Millennium director

Of course, building your own company’s movie universe is not just about shouting slogans.

Since the first phase of the film is to be produced within five years, reasonable planning is necessary.

Of course Wu Yuan had already made plans and preparations.

"The filming of the third part of "Soul Ferry" will start this year."

"The plot of the third part will include more background concepts from the company's movie universe."

"The first is the cultivator system, which is the immortal cultivator in the current online novels."

Wu Yuan knocked on a whiteboard brought by the staff and wrote the four characters "cultivation system" on it.

Today’s online novels are actually quite mature.

"The Story of Mortals Cultivation to Immortality" is a novel that began to be serialized in 2007, and has been serialized for almost four years now.

The cultivation system of Xiantian, Foundation Establishment, Golden Elixir, and Nascent Soul is widely circulated on the Internet and has a high reputation.

In a few months, "Shading the Sky" will begin serialization.

Before Zhetian, Chen Dong had already written several masterpieces on the Internet.

Not to mention Tudou, San Shao, I Eat Tomatoes, Meng Ruishenji and others are already famous on the Internet.

Zhongyuan Wubai has basically taken shape.

They refined and integrated the originally scattered, disorderly, and self-contradictory Chinese myths and legends and the fantasy literature of the early Republic of China into a mature "cultivation system."

The executives of the Light and Shadow Era sitting here are all elites in the industry. Naturally, they don't have the time to pay attention to online literature that is not yet on the table.

But Wu Yuan has been paying attention.

"Unlike American Marvel and DC comics, their superhero system does not have a clear power system. The poor rely on mutation, and the rich rely on technology."

"To defeat the big boss, you must explode your seeds to win."

"This kind of expression is really suitable for being in a movie. After all, a movie lasts only one or two hours, and there is no time to explain a huge cultivation system to the audience."

"Like online novels, a novel can easily have millions of words to build a huge worldview."

"We have to learn, but we can't copy everything."

As Wu Yuan spoke, he drew a circle on the "Cultivation System" on the whiteboard: "In our movie universe in the age of light and shadow, there must be a repair system, but it is just a standard used to measure strength and does not need to be too elaborate. Here it is.”

"For example, the immortals in myths and legends are simply divided into earth immortals, heavenly immortals, gods and golden immortals."

"Practitioners who have not yet become immortals and are cultivating in the human world are divided into foundation building, golden elixir, Yuanying, and spiritual transformation."

"The higher the realm, the greater the ability."

"And this leveling system should be universal in all movies."

"This is very convenient for the audience to understand the approximate power level of each character, making it easier for them to make comparisons and make comparisons."

"There is a very interesting joke on the Internet. Many netizens always discuss whether Kakarot from "Dragon Ball" is stronger or DC's Superman when they have nothing to do."

"If Superman and Kakarot compete, who will win?"

"Who is more powerful, the ninja in "Naruto" or the superpower in "One Piece"?"

"Discussions like this have always existed on the Internet."

"It's interesting, but the premise is that these stories are relatively independent. You don't see Superman in "Dragon Ball" and there are no rubber fists in "Naruto."

"But the movie universe we want to create is different. The story that happened in Shushan and the story that happened in Chang'an happened in the same world."

"The troubled world of fairies in the Han Dynasty and the hidden immortal sect in modern times are things that happened in the same world in different eras."

"So, we need a unified power system to keep the story in order and to allow movie fans to easily understand the connections between these stories that happened in different periods and regions."

How to integrate different movies from the future light and shadow era into a whole and ensure that the story does not collapse is something Wu Yuan has been thinking about when he is free.

China’s mythological stories are different from superhero movies like Marvel and DC.

Superheroes themselves were born under a system. Since the comics were serialized, characters have been continuously added to it, all of which are original characters.

Although they don't have a clear power system, they all existed in the same era. They can directly PK and fight in a big battle, and use the battle scenes to distinguish the superior and inferior.

But the movie universe created in the Age of Light and Shadow based on Chinese myths and legends and stories of cultivating immortals is not this time.

What we have now, there are already three systems: the human world, the fairy world, and the underworld. The human world is divided into different eras, "Painted Skin" with a Han Dynasty background and "Soul Ferry" with a modern background. Later, we will also make the "Shu Mountain" IP, Tang Dynasty There will also be stories about Song’s background, and it’s even possible to incorporate some online novels into it.

These messy stories must need a unified power system to ensure that the story does not collapse.

"In the first phase, I plan to make six movies."

"Starting from "Shu Mountain", anchor the background of "Shu Mountain" in the Han Dynasty and link it with the "Painted Skin" series."

"After that, we will launch 1-2 spin-off movies with a Tang Dynasty background based on the stories of "Journey to the West" and "Eight Immortals" to introduce the concept of "immortal"."

"Finally, we are using a major event movie with a modern background. These "superheroes" from the Han and Tang Dynasties gather in modern times to jointly resist disasters."

"This disaster can be the breaking of the sealed demon world, or it can be a great turmoil in the underworld. In short, it will be an earth-shattering battle like the Avengers!"

Wu Yuan said in a shocked voice, his eyes shining with excitement.

Yes, his plan is actually to follow the path that Marvel has already taken, and to cross the river by following the footsteps of his predecessors.

Although this predecessor is still exploring.

But Wu Yuan knew very well that Marvel’s strategy of first making single-player movies, and then using a big movie to bring together the protagonists of all the single-player movies, and have a big event and fight, is so effective!

Relying on excellent special effects technology and superimposing the visual experience brought by IMAX 3D, this kind of superhero commercial film is very profitable!

Hollywood was once dominated by Marvel's superhero science fiction movies for ten years, relying on this formula.

Just learn it and that’s it!

It is not required to be like Marvel, relying on the international hegemony of Hollywood to sell movies all over the world, but it should be no problem to capture the market of three-thirds of an acre in Asia.

Moreover, the fairy tale and classical charm full of oriental aesthetics may also interest Europeans and make efforts in Europe.

Don’t underestimate the appeal of Chinese culture. More than ten years later, even South Korea is imitating the various makeup styles of Chinese fairy puppet dramas and the new Chinese Hanfu style. To be precise, they are stealing it.

Rather than letting other countries steal Chinese culture and use it to conquer Asia, it would be better to enter the Age of Light and Shadow yourself!

"Have the copyright for "Zhu Xian" been negotiated?" Thinking of this, Wu Yuan immediately asked the person in charge of the copyright department of the company. (End of chapter)