director of the millennium

Chapter 317 "Interstellar"!
Next movie?
Liu Yifei had a curious look on her face and stretched out her hand to pull Wu Yuan's sleeve: "Brother, what's the new movie?"

Naturally, Wu Yuan had nothing to hide from his pillow partner.

He smiled and said: "It's a science fiction film, and I plan to use an IMAX camera to shoot it."

"IMAX?" Liu Yifei repeated doubtfully.

Now IMAX is still a very new concept in China. Generally, people who don’t have contact with directors don’t know much about it, let alone Liu Yifei, who is a geek in electronics.

"Yes, IMAX." Wu Yuan sighed: "This is a very awesome technology, a technology that changes the world of movies."

Who would have thought that next year there would be an IMAX movie "Avatar" sweeping the world, directly changing the global film ecosystem and prompting the explosion of IMAX cinemas around the world.

Although the plot of the movie "Avatar" is really simple, and even a bit beautifying the colonists, the appearance of this movie is indeed epoch-making, bringing the world's film industry into a new era.

Fighting against the tide of the times is a wrong choice.

Wu Yuan is not like some literary film directors who always firmly believe that movies must be shot on film and should not use too many special effects. 3D and IMAX are even more flashy things.

He was very willing to embrace new technologies, even in his dreams. Later, he mainly made special effects movies, although they were the kind of Internet movies on major video platforms.
Of course, Wu Yuan couldn't stop a movie like "Avatar" that took ten years to prepare.

But after "Avatar", he is still very willing to deliver an IMAX science fiction blockbuster to global audiences.

The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants took the shade.

With the "Avatar" jade beads at the front, opening up the market, wouldn't it be good for him to follow behind and happily pick up the leaks?

"This will be a very high-investment movie, with an estimated investment of US$2 million, and the cost of each minute of footage exceeds US$1 million."

As soon as the figure of US$2 million came out, Liu Yifei immediately asked: "Then this must be a Hollywood blockbuster."

It is a Hollywood blockbuster, which means that the main actors must be Hollywood actors, and the dialogues are in English. There will not be any roles suitable for Chinese actors.

Seemingly guessing what Liu Yifei was thinking, Wu Yuan chuckled and pinched her little nose: "Don't worry, I've left a role for you."

"This movie is tentatively titled "Interstellar," and it is a hard science fiction blockbuster on a larger scale than "Gravity."

"The background of the story is that in the distant future, crops on the earth often fail due to climate change and blight..."

Yes, the movie Wu Yuan is going to make this time is the movie "Interstellar" that made Nolan a god in mainland China!
Regardless of the praise of those fanatical fans, from a movie perspective alone, this movie is indeed very good, and Wu Yuan also likes it very much.

In a previous life, this movie was filmed in 2013 and released in the United States on November 2014, 11. It eventually grossed nearly US$5 million at the global box office.

When it comes to making more money, that’s not true.

But the quality of this movie is indeed very high. Whether in Asia, Europe or the United States, it is hailed as the best hard science fiction movie in the 21st century.

Before the advent of the superhero era, Wu Yuan wanted to leave his own mark in Hollywood, and after thinking about it, he felt that this movie was the most suitable.

After all, "Gravity" has been Chineseized by him, and there are only so many Hollywood blockbusters with good enough spiritual cores.

Taking advantage of the fact that Nolan's "Inception" is still in the process of being brewed, we can cut off this movie as soon as possible!
If you make "Interstellar" now, the cost will be more expensive than in a few years when the prices of IMAX cameras and special effects are reduced, and it will cost an extra $4000 million.

But it’s money well spent!
At least the title of the world's second IMAX blockbuster is worth US$4000 million!

He plans to shoot the entire film using digital IMAX cameras!
It is worth mentioning that this movie itself is not actually Nolan's movie, at least the script has nothing to do with Nolan.

The premise of Interstellar was conceived by filmmaker Linda Obst and theoretical physicist Kip S. Thorne.

The two had collaborated on the 1997 film "Contact," and were introduced to each other by astronomer Carl Sagan.

The two conceived two plans based on the results of Thorne's scientific research work. The magical topic of space exploration attracted the interest of filmmaker Steven Spielberg in directing. Development of the film began in June 2006. .

At that time, Spielberg and Paramount Pictures announced plans for an eight-page science fiction film written by Linda Obst and Kip Thorne.

In March 2007, Jonathan Nolan was hired to write the script for the film.

If all goes as planned, this movie should be shot by Hollywood director Steven Spielberg.

However, when the time came to the second half of 2008, things began to change.

Spielberg no longer plans to continue working with Paramount and plans to move his studio "DreamWorks" to the Disney Group next year.

Although Disney and Paramount are not rivals, they have never had a cooperative relationship at all.

This prompted Paramount to start looking for partners for "Interstellar" again.

It was then Christopher Nolan suggested his brother Jonathan Nolan take part in the project in 2012.

In the end, the film was produced by Jonathan Nolan's independent film production company Xianzu Films and Linda Obst's Linda Obst Productions.Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures have reached a partnership to jointly distribute the film.

What Wu Yuan has to do is to be one step ahead of Nolan. He will first cut Hu's film project, let Guangshi Times invest in it together with Linda Obst, and then bring in Paramount and Universal, and the four companies will cooperate to fund this project. movie.

And Light Times will be the main controller!
In theory, he could convince Universal and Paramount.

This is because Hollywood is not very optimistic about pure science fiction movies, especially hard science fiction movies. The investment risk in such movies is too high.

US$2 million is not a small sum of money. Even if it only accounts for half, Universal and Paramount would not dare to take this risk.

Light Times is willing to be the main controller, and the two companies are eager to do so.

"This is the story. In the end, Cooper and his daughter took a next-generation rover to the star of Edmunds and started a new adventure..."

This time, Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei also introduced the entire story, although the script in Jonathan Nolan's hand may not have been perfected to this extent.

"I just want you to play the role of Professor Brand's daughter in the story."

"Then we'll hire Anne Hathaway to play Cooper's daughter."

"You, a great beauty from the Eastern world, and you, a great beauty from the European and American world, can compete on the same stage."

Yes, Wu Yuan is thinking about his vase plan again.

Although "Interstellar" is a hard science fiction movie without any love line, the two main female characters must still find beautiful actors, at least to make it enjoyable for the audience.

One Liu Yifei takes care of the Asian market, and one Anne Hathaway takes care of the European and American markets. How perfect!

"For the specific details of the cooperation, I have to go to the United States in person and have a good chat with Paramount."

"However, this matter has basically been finalized. If everything goes well, it will enter the actual preparation stage in the first half of next year and strive to start filming in the middle of next year."

"If it is released, it should be in time by the end of 2010."

Wu Yuan slowly explained the situation to Liu Yifei.

Although he has been in China, he still maintains some contact with Hollywood.

For example, Warner is still trying to convince him to direct "Green Lantern"
The "Interstellar" project is no secret in Hollywood, and Spielberg is not the only one paying attention.

It is normal for Wu Yuan to be connected with Paramount.

After Paramount basically determined that Spielberg would break up with them and switch to the other side, they were indeed already thinking about the issue of a new director.

At this time Wu Yuan came to the door, and of course they hit it off immediately.

Although Wu Yuan is not as famous as Spielberg, he is definitely one of the top business directors in Hollywood.

To put it bluntly, as long as he wants to direct any commercial film project in Hollywood, the Big Six will not reject it.

Only a few directors such as Spielberg and Cameron have a higher priority than him!

Even Nolan’s priority is not as high as his right now!
In addition, "Gravity" is now doing very well in Asia. Although Paramount is also on the same front as Universal and is unwilling to introduce "Gravity" to be released in North America, it is still concerned about Wu Yuan's level of making science fiction films. approved.

In a commercial company, there is not so much love and hatred to speak of. Everything is driven by interests. It is normal to confront and cooperate at the same time.

Blocking the North American release of "Gravity" will not affect Wu Yuan's cooperation with Paramount on "Interstellar" at all.
After running a company for so many years, Wu Yuan's thinking has gradually changed from a simple director to looking at things from a businessman's perspective.

Like a normal person, he actively held several conference calls with Paramount, and the two parties basically finalized follow-up cooperation.

Even Wu Yuan did not refuse Paramount's suggestion to bring Universal together to do this project.

When it comes to making science fiction movies, among the six Hollywood studios, Paramount and Universal are indeed more professional.

Universal was already producing "ET" in 1982, and "Transformers" released last year was also their work.

With Universal's help, "Interstellar" can indeed be filmed more smoothly.

Of course, Wu Yuan’s crew training class can also steal some lessons from Universal’s staff.

He and Paramount only made a rough agreement on the phone, but the crew training class was finalized immediately.

This time for the filming of "Interstellar", he will still bring 20 crew members into the crew to fully learn the industrialization of Hollywood science fiction movies!
"When the Olympics are over, you and I will go to the United States together." Wu Yuan said cheerfully as Liu Yifei blushed.

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