Chapter 285 "Wolf Warrior" Finished

Chapter 285 "Wolf Warrior" Finished

Chapter 285 "Wolf Warrior" Finished

Wang Hao didn't expect that Ma Ali would suddenly use his ultimate move against him and sneak attack him, a young man.

This is really unethical!

Wang Hao twisted his body awkwardly, not knowing how to respond to the other party's words.

Fortunately, Ali Ma did not notice Wang Hao's performance and continued talking to himself.

“But sometimes, if you want to achieve your dreams, money is indispensable.

Alibaba’s development is inseparable from money. Without the investment from those companies in the beginning, we would not have been able to develop so fast.

Sometimes the market is like this, if you are slow, you will miss the opportunity and there will be no more opportunities. "

When Wang Hao heard this, he already got the hint. Alibaba seemed to be eyeing him and Galaxy Pictures, and wanted to replicate what it did with Huayi.

“Haha, Mr. Ma, what you said is true, but many times, many things cannot be solved by money alone.

As the head of Alibaba, you must be well aware of this in the Internet industry."

Ali Ma was speechless for a moment after hearing this. He also understood the implication of Wang Hao's words. If he wanted to invest in Galaxy Pictures, it was not impossible. It could be discussed.

However, Alibaba Group also needs to demonstrate its value to Galaxy Pictures, which requires more than just money.

For many start-ups, financing means money, but for mature companies like Galaxy Pictures, financing depends more on whether the investor's background can bring more resource benefits to the company, and money is ranked last.

Alibaba Group has not yet launched any entertainment projects. Most of its investments in this area are just Ma Ali's personal hobby and the subconscious habit of large companies to expand outward. Apart from money, the help it can really provide to Galaxy Pictures is actually very little.

However, when it comes to money, Galaxy Pictures and Wang Hao are not short of it for the time being.

Not to mention that the Galaxy Group is now operating well, every movie it makes is a hit, it has a lot of cash flow and assets, and its debt is also healthy.

Take the U.S. dollars that Wang Hao has in the U.S. stock market, for example. They have now risen to 200 million.

He is only worried about how to spend the money now, and he is not really worried about how to raise money.

At this time, Ma Ali also realized that he knew too little about Wang Hao and his company, and that launching an attack this time was indeed a bit reckless.

So he quickly stopped talking about this matter and just asked Wang Hao about some interesting things in the entertainment industry. He also jokingly expressed his idea of ​​making a movie.

Wang Hao had also heard about Mr. Ma's hobby.

It is said that in 2000, Mr. Ma heard that Zhang Da Huzi was going to film "Swordsman", so he used his connections to find Zhang's wife and expressed his desire to play a role in the play.

Zhang's wife Fan exclaimed, "Do you want to play Linghu Chong?"

As a result, Ma Ali shook his head and said, "I want to play Linghu Chong's master Feng Qingyang."

Feng Qingyang is a hermit with an immortal look. Ma Ali has a strange appearance and is not suitable for this role, so he was naturally rejected by the crew.

After not getting the role, Ma Ali was very angry and changed the name of the office. The conference room was called "Guangmingding", the office was called "Taohua Island", and the laboratory was called "Dharma Institute". The employees all gave themselves nicknames based on Jin Yong's novels. He called himself Feng Qingyang, which was considered to be a satisfying decision.

We also know that in the future, he will bring together superstars such as Yuen Woo-ping, Sammo Hung, Ching Xiao-dong, Li Lian-jie, Zhen Zidan, Wu Jing, and Zou Shiming to shoot a kung fu film with him to show what the so-called "Ant Fist" and "Huabei Palm" are.

"Hahaha, Mr. Ma is quite elegant. If there is a chance in the future, we can cooperate."

Wang Hao said something with a double meaning, then chatted with the other party for a while. Seeing that the cocktail party was about to end, he just found an excuse and left.

Of course, Wang Hao couldn't drive after drinking. Fortunately, there weren't too many designated drivers waiting for work in front of this luxury hotel.

After returning home, Wang Hao went to bed early and slept soundly.

However, on the Internet and entertainment media, news about Huayi's listing and the wealth-making myth it brought caused a sensation both online and offline.

The Chinese entertainment industry at that time had not yet reached the level of daily income in the later era of traffic, and only a few top stars could afford those tens of millions in film pay.

Moreover, the pay is mostly out of demand. Most middle-level actors in the entertainment industry still work diligently on filming and get paid honestly.

As a result, they suddenly discovered that this is actually possible. Capital operations seem to make more money than their hard work in filming movies. Some people have even started to think about it.

No one can resist money!
Wang Hao had anticipated the fickleness of people's hearts and the changing trends in the entertainment industry, but he did not care and was powerless to change it.

He just needs to do his job well and show everyone another path to success.

So Wang Hao quickly returned to the filming of "Wolf Warrior". Two-thirds of the film's scenes have been completed in the studio, and they will be busy for at least another month.

At this time, the "Wolf Warrior" crew also welcomed a group of new members. Because of Wang Hao's relationship, Galaxy Pictures and Shanghai Film Academy have always had good cooperation.

This time, Wang Hao and his team are shooting a big-budget science fiction movie, so Beijing Film Academy naturally took the opportunity to arrange a group of directors and graduate students from the project management department to join the team for training.

Wang Hao had no objection to this. After all, they had been cooperating with Beijing Film Academy on this matter before. In every movie of Wang Hao's, there were students from Beijing Film Academy participating in the internship. This had become a habit.

However, among the intern graduate students this time, there was one name that made Wang Hao take a second look.

Guo Fan.

After these graduate students joined the crew, Wang Hao met with them specially and talked about the prospects for the development of the domestic film industrialization, as well as Galaxy Pictures' determination and achievements in the field of science fiction films.

By the way, he also looked at the graduate student named Guo Fan and found that he was no different from the one he saw on the news in his previous life. Only then did he confirm that it was the same person.

However, even though he knew that the other party was Guo Fan, who would later star in "The Wandering Earth", Wang Hao did not show any intention of giving him any special care.

The Chinese film industry and science fiction films cannot be saved by one person. They can only be developed through the joint efforts of thousands of filmmakers with the same ideals.

Guo Fan is important, but not that important.

Moreover, the other party has just started studying for a master's degree in Beijing Film Academy and has just started his career as a director, so he can just let him develop. If he is still interested in this area, with Wang Hao's current influence on the Chinese film industry, he may be more likely to succeed in the future.

So Wang Hao quickly put this matter behind him and continued to focus on the filming of "Wolf Warrior".

According to Galaxy Pictures' plan, if everything goes well with the post-production, the movie "Wolf Warrior" will be released next year, that is, during the National Day holiday in October 2010.

A little later, it will be released on New Year’s Day.

This is necessary, otherwise the Galaxy Cinematic Universe will have a gap period throughout 2010.

Of course, during this process, Galaxy Pictures actually participated in the investment or production of quite a few movies and TV series that were released, but they do not belong to the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe].

Fortunately, the production of Wolf Warriors was running smoothly, and no major problems occurred in the last month or so.

Especially after the filming of the scenes involving the mechanical exoskeleton was completed, Wu Jing and the other actor breathed a sigh of relief, and the progress of the filming was also accelerated a lot.

Finally, at the beginning of 2010, after working overtime on New Year's Day, the "Wolf Warrior" crew successfully completed the last scene of the movie.

The crew will need one or two days to finish the work in the studio, but the actors’ filming is certain to be completed.

On the night of the final shooting, a wrap-up banquet was a must, but this time it was strange that Wang Hao did not arrange a regular wrap-up banquet for the "Wolf Warrior" crew.

Then on the next day, which was January 2010, 1, in the morning, the two to three hundred core team members of the "Wolf Warrior" crew gathered, boarded the bus, crossed most of the upper capital, and arrived at Wanda Plaza in Shijingshan District.

Then the crew members got the movie tickets that Wang Hao had booked from Wanda several days in advance. The entire Shijingshan Wanda Cinema was now booked by Wang Hao and his crew.

As for what to watch in the private theater?
When the crew members of "Wolf Warrior" walked into the screening room wearing 3D glasses, they no longer had the heart to talk about this.

As soon as the movie opened, it immediately attracted everyone's attention, with immersive 3D effects, stunning alien scenery, sci-fi human weapons, and unique alien creatures...

The crew members of "Wolf Warrior" watched all this silently, and their whole minds were immersed in it. They followed the protagonist in the movie and went on an adventure on that magnificent alien planet, soaring on a huge flying dragon and defending their homeland.

Until the movie ended and everyone arrived at the hotel where the wrap party was held, they had not yet recovered from the Hollywood movie called "Avatar".

"Hey! Hey!"

Wang Hao stood on the stage at the front of the hotel lobby holding a microphone, waking up everyone present.

“It can be seen that everyone must have found the experience very unforgettable, and it may even be engraved in their hearts for a long time.

Indeed, compared to you who are just seeing "Avatar" today, when I was in Hollywood, I knew more about special effects technology earlier.

So today I would like to take this opportunity to talk about "Avatar" and science fiction movies."

Wang Hao paused when he said this, and everyone at the scene looked at him quietly and listened to his words patiently.

“To tell this story, we have to start from the beginning, which was 1977, a year full of ideals and dreams.

In this year, a movie was finally completed and hit the big screen for the first time thanks to the director's hard work.

At that time, the industry generally had a negative view on this movie. When the movie was released, there were less than forty theaters in the United States willing to show it.

And this movie, yes, is the "Star Wars" created by George Lucas.

This science fiction world created by Lucas completely changed people's perception of movies.

It was also in this year that an unknown truck driver and his friend walked into the cinema excitedly, wanting to see this science fiction movie that fascinated countless people.

This truck driver is James Cameron.

Influenced by "Star Wars", James Cameron plunged into the film industry without hesitation, and a few years later, he turned the unattainable dream into reality and successfully created the science fiction classic "Terminator".

Later, with many commercial blockbusters such as "True Lies" and "Titanic" sweeping the world, James Cameron finally became the hottest and household name filmmaker in Hollywood more than 20 years after "Star Wars".

Having gained both fame and fortune, he can finally calm down and do what he wants to do, and put the "interstellar epic" that has been buried deep in his heart for a long time into practice.

Of course, now it seems that he has unintentionally become a powerful promoter of the development of a new era of film.”

Wang Hao chuckled, allowing everyone to recover from James Cameron's deeds, and then continued:
"According to what I heard from Sony Pictures, Cameron gradually convinced them to develop and produce a simple and efficient 3D camera several years ago through long-term communication and powerful facts.

This makes it possible for 3D technology to be truly applied in film production, rather than requiring post-production conversion and imaging changes to synthesize 3D effects as in the past.

It was also Cameron who strongly recommended the new generation of 3D cameras to other directors for film production when many cinema chains were unwilling to innovate their projection equipment due to funding issues.

At the same time, in order to increase the film company's confidence in investing in "Avatar", he also found Lucas and his Industrial Light & Magic special effects production company, and also brought in Weta Special Effects, which was responsible for the special effects of "The Lord of the Rings".

With the addition of Sony's specially developed 3D camera equipment and several years of development of motion capture technology, Cameron finally had the momentum and courage to create a screen myth.

Of course, this is just the beginning.

After that, in order to start from scratch, we gradually created a fantasy interstellar world that was based on reality but different from the real world, so that the whole story had a solid environment and material foundation.

Before the filming of the movie, Cameron sought out authoritative figures in various fields, including linguists, zoologists, botanists and zoologists, astrophysicists, archaeologists, etc., to help him build a grand Pandora world.

Linguists are responsible for creating a language belonging to the Na'vi people, zoologists and botanists provide scientific basis and naming system for the various animals and plants depicted by conceptual artists, and astrophysicists calculate the realistic and credible atmospheric density, providing a solid foundation for the subsequent evolution of animals and plants, spacecraft design, and so on.

These are probably familiar to some of us present here.”

Wang Hao's words actually made some of the behind-the-scenes workers present laugh, because the previous improvements to the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" and "Wolf Warrior" scripts didn't seem to be much different from what Wang Hao said.

However, Wang Hao's next words silenced them.

"So do you think that our film Wolf Warrior can beat Avatar in terms of box office and word of mouth?"

(End of this chapter)