Millennium director

How to promote?

Wu Yuan thought about it, but he couldn't think of a suitable project.

Liu Yifei is obviously only suitable for being an actress, but in the next few years, there will be no outstanding female-lead movies in Hollywood.

If we go back a few years, there are still a few movies such as "Black Swan" and "La La Land" that Liu Yifei can try, but in the current era of superheroes, only superhero movies and animated movies can occupy the top ten box office in Hollywood.

As for movies that can't even make it into the top ten box office, it's not a push for Liu Yifei, but a regression in performance.

After all, although she didn't star in many movies in Hollywood, all of them were masterpieces in the top ten global box office that year!

Even a good cook can't cook without rice!

Judging from the form of Hollywood movies in the next few years, if Wu Yuan wants to force Liu Yifei, he has to write a script with a heroine as the main character himself.

But to be honest, he still has some confidence in himself. The response to his original "Love Letter" was average in China. Although the box office performance was OK among romance films, it was obvious that most fans regarded this movie as a playful work for Wu Yuan to satisfy his interest in being an "actor". Few people took this movie seriously.

Even many articles and videos that review Wu Yuan's movies will ignore this romance movie and not pay much attention to it.

In this case, it is really too risky for Wu Yuan to make an original movie that can break into the top ten of the global box office.

It is not completely impossible, but the probability is really small.

In this way, Wu Yuan only has one choice left, that is, the movie "Mulan".

If it were not for the impact of the epidemic, the box office performance of "Mulan" might not be so bad.

Although this movie is indeed not loved by the audience in mainland China, after all, the Chinese have a deep self-understanding of "Mulan". Whether it is the "Jiji Fujiji, Mulan Danghuzhi" learned in junior high school, or the Mulan in various artistic images later, they are very different from the "Mulan" in the Disney movie.

In fact, Wu Yuan doesn't understand it either. The Disney animated version of "Mulan" was shot very well. It was not only a box office success in Europe and the United States, but also widely praised in China, and became a long-term animation selected by CCTV Movie Channel.

Although it may not be comparable to "Huluwa", it can be regarded as one of the few animated films that many 80s and 90s remember deeply in their childhood, and its status is comparable to "Baolian Lantern".

But after Disney adapted the film into a live-action movie, it changed the story of the animated film very much, inexplicably added some wizard elements, pretended to understand the concept of "qi", and did not study the most basic history of China at all. It used Yongding Tulou as Mulan's home and gave her a very early Tang Dynasty style makeup.

It can only be said that the stitching was very poor, and it was like wanting this and that, and finally a pair of good elements taken separately were mixed into a pot of poisonous soup that was extremely poisonous to the Chinese people.

However, for foreigners who do not understand Chinese culture, "Mulan" is not bad. At least after the film was broadcast online, the number of views on Disney+ was not bad, and the word-of-mouth reviews were also good. There are even a group of movie fans in Europe and the United States who made various Mulan stand materials and spontaneously promoted and praised the film on the Internet.

At least for foreigners, mainly European and American movie fans, "Mulan" is not a bad movie, and it still has its merits.

It seems that Disney has always been like this. Disney's live-action movies, whether it is "Beauty and the Beast" or "The Lion King", have mediocre responses in China or even poor box office, but have good reputation and box office in the global market.

The 2019 "Lion King" even had a global box office of 1.653 billion US dollars, but the response in China was very average.

In the final analysis, it is still a problem of cultural differences.

Just like Cheng Long's "The Karate Kid" was criticized as a bad movie in China and had poor box office results, but it had a box office of 176 million US dollars in North America and 359 million US dollars in the world. Sony Columbia Pictures has always wanted to find Cheng Long to make "The Karate Kid 2".

Although "Mulan" is not so good, if the original script can be released normally, it will still be no problem to have a global box office of 300 to 400 million US dollars.

If Wu Yuan can spend time to modify the script, in fact, there is no need to modify it. Just expand the 1998 version of "Mulan" slightly and make it into a live-action version, then the global box office will not be bad, and the domestic results will also be good.

After all, the 1998 version of "Mulan" has been tested by time, proving that this version of "Mulan" not only satisfies European and American audiences, but also satisfies Chinese audiences, who think it fits the image of Mulan in the minds of the public.

In any case, it is definitely much better than Disney's live-action version of "Mulan".

To this day, Wu Yuan still can't understand why Disney didn't just copy the successful precedent, but instead made a big hodgepodge of magic changes.

It can only be said that it is really a mistake to find a female director to shoot a "war film".

If this movie is released a year in advance, and the script is compiled based on the 1998 animated version as a template, avoiding the influence of force majeure, this Disney princess movie will still have a high chance of success.

After thinking about it, Wu Yuan thinks this arrangement is the most reliable, and it is best to shoot in 2017 and release it in 2018!

"But before that, I'd better take a good rest." Wu Yuan thought with a smile.

In December 2016, the annual Lunar New Year holiday is coming.

This year's Lunar New Year holiday also has several "heavyweight" works.

On the second day of December, "The Sword of the Third Young Master" directed by Derek Yee took the lead in opening the competition for the Lunar New Year.

The second week followed by Hollywood blockbusters "Hacksaw Ridge" and "Young Babylon" and many other domestic small and medium-cost films.

The third and fourth weeks of December, the highlight, "The Last Romance", "The Ferryman", "Buddies in India" and "Railroad Tigers" followed one after another.

Among them, the three characters "Wang Jiawei" are hung on the poster, but he is only the producer of "The Ferryman", which is currently the most anticipated by the audience and is hailed as the movie that is most likely to become the box office champion in this Lunar New Year holiday.

Originally, there was another movie competing with it in this summer season, that is, "The Great Wall" directed by Chang Yimou.

However, in this time and space, because of the strong emergence of the era of light and shadow, coupled with Zhang Yimou's unrestricted creation, both the distributor and the producer are full of confidence in this movie, so they decided to put "The Great Wall" in the Spring Festival period, which is more competitive but has a larger box office, so this movie will be released in a month!

And just when the film industry was filled with gunpowder and was about to have a big battle, a piece of news suddenly spread in the circle.

Director Wu, who has been busy for several years, is finally going to take a break!

The mainland film market, which has been dominated by Director Wu for a whole year, has finally opened its arms to other movies!

This is really good news that all directors in the industry are moved! (End of this chapter)