Millennium director

"Director Wu, are you kidding?" Director Han said in shock.

Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows, "I don't think directors from Hong Kong and Taiwan like Wu Yusen can make war films."

"Look at his film "Windtalkers". Is it a war movie?"

"I lost money once in Hollywood, and now I'm going to China to make a fortune?"

Director Han was silent. After a long time, he sighed: "After all, he is Wu Yusen, so we still have to give him a chance to prove himself."

Wu Yuan immediately understood Director Han's attitude.

After all, Wu Baige is a director who has entered Hollywood. After he failed in Hollywood, it would be really disappointing if no one in China would help him.

Thinking about it from his perspective, if it was Wu Yuan who failed to make a career in Hollywood at this time, then Wu Yuan would also receive the same treatment as Wu Baige. China Film Group would connect the dots and attract investments from Japan and South Korea to give him a job. This is a blockbuster movie in the hope that he will avenge his past humiliation and regain his glory.

Let’s put it this way, it’s not that Wu Yusen came to direct after the project of “Battle of Red Cliff”, but the project of “Battle of Red Cliff” was only launched after Wu Yusen failed in Hollywood and returned to China.

Although no matter from any aspect, Wu Yuan is a more suitable and better director than Wu Yusen.

But this "Battle of Red Cliff" was originally a turnaround battle prepared for Wu Yusen. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was tailor-made.

Even Director Han cannot change coaches on the spot.

"Director Wu, you are an internationally renowned director, and you don't want to miss this one, "The Battle of Red Cliff."" Director Han tried his best to persuade.

Wu Yuan also stepped out of the corner.

yes!

Even if he wanted to mess with Wu Baige, he didn't necessarily have to cut off "Battle of Red Cliff"!

With Wu Baige's current influence, without "Battle of Red Cliff", he can still make "Battle of Hulao Pass" and "Battle of Shanhaiguan", which is not bad.

"Red Cliff" suffered a small loss at the box office, but the subsequent copyright operation still made a profit. I still had the capital to not give up, so I dared to invest in Wu Baige's "Taiping Wheel"!

You have to let Wu Baige lose money severely!

However, Wu Yuan was not very happy to just watch Wu Baige filming "Red Cliff". If he wanted to compensate, he should pay more!

"Red Cliff" grossed more than 500 million in box office in mainland China and 190 million US dollars globally. This box office performance is not bad!

He thought about it and decided not to hide it from Director Han anymore, and told him everything Wu Baige did in the Cannes jury.

Although Director Han is the helmsman of China Film Group, he is really ill-informed about what goes on behind the scenes at this kind of film festival.

After Wu Yuan explained to him, he understood why Wu Yuan suddenly paid attention to the "Battle of Red Cliff" project.

"Director Wu, I can understand being angry, I understand it very much." Director Han carefully organized his words, "But the final result is still good."

"You still won the Cannes Jury Prize, which is considered a near miss.˜"*°•.˜˜.•°*"˜"

"It's better not to worry too much about some things."

It is always easy to persuade people to be generous, but it is difficult for the person being persuaded to be truly generous.

"What if I just want to care about you?" Wu Yuan asked calmly.

Although his tone was not serious, Dong Han still felt nervous.

Wu Yuan is different now.

"This." Director Han sighed, "I'll tell you the truth, Director Wu."

“The Ministry of Culture also attaches great importance to the project “Red Cliff” and regards it as one of the important influences on the promotion of Chinese culture in Asia.”

"From the beginning of the project, it has been the most important project from above."

"Let's put it this way, when "Red Cliff" is released, the schedules of other movies will be specially set aside for "Red Cliff" to ensure that this movie can maintain its capital."

A large project worth hundreds of millions, with investment from China, Japan and South Korea, is no joke. Even Wu Yuan could not change anything.

"In other words, I can't even make a movie dedicated to "Red Cliff"?" Wu Yuan asked with a frown.

Yes, when Director Han rejected him, he immediately thought of another move.

Since there is no way to rip off "Red Cliff", then simply make a movie to attack "Red Cliff" and release it at the same time as "Red Cliff" to seize the box office of "Red Cliff" and make Wu Baige suffer even worse losses!

As a result, Director Han immediately blocked this plan.

I have made it clear that "Red Cliff", like "Hero", is a key project of the Ministry of Culture. It is trying to ensure its smooth release and even uses administrative power to promote box office results!

At that time, even if Wu Yuan wanted to make a movie to squeeze in the release month of "Red Cliff", China Film Group, which is responsible for the distribution, would not approve it and force you to postpone the release, and you would just stare.

"Ahem. That's it." Director Han also said with some embarrassment.

There was nothing he could do about the movie that the higher-ups wanted to protect.

"Okay, I understand." Wu Yuan shook his head and his expression returned to calm.

"Then let's talk about this today."

"'Love' will be released on National Day and 'Painted Skin' will be released on the Lunar New Year holiday. I hope China Film Group Corporation will put more effort into the distribution of these two films."

"I still have something to do, so I'll leave first."

After politely bidding farewell to Director Han, Wu Yuan left the China Film Building.

Director Han didn't think much about it.

He felt that Wu Yuan was still too young and too impulsive. Even if he was dissatisfied with Wu Yusen, he should not have focused on "Red Cliff", a three-nation cooperation project.

Now eating a soft nail should calm him down.

However, Wu Yuan, who was being lamented by Director Han that he was too young, had no intention of giving up at this moment.

So what if the Ministry of Culture is behind it?

Wu Yuan, who always had a quick mind, quickly thought of a way to break the situation.

After leaving China Film Group, he drove back home and immediately checked some news briefings online.

Soon, the news he wanted was revealed.

"It is expected that in October this year, the China Space Administration will start its second manned space flight plan. This manned space plan will send two astronauts to take the Shenzhou 6 manned spacecraft for a multi-person, multi-day flight. test!"

Yes, Wu Yuan felt that he could also find a backer to support him, and it was a big backer.

If I remember correctly, in October 2005, China's second manned space program was a complete success.

On September 25, 2008, the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft will carry astronauts and successfully conduct extravehicular activities.

In 2011, the Tiangong Project in China’s aerospace program was officially launched.

In the next ten years, what will attract the most global attention from China, apart from its economic take-off, is its series of achievements in the aerospace field.

But while China is developing rapidly in the aerospace field, it has not kept pace in terms of publicity.

Take a look at Hollywood!

As soon as the United States sent astronauts into low-Earth orbit, the "Star Trek" series of movies came out.

As soon as the United States launched the Apollo series of moon landing programs, "Star Wars" quickly followed suit.

Even though the United States has not launched any space exploration plans in the past decade or so, various science fiction movies in Hollywood are still emerging one after another. In the movies, American technology is still invincible, constantly fighting aliens and protecting the earth.

This is the influence of cultural propaganda!

Under the subtle influence of these movies, even a child knows that the United States’ aerospace capabilities are very powerful and can send people into space to fight aliens and protect the earth!

In the past, China did not have the strength and level to make such science fiction movies.

After all, manned spaceflight has not even been attempted, and astronauts have not been sent to the sky. How can you have the nerve to film a Chinese space story in a science fiction film?

This is just like watching Indian or Korean space blockbusters, it just adds to the laughter.

But things are different now. China's manned spaceflight project is taking one step at a time, and the progress is very rapid.

By 2008, they had mastered the technology of extravehicular walking and repairing space vehicles.

In other words, some science fiction works involving low-Earth orbit, if produced by Chinese people, will not make people from other countries feel that they are against the law, but will only envy them.

Because the Chinese people have really accomplished the manned space project in reality!

After reading the relevant report materials on the computer, Wu Yuan raised the corner of his mouth, clicked on a word document in a happy mood, and started typing on the keyboard.

""Gravity""

"Summary: In 2020, Chinese astronaut Wu Qiang and female doctor Si Qinqin boarded the "Shenzhou 14" manned spacecraft to carry out the mission of repairing the low-Earth orbit telescope."

"During the repair work carried out outside the cabin, a major country launched a missile to destroy one of its abandoned spy satellites. The debris generated by the explosion destroyed a large number of space vehicles and rushed towards Shenzhou 14..."

What a coincidence!

There is a Ministry of Culture behind Wu Baige, right?

My buddy took the script to the space agency and the Manned Space Engineering Office.

Your "Red Cliff" holds high the stick of cultural influence, trying to use China's most famous history and culture from the Three Kingdoms period to invade Japan and South Korea?

My buddy's "Gravity" also holds high the stick of cultural influence, and this is a global level of influence. Once this movie can be made and released in many countries around the world, it will definitely be a movie that can change most foreigners' impression of China. of a movie!

Why is the country so concerned about the Olympic Games that it even mobilizes the entire country to prepare for this event?

Not for those few gold medals, but I hope that through this Olympic Games, audiences around the world will have a new impression of China, instead of staying in the backward and old impression of the past.

Of course, scientific and technological progress is the most important and the most suitable for publicity!

"Red Cliff" will be released in July 2008, and it will be released simultaneously across Asia. The reason is to bring a baptism of Chinese classical culture to Asian audiences before the opening of the Olympic Games.

Okay!

If Wu Yuan makes this "Gravity", he can also ask for it to be released in July!

And it will be released simultaneously in as many countries around the world as possible, not just in Asia.

His reason is also very good. Before the opening of the Olympic Games, let the global audience see China's scientific and technological progress!

We in China are already looking up to the sky and embarking on a manned space project that only big and powerful countries have the strength to do. Shouldn't this be widely advertised?

Is there any more effective way to promote it than a movie about a Chinese astronaut who narrowly escaped death in low-Earth orbit, finally completed the mission and successfully escaped?

Whether it is for national justice or personal justice, Wu Yuan can be steady and straight!

He is working hard to compete with "Red Cliff"!

Red Cliff was released in two parts, and he couldn't stop it, but this first part was definitely going to be sniped.

And he sniped in an upright way!

The first science fiction movie belonging to the Chinese people, a science fiction movie in the near future, a science fiction movie describing China's manned spaceflight project. Isn't this more interesting than the tired Three Kingdoms story?

Among Chinese people, at least one in three people knows the story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

This kind of story that is engraved in the DNA of the Chinese people and is so familiar that it is no longer familiar. Is it really more attractive than exploring the stars and the sea?

You can watch the story of the Three Kingdoms at any time, but you can’t watch China’s own science fiction blockbusters like “Gravity” at any time!

Wu Yuan believes that as long as the script of "Gravity" he writes can get the support of the space agency, all the problems that trouble him will not become a problem.

Just kidding, the publicity priority and importance of aerospace is much higher than that of "Three Kingdoms", which has long been famous.

Even if "Red Cliff" sells well in Japan and South Korea, at best it will only allow Japanese and Korean movie fans to relive the story of the Three Kingdoms. The story of the Three Kingdoms is already familiar to Japan and South Korea.

"Gravity" is different. The space agency and its superiors really need a movie that can promote China's aerospace achievements to the global public!

"Crackling--" Wu Yuan's keyboard kept wailing, and the script of "Gravity" was quickly taking shape on his computer.

There is actually nothing in this movie that requires too much adaptation.

Localize the heroine's life experience, and reverse the order of appearance of the International Space Station and Tiangong Space Station.

The only thing that troubled him was that when the heroine in the original film used the Shenzhou spaceship to escape, she looked troubled when facing the Chinese-language control panel, and how to reasonably retain the laughter caused by blindly pressing the buttons.

This plot must be reversed, so that the heroine returns to Earth using the Discovery space shuttle in the International Space Station.

On the one hand, the plot and story are reversed, and on the other hand, if the film is changed in this way, the box office may be better when it is released in Europe and the United States.

This is just like the heroine in the original "Gravity" who used a Chinese spaceship to escape, to please the Chinese market.

Now that "Gravity" has become a Chinese movie, it might as well be in the movie to please the European and American markets.

Just how to retain this funny point, Wu Yuan couldn't figure out for a while.

As a doctor, there is no reason for the heroine to not understand English. Who knows that in China, English is one of the main courses. To graduate from university, you must pass CET-4.

He couldn't simply flip the joke and throw it out, so he had to leave the plot aside for the time being and write the rest first.

In this way, after spending three to five days, Wu Yuan basically revised a Chinese version of "Gravity".

He himself is quite satisfied with this magically modified version of "Gravity".

Compared with over-exaggerated science fiction movies such as "The Martian", "Interstellar" or "Inception", "Gravity" is the most suitable science fiction film for China today.

Because most of the current Chinese audiences lack confidence in their own country, and now is the golden age of the public.

They cannot believe that China can be as powerful as the United States in the future.

Even the military comrades who have the most confidence in the country, their boldest ideas are just thinking about how our military can use the wolf pack tactics to defeat the old and American aircraft carriers, and they simply dare not imagine that we can have our own aircraft carrier.

Thinking about suicide attacks by second-generation aircraft, can 10 of them be replaced by one old American third-generation aircraft?

I simply can’t imagine that we will have our own fourth-generation mobile phone in more than ten years.

This is an era where you need to be careful when dreaming.

Even when making a movie, Wu Yuan did not dare to weave a dream that was too beautiful, but only dared to carefully protect the self-esteem of the Chinese people.

Yes, we may not be able to colonize Mars, travel through wormholes, and colonize planets countless light years away.

But we can at least carefully create a Chinese space dream in low-Earth orbit.