Chapter 1184 Feihuang Studio, Ready to Go! (Add More Monthly Tickets!)

At the same time, Feihuang Studio.

Zhu Xiaoce brought the key members of Feihuang Studio, as well as Cui Geng, Lu Zhiyao, Zhang Zuting, Lin Jiaqiang and other actors who had worked together, to a meeting in the conference room.

Huang Sibo is not here, because he went on a trip with Hu Xianbin, and he went very peacefully... Oh no, in a hurry.

Zhu Xiaoce is a little hard to handle alone, but fortunately, Feihuang Studio has been consciously cultivating the next generation of director candidates, so someone can take over as soon as the person in charge leaves, and nothing will go wrong.

The script of "Successor" has already been written, and even the preparatory work has been almost arranged.

This meeting is to review the script for the last time, unify the thinking, and then prepare to officially start filming.

This time the filming is different from the previous ones, it is to cooperate with the team from the United States to shoot, and the characters in the play are mainly foreigners, so it is natural to choose roles from abroad.

Therefore, Zhu Xiaoce had no plan to find actors from China.

But Lu Zhiyao obviously tasted enough sweetness in the previous cooperation, he had to play a role in the movie no matter what, if he didn't give a role, he would not leave.

Zhang Zuting, Lin Jiaqiang and others also expressed that they must help with this favor, even if it is only a guest appearance for a few minutes?

Zhu Xiaoce's kindness was really hard to turn down, so he had no choice but to find a way to force all these people in. Fortunately, these people's English level is good, and it is no problem to memorize the lines. Even if there is a little flaw in the accent, it will look more real.

Zhu Xiaoce briefly introduced the basic content of this shooting.

"This time we are going to shoot in the form of a web drama. There are a total of 12 episodes, and each episode is about 50 minutes to an hour."

"The scripts of these 12 episodes have been sent to everyone, and a brief synopsis of the story is attached at the back, so that everyone can better understand the story."

"After the filming is completed, this drama will be released domestically. It may cooperate with video websites in the form of exclusive broadcast, and there is no plan to release it overseas."

"How to release it is not the point. After all, if the quality of the film is good, you don't have to worry about it. It's too early to think about it now."

"At today's meeting, the original author Cui Geng also came. If you have any questions about the story, you can ask them. Cui Geng and our screenwriting team will try our best to answer you."

Lin Jiaqiang was also present.

Compared with the status of Lu Zhiyao and Zhang Zuting, he is obviously not qualified, but after all, he has cooperated with Tenda many times, so he came to help out a little bit, and he didn't expect to get much salary.

If he is still the same fat man as before, then he can only act as a comedian, and it is obviously inappropriate to play a cameo in this drama. But now that he has lost weight, he can act as a passerby casually.

However, at this moment, he was flipping through the script, showing a slightly incomprehensible expression.

Can this work?

The shooting of Feihuang Studio this time is really full of slots, more than any previous slots!

First of all, with such a large investment, it was necessary to cooperate with the filming crew from the United States, so it turned out that it was just a web series, not a movie.

Secondly, this web drama is all dubbed in English, and it tells a story that happened abroad, but there is no plan to release it abroad for the time being, and domestic priority is given priority.

Again, from the perspective of subject matter and content, it is said that this is a movie about superheroes, but in fact it has nothing to do with traditional superheroes. There is not even a good person in the traditional sense in the entire series. The protagonist is even worse.

Finally, the original work of this novel has actually been serialized on Dian Dian Chinese website, but the effect is not very good, and the acceptance rate of domestic online readers is not very high.

Can this work?

No matter how you look at it, it looks like you are going to rush to the street.

Lin Jiaqiang took a sneak look at Lu Zhiyao and Zhang Zuting, and found that although these two people were firm on the surface, in fact some small actions revealed that they did not have 100% confidence in the script.

Obviously, no matter how many times miracles have happened, whether the next miracle will happen is still doubtful.

This is human nature, not to mention that the difficulty this time is significantly higher than before.

Zhu Xiaoce obviously realized this, so he held a meeting in advance to unify his thoughts. If even the insiders are skeptical about the success of this web drama, then the filming may take a lot of detours.

They are all old acquaintances, so everyone no longer hides it and speaks out their confusion truthfully.

Zhang Zuting spoke first.

"The script this time is... quite special. But, are you sure you want to use the form of web drama? As far as I know, the current web drama format is generally low-cost, small-production content. After all, web dramas There are limited ways to make money.”

"I want to recover the cost of a big investment. It is best to make a movie and make a box office, and I want to make a global box office."

"The format of online dramas, foreign themes, foreign actors, English voice, and subtitles are required for domestic broadcasts... These restrictions have reduced the audience group again and again, and turned it into a rather niche format."

"Can this really pay for itself?"

For actors like Zhang Zuting and Lu Zhiyao, whether the show can recover its cost is not very important, after all, they all get a fixed salary. If this show becomes popular, it will increase their popularity, and if it is not popular, there will be no big loss.

But what they are worried about is that if they fail this time, it may deal a blow to Feihuang Studio, whether it is in terms of funds or mentality.

Wouldn’t it be a pity if because of this failure, Feihuang Studio lost the unconstrained, eclectic imagination and adventurous spirit of the past, and the quality of future works would decline?

Therefore, it is necessary to remind.

Zhu Xiaoce replied: "Uncle Zhang, these questions you asked were all specifically requested by President Pei."

"Actually, at the beginning, I also had the same idea. I felt that the success rate of doing this was not high. But then I thought about it carefully. This drama must be filmed like this!"

"First of all, this kind of subject must be filmed abroad, just like the original "Struggle", you must choose a foreign country as the background, otherwise it will not have that flavor."

"Secondly, the amount of information contained in this script is very large, and there are many key scenes. If it is split into movies, it must be split into at least three parts, and it will lead to the loss of a lot of key information."

"Even if the split is successful, it's actually not interesting to watch each movie separately. The whole story will be separated. It must be made into a series in order to show the complete core to the audience."

"As for why the country is considered first...it is because only domestic audiences can better understand the deep meaning of this story from the perspective of a bystander."

"It's not that foreign audiences must not be able to understand, but that we should give priority to domestic audiences."

"Based on the above points, we can only make such a choice. Although the probability of success is reduced, I believe that since it is a script approved by Mr. Pei, as long as we shoot it seriously, we will definitely stand out!"

Lu Zhiyao couldn't help asking: "What is the core of this story? Actually, I don't quite understand it. I read the outline of the story, and I only know that a despicable villain carried out a series of plans and finally succeeded. gone."

Zhu Xiaoce replied: "According to my personal understanding...this story should be read in conjunction with works with realistic themes such as "A Better Tomorrow" and "Struggle"."

"As for what its specific meaning is...let's let the original author say it."

After speaking, he looked at Cui Geng.

This time the situation is different from before. The previous script was mainly based on Mr. Pei's idea. As for how to interpret President Pei's creativity, it depends on the performance of Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce.

But this time the script was completely original by Cui Geng, and Mr. Pei did not participate in it, so the final interpretation must still be with the original author.

It is precisely because the author is not Mr. Pei that everyone does not particularly trust this script.

Cui Geng cleared his throat and said, "Actually, this story of mine is really inspired by Mr. Pei."

"A brief summary is that "A Better Tomorrow", "Struggle" and "Successor" share some aspects in common, and they all have a certain insinuation effect on reality."

""Struggle" and "Beautiful Tomorrow" are related. If the society in "Struggle" develops for a few more decades, technology makes several leaps and breakthroughs, and the entire social structure becomes more extreme, it will become "Beautiful Tomorrow". Social Structure in Tomorrow."

"The "Successor" is more like a story that takes place in a parallel universe. The premise of this story is that an assumption is made, assuming that this is a world where 'superheroes rely on faith, and super villains rely on mutation'. So how will the story go."

"Just like the worry and distrust expressed in "A Better Tomorrow" about social structures, I was surprised to find that the stories in "Successor" are also full of this concern and distrust."

"This core is completely consistent."

"In fact, Mr. Pei chose the subject of this story for me. At first, I didn't understand Mr. Pei's intention at all. I felt that the subject of superheroes was actually a subject that could not be written at all."

"But Mr. Pei woke me up. He said three sentences, namely: 'Superhero themes can also be written for domestic readers', 'It is not necessary to make domestic readers like these superheroes' and 'Take these It's okay to be half-dead with superheroes'."

"I thought about it for a long time, and finally understood. It turned out that Pei always hoped that I could use our own cultural perspective to make a subversion of popular superhero themes. I wanted to use China's cultural perspective to observe Western stories. Deconstruct, tear off the perfect coat of these works, and fully reveal its inner nature!"

"Just like "Struggle", the meaning of "Successor" is to deconstruct the false "Utopia" constructed in Western cultural works, and to show some social problems in a more absurd form."

"By jumping out of the circle of reality, many problems are easier to see clearly."