Originally in history, Huayi Company was once the largest private film and television company in mainland China.

However, after going public, it implemented a "de-filming" strategy and shifted the company's business focus to other areas, such as performing arts agency and entertainment platforms.

This decision is undoubtedly wrong. Movies are Huayi's foundation and advantage. After abandoning this main business, the company will lose its core competitiveness.

However, with the advent of the Internet era and the rapid rise of new entertainment forms such as short videos, Huayi's business empire began to crumble and gradually fell behind in the booming development of Chinese-language films.

Ultimately, it was caused by the company's strategic mistakes.

The reason for this is the person at the helm.

Although the Wang brothers are the "first generation of rich people", in many of their styles and habits, they are more like the "second generation of rich people".

Wang Zhonglei’s plan at this moment seems a bit rash.

I just thought that I could make a lot of money at the box office by releasing a similar movie in advance, but I never thought about what the consequences would be if I angered Jiang Heng!

……

After returning to iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video, Jiang Heng called Du Huan, Li Xiaoping and others and told them about the plan of Wang Zhonglei and others.

After hearing this, the two were very angry.

Du Huan snorted coldly: "We have always been kind to others and never try to exclude or suppress them. After a long time, they will no longer take us seriously!"

Li Xiaoping said: "Since Boss Wang wants to do something tricky, let's play along with him!"

Jiang Heng smiled and said, "Oh, if you have any specific ideas, tell us!"

Du Huan and Li Xiaoping looked at each other, and Li Xiaoping spoke first.

The general meaning is that we should work hard on the box office of Huayi's upcoming new film, and make him lose money on several films in a row, so that he will probably be honest.

For example, by influencing relevant theater companies, they can make changes to the number of films scheduled.

This trick seems simple, but it is the most effective.

When the movie "I Am Not Madame Bovary" directed by Director Feng in his previous life was released, it only had 6% of the screening time. Director Feng immediately posted a message to express his sympathy, implying that Wanda was "making things difficult" for him.

Naturally, the richest man Wang doesn't bother to pay attention to such things, but "Principal Wang" couldn't stand it and directly retorted to Feng Xiaogang, "You are allowed to poach people, but we are not allowed to reduce the screenings of films that we don't like?"
Director Feng has no idea what to do about this!

In the previous life, Wanda Cinemas was very powerful, and in this life, iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video are no less powerful.

In addition to holding shares in several cinema companies such as "China Film Chihong" and "Shanghai Film Chihong", it also built a new iQiyi Cinema Line, which is very popular in the market due to its prime location, brand new decoration and advanced equipment.

It can be said that it is really easy for iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video to manipulate the screening schedule of popular films.

Just as "Principal Wang" said, there is really nothing wrong with "reducing the screening schedule for films that you are not optimistic about"!

After all, the box office of many domestic movies is driven by marketing, and the actual level is just that!

In addition, some films can be arranged to "snipe" Huayi's new films. In short, there are still many methods.

After talking about this, we talked about the preparations for the new film.

Jiang Heng gave Du Huan a stack of sketches and asked him to arrange people to make props according to the contents of the sketches and build interior scenes for shooting.

Li Xiaoping was also asked to contact the actors and coordinate their schedules.

The new film tells the story of the war between the Earth civilization and other interstellar civilizations, and it needs to have a suitable perspective for the audience.

It is really not advisable to tell the story of three pairs of lovers like "The Crossing", which makes the audience's perspective constantly switch.

So Jiang Heng chose to use a special forces soldier as the protagonist, with a character similar to He Chenguang in "I Am a Special Forces Soldier: Blade Out of the Sheath", and the timeline is set a hundred years later. At that time, the earth was on the eve of a world war due to the fierce competition between countries. Local conflicts were intensifying and nuclear war was imminent.

People of insight are calling on major powers to exercise restraint, because nuclear war cannot destroy the earth, it can only destroy the current human civilization on earth.

But because the contradictions were irreconcilable, the war would break out within a month.

Just at this moment, aliens suddenly appeared in Dragon Country in a wooden interstellar spaceship and were captured by the special forces team led by the male protagonist.

After the interrogation, the male protagonist, his leader and higher-level leaders were all stunned and could not believe what they saw.

After reporting to higher authorities, the country learned the real situation and decided to send an expedition team to use "space jump technology" to go to the nearest planet with "human" civilization to confirm the authenticity of the matter.

The ones who were finally chosen were the male protagonist and his special forces team who first came into contact with the aliens.

The subsequent plot is naturally that the male protagonist and others deviated when jumping in space and went to a planet with a low-level magical civilization.

However, in the face of the most advanced individual weapons, low-level magic is obviously not enough.

When the male protagonist and others returned, they still encountered many twists and turns, but fortunately they finally returned to Earth within the last minute.

"Space jump technology" has been proven to be correct, and it is also true that the Earth civilization has chosen the wrong technology tree.

When Longguo announced this scientific and technological achievement to the world, the originally tense atmosphere of imminent nuclear war instantly dissipated.

Instead, there is excitement and enthusiasm among heads of state, officials and ordinary people. Since the entire universe has unlimited resources, why should they fight for the Earth's resources to the point of mutual destruction?
……

So, although there are many characters in this film, the most important one is the male protagonist who is a special forces soldier.

Jiang Heng chose Wu Jing to play this role without much thought.

Firstly, the two did have a good relationship. Secondly, during the filming of the "Journey to the West" film series, Wu Jing's true face was not visible to the audience due to the makeup, so he did not benefit much.

Letting Wu Jing perform was somewhat of a compensation idea.

After Du Huan and Li Xiaoping left, Jiang Heng called Wu Jing.

"What are you busy with?"

"I was thinking about the script of Wolf Warrior 2, and Director Jiang called me. Is there any good news?" Wu Jing said with a smile.

Wu Jing had already heard about Jiang Heng's plan to make a new science fiction film.

However, he really didn't dare to hope for the role of the male lead.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Heng called him at this sensitive time, which made him feel expectant again.

Could it be that he was going to play the leading role? He wouldn't need to wear makeup this time, right? Wu Jing couldn't help but wonder.

"Of course it's a good thing. I'm planning to invite you to play the leading actor in this new movie. Do you have time?"

Wu Jing was stunned for a few seconds when he heard this, then he was overjoyed and hurriedly said that he had a schedule, he had a schedule, and then asked about the hero's personality and story background.

Jiang Heng laughed and spoke briefly.

Wu Jing was extremely happy after hearing this, because it seemed like it was tailor-made for him!

For a moment, I was so excited that nothing could stop me!
"Director Jiang, I won't say more. Thank you so much. Don't worry, I will definitely play this role well!"

Jiang Heng laughed, "That's right, I must have chosen you because I felt confident!" (End of this chapter)