my time as a director

Of course he has seen "Fortress of the Devil's City", a classic romance.

At the same time, I have watched the movie, and I was still wondering which stick-making thing made the coin-throwing movie.

I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it to be filmed by Teng Huatao. It stands to reason that he still has a level, especially the adaptation. As long as he is given a good story, he can make a good film.

"33 Days of Broken Love" is not bad because of the advantages of the story itself, while "Waiting for the Wind" has no story at all, it is just a travelogue, and Teng Huatao himself does not have the ability to tell a 90-minute story, so it hits the street up.

But the story of "Magic City Fortress" is okay, this story is really not good, good-looking does not mean that the story is good, it is a very successful and good-looking vulgar love.

However, if the movie is so bad, there is no one left. Most of the parts cannot be blamed on the story itself. Li Qian once thought it was made by an amateur director.

"Didn't you still prepare the adaptation of "Dragon Race" before, why did you change it to "Magic City Fortress" again?" Li Qian asked.

"The adaptation of "Dragon Race" is a big project. To do it must be a series of films. "Magic City Fortress" can be finished in one movie. I plan to do this first."

Of course, Teng Huatao would not say that he has no idea about the adaptation of "Dragon Race", and saw that Guo Fan was going to adapt "The Wandering Earth", so he made an impromptu idea.

"The original book "Magic City Fortress" is really good, a romance that I really like." Li Qian didn't ask why he changed his target, and they all came to him, he must have thought it over.

"This is actually a romance in a sci-fi skin. How do you plan to adapt it? Is it heavy on science fiction or heavy on romance?"

"I want to take both into account." Teng Huatao said confidently. In fact, this story is very easy to shoot and very simple. It is a love story in the background of the end of the world. The character's personality and growth are cleverly placed in the details.

Li Qian shook his head, "You should have read this book many times. The reserve of military knowledge is weak, and the too many space opera elements in it make the sci-fi attribute appear light and shallow. The so-called sci-fi in it is just a background. Creating a doomsday atmosphere and highlighting the love-hate entanglement of the protagonists simply cannot withstand scrutiny.

And if you want to have both science fiction and romance, you must first establish the world view and background of science fiction. The original work alone will not work at all. You have to build a doomsday background that the audience can believe. "

"It shouldn't be difficult. I think "The Wandering Earth" is similar, and it has more insight into human nature." Teng Huatao didn't care. For a story with such a long span as the latter, a movie cannot be made at all.

It seems that Teng Huatao didn't think much about it at all, and Li Qian even suspected that he just wanted to make this film because of his enthusiasm.

Li Qian also didn't say that Guo Fan's background concept for "The Wandering Earth" is a sci-fi style that is very different from Hollywood, and it is in line with Huaguo's sci-fi style.

"Actually, I don't think this book is suitable for adaptation at all. The whole story is too mediocre. Even when the human race is extinct, the male protagonist still only has the female protagonist in his mind. Jiang Nan laid a grand background. The invasion of star civilization, the sinking of New York, and the cannons of the magic city, the entire human race is at the time of life and death, but the hero is still struggling with how to send you text messages, and whether the heroine really likes others or likes herself a little bit.

This is not a sci-fi story in itself. Who hasn’t liked a girl in middle school, and then imagined the destruction of the world, and then stepped forward, it doesn’t matter if she dies, and then the whole girl understands your heart, and then falls in love with you, this is This story is just like that.

I cooperate very much with Jiang Nan's writing style, and vividly render such a story of secondary school two, but this style, junior high school students like to watch it, is suitable for adapting animated films, but definitely not suitable for live-action films.

In addition, the psychological contradictions that are best at expressing are the least good at expressing in movies. Looking at the history of human literature and film, I can say that the more psychological activities are described, the harder it is to adapt them into movies, and the more inner conflicts are the main focus. Yes, the harder it is to make a good movie.

The original work of "Modu Fortress" is an emotion filled with a lot of psychological activities and descriptions. It focuses on the protagonist's inner conflicts, but spends little energy on the expression of external conflicts.

Just for the role of the leading actor, an actor in his twenties with a youthful look and acting skills at the actor's level is needed. There are very few such actors, and even fewer are handsome enough to play the leading role in romance dramas. "

Li Qian mentioned a lot of difficulties in the adaptation, but still wanted to persuade Teng Huatao not to make this film, after all, it was really bad.

However, Teng Huatao really refuted one by one. Although every solution is ideal and difficult to realize, and he said it can be solved, Li Qian can also see that he has made up his mind. , I can't persuade you anymore.

I can't persuade him, and Li Qian doesn't bother to waste his saliva.

Seeing that he had convinced Li Qian, Teng Huatao was very proud. After all, it was not easy for Li Qian, a great director, to have nothing to say about his ideas.

He said happily, "Then I'll go back and prepare to think about the script."

Li Qian was really speechless.

Brother, this kind of sci-fi film needs to be prepared first, not the script, so there is no rush to get it done next year.

Now Li Qian really knows that Teng Huatao really doesn't know anything about sci-fi films. For sci-fi films like "Interstellar", the priority of the script is higher than others. With a brand new background, all weapons, equipment, buildings, and world views are all brand new, which is different.

"Magic City Fortress" is better, after all, the background of the story is in the magical city, but what about the others.

Chapter 487 Anti-genre Disaster Movie

"Director Li, happy cooperation."

"Pleasant to work with."

At the end of January, Li Qian once again finalized the B-round financing of Future Pictures with Wujia Capital, and signed the contract with his name.

Penguin and Ah Li are still among the shareholders, but the shares they occupy are insignificant.

Compared with the valuation of tens of billions in the A round of financing, after the B round of financing, the capital market's valuation of Future Films has reached 300 billion.

Although it is a bit far behind Huayang Media's market value of nearly 500 billion, but it is really going to be listed, and it is estimated that it will be easy to double.

After signing the contract and finishing the business, Chen Wu, who has already taken up the post of CEO of Penguin Pictures, smiled and cared about Li Qian's new film.

"Thank you, Mr. Chen, for your concern. I don't have any good ideas yet." Li Qian said with a smile.

"That's right, Director Li should also take a good rest after finishing a busy movie."

After another wave of concern about Li Qian, Chen Wu talked about the recent $[-] million production that had a big impact on the industry.

"What does Director Li think of the movie "Asura"?"

"A movie that only stays on the planning proposal, what can you see." Li Qian shook his head, and raised [-] million US dollars of investment with an idea. He is not a big director, and people nowadays are really daring.

"Why, Mr. Chen has an idea?"

Chen Wu didn't hide it, nodded and said, "I met Yang Zhenjian once, and he is indeed a marketing expert. I hope he can replicate the miracle of "Painted Skin"."

Li Qian shook his head secretly. The marketing of movies is indeed important these days, but all marketing is based on movies. As far as the filming effect is concerned, it is useless to find a lot of promotional leaders.

After chatting about interesting things in the industry, Chen Wu said without any trace, "I heard that Teng Huatao is preparing a new film, does Director Li know?"

Know everything so quickly?

Li Qian didn't care how Chen Wu knew, and even took the initiative to tell him, "Yes, he plans to put Jiang Nan's best-selling "Magic City Fortress" on the big screen, and I also chatted with him about the adaptation."

""Magic City Fortress"?"

Chen Wu's eyes lit up, he just heard that Teng Huatao came to Future Pictures a few days ago, and wondered if there was a new movie, but he didn't expect Li Qian to be so heartbroken.

For a moment, Chen Wu was a little moved.

His own plan is to complete the closed loop of the Penguin Entertainment Division within three to five years, realize the monopoly of the industry, and wipe out all the old film and television companies such as Future Pictures and Huayang Media.

The future era of Internet entertainment is ruled by penguins.

But I didn't expect that Li Qian really regarded him as a partner.

However, Chen Wu, who has been in the mall for a long time, is not so emotional, and he can only sigh in his heart, the mind of the creator is really pure.

"It sounds like it's a sci-fi movie? I haven't read this book." Chen Wu said again.

"It's a sci-fi movie. It's probably a story about aliens invading the earth, the world falling, and the magic city about to sink. A group of passionate young people bravely resist the aliens and defend the earth."