Millennium director

Wu Yuan didn't feel nostalgic for too long.

Although he felt the power of time passing when he thought about Chen Xingxu being only four years old when he debuted, he was only 32 years old now and he was not old, he was still in his prime!

He never mourned for his lost youth, and the next to appear was the mature director Wu Yuan!

With the last piece of the puzzle of "Riding the Wind" being filled in, Wu Yuan had to embark on the preparation journey of "Riding the Wind" again.

That is, scouting the location! Checking the location!

Most of those anti-Japanese TV series were shot in Hengdian, where millions of Japanese soldiers died in a year, but most anti-Japanese movies were never shot in Hengdian.

The popular filming locations for anti-Japanese movies are mainly Shanghai, Fog City, Wuhan, Changsha and other places, all of which were cities that had major battles or were very important during the anti-Japanese period.

As a movie about the Jinzhong Cavalry Regiment, "Riding the Wind" must be shot in Shanxi.

After boarding the plane, Wu Yuan rushed to Shanxi as soon as possible. He spent half a month wandering around the base where the Jinzhong Cavalry Regiment had stayed in real history.

He didn't know where the "Ride the Wind" unit in the movie "My Fathers and Me" was filmed, and he didn't pay attention to it.

But so many years of directing career have trained him.

In the end, he chose to shoot in Jinzhong, Hebei. This is an old revolutionary base. There was a base during the Anti-Japanese War, and it was also the main activity area of ​​the Jinzhong Cavalry Regiment.

Of course, not all the plots of this movie will be shot here. Wu Yuan still chose several mountainous areas and forests as the places where guerrilla warfare in the movie took place.

In Beijing, some of the plots in the studio and the scenes of the high-level will also be filmed.

However, compared with "Ready Player One", the location of "Ride the Wind" is relatively easy to deal with. After choosing it, you can start shooting with a little arrangement. There is no need to do too much preparatory work, and there is no need to build a studio from scratch.

Wu Yuan also had to sigh again that shooting science fiction films is really complicated and cumbersome.

At the same time, while Wu Yuan was busy with the preparatory work for "Riding the Wind", the blockbuster production of Light and Shadow Times this year, "Battle of the Demonic Tide", also successfully completed post-production and started pre-promotion work.

This movie has been scheduled, and it is strongly scheduled for the 2015 Spring Festival!

In the past, Light and Shadow Times rarely squeezed into the Spring Festival period. It was not because they had no confidence in their own movies, but because Light and Shadow Times had its own inherent period, that is, the summer and National Day periods.

The former mainly caters to the young audience, and the latter is that Wu Yuan always likes to release new movies at this time.

But next year it won't work.

Next year is the special 70th anniversary of the victory of the anti-fascism. The National Day period must give way to the main theme movies, and Wu Yuan's own tribute film must also be released at this time.

If there is only one summer period, it is too crowded. "Back to 20" and "Kunlun", which are both based on the same book with South Korea, must be released at this time. If "Battle of the Demonic Tide" is added, it will be a fight between the people.

Moreover, the box office market is not big enough to accommodate three movies with a box office potential of 1 billion at the same time.

Yes, in the estimation of the Light and Shadow Era, the box office of these three movies is all heading for more than 1 billion RMB.

Needless to say, "Battle of the Demon Tide" and "Kunlun" are the most successful. "20 Again" is mainly the success of the Korean version, which has brought confidence to the Light and Shadow Era and dared to shout out the slogan of 1 billion box office.

But in fact, for this movie, the company believes that 500 million is already a great success.

But even so, a summer season cannot accommodate 2.5 billion box office, unless there are no other movies released in the entire summer season, only the three movies of the Light and Shadow Era, but this is unrealistic.

So in desperation, the company can only adjust the schedule and advance the most "powerful" of the three movies to the Spring Festival to fight!

Next year's Spring Festival will be the most crowded Spring Festival in history.

Just based on the current news, there are already 5 movies scheduled for the Spring Festival, and there will be several more movies scheduled for the Spring Festival in the next few months.

So only the strongest movies can enter the Spring Festival to grab food.

There is no doubt that among these three movies, the strongest one is "War of the Demon Tide", which is comparable to the Avengers.

Taiwu Zhenren in the previous work, Zhao Li in "Soul Ferry", Chunyang Zhenren Lü Dongbin played by Hu Ge, and the big villain demon god played by Liu Dehua, all kinds of heroes gathered together, and the story happened 1400 years after "The Legend of Shushan Xianxia", which is modern times.

It can be said that all kinds of elements are full.

Even if the Spring Festival next year is turbulent, it is a dare to try!

Of course, in order to achieve good box office results during the Spring Festival next year, the crew of "War of the Demon Tide" also started the publicity work early.

The advanced version of the trailer was released in September, and several leading actors also began to mention this movie when they appeared in public, promoting it in advance.

In the next few months, the era of light and shadow will also launch various ground and online promotions, and make sure that before the Spring Festival, 1.4 billion Chinese people know that this movie is going to be released.

Regardless of whether such behavior will make people feel bored, this "information" must be forced into everyone's mind anyway.

Even Wu Yuan, who was busy scouting locations in Shanxi, could see buses with posters of "War of the Demonic Tide" passing by in the city.

For this reason, Wu Yuan even called Li Xiaoping and asked her if it was too early to promote now.

As a result, Li Xiaoping said that this was only the first wave. The company prepared three waves of promotion, with a two-month interval between each wave, and strived to brainwash the people of the whole country.

It can only be said that it is terrible.

Wu Yuan, who has never paid much attention to the promotion of movies and is too lazy to study it, just thinks that this behavior is a bit too much, but it is understandable.

Light and Shadow Times has poured countless efforts into "Battle of the Demon Tide". This movie can be regarded as the company's effort, and it is directly aimed at the 1.5 billion box office record!

If you don't spend a lot of money on promotion, it is not easy to achieve this result.

The main reason is that Light and Shadow Times was stimulated by the good results of the domestic film market last year.

One after another, movies with a box office of over 1 billion have emerged, breaking a lot of box office records that Light and Shadow Times originally held.

After being the leader in China for so many years, and always holding the highest box office movie in the mainland, can Light and Shadow Times tolerate this?

The honor must be regained!

The highest-grossing movie in the mainland must come from the era of light and shadow!

And since Wu Yuan’s new commercial blockbuster cannot be released for a while, and there is still a long period of post-production to be completed, the company’s treasure can only be placed on "War of the Demon Tide"!

Wu Yuan is still quite confident about this, this is the Chinese version of "Avengers"! (End of this chapter)