Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

Since you want to make a blockbuster, you need a good script and a good theme. With Toho's influence on Neon, Matsui Naokami will not be short of good themes.

This time Lin Daoqiu made "Onmyoji", which was a movie adapted from the novel "Yumezhen Tapir", so Matsui Naokami felt that he could also find a few novels and adapt them into movies.

Matsui Naokami couldn't sit still when he thought about this. He immediately asked people to find those novels that were very popular in Neon China, and then selected several themes that could be used for filming based on the genres.

"Superhero series?"

When they heard that Matsui Naokami was going to remake the superhero series, his staff immediately thought of a special photography film called "Kamen Rider".

The author of "Kamen Rider" is Shotaro Ishimori. In 1971, with the support of Toei, Shotaro Ishimori started the original work and manga of "Kamen Rider", a tokusatsu work.

It can be said that "Kamen Rider" is one of Toei's most competitive products. Matsui Naokami is the president of Toho. He should not go to Toei to cooperate in the production of "Kamen Rider", right?

Moreover, Toei is already cooperating with Lin Doqiu, and they will definitely not give "Kamen Rider" to them to make a live-action movie.

"Whoever wants to make "Kamen Rider", I want to make "Ultraman"."

Matsui Naokami couldn't help but shook his head. He didn't even know what those subordinates were thinking.

How could I think about Toei's stuff? If I were to shoot it, I would definitely shoot something from Toho.

"Ultraman" is a tokusatsu series produced by Tsuburaya Co., Ltd., starting with "Ultra Q" in 1966, and starting from "Ultraman" which was just broadcast in the same year, "giant heroes and monsters battle" has been established

mode.

Lin Daoqiu's first big-budget movie "Godzilla" was made by Tsuburaya Takao of Tsuburaya Co., Ltd., and as the president of Toho, he asked Tsuburaya Takao to be responsible for the filming of this movie.

A piece of cake.

He didn't know what Isao Matsuoka was thinking before, and he didn't know how to seize such a good opportunity. If it were him, he would start planning to film "Ultraman" the year after Lin Daoqiu finished filming "Godzilla"

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However, Matsui Naokami is also very aware of Toho's ability. It is obviously impossible for Toho to spend more than 200 million US dollars to make a movie like Lin Daoqiu.

Therefore, his budget for "Ultraman" this time is only 20 million US dollars, which is equivalent to about 2.5 billion yen, which is far behind the 10 billion for "Onmyoji".

But Matsui Naokami only planned to make one film to try out. If calculated based on the unit price, the difference between the production cost of "Ultraman" and "Onmyoji" is only 500 million yen, which sounds pretty good.

And when Tsuburaya Gao learned that Matsui Naokami was going to put "Ultraman" on the movie screen instead of just using special photography to shoot it, he was very happy and raised his hands and feet to show

support.

When Lin Daoqiu made "Godzilla", he already represented that the income from special photography and real movies are completely different, and they cannot be confused at all.

As long as Toho is willing to seriously invest in itself, Tsuburaya believes that he can also make a movie that will be a hit around the world.

But as for defeating Lin Daoqiu's "Godzilla", Tsuburaya Gao never even thought about it, because he also knew that this was absolutely impossible.

After all, although the box office performance of Lin Daoqiu's "Godzilla" has been broken by "1992" at this time, it does not mean that others can easily surpass it.

The performance of "Godzilla" is an insurmountable mountain no matter who it is placed in front of. Therefore, if the box office performance of "Ultraman" wants to exceed that of "Godzilla", it can be said to be absolutely impossible.

possible things.

If you want to achieve this possibility, there is only one way, which is to find Lin Daoqiu to invest in filming. In that case, Tsuburaya Gao thinks it is still possible.

"President Matsui, please rest assured, I will never let you down."

Matsui Naokami invited Tsuburaya Gao out for a drink, and after a few drinks, Tsuburaya Gao swore to Matsui Naokami that he would shoot "Ultraman" well.

"I have absolute trust in Mr. Tsuburaya. This time I plan to give you 20 million US dollars to shoot "Ultraman". I hope it will at least reach the level of "Godzilla"."

Tsuburaya Gao, who was very confident at first, immediately showed a shocked expression on his face after hearing what Matsui Naokami said, because he never expected that Matsui Naokami would make such a ridiculous request?

The production fee of 20 million will allow me to make "Ultraman" to the same level as Lin Daoqiu's "Godzilla". Does this guy have a brain problem after drinking too much? Otherwise, how could he say such a thing?

Come?

"President Matsui, I really can't agree to your request, because it is absolutely impossible. I want to make a movie of the same level as "Godzilla" with only 20 million U.S. dollars in production costs. It's not just me.

, I believe that no one in this world can do it.”

Originally, Matsui Naokami was very much expecting Tsuburaya Takao to agree immediately, and then he could announce the good news to the media.

But what Matsui Naokami didn't expect was that Tsuburaya Gao actually refused, and the refusal was very thorough, leaving no room for negotiation at all.

He looked at the other person with a puzzled expression and asked.

"Several years have passed. Are there still technical limitations? If that's the case, please rest assured, Mr. Tsuburaya. I will take care of the special effects. You don't have to worry."

Matsui Naokami thought that Tsuburaya Gao couldn't film it because the special effects technology couldn't reach the level of Magic Studio. If that was the case, then the matter would be easy to solve.

The foreign special effects team is already in place and has begun to build the special effects studio owned by Toho. Although it is technically impossible to reach the level of Magic Studio at this time, it can still be on par with the original level of Magic Studio.

But Tsuburaya Gao still shook his head. He was not worried about technical problems.

""Godzilla" has a budget of more than 200 million to 300 million U.S. dollars. This is something that cannot be compensated for in the special effects alone. Moreover, Mr. Lin's investment in those models has already reached more than 10 million U.S. dollars.

.”

Originally, Matsui Naokami was thinking of investing 20 million US dollars to let Tsuburaya Gao make "Ultraman" with similar effects to "Godzilla".

But now after hearing what Tsuburaya Gao said, he immediately realized how nonsense his previous idea was.

They spent more than 10 million US dollars on the model alone, not including other places. To spend only 20 million US dollars to achieve the same effect as "Godzilla" is simply a fool's errand.

Chapter 2067 Challenge "Godzilla"