director of the millennium

Chapter 388 The layout of the three-realm film and television universe in the era of light and shadow

China domestic.

Just when Wu Yuan went to North America to officially start filming "Interstellar".

In the domestic light and shadow era, the two film projects currently being filmed have also successfully entered the final stage.

"Along with the Gods" and "Painted Skin 2", two of this year's major dramas in the light and shadow era, started shooting after the Spring Festival in February.

And now it's early May, and the filming of these two domestic special effects blockbusters is almost finished.

Beijing, Huairou Film and Television Base.

The last special effects scene of "Along with the Gods" was shot intensively in the studio of Huairou Film and Television Base.

As the leading actors, Yu Yi, Duan Yihong, and Huang Bo were walking around facing green cloth in the "deception hell" set up in the studio.

The actor who plays opposite them is Su Chang, who comes as a guest star to deceive the King of Hell.

This cameo was facilitated by Wu Yuan.

Su Chang's previous role as Tianshan Tonglao in "Dragon" left a very deep impression on him.

Although the makeup done by the big beard on Su Chang was really ugly, Su Chang relied on his excellent acting skills to portray the weird feeling of a Tianshan child grandmother.

Coincidentally, the King of Hell who deceives Hell in "Along with the Gods" is also a "girl" who looks like a child, but actually rules Hell for thousands of years, and has a very weird personality.

When he was working on the script, Wu Yuan felt that this role must be played by Su Chang in order to play it right.

Zhang Guorong, who had watched Su Chang's performance in "Dragon", also agreed with Wu Yuan's view and invited Su Chang to make a guest appearance.

Facts have proved that the two of them have a good vision. Su Chang is very good at playing this kind of role, which is much better than the various three-no dramas she has filmed in the past two years.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, everyone." Zhang Guorong took off the monitoring earphones, smiled and clapped his hands and said, "Let's just take pictures here today, we can call it a day and have dinner."

As soon as he heard that the work was over, Su Chang immediately jumped up and ran with the assistant, as if there were other things to do in the afternoon.

The other three men were divided into two small groups.

Huang Bo, an actor who was not a contracted artist of the Light and Shadow Era, walked beside Zhang Guorong and asked him if there was anything that could be improved in today's shooting.

Yu Yi and Duan Yihong, the two contracted actors of the company, were arm-in-arm, laughing and chatting as they walked to the dressing room.

The two of them are about the same age and had similar experiences before joining the Light and Shadow Era. They were both the kind of young actors who struggled because their images were not handsome enough.

After joining the group, the relationship between the two became extremely good within a few days.

"Hey, Lao Yu, I heard from the agent that the second season of your "Soul Ferry" will start filming in the second half of the year?"

"You are in this business. You have a TV series sequel in your hands. Maybe there will be a sequel plan for "Along with the Gods" in the future. You don't have to worry about running out of movies in the next three to five years."

Duan Yihong's tone was full of envy.

Although he received much better treatment after joining Light and Shadow Era than when he was at Huayi, he still has not had a stable leading role.

This time, Zhang Guorong took notice of him and chose him to play the male lead in "Along with the Gods". It can be said that it was a matter of great luck. The future has not been decided yet.

Unlike Yu Yi, he has already established himself as a leading actor in the successful TV series "Soul Ferry", and his future acting career is very smooth.

"Hey, don't envy me. The company "Along with the Gods" also wants to make a series of movies, just like Director Wu's "Pirates of the Caribbean", creating a huge underworld universe. Maybe it will be combined with "Soul Ferry" in the future. "It's linked."

"You are the number one male protagonist in this series, and his future will be very bright."

"Huh?" Duan Yihong asked in surprise: "Do you want to link it with "Soul Ferry"?"

"Then what do you do, one person plays two roles?" Yu Yi shook his head: "That's not true. I just heard that the company's screenwriting department made some arrangements based on the sequel script given by Director Wu. We plan to have our Pluto Tutu from "Soul Ferry" make a cameo in "Along with the Gods 2"."

"It seems that the underworld and hell are designed to be two parallel reincarnation institutions, and they are still competing with each other."

"The Hell Messenger and the Soul Ferryman compete for the souls of the deceased."

"At that time, there will be another soul ferryman making a cameo appearance, but the Zhao Li team from convenience store No. 444 will not appear."

"However, in "Soul Ferry 2", hell will also be mentioned through Zhao Li's mouth, which can be regarded as a side linkage."

"I heard from my agent that the company is playing a big game."

"Director Wu seems to want to create some kind of film and television universe and create a unified world view of the three realms, the underworld, the human world and the earthly and immortal world."

"In the future, many movies and TV series will be perfectly shot under this unified background."

"Such as "Soul Ferry" and "Along with the Gods" tell stories about the underworld and the human world."

"The "Painted Skin" series is about stories that happened in the history of the human world."

"It seems that in the future there will be stories specifically about the Earthly Immortal World, and then a main line will be used to connect different film and television dramas."

"Like in "Soul Ferry 2", some layouts will be made in advance. The script I got said that before becoming the soul ferryman, Zhao Li was a practitioner in the human world and practiced Buddhism."

"And his orthodoxy comes from the earthly immortal world."

Duan Yihong was a little stunned. To be honest, he didn't quite understand what Yu Yi said.

After all, there is no concept of a film and television universe or a movie universe in current domestic film and television dramas.

Even Hollywood didn't have this concept before the Marvel Cinematic Universe was formed.

To Duan Yihong, what Yu Yi said was almost like listening to the Book of Heaven.

The Three Realms film and television universe, connecting different TV series and movies together to create a unified world view and background, sounds too "fantasy".

"Why is "Painted Skin" involved?" he said with some confusion.

"Yes." Yu Yi nodded matter-of-factly: "The monsters and monster hunters in "Painted Skin" will also complete their background stories in the TV series "Soul Ferry"."

"The concept of monsters already exists in "Soul Ferry". All we need to do is introduce a group of monster hunters in the Han Dynasty. But later on, it became more and more difficult to cultivate in the human world, and the monster hunters disappeared."

"Only Kunlun, which connects the human world and the fairy world, still has some inheritance of the monster hunter."

If there is a person like Wu Yuan who also has future memories, he will immediately understand what Yu Yi means.

This is to film "Soul Ferry" as if it were "S.H.I.E.L.D."

The "SHIELD" TV series is specifically used to complete some background stories in the Marvel movie universe that are not suitable or unnecessary to be discussed in detail in the movie.

"Soul Ferry" will also serve as an important part of building its own film and television universe in the next stage of the light and shadow era. It will serve as a lubricant to connect different film IPs in the light and shadow era with each other to create a unified universe.

It's a pity that Duan Yihong is not from later generations and does not understand Marvel's huge movie universe built around superheroes.

He just smacked his mouth without realizing it, and sighed: "Although I didn't understand it very well, it felt very powerful."

"In other words, the company will have many movies and TV series to shoot in the next few years, right?"

"It doesn't matter what the film and television universe is, it's a good thing if there is a movie to film!"

(End of this chapter)