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"Hey, senior brother, the movie is great!"

"Director Li Yang is so awesome, the story is so touching, I even cried when it was about to end.

"The heroine finally broke up and went abroad. She promised to come back in three years, but she still didn't come back. The hero only waited for a postcard with a US stamp on it."

"Hey, I really don't understand why the heroine doesn't want to come back. Is America so good?"

In his heart, Wu Yuan actually wanted to say "it's really that good." At least in the 1990s, most people thought so.

During the period after the disintegration of Big Brother, the United States was really a beacon of democracy with no single enemy in the world. A bunch of people who had received high-level education wanted to go there and looked down on the backward domestic environment.

This film by Li Yang is indeed a microcosm of some college students of that era.

The heroine represents the high-ranking intellectuals who are unwilling to share the joys and sorrows with the motherland and choose to go abroad to enjoy a high life.

The male protagonist represents a high-level intellectual who was trained by the motherland and is willing to take root in the country and work hard for the country's prosperity.

The two chose different paths for the future, and Lao Yan separated.

The final ending is that the male protagonist, who has become a middle-level administrator of a certain company, received a postcard from the United States on a very ordinary day.

This postcard is the final conclusion of the relationship between the two of them, which they had been passionate about, argued about, and loved to death.

This once sincere relationship has become a memory that has been sealed in youth, but when it is occasionally brought out, it still makes him sleepless.

Regret is the main theme of all youth movies.

It is precisely because of regrets that this is youth.

Li Yang did a good job of capturing the most common regrets of youth born in the 1970s, comforting the majority of college students born in the 1970s.

Naturally, Wu Yuan would not throw cold water on it at this time. He responded with a smile: "This is a movie. Director Li Yang must have his reasons for making it this way."

"Look, aren't you just feeling emotional about this ending?"

Liu Yifei on the other end of the phone mumbled and asked: "Brother, if it were you, would you choose to go abroad? Will you come back after going abroad?"

Can this all involve you?

Wu Yuan was stunned for a moment. It seemed that women all over the world were very skilled in using this skill.

He quickly denied: "If it were me, I definitely wouldn't be able to do such a thing. My girlfriend is the most important thing in my heart. How can studying abroad be more important than staying with my girlfriend forever?"

Great, the test passed.

Liu Yifei on the other end of the phone immediately laughed and said, "You know what's going on."

"Hang up, I'm going to bed. The crew has a lot of scenes to shoot tomorrow."

"mua~good night~"

She hung up the phone without waiting for Wu Yuan to say anything else.

Smiling and shaking his head, Wu Yuan put away his phone and looked at the computer screen in front of him again.

"John, where were we talking about just now?"

It turned out that he was in a meeting with John when Liu Yifei called.

Although he is in China, Wu Yuanke regularly needs to pay attention to the current situation over there in the Light Times and make some arrangements.

"We were just talking about World War Z, Daniel, and I'm really excited about the movie adaptation of this novel."

"As you know, zombie movies are very popular in North America. This novel has topped the New York Times bestseller list and is bound to become a hot commodity for film rights."

"Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt are also very optimistic about this novel and are actively working to purchase the rights."

"We need to buy it as soon as possible!"

As I said before, Wu Yuan is not only eyeing the film and television adaptation rights of various novels in China, he also specifically told John that if he sees any good novels in North America, he should boldly buy the film adaptation rights.

"World War Z" is John's new discovery.

The original name of this novel is "World War Z", which is a science fiction novel published by American writer Max Brooks in 2006.

The plot of this novel is actually very simple. It is the story of a zombie virus that suddenly broke out in the United States. The zombie epidemic began to spread rapidly, causing the most serious extinction crisis in history, and then the male protagonist fled in a city full of zombies.

But it is just such a simple story, similar to "Resident Evil", that has become the top bestseller in North America this year.

Why do North Americans just like the theme of "zombie"?

The earliest movie to portray a zombie character can be traced back to the film "The White Devil" in the 1930s.

But it wasn't until 1968, when George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" was released, that a new American zombie movie creation model was officially formed.

Since the movie "Night of the Living Dead", zombie movies have become the largest and most popular genre of R-rated movies in North America.

The "Resident Evil" series has become the most classic zombie movie series in the world.

Now it is understandable that John wants to take advantage of this market.

After all, zombie movies are not expensive to shoot and have a mass base. As long as they chop and chop and shoot heads and blood all the way, they can sell tens of millions of dollars at the box office. How easy is it?

Wu Yuan also knew that the novel "World War Z" was indeed won by Brad Pitt. After many years of delay, the movie of the same name was released in 2013.

It has grossed US$200 million in the United States and US$540 million globally.

This is the best result achieved by an American zombie film, and it is much higher than the box office of any film in the "Resident Evil" series.

Of course he supported John's idea and nodded repeatedly: "John, I support your view."

"We really should buy World War Z, no matter how much it costs!"

"No matter how much it costs?" John's voice was obviously much higher, and he said in surprise: "You mean, we must win this novel at all costs?"

"Even if it costs tens of millions of dollars?"

"Of course." The corners of Wu Yuan's lips curled up slightly, "If we don't make such a strong determination, how can we win against Leonardo and Brad Pitt?"

John is not the only one with vision in Hollywood. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt also like to buy the film adaptation rights of various novels and then try to adapt them into movies.

Neither of them is content with just being an actor. They both want to go a step further and become producers and run their own independent film companies.

With the Big Six monopolizing most of the best screenwriters, they want to make their own movie scripts. Unless they can write the scripts themselves, they can only buy the copyright of existing novels and find someone to adapt them.

Competing with these two Hollywood A-list superstars who are also "deep-pocketed", if you are not prepared to spend a huge sum of money, there is no way you can win "World War Z".

Fortunately, it is estimated that even Leonardo and Brad Pitt never thought that the novel adapted into a movie could sell 500 million US dollars worldwide.

The "Resident Evil" series only has 100 million in North America and 200 million worldwide. How can a movie adapted from a novel with far less influence than the "Resident Evil" game achieve better box office than this?

No one would believe this.

Even if Leonardo and Brad Pitt are optimistic about this work, their psychological bottom line is probably to spend millions of dollars on a gamble, and they are unlikely to be willing to spend tens of millions to purchase the copyright.

With Wu Yuan's order to win at all costs, "World War Z" will probably be won by John.

This chapter is a make-up for yesterday, not today’s update.