Chapter 582

"Well, well, let's drink tea with Director Liu. I'll call you later, okay!"

Shuntian Mansion, the seventh floor of Minghu Culture, the reception room of the special effects department.

Li Qian, Liu Chengzhang, and Lu Ming, the special effects director of Minghu Culture, were present.

After hanging up the phone, Li Qian regained that surprised expression, ""Sword Immortal"? This concept is quite novel! Then what kind of character is my character? There will also be a scene of Yujian flying?"

Liu Chengzhang's eyes lit up when he heard the words, "Of course there is! Yujian flying! Think about it, just your face, this body, wearing a Taoist robe, standing on a giant sword with fluttering sleeves and walking in the wind, it must be special handsome!"

After a pause, he explained seriously: "A lot of the material for this movie is based on the "Legend of Sword Immortal Heroes" in the Republic of China. concept!"

"We Chinese have been playing martial arts movies and TV shows for decades. As everyone knows, as early as the end of the Shun Dynasty, there was already the term 'Xianxia', and there began to be 'Xianxia novels'. "The Legend of the Sword Immortal Heroes" is a small peak. Of course, if you go back, from "Sou Shen Ji" to Tang Chuanqi, then the concept of "Xian Xia" has begun to sprout, but it is still not systematic."

"My plan is to dilute the taste of the hero, and shoot a kind of 'immortal' air! This thing is not uncommon, but before me, no one has ever regarded him as a 'subject matter'. Thinking about it, I am willing to give it a try! It is the first time to visualize it on the big screen!"

Hearing this, Li Qian nodded slowly.

Xianxia, ​​is it fresh?

For Li Qian who stayed in another time and space until the second decade of the 21st century, this is not new at all, not to mention that fairy tale novels on the Internet have become popular, even domestic movies and TV series, Yu Jianfei The lens, that is also commonplace.

But with this time and space, at this time in 2000, Liu Chengzhang was right. He tried to get rid of the concept of "Xianxia" and develop a culture of "Xianxia", which is definitely something that has never been tried in the film industry before. matter.

Some people say that all successful artists are crazy.

Of course, the so-called lunatic does not refer to insanity, but to think what people dare not think, and what people dare not do!

Seeing Liu Chengzhang and hearing him enthusiastically peddle his concept of Xian Xia, Li Qian couldn't help but think of a certain famous film director in Hong Kong in another time and space.

Both of them can be regarded as movie geniuses!

Because of the difference in time and space, there is a book called "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman" in that time and space, but there is no book in this time and space, but there is a book in this time and space called "The Legend of Sword Immortal Heroes", which is not so long and not so influential, but the culture of Xianxia has always been They are all rooted in the traditional culture of the Chinese nation. Even if there is a difference between the two time and space, it only depends on whether this culture has grown and developed to a certain scale.

In another time and space, that ghost director in Hong Kong made "Green Snake" in the 1980s, and later made "Shushan", and he also had a "A Chinese Ghost Story", which was full of gangsters and gangsters at that time. The Hong Kong film market with vulgar comedies with feces, urine and fart is definitely a fresh and refined flower.

It's a pity that his personal thinking was too much ahead of the market at that time, and most movie fans couldn't keep up with his thinking and brain holes. Therefore, no matter from the perspective of technology or innovation, he can definitely be called a The "Green Snake", the pioneering work of the school, was a hit, and it is said that it was a bad hit.

Later, "Shu Mountain" fluttered again.

After many years, everyone recollected it and thought, oh, this movie is really good. At that time, it was awesome. It was the originator of Xianxia movies! But why did he pounce?

In this time and space, there is Hong Kong, but until now, Hong Kong is just a small seaport city, and there is no way to talk about Hong Kong movies. It is not too early to let go of the government control of domestic films, and there are decades of faults between the vigorous development of the Republic of China, but even so, certain things rooted in the depths of national culture, once they meet the right soil, It will still sprout!

Therefore, Liu Chengzhang, the talented director of this time and space, is finally going to start making "Xianxia" movies!

A "Swordsman and a Monk" sounds like a very literary name, but he was filmed with a chivalrous and tender heart. The story is told in an ups and downs without lack of delicacy and tenderness. It has the heroic spirit of the desert and desolation, There is also a graceful small bridge and flowing water in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River, so this movie sold 270 million Chinese yuan, helping Liu Chengzhang become the best-selling Chinese director!

And "The Swordsman and the Monk" has also become the absolute box office champion of domestic films.

Therefore, at this time, he should have a boldness that all other domestic directors do not have! And standing behind him, the three production companies that made a lot of money from "The Swordsman and the Monk" are also full of confidence!

His new movie, Liu Chengzhang himself admitted, is expected to invest 80 million yuan! It is said to be 120 million to the outside world!

The actor is a well-known actor of Yishuier, so he was not satisfied with this. He felt that he had a business connection with Minghu Culture, so he came to the door in person, invited Zhu Qiang to play the role of the male number three, and asked Li Qian to also come to play a guest role.

On Zhu Qiang's side, Li Qian wanted to respect his personal wishes, not to mention Zou Wenhuai, the artist director, even Li Qian was not prepared to agree directly for him, but when giving suggestions, he would still try his best to advise Zhu Qiang. Qiang's next step is - no matter how popular he is, he is still just a TV star. To be able to play the third male lead in the movie with the largest investment so far, especially in Liu Chengzhang's movie, even if the role is limited, it is still an improvement.

As for himself, after asking about the scene with only a few shots, Li Qian readily agreed - even if it's just because the director is Liu Chengzhang, this must be given face.

However, from Li Qian's personal point of view, he is still not very optimistic about the 80 million investment!

The reason is not because the domestic film market cannot accept such themes, but the most important thing is that the current domestic film market simply cannot afford such a large investment.

For a movie, it would cost a huge sum of 80 million yuan just to produce it, plus the huge amount of publicity that must be required before it goes on the market, the 120 million they claimed to the outside world is not a lie. So in this way, it is required that the movie must sell at least 300 million at the box office to be profitable!

In the current domestic movie box office market, a single movie breaks 300 million, is it impossible?

It's entirely possible!

Liu Chengzhang's own "Swordsman and Monk" has already sold 270 million, and "Titanic" has sold more than 600 million, equivalent to 310 million U.S. dollars!

But the problem is that all the big-selling movies must be works with unusually popular themes, and at the same time, they can just tickle the audience's itch. Movies like "Sword Fairy" with a certain amount of innovation are more or less It’s a bit risky for a small number of people—it’s done, not to mention 300 million, 400 to 500 million is also possible, but if you rush, this is a debt that cannot be recovered for many years!

In addition, "Green Snake" and "Shu Mountain" in that time and space were so aggressive!

To be honest, if it was Li Qian who wanted to make such a movie, he would directly cut off more than half of the actor's salary, which is estimated to be less than 20 million, and spend a few million to find some not so big names. But enough actors are enough to support the show.

Because according to Liu Chengzhang's description, the focus of his play is entirely on that kind of fairy temperament, or simply put, it is on special effects! The actor's face and acting skills are not too important!

If the cost of actors' remuneration can be reduced by more than 10 million, then it will be followed by a comprehensive burden reduction. With fewer big names, the expenses during filming will be reduced accordingly. You don't need to book such a high-end hotel, right? There are not so many assistants, managers, and gods who follow to eat, right? It's all money!

According to this method, the investment of this drama will be suppressed to about 60 million, and the total investment will not exceed 100 million including the publicity, then the pressure of this drama to recover costs will be greatly reduced!

At the same time, if we can modify the main line of the script for this movie, or in other words, adjust the focus of the whole movie, let the special effects and the concept of "Xianxia" serve the story, instead of what Li Qian sees now. The script is like this, the plot of the story is scattered, and many clues have no beginning and end. The whole thing is to greatly highlight the word "immortal", but ignore the essence of the movie's storytelling. Not entirely impossible.

Still the same example, another time and space "A Chinese Ghost Story" was so popular in Asia!

Of course, as the saying goes, an artist is a kind of lunatic.

Especially for the current Liu Chengzhang, whose continuous success at the movie box office has inflated his confidence to an unprecedented level. Therefore, he not only wants to come up with a new concept, but also wants to be the first large-scale use of computer special effects in the domestic film industry. movie, and he wants the biggest investment, the best and most expensive actors!

It can only be said that no matter how awesome a ghost is, there will be times when he loses his head!

We have known each other for a short time, and the friendship is still shallow. Some words are neither suitable nor useless to say, so Li Qian simply didn’t say anything, but just suggested gently that Liu Chengzhang can invest in a few more companies to spread the risk as much as possible. Liu Chengzhang Hearing this, he had a strange smile on his face——Li Qian understood after thinking for a while, dare he think that what he said meant that Minghu Culture also wanted to make a fortune with him!

So, let's not talk about it at all, everyone drinks tea, brags, and praises his idea, hello, hello, happy everyone! Anyway, out of the 80 million investment, the money spent on computer special effects alone is as high as more than 30 million! And only a small part of this money belongs to Liu Chengzhang's own special effects studio, and a bigger piece of money will fall into the bowl of the special effects department of Minghu Culture!

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