director of the millennium

The grievances that Wu Ershan poured out were all genuine grievances, and they were all grievances that he had prepared in advance.

After learning from Sang Lin that Wu Yuan was coming to the crew of "Fengshen Trilogy" to find him and visit him on the set, Wu Ershan had a plan in his mind to pour out his grievances to him.

It's not just because Wu Yuan and Wu Ershan are both directors, they can complain to each other.

Moreover, Wu Yuan owns one of the best film production companies in the country.

Although, with the entry of Internet giants in recent years, Penguin, Alibaba and Wanda Film Studios have become latecomers and have defeated a number of old-fashioned film production companies such as Huayi and Bona, becoming new giants in the industry. 80% of commercial blockbusters are invested by these three companies.

But Guangying Times is still a well-known big company in the industry!
Although its market value may not be comparable to that of the Big Three, after all, the capital power behind the Big Three is strong, but in terms of influence, Guangying Times is not inferior to the Big Three at all, and its cash flow is also very abundant.

Wu Ershan heard that Guangying Times had reduced its investment in the past two years, so it had sufficient funds on hand. An investment of several hundred million was nothing to Guangying Times.

So Wu Ershan took notice of this point and hoped to attract Wu Yuan to invest in "The Investiture of the Gods Trilogy"!
There is no way. For Wu Ershan, "The Investiture of the Gods Trilogy" is his destiny. It is his dream work that he has been preparing for many years.

Now that the filming has finally been completed, the funding chain has broken and the money on hand is only enough to barely complete the post-production of the first part.

How can this be done?
Although we have money now to complete the post-production of the first film.

In this way, once the first film can be successfully released and sell well at the box office, it doesn't even need to sell well, as long as it can make a profit, then he can use this result to lobby various investors to pay for the post-production special effects of the second and third films.

But to be honest, Wu Ershan himself was not 100% sure that "The First Part of Investiture of the Gods" could make a profit and attract investors to pay for the post-production special effects for the next two parts.

It’s really hard to say about this kind of thing, there has never been any rules in the film market.

If the film market had any rules, the three giants would not lose so much money every year. After all, they have big data and can really figure out what movies movie fans like to watch.

But movies produced and shot based on big data are bound to fail.

Wu Ershan doesn't think that he is more accurate than the big data collected by hundreds of millions of people, and that the "Fengshen Trilogy" he shot will definitely be liked by the audience.

Therefore, he hopes to get the funds for the post-production special effects of the last two films before the release of "The Legend of the Gods Part One", and then do the post-production together.

In this way, even if the first film fails at the box office, the next two films will have a chance to be released, and there will still be a chance of a comeback.

To take a step back, even if the last two films also suffered losses, at least they were able to be released, which is a success for Wu Ershan!

For a director, it is enough that the movie he made can be released and meet the audience. As for the issue of profit, it is not the most important thing for directors.

Wu Yuan values ​​this thing because all his movies are shot with his own money and produced by his own company, so they must make money.

If he is really asked to make a movie that does not require his own money, he will not care about the box office performance. For example, he did not care so much about the box office of "Bruce Lee".

This is even more true for Wu Ershan. Although Wu Ershan also invested in "Fengshen Trilogy", his investment was not much, only a small part, so he can really afford the loss.

Rather than caring about this, he cared more about finding a scapegoat to make up the funds so that he could quickly complete the post-production special effects for the last two films.

So, after pouring out his troubles to Wu Yuan, and seeing Wu Yuan's sympathetic and slightly curious attitude, he immediately tried to probe: "So, Director Wu, is your company interested in getting involved?"

"You also watched it on the spot. The Investiture of the Gods Trilogy is really a great movie, and we also put a lot of effort into filming it. Each of us has invested two and a half years of our youth in this movie." "Now there is no crew in the industry that takes filming as seriously as we do. You are also very clear about this."

"I always believe that the audience will like what is made with heart."

To be honest, Wu Ershan's ability to deceive people is still very strong, otherwise he would not have deceived people into investing 30 billion yuan to make the "Fengshen Trilogy", although the cost of the first part is only 8 million yuan at most.

But after all, he was not facing a mature capitalist, but Wu Yuan, who was also a director. So Wu Ershan did not choose to talk from any business or interest perspective, but played the director card with Wu Yuan.

I hope I can impress him with the director’s beliefs.

Wu Ershan believes that any director would be moved when seeing how attentively and even "devoutly" he shoots a movie.

There is really no other director in the market today who can spend two and a half years to shoot a movie like him.

These two and a half years refer to the time from training to filming, and do not include the preparation period!

The last director who could shoot like this was The King of Sunglasses (referring to commercial films).

In this day and age, everyone tries to make commercial films as quickly as possible. After all, the shorter the production cycle, the shorter the capital recovery time, which maximizes profits in commercial operations.

Including Wu Yuan himself, when shooting commercial films, he chooses to finish them as quickly as possible and release them as soon as possible. Generally, the period is about one and a half years to complete all the work from preparation to release.

However, facing Wu Ershan's earnest expectations, Wu Yuan was not moved at all.
He pursed his lips awkwardly. "For such an important matter, I have to go back and discuss it with the general manager of the company before I can make a decision."

Want him to invest?
Want to eat fart!

Although Wu Yuan did not see the release of "Fengshen Trilogy" in his dream, he believed based on his own judgment that this series was likely to lose money but gain publicity.

He believed that Wu Ershan should be able to make three good movies, at least the reputation should not be too bad, or even quite good. After all, Wu Ershan was really good in the field of magic and fantasy, and his "Ghost Blowing Out the Light" was also the only highly acclaimed work among the tomb-robbing theme movie adaptations.

But he doesn't believe that "Fengshen Trilogy" can make a lot of money.

The cost of this series is simply too high.

Even though the actual production cost of the three films was not 3 billion, he also confirmed from Wu Ershan that the actual cost of the first film was estimated to be 30 million, and the actual cost of the three films combined should be around 8 billion.

What a joke.

"The Wandering Earth" didn't even cost 8 million!

However, it is impossible for "Fengshen Trilogy" to replicate the box office miracle of "The Wandering Earth" and it is destined to be a loss-making movie.

Penguin Films can afford the losses and may even feel that it is worth it because it has gained a good reputation and there is plenty of money to be made in the secondary market.

Guangying Times cannot afford to pay the compensation, nor does it need to. Its own fantasy movie universe is enough.

So he could only find an excuse to refuse first. As long as he didn't agree to it in person, Wu Ershan would understand what he meant. (End of this chapter)