my time as a director

Guo Fan shook his head, "The Three-Body Problem is too complicated. I don't have the ability to make a good film now. If I ruin this one, it will be my fault."

As a sci-fi fan, Guo Fan decided to start his career as a director. His goal was to make a real sci-fi blockbuster.

The goal at the beginning was the Three-Body Problem, which is also the best science fiction in China.

However, while researching and conceiving, there is no suitable entry point for such a large-scale, large-scale work with a grand vision.

The "god" whose civilization is higher than that of human beings has a casual attitude of "it's none of your business to destroy you", and the oriental worldview that treats all things as dogs.

If you simply shoot against aliens, it would be a bit weak.

So, he set his sights on another sci-fi, and said to Li Qian enthusiastically, "Boss, recently I'm studying another book by Da Liu, The Wandering Earth, and I think the difficulty of adapting this story is more appropriate."

"You see one loves the other, isn't it too fast?" Li Qian was shocked. A few months ago, he swore that he had thoroughly studied the three-body problem, and how long it would take to make an oriental sci-fi epic. Ah, let's change the target and adapt Wandering Earth.

wrong!

Wandering Earth?

Li Qian was stunned immediately. Of course he had this movie in his memory. It can be said that it is the best domestic science fiction movie in his memory.

To be precise, there is no domestic sci-fi in my memory at all, and the Shanghai Fortress was filmed like shit. I would rather watch Wuji than Shanghai Fortress. Even comparing them is an insult to Wuji.

The Wandering Earth is definitely an epoch-making sci-fi blockbuster, and it is a serious sci-fi movie. Li Qian has always been curious about which domestic director made this film.

Is it?

Li Qian turned his head and stared at Guo Fan firmly.

scare!

Guo Fan was taken aback by Li Qian's eyes, touched his face uncomfortably, and asked in confusion, "Is there something on my face?"

Li Qian looked at Guo Fan without saying a word, and began to recall the drafts he had drawn in his mind.

Guo Fan majored in law, but after graduation he made a living by drawing for others. When he first applied for the job, Li Qian returned the cartoons of the prequel of Kung Fu King.

In the past few years, he has drawn a lot of manuscripts one after another for self-entertainment, all of which are science fiction, including robots, mechas, and post-apocalyptic architecture.

Moreover, many punk styles, the so-called punk refers to the marginalized people in society. Driven by punk music and punk socialization, it eventually became a banner for marginalized people to endorse themselves and oppose the mainstream.

Later, because of the Cold War, punk became a modern spirit, which was gradually widely used in science fiction films.

As for the movie The Wandering Earth, the theme style is polar bear heavy industry aesthetics, and it also has a bit of steampunk and cyberpunk styles.

In the movie, cyberpunk made a surreal setting for future technology, with huge machinery, digital advancement, asymmetrical development of technology tree, advanced and backward coexistence, a typical utopian social structure, which perfectly fits the movie background.

People who don't know it may question whether they can make planetary thrusters, but they are still driving clumsy transport vehicles.

However, anyone who has a certain understanding of sci-fi genre and sci-fi style will not ask this kind of question.

Li Qian remembers that Guo Fan had a series of manuscripts before, which was roughly about human beings responding to the invasion of aliens, working overtime in the arsenal, and the arsenal was a typical polar bear heavy industry style.

The style is right, and the punk style can be vaguely seen in some of his previous manuscripts.

That is, very likely?

"Oh it's you!"

Li Qian laughed. He didn't expect that it would be so easy to find nowhere to go. That epoch-making sci-fi blockbuster was probably made by Guo Fan!

Chapter 394 Do it boldly

"What am I?"

Guo Fan looked at Li Qian in bewilderment. Didn't he just stop shooting Three-Body Problem and planned to shoot The Wandering Earth first? Why are you so excited?

"It's nothing, I think of happy things."

Li Qian smiled and calmed down.

It really didn't occur to him that Guo Fan, who graduated from a law major and specialized in painting, was clamoring all day to make an epic sci-fi blockbuster in Huaguo, and he might be the director of Wandering Earth.

However, James Cameron was a truck driver before he made a movie, and Zhang Yimou was a cotton mill worker before he was admitted to film school.

There are many examples of this in the world. The famous Japanese director Takeshi Kitano used to be a cross talk actor, and the Japanese film lover Koji Wakamatsu was a young and Dangerous boy before making movies, and he specially collected protection fees.

Guo Fan is a law major and is good at painting. It is not surprising that he will make epoch-making science fiction films in the future.

Li Qian didn't have time to edit, so he moved his chair, and asked Guo Fan, "Old Guo, how do you plan to shoot?"

"I haven't figured it out yet." Guo Fan scratched Xiaoping's head, "Although the original book is not long, if it is moved to the big screen, it must not be filmed in its entirety. The length is definitely not enough."

"Indeed." Li Qian nodded, "With more than 2 characters, the whole plot is divided into four chapters and five stages. If you shoot according to the direction of the plot, let alone one, even if you can't shoot two, it will be filmed. It’s also a running account.”

It's not easy to change a long story, and it seems that there are few short films, but it's actually not easy to change.

There are not many words in The Wandering Earth, but there is not much content.

The overall plot is that humans will force the earth to stop its rotation through the planetary engine, and the earth will lose hundreds of millions of people, but the earth will also have the conditions to break away from the sun's revolution.

Then, the engine existing on the earth will be fully accelerated to push the earth out of the solar system. After searching for habitable galaxies, the speed will be slowed down, the earth will resume its normal rotation, and mankind will find a new home.

In the end, the earth regained its vitality and human civilization continued.

There are only so few words in the book, it is not so much a book, it is more like the outline of a huge novel, and it is a huge project to realize these pictures and put them on the big screen.

Guo Fan said enthusiastically, "Actually, there are mainly two stages, the braking era and the escape era together, and the wandering era and new sun era after escaping from the earth. If you want to shoot, you must start from the front."

"It can only be like this, but since the title of the film is called Wandering Earth, the core of the adaptation must revolve around these four words. I suggest using Wandering Earth as the theme."

Li Qian gave a suggestion, "In the era of brakes, the overall conflict is not as good as the era of escape, and according to the three-act structure, this stage can only be the first stage, but in this case, the front is too tragic. After all, hundreds of millions The population was sacrificed, I suggest that this passage can be used as the background of the movie, mainly talking about the era of escape."

The first difficulty in the adaptation was the choice of the plot, so Li Qian asked Guo Fan to avoid detours.

Moreover, this is also the most appropriate. Under the background of the end of the world, human beings are forced to take the earth to escape the solar system, which is more interesting than the first stage.

Guo Fan thought about it, and his eyes lit up, "Wandering Earth, of course we have to tell the story of the earth going wandering. If we shoot the first stage, it will become an end-time disaster movie."

Li Qian chatted with Guo Fan about the plot again, and then raised the biggest problem.

"But Lao Guo, have you ever thought about how much you know about sci-fi movies?"

Guo Fan smiled quite complacently, "Boss, have you forgotten? I am a veteran sci-fi fan. I have watched sci-fi and movies since I was a child."

Li Qian shook his head, "Anyone can watch a movie, but what I'm asking is how to make it?"

How to shoot?