This director only makes bad movies

Quietly, the filming of the movie "Staring Man" started.

After holding a press conference and providing reporters with some materials, Xu Nan took Liu Shishi to officially shoot the movie "The Staring Man".

The 500 million yuan for this movie has been fully funded and is just waiting for Xu Nan to spend all the money.

This is Xu Nan's first time shooting such a high-cost movie, to describe it in one sentence.

We, Mr. Li, have never fought such a wealthy battle in his life.

The reason why so much money needs to be spent is simple. The movie Xu Nan is shooting this time is a superhero movie.

The most important thing in superhero movies is undoubtedly two words.

Special effects, special effects, special effects.

Without sufficiently sophisticated special effects and spectacular scenes, a superhero movie will inevitably fail.

On the other hand, as long as the special effects are realistic enough and the scenes are grand enough, it doesn't matter if it's a little off in other aspects.

Xu Nan's first serious film "The Beginning" has achieved success. This film has wiped out his reputation as a director of bad films before, and made the industry initially accept him.

But this is not enough. The negative impact caused by Xu Nan's previous bad movies was too strong, so the success of a single movie alone is not very convincing. Many people are still used to looking at him with colored eyes.

But if Xu Nan succeeds in another movie, his prejudices will be completely shattered in the face of the ironclad facts.

By the time.

Of course, another very important reason why Xu Nan dared to spend so much money on a movie was because he was sure that the movie could make money.

I dare not say 100%, but I am still 80% certain.

the reason is simple.

This is the first superhero movie in China and is unique to Scorpion.

In the past, there were many movies in the country that were titled as superhero movies, but those movies were often pretentious and boasted more than the last, but in reality they were more watery than the last.

For example, "Captain China".

Such as "Spider-Man".

Therefore, strictly speaking, there were no superhero movies in China before. The superhero movies that the audience watched were all shot abroad and were Hollywood products. There was not a single truly domestic superhero movie.

This is a blank market, just waiting for someone with vision to occupy it.

And Xu Nan, as the first person to eat crabs, will definitely be able to eat with a mouth full of oil and make a lot of money.

Although the domestic audience is conservative, in a sense, they are still very tolerant. As long as you touch them with sincerity, they will repay you with ten times sincerity.

To put it bluntly, even if you really lose money, it doesn't matter.

First of all, out of the 500 million investment, Summit Film and Television only invested 200 million, accounting for 40% of the total investment, but the return was 50%.

And in addition to the box office revenue that needs to be shared with other investors, the rest of the income, such as network broadcast rights, copyrights, and a series of other incomes, all belong to Summit Film and Television.

Even the investment of 200 million yuan has already paid back more than half of the cost through embedded advertising.

In other words, Xu Nan's probability of losing money in this movie is very small, and the risk has been reduced to a minimum.

Virtually no risk.

The benefits are huge.

Xu Nan must make this kind of movie.

The plot of "The Staring Man" is very simple, it can be said to be simple and crude.

Liu Xia is a blind man and a famous scientist.

She was blinded due to an accident when she was a child. However, after becoming blind, she did not give up on herself. Instead, she studied hard and made progress every day, becoming a super scientist.

When she grew up, she founded a company that specialized in producing various high-tech instruments and became one of the world's leading super companies.

But Liu Xia was not satisfied, and still devoted herself to research, hoping to develop a special prosthetic eye that would allow her to see the light again.

By chance, Liu Xia got three strange beads, which contained strange energy.

As a scientist, Liu Xia was very surprised by this and was shocked by the power contained inside the beads. She wanted to integrate these beads into the prosthetic eyes she made.

But Liu Xia didn't know that these three magical beads came from a mysterious organization. After they found out that Liu Xia had obtained the beads, they decided to attack Liu Xia's company, kill Liu Xia, and take back the beads.

But Liu Xia doesn't know all this. She is still trying to implant spiritual beads into prosthetic eyes in the laboratory.

After many difficult attempts, Liu Xia succeeded. She made a pair of superpower prosthetic eyes, which possess extremely powerful power.

At this time, a mysterious organization came to attack the company and they wanted to kill Liu Xia.

At the critical moment, Liu Xia put the prosthetic eye into her eye socket to replace the original eye, and then used the super power of the prosthetic eye to kill all the attackers.

But this is just the beginning.

After the mysterious organization learned that Liu Xia had successfully used the energy of the Lingzhu, they became even more wary of Liu Xia and wanted to get rid of her. They colluded with the military and tried to use their absolute power to crush and kill Liu Xia and regain the Lingzhu.

What followed was an earth-shattering visual effects battle. Helicopters, tanks, drones, and various high-tech weapons took turns. In the end, they were all destroyed by Liu Xia using her superpower prosthetic eye.

Liu Xia killed people and killed Buddhas, all the way to the representatives of the mysterious organization.

Just when Liu Xia wanted to use her superpower prosthetic eyes to kill the representative of this mysterious organization, a man in uniform came out and stopped her, saying that he would solve everything.

This man in uniform is Xu Nan, to be precise, the character played by Xu Nan, and he has appeared in "Captain China" and "Spider-Man".

At the end of the movie, Liu Xia returns to the company and announces that she has developed a high-tech prosthetic eye that can help blind people regain their sight.

She announced that she would donate 10 billion to establish a blind patient fund to help all blind people in the world regain their sight.

Because of her amazing charity, the media also gave Liu Xia the honorary title of Staring Man.

After reading the script, Liu Shishi, who plays Liu Xia, raised questions.

"Why is Liu Xia a blind person?"

"With such a setting, when shown in a movie, wouldn't it make Liu Xia look dull?"

"And it's difficult to act a blind man."

Xu Nan smiled: "Shi Shi, you don't have to act, just behave normally."

Liu Shishi: "."

"What do you mean, Director Xu?" Liu Shishi was very angry.

But even though she was angry, her eyes were still glassy.

Xu Nan sighed: "Shi Shi, do you really have no idea?"

"You are good at everything, but your eyes are too dull. No one in the circle knows that you are short-sighted."

Liu Shishi felt aggrieved and said in a low voice: "But this is not the reason to make the character blind."

Xu Nan chuckled: "Don't you know that your fans, little lions, all have a nickname for you?"

An unpleasant feeling suddenly arose in Liu Shishi's heart, but he still couldn't help but asked: "What nickname."

"Sister Shrimp, the shrimp of lobster." Xu Nan said: "But in fact, this title was originally Blind Sister, blind blind blind."

"Because your eyes are dull in every TV series, the black fans gave you the nickname Blind Sister, but your fans beautified you into Shrimp Sister."

"Look, even your fans know that your eyes are dull. Why don't you have any idea?"

Liu Shishi: "."

I'm so angry, but I still have to keep smiling.

Xu Nan continued the mental attack: "The reason why I set the protagonist Liu Xia to be blind is to use your strengths and avoid your weaknesses and completely cover up your weaknesses."

"In this way, even if your eyes are dull in the movie, it can still be explained that you are using fake eyes. It's not that your acting skills are not good, but that the script is set like this."

"Not only can the audience not say that your eyes are dull, but they will also praise your acting skills for playing a blind man extremely realistically."

"I have such good intentions, why don't you understand Shi Shi?"

Liu Shishi: "." I felt insulted.

But she had nothing to say.

The irrefutable evidence is in front of you, and arguing is just self-defeating.

Just wait for me until the movie is over.

The blind sister secretly clenched her fists.

But she didn't say anything and just left to recite the script.

Liu Shishi's professionalism is quite good. As soon as he got the script, he read it carefully and tried to fully understand the character so that he could not panic when acting.

That’s why she could see something was wrong with the protagonist’s setting.

If it were an ordinary young actor, let alone the protagonist, he might not even know the name of the character after the performance.

From this aspect, Liu Shishi is still very dedicated.

As for some minor physical defects, it’s better not to pay too much attention to them.

We cannot discriminate against people with disabilities.

After finishing Liu Shishi, Xu Nan came to the special effects team.

This is the true essence of the entire crew.

Of the 500 million cost, 400 million will be spent on special effects.

With so much money, you can be ranked high even in Hollywood, and it is the only one in the world.

Although the previous "The Great Wall" cost more than one billion yuan and 150 million US dollars, most of the cost was spent on hiring actors, and not much money was actually spent on special effects.

Hollywood actor Liu Tianwang wants to invite so many big stars to star in movies, but he can't do it if he doesn't have enough money.

Unlike the crew of "The Starry Man", Summit Film and Television is used to being poor and budgets carefully, and can spend a penny in half.

The only big star Liu Shishi also reduced his salary to cabbage price.

Ninety-five percent of the crew's funds are spent on film production.

In order to achieve the special effects Xu Nan wanted, dozens of domestic special effects companies gathered on the Staring Man crew, working hard to achieve the highest level of special effects for domestic films.

Yang Ping, the leader of the special effects team, even patted his chest and promised.

"Director Xu Nan, I guarantee that the special effects of "The Eyed Man" are the best in the country, definitely no worse than Hollywood."

"If you can't do this, I'll chop off my head and give it to you."