Chapter 367: Faction Struggle

Chapter 367: Faction Struggle

Chapter 367: Faction Struggle
Wang Hao's speculation that "Special Identity" plagiarized the script of "Ultimate Decoding" is not groundless.

In the domestic film, television and entertainment circles, script plagiarism is not an uncommon thing.

This kind of thing is actually very normal in Hong Kong. In fact, this bad trend was even spread from Hong Kong.

At the beginning, plagiarism was rampant in Hong Kong films, and follow-up incidents were endless. Film and television production was full of rough atmosphere, and everything was based on money.

For example, after Lin Zhengying's "Mr. Vampire" became popular, a bunch of supernatural films came out. After "A Better Tomorrow" became popular, people immediately started making gun action films. After "God of Gamblers" became popular, all kinds of gambling films came out.

It can be said that although Hong Kong films are popular, they have not actually established a film industrialization system, and they do not pay much attention to scripts.

In the past, when they were filming there, many crews didn't even have a script. They would just organize a shoot based on an idea.

Of course, these things certainly cannot be used as evidence that "Special Identity" plagiarized the script of "Ultimate Decoding".

But there is no need for any direct evidence.

“《终极解码》项目是在2011年12月30日结束的，而《特殊身份》项目是在2012年1月19日举办的开机发布会。

There is less than twenty days between the two projects. Excluding the finishing work after the end of one project and the preparation before the start of the new project, the time actually left for the "Special Identity" crew to prepare the script may be less than ten days.

Want to complete a complete script from beginning to end in ten days? You have also participated in the preparatory work of Gravity, so you should know that this is completely impossible.

Moreover, if a new script was prepared at the beginning, then what Zhao Wenzhuo said about Zhen Zidan wanting to change the script temporarily before filming would not be true at all.

Because Zhen Zidan joined the "Special Identity" project earlier than Zhao Wenzhuo, if Zhen Zidan liked to change the play and be the boss of the show, he should have intervened when writing the new script.

So there are only two possibilities. One is that after the project of "Ultimate Decoding" was suspended, Donnie Yen and his team came up with another backup script and started a new project with the original crew.

But there is a problem here. Zhao Wenzhuo said that when he first took the script, he was attracted by the fighting scenes between himself and Donnie Yen in the script.

Moreover, Zhao Wenzhuo also clearly stated that the original director Tan Bing and Cheng Long left the crew one month after he signed the contract, so he must have read the original script.

As for another possibility, it is that there is no new script at all. After the project of "Ultimate Decoding" was suspended, Zhen Zidan and his team pulled the crew that had not yet disbanded and continued to work on "Special Identity" in order to reduce losses.

However, the original film's director, Tan Bing, certainly would not be willing to see his project go away, so he took Zhen Zidan and others to court.

In order to avoid risks, the crew of "Special Identity" had to speed up the revision of the script, which also caused conflicts between the crew and Zhao Wenzhuo. "

Wang Hao's analysis was well-reasoned, and coupled with his identity as the boss of the Galaxy Group and his status in the entertainment industry, Jing Tian immediately believed what he said 70%.

“Now that you put it that way, it’s possible.

If that's the case, then why didn't Zhao Wenzhuo expose this matter?
Since we have already torn our relationship with the crew of "Special Identity", wouldn't it be better to strike a blow to the enemy if we expose this matter?"

Jing Tian was still a little confused, but Wang Hao didn't think much of it.

“So what if it was revealed? The script of Special Identity has already been revised. It’s meaningless to reveal it now because it has no basis or evidence.

Besides, in our country, people don’t pay much attention to copyright and plagiarism.

Do you know how many infringement lawsuits our Galaxy Group fights every year regarding the derivative products of the Galaxy Cinematic Universe?

273 games!
Our legal department has a special team of 14 people who are responsible for this matter, but it still continues despite repeated bans.

It’s just plagiarizing a script, how much impact can it actually have on the crew of “Special Identity”? ”

Jing Tian nodded, now she was satisfied with the melon.

But she swiped her tablet and asked again:

"Then, will this online uproar have an impact on us? Should we also take a stand?"

What Jing Tian meant by "taking sides" was because the competition with Zhao Zhen had now entered the second half of the competition.

When Zhen Zidan's sister-in-law Wang Yuanyuan started speaking out a few days ago, these two action superstars used the human wave tactic and formed gangs to boost their momentum.

Many celebrities were affected by this incident and began to take sides with the two based on their closeness to them.

Among those who support Zhen Zidan are Leon Lai, Wong Jing, Kara Hui, Raymond Wong, Simon Yam, Sandra Ng...

Those who support Zhao Wenzhuo include Yang Mi, Xu Jiao, Qin Lan, Zuo Xiaoqing...

There was also a misunderstanding.

Zhao Wenzhuo was found to be a fake account after he reposted blog posts from Yuen Biao, Yuen Wah, Leung Kar-yan and others.

I don’t know if he was deceived or if he deliberately increased the number of people.

Anyway, the flames of war have now even spread to other celebrities in the entertainment industry. What was originally a simple dispute between Zhao Zhen has now shown a trend of expanding.

However, those fans who were just watching and making a fuss were not satisfied with this, and they went after those stars who had not spoken out but had worked with these two people, trying to drag them into the incident as well.

"Don't get involved in this kind of thing."

Wang Hao remembered that this girl seemed to have supported Zhao Wenzhuo in her previous life, so he specifically told Jing Tian:
“You thought they were upholding justice, but in fact they were just having a party.

Truth and justice are meaningless to people who are caught in a state of fanaticism. If you rashly get involved, you will only get yourself into trouble.

We just need to do our own thing and stay in the base to film the show honestly."

There is some truth in what Wang Hao said.

Because soon, Shu Qi and Feng Dapao confirmed Wang Hao's words and suffered bad luck.

On March 3, the day after Wang Hao gave Jing Tian his instructions, Shu Qi posted on Weibo to support Zhen Zidan and praised his dedication to his work.

As soon as the news was released, a large number of black fans immediately emerged in Shu Qi's comment section.

Among these people, there are fans of Zhao Wenzhuo, people who hate Shu Qi, and audience members who are just here to join in the fun.

Some of them scolded her for being unfair to the person, some accused her of forming cliques, and some even posted screenshots of Shu Qi's early erotic films in the comment section to insult her.

Jing Tian saw this incident after finishing filming the day's scenes and getting off work. Seeing Shu Qi's Weibo flooded with malicious comments, she was very grateful for Wang Hao's reminder.

Shu Qi was also overwhelmed by this round of online violence. She deleted all her Weibo posts overnight and announced her withdrawal. Hong Kong media even captured her crying on the side of the road.

Seeing Shu Qi met with unexpected disaster, various celebrities shifted their focus.

Many celebrities including Chen Kun, Zhao Ziqi, Zheng Yuanchang, Yi Nengjing, Cao Fang, Ning Caishen and others supported Shu Qi through Weibo and posted messages to persuade her to come back.

Du Xze and Wang Jing also announced their withdrawal from Weibo to share the hardships with Shu Qi.

Among them, Feng Dapao has the highest combat effectiveness.

"Director Feng has a really tough temper!"

During the lunch break, Jing Tian was eating while browsing Weibo and sighing.

Wang Hao glanced at the screen and saw Feng Dapao cursing netizens, saying "calling you beasts is an insult to beast nature." Netizens naturally would not indulge him and were jokingly calling him "Huishoubao."

"These people have really poisonous tongues."

Wang Hao shook his head helplessly, and quickly put the matter behind him, devoting more energy to the filming of the movie.

Now that the interior scenes of the space capsule of "Gravity" are almost finished, the next ones will be the more difficult space scenes.

However, the development of the dispute between Zhao Zhen was beyond his expectations. He wanted to avoid the storm, but some people did not think so.

He has already warned Jing Tian and ordered other people in the crew not to discuss the matter or post related comments on any platform without authorization.

But given his current status in the entertainment industry, sometimes not expressing his opinion is actually seen as a statement by outsiders.

[Well-known director forces employees to keep silent, Zhao Zhen’s dispute may involve hidden players]

"Recently, our reporter received information from an employee of a domestic science fiction blockbuster that the director forced the crew to keep silent about the Zhao Zhen incident and prohibited the company's subordinates and artists from speaking out in support of the protagonist of the incident..."

When Wang Hao saw the news on the tablet, an idea popped into his mind.

"It's broken, this is coming for me!"

Now the dispute between Zhao and Zhen is reaching a white-hot stage. On the mainland Internet, Zhen Zidan has already fallen into a disadvantage. There are a lot of negative news about him, and many emerging self-media people are spreading his black material.

Of course, some of these negative news are true and some are false, but netizens don’t care about them. In this atmosphere, they will only think that there is something wrong with Zhen Zidan and have a bad impression of him.

When this news came out at this time, readers would naturally subconsciously think that Wang Hao was also dissatisfied with Zhen Zidan.

No, not just readers, many people in the industry have also had some misunderstandings because of this article.

"Brother Hao, this is why you don't let us speak."

Wang Hao was in no mood to correct Jing Tian's thoughts because his phone rang soon.

Jingle bell~
Jingle bell~
Wang Hao picked up the phone and saw that the name on the caller ID was Huo Wenxi.

"Hello~"

"Hello, Director Wang~"

Jing Tian sat next to Wang Hao, tilted her head, and pricked up her ears to eavesdrop on the polite conversation between Wang Hao and Huo Wenxi.

When this call was over, she was about to say something to Wang Hao with excitement on her face, but another call came in.

"Hey, Uncle Han~"

After that, Jing Tian never found a chance to talk to Wang Hao until after four or five phone calls, Wang Hao's phone stopped ringing.

"What's going on? What's going on?!"

Jing Tian asked with a gossipy look on his face: "Why did those people come to you? Is it because of this news?"

Wang Hao glanced at her and said, "Didn't you hear everything just now? Why are you asking?"

"Oh, I didn't hear some of what you said clearly~" Jing Tian acted coquettishly.

Wang Hao also spoiled this girl, so he immediately told her the content of the previous phone calls.

"It's nothing serious. There are three or four groups of people coming. Huo Wenxi came to inquire about my opinion on Zhen Zidan. He should be speaking well of him as a lobbyist.

Uncle Han San asked me about the specific situation and asked me to pay attention to the impact and not make a big deal out of it so as not to affect unity.

As for some people, they nominally want to nominate me as an opinion leader and hope that I can be fair, but in fact they probably want me to be the first to stand out.”

"This situation is very complicated." Jing Tian said subconsciously.

Wang Hao shook his head.

“It’s not that complicated.

If the previous dispute with Zhao Zhen was still a personal dispute, now it has expanded to a dispute between the Hong Kong entertainment and domestic entertainment camps. "

"A fight between camps?" Jing Tian was still a little confused.

"Yes, a battle between camps."

Wang Hao nodded.

“The conflict between Hong Kong entertainment and mainland entertainment actually existed before the millennium.

It’s just that Hong Kong entertainment was developing well at that time, and when mainland artists went to Hong Kong to make a living, they were looked down upon by Hong Kong people.

Later, Hong Kong entertainment declined and Hong Kong artists moved north to develop their careers. The reality was reversed, but the mentality of Hong Kong artists had not changed.

They still look down on the mainland as before, thinking that they have the technology, strength and fame, and that coming to cooperate with us is giving us face.

However, in the eyes of mainland artists, you Hong Kong artists have fallen to the point of having to come here to make a living, yet you still put on such a condescending attitude. What's the point of being so arrogant?
Conflicts arose and resentment grew.

However, on the one hand, the higher-ups are concerned about the impact and fear that it may hinder unity, so they are always suppressing it.

On the other hand, mainland artists have never found any opportunities, so the two sides have always maintained a superficial balance.

That is to say, the last "Little White Dragon Incident" gave us an opportunity to give them a heavy blow, which dealt a heavy blow to the new forces in the entertainment industry over there. After that, the competition between the two sides has actually become normalized in private.

Haven't you noticed that nowadays in domestic films, except for those with investment from Hong Kong, there are very few films that use Hong Kong artistes as the protagonists.

And sometimes even if there are one or two films, it is often Hong Kong artists who play supporting roles for mainland artists.”

"So this time, the two sides are also using this to fight each other?" Jing Tian asked curiously.

"That's it."

Wang Hao casually handed the finished lunch box in front of him to his assistant and asked him to help throw it away.

“But I think they should just go with the flow, and the main attacker should still be our side.

No matter what, Zhen Zidan is the only action star in Hong Kong in recent years who can be regarded as a leading actor and carry the box office.

Now, after such a commotion, coupled with the overwhelming negative news on the Internet, his upward momentum will definitely be halted within three to five years.

The golden age for action actors is only a few years. Zhen Zidan is almost fifty years old now. He is a late bloomer and the only choice in the face of the transition period of Hong Kong action films.

After these three to five years, he will be over fifty, older, and his acting range will be narrower, so naturally he won’t have to worry about it anymore.”

(End of this chapter)