You don't understand the happiness of the director

Megan Fox had no intention of coming over to accompany him, and Wang Quan had no expectations. From the moment the movie was completed, they had already gone their separate ways, so it didn't matter.

Wang Quan is also a very chic person in China and will not treat Meghan differently because she is a Hollywood star. They just soothed each other's loneliness during that period.

Meghan wanted to confirm the shooting time this time. She had some personal matters to be busy in seven days.

"Seven days is enough, then we'll see you tomorrow."

After hanging up the phone, Wang Quan entered the "Film and Television Library" and began to search for a needle in a haystack for a suitable entrepreneurial project.

The film and television library can be filtered by keywords. He selected "horror" in the genre column, "more than 100 million" in the North American box office column, "more than 200 million" in the global box office column, and "low" in the cost column. At 10 million."

As a result, there were really not many films screened out, and many of them did not meet his requirements. He hoped that this film would have its own gimmicks, that is, the kind of film that fans would actively search for and go to movie theaters after it comes out. Take the initiative to help spread the word.

In order to expand the screening target, King Quan constantly adjusts its options. If the cost is less than 10 million, it cannot be changed, so let’s lower the box office requirements. It does not have to be horror, suspense is also acceptable.

Now there are many movies to choose from. Several Wang Quan thought it was reliable, but after clicking on it and watching it, they could only shake their heads.

After watching six or seven movies in succession, Wang Quan found another subject that moved his heart and clicked to play it.

After the movie ended, Wang Quan let out a long breath and said, "I finally waited for you. Fortunately, I didn't give up~"

The cost is 9 million U.S. dollars, the cast is about the same as amateurs, the North American movie is 60 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office is 160 million U.S. dollars. The key is that the subject matter is very interesting.

Wang Quan feels that the cost can no longer be reduced. Although he can reduce the shooting of some ineffective shots, he hopes to make the props and scenes more refined and the cast to be stronger. The cost may still increase in the end.

This movie has a special theme. If it is marketed properly, it will definitely earn more than 200 million US dollars worldwide. As a movie testing the North American distribution channel, it is very suitable.

Wang Quan was so excited that he immediately played the movie repeatedly in the film library to see if there was room for improvement in the script.

After watching it three times, the biggest problem Wang Quan discovered turned out to be racial issues.

There are a total of six main characters in the movie, two black, three white, and one Indian. Among them, the black girl who is the first protagonist is also mixed with a little white. What about the Asians?

Although India is also in Asia, Asian people abroad usually refer to Asian yellow people outside India. Sometimes, Chinese people can even represent Asian people to a certain extent.

So even for the sake of racial diversity and attracting more audiences into the cinema, Wang Quan believes that there should be an Asian face in the protagonist group.

In the original version, the female lead is a black female student, the male lead is a young white maintenance worker, there are also a black stockbroker, a white truck driver uncle, a white female special forces soldier, and an Indian academic master. If you change to an Asian face, you should Which role should he replace?

Originally, this night was to recuperate for tomorrow's shooting, but tonight Wang Quan was repeatedly watching movies, rewriting the script outline, and checking a lot of information.

Different from the previous copy of "Basement" which was basically an intact copy, I am afraid that I will have to make quite a few changes this time.

Burn it, brain cells!

That night, besides Wang Quan who didn't sleep, there was another man who couldn't sleep all night.

Bryce Dallas Howard's fiancé, model and actor Seth Gabel

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Early the next morning, Dorothy came to the apartment with soy milk and fried dough sticks and steamed buns, "Director Wang, it's time to have breakfast and leave as soon as you finish."

Looking at the breakfast, Wang Quan, who had stayed up all night, even thought he was still in the country and thought, oh, I bought this product in Chinatown.

"Did you not sleep well last night? Could it be that Meghan came to see you? Oh my God, is this Bryce's last act of madness before marriage?!" Dorothy looked at the man who was staring in fascination, with a gossipy look on her face.

After replenishing his energy, Wang Quan became excited again, "I'm writing a script and I already have a mature idea. You can help me analyze it."

"Say!" Dorothy is more excited than Wang Quan. My big baby, I know you are very fast!

Wang Quan narrowed his eyes, "Boss Tao, do you know the escape room game?"

Dorothy shook her head, "Is it a movie like "Battle Royale"?"

Neon director Kinji Fukasaku's "Battle Royale" can be regarded as creating a new type of adventure movie. Generally speaking, under limited conditions, only one of a group of people can leave alive.

He had seen a series of battle royale movies in the film and television library King Quan, which made him very attracted.

Wang Quan thought for a while, "It's a bit similar, but not exactly the same."

After finishing the buns in a few seconds, Wang Quan took out his computer and opened a game software, "This game is called "Crimson Room". Let me play it for you to experience it."

Dorothy immediately sat down beside the throne.

"The player is the first perspective. I am trapped in a locked and closed room. If I want to escape, I need to open every door inside to get out. And this process requires In detail, reasoning, and the use of props to complete this escape mission, you see, there is a safe here, I first want to think about how to open the safe..."

An hour later, Wang Quan opened the door of the first room, but the room behind was still locked and required his ingenuity to open it.

Wang Quan pointed at the screen, "This is the pattern. From one person to a group of people, they escape from room after room, but the number of people keeps decreasing. In the end, only one or two can leave alive. Of course, the room is definitely not like in the game. Ordinary ones can be designed to be very deadly. If you fail to pass within a certain period of time, you will die."

Dorothy nodded while thinking, "It's interesting, but this kind of game isn't very popular. I've never heard of it. I'm afraid it won't take much advantage when promoting it."

Wang Quan smiled, "You are right, so we need to create artificial popularity and turn escape room games into games that the public loves."

Dorothy, "Can we be so capable?"

Wang Quan gave her an idea, "Just imagine, if this type of computer game becomes a real-life secret room game, on the weekend, you bring a few friends with you to such a small, airtight room, and you all work together to Use your brain to look for clues, and feel a sense of accomplishment every time you pass a level. When you finally get out of the secret room, your friends hug each other to celebrate, isn't it very meaningful?"

Dorothy figured it out, but she was even more worried, "So in order to promote our movie, you want me to create an industry chain for real-life escape room games?"

Wang Quan blinked innocently, "What, is it difficult?"

Although Wang Quan is not from the future, he knows that there will be a huge market for live-action escape room games in the future. These are what he saw from the "film and television library".

He specifically searched for related film and television works using the keyword "Escape Room". There are not many films that specialize in this area. The low-cost dark horse movie "Escape Room" that he selected is considered one of them, but there are many future film and television dramas that feature secret rooms. elements and shows that young people will enjoy playing this in the future.

For example, he saw a combination of traditional horror house and emerging escape room gameplay in a 2023 Chinese-language movie "Keep You Safe".

He expected it to be right. The real-person escape room started to rise in 2006. It can be traced back to a group of programmers in Silicon Valley, and then quickly became popular in North America. In 2008, the gameplay was introduced to China, and it became popular for many years.

When the movie "Escape Room" was released, the live-action escape room game was already somewhat in decline, but it still made a box office success of nearly $160 million worldwide, and a sequel was quickly launched, but then failed.

Wang Quan continued to talk to Dorothy, "I have contacted my friends in Silicon Valley, and they all said that if someone can really bring the computer escape room game to reality, they will definitely support it. You know, this group of people The consumption power is very strong.”

Dorothy was confused, "Since when do you have friends in Silicon Valley? Wang, you have other good friends behind my back?!"

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