Chapter 257 The new "Wolf Warrior" script
Chapter 257 The new "Wolf Warrior" script
After staying in South Korea for seven or eight days, fulfilling his obligations as the producer of "The Man from Nowhere" and negotiating a cooperation agreement with CJ Entertainment, Wang Hao boarded a plane back to Beijing.
After returning to China, it was already mid-June.
Wang Hao first checked the editing of "Taken". After confirming that there were no problems with the style and rhythm of the film, he focused more on the preparations for the movie "Wolf Warriors".
In his design, whether it is "Taken", "The Man from Nowhere" or "Raging Fire", they are just branch transition plots of the first stage of "The Three-Body Problem".
The real key at this stage is the complete revamp of the plot, "Wolf Warrior", which has a completely different content except for the name which is the same as Wu Jing's previous movie.
Wang Hao initially estimated that the production period of this film would be about a year.
So even though the post-production of "Taken" has not been completed yet, he has already begun to shift the focus of work in various departments of the company toward "Wolf Warriors".
However, even though Galaxy Pictures attaches great importance to "Wolf Warrior", it is not easy to make this movie well.
The most critical issue in the early stage is the script.
The completely revamped new version of "Wolf Warrior" completely abandons the original plot.
In Wang Hao's opinion, Wu Jing's version of "Wolf Warrior" is still too small-minded and is not enough to support the task of concluding the first phase of "The Three-Body Problem".
The story and scenes must be upgraded. How can it be enough to just fight the invading mercenaries in the country?
Wang Hao first reached a consensus with the screenwriter team to place the main location of the story in the Golden Triangle area outside the Chinese border, and the villains were transformed into armed militants with more powerful firepower.
Then the motivations of the characters in the movie are also very simple, which just echoes the ending easter egg of the previous film "Source Code".
Because of the train explosion, the Chinese government was furious. They followed the clues to find the source of explosives and the whereabouts of the mastermind "Explosion", and sent the "Wolf Warrior" special forces to attack him.
It was this military operation that brought the mysterious organization ETO behind "Blast" to the surface, and completely wrote a magnificent epic of wandering on Earth.
Of course, Wang Hao himself cannot guarantee whether the new original plot can be recognized by the audience.
The only thing he could do was to work together with the screenwriter department and use their brains to write a good script.
During this process, they also sought help from many people.
After all, it is a military action film with science fiction elements, and the professional knowledge about military tactics, weapons and equipment is not something the screenwriters sitting in the office are very good at.
Fortunately, Galaxy Pictures is famous enough, and when filming the two TV series "I Am a Special Forces Soldier" and "Descendants of the Dragon", it established certain connections with the military propaganda department.
So when Wang Hao and his team sought help from relevant units, the army specially recruited experts in this field to provide them with guidance.
After receiving the film outline and project plan provided by Galaxy Pictures, the military was very satisfied and expressed that they would absolutely fully support their film shooting.
With relevant guarantees, Wang Hao was very happy.
You have to know that when Wu Jing was filming "Wolf Warrior 1" in his previous life, he was not as extravagant as him. It was only after the success of "Wolf Warrior 1" that the military increased its support for "Wolf Warrior 2".
Then you can see tanks and warships appear in "Wolf Warrior 2".
Now, Wang Hao and his team's new "Wolf Warrior" is enjoying the same treatment as "Wolf Warrior 2". In addition to these realistic military weapons and battles, as a movie with science fiction elements, the new "Wolf Warrior" will also feature some military weapons and high-tech products that are far beyond the current era.
In this regard, it is not enough to simply rely on the military for help, we need to seek help from more professional people.
So Wang Hao mobilized his connections again. He first asked the military for help and contacted expert professors at a military academy in Hunan Province who specialized in military weapons development.
Then he approached his father, a professor of literature at a decent university, and asked him to help him make connections. He got in touch with the school and received some technical support.
With the help of these people, the early story setting and background information of "Wolf Warrior" finally began to move forward in an orderly manner.
In June, while Wang Hao was busy with the script for Wolf Warrior, the first part of the Three-Body series of novels, Ghost Blows Out the Light, written by Tianxia Bachang, was officially released.
With the success of "The Three-Body Problem: Past Events on Earth", this novel, which also belongs to the "Three-Body Problem" series and tells the adventure stories of Ye Wenjie's friends Hu Bayi and Wang Pangzi, was well received by readers as soon as it was released.
"People light candles, ghosts blow out lamps."
The story revolves around a family heirloom Feng Shui secret scroll. Through the perspectives of three contemporary tomb raiders, Hu Bayi, Wang Fatty and Shirley Yang, the story unveils the mystery of "tomb robbing" for readers, while also filling the blank time in the "Three-Body" series between 1980 and 1990.
Especially the ancient ruins unearthed by the trio through exploration in "Ghost Blows Out the Light", combined with "The Three-Body Problem" and the bronze sacred tree at the end of "Source Code".
Readers can vaguely construct an incomplete picture of the ancient alien civilization in the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe".
"It's so scary, I don't even dare to read this novel alone at night!"
"I never thought that our Chinese mythology would be connected to alien civilizations. This author has a really big imagination!"
"Oh, this Ghost Blows Out the Light is also a novel from the Galaxy Cinematic Universe. Does that mean Director Wang will also adapt Ghost Blows Out the Light into a TV show or movie?"
"That's impossible. This is a tomb-robbing story. Will the review department approve it?"
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In June, the Internet was noisy and lively because of the appearance of "Ghost Blows Out the Light".
With the popularity of "Ghost Blows Out the Light", another science fiction novel "The Martian" written by Fang Baiyu, also operated by Star Map Culture, was also put on the shelves in major bookstores in China.
Not only in China, but also with the help of the previous overseas sales channels of "The Three-Body Problem", "The Martian" was also released simultaneously overseas.
However, this novel, which is also a related work of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe", did not make any waves in China after it was released.
Compared to the more bizarre and mysterious "Ghost Blows Out the Light", science fiction stories are ultimately a bit niche in mainland China.
Even with the help of the fame of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe", the sales of the book are still far behind those of "Ghost Blows Out the Light".
The only consolation is that the sales performance of "The Martian" overseas, especially in North America, is very encouraging, and has even surpassed "Ghost Blows Out the Light" which was also released overseas.
(End of this chapter)