Chapter 317 "Interstellar"!

The next movie?

Liu Yifei showed a curious look on his face, and stretched out his hand to pull Wu Yuan's sleeve: "Brother, what new movie?"

Wu Yuan naturally had nothing to hide from his bedmate.

He smiled and said: "It's a science fiction film. I plan to shoot it with an IMAX camera."

"IMAX?" Liu Yifei repeated doubtfully.

IMAX is still a very new concept in China now. People who don't usually come into contact with directors don't know much about it, let alone Liu Yifei, who is a electronics expert.

"Yes, IMAX." Wu Yuan exclaimed: "This is a very awesome technology, a technology that will change the world's movies."

Who would have thought that next year there would be an IMAX movie "Avatar" sweeping the world, directly changing the global film ecology and prompting IMAX cinemas to explode around the world.

Although the plot of "Avatar" is really simple, and even a bit of glorification of colonizers, the appearance of this movie is indeed epoch-making, bringing the world's film industry into a new era.

It is a wrong choice to fight against the tide of the times.

Wu Yuan is not like some art film directors who always firmly believe that movies must be shot with film and should not use too many special effects. 3D and IMAX are even more fancy things.

He is very willing to embrace new technologies. Even in his dreams, he later mainly made special effects movies, although they were the kind of online movies on major video platforms.

Wu Yuan certainly couldn't intercept the movie "Avatar" that took ten years to prepare.

But after "Avatar", he is still willing to present an IMAX science fiction blockbuster to the global audience.

Those who plant trees will enjoy the shade.

With "Avatar" in front of him to open up the market, wouldn't it be good for him to follow behind and pick up the leaks happily?

"This will be a movie with a very large investment, with an estimated investment of $200 million. The cost of each minute of footage is more than $1.3 million."

As soon as the figure of $200 million came out, Liu Yifei immediately asked: "Then this must be a Hollywood blockbuster."

A Hollywood blockbuster means that the main actors must be Hollywood actors, and the dialogue is in English. There will be no roles suitable for Chinese actors.

As if guessing what Liu Yifei was thinking, Wu Yuan laughed and pinched her little nose: "Don't worry, I have saved a role for you."

"The movie is temporarily named "Interstellar", which is a hard science fiction blockbuster with a larger scale than "Gravity."

"The story is set in the distant future, when crops on Earth often fail due to climate change and blight..."

Yes, the movie Wu Yuan is going to make this time is "Interstellar", the movie that made Nolan a god in mainland China!

Apart from the hype of those fanatical fans, from the perspective of the movie alone, this movie is indeed very excellent, and Wu Yuan likes it very much.

In the previous life, this movie was filmed in 2013 and released in the United States on November 5, 2014, and finally won nearly $700 million in box office worldwide.

It didn't make much money.

But the film is really high-end. Whether in Asia or Europe and the United States, it is praised as the best hard science fiction film in the 21st century.

Before the advent of the superhero era, Wu Yuan wanted to leave his own mark in Hollywood. After thinking about it, he felt that this movie was the most suitable.

After all, "Gravity" has been translated into Chinese by him, and there are only a few Hollywood blockbusters with excellent spiritual core.

While Nolan's "Inception" is still in the works, it is still possible to intercept this movie as soon as possible!

If you make "Interstellar" now, the cost will be more expensive than a few years later after the price of IMAX cameras and special effects drops, and it will cost an extra 40 million US dollars.

But this money is worth it!

At least the title of the world's second IMAX blockbuster is worth these 40 million US dollars!

He plans to use digital IMAX cameras to shoot the whole film!

It is worth mentioning that this movie itself is not actually Nolan's movie, at least the script has nothing to do with Nolan.

The background premise of "Interstellar" was conceived by filmmaker Linda Obst and theoretical physicist Kip S. Thorne.

The two had already collaborated on the 1997 film "Contact" and met each other through the introduction of astronomer Carl Sagan.

The two conceived two plans based on the results of Thorne's scientific research work. The magical topic of cosmic exploration attracted the interest of filmmaker Steven Spielberg to direct the film, and the film began development in June 2006.

At that time, Spielberg and Paramount Pictures announced the plan of an eight-page science fiction film written by Linda Obst and Kip Thorne.

In March 2007, Jonathan Nolan was hired to write the script for the film.

If everything went as planned, the film should have been shot by Hollywood director Steven Spielberg.

However, when time came to the second half of 2008, things changed a little.

Spielberg does not plan to continue cooperating with Paramount, and plans to move his studio "DreamWorks" to the Disney Group next year.

Although Disney and Paramount are not rivals, they have never had any cooperative relationship.

This made Paramount start looking for partners for "Interstellar" again.

Then Christopher Nolan suggested his brother Jonathan Nolan to participate in the project in 2012.

In the end, the film was produced by Jonathan Nolan's independent film production company, First Jue Films, and Linda Obst's Linda Obst Productions.

Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures reached a cooperation to jointly distribute the film.

What Wu Yuan had to do was to get ahead of Nolan and intercept the film project first, let Light Era cooperate with Linda Obst to invest, and then introduce Paramount and Universal, and the four companies jointly invested to make this film.

And Light Era wanted to be the main controller!

In theory, he could convince Universal and Paramount.

Because Hollywood is not optimistic about pure science fiction movies now, especially hard science fiction themes, and the investment risk of such movies is too high.

$200 million is not a small amount of money. Even if it only occupies half, Universal and Paramount dare not take this risk.

Light Era is willing to be the main controller, and the two companies are eager.

"The story goes like this. In the end, Cooper and his daughter boarded a next-generation rover to Edmonds and began a new adventure..."

Here, Wu Yuan also introduced the whole story to Liu Yifei, although Jonathan Nolan's script may not be perfected to this extent.

"I want you to play the role of Professor Brand's daughter in the story."

"Then invite Anne Hathaway to play the daughter of the male protagonist Cooper."

"You are a great beauty from the East and a great beauty from the Europe and America. You can compete on the same stage."

Yes, Wu Yuan is thinking about his vase plan again.

Although "Interstellar" is a hard science fiction movie without any love line, the two main female characters must still find beautiful actresses, at least to make the audience happy.

One Liu Yifei takes care of the Asian market, and the other Anne Hathaway takes care of the European and American markets. How perfect!

"For the specific details of the cooperation, I have to go to the United States in person and have a good chat with Paramount."

"But this matter has basically been finalized. If everything goes well, we will enter the actual preparation stage in the first half of next year, and strive to start filming in the middle of next year."

"If it is released, it should be in time by the end of 2010."

Wu Yuan slowly told Liu Yifei all the situation.

Although he has been in China, he still maintains some contact with Hollywood.

For example, Warner is still trying to persuade him to direct "Green Lantern"

The project of "Interstellar" is not a secret in Hollywood, and Spielberg is not the only one paying attention to it.

It is normal for Wu Yuan to have contact with Paramount.

After Paramount basically confirmed that Spielberg was going to break up with them and switch to the rival, it was indeed thinking about the issue of a new director.

At this time, Wu Yuan came to the door, and of course it was a perfect match.

Although Wu Yuan is not as famous as Spielberg, he is definitely one of the top commercial directors in Hollywood.

To be frank, as long as he wants to direct any commercial film project in Hollywood, the six major directors will not refuse.

Only Spielberg, Cameron and a few other directors have higher priority than him!

Even Nolan is not as high priority as him now!

In addition, the performance of "Gravity" in Asia is also very good. Although Paramount is on the same side as Universal and is unwilling to introduce "Gravity" to North America, it still recognizes Wu Yuan's level of making science fiction films.

Commercial companies do not have so much love and hatred. Everything is driven by interests. It is normal to confront and cooperate at the same time.

Preventing "Gravity" from being released in North America does not affect Wu Yuan's cooperation with Paramount on "Interstellar".

After so many years of running a company, Wu Yuan's thinking has gradually changed from a simple director to a businessman's perspective.

He was just like nothing had happened, and he was very active in holding several telephone conferences with Paramount, and the two parties basically finalized the follow-up cooperation.

Wu Yuan even did not refuse Paramount's suggestion to bring Universal to work on this project.

Among the six Hollywood studios, Paramount and Universal are indeed more professional in making science fiction movies.

Universal was already making "E.T. the Extraterrestrial" in 1982, and "Transformers" released last year was also their work.

With the help of Universal, "Interstellar" can indeed be filmed more smoothly.

Of course, Wu Yuan's crew training class can also learn from Universal's staff.

He and Paramount only agreed on other things on the phone, but the crew training class was finalized at the first time.

This time when shooting "Interstellar", he will still bring 20 crew members into the group to fully learn the industrialization of Hollywood science fiction movies!

"After the Olympics are over, I will go to the United States with you." Wu Yuan said happily, kissing Liu Yifei on the face.

Kevin