But in fact, Jiang Wen's "One Step Away" received the most attention during the Lunar New Year this year.

Mazi became a god in China after "Let the Bullets Fly". "One Step Away" is the second part of the Republic of China trilogy. Jiang Wen spent four years sharpening his sword.

Audiences, theaters and relevant leadership departments all have high expectations for this movie.

As early as "Double Eleven" more than a month before the release of "One Step Away", Ali and Xinlang dual platforms pre-sold nearly 280,000 tickets for "One Step Away", with a box office exceeding 20.73 million; WeChat movie tickets also

For "One Step Away" with a strong lowest settlement price, it formulated a pre-sale strategy at an ultra-low price of 9.9 yuan; iQiyi even invested tens of millions of dollars to become the co-producer of "One Step Away".

These people are all waiting for the cost recovery and profit surprises after the release of "One Step Away".

But Cheng Yu'an knew that the film was out of control.

As soon as Mazi succeeded, he began to educate the audience again.

Entering December, the annual meetings of various companies attract special attention.

This year’s Lunar New Year holiday is very long, so we decided to hold the annual meeting in advance.

The headquarters will no longer hold large gatherings for the whole group, leaving each branch and subsidiary to hold them themselves.

Remote Technology, a group of otaku coders, really invited Mr. Yoshizawa and Mr. Bodo to give gifts, and they had the nerve to invite Cheng Yuan over.

Of course, Cheng Yu'an couldn't say that he was very moved. He scolded the organizer of the annual meeting on the phone, and then his wife caught him and strictly prohibited him from participating in the remote technology annual meeting.

"I didn't say I was going."

"I don't know you yet."

"It's not...I..." Cheng Yu'an was speechless, "I won't go if I don't go."

Cheng Yu'an didn't go, so Qin Ranqiu, the beast, went secretly without telling Chen Zhixi. When he came back, he told Cheng Yu'an that it was almost funny and not as good as in the movie.

Nonsense, would a serious person in the film and television industry fall in love with this group of people?

On this day, Saturday the 13th, the aircraft Cheng Yuan and Cheng Lingfeng ordered from Gulfstream two years ago finally arrived in Beijing for delivery.

The first one is G650, and the second G550 will be delivered in the middle of next year.

Cheng Yu'an attended the delivery ceremony. The reporter asked him the purpose of the aircraft: "Is it your private jet?"

"No," Cheng Yu'an denied, "This is a business jet I bought for the company with my own money. It is used to travel for the company's employees. The same will be true for the one next year. It is not my private jet."

But Cheng Yu'an and Liu Yifei's usage priority is definitely the highest.

Moreover, the two airplanes were purchased by the aunt and nephew. The account shows that the company rented two airplanes from the two people. The company is responsible for the maintenance costs of the two airplanes, and also pays the aunt and nephew a large amount of money every year.

rent.

These are all reasonable and legal operations, and there is nothing worthy of criticism.

The delivery ceremony was very simple, just pull up a few banners, take a few photos, and chat with reporters.

It's impossible to say that I'm not happy about adding such a big item.

"Look, it's fun for you," Wang Hongwei said at the "Wandering Earth" script seminar, "I just added a plane."

"That is also a great event for the company." Cheng Yu'an ignored it and continued to enjoy himself, "It will be more convenient to go anywhere in the future."

Returning to the script of "The Wandering Earth", since the decision was made to overturn the original and rewrite the story, the screenwriting team has been working day and night, hoping to finalize the outline of the script before the year, and simultaneously select actors and work on the detailed story after the year.

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"We continue to use the basic concepts of the original novel, but we have to rewrite all the characters and stories. The chronicle of "The Wandering Earth" is almost done, and the construction of the worldview is expected to be finalized in another half a year." Wang Hongwei leads the entire screenwriting

Group.

"Let's decide on a few characters first..." Wang Hongwei wrote and drew on the blackboard.

The biggest difference between writing a screenplay and writing a novel is the environment.

When a novelist writes a story, the first thing he thinks of is the characters and plot, but the screenwriter first thinks of the environment, that is, what kind of scene the story and characters are in.

Film and television are composed of scenes, and each scene has its own environment.

Therefore, the screenwriter must consider the behavior of the characters in the environment and the rationality of the story in the environment.

After the environment is constructed, the screenwriters insert characters and stories into this environment.

However, screenwriters will not exaggerate the environment as much as novelists in their scripts. The first sentence of the script must be the scene, such as "day, corridor" or "night, office."

The description of the scene is very simple, but the screenwriter has to conceive of it first.

This is probably the biggest difference between screenwriters and novelists, and it’s also the reason why many writers can’t write good scripts across borders.

Under Cheng Yu'an's intentional guidance, the screenwriters collided fiercely.

The first thing to be determined is the two main scenes.

External environment: After the earth begins its wandering journey, the original novel has a relatively detailed description of the external environment. This can be improved and a preliminary concept map made with reference to the novel.

There is almost no specific description of the dungeon in the novel. This scene needs to be constructed by the art team themselves.

But Cheng Yuan set the tone for the entire preparation team that the story of "The Wandering Earth" does not take place in the distant future, but in the near future 50-70 years later.

Therefore, while the art team is pursuing a sense of science fiction, they cannot go too far and lose the necessary sense of reality.

When the art team first came up with the design draft of the mining cart, Cheng Yuan turned it back.

The design is so exquisite and sci-fi.

According to preliminary chronology, the first set of planetary engines was built in the late 1930s.

The minecart design at that time would not be what the art team came up with.

Driverless driving is even more impossible.

Cheng Yu'an requested, "Either use the existing style, or slightly modify the existing style. Don't make it too artificial, as it may affect the sense of substitution."

After the two main scenes were determined, the screenwriting team began to conceive the characters.

What are the names of the male and female protagonists, their year of origin, identity, habits, family, resume, etc. You must write a good biography of the characters.

But these things are closely connected with the story outline. Without a story, the characters are empty and untenable.

Cheng Yuan spent three days with the screenwriting team and came up with many great story entry points.

For example, a screenwriter wanted to start from the dispute between the spaceship faction and the earth faction in the novel and write about the struggle between the two factions during the wandering of the earth.

Some people want to write about the Pacific Ice Racing Games in the novel, about the insignificance and helplessness of human beings on the doomsday ice ocean.

There are also screenwriters who are bold and want to write about underground city rebellion.

They were all good ideas, but they were rejected by Wang Hongwei and Cheng Yuan.

These ideas may be too political or too philosophical, and are not easy to understand.

"We have the best technology, so the story must not be too profound, otherwise the audience's attention will be diverted. What I want is a simple story that takes place in the wandering apocalypse." Cheng Yu'an set the story outline for "The Wandering Earth"

The tone, "This is what Avatar is like. Its story is simple, even crude. In this way, we can let the audience watch the movie effortlessly and immersively."
Chapter completed!