China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 440 The world is in chaos, and the national master is filming "Fengshen"?
Li Yu left the crew briefly and returned to China, but the filming work did not stop.

Wu Jing and Cao Qing divided the work and cooperated with each other.

Wu Jing was responsible for leading people to study the action design of the fighting scenes.

Movies are works of art, and they must be presented in a set of moves to look good.

However, the movie "Operation Nujiang" is not a traditional kung fu film, so it cannot be too flashy.

Finding a balance between good looks and realism is a technical job.

Cao Qing was responsible for shooting scenes and some scenes that were not particularly demanding.

Therefore, even if Li Yu leaves for a short time, it will not affect the filming progress of the movie.

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In China, with a box office of over 100 million yuan on the first day, Li Yu has become a well-deserved leader in Chinese-language films.

The famous Six Princesses planned to conduct an interview with Li Yu and the crew of the "The Great Wall" series.

Such a landmark commercial blockbuster has been a huge success, so shouldn't we make a program to promote it?

When Wu Baige returned to China to film "Red Cliff", the Sixth Princess had high hopes for him.

The Sixth Princess used a record-breaking program to introduce the filming process of "Red Cliff" to audiences across the country.

Give Wu Baige a chance, but he is useless and he can't seize it.

He turned such a good war theme as "Red Cliff" into a joke.

At the recording site of the program, the host asked Li Yu: "As far as I know, when the news of the filming of "The Great Wall" was first announced, many people, both inside and outside the circle, were not very optimistic.

The reason they were not optimistic was that your idea was a little too crazy. Few directors dared to try to combine historical myths with special effects.

Many years ago, Hong Kong's famous genius director Xu Ke planned to take a similar path, combining advanced special effects with fantasy.

Director Xu’s attempts at innovation have not yielded very satisfactory results. I’m very curious, aren’t you afraid of failure?

You were already one of the most successful directors in China at the time. You could have continued to be successful by resting on your laurels and continuing to shoot themes that had been proven by the market. Why would you take the risk to innovate? "

“As you said, I am a director with a good track record. If even a director like me who has done well doesn’t dare to innovate, how can a new director who is just starting out dare to innovate?

If no one dares to innovate and try and fail, when will Chinese-language films be able to catch up with Hollywood?
The science fiction and superhero films that are currently very popular in Hollywood are the result of repeated innovation and trial and error.

For example, "Iron Man 5", the first film in the "Iron Man" series, which was released in China in May this year, was Marvel's last-ditch effort at the time.

If you succeed, your future is bright. If you lose, you will lose everything, and the copyrights of all the superheroes will have to be transferred to others. "

Li Yu’s answer was full of positive energy, and it was indeed his true inner thoughts.

He doesn't have a good impression of Marvel.

Because that company made a lot of money in China, but in the end it turned around and made a movie called "Shang-Chi" that disgusted the Chinese people.

A typical case of smashing the pot as soon as you put down your chopsticks.

However, the company's success story is indeed very inspiring, and the superhero movies it makes are also quite good.

“Innovation requires great courage and requires taking very big risks.

Director Li dared to take a gamble without seeing the outcome, and this courage is truly admirable.”

The host said with admiration.

When asked whether Li Yu and the creative team had expected The Great Wall to be so successful, the film's leading actress Da Tiantian revealed: "In fact, Director Li was prepared to lose money from the beginning.

At that time, Director Li said that as long as the first part had a box office of 5 million, it would be considered a success. As long as the first part had 5 million, Director Li was confident that the next part could make a small profit.

Everyone knows what happened in the end. The performance of the previous episode far exceeded expectations and it was a big hit.

This is probably one of the few times that Director Li’s predictions were inaccurate.”

"This story is really surprising. I didn't expect Director Li to be prepared to lose money in advance." The host reacted unexpectedly.

"I can only say that man proposes, God disposes. I didn't expect the audience to be so enthusiastic. I also didn't expect that Director Xu's Lost in Thailand would be directly withdrawn from the schedule at that time.

Looking back now, if Lost in Thailand had not been withdrawn, it would have had a significant impact on the first part of The Great Wall.”

Li Yu smiled and said.

These were indeed things that even he had not expected, and they were black swan events.

Next, the host, Li Yu and the leading actors of "The Great Wall" talked about many topics.

By the time this episode was broadcast, Li Yuren had already flown to Siam.

In addition, "The Great Wall: Part Two" has grossed over 6 million yuan in its first week of release.

This movie is rapidly breaking various domestic box office records, such as breaking 5 million in a single day, breaking million the fastest, breaking million the fastest...

After the episode in which Li Yu recorded the role of the Six Princesses was broadcast, the audience was in awe when they learned the story behind the creation of "The Great Wall".

"It's true that a big production with an investment of 5 million yuan is not without risks. Even a director like Director Li didn't have the confidence to make a big profit at the beginning. Instead, he made a small loss in the first part and a small profit in the second part."

"Of course not. It's extremely difficult to make money with an investment of 5 million. You have to make 15 billion to get your money back.

I can only say that Director Li's The Great Wall is really great, and the film deserves its current success."

Even more explosive news soon came from the circle. Zhang Yingmou suddenly expressed that he had become interested in historical mythological films.

He is currently thinking about "Fengshen".

When the news came out, everyone inside and outside the circle was dumbfounded.

Is the national teacher going to follow Li Yu's pace? Just as "The Great Wall" was a success, he said that he was studying "Investiture of the Gods" recently.

Wu Ershan would have to question it if he saw it.

Imperial Master, you, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, are also going to be deified?
Li Yu, who had already arrived in Siam, was not surprised that the national teacher wanted to follow up with a historical myth film.

To be honest, Guoshi is really suitable for this type of filming. Pictures and big scenes are Guoshi's forte.

Before, Li Yu said that he wanted to shoot "The Great Wall", and the national teacher discussed it with Li Yu privately.

At that time, the imperial teacher was very interested in "The Great Wall" and mythological films, and provided Li Yu with a lot of suggestions.

So it’s not surprising that the national master wants to make a mythological film.

What really made Li Yu unable to hold back was that the national master was going to film "Fengshen".

In the original time and space, wasn’t this thing created by Wu Ershan?
What a good guy, he intercepted the National Master's "The Great Wall", and the National Master intercepted Wu Ershan's "Investiture of the Gods", right? This is completely messed up.

But after thinking about it carefully, Li Yu found that it was reasonable for the national master to shoot "Fengshen".

"Fengshen" is very well-known and is considered a very good IP.

"The Investiture of the Gods" is a Ming Dynasty novel about gods and demons. The copyright has expired long ago, so anyone can make a film about it.

In recent years, people have been making movies about the conferred gods.

A few years later, in order to promote his son, Hong Kong tycoon Long Wu claimed to have invested 5 million yuan and invited superstars from Hong Kong and the Mainland to play supporting roles for his son.

Those superstars include Li Lianjie, Huang Xiaoming, Fan Xiaopang, Liang Jiahui and so on.

In the end, this movie, which was said to have cost 5 million yuan, was terrible.

So, Wu Ershan is not the first director to shoot "Fengshen", he is just the most successful one.

Now the National Master is going to get there first. If Wu Ershan continues to film "Fengshen" in the future, Li Yu is not sure who is stronger between him and the National Master.

Li Yu only knew that the Chinese film industry seemed to be becoming more and more interesting because of his "The Great Wall".

(End of this chapter)