Chapter 664 It Really Failed
"Seeing the Dragon Removes Armor" has attracted much more attention than the original film.
In the original time and space, "Seeing the Dragon Removes Armor" was released at the same time as "Jiangshan Beauty" and "Children of Huangshi"...
Most importantly, everyone is paying attention to "Red Cliff" and not much attention to a movie with a strange title!
This time is different, because "Zhao Zilong 2" started filming on the same day, and everyone knows about the conflict between Andy Lau, Li Rengang and Jiahe.
This is considered a frontal confrontation...
Fighting is always something the public likes to hear and see!
Especially when public figures confront each other!
Even though Golden Harvest publicly declared: It is a pity that Director Li Rengang and Mr. Liu Dehua did not continue to cooperate with us on "Zhao Zilong 2", but this did not affect the friendship between us. If we have the opportunity, we will definitely continue to cooperate!
It’s useless. Just look at the lineup behind the scenes and you’ll know:
The producers behind "Zhao Zilong 2" are Tianmei Media and Jiahe Film and Television, with producers and supervisors: Shen Xudong and Zhong Lifang;
The producers behind "See the Dragon Remove Armor": Polybona, Media Asia, Worldwide, China Star, the producers and supervisors: Yu Dong, Lin Jianyue, Lin Xiaoming, Xiang Weiqiang...
That's right, the three major film and television companies are surrounding Jiahe!
Released in the Mainland, Tianmei once again PKs Poly Bona...
They are all topics...
Not only are there a bunch of online forums discussing the grievances between the two parties, many gossip magazines and even mainstream newspapers have reported on the apparent conflicts between the two parties in the entertainment section!
It’s pretty good, at least the two movies have equal attention...
Of course, Shen Xudong and everyone at Tianmei are very aware of the fact that only box office and word-of-mouth determine the outcome!
Bona's distribution power is not as good as Tianmei. In terms of film schedule, "Zhao Zilong 2" has 45%, and "See the Dragon Disarms" only 40% - in the same period, there are also "Ten Thousand Years Before History", "National Treasure 2", " "The Golden Compass"!
Shen Xudong has already focused his attention on the "Guan Yunchang" project.
I originally wanted to shoot five levels and kill six generals...
In fact, as long as the actors are well chosen, the box office performance of "Guan Yunchang" will not be too bad...
The so-called chosen one is Guan Yu who fits the popular impression!
For thousands of years, people and even rulers have worshiped Guan Gong, as well as the stories of the Three Kingdoms that have been circulated among the people. Even if they are not familiar with the Three Kingdoms, have not read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Three Kingdoms", and have not played any Three Kingdoms games, they still have a deep understanding of Guan Gong. They all still have established impressions.
What is this public impression?
He has a red face, a beautiful beard, a tall figure, and holds a Qinglong Yanyue Sword. He is very loyal, but he is arrogant and arrogant. No one looks down on him except Liu Bei and Zhang Fei.
The reason why Shen Xudong returned to the script several times was mainly because the script did not solve the difficult point: if Guan Yu really traveled thousands of miles alone, it would not be difficult. The difficult thing is to protect two sisters-in-law. Protecting one person is much harder than killing one person. Not to mention protecting two women who are inconvenient to even touch!
This is really hard to do...
Then, a screenwriter named Wang Juan changed the plot of "Guan Yunchang" to a defeat in Maicheng!
The defeat in Maicheng perfectly demonstrated why Guan Yunchang was a symbol of loyalty!
As long as he is a little selfish, as long as he lowers his demands on himself, he can survive. He will kill himself for the sake of his own righteousness.
Soochow persuaded him to surrender, which was a life, but Guan Yunchang would rather die than surrender, and would rather die than surrender. This is a dead end;
Breaking through the siege of Maicheng was a second-class job. However, Guan Yun was arrogant and did not bully his subordinates. He left Zhou Cang and the elite soldiers to the Maicheng garrison and took his son to break through the small roads. This was a second-best way to survive;
Escape on a small road, this is the third life. After being killed by Zhu Ran, Guan Yu's soldiers were running out. However, Guan Yu explored the path by himself, and after letting his son Guan Ping cut it off, he left the most dangerous job to himself. This was the three best way to survive...
Three times he had to survive, Guan Yu committed suicide out of "righteousness"!
Righteousness, this is his life value, the state of selflessness.
This script perfectly reflected this, so Shen Xudong immediately approved the filming...
It just happened to be linked with "Cao Cao"...
——The turning point in the plot of "Cao Cao" is the death of Guan Yu...
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"The Golden Compass" was released on March 27, local time. It was released in North America for 35 days, with a cumulative box office of US$70.1 million, and overseas revenue of US$290 million...
Overseas results were good, but not enough to allow the film to recoup its costs.
Especially the extremely poor reputation - American critics believed that the script written by director Chris Weisz was full of errors and omissions, and that he had basically ruined the original novel.
Oh, the original novel is "His Dark Materials Trilogy".
A trilogy of fantasy novels written by British writer Philip Pullman, including "The Golden Compass" published in 1995, "The Mysterious Dagger" published in September 1997, and "The Amber Spyglass" published in 2000.
The BBC once launched a survey on "the most popular novels among British readers". "The Lord of the Rings" and "Pride and Prejudice" ranked first and second respectively. The third place was "His Dark Materials Trilogy", "Haha" Leigh Porter" series was not even ranked in the top three.
This is also the reason for New Line to spend huge sums of money!
Of course, the first part was a huge failure, and the next two parts are definitely dead!
In short, the original trilogy plan will definitely be cancelled.
The biggest impact of this incident is that New Line has no money.
"The Legend of the Villain" and the newly-established "Super Body" are unable to get the investment.
Of course, "Rescue 3" still raised $35 million...
Joseph Drake called Shen Xudong to tell him about this. The latter was very calm: "I told you a long time ago that Nicole Kidman is a plague god. Any movie that uses her will lose money. The higher the cost, the greater the loss." The more powerful!”
Regarding this point, Joseph had no idea. He asked: "...So, we have to pay for it ourselves?"
"Is it possible to cooperate with other investors?"
Joseph replied: "I can ask 20th Century Fox. If they are not interested, that means we have to make it independently."
Oh, 20th Century Fox is known as a secretive entity.
In Hollywood, generally if a project is rejected by 20th Century Fox, you don't have to go to other companies.
"Well, let's do this for now... By the way, have you received a good script?"
Joseph Drake shook his head: "No..."
As expected, after all, the studio's reputation is relatively weak. Think about it, even DreamWorks can't receive high-quality scripts, let alone Shen Xudong's company!
"Isn't there a script trading website in Hollywood? You can go there and buy some movies?"
"…You mean the script blacklist?"
"Yeah!"
The Black List of Hollywood scripts.
This is where a screenwriter recommends himself.
Screenwriters and film practitioners can register on this website.
Screenwriters only need to pay a membership fee to upload their scripts on the website, and then pay an evaluation fee to get script feedback and evaluation from professionals. If the script is rated very good, they can get website display and email recommendations...
"Notes on a Scandal", "Seven Pounds", "Crackling Drummer", "The King's Speech", and "Escape from Tehran" all won great reputations on the blacklist before production companies followed up.
Of course, there are times when this website is unreliable, and "Transcendental Hackers" and "Escape from the Furnace" were also included in the annual blacklist...
"Then let me take a good look..."
"...You can find a few screenwriters to write a few more scripts based on the formula of "The Fault in Our Stars"..."
"You mean the main storyline is about a terminally ill man and woman falling in love?"
"That's right! It could be a little more miserable. The hero and heroine meet in the hospital..."
A little watery...I'm writing the next chapter