In world cinema circles, directors can mostly be divided into three categories.
The first type is the professional school, that is, a serious film and television school graduate, with a job and a professional counterpart.
Some of these directors are working out of interest, and some are working in film as a job.
These people account for the vast majority of all directors, and they are also the most mainstream category; The second category is non-academic.
Such as Cameron, Quentin, Hitchcock, Yang Dechang and many other bigwigs.
They really did it out of love, with enthusiasm and extraordinary talent, plus a little luck, and finally realized their dreams; The third category is the starting point.
It is widely distributed in the mainland, Xiangjiang, treasure island, Hollywood, Europe, the future, and different dimensions......
Of course, this can also be subdivided into many genres such as rebirth, time-traveling, system, inspiration fragment, etc.
Obviously, Guo Fan belongs to the second type.
He studied law at university, and after graduating, he worked as a producer on a music program on a television station.
During this period, I drew comics, filmed commercials, and won several small awards by the way.
Of course, none of this can withstand his pursuit of a film career.
So after a little accumulation, he finally made his first movie, a remake of the animation of the same name, "The Adventures of Li Xianji".
The original film is wonderful, but the movie version of his remake is not very good - not very good in both word-of-mouth and box office.
However, he finally accumulated experience and contacts, so he made the second movie "You at the Same Table".
This movie was released in the summer of the previous year, starring Lin Gengxin and Little Yellow Duck.
At that time, it was the time when all kinds of youth films were dancing wildly, so this one could be regarded as catching up with the trend.
The investment of 20 million yuan in exchange for a box office result of 450 million yuan made Guo Fan and the film's investors make a fortune.
With successful qualifications, there is a lot more confidence to speak.
So Guo Fan decided that he wanted to work hard towards his dream and shoot the works he wanted to shoot.
As a standard sci-fi fan, he set his sights on sci-fi movies that had never been seen in China before.
It just so happened that he was also in the "Young Directors Study Abroad Program", so he took a fancy to "The Wandering Earth" at a glance.
In fact, China Film was not very new to domestic directors at the beginning, and felt that this kind of big-scale production theme still had to invite Hollywood directors to shoot.
Of course, in the end, the plan was abandoned because of the funds.
In fact, before this, Guo Fan also contacted China Film and the original author Da Liu, but neither side directly refused because he was just a small director who had only made two works.
In Da Liu's words: "Anyway, no director in China has ever filmed, and they all have zero experience, so it's better to find someone with feelings who is more reliable." ” It is precisely because of this that today's meeting is possible.
The meaning of China Film is also clear - I will put the project here, and any of you who are interested can come and shoot.
Love how to shoot how to shoot, but if anyone dares not to shoot well, hehe......
Guo Fan naturally didn't worry about anything "hehe".
However, he also knew that it would be too difficult to set up a complete team on his own, at least the primary funding problem would not be solved.
Then, he saw Mu Ming.
If you want to say who in the circle is most likely to agree to him and invest in this sci-fi project, it is estimated that only Mu Ming is it.
Xu Zheng filmed "Thai Embarrassment", Huayi didn't agree, Mu Ming voted; Wu Jing filmed "Wolf Warrior", but did not find investment, Mu Ming invested again; Tian Xiaopeng filmed "The Return of the Great Sage", but the funds were gone, but he still invested it.
To be reasonable, this has to be placed in ancient times, and Mu Ming can't prepare for the name of "timely rain" at this time.
One day, when nature came to climb a household, everyone shouted "Brother Mu Ming", and then ......
Of course, in addition to funds, there are many benefits to being able to pull Mu Ming's cooperation.
For example, you can get technical support in the digital field that is currently a first-line special effects company in China, such as a professional shooting team and publicity channels.
In addition, Mu Ming herself is also a well-known director in China, and she also directed a medium-level Hollywood movie, and this experience can also be of great help to the whole project.
Because of this, as soon as the meeting ended, Guo Fan didn't care that he and Mu Ming hadn't seen each other at all, so he looked for him directly at the door.
I thought the process of persuasion would be difficult – and in fact it wasn't easy.
The two chatted from the afternoon until midnight, and Guo Fan took out some of his preliminary ideas and some material preparations for such a long time.
Mu Ming asked while watching the changes, and from time to time the two of them argued over a certain setting or plot, and it didn't look like they were still discussing investment, but like they were ready to start filming.
However, after these arguments came to an end temporarily, Mu Ming only thought about it for less than ten minutes before agreeing to Guo Fan's investment request.
"Or else?
I rejected you first, and then you returned disappointed, and after a period of psychological construction, I rekindled the fighting spirit, and then I was persuaded by your impassionedness, followed by the filming process with BGM, and finally the movie was released with great success, ushering in the climax of the ending?
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” Mu Ming smiled: "It's just a project investment, we don't have to make it like a Hollywood inspirational film." ” "But the most important problem now is that we have to come up with a complete script first.
Then we can specify the plan for the shoot and start the preparations.
Mu Ming told Guo Fan: "I will have a new movie released around July, and there will be several other projects after that, so you have to be responsible for perfecting the script." ” The original work of "The Wandering Earth" is only about 20,000 words in total, depicting three stages from "braking" to "deceleration" to finally "wandering", so it is impossible to directly adapt the story of the original book when it is filmed as a movie.
This step not only tests the strength of the director, but also tests the screenwriter's ability to create a second time.
In particular, science fiction works pay attention to the setting of world view and environmental background, and Da Liu, a traditional-oriented author, is not like the starting point writers who count money by words, and they are eager to introduce various settings in as much detail as possible.
Maybe when I wrote it at the time, a lot of worldviews and the like passed by in a flash.
In other words, Guo Fan and the others have to reverse the more detailed details on the basis of the brief description of the original work.
This is not a simple job, Mu Ming secretly estimated in her heart, even according to the most optimistic situation, just the script and background setting will take half a month.
But it's okay to do this, "Ace Agent" will be released in the summer, and the release period will almost end when the script is ready to be completed.
At that time, it is just in time to start the preparatory work so that it will not affect the normal operation of Mizuki.