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Chapter 435 A movie born ten years earlier and the movie universe
Along with Mr. Xu was his wife Shi Nansheng.

These two are a husband and wife partner, and the two have always cooperated very well.

After greeting each other, the two parties sat down to discuss matters.

Old Freak Xu and Jiang Yan have met before, but they haven't had much contact with each other. The last time we met was at the premiere of "Infernal Affairs" in 98.

And this meeting, Mr. Xu himself had to admit that the "second generation" Jiang Yan, who he didn't think much of at the time, is now a figure that cannot be ignored in the mainland and even the Asian film and television industry.

But this time when he came here, he heard that Jiang Yan was throwing money, so he came to invest in the movie.

And that movie, no surprise, is "The Legend of Shushan".

"I've already filmed this theme once. I don't know if you know Mr. Jiang." Old Freak Xu took a sip of tea and asked Jiang Yan who was reading the script.

Jiang Yan replied without raising his head: "I know, last time it was "New Shushan Swordsman", played by my goddess Qingxia, of course I have seen it."

After speaking, Jiang Yan talked about the relevant information of "New Shushan Swordsman", of course, mainly because of the Internet's evaluation of this movie later.

When Old Freak Xu heard that Jiang Yan knew so much about his movies, while he was happy, he was also a little nervous.

In fact, given his seniority in the Hong Kong circle, he didn't need to have such a mentality.

But there was no way. In 1983, he used advanced special effects to shoot "New Shushan Swordsman", which was considered groundbreaking at the time.

But the problem is that "New Shushan Swordsman" invested more than 2000 million yuan, and the final box office was 1500 million yuan, which completely lost Jiahe.

For those who make commercial films, if they lose money, they lose confidence.

So if Mr. Xu talks about other film projects this time, he will be absolutely stubborn, and he might not come to Jiang Yan, but when it comes to "Shushan", half of his chest will go away in one breath, and many people are not willing to vote. .

Of course, with his status and relationship, he can still get enough investment in the end.

But this does not prevent "Shushan" has become his heart disease.

But having said that, he also has full confidence. After all, it has been more than ten years since then, his level has risen sharply, and he has experience in the production of many excellent works. He feels Ninety-five percent.

This time, he decided to use the most popular actors, the best special effects, and spend a lot of money to make "The Legend of Shushan" a milestone.

Mr. Xu talked eloquently there, and he was very proud of his special effects team. He said that he was recruited from the "Star Wars" team, and he had already started preparing for Barabara.

In short, full of confidence.

But these words are useless to Jiang Yan.

He knew that "Legend of Shushan" ended up losing both word of mouth and box office.

In fact, in Jiang Yan's opinion, "The Legend of Shu Mountain" is considered a masterpiece, at least compared with a bunch of colleagues later, it is indeed a masterpiece.

But it still has to be said that Shushan Chuanpai was at least ten years earlier.

The first is the special effects.

When I watched this movie when I was a child, I just thought the special effects were amazing. When I watched it later, I felt that the special effects were far ahead of the times, and at the same time it was very "simple and antique", which was extremely close to the imaginary world of fairy tales.

But the problem is that special effects alone are useless for a movie.

And what is the most criticized by a lot of film critics in "The Legend of Shushan"?
That's the problem with the plot.

Many people shouted: Why can't the story be told well?
But in fact, a large part of the reason here is because of the IP problem of "Shushan".

Even by 2022, Jiang Yan is sure that there are still many people who read Shushan Biography and don’t understand what’s in it. In this book, it is not clear why the plot develops like this.

So there will be a lot of "holes not filled", "bugs", "can't understand why so and so" and so on.

The reason is very simple. If you don't know what Xianxia is, how can you understand the background of the story?

It is now 2000, let alone "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman", let's talk about the theme of Xianxia, ​​how many people know about it?

This is completely different from martial arts. When it comes to martial arts, almost everyone in the Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan knows nothing about it, but when it comes to fairy tales, almost everyone is numb.

After Yuan Shikong's "Legend of Shu Mountain" was released in the mainland, many people still sprayed it there, saying "how can people still fly like this?".

In addition, Mr. Xu also has a big problem, that is, he can't imagine the audience as: as long as they use straightforward Chinese, people can quickly understand Xianxia.

As mentioned above, many people don't understand the concept of "Xianxia" (there are not a few people now, but at least now that the Internet is developed, they can search for themselves, but it was not possible at that time).

So Mr. Xu tried his best to write his lines as straightforward as possible, but many people criticized him for being too pale, or too pretentious, what the hell is this filming and so on.

So it's a pity that if "Legend of Shushan" does not solve the problem of too few audiences, it will basically not be able to win much box office. What's worse is that the mainland, the largest market, has not developed a movie-watching habit, and piracy is rampant, so it is not higher. A large part of the quality, do not want to explode.

Finally, there is the question of plot.

Old Freak Xu stuffed a lot of plots into a [-]-minute movie, and it was a waste of time for people to watch it, and he didn't explain anything clearly, so it's a good thing.

Therefore, "The Legend of Shushan" was filmed more than ten years earlier, and it can be said that it was born at an untimely time. Ten years later, it will have to be set off by peers. . .

. . . . . .

During the ten minutes or so that old monster Xu Balabala talked, Jiang Yan didn't say a word.

It wasn't until Old Freak Xu felt something strange that he stopped and asked, "Boss Jiang, what do you think?"

Hearing this, Jiang Yan put down the script, sighed and said:
"I'm sorry, Uncle Xu, if this film was made according to what you said, I wouldn't vote for it."

Jiang Yan did not decline politely, but expressed his intention directly.

But Old Freak Xu was naturally puzzled, he asked: "Why is this? Do you think the investment is too much?"

The film is currently being prepared, and the original budget was 4000 million. According to Mr. Xu and Jiang Yan, 4000 million is probably not enough, and it needs to be around 6000 million. He wondered if the money was too much.

But Jiang Yan shook his head directly, and then asked the series of questions.

"Shushan" IP audience is not high, there are too many storylines and so on.

After finishing speaking, Jiang Yan gave himself the final suggestion before Mr. Xu could start to refute:

"If I invest, I don't want you to just shoot like this, but to popularize the subject of Xianxia first."

"In addition, 6000 million is not enough, [-] million is about the same, and I will never let you make only one film, if you want to do it, you can make a trilogy. Time doesn't matter. It will be fine in three to five years. Set a benchmark for Chinese Xianxia!"

"Don't think I'm just spending too much money. The plot of "The Lord of the Rings" is very simple, but the special effects have been prepared for 7 years! They have enough patience to do this, instead of rushing to put the semi-finished product on the screen. Here, I dare to assure you that the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy will cost less than 20 million U.S. dollars, and if the total box office is less than [-] billion, I can give you the entire Star Ocean Company!"

"The content is the most important thing. The core of a movie is to tell a good story and tell it smoothly, so I think that the theme of Shushan is far from being developed in a trilogy. We can even make a fairy tale. Universe!"

"What is Xianxia Universe? Do you know Marvel? If you don't know, just say "Feng Shen Bang". Everyone in it can make a movie alone, or even a series of movies. There must be linkages between different protagonist movies..."

"Does the beautiful Marvel know? I believe that Marvel will definitely become the most successful movie universe in Hollywood in the future. Why, because they have grasped the core..."

After outputting for about ten minutes, Jiang Yan took a sip of tea, looked at the startled old monster Xu with piercing eyes, and said: ""Shushan" belongs to our own universe, the Xianxia universe, I dare to think, Dare to vote, then, do you dare to shoot?"

Old Freak Xu couldn't help swallowing when he heard that.

He just came here today to talk about investment. He never thought that Jiang Yan would give such a grand plan for a simple meeting.

That's the cinematic universe!

Never heard of this concept before.

So Jiang Yan is indeed a genius!
If this is done well, it will design an output value of tens of billions.

Of course, this is definitely not easy to do.

So Mr. Xu really didn't dare to agree to Jiang Yan's sentence "Do you dare to shoot?"

Shi Nansheng and Wang Jin on the side were also silent at the moment, Shi Nansheng looked at Jiang Yan, his eyes were shining, Jiang Yan at this moment was much like Old Freak Xu when he was young, the momentum of his whole body seemed to break through the ceiling.

And Wang Jin looked at Jiang Yan even more, and there was a fire in his heart that seemed to have been extinguished long ago.

Although Jiang Yan only gave a rough outline today, just by the four words of movie universe, one can know how big Jiang Yan's ambition is!
Looking at Jiang Yan again, he was drinking tea calmly at the moment, but he was screaming in his heart.

I originally wanted to refuse to come today, but after chatting, why did I talk about the universe?
Moreover, this thing can really be done!

The Marvel Universe can't be taken down, the Xianxia Universe is not sure, so I can only fool others to do it, but the Monster Universe, I can still get my hands on it.

Are the copyrights of Godzilla available for purchase now?

Godzilla, King Kong, etc., are all good.

If you can't figure it out, you can also come to a parallel universe, monsters and human mechs. . .Eh?Isn't this "Pacific Rim"?

Well, let's think about how to engage in copyright when we look back.

In addition, in fact, Godzilla's copyright is really uncertain, so it's okay to make a version of Shan Hai Jing.

It's just a movie anyway.

What is the core of monster movies? The huge size of monsters and the smallness of humans, horror, horror, and powerlessness. . .

Then monsters fight monsters, and it's over.

As for the special effects, if you really don't want to spend money, then you can shoot in real scenes. . .

But all of these have to wait for the theaters to be built. It won't work in three or four years.

As for now, Jiang Yan glanced at the time, and then said to the silent old monster Xu:

"Uncle Xu, this is what I think. If you want, let's have a good chat. This is an issue related to the history of Chinese movies, so I hope you will consider it carefully. Of course, it doesn't matter if you stick to your own ideas. What I just said , just treat it as a joke."

After saying that, Jiang Yan apologized, then bid farewell to everyone and went to Master Xing's house.

But Old Monster Xu fell into serious hesitation. . .

(End of this chapter)