Millennium director

Light and Shadow Times Headquarters Building.

"I didn't understand it, but I was shocked."

Wu Yuan sat opposite Li Xiaoping, shook his head and sighed: "Azu only played the role of a motion capture actor in the movie. To be honest, if a professional motion capture actor could do this kind of job, he would probably be better than him. Do better."

"I can't figure out why he would take such a faceless role. Is it just because it's a Hollywood movie?"

"Maybe, after all, Hollywood does have a special meaning in the minds of Hong Kong actors. It is almost like a holy place."

Li Xiaoping curled her lips: "For decades, Hollywood actors and directors have been trying to break into Hollywood, and there are indeed several successful examples. It is not surprising that Azu made such a choice."

"Director Wu, this has nothing to do with us. Let's talk about business."

"The first version of the poster for "Ready Player One" has been released online, and the response has been pretty good. Now it's time to release the trailer while the iron is hot."

"Just make your arrangements, I have no objection." Wu Yuan spread his hands and said nonchalantly.

The movie has already been finished. For Wu Yuan, his work is completed here. Wu Yuan has never worried about the subsequent publicity work and when and what kind of publicity should be done.

Unlike those current directors who even do the poster design themselves, Wu Yuan is a relatively old-school director. He is only responsible for the preparation, production and shooting of the film.

When a movie successfully passes review, he will no longer be involved in all subsequent work and hand it over to a more professional team.

Whether it is the design and distribution of posters, the release arrangements of trailers, or the subsequent publicity and distribution work, the company has the most professional team, which can definitely do better than his half-baked job.

Li Xiaoping was also used to Wu Yuan's behavior of turning away from the boss, and nodded with a normal expression: "I'm just telling you, in case you, the director, don't know that the trailer is coming."

"This "Ready Player One" road show, Director Wu, you can't be lazy anymore, you have to lead the team to complete the show."

"The "Mermaid" released during the Spring Festival at the beginning of the year shocked us. Now the mainland film market can actually create a movie with a box office of 3 billion yuan per film."

"The whole company has full confidence in you and the movie "Ready Player One". If others can do it, then we can do it too."

"Hey, this is not something to say carelessly." Wu Yuan directly interrupted Li Xiaoping's heroic words.

"The 3.3 billion box office of "Mermaid" is not that easy to copy. After all, I don't have the special experience of Star Master."

"My expectation for the movie "Ready Player One" is still around 2.5 billion in box office. It is enough to break the watery box office performance of last year's "Monster Hunt"."

Mainland movie fans do not owe Wu Yuan a movie ticket. Although some of his early movies were indeed pirated, and the pirated discs may earn more than the genuine ones, but after all, there are only two or three movies. I can't compare.

There is no possibility of giving Wu Yuan a make-up ticket out of guilt.

Since no one "makes up the tickets," the box office of "Ready Player One" still depends on the appeal of the movie content itself. It can't be like "Mermaid" where at least one-third of the box office comes from fans making up tickets. It's not true. I came here for this movie.

"2.5 billion, as long as the mainland box office has 2.5 billion, it will be enough." Wu Yuan said seriously: ""Ready Player One" is targeting the entire Asian market. The mainland market only needs to be able to maintain capital."

Thinking of the large number of Japanese animation elements added to the movie, Li Xiaoping smiled and nodded in agreement: "Indeed."

A week later.

On a sunny weekend, without any prior warning, the first trailer of "Ready Player One" was released suddenly at 12 noon.

On Weibo, the main battlefield, although there was no prior notice, this version of the trailer immediately reached the top of the Weibo hot search (bought), and it also had the word "Explosion" in red and bold .

Thanks to the widespread popularity of smartphones, it is now so convenient to browse Weibo online. Even if you have to go to the toilet, you can do it for half an hour.

Countless netizens who were on vacation or between work clicked on this trailer immediately.

Xiaomei, the receptionist of the Light and Shadow Era, is an aboveboard and salaried fisherman. She immediately saw the trailer of this masterpiece of her own company!

Clicking on the trailer, after the familiar company logo flashed at the beginning, a burst of nervous and urgent music sounded, the camera slowly pulled up from below, and a "treadmill" slowly came into view.

Then a pair of running legs appeared on the screen, and the camera went up to reveal Peng Peng, wearing short sleeves.

On Peng Peng's head and hands, he wears a set of equipment full of science fiction atmosphere. The silver body and the virtual helmet resemble sunglasses, giving people a sense of mysterious technology.

Before the audience could recover, the camera suddenly zoomed in, directly through the black "sunglasses" Peng Peng was wearing, and entered a bizarre virtual world.

Under the high-rise buildings and neon signs full of cyberpunk style, a virtual character with a very "two-dimensional" dress and image is riding a futuristic motorcycle on the road in the sky.

Obviously, this is Peng Peng's image in the virtual world.

But trailers are always trivial and fast-paced. Before anyone could see clearly, the scene turned again and came to a battlefield, where tens of thousands of virtual characters on both sides ran and fought.

That scene was comparable to the scene in "Avengers: Endgame" when everyone rushed out of the portal after resurrection and fought Thanos together!

What's more exciting is that in this special effects bombardment and gorgeous melee, everyone saw a lot of familiar faces.

A virtual character with golden flames all over his body and his hair turned golden and stood up, roared and sent out Kamehameha in mid-air.

A boy wearing a straw hat smashed his opponent with his right hand like an inflated rubber.

A group of middle school boys wearing black and red royal robes, pinching hand seals on their hands, are summoning all kinds of wind, fire, thunder and lightning.

The camera is pulled up a little higher, and there are more than ten meters high human-shaped Gundams running rampant.

Even in the air, there are a group of wizards riding brooms, holding staffs and releasing spells.

This is just a glimpse of the battlefield.

If the screen is temporarily frozen at this time, the audience and fans who watched the trailer can count at least dozens of familiar or recognized "virtual characters".

Bad news: Stitched monsters.

Good news: All stitched up!

At this time, the audience and fans who still don't know what "stitched monsters" are, just think that this "hodgepodge" scene is very interesting! (End of this chapter)