Chapter 584 I Like the Passive Meng Jie for Free Movie Version of "The Three-Body Problem"

Chapter 584 ① I like to be passive ② Sister Meng gives for free ③ Movie version of "The Three-Body Problem"

Xiao K's movie "The Equal Race" has premiered. Wang Quan accompanied her to the premiere and shook his head to say "It's hard to win an award". Then Xiao K had no interest in this film festival and was ready to return to the United States.

Wang Quan was idle anyway, so he simply sent his sister-in-law thousands of miles away and visited the filming of "Star Wars 8".

Although it was handed over to J.J., Wang Quan is the backbone of this sequel series. Both Dorothy and J.J. hope to get Wang Quan's guidance.

Originally, Meng Ziyi was going to go back to Beijing Film Academy to study after joining the excitement of the Venice opening ceremony.

Her assistant was originally temporary in nature, and she was only a junior at the beginning of the school year, and there were still many serious courses to take. She went to school to become an actor, so she couldn't put the cart before the horse.

Wang Quan had no objection, but Xiao Tian had to stay in Venice to take care of the actors and communicate with the film festival. But he couldn't go to the United States without anyone to serve him.

So I had to ask Xiao Meng to fly with me to the United States. I'm already a junior, and I can go out to film at Beijing Film Academy. It's no big deal to take a few more days off.

Xiao Meng thought that she had never been to the United States and had never been in touch with Hollywood, so she agreed happily.

But I didn't expect Director Quan to be so popular and kiss Kristen on the plane without paying attention to others.

Oh my God, isn't she your sister-in-law!

And your brother has already given birth to a son for you, are you doing her justice!

Xiao Meng was too shy, so she covered her face and turned away.

Xiao K was very surprised. Seeing Xiao Meng's excessive indulgence, could it be that she and Erlang were innocent?

"What's that look in your eyes? I have nothing to do with her. I never force my staff to do anything unless they take the initiative."

Xiao K said "Oh" meaningfully, "So you like to be passive~"

Wang Quan: "Go to sleep."

"Together?"

"No, save some energy, and then you can get your husband!" Wang Quan patted Xiao K's butt as she stood up.

After that, Wang Quan sat on the chair and started to watch the movie with his eyes closed.

Xiao Meng turned around in the plane, and when she saw that Xiao K was gone, she immediately walked to Wang Quan.

At this time, Wang Quan was covered with a blanket, as if she was asleep. She was about to turn around and leave, but suddenly thought of her job, so she secretly lifted the blanket.

Sure enough, the zipper was open again!

Xiao Meng reached in and prepared to help him zip up, but just as she was about to move, she stopped.

Meng Ziyi thought about the days she had lived during this period, indulging in Qingqu clothing and toys. Although she had experienced extreme happiness several times, she was empty afterwards.

And now, she has a chance.

Meng Ziyi glanced at Wang Quan and felt that he was already asleep, so the little hand slipped in through the open door.

"Huh?" Wang Quan felt it immediately. This clumsy technique must not be from Xiao K, but from Xiao Meng, so Wang Quan, who was watching a dull art film, quickly switched to a sexy "Obsessed".

...

When Xiao K came out of the bedroom after a nap, he happened to see Xiao Meng covering her mouth and running to the bathroom.

Wang Quan walked slowly behind, "I'll use the bedroom for a while, don't come in."

Xiao K looked Wang Quan up and down: "Didn't you say before that you would save your energy to deal with Dorothy?"

Wang Quan said confidently: "There are still more than ten hours, enough to recover."

Xiao K was obedient and did not go in, but it would be okay to listen to it yourself.

~

In China, it was less than two weeks before the release of "Who is He", but major cinemas had not received the promotional materials for "Who is He".

Cinemas are anxious because mid-September is a cold period, and although Liu Dehua's new film "Saving Mr. Wu" released at the beginning of the month has a good reputation, the box office has not exploded, so cinemas are more looking forward to "Who is He" to save the sluggish film market.

"Who is He" now has its own popularity, and the subsequent trial of Gao Chengyong has not ended. As long as he is not dead, the popularity will continue. This is simply a long-awaited sweet dew for cinemas. Cinemas are counting on this movie to let them eat all they can in September.

What's wrong with art films and experimental films? Under such high social popularity, it is still Wang Quan's work. If he wins another award in Venice, it won't be a problem to get 400 million or 500 million!

But the distributor Maoyan seems to be unaware of the existence of this movie. Apart from releasing a trailer, no actual publicity work has been done.

This makes people anxious. All cinemas can do now is to play the trailer of "Who is He" on the electronic screen outside the cinema.

The manager of a Wanda Cinema in Beijing chose a Dawang Cinema when he went to see a movie with his college student on his day off. He found that the Dawang Cinema had already put up a roll-up poster of "Who is He".

"Damn it, it's unethical. Why did they only give the poster to the Dawang Cinema?" The Wanda manager immediately left the college student and went to the manager of the Dawang Cinema, whom they all knew.

The Dawang manager told him: "This is not the material given by Maoyan. We made it ourselves. The other party said that there is no publicity budget, so there is no money to make posters. If you want, you can download pictures from the Internet and print them yourself."

Hearing this explanation, the Wanda manager could only say "Damn it", and then quickly contacted his subordinates to make posters and promote them by themselves.

In fact, it doesn't cost much. Each cinema can spend a few hundred yuan to get it done, but Wang Dao followed the boss's previous promise and did not promote it. It was released without publicity.

So the cinemas had to work hard. There are several official posters of "Who is He" on the Internet. However, in order to make their own cinemas more attractive, different theaters will choose the posters they think are more attractive. Some will make all of them, and some will even design their own posters and use them for their entire theater chain.

In order to make more box office in 10 days, they also tried their best to highlight their own talents.

Later, some people posted this matter on the Internet, and even netizens followed suit. Some Internet celebrities began to spontaneously design posters for "Who is He".

After all, the subject matter is already known, and the actors are basically public, so let's show our talents.

~

Xiao Meng also tried her best, and the feeling of happiness was higher and higher.

In the past, happiness was followed by emptiness, but now happiness is followed by satisfaction. She also completely fell in love with this feeling. In the process, she also showed some of the clothes she brought to Wang Quan.

Then almost all of them were torn up by Wang Quan, and he told himself, "This is the correct way to use Qingqu clothes."

Xiao Meng listened thoughtfully, it seems that "matters between men and women" are indeed a big deal.

"Boss, can I call you husband?" Meng Ziyi said delicately.

Wang Quan smiled: "You call me husband, then where do you put your boss."

"Oh, I don't want to compete with the boss for a seat, just, can I call you that when it's just the two of us?" Meng Ziyi pleaded in a tone, she was still very self-aware.

Wang Quan thought about it and suggested: "I have a more interesting name here."

"What?"

Wang Quan told her again in her ear, Xiao Meng was embarrassed and annoyed, but still called out as he wished.

Then she said she wanted more!

On a flight of more than ten hours, Wang Quan only had half the time to rest.

After the plane landed, Wang Quan asked Xiao K to take Xiao Meng to rest, and he went directly to the filming site of "Star Wars 8".

He returned to Dorothy's house after the crew had rested for a while. As for Meng Ziyi, she had been settled in Wang Quan's house.

"How is it?" Dorothy asked, "JJ's filming is okay."

"Follow the rules, it's quite standard." Wang Quan commented, which is a good comment.

JJ perfectly executed the style and route planned by Wang Quan for him in the first film. Although he did not have his own innovation, he was able to inherit and play the excellent and distinctive characteristics of the previous film, so this one would not be too bad.

Dorothy smiled and said, "Star Wars is a good buy. I believe that after the release of "Star Wars Story", our company's market value will soar again."

The current market value of Dragon Head is 110 billion US dollars, and Netflix and Lucasfilm have made great contributions to it.

Because Lucasfilm is a direct acquisition, the performance of the Star Wars series has a more direct impact on the market value.

It cost 4 billion dollars at the beginning, and now the market value has increased by almost 400 billion dollars, not to mention that the hit "The Force Awakens" brought back more than 10 billion in actual profits to the company, which is really profitable.

Wang Quan asked about the preview of "Star Wars Story".

Dorothy sat on Wang Quan's lap and answered this question, "The score reached 8 points. Although it can't be compared with your "The Force Awakens", it is also very good. I feel that it should be able to break 1 billion."

Of course, this is talking about the global box office. I am afraid that even Wang Quan himself can't achieve the North American box office record of 1 billion. If there is no accident, this North American box office record can be maintained for many years, which makes Americans uncomfortable. The record of their own country is held by a foreigner.

At this moment, the global box office of "Minions" has exceeded the 1 billion US dollar mark, which means that Dragon Rising is expected to produce two 1 billion basic movies again this year.

Although with the rise of markets such as the mainland, it is much easier to break the 1 billion global box office than "Inception", but it is still terrifying for a company to have two movies a year.

This year, in addition to the two films of Dragon Heads Up, there are Universal's "Jurassic World" and Disney's "Avengers 2".

Last year, Dragon Heads Up's "Frozen", "The Force Awakens", "Transformers 4" and "The Hobbit 3".

Earlier, it was "Frozen" and "Iron Man 3".

From the global box office hits in recent years, it can be seen that the box office hits are basically high-quality animations and big IPs, and the upper limit of original live-action movies is very limited.

So now Dorothy is beginning to care about what Dragon Heads Up will shoot after Star Wars is finished.

Wang Quan said with a smile: "It will take 19 years to finish the six Star Wars trilogies. After 19 years, the film industry may be finished."

"How is it possible? You should be serious. 19 years is not far away. What will we shoot after 19 years? Our foundation is still weak. They have the Avengers, X-Men, Spider-Man, and Harry Potter, and our IP influence is far behind."

Dragon Heads Up went from the "Twilight" era to the "Hunger Games" era, and now it has come to the "Star Wars" era.

Twilight established its position in the industry. Although The Hunger Games was not as good, it was very popular in the North American market, which was a smooth transition. Then we waited for the super hit Star Wars.

"What about the future~" Wang Quan thought for a while, "Aren't we cooperating with Lego? What do you think of Barbie?"

"Barbie? Make an animation? Then we need to find Illumination Entertainment."

Wang Quan shook his head: "No, make a live-action movie, but it's not so easy to make it into a series."

Then Dorothy mentioned, "What about Journey to the West? You don't have to pay copyright fees. When the time comes, bring Liu Ye in, and both China and the United States will flourish!"

"Let's keep our Chinese IP and make it ourselves. Don't ruin our traditional culture." Wang Quan doesn't believe that foreigners can make these traditional things well.

"What do you think of The Three-Body Problem?" Dorothy suddenly mentioned the novel. "After the Hugo Award, this novel is very popular in the United States. Even O'Heizi is following it and is eager to read the second part."

The second part is still being translated by Liu Yukun. Unless O'Heizi can learn Chinese, I can only apologize.

Wang Quan shook his head: "The Three-Body Problem is too grand. I feel it is more suitable for TV series."

Dorothy: "It is because it is so big that it is suitable for making a series, just like Star Trek, which was made into more than a dozen super series of science fiction movies!"

Looking at her, it seems like she is preparing to spend more than ten years on a novel.

Wang Quan thought about it and replied seriously: "The Three-Body Problem gives me a hard science fiction feeling. It is easy to make such a novel into a masterpiece, but it is difficult to make it a hit."

The reason is simple. The so-called science fiction hits on the market now and in the future are basically superheroes. There is no scientific concept in them at all. The most used is the multiverse concept of playing rogue.

Take the new version of "Spider-Man 3" that made 1.9 billion dollars. What kind of movie was it?

However, the audience does not care about those things. They just want to watch a relaxing, funny and refreshing movie.

So Wang Quan feels that there is little hope for "The Three-Body Problem" to be a big hit. However, if the investment is in place and the changes are appropriate, it is still possible to cut out a certain fragment from it and make a movie with a box office of hundreds of millions.

"It's only a few hundred million. The mainland market may be able to contribute hundreds of millions of US dollars in box office revenue. With the global market, it should be easy to make a billion."

"You still don't understand China," Wang Quan pointed out. "If you use Westerners as the protagonists, don't count on the mainland market. But if you want the mainland market and take care of the original fans' feelings, the overseas market will inevitably be affected. So it's hard to satisfy everyone. You can only choose one person from both sides."

Dorothy smiled slightly: "I have a way."

"What?"

Dorothy: "You play the male protagonist Luo Ji!"

Wang Quan was stunned for a moment and said with emotion: "You are really a smart guy, but you reminded me that I recently took the role of the male protagonist in a movie. It will start shooting in two months. I am very nervous. You can ask Xiao K to come and tell me about the play~~"

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