Chapter 997: New World, New Mission...
Chapter 997: New World, New Mission
The two leaned against the bed, and Zhou Xinyan asked, "What kind of movie do you want to make, the one about The Return of the Great Sage, or the one about Xiong Da Xiong II? How much are you going to invest in?"
"Have you seen the latest "The Lion King"?" Jiang Hao asked.
"No."
Jiang Hao took the phone and opened a video. It was a promotional trailer for the new version of The Lion King. The animals and scenes in it were extremely realistic, almost like real animals. After watching it, Zhou Xinyan said, "This hasn't been released yet, has it?"
"It hasn't been released yet, it seems to be scheduled for the summer vacation." Jiang Hao said.
"The production is so realistic, full CG images, high degree of reproduction, you plan to make this kind of film, how much is it estimated?" Zhou Xinyan asked.
"The live-action Disney version of The Lion King announced an investment of more than 200 million US dollars, and most of the money was spent on the production of CG images." Jiang Hao said.
"Are you going to invest so much money in "Boiling Beast Blood"?" Zhou Xinyan stared at Jiang Hao.
Jiang Hao shook his head with a smile, "I have my own CG picture production program, which is better than the animation production level in the United States, and more artificial intelligence technology is used, and the cost can be lower."
Zhou Xinyan's eyes lit up, "Husband, you have developed a new technology again. Can this animation production technology work, just like the previous Pet Wars game?"
If it is another heaven-defying software, then their Haoran technology can take off again.
"The technology of this software is leading, but the market is not large, and it is too targeted. It is animation production. I plan to use a movie to test the water first. The effect is good. Maybe I will open a special effects company to produce 3D movies for China. Increase your strength." Jiang Hao said.
A few days later, the company contacted Qidian to acquire the copyright of Beast Blood Boiling. The two parties entered the negotiation stage. As for the game copyright, the Baiyou company actually planned to sell the copyright and the game together.
It's good to talk about some things, and the rest is a matter of money.
After several rounds of negotiations, Haoran Technology bought several copyrights of "Boiling Beast Blood" from Qidian at a cost of 6 million yuan. As for the game company, it cost more than 40 million yuan to package it. Not bad, either.
Inexplicably, Haoran Technology also has a money-losing game company under its name.
When signing the contract, Jiang Hao met the top executives of the starting point, as well as Jing Guan, the original author of "Blood of the Beast".
"I was already in college when I read this book, and it was seven or eight years after I finished it, but it still made my blood boil. Thinking about it, that was the time of youth." Jiang Hao sighed.
"Boss Jiang is very young now." The old official said with a smile.
"You also know that there are a lot of content in this book that must be changed, otherwise it will not pass the review, and it will be useless to make a movie. What I like is the world structure of this book. After I get the copyright, I will carry out secondary processing. I hope you don't mind." Jiang Hao said.
"I can understand, it can be regarded as a second growth." Jing Guan said.
A book is like the author's child, regardless of beauty or ugliness, it is his own, and it is not easy for every author to be modified arbitrarily by others. However, novels and movies are two different art forms, and it is impossible to completely copy and modify. Processing is inevitable.
"A question, is Mr. Ma interested in participating in the writing of the script?" Jiang Hao said suddenly, inviting Jing Guan.
A look of surprise appeared on Jing Guan's face, and he agreed without much hesitation, "Okay, if possible, I also hope that my child will grow up in my own hands."
It is not so easy to make a movie. Jiang Hao found Tencent Film and Television again. He is one of the major shareholders of Tencent Film and Television. He is naturally more talkative. After meeting Mr. Zhou, he said that he was going to invest in a fantasy movie. Zhou Fangping Wei Wei was surprised.
"Fantasy movies, like 'Life of Pi' and 'Forest of Fantasy'?"
Jiang Hao shook his head, "Similar to a purely realistic movie like the new Lion King."
Zhou Fangping was even more surprised. "I heard that Disney's new Lion King invested 200 million US dollars. That's a huge production. Is Mr. Jiang planning to make such a big investment for the first time in a movie?"
"It should be less than 200 million U.S. dollars. I plan to invest about 80 million U.S. dollars." Jiang Hao said.
80 million U.S. dollars, which is 550 million according to the current exchange rate. There are really not many domestic investors who invest so much to make a movie. It seems that the Wandering Earth has not reached this volume. Zhou Fang said calmly, knowing that you are rich, but we can’t do this What a waste of money.
"I bought the full copyright of this story, and the next step is the production issue. Is Tencent Film and Television interested in participating? Also, I want to use Tencent's production team and plan to use Tencent's distribution channel. How does Mr. Zhou feel?" Jiang Hao asked.
Zhou Fangping blinked his eyes. This is a big deal. After all, it involves an investment of hundreds of millions. Besides, he has no confidence in Jiang Hao's ability. A technology company boss making a movie is purely for fun, and he still invests so much .
"Mr. Jiang, we need to study about the investment. The production team and distribution channels are completely fine. You are also a shareholder of the company, so you don't need to tell me when." Zhou Fangping said.
"Don't worry now, the preparations haven't started yet, the script is still being created." Jiang Hao said.
After Jiang Hao left, Zhou Fangping called the company's top management to discuss, and told Jiang Hao's matter. If it was someone else, I am afraid that the people here would have already rejected it. It is not human to make a 550 million movie. Fever is money fever.
"The risk is too great. Our annual investment this year is only more than 400 million yuan. It involves a few movies and TV series. Mr. Jiang wants to make a movie that can stand shoulder to shoulder with the new Lion King. I think it's too risky. , but people have money and can afford it.” A vice president said.
"I don't recommend investing. I watched the promotional video of The Lion King. The technical level is the best in the world. Disney spent 200 million U.S. dollars, and Mr. Jiang spent 80 million. I'm afraid it will be nondescript in the end, and the possibility of failure is even greater."
"I don't recommend it either. It's okay to use the shooting team and distribution. Let's forget about the investment. We are responsible to the head office."
Speaking of the head office, thinking of the relationship between Jiang Hao and President Ma, Zhou Fangping called Brother Ma after the meeting and told him what happened here.
The other end of the phone was silent for a while, and said: "Go ahead and invest, just 20 million US dollars. If Jiang Hao needs it, send the best staff there to cooperate."
Zhou Fangping did not expect the big boss to make such a decision, "Mr. Ma, we discussed that this investment is extremely risky, and the biggest possibility is that we will lose everything." Zhou Fangping persuaded.
"No, you don't understand Jiang Hao. Although we haven't known each other for a long time, he is not a reckless character. He is very shrewd in business and doesn't invest indiscriminately. He doesn't want to win stars, so he must have something unique. , To put it bluntly, I just invested in him.”
"Also, he owns 35% of the shares in Tencent Film and Television. If the investment is lost, Jiang Hao owns one-third of it." Brother Ma said.
Jiang Hao received a call from Zhou Fangping, "Mr. Jiang, we decided to invest 20 million US dollars in your film, accounting for a quarter of the total investment. As for the resource issue, Tencent Film and Television will fully support it."
After hearing what the other party said, Jiang Hao smiled slightly, "Did Mr. Zhou call Mr. Ma?"
"Oh~~! Hehe, for such a big matter, and it involves Mr. Jiang, I called Mr. Ma and reported it." Zhou Fangping said.
As soon as Jiang Hao guessed, he knew that Brother Xiao Ma asked them to do this. It is unlikely that these people will invest, because they are not optimistic about him at all, but it is good now, they got 20 million US dollars, and they also pulled Tencent Films into the car .
The script is being created for the second time, and the crew has started to form. It is still just in the stage of selecting people. Shooting a movie is a big project, and Jiang Hao is also busy, starting to create characters.
Novels are written in words, how handsome and suave the hero is, but in the movie, there must be a specific image, which image is most in line with the aesthetics, this is a very testing thing.
The main character, Liu Zhenzhen, was originally a tall soldier. He was mighty, domineering, and handsome. Is the protagonist I'm looking for, so mighty, domineering and handsome, who is this, oh, it's me.
Jiang Hao immediately decided to use his own image as the hero Liu Zhenzhen.
This time, Jiang Hao seems to have opened up his mind. In this case, the heroine in the novel can also borrow the image of women from other worlds. Of course, it will be re-artistically processed so that people cannot see their true colors.
Helen, Gotanne, Ningyu, Sissy, Galini, Tanya, Joan of Arc, Bessie Cui, Vivien Leigh, Avril Lavigne.
Each female character is produced, and each one is heart-warming.
Then Jiang Hao made a promotional video of about 50 seconds, but for this 50-second film, several servers of Haoran Technology had to run for several days to complete the production. Jiang Hao lamented that CG production is really burning machines. Otherwise, those Hollywood films are now produced with supercomputers.
When the film and television production on my side has some clues, it is estimated that the new company has also been established. Inspur is building a supercomputer for itself. Just right.
As for whether this film will lose money when it is produced, Jiang Hao feels that it should not. Now that the Chinese film market is so big, as long as the effect meets his expectations, it is not a big problem to earn back a few hundred million investment. Such a real 3D picture film, now Very little.
At that time, we will go to Europe and the United States to make a circle of money. They will export our culture to us, and we will also have an anti-import. Here we will call our names in English. At that time, we will all have Chinese names, so that Europeans and Americans will also start to learn Chinese.
Besides, Jiang Hao said that the investment of 80 million U.S. dollars may not be that much. His previous budget was 60 million U.S. dollars, and he used his own supercomputer to make CG animations, which was a fee. Tencent Pictures invested 20 million, hehe, in fact, I only need to spend 20 million.
After the promotional film was finished, Jiang Hao called the people from Tencent Films to watch the film. Just for a 50-second clip, the bosses of Tencent Films all came and turned it into a temporary screening room in the meeting room of Haoran Technology. .
When the first picture flashed out, everyone couldn't help but felt a burst of emotion, it was so exquisite and realistic, the ocean, birds, islands, trees, coconut groves blown by the sea breeze, the camera flashed quickly, and people could see that it was a CG animation , but it is not much different from the real scene, and the effect is even more shocking.
The protagonist Liu Shock appeared on the stage, and everyone was slightly taken aback. Zhou Xinyan even gave Jiang Hao a few hard glances. Jiang Hao was unmoved, and his eyes were focused on the screen.
After that, countless shots flashed, many women appeared on the stage, each of them had their own advantages and disadvantages, there were eastern faces and western faces, and the swan tribe had white wings growing on their backs, like angels, Zhou Xinyan looked at Jiang Hao in surprise, Jiang Hao turned this time head, blinking at her.
Because Zhou Xinyan found that the appearance of this swan tribe is somewhat similar to her, and she is more beautiful. The biggest difference is that the beauty of the swan tribe has long golden hair.
Zhou Xinyan suddenly remembered the scene when Jiang Hao asked her to carry wings and wear a golden wig a few days ago, and immediately knew that this man was really bad, so she gave him another hard look, turned her head and continued watching the film.
After the beauties are images of alien races, with obvious animal signs, but they are all in human form. At the end of the promotional film, there is a scene of two armies confronting each other. Thousands of orc soldiers of different shapes confront each other. The opponent rushed forward, seeing that a war was about to break out.
Then,
The picture is over.
Everyone felt unfinished. A short 50-second promotional video evoked everyone's nature. Zhou Fangping looked at Jiang Hao, "Mr. Jiang, did you make this picture?"
"Yes, I made it with my self-developed 3D engine animation production technology. It is similar to the game screen of Pet Wars. It will only be more realistic and vivid. The character's movements are all intelligently extracted, and even the real green cloth can be discarded to shoot and finalize." Jiang Jiang Haodao.
People like Tencent Film and Television are considered semi-professionals, so they naturally know how difficult this technology is. Zhou Fangping suddenly has a little confidence and expectation for this investment. to a gold mine.
"Mr. Jiang, I dare say that this promotional film is not inferior to the new Lion King at all. If the whole film has this effect, I feel that the domestic box office will explode." Zhou Fangping suddenly became more confident and said with a smile on his face. .
"A 3D version will be made later, and when you watch it in 3D, it will be even more shocking." Jiang Hao said.
Zhou Fangping became even happier, and hurriedly said: "I'm looking forward to it, I'm looking forward to it, I hope China's first 3D realistic movie will be born in Tencent Film and Television."
"It's okay to guarantee this kind of quality, but the slow work and careful work, I'm afraid the whole production will take about one or two years." Jiang Hao said.
"It's not long, it's not long. For such a realistic film, the two-year production cycle is not too long." Zhou Fangping said immediately.
A promotional video greatly boosted the confidence of Tencent Film and Television, and everyone was happy. Jiang Hao sent away the people from Tencent Film and Television, and Jiang Hao was about to plan the film production. At this moment, a system notification sound suddenly came from his mind.
"Ding~~ The system releases a new mission!"
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