Chapter 352: The First New Chinese Film, King David's Trial! (1, Guaranteed)

The film is finally going to be released. Han Sanping has been looking forward to it for a long time.

"The box office of this film must be at least 1 billion!"

Wang Quan, "What unit are you talking about?"

"Of course it's Taole!"

Wang Quan shook his head, "My expectation is 1 billion domestic box office, and I'll let it go abroad."

"Director Quan, how can you let yourself down? Besides, this is a 3D blockbuster you are good at!" Han Sanping already basically knew what Wang Quan was going to shoot. The key point is Wang Quan's 3D movie, which once swept the global box office!

Wang Quan, "But this is a Chinese film."

This sentence made Han Sanping speechless, and his enthusiastic heart regained some calmness. Yes, Chinese films, foreigners are not so easy to accept Chinese films, it is too difficult for Chinese films to go abroad. The highest box office record for Chinese films is Cheng Long's "The Chinese Zodiac", which is less than 300 million dollars.

Then I set a small goal for myself, Wang Quan's first Chinese 3D blockbuster, let's do it for 300 million Taole!

Wang Quan and Han Sanping were chatting when Huang Jianxin came over. He was not only the president of the Directors Association, but also the third person in Wang Dao. However, he could guarantee that Wang Dao's sweep of the Directors Association Awards today had nothing to do with him. The two films last year were indeed worthy.

He wanted to talk to Wang Quan about that matter, "Vice President, are you really not going to consider it again? I'm old, and this position of president will be yours sooner or later."

Huang Jianxin had suggested that Wang Quan be the vice president of the Directors Association. He had already tried it out. The other vice presidents and the secretary general had no objection, or perhaps they had held their opinions in their hearts. In addition to being young, Wang Quan was capable of taking on important tasks in any dimension.

At this time, the Directors Association had five vice presidents: Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang, Li Shaohong, Zhang Jianya, and Chen Guoxing, and the secretary general was He Ping.

Wang Quan didn't think he was worse than any of them, but he still refused. "Director Huang is only in his fifties. He can still work in this position for at least ten years. There's no rush. Besides, I haven't made any Chinese-language films yet, and I haven't earned any honors for Chinese-language films. If I take over now, no one will say anything, but they will definitely disagree."

After Wang Quan finished speaking, he glanced at the scene, and Feng Xiaogang, Chen Kaige, and Lu Chuan on his side immediately turned their heads to talk to the people around them.

Especially Lu Chuan, who looked very guilty. When "Avatar" was released at the beginning of the year, he said, "This is a complete defeat that we Chinese filmmakers must collectively witness and accept." Since then, he has become the number one Avatar braggart, bragging about technology and humanity, but he didn't say a word during the release of "Inception", which was often used by fans who disliked him.

Wang Quan smiled, "When I make a few decent Chinese-language films, I will definitely consider your proposal. Do you think it's okay?"

Hearing what he said, Huang Jianxin stopped talking.

After the two big guys finished talking to Wang Quan, other directors slowly came over to talk to Wang Quan.

Wang Quan had never really been in the mainland film industry, but he knew most of these people or had heard of their names. Some of them were indeed talented, while others were just famous in name only, but most of them had fallen behind the times. Of the more than 100 members of the association, only about 30 were still active in the film industry.

Wang Quan mainly talked with Ning Hao, Cao Baoping and others who were familiar with him.

"The Racing was so good. I think it surpassed The Stone. Comedy is really not easy to make. I would like to try it if I have the chance." Wang Quan affirmed Xiao Ning.

Hearing this, Ning Hao was startled. This was forcing me to change the track. He felt that Wang Quan could definitely make a good comedy. After all, The Hangover was written by Wang Quan, which was very strong.

"Comedy movies are very actor-intensive. Some actors have their own funny points. Choosing the right actor is crucial." Ning Hao shared some of his own experience and insights.

Wang Quan nodded, "Huang Bo and Xu Zheng are both good actors, but Xu Zheng is only a supporting role in your comedy. I really want to see him play the leading role."

Hearing Wang Quan's words, Ning Hao was really tempted. For example, he wanted Xu Zheng and Huang Bo to play a dual male lead role. He even had some ideas, using the model of a road movie.

But after thinking about it, forget it. Mr. Han said that he should make a breakthrough and hoped that he could make a bigger movie. China Film Association will fully support him in terms of funds and technology. Dog brother from Xiaoma Pentium also said that he is willing to invest in anything he shoots.

In fact, Ning Hao's wife Xing Aina recently had an idea about the Nian beast. He was thinking whether he could expand on that story and make a cheerful monster movie.

Cao Baoping looked happy. He became completely famous with "The Invisible Guest". Directing may become his main job in the future, but the next movie has not yet been settled.

Maybe Wang Quan has more good ideas in his mind, but it is too embarrassing for a teacher to always trouble students, so he plans to select from real cases and literary works and adapt them.

Wang Dao has a copyright department. In addition to purchasing copyrights, it will also count, organize and summarize novels and literary works on the market and even social events, and then upload them to a system, which is very convenient to search. When the time comes, you can check it yourself, maybe there will be a story you want.

Other directors also came to greet Wang Quan one after another. It was as satisfying to talk to him as a pilgrimage.

After the directors, several actors had the opportunity to come. Li Bingbing is an old friend, and Zhang Jingchu has known him for a long time. She also starred in Jiahe Wang Dao's new film "Drug War". Now she has almost become the queen heroine of Hong Kong and mainland co-productions. She has no obstacles in communicating in Cantonese and has a bit of language talent.

The director of "Drug War" is Lin Chaoxian, but Zhang Jingchu naturally hopes to cooperate with Wang Quan. Several channels are saying that he returned to China this time just to shoot Chinese films. Many people are eyeing this heroine.

She stared at Wang Quan, and Li Bingbing stared at her, "Little bitch, don't even think about snatching Director Quan from me!"

After the Directors Association Awards, Wang Quan and Huang Jianxin returned to the company to prepare for submitting the script tomorrow. Whether it can be passed is in the hands of others, but you have to be fully prepared.

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In Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, 28-year-old Xu Lei returned to his hometown for the New Year and announced a major news to his family, "I quit!"

The family didn't care. This is not Shandong Province. You don't have to have a stable job with five insurances and one fund. Besides, this kid can make money without working. In fact, he is a writer, and he seems to be quite famous.

Yes, Xu Lei is an online writer. In 2006, a novel called "Ghost Blowing the Light" about tomb raiding adventures came out. Xu Lei was very excited after reading it, so he created a fan fiction in the Ghost Blowing the Light forum. Unexpectedly, the response was very good.

So he modified the novel, removed the fan fiction elements, and turned it into a brand new novel, and named it "Grave Robbers' Chronicles". It was successfully published the following year and received royalties. His pen name is Nanpai Sanshu.

In recent years, relying on the publication of the physical book "Grave Robbers' Chronicles", he has already earned more than one million and almost made it to the list of the richest writers.

Although he can live well without a job, the cold reaction of his family members made him very disappointed. Can't you persuade me and nag me a little more!

Fortunately, my grandfather said at this time, "What are you going to do next? Continue writing your novel?"

Here it comes! Nanpai Sanshu smiled crookedly, "Maybe I will be a screenwriter. Oh, I forgot to tell you that the film and television adaptation rights of my novels have been sold. Who bought it is confidential."

If you must ask...

No one cares who bought it. The family only wants to know how much it was sold for.

When they learned that it was seven figures, my parents were very happy, only my wife was worried. It is said that men become bad when they have money~

Forget it, if you don't want to ask, then don't ask. If you ask, I can't tell you, because it was Wangdao Pictures that bought the copyright. Combined with the recent news that Wang Quan returned to China and is about to start shooting a Chinese-language film, Nanpai Sanshu feels that it should be what he thought.

I heard that Wangdao also bought a lot of copyrights before, but after buying them, Director Wang Quan has been silent until he bought his "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" and was willing to return to China and start warming up for the new Chinese-language film. This is already very telling.

Tonight he stayed up late to write an email, listing his suggestions for the roles of Wu Xie, Xiao Ge, Wang Pangzi, etc., and prepared to send it to Wangdao Pictures, and expressed his willingness to participate in the screenwriting work, whether it is money or not.

In order to find actors who fit his and his readers' expectations, he has been studying the entertainment industry overnight recently and has met many male stars. He feels that the entertainment industry is fun.

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At the Film Bureau, his cousin Xu Yi waited for him at the door and told her some things.

Wang Quan came with Huang Jianxin today, and the bureau attached great importance to this meeting.

Other people's scripts are only a synopsis of the script, and they just hand it in and go home to wait for the news, but Wang Quan is different. He needs to be treated specially.

Wang Quan himself brought the complete script, shooting format, promotion plan, and even subsequent development ideas with high requirements. After reading them, you will know how big the project is.

And not only the leaders of the bureau are there, but also Han, the general manager of China Film, is here to support Xiao Wang, and people from the superior units have also come. If it is feasible, the relevant departments will strongly support it and give it all the conveniences that can be given, so that Wang Quan can launch this Chinese masterpiece as soon as possible.

Xu Yi jokingly said that this is going to be a "three-court trial" of you kid.

Wang Quan was not nervous because he had a way out. If this project didn't work, he still had Plan B. If Plan B didn't work, he would just go back to Hollywood and make a profit.

"Dear leaders, this is the script I submitted." Wang Quan handed over the thick script, which had three big characters "Ghost Blowing the Light" written on it, and "3D" followed by "Ghost Blowing the Light".

Seeing 3D, the superior's eyes lit up. Great, Chinese films can finally have a 3D blockbuster, which is very helpful in attracting audiences to the cinema!

However, the first word the leader in the bureau saw was "ghost". Well, this word is not good.

He would not reject Wang Quan's script because of one word, but would it be safer if it was changed to "weird"?

"Just one set of scripts?" The superior asked. There were more than ten people on the scene reviewing the script.

Wang Quan immediately asked Clara to take out the other copies, one set for each person, and read them slowly.

Clara's outfit today is more restrained, but her black stockings still make several young people at the scene a little uneasy. Is a female secretary next to Director Wang so cool!

The script begins with the first-person narrative of the male protagonist Hu Bayi, and the opening is the plot of the paper bride. Several reviewers frowned. The title is fine, but how can you really have a ghost? It's too much!

However, after this plot, it returns to Hu Bayi's timeline. It turns out that he went to the army. He talked with his comrades in the car and talked about the anecdotes of his grandfather Hu Guohua. Because the paper bride is an oral story that exists in the movie, it is not really a ghost.

After the paper bride, he told a story about a money-stealing rat, and the third story was about his grandfather's encounter with a master who gave him the "Sixteen-Character Feng Shui Secret Technique".

After the three stories, about 10 pages of paper had been turned over.

There are people who know the business here. I heard that in Hollywood movie scripts, one page of script is one minute of plot. Wang Quan used ten minutes to tell the story of his grandfather Hu Guohua through Hu Bayi's mouth. Isn't it a bit too much?

But when he turned to the back, wow, 200 pages!

Later, after a careful look, it turned out that the last quarter was not the script of this movie, but the subsequent adaptation ideas and shooting plans.

This person touched his superior, Director Sun, and Director Sun immediately turned to the back.

He also knew the novel "Ghost Blowing the Light", and he heard that the copyright had been bought by Wang Dao early on, so he had speculated whether Wang Quan's first Chinese-language film would be "Ghost Blowing the Light", but he always felt that tomb robbing was not of high quality. Director Sun hoped that Wang Quan could shoot some historical blockbusters, or the rare science fiction blockbusters and disaster films in China.

In the next fifty pages, Wang Quan wrote a complete plan for "Ghost Blowing Light".

He will change it into a trilogy of Ghost Blowing Light based on the four parts of Jingjue Ancient City, Longling Mystery Cave, Yunnan Worm Valley, and Kunlun Temple.

The first part is Jingjue Ancient City, cursed (poisoned).

The second part weakens Longling Mystery Cave, with Yunnan Worm Valley as the main body, and the main line is to find the Zhuchen Pearl.

The third part is Kunlun Temple, to remove the curse (detoxification).

Then, the sequel trilogy will be filmed based on the original content created by Wang Quan and the original author Tianxia Bachang, including Nanhai Guixu, Wuxia Coffin Mountain, and the original content created by Wang Quan and the original author Tianxia Bachang. Of course, it is based on the success of the original trilogy.

These three parts mainly introduce the four major tomb-robbing factions. Feng Xuewu (Professor Sun), who has appeared in the original trilogy, will be the villain throughout the sequel trilogy.

The sequel will also have a more international perspective. If the previous three parts can have a certain impact internationally, then the sequel trilogy will invite Hollywood stars to join, and tomb-robbing adventures may no longer be limited to China.

The "Wrath of the West Hunan", which is separated from the main plot, will shoot a spin-off. The main cast may make guest appearances, with Chen Yulou, Queqiao Shao and others from the Republic of China tomb-robbing team as the protagonists.

"Yellow Skin Tomb" will shoot a prequel. Wang Quan omitted the part of going to the countryside to join the production team in the main trilogy, which can be shown in Yellow Skin Tomb. His plan is to use younger new actors at that time.

If "Wrath of the West Hunan" and "Yellow Skin Tomb" are successful, they may both have sequels, one focusing on the Republic of China tomb-robbing style, and the other focusing on young adventures, expanding into the Ghost Blowing Light universe!