In the private compartment of the teahouse, Fan Zhe continued to tell Du Zhengde about the content concept of "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts: War".

"The story will be set after the protagonist participates in the title battle for the 'Master' and the eternal battle with the 'Divine Knife' road."

"This part of the content is available in the main drama. At that time, we will cut a little bit of clips and put them at the beginning of the film as a summary - of course, this must be produced again to ensure that it matches the movie itself."

"After the title of "Master", the protagonist Lou Cheng received a message that he was almost one of his best friends and his girlfriend's cousin, Lin Que, disappeared in the war-torn area."

"It is likely that the disappearance in a war-torn area can be equated with 'death', but the protagonist has become a master of external sects and is very skilled and brave, so he decided to find someone."

"The so-called war-torn areas are collectively known as many countries in the setting. From the east to the ocean, to the north to the south of China, to the west, to the Nile across the strait, and to the south, it is almost close to the polar region, and there are dozens of countries where the regime is unstable. After today, there may not be tomorrow. The chaos started due to regional hegemony and the grabbing of resources. When the strong countries and the strong fight, they will naturally find a peaceful solution. Unfortunately, they were intervened by the United States, Europe, Japan, and major forces. They have been in chaos for decades."

"Lin Que is tracing an international human trafficking group rooted in the war-torn area of ​​'Tallinn', which destroyed many transactions and caused great losses to the other party. But it is precisely because of this that he disappeared."

"In fact, this human trafficking group is also doing some human body transformation experiments. They transformed warriors into states similar to artificial humans and robots with special techniques, and completely controlled them. After Lin Que was arrested, he was preparing to transform."

"The protagonist came to 'Tallinn' and began to investigate Lin Que's whereabouts from various clues, and followed Lin Que's grandparents, two older generation top strong men, found the enemy's headquarters, met many artificial human masters, and overturned this evil group that transformed humans."

...

"It's probably the plot."

After listening to Fan Zhe's introduction, Du Zhengde frowned and thought for a while, then said: "The setting of war-torn areas is quite interesting, and you can also lean on a certain patriotic feeling... But, after hearing what you said, including what I saw in the script, I always feel that the plot is a bit too simple."

"Yes." Fan Zhe said, "but it was only after we came to our research that we decided to choose such a story. One of the important reasons is that it is very simple."

"For commercial films and action films, we should try our best to pursue simple and bright stories, exciting and refreshing action fighting, and with our strong technical strength to make special effects. Here, we need a story that is clear and smooth enough, without having to do too many strange things, nor too complicated stories, as that would be bad."

"I agree with you." Du Zhengde didn't understand these. There are various success and failure cases in various Hollywood blockbusters in the West. For example, movies that use action fighting and visual effects as the selling point, the complex story is not a good thing. On the contrary, this is likely to become a factor that drags down the quality of the movie.

However, Du Zhengde obviously has some other views: "The plot is smooth and clear, which is inevitable, but the current script looks a bit too thin. From the perspective of the characters' emotions, from the beginning, the transformation and the end of the story, it is like this."

"The original part is not written much," said Fan Zhe.

"It's okay." Du Zhengde said, "We do movie adaptations. It's good to follow the original work in some places, but there are some places that we have to do some adaptations."

"We must be cautious in this regard," said Fan Zhe. "We believe that it is important to follow the original work if the film adaptation has excellent original works."

"Well, don't worry, I understand this. I won't change the big storyline, but some of the beginning, the transition and the characters' emotions will be more polished, and then watch the rhythm of the video and add a few more battles to it. Including the plot with the 'old friend' Vega mentioned in the script, it can be expanded a little."

Fan Zhe thought for a while and said, "Okay, the script adaptation was written by one of our screenwriters, a screenwriter named Li Qingzhao. You should still have an impression of this girl?"

"Yes, wasn't she also written the script adaptation of "Fantasy Three Kingdoms"?"

"Yes, you can communicate more then, but I will definitely review the final script here."

"No problem, I'll be satisfied with you."

After solving the script problem, Fan Zhe talked about the style of the film again: "Old Du, we have not cooperated once or twice. I hope to be a hard-working style of this film."

"When I was filming the TV series "Master of Martial Arts", the entire action design was also going this way, but mainly because there are many youth campus dramas, and the main battle is still in the ring competition, so it is not implemented very thoroughly. However, this movie, the whole of Beijing is in the so-called "war-torn area". We can make the film more realistic, fierce, and hard-core."

While talking, Fan Zhe took out a tablet, called out some pictures, and placed them in front of Du Zhengde.

These are some concept design drawings, all drawn by Fan Zhe himself.

Du Zhengde has watched the TV series "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts", so he can more clearly realize that the styles of these concept designs we see are somewhat different from those of TV series.

When he was thinking about the question of film style, Fan Zhe continued: "Also, I have a requirement, this is very important."

"You said."

Fan Zhe said: "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts: War" is a novel. The movie derived from TV series is correct, but our target audience is not limited to TV series audiences or readers of novels. If we want to achieve better results, it is far from enough for us to please fans of the original work. Remember that this is a movie, a complete and independent work."

After a pause, he continued: "In other words, what we have to do is not a fan carnival, but a commercial movie. We have to consider the feelings and experiences of all the viewers. We must ensure that even if we are a person who does not know the story of "The Grand Master of Martial Arts", there will be no place to understand this movie."
Chapter completed!