awesome."

"American time has extensively reported on Chen Jingxing"

"Chen Jingxing leads Chinese commercial films to go global"

"The mystery is revealed: The billion-dollar space masterpiece is called "Gravity""

""Gravity" is a near-future space science fiction movie"

"There is no precedent to follow, DreamWorks creates the first space disaster movie"

"Chen Jingxing clarifies that "Gravity" is not the Chinese version of Star Wars"

Then through popular science in the media, I learned that Chen Jingxing's two theater movies have achieved hundreds of millions of dollars in box office in North America. Only then did they appear on the cover of the American version of Time magazine, and were called the great discovery of the world's cinema and the future of commercial movies.

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In addition to benefiting Chen Jingxing's personal fame, "Gravity" also triggered a round of small-scale topic discussions.

This is a very normal phenomenon. Many viewers do not pay attention to the creators of film and television works.

This has created some buzz for "Gravity". Many fans of Chen Jingxing have begun to speculate about the plot of the movie, and it has even attracted many aerospace enthusiasts. After all, according to some news revealed by DreamWorks, the movie also involves China.

The Tiangong Space Station and Tiangong-2 will be launched in 2016, and China’s large space station is also expected to be completed 20 years ago.

In short, various speculations have indeed aroused the curiosity of many movie fans about "Gravity".

This caused Chen Jingxing's status to undergo a qualitative change, and he was shrouded in a halo.

Although his box office performance is very impressive, due to his age and seniority, many media or industry insiders, and even audiences and fans regard him as a genius director or a ghost director. In other words, in the eyes of most people, he is still a new talent.

Director, the positioning of young directors.

Although it is Guo Fan's first time to direct such a large-scale production, he seems to have the talent to control large-scale scenes. In addition, he has prepared sufficient shooting plans during the preparation process and also drawn many storyboards for large-scale scenes, so in

He seemed to be able to do it with ease during the filming process, which even surprised chief producer Qin Zhonghe.

Because the filming locations were mainly in Thailand and the Golden Triangle area, the conditions for the crew were quite difficult. However, most of the actors had already conducted action training for more than two months, so they were fully prepared for the filming conditions.

In fact, during the preparation process in the early months, Qin Zhonghe's impression of Guo Fan had changed a lot. Guo Fan seemed to have a unique obsession with industrial films and extraordinary scheduling ability, which also made Qin Zhonghe come back again.

Once I marveled at the precision of Chen Jingxing's vision.

Some space fans even speculated that it might be the Chinese version of the Salyut-7 space station incident.

This time, there are a lot less titles of genius director or ghost director in the media. It seems that he is already a big director in the film industry. Regardless of his artistic level, at least in terms of fame and status, he has begun to approach Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, Wang Molin, etc.

Great directors such as Chen Kaige have completely surpassed several well-known so-called seventh-generation directors.

As a producer, Chen Jingxing was actually not in name only. He was involved in the film from the perfection of the script to the determination of the shooting plan.

But this time, because he appeared on the cover of the American version of Time magazine, which triggered intensive reports from media outside the entertainment, film and television circles, many people who did not pay attention to Chen Jingxing suddenly discovered that the movie "Comet"/"Fatal Identity"/"The Signal"

The director turned out to be this young man.

At the beginning of 2015, Chen Jingxing once again made big news by appearing on the cover of the American version of Time Magazine. At the same time, DreamWorks also took this opportunity to make "Gravity" ride on this wave of popularity.

“What is a space disaster movie?”

It's just that the generational division of Chinese directors is no longer appropriate, otherwise Chen Jingxing might be known as a leader of the eighth generation of directors.

That's how DreamWorks characterized it - a near-future space disaster movie.

Space disaster is a very new concept. Could it be that the launch of the spacecraft failed? A meteorite hit the spacecraft? Or there was a problem with the spacecraft - there is a precedent for this. The Salyut-7 space station once had a malfunction, and astronauts were dispatched from the ground.

Going to repair the space station, Chen Jingxing also felt that this was an excellent subject for a movie, but I'm afraid it would have to be filmed by Russia.

"Operation Mekong" and "Detective Chinatown" were both filmed in Thailand, and both movies were shot in Bangkok.

Even so, there are still a large number of viewers who have watched Chen Jingxing's movies and even liked one of them, but have little understanding of Chen Jingxing himself.

Especially the scenes of child soldiers and drug control, which were included in the first version of the script he provided. Later, Guo Fan made a lot of improvements to the script during the review of files and the preparation process, but these two plots were not included.

I very much agree with Chen Jingxing’s setting.

"Editor's interpretation: my country's space station may appear on the big screen!"

I have to say that the effect of exporting to domestic sales this time is really good. At least Chen Jingxing's personal reputation has been greatly improved.

Chinese audiences have all seen disaster movies, and they all have similar concepts. They are nothing more than tsunamis, earthquakes, shipwrecks, air crashes, or volcanic eruptions and the destruction of the earth.

And just when online public opinion was sparking various discussions about Chen Jingxing's appearance on the cover of Time Magazine, the person involved had already arrived in Thailand and was shuttling back and forth between the two crews.

After all, directing is a behind-the-scenes job. Because Chen Jingxing is handsome, young, and the movies he makes are very novel and very popular among young audiences, his reputation is already relatively high among directors.

Thailand has a tropical climate with only three seasons: hot, rainy and dry. Even in January, the average temperature is above 20 degrees, so it does not affect normal shooting.

It was Chen Jingxing and Guo Fan who endorsed each other, so that the script did not deviate from the original film of "Operation Mekong". After all, there are many plots in it that are quite breakthrough. Even if it were released in the United States, it would definitely be R-rated. However, Chen Jingxing and Guo Fan both believed that these two points

The setting is the highlight of this movie, so no inch was compromised.

In the past life, this script took a long time to finally pass, but in this dimension, director Guo Fan and producer Chen Jingxing jointly insisted on it. In addition, Guoyi Film was also the main producer, and Qin Zhonghe also played a comparative role.

The huge influence caused the script to pass the review of the Ministry of Public Security without taking too much time.

Chen Jingxing stayed with the Mekong River crew for more than half a month. It was not until the crew moved to Myanmar for filming that he returned to the capital.

Because the post-production of "Source Code" is finally completed.

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