Rebirth: I Want to Surf

Incheon Airport.

This airport is on an island, with first-class service facilities, including an ice rink, golf course, spa, etc. In a few years, a casino will be opened, which is said to be specially opened for Chinese tycoons.

But now there is no such thing, so Yu Jiajia just browses the duty-free shop out of boredom.

The duty-free shops were all the same. She was looking at skin care products when Guo Fan suddenly came in. Yu Jiajia asked curiously: "Huh? Are you buying something for your girlfriend?"

"No, I have something to tell you."

"It's shopping time now, go back and talk about something."

"oh……"

Guo Fan went out and came back a few seconds later, saying: "Mr. Yu, I'm not going to tell you that I'm feeling itchy, but I'm just asking you something. Has anyone chosen the director of "The Wandering Earth"? What do you think of me?" ?”

"you?"

As if meeting him for the first time, Yu Jiajia looked him up and down and said, "You should know that the most important film in our 10-year Stars and Seas project is "The Wandering Earth", and you only have experience in two films. , if you want to shoot something else, I will consider it, but if you shoot this, I have no confidence in you."

She was blunt, but Guo Fan was still fighting for it: "No one in China has ever filmed this thing, and you don't know who can do it and who can't. I can give it a try! I'll come up with the script first, and you can take a look and then talk!"

"Okay then, you go get it first."

"Thank you, Mr. Yu!"

Guo Fan jumped away.

Yu Jiajia bought a few random items and returned to the VIP lounge. Yao Yuan had just finished calling Yinyin. Yao Xiaobao was babbling there and didn't know what he was talking about. He might be analyzing the situation between North Korea and South Korea.

Boarding the plane soon.

Yu Jiajia sat next to Yao Yuan, poked him and said, "Hey, Guo Fan wants to film "The Wandering Earth"!"

"What did you say?"

"Let him get the script out first."

"oh!"

"Oh, what do you mean? What do you think?"

"For a film like "The Wandering Earth," there are two criteria for selecting a director. One is that he or she must be well-educated and have a serious college education; the other is that he must have a professional spirit and be able to withstand loneliness.

In terms of ability, it can be trained. Otherwise, who in China would make science fiction films? Who has experience?

We are building from scratch, and the quality of people is more important. "

"Didn't you just agree by going around and around? Talking so much nonsense!"

Yu Jiajia rolled her eyes at him, covered herself with a small blanket and muttered: "You are right about one thing, I can't imagine what it would be like to let Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Feng Xiaogang film "The Wandering Earth"!"

"Then we have to hang red lanterns in space. If Ge You comes out and reads a poem, the spaceship will fire thousands of arrows, shouting "Great Wind! Great Wind!"

"Fuck you, I'll take a moment!"

Yu Jiajia was happy and tilted her head. The middle-aged woman in the Republic of Korea was over-consumed and fell asleep whenever she wanted.

"..."

Yao Yuan was not sleepy, he took a magazine and flipped through it without a glance. It was too early to talk about "The Wandering Earth" now.

Historically, at the end of 2014, the newly appointed chairman of China Film Group took out the copyrights of Liu Cixin's three novels, "Supernova Era", "The Wandering Earth" and "Micro Era", and wanted to adapt them into movies.

I looked around for directors, but they all refused for various reasons.

In fact, I just don’t dare to take it on. Science fiction is a dead end in the Chinese film and television industry. In the end, I had no choice but to find Guo Fan. Unexpectedly, this new director with only two film experience would actually take the job.

After taking it, I had no idea what to do.

Guo Fan first found his good friend Gong Geer and hoped to become a producer. Gong Geer is also a strange person. He graduated from Nortel and studied public utility management, but look at his record:

Voiced Ragnaros, the elemental lord in "World of Warcraft";

Participated in "Happy Boys", top 18 in the national finals;

Sung the theme song of "Crossfire";

Starring in "The Bandits at Bird Cage Mountain", "007 vs. the Men in Black", "007 vs. the Pork Prince" and other online short films, the director is Hu Ge, the same Hu Ge who used steamed buns to kill Director Chen.

Scored music for Wu Ershan's film "The Sword Sees Laughter";

Acted in "My Deskmate"...

All in all, Gong Geer is a player, versatile and knows a little bit of everything.

Guo Fan brought him in, and the two worked on the script and setting together. They spent 8 months revising the draft several times, and built a century-old history of world changes in "The Wandering Earth", including social, political, economic, Culture, as well as all aspects of nature such as landforms and ocean currents.

In early 2016, the script was approved internally by China Film Group Corporation, but it was discovered that the budget would not be enough to film according to the script.

So we looked for investment, and after looking for investment, we made preliminary preparations. We made more than 3,000 design drawings, 8,000 sub-shots, more than 10,000 props, and a real-life scene covering an area of ​​100,000 square meters.

It was not until 2017 that "The Wandering Earth" was officially launched and will be released in 2019.

Why is it said that "The Wandering Earth" started industrialization? Just because it started from scratch and was piled up one building block after another, everyone including the director was learning while filming.

Finally, the door to Chinese science fiction films was opened, and when I looked inside, hey!

"Shanghai Fortress"!

Ye Wenjie is in love with a Trisolaran!

There are also a lot of bad movies and TV dramas that ride on the popularity of science fiction. Many of them are online movies and online dramas. They are not as good as "Thunderbolt Beibei" 30 years ago!

So let Guo Fan do it first.

After finishing the script and starting to prepare for filming, Yao Yuan planned to step in and provide some trivial help, such as contacting XCMG, CNNC, China Aerospace, etc.

…………

February 5th arrived in the blink of an eye.

The Spring Festival is approaching, and the nomination list for the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards has been announced. The awards ceremony will be held on April 19.

"Dear" won 7 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor.

The biggest rival is "The Golden Age", directed by Ann Hui and starring Tang Wei and Feng Shaofeng. It tells the story of Xiao Hong, a female writer in the Republic of China. Investors include Anle, Xingmei, China Film, etc., but 99 is not involved.

Voting for the Academy Awards is divided into two rounds.

Nominations are selected in the first round.

The final winner was selected in the second round and was voted on by a professional jury and 13 association members.

Some members of the jury are actually members, plus some media workers. They were invited by the organizer, so they are called the jury.

I won’t go into details, but it’s all about voting.

The Academy Awards claim to be absolutely fair, but no award can be absolutely fair. Regardless of whether the Oscars are the top three in Europe, subjective impressions and favor votes cannot be eliminated.

The Academy Awards stick to Hong Kong Island and reject all elements from the mainland.

For example, in one session, Johnnie To's "The War on Drugs" and Chen Musheng's "Anti-Drug" faced each other. The quality was evenly matched, but "The War on Drugs" was not nominated for the best picture.

Because it is about mainland police and gangsters, "Anti-Drug" is "Hong Kong's local spirit".

This made Johnnie To curse loudly!

But this year is different. No matter how desperate some people are to encourage everyone to support Hong Kong films, they can't stop the votes from drifting towards "Dear" like snowflakes.

(besides……)