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Chapter 862 Problems with "New Detective 2"
Although Zhou Xia looked down on "Legend of the Gods" and "Asura", such crude and insincere bad movies.

But seriously, the movie "Legend of the Gods" was launched a year earlier, but it has a certain relationship with him.

The few films he has made in the past few years have achieved great success, and most of the films invested by Xia Hua Film and Television have also achieved great success.

Therefore, the films of Zhou Xia and Xia Hua Film and Television have become the vane of Chinese films and the mainland market.

Zhou Xia snatched the flower art "Painted Skin 2" project back then, invested 20 million yuan, and spent half of it on special effects, but in the end the box office exceeded [-] billion yuan, but it made a lot of money, which shocked the domestic film and television circles!

Since then, fantasy blockbusters have become the hottest genre of new costume blockbusters.

But then Zhou Xingchi's "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was the real success, catching up with "Painted Skin 2" at the box office. Other movies didn't make much money.

But this does not prevent the market from being optimistic about magic movies.

Now Xiahua Film and Television has an investment "Havoc in Heaven" that has not yet been released. Many companies in the industry are watching Zhou Xia and Xia Hua's actions, ready to imitate and follow suit at any time.

"Fengshen Yanyi" is also a big ip, and because of the current popularity of Internet literature, it is not surprising that "Fengshen Legend" started filming more than a year earlier.

Moreover, the current Chinese entertainment circle has long been different from the original time and space. The development of the entire entertainment industry has also changed too much because of Zhou Xia's variable.

Take the construction of theaters and the development of ticketing websites as an example, they are much faster than the original time and space, and the film market in the mainland is also developing faster and on a larger scale.

The most obvious of these is that some movies come out earlier than they should, or later.

In addition to the direct influence of Zhou Xia, there are more indirect ones like "Legend of the Conferred Gods".

In recent years, the mainland has produced and released the most youth movies, action movies, comedy movies, and blockbuster special effects movies, almost all of which are the result of following suit.

Some of them even did not exist in the original time and space.

Moreover, the fate of many actors has changed a lot because of Zhou Xia and Xia Hua.

Take the actor's coat of arms in the current "Legend of the Gods" as an example.

He missed a few big chances, didn't develop fast, but also didn't swell and didn't get much media attention.

The Monday meeting event that originally happened at the end of March 2014 has not happened until the beginning of August.

But because of his previous works, as well as "The Age of Naked Marriage", and later TV series such as "Little Daddy", he still became popular.

No gossip.

Li Lianjie couldn't help laughing when Zhou Xia said that "Legend of the Gods" has a strong lineup.

"This lineup still can't compare with your "Zhu Xian"."

"Speaking of this, Brother Jie, I really thought about asking you to play Daoxuan in "Zhu Xian", but unfortunately you are too busy. But it is agreed, you will give me a guest role as Patriarch Qingye, the next one must be come."

Zhou Xia also said with a smile, if it wasn't for Li Lianjie's high salary and tight schedule, he really wanted to ask Li Lianjie to play the role of Daoxuan.

"No problem, how long can a guest appearance take. But you are so busy, do you still keep practicing during this period of time?"

While the two were talking, they sat down on a sofa in the corner, received the champagne brought by the waiter, and continued to chat.

"Hehe, of course. Now I travel with at least two bodyguards. Whenever I have free time, I will practice with them. When I return to China, I will have more people to accompany me to practice."

Zhou Xia exaggeratedly said that he actually insisted on practicing when he was filming in Africa.

But back in China, because I was too busy filming "Descendants of Yanhuang" and "Zhu Xian", I didn't practice that much.

"That's good. I hope that when we start filming the next "New Detective", we can see that your kung fu has improved."

After Li Lianjie finished speaking expectantly, he said again: "By the way, how is the script preparation for "New Detective 2" going?"

"Currently, the screenwriting team is still discussing, and the situation is more complicated." Zhou Xia said with a headache when he thought about the progress of the script.

The domestic name of this film is "New Detective", but it is not the same name internationally.

Although I know it's a bit low, it's still called "Kung Fu Detective".

After all, the business card of Kung Fu is still very famous in the world.

Moreover, the name of the movie is a detective, not a policeman, which implies that the two protagonists will resign from the police station and become private investigators.

In this way, the stage of the two protagonists will be bigger, and the cases they can participate in will leave Xiangjiang and involve any country or region.

This was decided early in the filming process.

The original owner Qin Shan's character is too straightforward, and he is not suitable to be a professional policeman at all.

So at the end of "Rookie Detective 1", although he and Lao Zhang solved the mysterious murder case and captured the big drug lord, they have already attracted the deep undercover executives of the drug gang in the police station to punish the two for violating relevant regulations. A warning was imposed.

In the script story of the second part, not long after the beginning, Qin Shan and Lao Zhang were designed into a conspiracy and were soon expelled from the police station.

Then the two set up a detective agency and started a real newcomer detective career.

Now Xiahua Film and Television's screenwriter team is stuck on the direction of the new detective's first case.

When the series of movies were filmed, the general story direction had already been set.

When the first film was filmed, the script of the second film would also have a rough outline.

The original story of the second part is that after the two established a detective agency, they first found out the incident of being framed, dug out the undercover police station, and were invited back to the police station.

But the two have fallen in love with the detective career and refused, so they have always maintained a good relationship with the Xiangjiang police, which can facilitate their participation in various major cases in the future.

But now because the first part of "New Detective" has achieved great success in the world, because of market reasons, more international elements must be added, and the second part should preferably involve cases involving international detectives.

Therefore, the scriptwriters generally meant to lengthen the time to help the police detect undercover agents.

Let this matter become a hidden mainline task, which can be kept until the next few films. It is best to make an ending when the series of films really ends, and then form an echo relationship with the first film.

But in this way, the current script must be overthrown and a new script written for the second part, so the progress will naturally be very slow.

So far, no concrete story has been formed.

Of course, there are already a few general stories, but they were all rejected by Zhou Xia, so let him continue to improve.

For example, the main story of Hong Kong's tycoons being targeted by international mercenary organizations and kidnapping hostages; senior officials with state secrets who absconded on the red notice in the Mainland; and international terrorists kidnapping overseas hostages.

Although these story ideas are not very innovative, as long as there is a good story and a strict and wonderful plot, it can still be filmed.

Zhou Xia asked the screenwriting teams in charge to continue to perfect their respective stories.

Even if you can't use the second part, you might be able to use the next few parts.

This has always been the case with series of movies. When the last one was filmed, the next one already had a general story, and some clues had to be paved the way.

If it weren't for "New Detective" becoming a global hit, the current script of the second part would have been almost revised according to the original version.

Zhou Xia and Li Lianjie were sitting in the corner talking about the movie, when suddenly there was the sound of high heels stepping on the ground, and a pleasant smell of perfume hit.

As soon as Zhou Xia looked up, she saw that her eldest cousin, Jennifer Lawrence, had come in front of them.

(End of this chapter)