At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 664 It Really Failed

"Seeing the Dragon Unloading Armor" has received much more attention than the original time and space.

In the original time and space, "Seeing the Dragon Unloading the Armor" was released at the same time as "Jiangshan Beauty", "Children of Yellowstone"...

Most importantly, everyone is paying attention to "Red Cliff", and not much attention is paid to a movie with a strange title!

This time is different, because "Zhao Zilong 2" started painting on the same day, the conflict between Andy Lau, Li Rengang and Golden Harvest is well known.

This is a positive confrontation...

Tear is always something that the public loves to see!

Especially when public figures are aggressive!
Even though Golden Harvest publicly stated: It is a pity that Director Li Rengang and Mr. Andy Lau did not continue to cooperate with us in "Zhao Zilong 2", but this has not affected our friendship. If we have the opportunity, we will definitely continue to cooperate!
It's useless, just look at the behind-the-scenes lineup:
The behind-the-scenes producers of "Zhao Zilong 2" are Tianmei Media and Jiahe Film and Television, and the producers and supervisors are Shen Xudong and Zhong Lifang;

Producers behind the scenes of "Dragon Unloading Armor": Poly Bona, Media Asia, Huanyu, China Star, producers and supervisors: Yu Dong, Lin Jianyue, Lin Xiaoming, Xiang Yuqiang...

That's right, the three major film and television companies are besieging Golden Harvest!
Released in the Mainland, Tianmei once again PK Poly Bona...

It's all topic...

There are not only a bunch of forums on the Internet discussing the grievances between the two parties, but also many gossip magazines and even mainstream newspapers also reported on the apparent conflicts between the two parties in the entertainment section!
Very good, at least the attention of the two movies is equal...

Of course, Shen Xudong and Tianmei are all aware of one fact: only the box office and word of mouth determine the outcome!

Bona's distribution power is not as good as Tianmei's. In terms of film schedule, "Zhao Zilong 2" has 45%, and "Seeing the Dragon Unloads Armor" has only 40%--the same schedule also includes "1 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 selected well, the box office of "Guan Yunchang" will not be too bad...

The so-called selection is Guan Yu who conforms to the public impression!
For thousands of years, people and rulers have enshrined Guan Gong and the stories of the Three Kingdoms that have been circulated among the people. Although they are not familiar with the Three Kingdoms, passers-by who have never read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Three Kingdoms", and have never played any games of the Three Kingdoms, they are not familiar with Guan Gong. They still have established impressions.

What is this public impression?
He has a red face, a beautiful beard, a tall figure, and holds the Qinglong Yanyue Dao in his hand. He is very loyal, but his heart is arrogant. Except for Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, no one looks down on him.

The reason why Shen Xudong wrote back to the script several times was mainly because the script did not solve the difficulty: if Guan Yu really rode thousands of miles alone, then it would not be difficult, but the difficulty is to protect the two sisters-in-law. Not to mention protecting two women who are not even convenient to touch!

This is really not easy to do...

Then, a screenwriter named Wang Juan changed the plot of "Guan Yunchang" to defeat Maicheng!
Defeating in Maicheng perfectly demonstrated Guan Yunchang's symbol of loyalty!

As long as he is a little selfish, as long as he has a little selfishness, as long as he lowers his requirements on himself, he can live, and he will die for the righteousness in his heart.

Soochow persuaded to surrender, this is a life, but Guan Yunchang would rather die than surrender, this is a dead end;
Breaking through the siege of Maicheng is the second job. However, Guan Yunchang is arrogant and does not bully the lower. He leaves Zhou Cang and the elite soldiers to the guards of Maicheng, and takes his son to enter the alley. This is the second best way;

Escape on the small road, this is the three jobs, after being killed by Zhu Ran, Guan Yu's soldiers are running out, but Guan Yu explores the way by himself, and after letting his son Guan Ping die, he leaves the most dangerous job to himself, this is the three unique ways of life...

Three times to survive, Guan Yu was out of "righteousness" and killed himself!

This is his value of life, the realm of selflessness and selflessness.

This script perfectly reflects this point, so Shen Xudong immediately approved the shooting...

It just happens to be linked with "Cao Cao"...

——The turning point of the plot of "Cao Cao" is the death of Guan Yu...

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On March 3, local time, "The Golden Compass" was released. It was released in North America for 27 days, with a cumulative box office of 35 million US dollars and an overseas income of 7010 million US dollars...

The overseas performance is not bad, but it is not enough to make the movie pay back.

Especially the extremely bad word-of-mouth-American critics believe that the script written by the director Chris Weitz himself is full of mistakes and omissions, and he basically ruined the original novel.

Oh, and the original novels are the Dark Materials trilogy.

A trilogy of fantasy novels created 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 9.

The BBC once launched a survey of "the most popular novels among British readers". Leigh Potter" series didn't make the top three.

This is also the confidence of Xinxian to spend huge sums of money!
Of course, with the huge failure of the first film, the latter two are definitely dead!
In short, the original trilogy plan must be suspended.

The biggest impact of this matter is that the new line has no money.

"Biography of the Wicked" includes the newly established "Super Body", and the investment can't come out.

Of course, "Taken 3" still made $3500 million...

Joseph Drake called to tell Shen Xudong about this, and the latter was very calm: "I told you a long time ago, Nicole Kidman is a plague god, but any movie that uses her will lose money, the higher the cost, the more losses will be incurred." The more powerful it is!"

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 do it independently."

Oh, 20th Century Fox is known as the existence of the bottom line.

In Hollywood, generally if a project is rejected by 20th Century Fox, then you don't have to go to other companies.

"Well, let's do this first... 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. If you 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 buy a few movies on it?"

"...You mean the script blacklist?"

"exactly!"

Hollywood script blacklist, The Black List.

It is a place where screenwriters recommend themselves.

Screenwriters and film practitioners can register on this website.

Screenwriters only need to pay the membership fee to upload their scripts on the website, and then pay the evaluation fee to get feedback and evaluation of the script from professionals. If the score of the script is very good, they can get the website display and email recommendation...

"Scandal Notes", "Seven Pounds", "Burst Drummer", "The King's Speech", and "Escape from Tehran" all first won a great reputation on the blacklist, and then the production company followed up.

Of course, there are times when this website is unreliable, and "Transcendental Hackers" and "Escape from the Furnace" have also been included in the annual blacklist...

"Then I'll take a good look..."

"...You can find a few screenwriters to write a few more scripts according to the routine of "The Fault in Our Stars"..."

"You mean the main story line is that terminally ill men and women fall in love?"

"That's right! It can be even worse, the hero and heroine meet in the hospital..."

　A little water... the next chapter is being written

　　
　
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