Chapter 420 Leon's Thoughts

After the Lantern Festival.

The script of "The Wandering Earth" has finally been finalized.

The film was created by Gu Wei, assisted by the screenwriter team of Xingchen Film and Television Company. More than a dozen screenwriters discussed and wrote it together, which took several months.

At this point, the general plot of the story was somewhat different from the novel, and Gu Wei originally planned to make as few changes as possible.

However, during the script writing process, some young screenwriters raised doubts, believing that many of the plots and events in the novel were not suitable for inclusion in the movie.

Gu Wei thought about it and realized that, in addition to respecting the original work, the adapted work must also extend a good extension to be considered an excellent adaptation.

To put it simply, adaptation does not mean copying the original text, as that would be meaningless.

For example, the most classic superhero movie "Batman: The Dark Knight" is a comic adaptation, an ordinary superhero story, but director Nolan gave it another depth.

After hearing such feedback, Gu Wei thought the suggestions were very good and asked everyone to continue discussing and sort out the plot.

Anyway, he is only responsible for proposing ideas and outlines. The screenwriter team is responsible for filling in and smoothing out the specific details, lines, and logic. The purpose of doing this is also to train young people.

The young people in the screenwriter team were also very excited about their boss's trust. They spent most of their time together, discussing every detail in the script, and even pondered over every line of dialogue.

Generally speaking, a good movie script takes a long time to polish, and may even be revised while filming. There are also many examples where after filming, some scenes that were filmed with great effort are deemed not good and are simply deleted.

After this version of the script of "The Wandering Earth" was read by many parties including China Film, Light Media, Wanda, Bona Film Group, Emperor Entertainment Group and Splendid Studios, everyone discussed it together and felt that there was no problem in starting filming.

As for how the film will turn out, it all depends on Gu Wei. After all, the director is the soul of film creation.

There are many examples in the film and television industry of seemingly good scripts being made into a mess, and of average scripts being made into critically acclaimed and commercially successful films.

After the script was finalized, Gu Wei went to China Film Group in person, and then he and Han Sanping appeared at the General Administration, which was reported by media reporters.

"Gu Wei, director of Xingchen Films, and Han Sanping, chairman of China Film Group, went to the Film Bureau in person. I suspect they were submitting the script for The Wandering Earth for review?"

All of a sudden, major media including Sina, Penguin, and Sohu reported on the news.

However, apart from releasing photos of the two people, no detailed information has been released yet.

This made some netizens dissatisfied.

HH Xia Chong: "I want to see the latest details this afternoon. I hope you won't let me down."

Vitamin Water: "Hurry up, it's useless at the critical moment, what are you doing!"

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The specific situation of "The Wandering Earth" has not yet been released, and netizens suddenly discovered that the latest script review list of the Film Bureau was published on the official website.

When some media in the industry checked these documents as usual, looking for news material, they made the discovery.

Another film produced by Xingchen Films that passed the review is "Lost in Thailand".

Originally, this comedy film, which cost only 30 million yuan, would not attract much attention from the media and netizens.

But as more and more information came out, the discussion became more and more heated.

Director Xu Zheng, well, he’s okay. He had a movie called “Lost on Journey” which grossed over 100 million yuan, making him a member of the 100 million yuan club.

Starring Wang Baoqiang and Huang Bo, they are pretty good. When it comes to comedy, one is good at playing simple funny characters, while the other has a bit of gangster spirit. Maybe this time their partnership can create different sparks.

But at the end, when everyone saw that the producer was Gu Wei, they were dumbfounded.

Qi Lingyun: "This, this, this, is this true or false?"

C ends: "It's fake, right?"

Feng Donghuo: "Really, it's true! The name and company match."

Autumn Wind Burns Fallen Leaves: "Oh my god! This news is going to explode. Isn't Director Gu going to shoot another movie? Can he still be the producer?"

Mingge9902: "Maybe it's just a name."

The media reported it quickly and the news spread quickly within the circle.

"Major film news: Director Gu Wei will serve as the producer of Director Xu Zheng's new film."

"The official website of the Film Bureau shows that the script of The Wandering Earth, written by Director Gu, is currently under review."

"Director Xu Zheng said in an interview that he would do his best to make this film and live up to Director Gu's trust."

Other people in the circle suddenly felt a little jealous. It was just a comedy with a small investment, but it could cause such high popularity.

Huayi Company.

Wang Zhonglei saw the media's extensive coverage and said directly:

"Brother, let's announce the release dates of several of the company's movies as soon as possible. Maybe we can even raise the stock price."

Huayi did not have many movies last year, and all the blockbusters were screened in the previous schedule, but this year there are many movies to be released.

Hearing this, Wang Zhongjun also had this thought, and he already had a goal. "Xiaogang's "1942" will definitely hit the Lunar New Year period. The film he collaborated with Zhou Xingchi is currently in post-production. If it is released during this year's Spring Festival, it would be a good choice.

Anyway, no matter what, Gu Wei will not be directing any movies this year, so we should be prepared and make some money at the box office.”

On the other hand, Lu Chuan was also in a bad mood. He and Gu Wei didn't get along, and everyone in the circle knew about it.

Seeing that the other party's film project was so popular, it would be a miracle for him to be in a good mood.

"A bunch of people who don't know how to appreciate a comedy starring just these few people, and with such a low budget, what's the point of watching it?
When The Banquet comes out, I will show you guys what a real blockbuster is.”

Lu Chuan muttered to himself, he was very confident about his costume drama.

This is a movie that he spent three years and eight months preparing. Whether he can make a comeback depends on this time.

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At the same time, Gu Wei, who was at home with Liu Yifei, received a large number of calls.

Liu Yifei sat on the side, reading the script while listening to Gu Wei answering the phone.

After a long while, "Wow, a movie with an investment of tens of millions can still attract so many people's attention," Gu Wei muttered after working for a while.

"President Han, President Ye, President Wang, President Ren, there are quite a lot of people here, all asking about Lost in Thailand?"

The young lady heard Gu Wei's muttering and asked curiously.

"It's about the same. Some ask about investment, and some ask about publicity and promotion.

Usually everyone is busy with hundreds of millions of dollars of investment, I didn't expect that a movie would attract so much attention, interesting, haha." Gu Wei looked at the young lady and shook his head with a smile.

"You are the producer, this wouldn't have happened if it was someone else.

By the way, has Director Zhang's problem been resolved?" Liu Yifei bit her lips lightly and stared at him, her meaning was self-evident.

"Well, the company sent a lawyer. Director Zhang wants to have another formal talk with the other party."

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After February, "Mission Impossible 4", which had been suppressed by China Film for many days, was finally released in China.

Han Sanping deliberately postponed it in order to avoid affecting the box office of domestic films during the Spring Festival holiday.

However, although "Mission Impossible 4" was released relatively late in China, it achieved high box office in South Korea.

According to statistics from Korean media, "Mission: Impossible 4" exceeded 33 million viewers in 700 days after its release, breaking several movie box office records.

From December to the New Year, South Korea's box office was almost entirely plundered by imported blockbusters, leaving a small amount for local films.

At the same time, this year's Oscar nominations are out.

Paramount's "Hugo" received 11 nominations, Weinstein's "The Artist" received 10 nominations, and the rest were "War Horse" and "Moneyball", which received 6 nominations.

Unfortunately, after the elimination of "The Flowers of War" representing the mainland and "A Simple Life" from Hong Kong for this year's Best Foreign Language Film Award, "Seediq Bale" representing Taiwan was also eliminated.

The Iranian masterpiece "A Separation", which previously defeated "The Flowers of War" at the Golden Globe Awards, was not only nominated for the Foreign Language Film Award, but was also shortlisted for the Best Original Screenplay Award.

Hollywood.

Leonardo looked at this nomination with some bitterness, because "Hoover" didn't even get an Oscar nomination, let alone a best actor nomination.

Previously, this movie was also hailed as a recognized Oscar candidate.

Watching the Hollywood media's box office reports on "2012", Leonardo couldn't help but think of Gu Wei's invitation to him two days ago.

"It might be a good opportunity to go to China and see if Gu has any ideas for making an award-winning film." Thinking of this, Leonardo's eyes became more determined.

In China, when Gu Wei saw the list of nominations, he couldn't help but sigh, saying that Harvey deserves to be called the behind-the-scenes controller of the Oscars.

"The Artist" scored another 10 nominations.

Weinstein, who successfully managed "The King's Speech" to defeat "The Social Network" last year, is still the winner this year.

"The King's Speech" winning the Best Picture was not Harvey's top skill. What was really amazing was that its director Tom Amber defeated David Fincher of "The Social Network" to win the Best Director Award.

It can be said that Weinstein's skills are several levels higher than when he led "Shakespeare in Love" to reverse "Saving Private Ryan".

With such strong public relations skills as a foundation, Harvey's performance this year should be said to be expected.

"This Harvey is really good. He made the Oscar award look like a sure thing." Song Ge couldn't help but comment, with a hint of regret in his tone.

Hearing this, Gu Wei knew what the other party meant. "There's nothing to regret. Oscar has no shortage of capable PR companies. If we need them, we can always contact others for PR."

"That's right. After all, these capitalists only care about money, and what we have the least of is cash, haha." After hearing what Gu Wei said, Song Ge instantly understood.

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(End of this chapter)