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After the press conference, the media unanimously promoted and hyped the fact that Gilbert Jr. was the producer of the movie "The Wandering Earth".

The film "Little Sun" was also mentioned, and the number of views of "Little Sun", which was ignored on video websites for a while, increased sharply.

Although the graphics look very old and it is a children's science fiction film, the content was undoubtedly ahead of its time.

But a large number of people are still skeptical, and many believe that even if Gilbert Jr. directs the film himself, it will not be a success.

This is normal. It is reasonable to be skeptical before anything is done.

At first, Universal Pictures didn't believe that a 21-year-old boy could make "The Shallows", and later they didn't believe that this boy could continue to be successful, so they successfully missed out on a world-class director.

People often judge things based on their previous experiences, but those who can get things done tend to break away from empiricism.

For Chinese-language films, science fiction films are an unfamiliar field.

Although Guo Fan had directed a science fiction film before, it was based on the Hollywood science fiction system and framework. The foundation of Chinese-language films in this regard is basically zero.

Gilbert also participated in the project preparation meeting for The Wandering Earth. His first words were: "To be honest, the industrial foundation of Chinese-language films is almost non-existent.

If you want to accomplish this, it will probably take four or five years.”

Everyone knows that Gilbert Jr. produced almost one movie a year, but that was achieved with the support of Hollywood's powerful film industry system.

Some people on the Internet said that if Gilbert Jr. became a Chinese-language film director, he would still have those wonderful ideas, but he would not be able to shoot a single one.

Eventually Gilbert Jr. would still become a first-rate director, but he would not have the international fame he has today.

This is true, so Gilbert Jr. also said: "For you, the most difficult thing is not how to complete a movie, but how to complete the transformation from a small workshop to a factory.

If you make a movie and don’t make this kind of change, it’s like the movie was made in vain.”

A leader of China Film Group asked: "What if we did it?"

“It doesn’t matter if you do it once, what matters is how you can do it every time.”

Gilbert Jr. said: "The key is a market that is large enough. If there is no market to support practitioners, the final outcome is still a waste of work.

In addition to having sufficient market capacity, a large number of works must be produced.

Think about your domestic film companies. When they hear about science fiction movies, wouldn’t most of them instinctively reject them?”

Everyone thinks the same, now is the era of big traffic, what is the era of big traffic? That is, everything is aligned with traffic.

If you can get rich easily, who would bother doing so many complicated tasks?

Gilbert continued: “This is also the reason why I am still not optimistic about Chinese science fiction movies in the past few years, so The Wandering Earth cannot fail.

This movie failed, and it will be difficult to make it again.”

Think about the success of "The Wandering Earth" in the previous life, but then came "The Fortress of Shanghai" and shocked the audience.

Under the premise that "The Fortress of Shanghai" failed miserably, there are still no new science fiction movies coming out. Occasionally, a "Lone Moon" is already a good work.

Until "The Wandering Earth 2", but the problem with "The Wandering Earth 2" is its audience problem, it is not a family movie.

At the same time, the sitcom "Man Jiang Hong" shot by Zhang Hua, a national master, took two months to shoot, and it has not yet won the competition. So when the major film companies saw that your film, which took four years to make, was not as good as the film shot by others in two months, why should I follow suit?

Fortunately, many official media later came out to show their support and various reports were very respectful, which made the negative impact of "Man Jiang Hong" on Chinese science fiction films disappear to some extent.

Gilbert Jr. talked about the distribution issue again: "The policy there is tightening now, and the scheduling and publicity are greatly restricted.

This is something that is difficult for Disney to change. Even if the film is released in the North American market, it may only run for a week in dozens of theaters and then be over.

This is something you need to discuss officially; I can't do anything about it.

As for the promotion in other parts of the world, Disney can help you. But you have to understand that Disney is a company and the company needs to make a profit.

If it doesn’t work, Disney won’t invest too much resources in it.”

Although the words were unpleasant to hear, they came from the heart and everyone nodded in agreement.

After the meeting, Gilbert Jr. returned to North America. Although he was the producer, he basically did not interfere with the filming of the film.

Guo Fan has the ability to handle this matter well, and the most that Gilbert can do is to provide some support in terms of equipment and manpower through personal connections.

Orange Studio's Shanghai studio took on the special effects production of "The Wandering Earth" at an average price, although it is still more expensive than special effects companies in China.

But the price is acceptable and the work is good.

This studio will be responsible for the production of some major special effects, and Guo Fan will find domestic special effects companies to do the rest.

Then came the issue of actor selection. Although the film was produced by Gilbert Jr., most people lost interest after hearing that Gilbert Jr. had basically no say in the matter.

The male lead chosen at the beginning paid 15 yuan in liquidated damages and ran away.

Guo Fan had no choice but to start using his tricks to deceive Qu Chuxiao. He told Qu Chuxiao that the drama was starred by Chow Wai and Edward Yeung, and Qu Chuxiao believed it.

Then he tried to trick Jin Mai by telling her how many points he had scored in the college entrance examination, and that he had studied in Hollywood and could tutor her. Jin Mai believed him.

When they arrived at the crew, they found out that Chow Wai and Dehua did not have one. Guo Fan did have good grades, but he had already given them back to the teacher.

But since I was already there, and I did see director Guo Fan making a long-distance phone call to talk to little Gilbert that day, I decided to stay.

However, for Guo Fan, the most difficult issue was not the actors, but how to start filming.

He visited the set of Little Gilbert. Although the teacher claimed to be a real-life shooting fanatic, in fact, the shooting was more of a combination of real-life shooting and CG.

The crew of "The Wandering Earth" did not have the conditions, so they had to think of a stupid way, which was to actually manufacture it.

Fortunately, little Gilbert had the support of several prop masters. Although the conditions were simple, they managed to make it by trying.

Back to "Avengers 2", as for the preparations for the film, everyone is familiar with it even without Gilbert Jr.

In order to catch up with the release schedule and have ample time for post-production, the crew sped up the process and officially began filming at Fox Studios in Los Angeles in early September.

The first thing the crew filmed was Scarlett Johansson's scenes, and Gilbert needed her to finish the filming quickly and then go practice dancing.

It's almost time to get out La La Land. (End of this chapter)