Chapter 401 and Gong Li
The two were eating food and drinking fruit drinks, chatting about recent events.
“I heard that you made a zombie movie after returning to China?” Gong Li looked up and asked with surprise.
Wang Shu responded with a smile: "I did make a zombie movie."
Gong Li felt that Wang Shu's behavior in making a zombie movie was a bit irrational, and couldn't help but said: "There are zombies in the country film audience? ”
She does not deny that zombie movies are a popular genre in Europe and the United States.
But in China
He feels that compared to zombie movies, zombie movies should have a wider audience.
After all, zombie movies are local culture, and zombie movies are considered "imported products."
But she also knows that zombie movies will most likely fail to pass the review.
If it could pass the censorship, there would already be a lot of directors in the Mainland who would have put this type of film on the big screen. Who would have waited until Wang Shu came to shoot it now!
Wang Shu understood what Gong Li meant and immediately explained: "A few years ago, zombie movies might not have a large audience in China, but now many people want to watch them."
"Furthermore, this zombie film is a film for overseas audiences."
"You also know that overseas zombie culture is deeply rooted, and this type of film is relatively more acceptable to overseas audiences."
Hearing this explanation, Gong Li nodded slightly, "Except for martial arts movies, zombie movies should be more easily accepted by overseas audiences than other types of Chinese movies."
After saying this, he smiled and said, "So... you made a zombie movie for the overseas box office?"
As soon as he finished saying this, he felt that something was wrong, and then added, "Oh no, I heard that you The script of this zombie movie was originally planned to be shot in Hollywood, so this is a movie for overseas audiences."
When Wang Shu heard this, he naturally would not say that he just wanted to be in the movie. He made a zombie movie at a time when it was possible to make zombie movies. Later, due to policy reasons, this zombie movie became a swan song, and he subsequently hid his fame and achievements.
The so-called "Travel to Taipei" is a script prepared to be filmed in Hollywood. It is all nonsense.
From beginning to end, he wanted to film it in the country.
It's just that he has always hidden his true purpose and expressed it in another way.
For example, everyone now thinks that "Travel to Taipei" is a movie script he plans to shoot in Hollywood, but it was only shot in China because of Han Sanping's favor.
This method was not only "forced" to achieve the goal of making zombie movies in China, but also left a reputation for emphasizing love and justice.
For the same thing, if you use different ways to achieve the ultimate goal, the benefits you can get are very different.
If Wang Shu took the initiative to tell Han Sanping that he wanted to make a zombie movie in China and asked Han Sanping to help him pass the trial, then he would be the passive party manipulated by Han Sanping.
Although the goal of filming "Travel to Taipei" was finally achieved, it obviously lost the right to speak and the benefits could not be maximized.
Under the request of Han Sanping, "I had no choice but to come up with my own skills to prepare a zombie movie script to be shot in Hollywood." When you go to Hollywood, you really don’t forget about domestic entertainment.
Wang Shu smiled and did not answer the question, but said: "Anyway, the movie has been shot, and now it is in post-production. It is too late to say more. I just hope it will have good box office results by then."
"When will it be released?" Gong Li asked after taking a sip of juice.
What she drank was orange juice, which was sour and sweet.
Orange juice is not freshly squeezed, but blended, which is very common in the United States.
“If everything goes well, it should be released in the New Year.” Wang Shu did not hide the schedule.
It doesn’t matter whether Gong Li will tell this matter.
Because this matter would have been announced to the public, and it would have shocked other Chinese-language films to consider whether they had the strength to compete with "Taipei Trip".
As long as other Chinese-language films are withdrawn in fear, "Taipei Trip" will be the only one to dominate the New Year schedule. During the same period, there was no strong competition from Chinese-language films, so "Travel to Taipei" was able to achieve higher box office numbers.
“It’s the New Year’s Eve.” Gong Li suddenly realized.
I suddenly felt that it was reasonable and expected.
The New Year period is from mid-December to after New Year’s Day.
At this stage, this schedule is the best in the mainland.
The Spring Festival, May Day, and National Day sales surpassed the New Year sales. It was only when the domestic real estate industry took off that the majority of rural residents began to make their mark when they bought houses and lived in the cities.
At this stage, the Spring Festival stalls, May Day stalls and National Day stalls are all inferior to the New Year stalls.
Gong Li then smiled and said: "It seems you are really confident?"
You must be confident if you dare to release it during the New Year period.
Because under normal circumstances, there will be other strong Chinese-language films competing in this schedule, and the competition will affect the weak film schedule.
The strong will always be strong, and the weak will always be weak.
But she also knew that Wang Shu’s zombie film was invested by China Film.
Therefore, as long as this zombie movie is not too bad, then the film schedule will be guaranteed.
Wang Shu said with a smile: "I must have confidence, but the schedule is set by Director Han."
When Gong Li heard this, she immediately understood, laughed immediately, and then teased Said: "It seems that Director Han has great confidence in you?"
Wang Shu smiled and answered, "After all, it is a movie with an investment of hundreds of millions. No matter whether you have confidence or not, you need confidence. You can't just throw it into your hands, right?"
Gong Li couldn't help but feel these words. The movie "The Promise" comes to mind.
The investment is there, no matter whether it is good or not, it has to be released before it is released.
"It's true that you can't smash it in your hands." Gong Li smiled and nodded, and then said, "But looking at you so calmly, you should be very confident."
Said After finishing, he turned to ask, "What about this time? Apart from promoting "The Tuner" this time in Hollywood, what other plans do you have?"
She was just asking casually, but to her surprise, Wang Shu responded: "If nothing else happens, a biopic should be made."
"Huh?" Gong Li was immediately surprised by this. , so that the movement of eating stopped.
Having been in Hollywood for several years, she naturally knows that biopics are one of the most popular types of films at the Academy Awards.
Generally speaking, biopics are mostly made for the sake of winning awards.
It’s just that Wang Shu is a Chinese director from the East, and Hollywood is located in the United States in the West.
And Wang Shu also came to Hollywood to shoot a movie last year. He is obviously not an "American Hand". Can he also make a biographical movie?
Are you kidding me?
Wang Shu saw Gong Li's expression and knew that she had gone wrong. He immediately explained: "It's not the kind of biopic you think of, but a biopic with the 'Stock God' on Wall Street as its core."
He originally wanted to say that it was a biopic based on the autobiography of a Wall Street trader, but he was worried that traders would be difficult for Gong Li to understand, so he came up with the more understandable term "stock god".
(End of this chapter)