Chapter 246 It’s a Big Deal

"Director Wu is Director Wu. The filming of "Pirate King" is really amazing and it deserves to be a Hollywood blockbuster!"

"No, I heard that "Pearl Harbor" was so suppressed that we won't even introduce it this time."

As the filming progressed, time has slowly entered August, and "The Pirate King" has also been successfully introduced to the mainland by China Film Group, setting off a movie-watching craze as soon as it was released.

Naturally, this trend also affected the crew of "Xiu Chun Dao". Many people went to see "The Pirate King" after filming, and they all chatted in groups after returning. It happened that Jiang Qinqin and Fan Bingbing both played roles in the crew, and a pair of good sisters were chatting happily at this time.

"Sister Qinqin, I read in the newspaper that the global box office of "Pirate King" has exceeded 600 million US dollars, and the final total box office may reach 800 million US dollars. This is much higher than last year's "Mission: Impossible 2"! It is definitely It can take the first place in the global box office this year!"

The reason why it is compared with "Mission: Impossible 2" is, firstly, because "Mission: Impossible 2" won the first place in the global box office with 540 million last year; secondly, its director is Wu Baige, so naturally many people will try to break into Hollywood. The two are compared together.

Jiang Qinqin also showed a complacent look on her face, pretending to be casual and wrote: "Hey, it's no big deal if it's higher than "Mission: Impossible 2". Your brother-in-law's "The Sixth Sense" is 200 million higher than "Mission: Impossible 2" There are so many. If it hadn’t been for "Star Wars: The Prequels" the year before last, he would have won the first place. Your brother-in-law doesn’t care about this false reputation at all~"

Fan Bingbing gave a thumbs up: "Brother-in-law's level is so high. I can't do without Sister Qinqin, the woman who stands behind my brother-in-law~"

Jiang Qinqin smiled and nodded at Fan Bingbing: "Your little mouth is like honey~"

Fan Bingbing chuckled, thinking to himself that it was just honey. Director Wu liked it the most, especially when he called him brother-in-law.

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On the other side, during the break, Jiang Wen saw the corners of Wu Jing's mouth that had been raised and asked with a smile:

"Third brother, what good thing happened to you? I see that you are always happy today."

Wu Jing shook his head: "It's nothing, brother."

At this time Zhang Guorong came over with a smile: "In a few days, "The Legend of Shushan" starring the third brother will be released."

If "The Pirate King" is the most talked-about foreign-language film this summer, then the next most-watched Chinese-language blockbuster is Xu Laoguai's "The Legend of Shushan". Claiming to have invested hundreds of millions of yuan, it is a blockbuster with China's top special effects and the strongest star cast, which is quite exciting.

When Jiang Wen heard this, he patted Wu Jing's shoulder: "Hey, third child, this is a good thing. Why are you hiding it? We will support you when the time comes!"

Wu Jing quickly waved his hand: "Don't worry, I'm just a supporting actor. Don't delay the crew's filming."

Although he said so, Wu Jing is still looking forward to "The Legend of Shushan".

He played a role that was probably the fourth male lead in "The Legend of Shushan", and this time he played Jin Yichuan in "Xiu Chun Dao". He successively won important roles in two top Chinese blockbusters, which made him feel that his career was also Moving up step by step. After these two movies are released and become successful, he will be considered a famous figure in the film industry!

The upcoming "The Legend of Shushan" makes Wu Jing full of confidence in the future.

In fact, not only Wu Jing, but also the crew and producers have confidence in "The Legend of Shushan". Because "Kung Fu Soccer" released last month was a huge success, and one of the biggest draws of "Kung Fu Soccer" is the strongest special effects in Chinese.

Film special effects are currently a recognized development trend in global commercial films. But in terms of special effects, "Kung Fu Soccer" pales in comparison to "The Legend of Shushan". The special effects shots of "The Legend of Shushan" are four times as many as those of "Kung Fu Soccer". From this perspective, is there any reason to fail?

However, things did not go as smoothly as they imagined...

""The Legend of Shushan" - the worst movie of the century!"

"The narrative is unclear and incomprehensible. "The Legend of Shushan" failed miserably at the box office!"

""The Legend of Shushan" invested hundreds of millions, and the box office in the first week was 7 million, and all the money was lost!"

"Xu's three-year-old ambitious masterpiece has won both box office and word-of-mouth success!"

"The Legend of Shushan" has caused quite a stir. After all, it is considered a large-scale production with an investment of hundreds of millions. It is really a super-large production in the current Chinese film industry. Even though Wu Yuchen was busy working on "Xiu Chun Dao" every day, he already got the news from the phone. He estimated that the cost may not be hundreds of millions, but 80 million is about the same. In the end, the box office on Hong Kong Island was only 11.91 million. You must know that "Kung Fu Football" had a box office of more than 60 million on Hong Kong Island alone. This time it was really a big loss.

In fact, Wu Yuchen thinks that "The Legend of Shushan" is not that bad. If we look at the timeline longer, in the next 20 years, even if technology has improved a lot, there will no longer be a fairy tale movie in China as good as "The Legend of Shushan". Fairy flavor. The visual spectacle displayed by the exercises and moves in the movie truly restores the scenes and artistic conceptions in the Xianxia novels.

It's just that Mr. Xu's ambitions are too big, and the world view of "The Legend of Shushan" is too big. One movie simply can't cover it all. There are too many things to say, and not enough explanations of each character and clue are given, which leads to The entire film has many clues, a confusing structure, and unclear narrative. It seems lively, but it just can't tell a story.

Thinking of Old Monster Xu, Wu Yuchen also shook his head. This guy is really willful. In fact, before he filmed "The Legend of Shushan", his career as a director suffered a setback in Hollywood, and he failed to return from Hollywood. In the end, he decided not to follow the path of a commercial film and made "The Legend of Shushan" into a personal experimental work.

However, I have to say that Mr. Xu is really passionate. Even if "The Legend of Shushan" defrauded investors of so much money, there will still be people willing to invest in the next "Seven Swords" in a few years.

Seeing "The Legend of Shushan" like this, Wu Yuchen also reminded himself again that when making commercial films, no matter what else, you must first tell the story well so that the audience can understand it. Otherwise, it doesn't matter whether you are Mr. Xu or Mr. Chen Kaizi. Get out of here and be voted by the market with your feet.

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"Click!"

Wu Yuchen was filming when he suddenly heard a few people gathering together and making a buzzing sound. After stopping, he couldn't help but angrily yelled at the other side: "What are you doing! Don't you know they are filming?!"

At this time, several people over there were holding a radio. After being scolded by Wu Yuchen, they did not immediately apologize. Instead, they said with a very shocked expression: "Director Wu, something big happened! The old lady was bombed!"

As soon as these words came out, the entire crew immediately caused a commotion. Without mentioning anyone else, Jiang Wen, who was standing in the middle of filming, came over and asked with concern: "What? The old beauty was bombed?! Who was bombed by?"

The man shook his head: "I don't know, the radio said everything in the Pentagon was bombed!"

Others also felt as if a pot had exploded: "The old American has been bombed? Impossible!"

"Who was blown up? Maozi?"

"Ah? Is there going to be a war?"

"Isn't a world war going to break out?"

Nowadays, the United States can be said to be in its heyday, a veritable beacon of the world. It is unimaginable that someone would dare to bomb the United States. The reaction of many people is to go to war!

Wu Yuchen also knew what happened at this time, 911 was coming! It's just that the first time it happened, no one knew what was going on, so there were a lot of speculations.

"Quiet!" Wu Yuchen shouted loudly.

"What's there to panic about? Isn't it just that the old American was bombed? The sky won't fall! Don't make any guesses. News will come out tomorrow. That's it for today. Let's pack up and go back to rest. Don't delay tomorrow's work !”

When Wu Yuchen saw the crew, they were all agitated because of the news. Some were panicked and some were excited. You should know that if we shoot again tonight, it would be twice the result with half the effort, so he simply asked everyone to go back and adjust their mood.

As soon as they returned to the hotel where they were staying, everyone saw the scene repeatedly played on the news on the TV on the first floor of the lobby. Zhang Guorong couldn't help but murmured: "Is there any mistake? The plane hit the World Trade Center?"

After returning to the room, Jiang Qinqin kept pulling Wu Yuchen and asked: "Honey, are we really going to fight? Could it be that the plane hit by mistake?"

"Mistake?" Wu Yuchen shook his head upon hearing this.

"How could four planes crash at the same time? It must have been intentional, possibly by terrorists."

"Isn't it enough to just catch the terrorists? Why is there a war?"

"It's not as simple as you think? Internal pressure has to be transferred to the outside! And it's hard to explain clearly behind this matter..."

Although 911 was later determined to be a terrorist attack, Ledeng was identified as the culprit. However, La Deng has never admitted that he was responsible for 9/11. The so-called "admission" was made by the United States from a video.

Moreover, there are some theories in later generations that Bin Laden's development was funded and supported by the United States. Anyway, there is an inexplicable relationship with some power of the United States behind it, but the people behind it did not expect that the dog they raised would dare to bite the owner.

Going beyond conspiracy theories, some interest groups deliberately caused this incident to lead to wars and oil windfalls...

Anyway, after this incident, it is certain that the United States will send troops to Afghanistan, and it is estimated that Iraq will not be able to escape.

Wu Yuchen patted Jiang Qinqin and said with a smile: "Don't think too much, it may not be a bad thing for us!"

To be honest, 911 really changed the world situation and helped relieve China's pressure.

In fact, a conflict broke out between China and the U.S. in the southern sea at the beginning of this year, namely the plane collision incident in the southern sea. Counting further back is the embassy incident. In recent years, the old ugly has been provocative and causing trouble from time to time.

A few months ago, when George W. Bush just came to power, he proposed a strategy of returning to the Asia-Pacific. Not long after that, 9/11 happened. This directly diverted Lao Chou's attention and completely shifted the strategic focus of Chou's country to the Middle East. Originally, Lao Chou immediately relaxed his grip on many aspects that China had been blocking. After all, his number one task now becomes counter-terrorism!

It was not until 2010 that the Yellow Sea Crisis broke out again in China. At this time, China has become the second largest economy in the world. What a precious decade!

I have to say that it is indeed the national destiny!

However, Wu Yuchen would definitely not say these words loudly or say a word. His current status has become more influential, and he knows clearly what can and cannot be said.

After he came back, he called the United States repeatedly and contacted everyone he knew. At the same time, he asked his agent Carl to help him issue an announcement, observe a moment of silence for the 911 incident, and send prayers for the victims. There are also Miracle Pictures and charitable foundations in the United States, which also operate in the same way.

"Wu, thank you for your concern. We are fine. No one from the crew is at the Pentagon or the Twin Towers. It's just that now the Twin Towers shots we shot will all be scrapped. Alas..."

The one who is currently in contact with Justin Wu is Sam Raimi, the director of "Spider-Man". He is now having a headache. The original idea was very good. Spider-Man was swinging between the Twin Towers and captured a group of helicopters. The gangster will become a classic scene in the movie.

But now that the Twin Towers have been destroyed, this iconic building can no longer appear in the movie, otherwise it will bring back sad memories of the people and arouse public attacks, so it can only be chopped down with tears.

In fact, Wu Yuchen had guessed this at the beginning, but he had no excuse to stop it. Now he comforted him:

"It doesn't matter. Let's move to another place and ask Tobey Maguire to come back for reshoots. This is not the point. The focus now is the schedule of "Spider-Man". I suggest it be postponed until next year."

"Spider-Man" was originally scheduled to be released during this year's Christmas period.

"This...I can't make the decision, but looking at the end of the year, it may not be a good choice now."

"Well, American people's desire for entertainment consumption will decrease in a short period of time. Therefore, in order to avoid risks, it is best to change the schedule of "Spider-Man". I will inform Sony of this suggestion."

After Wu Yuchen hung up the phone, he explained everything about the American side. The rescheduling of "Spider-Man" is partly due to the impact of 911, but a more important reason is that there will be two powerful movies during this Christmas period, "The Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."

"Lord of the Rings" US$880 million, and "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is even more powerful, US$970 million. Why let "Spider-Man" get together and fight them to the death? The schedule for May next year is pretty good.

Although 911 had a great impact, the crew of "Xiu Chun Dao" still had to film as usual. Everyone was shocked for a day or two, and they had to live their lives as they should.

It was September, and the weather was actually still hot. However, in the shot, snowflakes were falling on the injured Zhang Guorong and Jiang Qinqin on his back, which suddenly gave off a romantic and tragic tone.

There is not only this snow scene in the play, but also the death of the third brother Jin Yichuan and the murder of the eldest brother Lu Jianxing. For several scenes in the snow, the crew specially deployed 10 snow-making machines. It is estimated that 5 tons of snow will be made, and the labor cost will cost millions. But Wu Yuchen didn't even blink when he was spending time.

After filming the snow scene between Shen Lian and Zhou Miaotong, Jiang Wen came to visit again...