screenwriter mystery

Chapter 374 Diffusion
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"Meihui, open the door."

Standing at the door, Mrs. Fujita knocked on the side and called out to her daughter Meihui in the room.

"..."

However, there was no response in the room to the knock on the door.

Seeing this, Mrs. Fujita showed an apologetic smile to Dr. Kobayashi at the side, and then tapped the face again.

"Meihui, please open the door. I have already invited a doctor to treat your problems."

"..."

"...It's useless, Mom..."

This time, after hearing Mrs. Fujita's words, Meihui in the house finally reacted.

From the room, there was a slightly dull sound, and if you listened carefully, you could vaguely hear the rustling of something crawling inside.

"This is revenge, the island's revenge against me, because I cut off the red thread of fate, so it entangled me."

"What are you talking about, Meihui?"

Outside the door, Mrs. Fujita obviously didn't believe what Meihui said, and took it as her daughter's nonsense.

"Please step aside, ma'am."

On the other side, after hearing what Mei Hui said, the expression on Dr. Xiao Lin's face changed slightly.

"Next, in order to get your daughter out, I need to use some emergency measures."

He opened his mouth to remind Mrs. Fujita, and then gritted his teeth sideways and slammed into the closed door heavily.

With several successive impacts, the closed door was knocked open.

"Mei Hui, what is this..."

However, what happened in the room caused Mrs. Fujita who was at the door to collapse directly to the ground.

I saw that in Meihui's room, a large number of red threads squirmed and occupied most of the room, and on the bed, Meihui's entire body was entangled in red threads, only a face covered in red threads was exposed, and she just came out of the room. The voice is from Meihui in this red thread.

Facing the strange scene in front of her, Mrs. Fujita was greatly shocked.

But the expression on Dr. Kobayashi's face was extremely excited.

"Finally, I found you again..."

Stretching out his hand and pointing at the dense red lines occupying the room in front of him, Dr. Kobayashi murmured.

Because of Keiko's relationship, the military base where Kojima is located is blocked and cannot be entered.

This made Dr. Kobayashi's research on the red line completely cut off. After seeing the mystery of the existence of the red line, Kobayashi was naturally unwilling to give up the experiment related to it so easily.

Not reconciled, he began to investigate Kojima's life, and finally found the other end of the red line at Fujita's house.

【World Evolution Rate】: 37.6%
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Slavishly following the template of the classic original, it turns out to be a dull regress, devoid of any new inventions, and while the cast has expanded this time around, the basic rhythm remains the same — Hollywood Reporter

This belated official sequel is technically updated, and otherwise repeats the scares of the original, only louder and more boring - Rolling Stone

Running and screaming may be an essential element of horror movies, but it should be understood in "The Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows"-they themselves are not afraid at all, they can only run and scream to create momentum- The New York Post

The evolutionary script has an impact on the real world, constantly driving the system [world evolution rate] to rise.

On the other hand, the media word-of-mouth ban for the movie "The Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows" was lifted, and the reviews of the movie by major newspapers were not good.

Although, among them, the "Chicago Sun" gave a positive review to the film, saying that the reversal in the film was unexpected.

However, according to the information Zhao Yuan got from Universal.

Most of the media that gave positive or neutral comments have already been greeted by Universal in advance.

That is to say, if the media that cares about it is excluded, the real evaluation of "The Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows" is obviously not too optimistic.

From these evaluations, Universal seems to have sensed some problems.

It's just that the copyright has already been bought, the filming is over, and a large amount of money has been invested in the early publicity.

Therefore, even if Universal has a bad heart, it can only bite the bullet and release the movie.

Murphy's Law is often so accurate.

Over the weekend, with the release of "The Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows", this sequel film, which is highly anticipated by the world, although the production cost far exceeds that of the first episode and the terrifying computer special effects are added, the box office is still [-]%. Gave Universal a big slap in the face.

Originally, before the film was released, Universal had optimistically guessed that the sequel of "The Blair Witch" would have a big hit of US$500 million in its opening weekend, but the actual box office was only US$310 million, which was far from Universal's estimate. , and the characteristics of pseudo-record movies mean that the box office of this type of movie will get lower and lower in the future.

In other words, excluding the cost of filming, copyright, and publicity, "The Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows" is destined to be a loss-making film.

Moreover, this kind of loss is not the loss on the books of "Harry Potter", but a real loss of money.

Such a result, of course, directly poured cold water on Universal, which was full of expectations.

On the second day after the box office came out, an emergency meeting was held within Universal.

As the leader of this sequel, Ron Meyer is even more directly scolded.

And a few days ago, he was full of confidence in the movie's box office performance.

"I think the biggest reason why "The Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows" failed at the box office is the choice of director and screenwriter..."

In order to get rid of the unfavorable influence of the movie box office on him, Ron Meyer naturally needed to find a reason.

And when a movie fails, the director and screenwriter are often the best targets for shirking responsibility. After all, you made the movie, you wrote the plot, and whoever you look for if the box office is bad.

"If we had been firm and invited Zhao Lai to be the director of the sequel instead of just buying the copyright, then maybe the box office results of "The Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows" would not be as good as they are now."

In fact, given the word-of-mouth problems of "The Blair Witch", even if Zhao Yuan takes over, unless he uses forces other than the film, otherwise, as far as the film itself is concerned, it doesn't matter who comes.

At this point, Ron Meyer at this moment may have seen the problem belatedly.At the beginning, Zhao Yuan was determined that he was only willing to sell the copyright of the movie sequel, and was unwilling to take over the filming of the sequel.

However, it is impossible for him to admit these, so he can only work hard to get rid of the blame.

At the very least, you can't let the main responsibility for the box office failure fall on yourself.

(End of this chapter)