Millennium director

After notifying the students in the 02-level undergraduate performance class that they would go to the small auditorium for interviews tomorrow, Wu Yuan took his computer and returned to the renovated courtyard.

After re-laying the floor, renovating the interior, and installing a series of modern appliances, Wu Yuan's old courtyard house once again looked new.

But to be honest, no matter how well-decorated a courtyard house is, living in it is still not as comfortable as a modern villa or a large flat.

Perhaps those royal-level courtyard houses can have both style and comfort, but Wu Yuan, an ordinary courtyard house in Xicheng, is just like that.

Anyway, Wu Yuan was already thinking that after "The Hangover" was released and received a share of the box office, he would have to spend some money to buy new real estate in the capital.

Taking advantage of the fact that there are no purchase restrictions in Beijing, I would like to buy three or five of his properties first, which will not only provide a comfortable place to live in, but also be a stable value-added investment, so I won't lose money no matter what.

There are also matters such as taking the driving license test and buying a car, which are also on the agenda.

It was fine before, but now Wu Yuan doesn't have a mobility scooter, and his daily life is really inconvenient.

After taking a taxi back to the courtyard, Wu Yuan took a brief walk around. After making sure that there was nothing wrong with the renovation of the courtyard, he returned to the main house and continued to work.

The script of "Romeo and Juliet" needs to be studied over and over again, and the script for the new movie needs to be adapted.

The idea for the next new movie was decided almost at the same time as "Romeo and Juliet."

After Wu Yuan decided to schedule this play, he thought about what would be suitable for his next movie.

RB was released in 2016, with domestic box office of 25.17 billion yen, mainland box office of 570 million yuan, and global box office total of 358.1 million U.S. dollars. It is a well-received and popular anime movie——

"your name"!

This is an anime movie, but this movie is different from Hayao Miyazaki's anime movies. It is not fantasy at all, and there are no pictures or plots that can only be achieved through animation.

This movie could easily be adapted into a live-action film without any sense of inconsistency.

The movie tells the romantic love story of a pair of boys and girls who swap bodies in a dream and after spending some time in their respective lives, the boy travels across time and space to save the girl who died from a meteorite fall.

The male and female protagonists meet each other across time and space, and with the belief "No matter where you are in the world, I will definitely go to see you" to find each other and save each other!

To sum it up in one sentence, this movie is small and fresh, beautiful and romantic, and makes me cry!

In fact, Wu Yuan has not never thought about it. There are many youth love movies with the same theme. Choosing an anime movie to adapt it is definitely not the best choice.

Movies like "A Little Thing About First Love", "20 Again", "Girls We Chased In Those Years" and "My Girlhood" can achieve the effect of this movie.

So why did he choose this anime movie?

Of course it’s because this movie is “blockbuster” enough!

Although this is a love movie, there are big scenes in this movie!

A once-in-a-thousand-year comet, a meteorite falling and destroying a village, these scenes are all big scenes that require special effects!

Ask Wu Yuan to make a real special effects blockbuster, he would definitely not dare.

In 2003, if you shoot a special effects blockbuster in the Mainland, you will only lose your life!

And he doesn’t have that much money. There’s no special effects blockbuster that can’t cost over 100 million US dollars.

But Wu Yuan also wants to bring some novel movie-watching experiences to mainland audiences and attract more ordinary people back to the cinema to watch this movie!

Then making a movie with some special effects and big scenes is a very suitable choice.

The main plot of "Your Name" still revolves around the male and female protagonists who swap bodies, but at the climax of this movie, there is a plot where a meteorite hits the ground and destroys a village.

If this movie were made into a live-action version, there would probably be 1-2 minutes of special effects shots.

The current cost of special effects production is not as exaggerated as tens or millions per second in later generations.

Wu Yuan made some calculations and found that even if it were produced by the top special effects company in Hollywood, a one-minute special effects shot would cost only three to four million US dollars.

In "Pirates of the Caribbean 1", the scene where the pirates transformed into skeletons and fought with Jack and the others lasted only a few minutes.

So don’t underestimate the 1-minute special effects shots. Scattered in the movie, for more than ten seconds at a time, it can already support four or five major scenes!

For domestic audiences who have not yet had much exposure to Hollywood special effects blockbusters, the impact of such special effects images is already attractive enough.

Instead of pursuing one step, let the audience watch a "Transformers"-level special effects blockbuster, just try some special effects first!

As a director who has returned from Hollywood and has made Hollywood commercial blockbusters, it is only in line with his style to make a movie with special effects and big scenes!

Wu Yuan has already thought about it. When the time comes, he will cut a two-minute trailer and include most of the special effects shots. Putting it online will definitely attract audiences!

By the time they are attracted to the cinema, even if they find out after watching the movie that the whole movie is just the special effects scenes in the trailer, they won't care.

For a bad movie, this is trailer fraud.

But for a movie like "Your Name", the audience will only be moved by the romantic love story in the movie after watching the movie, so what else will they think about?

Even if he figured it out afterward, he would just sigh that Wu Yuan was playing a trick, and he would not really have any bad feelings towards him.

As long as the movie is good enough, the audience will actually be very tolerant.

"Your Name" itself is a romantic and touching love story, coupled with Hollywood-level special effects scenes, it can definitely be killed in this era!

Moreover, it doesn't cost much to make such a movie. It only costs 30-40 million yuan, and it should be able to be made.

That's it, Da Tou also spent all of that one minute on special effects production.

Therefore, when Wu Yuan confirmed that he would film "Your Name" next, the students in the 02-level acting class naturally became the actor reserves that he focused on.

Wu Yuan has always believed that actors should play the right role at the right age!

Except for the heroine's grandmother, the main characters in "Your Name" are all high school students!

Luo Jin and Liu Yifei, freshmen acting students, are undoubtedly the most suitable to star in this movie.

Even Zhu Yawen, who was later hailed as a hormonal tough guy, is still a very green little boy!

Played by age-appropriate actors, this is what teenagers in movies should be like.

He planned to use the opportunity of rehearsing "Romeo and Juliet" to have in-depth contact with this group of 02 freshmen and select a few suitable actors.

Later, during the summer vacation, we will use these actors to film "Your Name"!

As long as Hollywood's special effects pictures are produced simultaneously, it should be released before the end of the year.

However, before filming, Wu Yuan had to make some adaptations to the original "Your Name" script.

There are many Japanese-style plots in the original movie, such as the heroine's family's family shrine and the production of chewing wine, which all need to be redesigned.

Wu Yuan has a lot of things on his hands, and he won't be able to take any time off when he returns home.

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