Chapter 26 Script Prototype
At night, Jiang Heng returned to the hotel and couldn't sleep. He sat in front of the window thinking about the shooting ideas for the second film.

The late 90s was an awkward time point. Hollywood films were conquering the global film market, while the Chinese-language market was still in its infancy.

Relying solely on the domestic market to make special effects blockbusters will not bring in much profit.

When looking at the world, we have to consider whether the audience can understand it.

Monster movies are a good choice. The production cost of "Jurassic Park 1" was not high, but it grossed $9.12 million worldwide, its peripheral products sold like hot cakes, and its theme park project continued to generate revenue for the company.

Jiang Heng plans to draw on the ideas of "Jurassic Park" and make a domestically produced monster movie.

As for the plot, the entire Jurassic series is actually unremarkable, and the "chase and escape" scenes cannot be avoided no matter how they are written.

It is precisely because of this that the box office of the "Jurassic Park" trilogy has been declining, and it took more than 10 years to restart this IP and shoot "Jurassic World".

Therefore, stunning visual effects and novel storylines are equally important.

Jiang Heng sat in front of the computer, imitating the setting of "Jurassic Park", but after working on it for a long time, it seemed to be out of place no matter how he looked at it.

If we just shoot scenes set in ancient times, we're afraid the audience won't feel involved.

When I was feeling irritated, I suddenly saw a copy of "A Step into the Past" half-turned upside down beside the bed, and I was instantly inspired.

"I can write about a modern special forces soldier who takes a time machine to the Qin Dynasty, but due to a machine malfunction he mistakenly enters the prehistoric world and arrives in the Jurassic period."

A special forces soldier goes to the Jurassic period and can perform many wilderness survival plots.

The "Man vs. Wild" series, which first aired in 06, has been popular for more than ten years.

In the era of short videos, some wilderness survival videos are still extremely popular.

"There shouldn't be any primitive humans in the Jurassic period, right?"

Jiang Heng once imagined that the male protagonist encountered primitive people and helped them resist dinosaurs.

I immediately felt that humans did not appear that early, so I checked on the computer and found that it was true. The earliest ancient apes only lived 3500 million years ago.

The end of the Jurassic period was 145.5 million years ago, which is too far away.

"There is only one male lead, so Wu Qizu can play the role by himself, and there can't be any casualties!" Jiang Heng stood up and murmured.

Recalling all the shark movies that Hollywood has made so many of, there always have to be a few characters dying to make the movie tense and exciting!
But if you want to take multiple people back to prehistoric times, the setting of the time machine would be a bit inconsistent.

“We can’t borrow the setting of “The Great Ruler” and have nine dragons pulling a coffin!”

Although the visual effect will be super shocking when presented in a movie, it seems difficult to understand for Chinese and foreign audiences who have not yet been baptized by fantasy novels.

"Let's use the power of astronomy to create a nine-planet alignment!"

When Jiang Heng thought of this, he already had a general idea in his mind, and started typing on the keyboard with both hands.

The plot summary is that in 2000, a national archaeological team discovered a huge group of dinosaur bone fossils in the Lesser Khingan Mountains in Jiayin, a small town on the Sino-Russian border.

This news was learned by international antiquities dealers, who sent a small team of mercenaries to cross the border from Heilongjiang and sneak into the Lesser Khingan Mountains, waiting for an opportunity to steal dinosaur fossils.

Although the Chinese side was unaware of this news, it still sent several armed police to protect the archaeological team.

The male protagonist, who has extremely high fighting power, is naturally a former special forces soldier.

It was a big battle, with both sides suffering minor injuries.

Then the astronomical wonder of "Nine Planets in a Conjunction" appeared, and everyone in the dinosaur burial pit was transported to the Jurassic period by a magical force.

In this dangerous prehistoric world, the archaeological team and mercenaries had to work together for warmth and rely on the only weapons in their hands to fight against all kinds of dinosaurs...

Jiang Heng was so excited about writing that he stayed up all night, and only went back to his room to sleep after having breakfast. He woke up around 2pm, picked up his phone, and saw a bunch of missed calls.

Except for the unimportant ones, I called back all the others.

Han Sanping was actually quite excited when he received Jiang Heng's call.

"Are you okay? I thought if you didn't answer the phone, I would go to the hotel to find you. Are you drunk?"

Jiang Heng smiled and said, "No, I stayed up all night writing the script!"

Han Sanping asked in surprise: "How is the writing?"

"Well, we have the outline of the script. We can make some changes within this framework and it will be almost done!"

"Wait for me, I'll be there in less than half an hour!"

Han Sanping hung up the phone and ordered the driver to drive him to Shangri-La. He went to Jiang Heng's room and asked him how the script was going.

Jiang Heng recited the plot outline, and Han Sanping was pleasantly surprised: "It's a good idea for modern people to go to the Jurassic period. To be honest, when I went back yesterday, I also thought about writing a script based on the model of "Jurassic Park", but it just didn't feel right no matter how I wrote it!"

Jiang Heng smiled and said, "The situation in our country is different from that in the United States. It would be too inappropriate to copy the settings!"

Han Sanping smiled, "Yes, I'm thinking of putting a dinosaur park on Snake Island off the coast of Dalian!"

“It’s a good idea!”

Han Sanping added, "The mercenary setting is great. It can bring weapons back to prehistoric times and increase the intensity of the confrontation!"

Jiang Heng smiled, "I just thought that having foreign mercenaries and adding Western faces would be more conducive to the overseas sales of the film copyright!"

Han Sanping nodded repeatedly, "Indeed, the overseas box office of this kind of film is very important!"

After a moment's hesitation, he asked, "How much do you think it would cost to film this?"

Jiang Heng thought for a moment, "Prehistoric world scenes basically require special effects, plus all kinds of dinosaurs, it will cost tens of millions!"

Han Sanping was shocked when he heard this and murmured, "With tens of millions of dollars, we can't spend too much on actors!"

Jiang Heng nodded. He wanted Wu Aizu and Li Meiqi to continue to act in the film.

After all, "The Matrix" starring the two was released worldwide and has some popularity, which is more conducive to achieving higher overseas box office.

"Okay, I'll find some good actors who don't have high pay to play supporting roles!"

Jiang Heng naturally had no objection. Since he chose to cooperate, he would definitely have to give up some power.

The two discussed some details of the collaboration and basically reached an agreement.

The only issue was the investment amount for the Beijing Film Studio, which Han Sanping could not decide on his own and had to go back for collective discussion and decision.

But he also gave an approximate investment amount, between 10 and 20 million yuan.

Although there are certain risks, considering that "The Matrix" is a huge hit at the box office and Jiang Heng has achieved extremely high profits, I believe that the leadership of the Beijing Film Studio will approve his proposal.

Without mentioning Han Sanping's departure, Jiang Heng called Wu Yizu again, "What are your plans recently?"

Wu Yizu hurriedly said, "I just finished filming a movie, and I don't feel good about the rest of the script. Brother Cheng Long said he is willing to take me, but he has to go to Hollywood, and it seems that there is no role suitable for me..."

"Okay, I have a script here. We'll probably start filming around April. Remember to leave your schedule for me!"

(End of this chapter)