At the beginning, when the movie script selection activity for "Taiwu 2" was just released, many people were very excited about it, especially the players of "Taiwu". Even if they can't choose their own saves, it doesn't matter. In the end, they can see a game they like to play and make a movie, which is also a very pleasant thing.

But in addition to this, many people in the outside world think that Dimension Entertainment is using this kind of activity to hype.

But no matter how the outside world views it, for Dido Entertainment, or for Fan Zhe, this matter is undoubtedly not a joke or a gimmick. He is serious and wants to make such a movie seriously.

So far, Weidu Entertainment has not made a traditional Chinese martial arts work in film and television works. Whether it is animation, TV series or movies.

Although "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" and "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts" have martial arts and combat elements, and are also Chinese themes, the former is the ancient Three Kingdoms with elements of gods and demons; the latter is a modern background, and fighting on the arena, which is not considered traditional martial arts.

The game adaptation of "Taiwu Painting Scroll" can also effectively supplement the lack of Dimension Entertainment in related content.

Besides, making a martial arts movie is something that Fan Zhe particularly wants to do.

The movie project "Taiwu Painting Scroll" should have been established for a long time. After all, the activity of collecting scripts of "Taiwu" launched by Weidu Entertainment at that time was itself a part of this movie project.

The award of the prize money of the American guy named Allen, who was selected as the last movie script, and the signing of the copyright-related treaty issues, were all left to the relevant personnel on the "Dimension North America" ​​to deal with. In short, legal copyright risks cannot be left.

At the Weidu Entertainment headquarters, the corresponding screenwriter team has already begun to work hard to adapt the script under Fan Zhe's instructions.

The adaptation of the script is still very important. Take Allen's archive for example. In fact, the content of the story is very large. The entire half of a year of game time has been in the game for several lifetimes. How could Weidu Entertainment shoot all the content? If you really want to shoot it, it is probably a TV series with a thousand episodes.

First of all, when adapting the movie script, all the reincarnation-related content in the game settings were deleted. Then, I carefully selected some story content that might involve unharmoniousness, which was also deleted.

At the same time, they also selected the story of the first life in the archive of Allen. The first half of the movie script was basically condensed according to Allen's game history. It involves the grudges and hatreds between several sects, and the emotional entanglements between two main female characters and the protagonist. In the second half, several plots in Allen's archive were cleverly grafted, and finally turned to the final big devil, the Fuzhou City Lord who was enchanted by Xiangxi, and ended after a big battle.

The story is stable, and I think the final product will be a qualified story. The characters should show all the characteristics, tell the story clearly, and do not pretend to be mysterious or mentally retarded. The actors find some reliable ones. After all these basic things are done, the next step is to work hard on the bonus points.

For example, the design of martial arts action is proud of the accumulation of the previous project "Master of Martial Arts". Weidu Entertainment has rich production experience in this. In addition, they have always maintained a relatively good relationship with the more powerful action teams they have worked with before, and there is no big problem in this regard.

As for visual effects, the 'dimensionality' system can show its strengths.

The world of "Taiwu 2" is true of martial arts, but if it is really strictly defined, it is the world where songs tend to be Gaowu. The internal strength, energy, and tricks of martial arts all require the intervention of relevant visual effects.

This aspect has been reflected in the actual game console of "Taiwu 2". However, no matter how well "Taiwu 2" is done, it is only in the game. It is limited to the player's computer and home console configuration levels, so it is impossible to achieve a perfect movie-level picture.

No matter how advanced the game screen has now, at least for the time being, it is still impossible to compare with movies created with hundreds of millions or even hundreds of billions of dollars.

The designs made in the original game are certainly good, but they are only suitable for games. To make movies, those things can only be regarded as reference at most, and it is impossible to really use them intact.

Fan Zhe is personally dealing with the related redesign work. Behind him, there is a huge art team to assist.

In addition to script writing and concept design remake, the crew construction work has officially begun.

The "Dimensional Brokerage" has become busy. Dai Weidong is not just the chief agent of "Dimensional Brokerage". He has become the president of the brokerage company under the "Dimensional Group". For example, the personnel selection of all film and television works produced by Weimen Entertainment is the one who is doing practical operations.

In the eyes of other companies, the speed of starting a project in Weidu Entertainment is really fast. After the upper level makes a decision, the power of the entire group will be mobilized and then quickly implement the project. This is amazing. These large-scale projects are no longer as simple as cooperation between multiple departments of the company, and even involve cooperation between multiple branches. There is not much dispute or dragging each other down. It may be a bit exaggerated to say that it is a miracle, but it is indeed rare.

This is actually due to Ye Jiayi.

President Ye’s actions in the company are not only reflected in those seemingly important business activities. This ability to integrate the power of the entire group is more important.

The total investment in the film project "Taiwu Painting Scroll" has been almost settled now - the total investment will reach 6500 million yuan, and it will be nearly 100 million US dollars.

Of course, the big head will still be placed on special effects production, and all standards are aimed at Hollywood's top level.

As for the invitation to the actors, in fact, Weidu Entertainment did not intend to save money.

The protagonist invited Chen Kun. This actor Fan Zhe has always liked him very much. He is handsome, elegant, has good acting skills, and has good professional ethics... a very excellent actor. He is a movie star, but his status is really not low.

Another major actor invited Zhang Zhen. This is also an actor that Fan Zhe particularly likes.

Of course, Fan Zhe chose a role actor not purely according to his own preferences. He wouldn't even make fun of hundreds of millions of investments. The most important thing is that the two of them are indeed very excellent, and they are even one of the best male actors in the country, with their acting skills and commercial appeal. Moreover, both of them have played in this kind of costume martial arts theme and performed very well. At the same time, their personal temperament is also very well matched with the characters.

The two of them paid 30 million yuan in the former, while the latter was relatively cheaper, which looked like 15 million yuan.

And the choice of the heroine is also very generous.

The female lead chose Zhang Ziyi, and the female lead who had a very different role than the female lead chose Gao Yuanyuan. The total salary of the two reached 30 million.

In addition to the four main characters, the project also invited many other actors with high profile and high level to play supporting roles with more roles.

Ren Suxi, Bai Liuxi, Peng Yuchang, Li Zhiting...

The whole movie still looks quite a bit shining.

The entire actor's pay expenses are expected to reach 1.5 billion yuan; including the shooting costs, these expenses will probably reach more than 2.5 billion yuan.

As for the choice of directors, Weidu Entertainment has followed its usual attitude: no directors are selected, except for those who are particularly cooperative.

Although famous directors have their own powerful abilities, they basically have a very common problem. They have a very strong desire to control the crew and have a very strong desire to control the work. The things they make will have a very strong personal style.

The more famous ones, such as directors Wong Kar-wai and directors Zhang Yimou, are all of this type.

The flavor of the former movie can be seen by one glance at whose work it is; as for the latter, the strong "strategic aesthetics" is also a similar concept.

And these are exactly inconsistent with the production style of Dimension Entertainment.

The biggest label of works of Dimension Entertainment is Dimension Entertainment itself. The works produced will never have particularly big weaknesses and can be covered in all aspects. Finally, they will complete the crushing with excellent production and powerful visual effects, and achieve great commercial success. They do not want or need too strong director's personal style.

This is also what they always like to look for young directors who have enough execution.

You don’t have to make the film so good that you can shoot it honestly according to the plan. It’s enough to make the film awesome. Making the film awesome is the entire industrial process. Weidu Entertainment will use the power of a team or even a group to produce an excellent work, and will never place this hope on one person.

However, in this "Taiwu Painting Scroll", Fan Zhe chose a relatively well-known director - Du Zhengde.

The reason why he chose him is of course because he is not only very strong and has rich experience. After so many cooperations, both parties are also well-known. Fan Zhe knew that Du Zhengde himself was a person with strong execution. Although he had many of his own ideas, he never went against the company's plans.

This is great.

What's more, the difference between this film is that Weidu Entertainment invites many big-name actors, and it takes an old comrade with more experiencedness to bring these well-known actors to a town.

Previously, Du Zhengde was filming the movie "Master of Martial Arts: War" for Weidu Entertainment. At present, the pre-shooting of the movie has almost ended, and in mid-May, it has entered in-depth post-production. When working overtime, it will be released in the summer.

When Lao Du finished filming "Master of Martial Arts: War" and was planning to go on vacation and then come back to participate in the post-production work of the movie.

However, after receiving Fan Zhe's invitation, he first gave up the idea of ​​going on vacation, but directly took over the film project "Taiwu Painting Scroll" and began to prepare for the preliminary preparations of the project, including the formation of the crew, and he was also responsible for it. Even, including the selection of actors, Fan Zhe made a final decision after fully communicating with him.

In the plan for the film project of "Taiwu Painting Scroll", Du Zhengde will complete the preliminary project preparation work of "Taiwu Painting Scroll", and then start the post-production work of "Master of Martial Arts: War" in the form of an advisor. After completing it, he will immediately devote himself to the filming of "Taiwu Painting Scroll" after participating in the publicity work of "Master of Martial Arts: War".

It can be said that Du Zhengde will become very busy in the next one, or even two years.

Of course, he will also receive very generous rewards. In these two movies, he will be able to earn more than 30 million yuan from Weidu Entertainment. If the movie results can achieve the goals specified in the contract, he will be able to receive a reward of up to 30 million yuan.

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While Fan Zhe was busy with "Taiwu Painting Scroll", he also drew several concept design drawings for Gao Yixiang's "Second World" studio.

Taking these design drawings, Gao Yixiang happily found Sun Yilang.

"Oh? I didn't expect the boss to paint it for you!" Sun Yilang still maintained his previous habits when he called Fan Zhe.

"That's right, Mr. Fan is still very concerned about our studio."

Sun Yilang, the main beauty of the "Second World", was chatting with Gao Yixiang, the general planner, while carefully looking at the picture in his hand.

As he looked at it, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Sure enough, the boss is the boss. Drawing these things has an imagination that we can't reach. And the overall design style is really amazing..."

Gao Yixiang also watched carefully from the side. Although he didn't know much about design and art, he still had a good appreciation ability after working in games for so many years.

He can also clearly distinguish the quality of these pictures.
Chapter completed!