Chapter 882: "The Conferred God Trilogy"

Qingdao Film City.

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Although it is still in the prevention and control period, there are still many crews here for closed filming.

For the film crew, this kind of prevention and control is not such a troublesome thing. After all, filming requires living in one place for a long time, and the 15-day health code is not a problem at all.

Moreover, the film crew usually does not allow actors to overlap with other scenes. After the actors join the crew, they have to stay in the crew honestly.

The TV crew is different. It is normal for actors to overlap with other scenes, take leave to complete other notices, and appear on variety shows. On the contrary, it is very troublesome during the prevention and control period.

Qingdao Film’s main focus is still filming, so there have always been many crews here.

Among them, the most watched crew is naturally the crew of "Fengshen" directed by Wu Ershan.

Originally, as early as before the Spring Festival, "Fengshen" announced that it had been successfully completed, and the crew was disbanded on the spot.

But after Wu Ershan sorted out the materials, he found that some of the content was not filmed well enough. In addition, the black swan incident occurred again, and the film was not in a hurry to be released. He re-recruited the actors and planned to re-shoot part of the plot.

This situation happened very well in the crew of a famous director.

Like Sunglass King, a movie can be shot back and forth for several years, and a TV series can be filmed after the filming is completed and the actors can be caught for reshoots, and it can be done seven or eight times, so that the actors don’t believe that the completion is true.

It is normal for Wu Ershan to reshoot only once or twice.

And because the plot that needs to be re-shot involves a lot of fighting scenes, the action director of the crew, Sang Lin, was also summoned back to the film capital.

Wu Yuan came this time for Mr. Sang Lin.

Of course, he was also very interested in "The Conferred God Trilogy" and visited the set.

Well, among the leading actors of the crew is his acquaintance Huang Bo, and Huang Bo happened to be reshooting, so Wu Yuan had a good reason to visit the set.

The reason why he was curious about this movie was very simple. It was because "The Three Kingdoms of Gods" had been extremely famous in the industry since the project was launched.

In the past, when a movie project was launched, it would be promoted in a satellite-style manner, with a large scale, many stars, large investment, and powerful special effects.

Among so many satellite-style promotions, "The Three Kingdoms of Gods" is the one with the biggest satellite, because this series claims to have a total investment of 3 billion!

It is claimed that the production cost of a single film is as high as 1 billion yuan!

Even directors like Wu Yuan who master the Asian market have never played such a big number when shooting Chinese films!

Of course, whether in the industry or outside the industry, most people do not believe that such a large investment will be made. Even if Tencent Pictures is the lead investor, it will not invest so much money.

Let alone 3 billion, even if it is discounted by 20%, the production cost of a film is 800 million, plus the normal 20%-30% of the publicity and promotion cost of 160 million, then the box office of a single film cannot be recovered without 2.4 billion!

According to this investment, the box office of a single film must be at least 3.5 billion, and this investment is not a loss. After all, with so much money, you can earn tens of millions a year just by doing financial management. It can't be that investing in movies can earn less than putting it in the bank, right?

Taking into account the time cost, the director's value, etc., the "Fengshen Trilogy" must achieve a single box office of 4 billion to be considered a successful IP.

Wow, a movie must have a box office of 4 billion, and it has to be a trilogy.

Even Zhang Yimou doesn't dare to guarantee this kind of thing, and Wu Yuan doesn't dare to do it!

As a result, Wu Ershan dared to do it, and Tencent Pictures dared to believe it and really invested!

With this courage and Haikou, Wu Yuan also wanted to come and see in person what the "Fengshen Trilogy" was like.

After all, he woke up before the release of this series in his dream, and he didn't know whether the "Fengshen Trilogy" was finally successful and how much box office it earned.

So he was really curious!

But Wu Yuan knew this director Wu Ershan quite well.

After buying the script adaptation rights of "The Butterfly Effect" from Hollywood, he originally planned to invite Wu Ershan to direct, but the deal fell through.

Wu Ershan was very ambitious. In addition, he came from a wealthy family and opened his own film and television studio right after graduating from college. He had no shortage of job opportunities and was unwilling to be a tool director for others.

At that time, Wu Yuan could not be considered a big shot in the circle, but only a newly rising director. Wu Ershan was his senior. Whether from a career perspective or a personal perspective, Wu Ershan had no need to work for Wu Yuan, so the cooperation naturally fell through.

Later, Wu Yuan took off rapidly and had his own career development. He did work with Wu Ershan during "Painted Skin 2" and handed the project over to him.

After all, in the original time and space, it was Wu Ershan who took over "Painted Skin 2", and it was well shot. Wu Yuan did not need to force a change of director. Wu Ershan himself loved this kind of magical style movie, and Wu Yuan's status also soared, so he no longer had the airs of a "senior".

Then Wu Ershan, who filmed "Painted Skin 2", also took off. "Ghost Blows Out the Light: Mojin: The Legend" broke many box office records for Chinese-language films and won the Best Director Award at the 33rd Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards.

It was the success of "Ghost Blows Out the Light: Mojin: The Legend" that gave him the confidence to come up with his ambitious "Fengshen" plan. After several years of preparation and investment, he finally got Tencent Pictures to work on this big IP.

To be honest, regardless of how much real money will be generated from the 3 billion yuan cost, Wu Ershan's ambition to make such an unprecedented fantasy and magic blockbuster in China is worthy of Wu Yuan's personal support.

Because among all the directors in the Chinese film industry, no one dares to shoot such a fantasy and magic blockbuster with a large investment. Wu Ershan can be regarded as the first mainland director with such courage.

Even Wu Yuan himself only dares to shoot Chinese-language science fiction blockbusters, because he believes that science fiction films have the smallest cultural barriers. Even if the investment cost is a bit high, with his international influence, he can sell box office in Asia, and the pressure to recover the investment will be much lower.

As for the magic and fantasy movies with Chinese background, even he himself dare not shoot them, because he is not sure whether such fantasy and magic movies based on the Chinese cultural background can be popular overseas.

"Painted Skin" is an attempt, but the cost of "Painted Skin" was not high at the time. In addition, the nine-tailed fox is a myth in China, Japan and South Korea, so he pushed it to the Japanese and Korean markets with a try-it mentality.

But Wu Yuan himself did not dare to try "Fengshen", which is based on the Chinese myth and legend, and has no reputation or cultural background in overseas IP.

If we don't count the overseas market, relying only on the Chinese market, the pressure to make back the investment of such a blockbuster with an investment of more than 100 million US dollars is really great, and the success rate is even far less than 30%!

To be honest, the possibility of failure is very high, but Wu Ershan dares to gamble, or it can be said that making such a magical blockbuster is his dream as a director.

This point really makes Wu Yuan admire, so he came to the closed shooting site of "Fengshen Trilogy" today! (End of this chapter)