Chapter 648 A Chinese Science Fiction Blockbuster?

"A Chinese sci-fi blockbuster?!"

Holding Wu Yuan's hand, Liu Yifei boarded the nanny car that came to pick him up at the airport. She curiously leaned on the back seat: "Is it mainly aimed at the Asian market?"

"Will the pressure to make a profit be too great?"

Although Wu Yuan had the brilliant performance of "Gravity", both the company and the mainstream media outside basically believed that the performance of this movie could not be replicated.

"Gravity" caused a sensation across the country, and even the country mobilized primary and secondary school students and government departments to organize group viewing, which pushed the box office of this movie to more than 600 million yuan in the mainland alone.

It also set a new box office record for Chinese-language films that year and maintained it for several years.

Although "Lost in Thailand" and "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" have appeared in the past two years, raising the mainland box office record to 1.2 billion or 1.3 billion, the box office record of Chinese-language sci-fi films is still held by "Gravity".

To be honest, apart from comedy, which is a family-friendly genre that the whole family can watch together in the cinema, no other type of movie can break the 1 billion box office mark.

Even if Wu Yuan makes a science fiction movie, it is probably a mystery.

The 2008 Olympic year was a perfect time, and it is almost impossible to repeat it.

"It's okay." Wu Yuan did not have Liu Yifei's concerns, and said with a smile: "The group of domestic science fiction fans has finally been cultivated."

"Although this group may not be large, it is a spark that can start a prairie fire."

"I believe that if there are enough excellent Chinese science fiction films, domestic science fiction fans will give a big surprise."

"Besides, I don't just count on the Chinese film market."

I have to admit that Liu Yifei's words are correct.

Science fiction movies have always been the movies with the greatest pressure to make a profit.

Why did comedy movies gradually become the mainstream of Chinese movies?

Isn't it because comedy movies have low costs but are the movies with the highest box office ceiling?

Even if the box office performance is the same, and the box office revenue is 1 billion RMB, a comedy with an investment of 50 million RMB and a science fiction film with an investment of 300-400 million RMB, which one has lower pressure to return the investment and who earns more?

This is obvious.

Although the Light and Shadow Era is now promoting the Xianxia movie universe, the investment in each movie is about 200 million RMB.

But in fact, the two Xianxia movie universe movies released, "Soul Ferry: Huangquan", had a good box office, but it can only be regarded as breaking even.

"The Legend of Zu" won a box office of 1 billion, but it was only a small profit. In terms of profit, it is definitely not as high as the low-cost "Lost in Thailand", and even "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" can't compare.

This is all due to the special effects.

If Wu Yuan wants to make a science fiction blockbuster, he will definitely spend more money on special effects than "The Legend of Zu".

Because he is Wu Yuan, he is the number one science fiction director in China and a top science fiction director with a great reputation internationally.

He can make a science fiction movie like "The Martian" in Hollywood, which has few special effects and is mainly shot in real life, but he can't do this in China.

Because the Chinese film market is different from Hollywood.

Hollywood has never lacked special effects blockbusters, so for Hollywood, more realistic and real science fiction movies are rare works.

That's why Nolan, who made "Gravity", and Ridley Scott, who made "Prometheus", are always inferior to Nolan.

Wu Yuan also achieved a reputation and evaluation that is not inferior to Nolan by taking "Interstellar" and "The Martian" at the same time.

However, in China, the Chinese film market has only reached the first stage and is far from as mature as Hollywood.

What the current Chinese film market needs is movies like "Star Trek", "Star Wars" and "Avatar" that are full of special effects and bring visual impact with various gorgeous special effects.

Mainland audiences are far from being immune to special effects movies, and they haven't even seen a few special effects blockbusters.

That's why the later "Pacific Rim" and Marvel series have such good box office in China.

"Speaking of which, if we want to make a special effects blockbuster." Wu Yuan touched his chin and murmured to himself: "It seems that "Ready Player One" is very suitable."

"Ready Player One" is a movie directed by Steven Spielberg and adapted from the novel of the same name.

It tells the story of 2045 when virtual technology is very advanced. The real society is disappointing and people are immersed in a virtual game called "OASIS".

The 18-year-old Wade Watts and his friends broke through many levels and got the Easter egg hidden in the game by the founder of the game, James Halliday, and became the heir of OASIS.

The original novel was published in 2011 and topped the New York Times bestseller list for more than 100 consecutive weeks. It has been translated into 37 languages ​​and is available in 58 countries and regions.

There is also a Chinese version of the novel.

But to be honest, it is the right approach to adapt this movie into a Hollywood movie.

After all, the hero of the original novel is an American.

However, since the story takes place entirely in the virtual metaverse "Oasis", it is actually no problem to change the hero and heroine of the story into yellow-skinned Chinese.

Because the story itself does not involve any race, country, or political topics, it does not matter which country the hero is from.

As long as Wu Yuan can buy the film adaptation rights, he can make a Chinese version of "Ready Player One".

This movie is really suitable as his new science fiction film.

Because this movie is almost entirely made of special effects.

The story takes place in the virtual world from beginning to end, and everything is a virtual science fiction picture.

This is very cool.

From the use of special effects alone, it is much cooler than "The Wandering Earth", but the cost may be higher than "The Wandering Earth".

It's not that "The Wandering Earth" is not good, but "The Wandering Earth" is a very Chinese movie. This movie is only suitable for selling well in China, and it is difficult to go abroad and sell well in the whole of Asia.

The "collective spirit" in the movie that belongs to Chinese people is indifferent to most movie fans in other Asian countries.

But "Ready Player One" is different. The story of this movie takes place in a virtual universe, a world that movie fans from all countries have imagined.

Put on the helmet, you can come to a virtual reality version of the second universe, you can do everything you want in this virtual universe, the background of this story is very cool, and it is a common future imagination in world science fiction.

Whether it is Japan, South Korea, or Southeast Asian movie fans, they will be intoxicated by this wonderful and fantasy world.

In this era when the Chinese market alone cannot support a super Chinese science fiction blockbuster, "Ready Player One" that can target the entire Asian market and even the global international market is a very good choice.

Because the audience of this movie can completely cover the whole world! (End of this chapter)