Chapter 437 Power System

Creating your own company's movie universe is not just a slogan.

Since you have to make the first phase of movies within five years, you need to have a reasonable plan.

Wu Yuan has of course made plans long ago.

"The filming of the third part of "Soul Ferry" will start this year."

"And the plot of the third part will include more background views of the company's movie universe."

"First of all, the cultivator system, that is, the immortal cultivators in the current online novels."

Wu Yuan knocked on a whiteboard brought by the staff and wrote the four big words "cultivation system" on it.

Today's online novels are actually quite mature.

"The Immortal Cultivation Biography" is a novel that began serialization in 2007, and it has been serialized for almost four years now.

The cultivation system of immortal cultivation novels, Xiantian, foundation building, golden elixir, and Yuanying, is also widely circulated on the Internet and has a high reputation.

In a few months, "The Great Ruler" will begin serialization.

Before "The Great Ruler", Chen Dong had already written several online masterpieces.

Not to mention that Tu Dou, San Shao, I Eat Tomatoes, Meng Ru Shen Ji and others have become popular on the Internet.

The Five Whites of the Central Plains have basically taken shape.

They have refined and integrated the originally scattered, disordered, and self-contradictory Chinese myths and legends and the fantasy literature of the early Republic of China into a set of mature "cultivation systems".

The executives of the Light and Shadow Era sitting here are all elites in the industry. Naturally, they don't have the time to pay attention to the online literature that is not yet on the stage.

But Wu Yuan has been paying attention.

"Unlike Marvel and DC comics in the United States, their superhero system does not have a clear power system. The poor rely on mutations and the rich rely on technology."

"Defeat the big boss by bursting."

"This way of expression is indeed suitable for movies. After all, a movie is one or two hours long, and there is no time to explain a huge cultivation system to the audience."

"Like online novels, a book can easily have millions of words to build a huge world view."

"We need to learn, but we can't copy it completely."

As Wu Yuan spoke, he drew a circle on the "cultivation system" on the whiteboard Circle: "In the movie universe of our light and shadow era, the repair system must exist, but it is only a standard for measuring power, and there is no need to focus too much on it."

"For example, the immortals in myths and legends are simply divided into earth immortals, heavenly immortals, gods, and golden immortals."

"Those who have not yet become immortals and are practicing in the human world are divided into foundation building, golden elixir, primordial infant, and spirit transformation."

"The higher the realm, the greater the ability."

"And this set of level system is to be used in all movies."

"This will make it very convenient for the audience to understand what kind of power level each character has, so that they can make comparisons , and make a comparison by substitution. "

"There is a very interesting joke on the Internet. Many netizens are always discussing whether Kakarot from Dragon Ball is stronger or Superman from DC is stronger. "

"If Superman and Kakarot PK, who will win. "

"Who is more powerful, the ninja in Naruto or the superpower in One Piece. "

"Such discussions have always existed on the Internet. "

"This is very interesting, but the premise is that these stories are relatively independent. You can't see Superman appear in Dragon Ball, nor in Naruto. There will be rubber fists. "

"But the movie universe we want to make is different. The stories that happened in Shushan and Chang'an happened in the same world."

"The goblin chaos in the Han Dynasty and the hidden immortal gate in modern times happened in the same world in different eras."

"Therefore, we need a unified power system to keep the story in order and allow movie fans to simply understand the connection between these stories that happened in different periods and regions."

How to integrate different movies in the future light and shadow era into a whole and ensure that the story does not collapse is what Wu Yuan has been thinking about when he is free.

The Chinese mythology system story is different from the superhero movies of Marvel and DC.

Superheroes themselves were born in a system. Since the comics were serialized, characters have been added to it continuously, all of which are original characters.

Although they do not have a clear power system, they all exist in the same era and can directly PK and fight, using battle scenes to distinguish the superior and the inferior.

But the movie universe created by the light and shadow era based on Chinese mythology and immortal stories is not the same this time.

There are already three systems of the human world, the fairy world, and the underworld. The human world is divided into different eras, including "Painted Skin" set in the Han Dynasty and "Soul Ferry" set in the modern era. Later, we will make the "Shushan" IP, and there will also be stories set in the Tang and Song dynasties. It is even possible to integrate some online novels into it.

These messy stories must have a unified power system to ensure that the stories do not collapse.

"In the first stage, I plan to make 6 movies."

"Starting with "Shushan", the background of "Shushan" will be anchored in the Han Dynasty and linked with the "Painted Skin" series."

"After that, 1-2 derivative movies based on the stories of "Journey to the West" and "Eight Immortals" will be launched in the Tang Dynasty, introducing the concept of "immortals."

"Finally, a big event movie with a modern background theme will be used. These "superheroes" from the Han and Tang dynasties will gather in the modern era to resist disasters together."

"This disaster can be the breaking of the sealed demon world, or it can be a great turmoil in the underworld. In short, it will be an earth-shattering battle like the Avengers!"

Wu Yuan said in a shocked voice, his eyes shining with excitement.

Yes, his plan is actually to follow the path that Marvel has already taken and cross the river by following the footsteps of those who came before.

Although this predecessor is still exploring.

But Wu Yuan knew very well that Marvel’s strategy of first making single-player movies, and then using a big movie to bring together the protagonists of all the single-player movies, and have a big event and fight, is so effective!

Relying on excellent special effects technology and superimposing the visual experience brought by IMAX 3D, this kind of superhero commercial film is very profitable!

Hollywood was once dominated by Marvel's superhero science fiction movies for ten years, relying on this formula.

Just learn it and that’s it!

It is not required to be like Marvel, relying on the international hegemony of Hollywood to sell movies all over the world, but it should still be no problem to capture the three-acre market in Asia.

Moreover, the fairy tale and classical charm full of oriental aesthetics may also interest Europeans and make efforts in Europe.

Don’t underestimate the appeal of Chinese culture. More than ten years later, even South Korea was imitating the various makeup styles of Chinese fairy puppet dramas and the new Chinese Hanfu style. To be precise, they were stealing it.

Rather than letting other countries steal Chinese culture and use it to conquer Asia, it would be better to enter the Age of Light and Shadow yourself!

"Have the copyright for "Zhu Xian" been negotiated?" Thinking of this, Wu Yuan immediately asked the person in charge of the copyright department of the company. (End of chapter)