Millennium director

When the final photos of Doctor Strange were posted on Twitter, it was early morning Beijing time, but someone immediately reposted the relevant blog posts and photos from the Internet back to China, and immediately triggered heated discussions among Weibo users.

"Did Director Wu go to Hollywood to shoot a new Marvel movie?"

"I didn't know about this news until the final photos were taken!"

"Isn't that Benedict Cumberbatch who plays Sherlock Holmes? He is the male lead of Director Wu's new foreign movie?"

"Doctor Strange? What is this movie about? Is there any big brother who can introduce it to you?"

The Marvel series of movies has indeed received a lot of attention and box office results in China in recent years, but the number of people who really understand Marvel comics in China is still a very small minority.

Perhaps many people know Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, Thor and other Marvel superheroes that have been adapted into movies, but the popularity of other superheroes that have not been adapted in China is infinitely close to 0.

The popularity of the superhero Doctor Strange in China is also limited to the Marvel comics fan group.

However, there are really many fans of Marvel movies now.

"Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" was released worldwide last year, that is, in May 2015, and achieved a total box office of 1.4 billion US dollars worldwide, and the box office in the mainland also exceeded 1.4 billion RMB!

It was also this Avengers 2 that completely made the Marvel series of movies a big hit in China, attracting and cultivating a large number of Marvel fans, and its effect was the same as the effect of "League of Legends" LPL winning the S game championship for the first time.

It can be said that overnight, there were countless fans in China who paid attention to Marvel movies. It was also when Marvel movies were popular in China that the news that Wu Yuan became the director of Marvel's new movie "Doctor Strange" also spread in China.

Later, in November, Wu Yuan went to the United States for filming, and the domestic Marvel method was to repost all Reuters photos, videos, and news related to the filming of "Doctor Strange" on the international Internet.

That is why the final photos of "Doctor Strange" were so quickly sent back to China, and they could cause heated discussions in the early morning.

However, even so, not all netizens know about Marvel movies, and those who know "Doctor Strange" don't even know that Wu Yuan has gone to the United States to make a movie again.

Now the "Doctor Strange" wrap-up photo topped the hot search list. A large number of uninformed late-night surfers saw Wu Yuan with a face full of cake and a bright smile in the photo, and then they learned about it belatedly, and then asked about the details of the movie "Doctor Strange" everywhere on the Internet.

Well, the effect of this wave of publicity may be more effective than Marvel's investment of 10 million US dollars in publicity funds in the mainland.

After all, Wu Yuan is currently the only world-class commercial film director in the mainland.

His every move, his new movie news, as long as it can be spread in China, will inevitably generate national-level popularity.

The next morning, some print media and TV news channels even reported the news that Wu Yuan's new movie directed in Hollywood was wrapped up.

So much so that some uncles and aunts in their forties and fifties talked about this with their children during breakfast and lunch, asking what kind of movie "Doctor Strange" is.

Well, after more than ten years of hard work, Wu Yuan's movie audience is finally no longer just young people.

On the one hand, Wu Yuan's earliest fans have indeed grown to this age now.

On the other hand, after the release of the movie "Dear", Wu Yuan's popularity has successfully spread to the middle-aged and elderly groups.

After all, this kind of movie about lost orphans and fighting against abduction is hard not to move middle-aged people who have given birth to children.

Although these "old babies" will not pay special attention to Wu Yuan, they will also have curious thoughts when they see news media reporting news about Wu Yuan's new movie.

Unfortunately, the audience of movies like "Doctor Strange" is mainly teenagers, and middle-aged and elderly people are probably not very adaptable to movies of this theme.

But Wu Yuan's influence is indeed real. At least in the next week, "Doctor Strange", a Hollywood movie, will become the front-page headlines of major platforms and media, and will be paid close attention to and dug up.

While a large number of domestic media and Marvel fans took the initiative to popularize "Doctor Strange", Wu Yuan also took a low-key flight back to Beijing.

After the filming of "Doctor Strange" was completed, he almost didn't need to participate in any subsequent work.

Marvel has professionals in charge of post-production links such as editing and special effects production, and Wu Yuan didn't even bother about the editing rights.

Marvel's film editing level is still trustworthy, at least in the first and second stages, it is still very good, unlike DC next door, which can make Zack Snyder so angry that he has to edit the director's cut himself.

For Marvel's movies, Wu Yuan is still very confident to be a hands-off boss.

Of course, he will eventually watch the finished film, and Marvel has agreed. If he is not satisfied with the finished film, he has the right to ask Marvel to make changes, or even make changes according to his opinions.

This is the status of a top commercial film director.

On April 5, Wu Yuan returned to Beijing, but he didn't take a day off before he returned to Light and Shadow Times Company.

After filming abroad for such a period of time, the company naturally has a lot of things that need to be signed and handled by him, the big boss behind the scenes.

And there is another very important thing that also needs Wu Yuan to make a decision.

After a long year and a half, the post-production of "Ready Player One" is finally basically completed.

As Wu Yuan's latest mainland commercial special effects blockbuster, this movie is a highly anticipated work by Light and Shadow Era and even all Chinese movie fans!

Wu Yuan is quite satisfied with the final film effect. When the film is submitted for review, the release date must be confirmed.

"How about the National Day?" Wu Yuan asked directly when he saw Li Xiaoping.

When in doubt, the National Day is the release date. This is Wu Yuan's concept of setting the release date. Most of his Chinese-language films are also set for the National Day. Even in the past few years, the National Day has been set by default for Light and Shadow Era.

However, the situation in the past two years is different.

"Three movies have been scheduled for the National Day this year, namely Bona's "Operation Mekong", Guangguang's "Passing by Your World" and Guo Xiaosi's "Lord of the Thrones."

"The National Day and Spring Festival are still incomparable. The overall market is only about 3 billion. If "Ready Player One" is added to the National Day, it will be a bit too crowded."

Hearing this, Wu Yuan frowned.

"Operation Mekong", "Passing by Your World", "Lord of the Thrones", the last one is okay, it just relies on fan economy, the people who watch this movie will only be Guo Xiaosi's fans, and they are all young girls, who are not in Wu Yuan's fan audience group.

But the first two are different. Li Xiaoping is not clear, but Wu Yuan is very clear. "Operation Mekong" and "Passing by Your World" can both be regarded as box office dark horses, one with a box office of 1.1 billion and the other with a box office of 800 million. Both are considered out-of-the-box works in the movies of 2016.

Although he was confident in his own blockbuster, if it was released together with these two movies, some of the box office revenue would be taken away, which was not a good thing for Ready Player One, which aimed to break the mainland box office record and even create a box office miracle.

"What about the summer season?" Wu Yuan asked again. (End of this chapter)