China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 234 TV Series Ambition

The list of actors listed by Tian Xinye seemed to be suitable for Chen Jingxing, so he immediately decided to issue a film contract. Of course, the audition process still had to go through.

With the status of DreamWorks and the director of the recent hit drama "The Signal", I believe that most actors are unlikely to refuse, unless the schedule cannot be adjusted.

For the film business department of DreamWorks, the schedule of projects is already quite full. Directors Chen Jingxing, Guo Fan and Tian Xinye all have a project to work on.

And except for Tian Xinye's "Mirage" with a budget of 70 million, which is considered a small and medium-cost production, Chen Jingxing's "The Matrix" and Guo Fan's "Edge of Tomorrow" are both large-scale productions with hundreds of millions of investments, and they are both standard heavy industry movies. Even the five major producers

Factory, starting two heavy industry films at the same time will also bring great pressure.

The construction of the crew is indeed a bit stretched. It seems that in addition to Mo's need to expand, DreamWorks itself also needs to introduce a wave of talents. Of course, mature and high-level talents are not something you can get just by asking, especially when there are many film and television productions.

In the field of professional division of labor, whether it is high-level photography or fine art, it is often a semi-closed inheritance, and it even remains at the stage of master leading apprentice. Moreover, talent is extremely important and cannot be mass-produced.

DreamWorks currently has one or two teams that are pretty good, but they are still far behind the five major studios. Maybe they can surpass them at the box office, but this kind of background will not be surpassed in a short time.

Fortunately, there are two major shareholders of DreamWorks, United Cinemas and Tianrun Pictures, and the relationship with National Film Group has been maintained well. Coupled with the attraction of DreamWorks and Chen Jingxing, the relationship has been relatively good.

It is not difficult for large companies to find enough talents to form three crews. In fact, this industry itself is full of food, and many top film practitioners in the industry are also mobile. The control of resources by large companies belongs to the "herding model"

, rather than "captive mode".

But it is also necessary to cultivate and absorb high-level film and television drama production talents, because DreamWorks not only has a film division, but also a TV drama division.

The first TV series "The Signal" produced by DreamWorks became a hit once it was released, triggering a hot topic on the entire Internet. It can be said that it got off to a good start, and also won the title of "the best in film and television".

For DreamWorks' next TV series, Chen Jingxing has given the writing team three story frames, which are currently being refined.

Including most of the crew and actors, they are all related to film and television, and they are far less distinct than those in Hollywood.

DreamWorks naturally also wants to develop the TV drama business, but the next development direction has not been determined. Chen Jingxing established the development direction of DreamWorks TV drama business at this high-level meeting, which is "small but refined, refined and beautiful"

.

It is normal for domestic film and television companies to produce both films and TV series. The five major studios are all comprehensive companies that span film and television dramas. Even the National Film Group has a company specializing in the production of TV series. This is China's current film and television drama company.

Ecology.

One is "Black Mirror", the other is "Person of Interest", and the last one is a zombie-themed TV series.

The TV series "The Signal" or DreamWorks alone cannot change today's TV station ecology, nor can domestic TV audiences get used to the weekly drama model. They must either follow the trend and work hard on the number of episodes, or they can simply

Give up the TV station as a platform.

"Black Mirror" is known as the allegorical story of science fiction dramas in Chen Jingxing's previous life. Some people even consider it to be the pinnacle of science fiction-themed TV dramas. It simulates a fabled world full of black technology, artificial intelligence and future social ecology. Basically every episode

is a separate story.

Then "Black Mirror" emphasizes the alienation, deconstruction and destruction of human beings by technology, which is a pessimistic deduction. Moreover, many stories in the show have a strong sense of "déjà vu", which makes all people living in modern society and the Internet

Audiences of the era can get the strong metaphor, which makes you feel that this is what might happen in reality.

The focus will be on the online drama market. On the one hand, with the rise of domestic and foreign streaming media, online dramas will be the main form of TV dramas in the future. Currently, it is still a new thing to go online and backstage. TV copyrights can still compete with online copyrights. In a few years,

Streaming media will become the main communication platform for TV series.

For example, the first episode of "Black Mirror" tells the story of a little girl being kidnapped. The kidnapper made a request to let the British Prime Minister live broadcast with the pig, otherwise he would break up the vote. This is also the most out of the circle of "Black Mirror" in the past life.

Story - Prime Minister fucks a pig.

If Chen Jingxing's previous films "Signal" and "Source Code" are a positive development of science fiction creativity and a positive deduction of "black technology" and science fiction elements, then it is that technology can serve mankind and enable mankind to continue to progress, and

Finally, there is a happy ending.

Secondly, compared with TV stations, the review standards for online dramas are much looser. The TV dramas Chen Jingxing wants to shoot in the future basically have no hope of becoming stars. Moreover, the drama-watching habits and drama purchase standards cultivated by domestic TV stations over the years have led to a vicious cycle.

, TV series have more and more episodes, and the more episodes they have, the more money they sell.

The biggest feature of this drama is not its huge imagination. Although it is indeed rich in imagination and creativity, the shock it brings to the audience mainly comes from its destructive reflection on "black technology".

Of course, in Chen Jingxing's opinion, this episode is far from the most exciting episode of "Black Mirror", but the story's satire on the human nature of the public who likes novels and is good at moral kidnapping is extremely wonderful. Of course, DreamWorks wants to make "Black Mirror"

It requires a "Chinese version" magical modification, but in fact, most of the episodes of "Black Mirror" are not very difficult to adapt.

For example, in the story of cheating on a pig, the prime minister can be replaced by another public figure, and the politician will still make some viewers feel that he deserves it. If it is replaced by a very well-known star, this ironic effect may be strengthened.

"Suspect Tracking" revolves around an artificial intelligence machine that can prevent and stop crimes in advance through big data. In addition to the eye-catching business themes of suspense, action, and crime, it also deeply explores the relationship between people and human beings.

The story of AI's deeper competition can be called another type of "The Matrix".

The last script is about zombies, and Chen Jingxing named it "The Walking Dead". Of course, it is very different from the classic American drama in the previous life.

The zombie drama that Chen Jingxing is going to shoot is a hodgepodge, and can almost be seen as a collection of several classic zombie works from the past.

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