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Chapter 167 166. Let’s take advantage of the popularity of youth movies now.

"How are you, senior brother? Are you going well these two days?"

Because he rested early and had a good sleep, Wei Wu went to work early the next morning and handed over work to the deputy director Lu Yang.

Lu Yang nodded and said, "Everything is fine. Fortunately, nothing happened."

In the past two days since Wei Wu was away, Lu Yang had experienced the feeling of having great power. To be honest, it was really good. At this time, he was still a little nostalgic for the handover!

Wei Wu nodded slightly: "Well, I believe it won't be long before you can sit in this position. I'm just letting you experience it in advance so that you can be more motivated in the future."

Lu Yang couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "Really? You know, I have been looking forward to this day in my dreams!"

Wei Wu held his shoulders and said, "Don't worry, you have already joined our Bad Monkey Seventy-Two Changes Plan! As long as the time comes, I will definitely support you as soon as possible.

"But as a new director, you must start with small productions at the beginning, and then try your best to choose the most popular genres. Do you understand?"

Lu Yang nodded and said, "I understand, I understand, even a genius like you started with a small-budget movie, let alone us mortals.

“Anyway, as long as it can go to theaters, I have no problem with any subject matter.

"Well, I'm not one of those old antiques. In business, if you want to invest in me to make a movie, junior brother, you must make money! Who is doing the money-losing business now?

Lu Yang said as he rubbed his hands expectantly and said, "I wonder if junior brother, do you have any good projects to recommend?"

Wei Wu pondered and said, "How about youth movies?"

Lu Yang slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Youth movies are great! To be honest, I just wanted to say a youth movie! The investment is not big but the box office prospects are good. I heard that many film and television companies are planning to make youth movies! "

In fact, although Lu Yang became famous for "Xiu Chun Knife", this movie is not his debut.

His debut film was "Cinema for the Blind" in 2010, which starred Jin Shijie and Zhou Yiwei. They later also participated in "Xiu Chun Knife".

Lu Yang won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Debut Director with "Cinema for the Blind", and later made his second theatrical feature film "RV", and then finally someone was willing to invest in him to make "Xiu Chun Knife".

Seeing what he said, Wei Wucai continued:

"I previously obtained the copyright to adapt a novel, Rao Sherman's "The Left Ear". Do you know this book?"

In his previous life, the movie "The Left Ear" was produced by Su Youpeng and was his debut as a director. Although it received a mediocre reputation, it still took in a box office of 448 million.

Lu Yang shook his head slightly embarrassed and said honestly:

"I haven't seen it, but I can buy it right away and watch it, so there shouldn't be any delay, right?"

So Wei Wu said: "Okay, you can buy a copy later and read it, and try to figure out how to make this movie."

The difficulty of shooting youth films is actually not high. Basically, anyone with a little knowledge can do it. It is especially suitable for novice directors to practice their skills.

Even if you don’t know how to do it, you can still make a film by hiring a few assistant directors who do.

For people like He Jiong, Xiao Yanzi, Guo Xiaosi, Su Youpeng, etc., they all started out as directors in youth films, which shows that the threshold for this type of film is indeed low.

Moreover, there is no shame in commercial film directors making youth films, to be honest.

You must know that if Guo Fan hadn't said that he made "My Deskmate" and won 455 million in box office to prove himself, how could others invest hundreds of millions in him to make "The Wandering Earth"?

As for Wei Wu, he definitely can't make youth movies too frequently now, because that would be too unsatisfactory!

That’s not to say that we can’t make it at all in the future, but it will take two or three years, interspersed with three or four other movies, and then we can make it again! It’s impossible to shoot one movie after another.

Not only does it undermine his character as a famous director, it also easily creates a stereotype for the audience, which means that he only makes this type of movie.

When he tries to make other types of movies, the audience may not buy it.

This is exactly the same reason that actors cannot play the same type of role for a long time.

But he is indeed the one who started this cold topic of youth movies, and the money is really easy to make. If you don’t make money, you won’t make it in vain.

Since it would be a bit embarrassing for him to earn this money by himself, he can only ask other directors under the company to help him earn this money!

In fact, in Wei Wu's plan, he not only plans to give the script of "Left Ear" to Lu Yang, but also plans to give the script of "To Our Dying Youth" to Xue Xiaolu, and still gives "My Deskmate" to Guo Fan, and finally gives "The Year in a Hurry" was handed over to Chen Sicheng.

As for Ning Hao, forget it. After all, he has already made a relatively successful film, so I won’t interfere with his freedom. The main thing is to see what he wants to make!

Just take advantage of the popularity and freshness of youth movies now, so let’s make these movies!

After all, the current situation is still a bit different from the previous life. If we really have to wait until after 2010, then this subject may have been badly filmed long ago, and the corresponding box office may not be as high.

But then again, the reason why Wei Wu wanted to invest in Lu Yang to make a movie in the first place was also out of a little compensation.

Although he didn't know it himself, Wei Wu had already registered the copyright of "Xiu Chun Dao" not long after his rebirth, in 2004 to be exact.

The key is that this movie is a series, and as we all know, the box office of series movies often increases exponentially.

For example, the box office of the second part of "Xiu Chun Dao" was 2.85 times that of the first part, "Detective Chinatown" was 4.1 times, and "Wolf Warrior" was 10.47 times.

From "Unfortunately" (2010, 37.3 million) to "囧" (2012, 1.27 billion), the box office increased by a full 34 times in just two years.

In his previous life, Lu Yang wrote this script about 10 years ago. Now it is only 2006, so of course there is no trace of this script yet.

Wei Wu plans to make this movie by himself. If nothing else happens, he may make this next movie after "囧囧".

To be honest, the popularity of martial arts movies has been declining in recent years, so it is definitely better to shoot this movie sooner rather than later.

In fact, after 2006, basically there are not a few particularly good projects in martial arts movies. They are either well-received but not popular, or there is no splash.

Relatively speaking, "Xiu Chun Dao" can be regarded as the bigger one among the short ones! Apart from it, the only other later martial arts films were basically "Sword Rain".

In fact, he also preempted the script of this movie, and Wei Wu may also film it in the future.

However, as a transitional film into martial arts films, "Xiu Chun Dao" is obviously more marketable, so it is better to let it take the lead.

In the previous life, "Xiu Chun Dao" was released in 2014. To be honest, martial arts movies have been a bit on the decline. The unknown Lu Yang won a good box office result of 93.19 million with it, and then "Xiu Chun Dao 2" scored 2.65 billion box office.

But if it starts shooting in the second half of next year and is released the year after that in 2008, martial arts movies are not that popular now, and it will definitely not be a big problem if the box office will eventually exceed 100 million.

In addition, the overseas copyrights of this kind of costume film are easy to sell, and it is obviously not a problem to recover the cost in the end.

However, the cost of period films is generally high, so they probably won’t make much money.

Lu Yang was surprised and happy: "Junior brother, are you really planning to invest in my movie?"

Wei Wu nodded and said, "Yes, you can temporarily follow me as an intern for one or two films. After my next film "Thailand" is finished, it will probably be in the second half of next year.

"You will have graduated from graduate school by then, and I will leave "Left Ear" to you to shoot."

Lu Yang's face flushed with excitement, he nodded and bowed and expressed:

"This is... thank you so much. I'm so excited that I don't even know what to say. To be honest, apart from you, my junior brother, I'm afraid no one else is willing to invest in my movie.

"Even my biological father often advises me not to be too crazy. He suggests that I should be down-to-earth and make short films and commercials to support myself. Don't always think about becoming fat in one bite."

Lu Yang and his father, Lu Haibo, are also in the industry. He graduated from Fudan University and is currently the director of the film and television department of China National Theater, which is about the same level as Tian Zhuangzhuang at Nortel.

Wei Wu waved his hand and said, "Don't say that, your ability is definitely fine, but you still need some experience.

"In this way, you can exercise with me first and recharge your batteries first. Anyway, your "Left Ear" will be ready to start in the second half of next year at the earliest!"

Lu Yang got it, he seemed happy, nodded repeatedly and said:

"Okay, okay, thank you for your kindness. I will definitely learn from you and live up to your nurturing heart, junior brother."

Although there are still some risks in investing in Lu Yang to make a movie at this time, mainly due to his lack of personal experience.

But the problem is that Wei Wu had to buy horse bones with thousands of gold and make them for everyone to see!

Those who later became famous directors basically had great ideas, so naturally they inevitably had a bit of literati arrogance.

Therefore, we must at least let those young directors see the benefits of joining the Bad Monkey 72 transformation plan and following Wei Wu to eat meat and drink soup!

Moreover, if the banner of Bad Monkey 72 Transformation Plan is to be set up, one or two benchmarks must be set for everyone to see. Guang Ninghao is not enough to be a bare-bones commander, but there must be three or five more!