Chapter 442: The Era of Light and Shadow to Do Great Things

As soon as the plan of four films was announced, it immediately attracted the eager eyes of all the artists of Light and Shadow Times present.

Don’t think that four films is a small number.

Although the mainland film industry is now on the rise and can shoot hundreds of films a year, when it comes to a single film company, there are not many shooting plans in a year.

This is not the era when a few Internet companies monopolized the industry.

There are at least more than 100 film production companies in China now, and there are 20 to 30 of them with strong capital.

Even so, film companies such as Huayi, Orange Sky, Bona, and Guangguang only shoot about four or five films a year, and if you add the participating investors, there are no more than 8 films at most.

Among them, there are generally only one or two films that can be regarded as blockbusters.

Like Light and Shadow Times, a mainland film company that makes two blockbusters in a year, "Along with the Gods" and "Painted Skin 2", is rare.

And now, Li Xiaoping announced that the company will set up projects for four blockbusters!

What is a blockbuster?

The investment must be at least 100 million, generally between 150 million and 200 million, to be called a blockbuster!

There are only about ten such movies made in the mainland every year!

To play in such a blockbuster, each role will compete with more than a dozen actors of the same level, and even with actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

At least few of the actors under the Light and Shadow Times sitting here really have the opportunity to play in blockbusters.

Many times, even if it is a blockbuster of their own company, the protagonist has to be played by outsiders, such as Chen Kun and Zhou Xun in "Painted Skin", Huang Bo and Yan Yikuan in "Along with the Gods".

This time the company notified its artists of this news in advance, which means that the four blockbusters are good cakes for Light and Shadow Times' own artists!

Compared with competing with actors from the entire industry, it is much easier to compete within the company.

"I know you must want to know the details." Li Xiaoping asked everyone to sit down and said with a smile: "Then I won't waste words."

"The four blockbusters approved this time are the first phase of the company's movie universe plan."

"The first one is the movie "Soul Ferry", but because the story is about what the male protagonist Zhao Li experienced a thousand years ago, there are no other TV drama starring roles except Yu Yi."

When Li Xiaoping said this, Yu Yi, Liu Zhiyang, Jiang Shuying and others sitting in the corner of the conference room had complicated expressions.

Yu Yi looked excited, as if a pie in the sky had fallen on him.

In contrast, Liu Zhiyang and Jiang Shuying looked disappointed and uncomfortable. It was obvious that there would be no Xia Dongqing and Wang Xiaoya a thousand years ago, and they had no chance to be in this blockbuster.

"This movie needs two heroines, one is a little older, preferably around 30 years old, and sexy."

Li Xiaoping didn't have time to pay attention to the lost Liu Zhiyang and Jiang Shuying, and continued to introduce: "The other heroine should be younger, around 18-25 years old, no more than 25 years old."

"The two heroines play the roles of a mother and daughter in the story."

"In addition, there is an important male protagonist, who needs a young, soft-looking, bookish and youthful actor."

Yes, the movie Li Xiaoping described is "Soul Ferry·Huangquan".

However, unlike the original "Soul Ferry·Huangquan", at Wu Yuan's request, the company's screenwriter department broadened the background of this movie.

Originally, the story of this movie was limited to Meng Po's Huangquan Inn. Considering that this is just a big online movie, the pattern is enough.

But as a theater blockbuster, the pattern is definitely not enough, and it cannot bear the requirements of broadening the movie universe of the light and shadow era.

Therefore, under the pen of the company's screenwriter department, this story has been broadened, and the master behind the male protagonist Changsheng and his master are no longer a background board.

Changsheng's master is a sword-wielding elder in Shushan in the human world. Because his life span is about to end and he is unwilling to return to heaven and earth, he ordered Changsheng to come to Mengpo's Huangquan Inn, intending to steal the Book of Life and Death, trying to cross out his name on the Book of Life and Death, and seeking immortality.

Moreover, he is also the former lover of the previous generation Mengpo Mengqi and the father of the heroine Sanqi.

In the Light and Shadow Era version of the "Soul Ferry Huangquan" script, the story will be narrated in Huangquan and Shushan in the human world.

The Huangquan line starts from Wuming, who is a personal love harp robbed by Hades, and enters the underworld alone with a living soul and comes to Huangquan Inn.

As a Taoist monk, he did not choose to force Mengpo to ask how to find Hades by force, but tried to reason with him, but Mengpo did not give him any directions.

While he was pestering Mengpo and Sanqi, the mother and daughter, Changsheng came to Huangquan Inn and began his mission to steal the Book of Life and Death.

The core of the story is still about stealing the Book of Life and Death, or the story of Changsheng and Sanqi, a pair of ill-fated young men and women who love each other but cannot get it.

It just introduced a larger world view and added several huge fighting scenes.

The climax of the movie ended with a battle between Mengpo and the ghost army of the underworld and the sword cultivators of Shushan led by Master Changsheng in the sea of ​​sand in the underworld.

The ending is different from the original version. Mengqi still died, but died under the sword of his former lover.

Sanqi's lover Changsheng finally gave up stealing the Book of Life and Death for his master, but lived for love, and was willing to be swallowed by Sanqi, so that Sanqi's soul was complete and became the new Mengpo.

And the Shushan Sword Elder did not achieve his goal. It turned out that Meng Qi was no longer Meng Po. Since she gave birth to San Qi, the real Meng Po had already been San Qi.

After witnessing her mother's death in front of her and her lover's transformation into a soul and merging into her body, San Qi, whose soul was completely perfect, opened her big move.

After knowing what love is and experiencing the seven emotions and six desires, San Qi, who returned to the position of Meng Po, exploded and killed the group of sword cultivators from Shushan who invaded the underworld, and killed her nominal father with her own hands to avenge her mother.

At the end of the story, because Wuming stood on Meng Po's side in this chaos and helped San Qi, San Qi told Wuming how to go to the underworld to see Hades after everything was over, but advised him not to do so.

Wuming just smiled, did not listen to the advice, and walked firmly to the depths of the other side.

A few years later, the one who returned to Huangquan Inn was Zhao Li, a ghost messenger who had lost all his memories and had the same personality as in the TV series "Soul Ferry".

This can be regarded as a suspense. In the future, we can continue to make "Soul Ferry Movie 2", telling the story of Wuming leaving Huangquan Inn and entering the depths of the underworld, and how he finally became like this.

In this "Soul Ferry Huangquan", it can be said that there are no winners in the whole story, only losers.

Meng Qi and the Shushan Sword Elder died, and the immortal who gave up his soul to fulfill Sanqi also died.

Wuming also paid the price of losing all his cultivation and forgetting his "self". His soul and body were separated, and his soul entered reincarnation, and his body became Zhao Li, the underworld messenger.

The new Mengpo Sanqi, who knew how the last seasoning of Mengpo Soup "Mengpo Tears" was born, survived to the end and became Mengpo.

But the price she paid was the loss of her relatives and lover, and guarding the 800-mile Huangquan alone.

How warm and sweet the first half of the whole story is, how tragic the second half is.

But this is precisely one of the best routines for commercial movies, which can play with the audience's emotions in applause.

In this movie, Meng Qi, San Qi, Chang Sheng, and the funny Princess Sun, the "behind-the-scenes boss" Shushan Sword Elder, are all full of character charm. As long as they are played well, they will be very outstanding!

Except for the Sword Elder, who needs a middle-aged or elderly actor, the contracted artists of the Light and Shadow Era cannot compete.

The remaining roles are all very popular!

After listening to the general storyline told by the company's screenwriter department and reading the character biographies distributed, all the actors in the conference room looked at their colleagues with eager eyes.

From now on, they are competitors! (End of this chapter)