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Chapter 482 "The Walking Dead: Resident Evil"

“If the name is not ‘The Walking Dead’, how can the audience know that this is a movie based on the world view of ‘The Walking Dead’?”

Jeff Miller was a little surprised and a little dissatisfied with Chen Jingxing's proposal.

Chen Jingxing snapped his fingers: "Otherwise, how about using the name "The Walking Dead: Prequel" or "The Walking Dead: Resident Evil"?"

"...The name is a bit long."

"Star Wars: Episode I: Ghost's Revenge has a longer name."

Jeff Miller rolled his eyes, then fell into thinking, and seemed to be a little moved.

Chen Jingxing's last stop in North America with the creators of the "Inception" movie was New York on the East Coast. Here, Luochen needed to appear on two TV shows, and Chen Jingxing met his old friend, Universal's senior vice president Jeff Miller.

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Universal's studios are on the West Coast, but its offices are in New York.

The two first clinked glasses for the gratifying box office performance of "Inception." Although "Inception" ran into the comic book movie "Wrath of the Titans" which had just been released for a week and still had no success, it debuted in 3,092 theaters.

It still generated a box office of US$16.78 million on that day.

Your name is "The Walking Dead", and I am also called "The Walking Dead". Could it be that 1, 3, and 5 are you, and 2, 4, and 6 are me?

The audience will also be confused.

DreamWorks is mainly responsible for the storyline of China, whether it is a TV series or a movie.

"The Walking Dead" will be divided into two lines, one is the Chinese story line, and the other is the North American story line.

If you want to have a bigger breakthrough on the order of 200 million, you may have to rely on series of movies, such as "The Matrix III".

In the past, it was just a small matter. For the first time, the zombie theme limited to B-level plasma films was transformed into a huge and fashionable world view. It even became a special disaster theme, showing the story from birth to evolution to waste.

Earth, the reaction and response of all living beings in human society.

This is what Chen Jingxing did in the first phase of the plan for "Once Upon a Time on Earth". There was a suspense at the end of the drama "Once Upon a Time on Earth", and then the movie continued the plot of the TV series, with the whole big scene.

Last summer, "The Walking Dead" set off a wave of zombie craze and became Netflix's most-played drama to date. It became popular all over the world and achieved this achievement as a non-English drama.

There were more and more cases of disappearances, and there had to be an explanation. Under the pressure from the top management of Raccoon City, the Umbrella Company headquarters sent two teams to investigate.

Even though competition in the North American market is fierce, according to Universal's predictions, the final box office is likely to reach 160-170 million.

Therefore, Chen Jingxing’s idea is that Universal Pictures can promote it in the name of prequel or spin-off, and it is also true in chronological order. In the world view of "The Walking Dead", the origin of the zombie virus is still arranged in North America, and the big boss protects the umbrella.

The company's headquarters is also in North America, so the timeline is earlier than the story line in China.

Jeff Miller is quite satisfied with the plot. According to the budget, the production cost of this movie will exceed 100 million US dollars. Although it is not enough to be an A-level blockbuster, as the first movie of this IP, it is natural to be cautious.

It's a good idea to test the waters.

A team of people came to the research institute, ready to investigate whether there was any abnormality in the research institute.

When discussing the name of the movie, Chen Jingxing suggested that it would be better not to call it "The Walking Dead" with the same name as the TV series.

Then the male and female protagonists team up to restart the train, experience adventures in the process of escaping from the mountains, and investigate the truth behind the missing connection between the protective umbrella research institute located in the mountains.

According to the cooperation agreement between the two companies, Universal Pictures will use its distribution network in Europe and the United States to serve DreamWorks' films "as if it were its own", and DreamWorks will also open its own projects to cooperate with Universal Pictures for development, such as

Movies like "District 9", the second and third parts of "The Matrix", the "Aquila" mecha movie, and "The Walking Dead".

Just like many audiences in China actually don't watch foreign movies, a large part of North American audiences don't watch foreign movies.

Then in the night, while escaping from the forest, the heroine and her teammates discovered a train suspended on the tracks - it was the train on which the missing Umbrella Investigation Team was riding.

This will allow DreamWorks and Universal to occupy as much of the commercial revenue from the zombie genre as possible.

Universal Pictures will produce the first "The Walking Dead" movie. The script has already taken shape, and the main plot is:

In a mountain range on the outskirts of Raccoon City, people are often killed by unknown creatures. The Umbrella Company has a research institute here. The company headquarters suspects that it may be related to the research institute here. Both the mayor and the police chief of Raccoon City were bribed by the Umbrella Company.

I have been helping to hide this matter.

As a last resort, the federation sent a team from the Raccoon City branch of the special search force to investigate.

After all, DreamWorks also wants to produce - in the name of a joint venture - a movie version of the Chinese storyline of "The Walking Dead".

Even many European and American celebrities have posted updates related to "The Walking Dead" on social platforms, making it a popular topic that everyone can participate in.

However, the team that went to the institute to investigate immediately lost contact, and the institute also cut off contact with the company headquarters.

Another team is riding a train into the depths of the mountains to investigate so-called "unidentified creatures."

In the process, he encountered ordinary zombies, zombie hellhounds and the first-generation zombie tyrants - the latter two will be the latest expansions of the world view of "The Walking Dead". They will first appear in the second season of "The Walking Dead" and are scheduled to appear in "The Walking Dead".

The movie will not be released until the second season is completed.

For a foreign movie, no matter how famous Chen Jingxing is or how good the movie is, a box office volume of 150-200 million is already close to the ceiling.

DreamWorks' zombie movie series is the sequel to "The Walking Dead".

The English name is "The Walking Dead: Biohazard", or TWDB for short.

Naturally, this script also involved DreamWorks, and Universal Pictures also trusted DreamWorks' creativity. In other words, without Chen Jingxing's creative participation in the script, Universal itself would not have felt at ease.

North America is mainly dominated by Universal Pictures, and according to the plan, it will focus on movies.

On Saturday and Sunday, it was even more surprising that it maintained a steady growth, with box office receipts of US$17.79 and US$18.21 million respectively.

The special search team went to investigate anomalies in the mountains. Their original intention was to fly a helicopter for remote reconnaissance. Unexpectedly, the helicopter malfunctioned and crashed into the mountains.

Not only is DreamWorks already producing the second season of "The Walking Dead," which will be available to global audiences early next year, but the production of a movie version is also on the agenda.

Chen Jingxing’s solution is that Universal Pictures’ movie series can be called “Biohazard.”

The source of the story is a partial adaptation of a plot from the "Resident Evil" game in Chen Jingxing's previous life.

The word-of-mouth effect spread quickly, and it received 52.78 million in the first weekend.

Of course, during this process, the female protagonist will gradually reveal the identity of the male protagonist with a mysterious background, who turned out to be a fugitive who committed war crimes.

That is the zombie movie that DreamWorks and Universal Pictures have long targeted in their cooperation agreement.

However, no matter how excited you are, Universal is not the producer of "Inception", and the share it can get from the North American box office is also limited. Naturally, Jeff Miller is more concerned about movies in which he is involved in the production.

For a non-sequel, non-space-related science fiction movie, such box office results have slightly exceeded Universal and DreamWorks' expectations.

Universal Pictures is particularly anxious. Following the trend is not a phenomenon unique to China. In Hollywood, where the R-rated film industry is developed, Universal Pictures may be overtaken by others if it waits any longer.

Another group of people on the train also lost contact halfway after entering the mountains.

"The Walking Dead Prequel: Resident Evil"

It will continue the plot of the second season of "The Walking Dead". There will be a huge suspense at the end of the TV series, and then the movie will continue the plot.

Later, they encountered an attack by mutated leeches and other bugs here, and their teammates died. The heroine was saved by a mysterious man, who was the hero.

After all, there are some plots that he likes, such as nuclear bombs bombarding cities, etc. If you arrange them to go to China, DreamWorks will not be able to mix in China. Fortunately, the umbrella, the origin of the virus, and some larger-scale things are all distributed to North America.

This side of the story line.

Because a successful world view or movie universe is a firewall. If the audience can accept such a world view, then even if a follow-up manufacturer produces a similar zombie-themed movie, it will only be a little soup.

Together, they form a huge, complete, and consistent worldview that covers the entire chronicle of origin, outbreak, evolution, and wasteland, and includes movies, TV series, animations, games, and other forms of worldview.

Just as young people like dystopian worldviews, the zombie wasteland worldview of "The Walking Dead" is also very attractive to the younger generation who are active on the Internet.

However, there is no rush for the script. Universal Pictures wants to use the IP of "The Walking Dead" to create a continuous movie series. It cannot kill the goose to lay eggs. Hollywood, with its mature film industry, knows better than Chinese filmmakers what it means to maximize profits.

, how to maximize benefits.

The pressure from public opinion is increasing.

Compared with the rapid growth of the Chinese film market, the North American market is relatively stable. Although the box office champion has repeatedly broken through, it is not unusual to win the annual crown from 300 million to now 500 million. However, the overall market is still relatively stable, but it is getting more and more

It's just become an oligarch.

Compared with a single movie, the income of a successful series of movies is not of the same order of magnitude. With Hollywood's development capabilities, the peripheral income that a series of movies can develop far exceeds the box office income.

Only two people survived, including the female lead, a civilian employee who had just graduated from college.

The domestic movie version is "The Walking Dead", or TWD for short.

In fact, there is no need to worry about the name being too long. Foreign audiences like to call the series of movies by their abbreviation.

So the domestic movie version is TWD, the Universal Pictures version is TWDB, and everyone is the IP of "The Walking Dead".

This also solves the problem that this version of the movie led by Universal Pictures needs to be linked to the IP of "The Walking Dead", or let the audience know concisely that this is a movie adapted from the IP of "The Walking Dead".

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