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At the beginning, when the screenplay selection activity of "Taiwu 2" just came out, of course many people were very excited about it, especially the players of "Taiwu". Even if you can't choose your save file, it doesn't matter. Finally, you can see a game you like to play and make it into a movie, which is a very cool thing in itself.

But other than that, the opinion of many outsiders is that Dimension Entertainment is using this kind of activity to create hype.

But no matter what the outside world thinks, for Dimension Entertainment, or for Fan Zhe, there is no doubt about this matter, and it is definitely not a joke or a gimmick. He is serious and wants to make a movie like this seriously.

So far, Dimension Entertainment has not made a traditional Chinese style martial arts work in film and television works. Whether it's anime, TV series or movies.

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

The game-adapted movie of "The Scroll of Taiwu" can actually supplement Dimension Entertainment's lack of relevant content.

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

The "Taiwu Painting Scroll" film project should have been established long ago. After all, the "Taiwu" movie script collection activity launched by Dimension Entertainment at that time was itself a part of this movie project.

The award of the American boy named Allen who was selected as the original script of the final movie, as well as the signing of the treaty on copyright-related issues, were handed over to the relevant personnel of "Dimension North America" ​​to deal with. In short, it is impossible to leave legal copyright risks.

And at the headquarters of Dimension Entertainment, the corresponding screenwriting team, under the instruction of Fan Zhe, has begun to work hard on the adaptation of the script.

The adaptation of the script is still very important. Take Allen's archive as an example. In fact, the content of the story is very large. His half a year of game time, converted into the game, has passed through several lives, so how could Dimension Entertainment shoot all the content? I really want to shoot, I'm afraid it will be a TV series with a thousand episodes.

First of all, when adapting the movie script, all reincarnation-related content in the game settings was deleted. Then, carefully selected some story content that may involve disharmony, and it was also deleted.

At the same time, they also selected the story of the first life in Allen's archive. The outline of the movie script that was made, the first half is basically condensed according to Allen's game history. It involves the grievances and hatred between several sects, and involves the emotional entanglement between the two main female characters and the protagonist. But in the second half, it cleverly grafted a few of the most excellent plots in Allen's archive, and finally turned to the last big devil, the Fuzhou city lord who was possessed by Xiangshu, and it ended after a big battle.

The story is smooth and stable, and I think the final product will be a qualified story. The characteristics that the characters should have are all shown, the story is told clearly, not pretending to be mysterious or mentally retarded, and the actors have found some reliable actors. And when these relatively basic things are done, the next step is to work hard on the extra points.

For example, the design of martial arts action is proud of the previous accumulation in the project "Martial Arts Master", and Dimension Entertainment has relatively rich production experience in this regard. In addition, they have maintained a relatively good relationship with those relatively powerful action teams that they have worked with before. In this regard, there is not a big problem.

As for the visual effects, the 'dimension' system can show its talents.

The world of "Taiwu 2" is definitely a martial arts world, but if you really want to define it strictly, it is a world where the song is biased towards high martial arts. The performance of martial arts' internal strength, strength, and tricks all require the intervention of relevant visual effects.

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

No matter how far the current game graphics have improved, at least for the time being, it is still impossible to compare with movies that cost hundreds of millions, or even tens of millions, and are specialized in graphics.

Those designs made in the original game are good, but they are only suitable for games. To make a movie, those things can only be regarded as a reference at best, and it is impossible to use them as they are.

For the related redesign work, Fan Zhe is handling it personally. And behind him, there is a huge art team to assist.

In addition to writing the script and remaking the concept design, the construction of the crew has also officially started.

'Dimension Brokers' is already busy. Dai Weidong is not just the chief broker of "Dimension Brokerage" now, he has become the president of the brokerage company under the "Dimension Group". For example, the selection of personnel for all film and television works produced by Dimension Entertainment is actually carried out by him.

The speed at which Dimension Entertainment started a project, in the eyes of other companies, is really fast. After the upper-level decision is made, the strength of the entire group will be mobilized, and then the project will be implemented quickly, which is quite remarkable. These large-scale projects are not even as simple as the cooperation between multiple departments of the company, and even involve the cooperation between multiple branches. There is not much phenomenon of wrangling and dragging each other down. It may be an exaggeration 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 even more important.

The total investment of the film project "The Scroll of Taiwu" has almost been finalized - the total investment will reach 650 million RMB, which is nearly 100 million US dollars.

Of course, most of them will still be put on the production of special effects, and all standards will be aligned with the top level of Hollywood.

As for the invitation of actors and the actual shooting, Dimension Entertainment did not intend to save money.

The protagonist invited Chen Kun, an actor Fan Zhe has always liked, handsome, charismatic, good acting skills, good work ethic...a very good actor. In the movie cafe, but the status is not low.

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

Of course, Fan Zhe's choice of role actors is definitely not purely based on his own preferences. He is not going to joke about hundreds of millions of investments. The most important thing is that the two of them are indeed very good, and even one of the best movie actors in China, their acting skills and commercial appeal are really not low. Moreover, both of them have the experience of acting in this kind of ancient costume martial arts theme, and their performances are also very good. At the same time, their personal temperament matches well with the characters.

For the two of them, the former paid 30 million yuan, while the latter was relatively cheap, around 15 million yuan.

And in the choice of heroine, it is also very grand.

The first female lead chose Zhang Ziyi, and the second female lead, whose role was almost the same as the first female lead, chose Gao Yuanyuan. The combined remuneration of the two reached 30 million.

In addition to the four main roles, the project also invited many other well-known and high-level actors to play some supporting roles with more roles.

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

The whole movie looks, it still looks quite star-studded.

The cost of the actors' remuneration is expected to reach RMB 150 million; and if the filming costs are included, these expenditures will probably reach more than RMB 250 million.

As for the selection of directors, Dimension Entertainment has followed its consistent attitude: not choosing a director, except for special cooperation.

Famous directors have their own strong abilities, but they also basically have a very common problem. They have a strong desire to control the crew and the work, and the final products will have a very strong personal style. .

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

With the taste of the former movie, you can tell whose work it is at a glance; as for the latter, the strong "conspiracy aesthetics" is also a similar concept.

And these are precisely incompatible with Dimension Entertainment's production style.

Dimension Entertainment's works, the biggest label is Dimension Entertainment itself. The produced works never have a particularly big weakness, and they can cover every aspect. Finally, with sophisticated production and powerful visual effects, they are crushed and achieved great commercial success. They don't want and don't need too strong director's personal style.

This is why they always like to find some young directors who have enough executive power.

It doesn't matter how awesome your film is, just follow the plan honestly, and it's enough to pass the film. To make the movie awesome is a matter of the entire industrial process. Dimension Entertainment will use the power of a team, or even a group, to produce an excellent work, and never pin this hope on one person.

However, Fan Zhe still chose a well-known director - Du Zhengde for this "Taiwu Picture Scroll".

The reason why he was chosen is of course because he is not only excellent in strength and rich in experience, but also after so many cooperations, the two parties also know each other well. Fan Zhe knows that Du Zhengde is a person with strong execution ability. Although he has many ideas of his own, he will never go against the company's plan.

That's fine.

What's more, this film is a little different in that Dimension Entertainment has invited many big-name actors, and it needs an old comrade with more seniority to bring these well-known actors to town.

Before that, Du Zhengde was filming the movie "Martial Arts Master: Fire of War" for Dimension Entertainment. At present, the pre-shooting work of the film is almost over, and in the middle of May, it has entered the in-depth post-production. When working overtime, it will be released in time for the summer.

When Lao Du finished filming "Martial Arts Master: Fire of War", he planned to take a vacation, and then came back to participate in the post-production work of the film.

However, after receiving Fan Zhe's invitation, he gave up the idea of ​​going on vacation at first, but directly accepted the film project "Taiwu Painting Scroll" and started the preparatory work for the project, including He is also responsible for the formation of the crew. Even, including the choice of actors, Fan Zhe made the final decision after fully communicating with him.

In the schedule of the "Taiwu Painted Scroll" film project, Du Zhengde will start to deal with "Martial Arts Master: War of War" as a consultant after finishing the preliminary project preparation work of "Taiwu Painted Scroll" 》The post-production work, especially the editing work. After finishing it, he will immediately devote himself to the filming of "Taiwu Picture Scroll" after participating in several promotional work of "Martial Arts Master: Flame of War".

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

Of course, he will also get a very generous reward at the same time. From these two movies, he will be able to get more than 30 million yuan in income from Dimension Entertainment. And if the performance of the movie can reach the goal stipulated in the contract, he can get another reward of 30 million yuan at most.

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While Fan Zhe was busy working on "The Scroll of Taiwu", he still drew a few conceptual design drawings for Gao Yixiang's "Second World" studio.

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

"Hey? I didn't expect the boss to really draw for you!" Sun Yilang still maintains his previous habit of addressing Fan Zhe.

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

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

Looking at it, he still couldn't help admiring: "Sure enough, the boss is the boss. Painting these things has a kind of imagination that we can't match. And the whole design style is really amazing..."

Gao Yixiang also watched carefully from the side. Although he doesn't know much about design and art, but he has been making games for so many years, and his appreciation ability is not bad.

He can also clearly distinguish the quality of these pictures.

"Okay." Sun Yilang turned his eyes away from the monitor, looked at Gao Yixiang, and said, "With these few concept drawings from the boss as the outline, our subsequent work will be easy to carry out."

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