Chapter 304 Opening the Door to Science Fiction Movies

The release of "Wolf Warrior" made the term "science fiction" like a hurricane, sweeping across the entire Chinese land.

In this land, science fiction works are not actually very popular. Not to mention compared with the traditional literature of more than a decade ago, even compared with the martial arts culture, it is weaker.

Of course, this does not mean that science fiction works have no audience in China. After all, Hollywood's "Star Wars", "Terminator", "Transformers" and "Avatar" have also achieved good results in China and have been sought after by many people.

It’s just that most of the people who are cultivated by Hollywood movies are also fans of Hollywood science fiction.

Until now, until Wang Hao began to come to the fore, Chinese science fiction works have truly stepped out of their small circle and appeared before the public in a dignified manner.

With the spread of countless news media and internet promoters, and with the spontaneous promotion by a large number of movie fans.

New military equipment, genetic drugs, drone bombing, Beidou navigation, mechanical exoskeleton...

These science fiction things, which were originally very trendy and only appeared in popular science books, began to appear frequently in the public eye.

At that time, short video platforms had not yet become popular, but there were quite a few video platforms on the Internet. Soon, a blogger with good technical skills edited together some high-tech clips from "Wolf Warrior" and some official military action pictures.

Then they added some more explosive titles to these videos, such as "This is the true strength of the Chinese military", "The Chinese military's black technology you don't know", "It turns out that our military equipment has been far ahead", etc., and then put them on the Internet, and they quickly spread.

Not to mention, some middle-aged and elderly people who are not aware of the situation and cannot tell the truth from falsehood of the information on the Internet actually believe these videos on the Internet and talk about these military equipment and high-tech weapons to everyone they meet.

Moreover, as the box office of "Wolf Warrior" continued to rise day by day and its influence grew, these videos actually successfully broke the circle.

Just one week after Wolf Warriors was released, the film’s first-week box office had reached 2.49 million yuan, with a total of 91585 screenings and 610 million viewers.

This data may be slightly inferior to the 2.8279 million yuan first-week mainland box office of "Avatar" released at the beginning of the year, but it is also extremely eye-catching, at least the runner-up in this year's mainland box office rankings.

Some media have even estimated in advance that the final box office of Wang Hao's "Wolf Warrior" will definitely reach 8 million based on the popularity of the movie.

Then, the military channel of CCTV-7 quoted and broadcast the video clips of "Wolf Warrior" on the Internet, and produced a program introducing the development of modernization, informatization and digitalization of the Chinese military.

Then Wang Hao received a report from DJI Drone, indicating that military leaders had visited the company.

Soon, interviews with DJI also appeared in newspapers and on television.

After this news was released, Wang Hao and his team didn't even need to run any connections, as the military took the initiative to contact Galaxy Pictures.

Wang Hao finally understood why so many Hollywood movies like to seek help from the US military. He also experienced the feeling of having someone behind him.

First of all, the movie "Wolf Warrior" was released to the company and the entire army watched it.

Although this order was not issued in the form of a written document, when CCTV-6 and CCTV-7 broadcast footage of military soldiers collectively watching "Wolf Warrior" and standing up and applauding, the meaning behind it was self-evident.

In this situation, what should those people do? Do they need to be reminded more? The fire department, the police and other departments also need to follow up quickly.

Secondly, due to the influence of the movie "Wolf Warrior", promotional videos about military construction, equipment upgrades, and technological development also began to be played repeatedly on TV.

The emergence of some new weapons and equipment, especially airplanes, warships, tanks, and combat vehicles, has indeed greatly boosted the self-confidence and pride of the people, and the army has also made a big splash.

Even in an interview program on the military channel, when the host asked about military mechanical exoskeletons using "Wolf Warrior", a military expert named Zhang gave an ambiguous answer.

"Exoskeleton armor?

This is indeed a direction for future military development. We can also see that foreign countries have indeed been conducting research in this area for some time.

Although our army started late in this regard, it is not completely unprepared. Some relevant scholars and professors have also conducted some discussions in this regard.

So the film called "Wolf Warrior" is still very realistic, and it is an impeccable deduction of the future development direction of our Chinese army."

After the show was broadcast, it not only brought popularity to "Wolf Warrior" again, but also some scholars and professors related to mechanical exoskeletons also expressed their opinions online on the feasibility of this thing. Some people have even begun to turn their entrepreneurial eyes to this area.

Throughout the entire month of October, the Internet and major media were almost all news related to "Wolf Warrior". People were very familiar with this movie and participated in many related discussions.

As reflected in the movie box office, it is naturally rising against the trend, with gratifying results.

In the second week, thanks to the military booking the theater, the box office of "Wolf Warrior" exceeded that of the previous week by a large margin, reaching 3.162 million yuan.

Then in the third week, the box office performance of "Wolf Warrior" remained stable. Although it declined slightly, it still reached 2.094 million Chinese yuan.

In just three weeks, the box office performance of "Wolf Warrior" has already approached the media's estimate of 8 million yuan, aiming for the 10 billion yuan mark.

This can be regarded as a great honor for the Chinese film and television industry. Although film art is not judged by money, being the first Chinese director to have a single film gross over 10 billion is also very famous.

In Wang Hao's previous life, this honor was won by the film "Lost in Thailand" directed by Xu Zheng.

Since then, comedy films have been the only ones that stand out in the Chinese market and have become the darling of the capital market.

If this record is broken by Wang Hao's "Wolf Warrior" now, given the domestic film and television industry's tendency to follow trends, perhaps those film and television companies will have to consider launching large-scale science fiction productions.

Wang Hao didn’t know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. Anyway, the main creative team of “Wolf Warrior” had stepped up their efforts to promote the movie.

Roadshows in universities, roadshows in the military, appearances on variety shows, and spending money to issue press releases are just routine operations.

Soon, seeing that "Wolf Warrior" brought great prestige to the army, the navy also contacted Galaxy Pictures and Wang Hao, expressing that they could also provide strong support for Wang Hao's future filming of naval-related films.

In particular, they also said that the aircraft carrier that China bought from abroad is currently being renovated. If possible, this aircraft carrier could be included in Wang Hao's movie at that time.

This news really surprised Wang Hao, but also made him extremely happy.

The Navy's sincerity in this cooperation cannot be said to be insufficient.

And in his memory, there was actually a science fiction movie about warships in Hollywood in his previous life.

But before Wang Hao could sit down and talk with the leaders of the Navy, the Air Force came to him and said that the Air Force could also provide support for the subsequent "Wolf Warrior 2". Then because of the Beidou navigation in the movie "Wolf Warrior", the aerospace department also invited Wang Hao.

So in the following CCTV 7 program, the fans saw that the main creative staff of the "Wolf Warrior" crew first visited the navy unit for publicity, and then went to a certain air force unit to screen the movie and express their condolences.

Then, the audience saw Wang Hao in the noon news program of Channel 1.

Originally, this program was broadcasting interviews related to the Chang'e-2 satellite.

Just this year, on October 2010, 10, the day when "Wolf Warrior" was released, my country successfully launched the Chang'e 1 satellite into the Earth-Moon transfer orbit using the Long March B carrier rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

Then, from October 10 to 27, the Chang'e-29 satellite successfully took high-resolution images of a local area of the Moon's Rainbow Bay, and the mission was a complete success.

This incident was reported on the noon news, and it was also reported to the many people in the ground command center at that time. It was at this time that Wang Hao appeared on the news.

The subtitles give Wang Hao the title of "director". When interviewed by CCTV reporters, Wang Hao, a popular director, also said:

“Ah, the reason why I am here today is because I was invited by the leader of the aerospace department.

Yes, I do plan to make a space-themed science fiction movie.

In Hollywood, the interaction between science fiction movies and aerospace technology is a legend.

The film attracts young people with the power of popular culture and encourages them to join the space industry.

The continuous new discoveries and achievements in aerospace technology have endowed science fiction films with new imagination and new thinking, and under the packaging of popular culture, have influenced the public to continue to pay attention to the ultimate thinking about humanity.

In our country, we can see that over the past 40 years, China's space exploration has always been making great strides forward.

Since the successful launch of China's first artificial satellite 'Dongfanghong-1970' in .

By 2003, my country successfully launched its first manned spacecraft, Shenzhou V.

Then there is the successful completion of the mission of Chang'e-2 this year, and the launch of Tiangong-1 next year.

It can be said that China's aerospace industry has made great progress and development.

But unfortunately, in this era of rapid development of China's aerospace technology, our own science fiction films are absent.

This may seem harmless, but it actually makes the public lose the connection with high-tech and the way of thinking by "looking up at the stars" with the help of popular culture.

Fortunately, it is not too late now. We know that with the rapid development of the national economy, the Chinese film market has also expanded rapidly in the past few years.

At this time of rapid market expansion, Chinese films have also had a new strategic direction at the macro level. Calls are also coming from above that the rise of heavy industry science fiction films will prompt adjustments to the industrial structure. This provides a strong opportunity for the combination of Chinese films and China's aerospace industry.

In the next few years, I believe that more "high-quality" and "high-standard" heavy industry science fiction films with China's aerospace industry as the theme will appear on the big screen.

It complements and promotes our country’s aerospace industry!”

Although Wang Hao's speech, which lasted several minutes, did not appear on the 7 o'clock news, it was enough for some people to see his current status and position.

And what he said was not nonsense.

At least when he was received by the top leader of the aerospace department, he did propose several film projects that greatly interested the other party and his subordinates.

For example, the story of an astronaut struggling to survive in the void of the universe can be related to the Tiangong-1 that will be launched next year and the future Chinese space station.

Or the story of an astronaut struggling to survive on Mars by growing potatoes, which can be related... Well, it will take several years for the China Space Administration's Mars exploration program to be officially launched.

Anyway, no matter what, Wang Hao's explanation at least allowed a group of leaders and scholars from the space agency to see his sincerity.

Those detailed plot designs at least show that he has indeed considered this aspect. In addition to these projects, Wang Hao’s company’s [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] also has many movies related to the aerospace industry, which also makes the leaders extremely satisfied.

Only a great director who is involved in art and publicity like Wang Hao could come up with such high-sounding terms as the space elevator "Jianmu", the pilot space station "Kuafu", and the aerospace shuttle "Xuanniao".

They could also foresee that once Wang Hao's promise was fulfilled and those movies were released, their space agency's mission in terms of publicity would certainly be exceeded.

After all, although they have another movie "Flying" next year, which is also a movie about the aerospace industry, the works of a science fiction commercial film director like Wang Hao are ultimately more reassuring.

Therefore, the leaders of the Space Administration also shook hands with Wang Hao cordially, and told him that if Galaxy Pictures needed any help, they could just ask as long as it did not violate discipline and principles.

With this promise, Wang Hao did not hesitate and immediately stated that when they were writing the script, they really needed some technical guidance from experts and scholars from the aerospace department.

Moreover, when these films are being filmed, they may also need to be shot on location.

The leaders were not so quick to agree to these things. After all, aerospace engineering is a confidential unit and it is not something that can be decided immediately.

However, the top boss also said that as long as the script and shooting plan submitted by Galaxy Pictures passed their review, there would be absolutely no problem in providing relevant assistance.

In this way, the two companies have reached an agreement to some extent, and when some relevant information was released through the media.

Those science fiction movie fans who were already happy about "Wolf Warrior" were even more excited.

Although "Wolf Warrior" also contains many science fiction elements and the plot is very exciting, when it comes to science fiction movies, especially heavy industrial science fiction movies, space science fiction movies are a genre that cannot be avoided.

From "Star Wars" to "2001: A Space Odyssey", from "Apollo 13" to "Star Trek", being able to look up at the stars, travel in the universe, and shoot space science fiction movies is enough to prove a country's strength and progress.

After all, if your country is not strong enough and cannot even achieve manned aviation, how can you have the confidence to make your own audiences approve of the content of the movie?

We can’t all be as shameless as the Korean country.

(End of this chapter)

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