Chapter 167: Unable to Intercept, Start Anew!

"Director Wu, you are not kidding, are you?" Mr. Han said in astonishment.

Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows, "I think a Hong Kong and Taiwan director like Wu Yusen can't make a war film."

"Look at the movie he made called "Windtalkers", is that a war film?"

"He lost money in Hollywood and now he is going to China to make a fortune?"

Mr. Han was silent. After a long time, he sighed and said, "After all, he is Wu Yusen, so we should give him a chance to prove himself."

Wu Yuan immediately understood Mr. Han's attitude.

After all, Wu Baige is a director who has made it into Hollywood. When he failed in Hollywood, if no one in China helped him, it would be too disheartening.

Thinking from another perspective, if it was Wu Yuan who failed in Hollywood at this time, Wu Yuan would also receive the same treatment as Wu Baige, and China Film would help him get investment from Japan and South Korea to make a blockbuster for him, hoping that he would avenge his previous shame and regain his glory.

Let's put it this way. It's not that Wu Yusen came to direct after the "Battle of Red Cliff" project, but that the "Battle of Red Cliff" project came after Wu Yusen failed in Hollywood and returned to China.

Although no matter from which aspect, Wu Yuan is a more suitable and better director than Wu Yusen.

But this "Battle of Red Cliff" was originally prepared for Wu Yusen's turnaround battle, and it is no exaggeration to say that it was tailor-made.

Even if it is Director Han, it is impossible to change the commander at the last minute.

"Director Wu, you are an internationally renowned director, and you don't need this "Battle of Red Cliff"." Director Han tried his best to persuade.

Wu Yuan also came out of the horn.

Yes!

Even if he wanted to do Wu Baige, he didn't have to intercept "Battle of Red Cliff"!

With Wu Baige's current influence, if there is no "Battle of Red Cliff", he can also do "Battle of Hulao Pass" and "Battle of Shanhaiguan", which is no difference.

"Red Cliff" suffered a small loss at the box office, but the subsequent copyright operation still achieved profitability. Isn't it because some capital still dared to continue to invest in Wu Baige's "The Crossing"!

Wu Baige must lose a lot of money!

However, Wu Yuan was not very happy to just watch Wu Baige shoot "Red Cliff". If he wanted to lose money, he should lose more!

"Red Cliff" took more than 500 million yuan in the mainland box office and 190 million US dollars worldwide. This box office performance is not bad!

He thought about it and simply didn't hide it from Mr. Han. He told him everything Wu Baige did in the Cannes jury.

Although Mr. Han is the helmsman of China Film Group, he is really not well-informed about the behind-the-scenes news of this kind of film festival.

After Wu Yuan explained to him, he understood why Wu Yuan suddenly paid attention to the project of "Red Cliff".

"Director Wu, I understand your anger. I understand it very much." Han Dong carefully organized his words, "But the final result is still good."

"You still won the Cannes Jury Prize, which can be considered a close call.˜"*°•.˜˜.•°*"˜"

"Don't be too fussy about some things."

It's always easy to persuade people to be magnanimous, but it's hard for the person being persuaded to be magnanimous.

"What if I want to be fussy?" Wu Yuan asked lightly.

Although his tone was not heavy, Han Dong still felt nervous.

Wu Yuan is no longer the same as before.

"This." Han Dong sighed, "To be honest, Director Wu."

"The Ministry of Culture also attaches great importance to the Red Cliff project, and regards it as one of the important influences of the promotion of Chinese culture in Asia."

"From the beginning of the project, it has been the most important project for the superiors."

"Let's put it this way. When Red Cliff is released, the schedules of other movies must be specially vacated to reserve the schedule for Red Cliff to ensure that this movie can break even."

A large project worth hundreds of millions of yuan, with investment from China, Japan and South Korea, is no joke. Even Wu Yuan can't change anything.

"In other words, I can't even make a movie to snipe Red Cliff?" Wu Yuan frowned and asked.

Yes, when Han Dong rejected him, he immediately thought of another trick.

Since there is no way to intercept Red Cliff, then just make a movie to snipe Red Cliff, and release it at the same time as Red Cliff to grab the box office of Red Cliff and make Wu Baige lose more!

As a result, Han Dong directly blocked this plan.

It is clearly stated that "Red Cliff" and "Hero" are both projects that the Ministry of Culture focuses on. They will try their best to ensure their smooth release, and even use administrative power to promote box office performance!

At that time, even if Wu Yuan wants to make a movie to squeeze into the month when "Red Cliff" is released, the China Film Group Corporation, which is responsible for the distribution, will not approve it and force you to postpone the release. You can only stare blankly.

"Ahem. It's like this." Han Dong also said with some embarrassment.

He had no way to protect the movie that the higher-ups wanted to escort.

"Okay, I know." Wu Yuan shook his head and his face returned to calm.

"Then let's talk about this today."

"Love" will be released on National Day, and "Painted Skin" will be released during the Lunar New Year. I hope China Film Group Corporation will take care of the distribution of these two movies."

"I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

After saying goodbye to Han Dong politely, Wu Yuan left the China Film Group Corporation building.

Han Dong didn't think much about it.

He felt that Wu Yuan was still too young and impulsive. Even if he was dissatisfied with Wu Yusen, he shouldn't have set his sights on "Red Cliff", a project of cooperation between the Three Kingdoms.

Now that he has been rejected, he should be able to calm down.

However, Wu Yuan, who was being lamented by Mr. Han for being too young, did not have the idea of ​​giving up at this moment.

So what if he has the support of the Ministry of Culture?

Wu Yuan, who has always been quick-witted, quickly thought of a way out.

After leaving China Film Group, he drove back home and immediately searched for some news briefs online.

Soon, the news he wanted was found.

"It is expected that in October this year, the China Space Administration will start the second manned space flight program. This manned space program will send two astronauts to board the Shenzhou VI manned spacecraft to conduct multi-person, multi-day flight tests!"

Yes, Wu Yuan felt that he could also find a backer to support him, and a big backer.

If I remember correctly, in October 2005, China's second manned space program was a complete success.

On September 25, 2008, the Shenzhou VII spacecraft will carry astronauts and successfully implement extravehicular activities.

In 2011, the Tiangong Project in China's aerospace program was officially launched.

In the next ten years, in addition to its economic boom, the most important thing that will attract global attention to China is the series of achievements it has made in the field of aerospace.

However, while China is developing rapidly in the field of aerospace, it has not kept up with the pace in publicity.

Look at Hollywood!

As soon as the United States sent astronauts into low-Earth orbit, the "Star Trek" series of movies came out.

As soon as the United States launched the Apollo series of moon landing plans, "Star Wars" quickly followed.

Even though the United States has not launched any space exploration plans in the past decade, various Hollywood science fiction movies are still emerging in an endless stream, and the American technology in the movies is still invincible, constantly fighting aliens to protect the earth.

This is the influence of cultural propaganda!

Under the subtle influence of these movies, even a child knows that the United States' aerospace strength is very strong, and it can send people to space to fight aliens and protect the earth!

In the past, China did not have the strength and level to shoot such science fiction movies.

After all, they haven't even tried manned space flight, and haven't sent astronauts to the sky, so how can they have the nerve to film Chinese space stories in science fiction films?

This is just like watching Indian and Korean space blockbusters, which only adds to the jokes.

But now it's different. China's manned space program is moving step by step, and the progress is very fast.

By 2008, they had mastered the technology of walking out of the cabin and repairing spacecraft.

In other words, some science fiction works involving low-Earth orbit, when made by Chinese people, will not make people from other countries feel uncomfortable, but only envy.

Because Chinese people have really achieved manned space engineering in reality!

After reading the relevant reports on the computer, Wu Yuan raised the corners of his mouth, opened a word document in a very happy mood, and started typing on the keyboard.

"Gravity"

"Synopsis: In 2020, Chinese astronaut Wu Qiang and female doctor Si Qinqin boarded the Shenzhou XIV manned spacecraft to perform the task of repairing the low-Earth orbit telescope."

"While performing the repair work outside the cabin, a certain major country launched a missile to destroy its abandoned spy satellite. The debris produced by the explosion destroyed a large number of spacecraft and rushed towards Shenzhou XIV..."

What a coincidence!

Wu Baige has the Ministry of Culture behind him, right?

I will take the script to the Space Administration and the Manned Space Engineering Office.

Your "Red Cliff" holds high the stick of cultural influence, attempting to use China's most famous history of the Three Kingdoms period to culturally invade Japan and South Korea?

My brother's "Gravity" also holds high the stick of cultural influence, and this is a global level of influence. Once this movie can be made and can be released in many countries around the world, it will definitely be a movie that can change the impression of most foreigners on China!

Why does the country care so much about the Olympics that it even uses the whole country's strength to prepare for this grand event?

It's not for those few gold medals, but to let the audience around the world have a new impression of China through this Olympics, instead of staying in the backward and old impression in the past.

Of course, scientific and technological progress is the most important and most suitable for publicity!

"Red Cliff" will be released in July 2008, and it will be released simultaneously in Asia. The reason is to bring a baptism of Chinese classical culture to Asian audiences before the opening of the Olympics.

OK!

Wu Yuan can also ask for the release of this "Gravity" in July!

And it should be released simultaneously in many countries around the world as much as possible, not just in Asia.

His reason is also sufficient. Before the opening of the Olympics, let the audience around the world see China's technological progress!

We Chinese are already looking up at the sky, and we are doing manned space projects that only big and powerful countries have the strength to do. Shouldn't this be widely publicized?

Is there any more effective way to promote it than a movie about Chinese astronauts who survived a near-Earth orbit and finally completed their mission and escaped successfully?

Whether it is from the national justice or personal justice, Wu Yuan can be steady and upright!

He is trying his best to compete with "Red Cliff"!

Red Cliff will be released in two parts, and he can't stop it, but he will definitely snipe the first one.

And he will snipe in an upright way!

The first science fiction movie that belongs to the Chinese people, a science fiction movie of the near future, a science fiction movie that describes China's manned space program, isn't this more interesting than the Three Kingdoms story that we are tired of watching?

Among Chinese people, at least one out of every three people knows the story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

This kind of story that is engraved in the DNA of Chinese people and is so familiar that it can't be more familiar, is it really more attractive than exploring the stars and the sea?

The story of the Three Kingdoms can be watched at any time, but "Gravity", a Chinese science fiction blockbuster, can't be watched at any time!

Wu Yuan believes that as long as the script of "Gravity" he wrote can get the support of the space agency, all the problems that bother him will not be a problem.

Just kidding, the priority and importance of aerospace publicity are much higher than the "Three Kingdoms" that has long been famous.

Even if "Red Cliff" can sell well in Japan and South Korea, at best it will let Japanese and Korean movie fans revisit the story of the Three Kingdoms. The story of the Three Kingdoms is not unfamiliar in Japan and South Korea.

Gravity is different. The space agency and the higher-ups really need a movie that can promote China's achievements in aerospace to the global public!

"Crackle, crackle——" Wu Yuan's keyboard kept wailing, and the script of Gravity quickly took shape in his computer.

There is actually nothing that he needs to adapt too much in this movie.

Localize the life story of the heroine, and then swap the order of the appearance of the International Space Station and the Tiangong Space Station.

The only thing that bothers him is how to reasonably preserve the funny points that the heroine in the original film made when she used the Shenzhou spacecraft to escape, facing the all-Chinese operation panel with a distressed look and randomly pressing a few buttons.

This plot must be swapped, and changed to the heroine using the Discovery space shuttle in the International Space Station to return to Earth.

On the one hand, the plot story is swapped, and on the other hand, if it is changed in this way, the box office may be better when it is released in Europe and the United States.

This is just like the heroine in the original Gravity who escaped by using the Chinese spacecraft, to please the Chinese market.

Now that Gravity has become a Chinese film, it is not a bad idea to please the European and American markets in the film.

It is just that how to keep this joke, Wu Yuan can't think of it for a while.

As a doctor, it is unreasonable for the heroine not to know English. Who said that English is one of the main courses in China, and you have to pass the Level 4 exam to graduate from university.

He couldn't simply flip this joke and throw it out, so he had to leave this plot blank for the time being and write the rest first.

In this way, after three or five days of work, Wu Yuan basically changed a Chinese version of Gravity.

He is quite satisfied with this magical version of Gravity.

Compared with overly exaggerated science fiction movies such as The Martian, Interstellar or Inception, Gravity is the most suitable science fiction film for China at present.

Because most of the current Chinese audiences lack confidence in their own country, and now is the golden age of public knowledge.

They dare not believe that China in the future can be as powerful as the United States.

Even the military comrades who have the most confidence in the country, their boldest ideas are just thinking about how our army can use the wolf pack tactics to exchange for the American aircraft carriers, and they dare not imagine that we can have our own aircraft carriers.

Thinking about the suicide attack of the second-generation aircraft, can 10 aircraft replace one American third-generation aircraft.

They dare not imagine that we can have our own fourth-generation aircraft in a dozen years.

This is an era where you need to be cautious even when dreaming.

Even when making a movie, Wu Yuan dare not weave a dream that is too beautiful, and can only carefully protect the self-esteem of the Chinese people.

Yes, we may not be able to colonize Mars, we cannot cross wormholes, and colonize planets countless light years away.

But at least we can carefully make a space dream that belongs to China in low-Earth orbit.