Chapter 523: "The Martian Rescue" Starts

The era of superheroes has arrived, and will intensify in the next few years.

Soon, Hollywood will turn to superhero movies, and even the best actor and actress will have to play supporting roles for superheroes.

The original ability that Hollywood was proud of will be completely destroyed under the sweep of major superhero IPs.

Then in the late superhero era, Hollywood's political banner completely destroyed Hollywood's international influence, and there will be no more Hollywood superstars with international influence like Depp, Leonardo, and Robert Downey Jr.

By 2023, when Wu Yuan wakes up from his dream, Hollywood's international superstars will still be the ones who emerged around 2000. After 2012, except for the Marvel superheroes, there will be no actors who can become famous internationally through original movies.

As Wu Yuan is familiar with the development of Hollywood in the next ten years, he naturally knows that "superheroes" are Hollywood's last ride.

There is no chance for Marvel's MCU movie universe. There are no female Chinese superhero characters in the first three stages of Marvel.

The Sorcerer Supreme Ancient One can barely be considered as a role, but this role is seriously inconsistent with Liu Yifei's acting style.

In this case, we can only take a step back and look for options in the DC movie universe or "X-Men".

In fact, Wu Yuan is very fond of Wonder Woman in the DC movie universe.

Cool, sassy and good at fighting!

Unfortunately, Wonder Woman is set as Zeus's illegitimate daughter, and it is obviously impossible for her to have a pure Asian face.

"Blink should be the best choice I can find for you." Wu Yuan smiled and patted Liu Yifei in his arms, and said affirmatively: "I will talk to Fox and ask them to increase your role in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" and "X-Men: Apocalypse."

Although "X-Men" is also a Marvel comic, it is an independent universe. After all, the copyright of this IP is in the hands of Fox.

In the comics, Twinkle has quite a lot of scenes in the parallel universe and the "Apocalypse Incident". The specific adaptation into a movie depends on the screenwriter's idea, which is very flexible.

Fox is just trying to please the Chinese audience and inserting a Chinese actor, so naturally Twinkle will not have too many scenes, which is the version shot by Fan Xiaopang.

But if Wu Yuan intervenes and replaces Fan Xiaopang with Liu Yifei, Fox will reconsider the role of this character.

Not to mention becoming the protagonist, but at least it must be an important supporting role, and there will definitely be an important role in "X-Men: Apocalypse".

With such a superhero role in hand, Liu Yifei will not disappear in the next ten years of superheroes.

As for Wu Yuan himself, he also plans to focus more of his work back to China and the Asian market after filming "The Martian".

To be honest, Marvel's MCU movie universe, at least before "Avengers 4", is really unstoppable.

Not only is the box office higher than the previous one, breaking global box office records, but it also squeezes the market of other original movies very badly.

Even if Wu Yuan knew such a future, he would be powerless to change anything.

From 2014 to 2019, seven or eight of the top ten Hollywood box office movies were sequels of the six major IP series, and the remaining two barely made it into the top ten and ate some leftovers.

Even if Wu Yuan wanted to make some "original" movies to compete with superheroes, he couldn't find a suitable one.

Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to give up.

Once you give up, you will feel that the world is wide.

Wu Yuan chose to give up the tit-for-tat with superhero movies without hesitation, and returned to China to make some Chinese blockbusters.

Coincidentally, the mainland film market has also risen, and the era of mainland box office explosion led by "Lost in Thailand" is about to come.

"Love Letter" can only be regarded as Wu Yuan's practice work. He has already considered preparing for a movie that really wants to make a box office impact.

In the next few days, he accompanied Liu Yifei for a few more days, and as a flying guest, he officially participated in the recording of an episode of "Actors Please Take Your Place", and then flew back to Beijing with Liu Yifei.

For Liu Yifei's work as the convener, Wu Yuan temporarily called Wang Likun from the company to take over for a period of time. It happened that Wang Likun had no notices at the moment.

After Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei returned to Beijing, Liu Yifei naturally returned to the "Better Days" crew that had been assembled again and started their film promotion work.

Wu Yuan was not idle either, and flew directly to Los Angeles.

Liu Yifei had no other work in the second half of the year except for film promotion, but Wu Yuan still had some.

"The Martian", a movie that he had proposed to make early on, has officially started the preliminary preparations.

It is expected to officially start shooting in October 2011 and wrap up in January of the following year, just in time for the release of "Love Letter".

In fact, "The Martian" was launched very early.

As an IMAX 3D movie and a science fiction film, the preparatory work for this movie is very complicated.

To build a Mars base, various near-future equipment, such as more advanced space suits and more advanced spacecraft, need to be designed, modeled, and manufactured early.

Coincidentally, because a cooperation has been reached with Fox, Wu Yuan also took advantage of Fox's ride this time.

"Alien" has been renamed, and now this movie is called "Heaven", well, it's still a tentative name.

Since this movie is also a science fiction movie, and also a science fiction movie set in the near future, the technological achievements set in the movie, especially the design of the space suit, can be used in The Martian, and only the color needs to be changed.

Wu Yuan relied on his face to negotiate a small cooperation with Fox, and exchanged what he had with the crew of Alien, sharing the props and some CG special effects designed in their early preparations.

This saved the crew of The Martian a lot of money!

However, in terms of the construction of the studio, there was no way to take advantage of the Alien.

Since 2011, John has been building studios according to Wu Yuan's requirements.

So far, the crew of The Martian has built about 20 scenes, which is not much compared to other movies, but these scenes are very exquisite in craftsmanship.

Two-thirds of these studios were built in Hungary, mainly for shooting scenes on the earth and spacecraft.

The remaining one-third was built in Wadi Rum, the Rose Desert in Jordan.

The reason for choosing these two places.

First, Hungary has the world's largest and tallest studio, which can accommodate the space scenes required by the crew.

Jordan's Rose Desert is one of the most Mars-like regions in the world. The endless yellow sand and red sky always give people a feeling of being on an alien planet.

The main actor's scenes of living on Mars need to be filmed here.

As for why Wu Yuan flew to Los Angeles, it was naturally to meet his designated main actor - Matt Damon! (End of this chapter)