Although Jon Landau agreed to use Hua Xia actors for all the actors, he wanted to use professional Hollywood directors to film the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The reason was very simple. In Jon Landau's opinion, only by using Hollywood directors could he exclude the best-selling movies all over the world.
There was nothing wrong with this idea. Later on, many Hua Xia investors also agreed with this idea.
After all, the Hollywood film industry was very strong. Their movies sold well all over the world. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms was just a story. It didn't matter who filmed it, as long as it could make money.
However, Boss Jia knew that if the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was given to Hollywood directors to film, it would be a complete waste. There were countless China style movies made by Hollywood directors in later generations as proof. It was a complete mess.
The amazing thing was that if you said that Hua Xia didn't accept such movies, it was because these movies only had the skin of Hua Xia … No, they didn't even have the skin. Basically, they were foreigners.
However, even foreigners didn't like these movies. The box office all failed miserably. With these precedents as an example, Boss Jia certainly wouldn't do such a stupid thing.
Of course, even without these precedents, it was impossible to give the movie to foreigners. Boss Jia didn't want to be scolded by his countrymen for the rest of his life.
Therefore, Boss Jia proposed very strongly that the movie should be shot directly by the six directors of the TV series. This way, the movie could be shot with the purest Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Of course, if only the six TV series directors were to film it, it wouldn't work. After all, their vision and ideas were not in line with the world's movie market. Therefore, Boss Jia instructed Jon Landau to find two more directors from within the company. They would also become assistant directors to assist Hua Xia in the shooting.
However, these directors only had the right to make suggestions. They didn't have the right to make decisions. If there was any fierce debate, Boss Jia would be responsible for controlling and making decisions. The control of the entire movie would still be in the hands of Hua Xia.
After making the following arrangements, although Jon Landau was somewhat dissatisfied and puzzled, he could only follow Boss Jia's instructions to find the six original directors of these TV series.
Some people might wonder why there were six directors.
This was also the most special thing about the TV version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In order to speed up the progress, many plots of the TV series were filmed at the same time. Each director was responsible for a part of the plot, and finally pieced together the TV series of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
When Jon Landau first heard this, he was dumbfounded. He had never thought that so many directors could be put together to shoot a TV series. He had never thought that these outsiders would not be able to tell that the TV series was shot by six directors.
Ever since the completion of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the six directors had not gathered together again. They probably did not expect that after three years, they would actually reunite again.
When they learned that a foreign film company and the producer of the Titanic were willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to film the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the six directors were all dumbfounded.
After they were done being silly, their blood began to boil. Then they put down all the work in their hands and gathered in Wang Fulin's room to meet with Jon Landau for the first time.
"This is our filming plan and the outline of the script! The main thing is the outline of the script of the first Yellow Turban Rebellion! " When the chief director of the previous TV version met with Wang Fulin, he did not talk about anything else. Instead, he asked to know Jon Landau's filming plan and requirements.
Wang Fulin and the other five directors had discussed before. They had to take control of the movie version in their hands. At the same time, they had to shoot according to their own ideas. At the very least, the plot had to follow their own ideas. Otherwise, they would destroy this traditional classic. They would all become sinners of the nation, which was absolutely unacceptable.
Jon Landau was straightforward. He directly took out the plan that he had discussed with Boss Jia a few weeks ago.
Wang Fulin and the others looked at it seriously. Jon Landau even slept in his room. The next day, the six directors said that they could continue the discussion.
"First of all, we have no objections to the division of the six movies!" Wang Fulin said. Wang Fulin was actually very shocked by the result.
He originally thought that the outline of the script that the foreigners took out would be a pile of waste paper and that he would have to spend a lot of effort to persuade these foreigners and tell them how to shoot the real Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Unexpectedly, Wang Fulin and the others did not find any big problems in the outline of the script. There was not even a single point of complaint. At least the plot of the six movies was divided perfectly. Could there be a foreign scriptwriter who was so familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
This made Wang Fulin and the others a little unbelievable. However, they did not dwell on it too much. Instead, they continued to take the outline of the first movie. "But there are some problems with the script! We need to discuss it clearly! "
"Okay!" Jon Landau nodded.
"First of all, there is the problem with Zhang Jiao and his brothers. Zhang Jiao died of illness in history. Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao also died in a very stupid way. There is no such way to die in the script. This does not match the history!" Wang Fulin said.
"Mm …" Jon Landau nodded. Then, he was speechless. Although he really wanted to shoot the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, how could he debate with these people who had almost studied the Romance of the Three Kingdoms several times?
So, he said, "Sorry, let me make a call." Then, he went to the balcony to talk for ten minutes. Finally, he came back and explained, "It's like this. An excellent commercial movie needs to be connected with the climax of the plot. As the climax of the first movie, there must be a big scene that surpasses all the previous battles. In the words of a doctor, that is to stimulate the audience's adrenaline! "
"So, this battle must be exciting. There must be enough battle scenes. That's why we let Zhang Jiao live to the end. Only he is qualified to support the final boss battle. Although there is a big difference between this and history, a movie is a movie, and history is history! "
"As far as I know, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is also seventy percent real and thirty percent fictional. Since we are adapting the Romance of the Three Kingdoms into a movie, it shouldn't be a problem to make it seventy percent real and thirty percent fictional, right?"
"Okay!" Wang Fulin and the others nodded. Changing Zhang Jiao's date of death was not a big problem for a movie adaptation.
"We can accept this, but we can't accept that Zhang Jiao and the others can use Taoist magic!" Wang Fulin's expression was a little ugly. "We are shooting a historical movie, not supernatural things. These will ruin the whole movie and make him look like a monster!"
"Okay, I understand!" Jon Landau nodded. Then, he ran to the balcony to make a call. Wang Fulin and the others were confused. Finally, Jon Landau came back and said, "You are right. I didn't think it through. But if the battle of the Yellow Turban is also a Kung Fu fight, the whole movie is not attractive enough."
"So, I have an idea. We can show these miraculous Taoist magic at the beginning of the movie. But after killing Zhang Jiao and the others, Liu Bei and the others found out the secret by capturing Zhang Jiao and the others."
"It turns out that the so-called invulnerability is the close-fitting inner armor that the soldiers wear. By the way, there are rattan armored soldiers who are also invulnerable. As for the Yellow Turban soldiers, they wear a very special and very strong inner armor! "
"But only the personal elites of Zhang Jiao and the others wear it. The other ordinary Yellow Turban soldiers don't have it."
"Invisibility is a kind of visual deception that uses the terrain to set up a blind spot!"
"For example, the fear of pain is a kind of hypnotic ability!"
"Fire is a mechanism that is set up in advance!"
"And Sky Thunder is a kind of illusion created by a primitive capacitor using stored thunder and lightning! I have consulted the relevant people. With the technology of ancient times, it is still possible. Although it is very complicated, it is still possible! "
"Anyway, everything that is not scientific can be explained by science in the end. Zhang Jiao is actually an ancient scientist or something. This can enhance the connotation of Zhang Jiao's character!" Jon Landau explained with a smile. "So, Zhang Jiao becomes a great scientist!"
"This idea is amazing!" Wang Fulin and the others were stunned. They had never thought that there was such a way to solve problems and contradictions.
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