Chapter 656: "X-Men: Days of Future Past" Starts Filming

After a rather luxurious welcome dinner, Wu Yuan became busy non-stop the next day.

While inspecting the work of the Japanese branch of Light and Shadow Express, Wu Yuan also had to run Japanese film promotions with Matt Damon, who also came from North America.

Japan can also be regarded as a big vote bank for "The Martian".

Although they can't compete with anime movies, science fiction movies are one of the few foreign movies that can still sell well in Japan.

After all, the special effects featured in science fiction movies are quite good. This kind of visual enjoyment is different from ordinary drama movies and can bring some freshness to Japanese audiences.

It's like a special feature film.

The various theatrical versions of Ultraman have always done very well at the box office in Japan. In addition to its decades of emotional support, the sci-fi plot is also a major reason for its success.

And the same goes for "The Martian."

In its first week of release in Japan, "The Martian" earned a weekly box office of 800 million yen. The results are not very impressive, but it can still rank second at the box office next week.

Wu Yuan and Matt Damon also participated in the recording of several TV shows in Tokyo and held movie fan meetings in several cinemas.

That is to say, Japan is a small place, and foreign movies generally only need to be held in Tokyo for promotion. This makes it convenient for Wu Yuan to inspect the company's development while running promotions.

As for Liu Yifei, except that she accompanied Wu Yuan when he went to the company on his first day to show off his dignity as a boss lady, she did not get involved in Wu Yuan's work for a period of time after that. She wore sunglasses and a mask and traveled around Tokyo with her assistant. went.

I even took a trip to Osaka and Kyoto, and really enjoyed my travel addiction.

There is no other way. If I don't have some fun and relax this time, Liu Yifei will have to go to the United States with Wu Yuan after he finishes his work in Japan.

Wu Yuan was doing the finishing work on "The Martian", checking the accounts along the way, and saying goodbye to the light era completely.

But Liu Yifei went to join the group.

"X-Men: Days of Future Past" is about to start filming.

This movie, which Warner has given high hopes for, is the first to save Warner's superhero world!

Although X-Men is Marvel's IP, the copyright is held by Warner Bros.

As the current DC movie universe in Warner's hands is in a state of collapse and has no way to compete with the opposite Marvel universe, Warner also has to pay attention to the Marvel IP of X-Men, hoping to catch the popularity of Marvel and let Warner has a new superhero IP to work with.

In this era of raging superhero movies, if you don’t have a blockbuster superhero IP, you’d be really embarrassed to go out and meet people!

In order for Warner to succeed after the reboot of "X-Men", they even introduced Liu Yifei, a mutant with a Chinese face, just to win the Asian market.

Losers are more able to let go.

Marvel, for example, is relatively reserved and unwilling to compromise for the Asian market. It will introduce superheroes with Asian faces and at most provide Chinese "special edition" movies.

Warner is different. Warner, which cannot afford to fail, has cooperated very well with the suggestions given by Wu Yuan and has added more and more "flickering" scenes. In the final version of the script, the "flickering" scene ranks second among female characters. For Mystique, she even plays a bigger role than Storm.

Well, only in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

In the revised script, "Flicker" not only becomes one of the most important members of the surviving X-Men in the future world destroyed by the Sentinels.

Moreover, after Wolverine returned to the past, he immediately asked Professor X to find Flicker in the past time and space who had not yet joined the X-Men.

Because Blink's ability is so useful, she can create portals by distorting space, allowing her to move people and objects within the regional space she sets.

Not only can multiple people be teleported to her designated location at a time, but it can also be teleported over very long distances, up to the farthest distance from the earth to the moon.

Blink can also use her teleportation energy to create small javelins and throw them at a target, teleporting them away.

This ability is so convenient. As long as Twinkle is willing, she can become the core figure of a superhero team. When facing enemies, as long as her comrades are in danger, she can use teleportation to instantly teleport her teammates away to avoid injury.

As long as she is protected, she will theoretically be invincible.

Maybe it’s because this character’s skills are so buggy. Coupled with the live-action movie, the ability to really shine will be very special effects.

So in the original version, this character only became a tool that became invisible after being used once.

But under Wu Yuan's strong suggestion, this role was changed to a regular role.

Not only will she not be killed by the Sentinels, but she has also become a key figure in the team. In "X-Men: Days of Future Past", in the battle against Apocalypse, it was her constant teleportation of teammates that allowed the righteous gang fight to succeed.

But she is still an auxiliary hero who can only fight in team battles, so she cannot take an independent branch. Such an Asian character is exactly what Warner can accept.

It has enough weight, but she must act together with the protagonist group and provide them with key support. However, because her role is so crucial and it can satisfy the "vanity" of Asian audiences, we will not think that this character is added simply to please Asia. people.

Perfect, very perfect!

Perhaps the only drawback is that after this character became a regular in the rebooted version of the "X-Men" trilogy, the filming cost of this series will increase a lot.

Anyway, the production cost of "X-Men: Days of Future Past" has increased by 20 million US dollars more than the original plan, and the additional 20 million US dollars are mainly used to make special effects for Blink.

Her portal, teleportation skills, and constant blinking and moving are all handsome only when the special effects are fully utilized.

But Wu Yuan believes that the extra 20 million US dollars will also bring more returns to Warner, and it will be profitable anyway.

Warner also believes it.

So after Liu Yifei's rest in Japan, she has to go to the United States to join the crew to shoot "X-Men: Days of Future Past".

And this time is very fast.

On September 21, 2013, Wu Yuan, who only stayed in Japan for two weeks, ended his Japanese publicity work and boarded a plane to Los Angeles with Liu Yifei and Matt.

The release of "The Martian" in North America has ended. The film finally earned $461 million in the United States, which did not break $500 million, which is a pity.

However, after adding Canada and Mexico, the final box office in North America broke $500 million.

If a single movie can break $500 million in North America, there is a high probability that the global box office will break $1 billion.

This is a rule that has gradually been statistically analyzed as more and more movies have broken $1 billion in the global box office in recent years.

Wu Yuan is looking forward to it, but it's a pity that the final box office results of "The Martian" will have to wait a few more months to be calculated.

After arriving in the United States, Liu Yifei separated from Wu Yuan as soon as possible and rushed to the crew of "X-Men: Days of Future Past"!

After nearly ten months of inactivity, she finally started working again. (End of this chapter)