Millennium director

The age of superheroes has arrived and will only intensify in the coming years.

Soon, Hollywood will fully shift towards superhero movies, and even movie kings and movie queens will have to provide supporting roles for superheroes.

The original ability that Hollywood was originally proud of will be completely destroyed by the sweep of major superhero IPs.

Then in the late superhero era, Hollywood's political and correct banner completely destroyed Hollywood's international influence. There are no more internationally influential Hollywood actors like Depp, Leonardo, and Robert Downey Jr. A superstar.

By the time Wu Yuan wakes up in 2023, Hollywood's international superstars will still be the same group that emerged around 2000. After 2012, except for a few superheroes from Marvel, no one can become internationally famous through original movies. actor.

As Wu Yuan, who is familiar with the development of Hollywood in the next ten years, naturally knows that "superheroes" will be the last bandwagon in Hollywood.

Marvel's MCU movie universe has little chance. In the first three phases of Marvel, no female Chinese superhero characters have appeared.

The Supreme Mage Gu Yi barely plays a supporting role, but this role is seriously inconsistent with Liu Yifei's acting style.

As a result, we can only take a step back and look for options in the DC movie universe or "X-Men".

In fact, Wu Yuan is very fond of Wonder Woman in the DC movie universe.

Cool, cool and capable!

Unfortunately, Wonder Woman is set to be the illegitimate daughter of Zeus, and it is obviously impossible to have a pure Asian face.

"Flicker should be the best choice I can find for you." Wu Yuan smiled and patted Liu Yifei in his arms, and said with certainty: "I will talk to Fox and let them show off in "X-Men: Reversal" Future" and "X-Men: Apocalypse" to increase your role."

Although "X-Men" is also a Marvel comic, it is an independent universe. After all, the copyright of this IP is owned by Fox.

In the comics, there are quite a lot of scenes that flicker in the parallel universe and the "Apocalypse Incident". When adapted into a movie, the number of scenes depends on the screenwriter's ideas, which is very flexible.

Fox was just trying to please the Chinese audience by inserting a Chinese actor, which would naturally not give too many scenes to Flicker, which is the version shot by Fan Xiaopang.

But if Wu Yuan intervenes and replaces Fan Xiaopang with Liu Yifei, Fox will reconsider this role.

Not to mention becoming the protagonist, but at least it has to be an important supporting role, and there will definitely be an important role in "X-Men: Apocalypse".

With such a superhero character in hand, Liu Yifei will not disappear in the next ten years as a superhero.

As for Wu Yuan himself, he also plans to return more of his work to China and the Asian market after filming "The Martian".

To be honest, Marvel's MCU movie universe, at least before "Avengers 4", is really unstoppable.

Not only did each film have higher box office numbers than the previous one, breaking global box office records, but it also severely squeezed the market for other original films.

Even if Wu Yuan knew such a future, he could not change anything.

From 2014 to 2019, among the top ten box office movies in Hollywood, seven or eight of the ten were sequels to IP series owned by the six major masters. The remaining two barely made it into the top ten and were just eating scraps.

Even if Wu Yuan wanted to make some "original" movies to compete with superheroes, he couldn't find a suitable one.

Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to give up.

As soon as I give up, I suddenly feel that the world is vast.

Without hesitation, Wu Yuan chose to give up tit-for-tat with superhero movies and return to China to make some Chinese-language blockbusters.

It just so happens that the mainland's movie market is now on the rise, and the era of box office explosion in the mainland led by "囧" is about to come.

"Love Letter" can only be regarded as Wu Yuan's training work. He is already thinking about preparing a movie that really wants to make a box office impact.

In the next few days, he stayed with Liu Yifei for a few more days, and officially participated in the recording of an episode of "Actors Please Take Your Place" as a flying guest, and then flew back to the capital with Liu Yifei.

When Liu Yifei was convening work, Wu Yuan temporarily called Wang Likun from the company to take over for a while. Wang Likun happened to have no announcements at the moment.

After Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei returned to the capital, Liu Yifei naturally returned to the "Young You" crew that had assembled again and started their movie promotion work.

Wu Yuan was not idle either and flew directly to Los Angeles.

Liu Yifei didn't have much other work besides movie promotion in the second half of the year, but Wu Yuan still had some.

"The Martian", a movie that he had proposed to make long ago, has officially begun preparatory work.

It is expected that filming will officially start in October 2011 and wrap up in January of next year, just in time for the release of "Love Letter".

In fact, the project of "The Martian" was established very early.

As an IMAX 3D film and a science fiction film, the preparatory work for this film is very complicated.

To build a Mars base, various near-future equipment, such as more advanced space suits, more advanced spaceships, etc., need to be designed, modeled, and manufactured early.

It just so happened that because Wu Yuan had already reached a cooperation with Fox, this time Wu Yuan also took advantage of Fox's coattails.

"Alien Prequel" has been renamed, and now the movie is called "Paradise", well, it's still a working title.

And because this movie is also a science fiction movie, it is also a science fiction movie in the near future, so the scientific and technological achievements set in the movie, especially the design of the space suit, can be used in common with "The Martian", just change the color.

Wu Yuan relied on his reputation to negotiate a small cooperation with Fox. He exchanged information with the crew of "Alien Prequel" and shared the props and some CG special effects designed by them in the early preparation work.

This saved the crew of "The Martian" a lot of money!

However, in terms of the construction of the studio, there is no way to take advantage of the success of "Alien Prequel".

Since entering 2011, John has been building a studio according to Wu Yuan's requirements.

So far, the crew of "The Martian" has built about 20 scenes, which is not many compared to other films, but these scenes are very exquisite in craftsmanship.

Two-thirds of these studios were set up in Hungary, mainly for filming scenes on Earth and spaceships.

The remaining third was built in Wadi Rum, Jordan's Rose Desert.

The reason why I chose these two places.

The first is because Hungary has the largest and tallest studio in the world, which can accommodate the space scenes required by the crew.

The Rose Desert in Jordan is one of the most Mars-like areas in the world. The endless yellow sand and red sky always give people the feeling of being on an alien planet.

A large number of scenes where the male protagonist lives on Mars need to be filmed here.

As for why Wu Yuan flew to Los Angeles, of course it was to meet his chosen leading actor - Matt Damon! (End of chapter)