Chapter 1381 Six Directors
Although Jon Landau agreed that all actors use Chinese, he would rather use professional Hollywood directors to film the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The reason is very simple, because in Jon Landau's opinion, only Hollywood directors can exclude best-selling movies around the world.
This idea itself is not wrong, and later many Chinese investors also agreed with this idea very much.
After all, Hollywood's film industry is very powerful, and their film routines are sold all over the world, and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is just a story. It's the same for anyone to shoot, as long as you can make money.
But Boss Jia knew that if the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was handed over to a Hollywood director for filming, it would be a totally messy. There were countless Chinese-style works produced by Hollywood directors in later generations as evidence, which was simply a mess.
The magical thing is that if you say that Chinese people do not accept such works, it is because these works only have Chinese skin... no, they don’t even have skin, they are basically foreigners.
But even foreigners don’t like these movies, and all the box offices are defeated. With these lessons from the past, Boss Jia certainly cannot do such a stupid thing.
Of course, even without these lessons, it is impossible to hand over the movie to foreigners. Boss Jia doesn't want to be scolded by Chinese people for the rest of his life.
So Boss Jia proposed very strongly that the movie should be filmed directly with the six directors of the TV series, so that the purest Romance of the Three Kingdoms can be filmed.
Of course, it would not work if only these 6 TV drama directors were used to shoot. After all, their vision and concepts were not in line with the world's film market, so Boss Jia instructed Jon Landao to find two directors from the company and also become the deputy director to assist the Chinese director in filming.
However, these directors only have the right to suggest and have no right to decide. If there is any fierce debate, then Boss Jia will be responsible for controlling and deciding directly. The control of the entire movie is still in the hands of the Chinese.
After making the following arrangements, although Jon Landao was a little dissatisfied and puzzled, he could only follow Boss Jia's instructions to find the six original directors of these TV series.
Some people may wonder how there are 6 directors.
This is also the most special thing about the TV version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In order to catch up with the progress, many plots of the TV series were filmed at the same time. The director was responsible for part of the plot and finally pieced together the TV series of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
When Jon Landau heard this for the first time, he was stunned. He never thought that so many directors could piece together to shoot TV series, let alone that outsiders could not see that the TV series was filmed by six directors.
Since the completion of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, these six directors have never gathered again. They probably didn't expect that after three years, they would actually gather together again.
When they learned that there were foreign film companies and producers of Titanic who were willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to shoot the Romance of the Three Kingdoms movie, the six directors were all stunned.
After they were dumbfounded, they began to feel excited. Then they put down all the work they had, gathered in Wang Fulin's room, met Jon Landao, and began their first communication.
"This is our shooting plan, and the script outline! It is mainly the script outline of the first Yellow Turban Rebellion!" After the director of the previous TV series version met Wang Fulin, he did not talk about anything else, but instead asked to know the shooting plan and requirements of Jon Landao.
Wang Fulin and the other six had already agreed that they must take control of the movie version in their hands and shoot according to their own ideas. At least the plot must be based on their own ideas. Otherwise, they will destroy this traditional classic and become national sinners, which is absolutely unacceptable.
Jon Landao also simply came up with the plan he had discussed with Boss Jia a few weeks ago.
Wang Fulin and the others watched it very seriously. Jon Landao even slept in the room. It was not until the next day that the six directors said they could continue the talk.
"First of all, we have no objection to the division of the six movies!" Wang Fulin said. Wang Fulin himself was actually shocked by this result.
He originally thought that the outline of the script taken out by this foreigner would be ridiculous and a pile of waste paper. He had to spend a lot of effort to convince these foreigners and tell them how to shoot the real Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Unexpectedly, Wang Fulin and the others did not find much problem in this script outline, and they didn’t even complain. The plot division of at least six movies is very perfect. Is there any foreign script writer familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to this extent!
This made Wang Fulin and others a little unbelievable, but they were not too entangled. Instead, they continued to take the plot outline of the first movie and said, "But there are some problems in the script! We need to discuss it clearly!"
"Okay!" Jon Landau nodded.
"First of all, it's the problem of the three brothers Zhang Jiao. Zhang Jiao died of illness in history, and Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao also died very cowardly. There is no such way of death in the script, which is incompatible with history!" Wang Fulin said.
"Well..." Jon Landao nodded, and then couldn't speak. Although he really wanted to film the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he could not debate with these people who had studied the Romance of the Three Kingdoms several times!
So he said, "Sorry, I'll make a call", and then went to the balcony for ten minutes to talk to the end, and then came back and explained, "It's like this, an excellent commercial movie requires a plot climax connected one after another. As the final climax of the first movie, it must have a big scene that surpasses all previous battles. In the words of the doctor, it is to inspire the audience's adrenaline!"
"So this war must be exciting and there must be enough war scenes, so we let Zhang Jiao survive to the end, and only he is qualified to support the final boss battle. Although this is a big gap with history, movies are movies, and history is history!"
"As far as I know, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is also seven-point real and three-point fiction. Since we are adapting the Romance of the Three Kingdoms movie, then there is another one based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There is no problem with seven-point real and three-point fiction!"
"Okay!" Wang Fulin and others nodded, just changing Zhang Jiao's death date, which is indeed not a big problem for the movie adaptation.
"We can accept this, but we can't accept it for Zhang Jiao and the others to really use Taoist techniques!" Wang Fulin said with a somewhat ugly expression, "We are shooting historical movies, not strange things from gods and gods. These will destroy the entire movie and make him become a four-way person!"
"Okay, I understand!" Jon Landao nodded, but ran to the balcony and called again, which made Wang Fulin and others confused. Finally, Jon Landao came back and said, "You are right, and I have no considerations, but if the battle of the Yellow Turbans is also a kung fu fight, the appeal of the whole movie will be a bit insufficient."
"So I have an idea to show these miraculous Taoist techniques at the beginning of the movie, but after killing Zhang Jiao and others, Liu Bei and the others discovered the secret through the day of seizing Zhang Jiao and others."
"It turns out that the so-called incompetent swords and guns is because the soldiers are wearing close-fitting inner armor. By the way, weren't there any more vine armor soldiers later? As for the Yellow Turban soldiers, it is also a very special and very strong inner armor!"
"But only the close-fitting elites of Zhang Jiao and others are worn, and other ordinary Yellow Turban soldiers do not have them."
"Invisibility is a visual deception that borrows terrain and lays out blind spots in the field of vision!"
"For example, not being afraid of pain is a hypnotic ability!"
"There is also a fire-breathing mechanism, which is set up in advance."
"There is also a illusion created by the original capacitor using stored lightning! I have consulted relevant people. Under ancient technical conditions, it is still possible to achieve it. Although it is very complex, it is possible!"
"Anyway, all unscientific things are explained by science in the end, and Zhang Jiao was actually an ancient scientist. This can further improve the connotation of the character Zhang Jiao! Let Zhang Jiao go from a charlatan to a great scientist!" Jon Landao explained with a smile.
Chapter completed!