Chapter 313: Wali, Po, and the Demon King

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The noisy voice suddenly quieted down. Geili Literature Network .. ,

Everyone, reporters, guests, even people from the film industry and Weta Digital, especially Richard Taylor, who knew that Daniel himself had come up with a cartoon script, which was highly praised by Andrew Stanton, they The work was basically completed in just one year. Richard was very surprised that the special effects work of a movie sometimes takes more than a year, let alone an animation that needs to be completely created by computer technology.

It's just that this film has always been a highly confidential animation. Of course, it's not Richard, but the media.

This is the first time he has seen this film called "Wall-E".

The first picture looks very good, the nebula is gorgeous and dreamy, the earth is real, and the spaceship in the distance is very sci-fi.

The drastically shortened production time does not seem to affect the quality of the animation.

Richard breathed a sigh of relief. He was actually somewhat resentful of Daniel's persistence, but he also knew very well that Daniel, who owns 20% of Weta Digital's shares, should not be his enemy. So even though Richard didn't have a reason, he finally reached the current cooperation model with Daniel, but it doesn't mean that he has no other opinions on this. 160% of the price, the acquisition of Weta Digital's shareholding ratio. In other words, Weta Digital acquired 20% of the equity for 32 million. This clause proposed by Richard allows Daniel to take back this part of the equity at a price not higher than 51.2 million.

This is almost telling Daniel bluntly that I don’t want to do this, but I can’t refuse, so let me tell you, even if the company’s value doubles tenfold in the future, I won’t ask for a matching equity. To put it bluntly, besides being unwilling, I am not optimistic about it.

A half-minute promotional video began to appear on the big screen.

Blocks of trash towering like skyscrapers. The ruined and dirty earth, the dilapidated cleaning robots - the only coherent picture in the whole clip, all in Wally's "home" with all internal organs, when he cleans up the simple human beings from the garbage dump The handle looked like a spoon, but the forked cutlery on top made him confused for a moment, and finally it was placed in the middle of the spoon and fork. In the second paragraph, when he was about to go out, he fell on the cockroach that accompanied him, and the little cockroach that jumped up and Wall-E's unique eyes met.

The clip ends with a scene of a space shuttle landing, without even showing the entirety of the plane.

The screen flashes for the last time. A line of words was left.

"Wall-E will be released on December 19, 2005"

"Wow!"

Everyone in the audience exclaimed,

It’s not that the Christmas file is not good. As one of the most popular time slots of the year, there is no problem with the last cartoon. The problem is that Weta Digital only decided to make an animation a year ago. Why is there already a film that can be produced now? It has been launched, and it will be released in December, and it needs to be basically completed by the end of June at the latest. Otherwise, there would be no time to make trailers, promotional posters, peripherals, etc., let alone implement complicated promotional plans.

Andrew did not introduce the basic plot of "Wall-E" like "Happy Feet", but simply summarized it.

"This is a story about robots, love, and reflection on survival. But it is by no means boring, and the perspective is very unique. Wall-E is a garbage cleaning robot abandoned on the earth. He is dedicated and lonely for a long time. About 700 For such a long time, he gradually realized the taste of loneliness. When his love flower suddenly bloomed, the kind and simple Wal-E decided to give his all to pursue his love. In a sense, he is also a super Hero, a less powerful and less cool superhero. But he will tell us what love is and what companionship is."

"We're determined to get Wall-E out later this year simply because the whole animation can't wait to share this story with the audience, it's so funny and it's so moving and beautiful. I'm over 20 Years of experience in the industry can assure everyone that this is a well-made and extremely excellent animation, which almost completely covers all the meanings that an animation can have: imagination, fun, emotion, connotation. It will undoubtedly become A role model for all animations in the future.”

Andrew's statement was moving.

In Hollywood, years of work behind the scenes earns them a rare reputation. This time, Andrew is clearly vouching for Wall-E with his reputation, which is dangerous but very useful. The audience was full of entertainment media, who were very familiar with Andrew's status in the industry, and knew that with his vision and credibility, it was impossible to make such a statement on a shoddy work.

Well, this means that the animation took a year to produce a high-quality animated feature film, and almost a minute was not wasted. On the day of its establishment, the release plan of the work was announced.

To understand at a deeper level, what does this represent?

On behalf of Daniel, the planning and management of animation may not be as crazy and impulsive as the outside world guessed. Everything may be under control, and now it is only being promoted step by step, slowly expanding Daniel's power map in Hollywood.

The unattractive robot on the big screen appeared again in the minds of the reporters.

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"We still have a new plan, which will start after the end of "Wall-E." Andrew said with a smile, "This is a very interesting story, very special, because this story is different from our cultural background, it It's a story from the East, China."

"We call him 'Kung Fu Panda'!"

This time, only one poster appeared on the big screen. On the poster was a giant panda that looked quite rich. It was different from the pandas in the Washington National Zoo. It was not so simple and honest, and added some human expression elements. go in. This giant panda is doing the independent posture of the golden rooster in Chinese Kung Fu. Kung Fu may be one of the most known elements in China to Americans. Bruce Lee's Kung Fu movies, An Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Jack Cheng and Chinese martial arts instructors , have contributed a lot to the formation of this concept.

Therefore, the animation combines the giant pandas that Americans love with the Chinese Kung Fu that Americans are familiar with. It is indeed very clever, taking into account the advantages of exotic elements and the problem of acclimatization.

"We call him Po, he lived in ancient China, in fact, the whole story background is ancient China, set, costumes, characters, etc., are all like this, Po will realize his dream of being the king of kung fu, and the evil forces The final battle, and then saving his friends. It’s a familiar story, but in another dimension of time and space, everything is going to be very different. We’ve got a full script, and it’s an interesting idea.”

Regarding "Kung Fu Panda", Andrew didn't say much, and the time was very short.

After the project introduction, the press conference, which lasted no more than 2 hours, ended. Then Sebastian and Andrew will move to the interview area, and the others can leave.

"Glad you're here."

Daniel sent Meyer to the car himself, with a heartfelt smile on his face, Meyer shrugged his shoulders, "I hope this is a happy choice."

"certainly!"

After sending Meyer off, Daniel ignored Andrew, who was bombarded by the media, and left the press conference directly.

So, the next afternoon, when he met Andrew in the animation, Andrew complained that he was not very authentic.

"Do you know how scary those reporters are? It's almost like they want to eat me. In fact, many issues should be considered by you, why do you make panda-themed cartoons? Why is Wall-E born? Why create Anime, how to comment on the massively expanded thing...wait, god, I'm just a poor man hired to sell his labor, how can I know so much."

During Andrew's chattering complaints, Daniel kept the corners of his mouth curved in a certain arc.

The animation office is a bit far from the film industry, 10 minutes by car, if the road conditions are good. This is a newly renovated office building. A huge frosted glass divides the space into two shifts, with management staff inside and various departments outside. The glass is divided into tofu blocks one by one, and cute or hideous anime images can be seen everywhere, which are obviously done by these animators at will.

"**, Wall-E, Po... Well, there will be more and more in the future."

"On duty today: Sakuman Demon King?" Daniel Yile, "Andrew, who is the Sakuman Demon King?"

Before Andrew found someone, a petite and weak girl stood up, "That's me, boss."

"Ah... oh... well, nice to meet you, Sakuman."

The office suddenly burst into laughter.

Andrew also couldn't help looking at her, "She's Judy, she's very good, and she's the only fresh graduate we recruit."

"Glad that you can join the anime, Judy... Demon King."

Daniel smiled and continued to walk forward. In the place closest to Andrew's office, several newspaper clippings were pressed on a magnet.

"These are all yesterday's reports," Andrew introduced, "The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Sun basically cut out a few copies, and the printed ones are online reports, and the "Today" America, America Online.”

The "New York Times" section is still quite large, covering almost one and a half pages, and at most there is a long strip of small tofu on the side of it. Daniel didn't expect that the "Times" would be so interested in the establishment of animation and spent so much time reporting it. He stopped there and looked at it carefully from beginning to end.

"On the 18th, the film industry..." (to be continued...)

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