director of the millennium

You won't be able to guess the outcome just by guessing.

Whether "Glass" can win an award in Venice will be clear in half a month.

Compared to this matter, there is another matter that is more urgent.

As the filming of "Mulan" progressed in an orderly manner, Disney on the other side of the ocean could no longer hold back and began to do pre-promotion work for the film.

In recent years, film promotion has started earlier and earlier.

In the past, usually after a film was finished, or even after post-production was completed, and a distribution company was found, the distribution company would begin publicity work, and most of the publicity was done on the ground.

It’s different now. Thanks to the development of the Internet, the cost of movie promotion has become much lower in a sense.

Yes, even though the cost of promoting a movie is getting higher every year, with the promotion cost often reaching tens of millions, in fact, the cost of promoting a movie is much lower than before.

In the past, when the Internet was not well developed, it really cost a lot of money to promote a movie, because a large amount of physical materials had to be produced, such as posters, purchasing advertising space, various bus and subway materials, all of which cost real money.

Now with the Internet, everyone can conduct online publicity, register an official account, and then post various behind-the-scenes videos, and people will come to you.

Of course, the prerequisite is that the movie has a famous cast and a sharp director to bring in traffic like this.

"Mulan" certainly belongs to this category.

Whether it is the domestic Douyin or the international version, the Blue V account registered by Disney has been launched, along with the official Weibo and official Twitter.

As soon as the account went online, the operator uploaded a behind-the-scenes video of horse racing training and martial arts training.

Although the film has not officially started shooting yet, the momentum has already been created.

As soon as this video was released, it immediately attracted a large number of netizens at home and abroad to watch.

Rumors about the movie "Mulan" have been circulating for a long time.

After all, this movie was publicly prepared and promoted as early as 2017, and it has been a grand event from deciding the director to selecting the actors.

However, the filming of this movie had many twists and turns, and the crew eventually broke up and went their separate ways, which could not be hidden from the resourceful netizens.

On Twitter, a large number of "insiders" have already revealed the situation of the "Mulan" crew. Most people who pay attention to this movie know that the director and the heroine are not in harmony, and the project was eventually shelved and had to be replaced by a new director to save the situation.

But no one expected that the new director would be Wu Yuan!
Changing from Niki Caro to Wu Yuan can’t be said to be a replacement of a shotgun for a cannon, but rather a replacement of a shotgun for a rocket!
There was no regret for Niki Caro's failure for a moment, because the next to appear on the stage was the world's best Chinese commercial film director, Hollywood legend, and Disney's savior - Daniel Wu!
There was really no feeling of pity for Niki Caro at all. All foreign movie fans who paid attention to this movie immediately looked forward to the re-launch of "Mulan".

You have to know that Wu Yuan is a god in Disney. He was the one who filmed the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy. At that time, Disney was in a dilemma with live-action movies and had not filmed a successful live-action movie for more than ten years.

At that time, Disney was not the company that it is today, acquiring film companies everywhere. Even Fox, which is one of the top six, was acquired.

At that time, the Disney live-action movie market was completely saved by Wu Yuan. Without the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, there would be no subsequent live-action princess movies from Disney. Now that the god of Disney is back, it's hard not to be excited!

Immediately afterwards, before Disney fans could get excited, Disney’s official Twitter account announced that the heroine had been replaced by Liu Yifei.

Now, domestic fans are also going crazy.

The heroine of a Disney princess movie!
This is something that domestic movie fans would never dare to imagine in the past!
The much-discussed casting of "Mulan" ultimately chose a Hollywood Chinese-American actress. Everyone felt sorry for this, and they also understood from the bottom of their hearts that Hollywood "looks down on" Chinese actors, and they had an urge to curse to the sky.

Everyone thinks that if we were to ask who is the most suitable person to play Mulan, there would be only one choice around the world, and that is Liu Yifei.

Ordinary movie fans and netizens are not aware that Disney’s original first choice was Liu Yifei, but after several rounds of negotiations failed to reach an agreement, they had to settle for a Hollywood actor.

Even during the negotiations, there were media hypes that Disney was in contact with Liu Yifei, and insiders revealed that Liu Yifei was the best choice for Mulan, but because she was not signed in the end, everything was false.

Domestic netizens certainly would not think that Liu Yifei looked down on Disney. They would only think that Disney looked down on Liu Yifei and ultimately failed to reach a cooperation agreement.

As a result, the situation has changed. The originally selected actress was fired and replaced by Liu Yifei from China. What was originally impossible has become possible.

"I knew that if the director was changed to Director Wu, Director Wu would definitely let his wife play Mulan!"

"As the last female warrior, I can't think of anyone else to play Mulan except Liu Yifei!"

"This casting is really suitable. Liu Yifei, Hu Ge, and Huang Xiaoming, the three of them together, this is simply a throwback to my youth!"

"Hahaha, this casting is so interesting. Are Aunt and Guo'er better, or is the reunion of Brother Xiaoyao and Ling'er more touching? This is so funny!"

"Just because Director Wu was able to bring Liu Yifei together with Hu Ge and Huang Xiaoming, this movie is a must-see. It's the tears of our time!"

As soon as the casting news was announced on the Internet, it immediately sparked heated discussions among domestic netizens, and even directly ranked first on Weibo's hot searches.

Liu Yifei, Hu Ge and Huang Xiaoming all played rival roles in their early years, and both of them were classics. One was Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu, and the other was Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Linger, both are the youthful memories of a generation.

However, Liu Yifei never played this kind of emotional drama in other movies later, and if she did, it was only with Wu Yuan, which made netizens and fans feel very sorry.

The ten-year agreement for "Legend of Sword and Fairy" also had no follow-up.

Now, there is finally a movie that brings together Liu Yifei, Hu Ge and Huang Xiaoming. This is definitely a throwback to my youth!

Even though Disney hasn't announced any character details, everyone is already speculating whether the relationship between the three is a love triangle, or whether there is some emotional drama between Hua Mulan and her two comrades.
Well, Wu Yuan sneered when he saw these discussions on Weibo.

Oh, a romance scene?
Don't even think about it! (End of this chapter)