Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 532 Earth Trisolarian Organization
Although the two projects "All or Nothing" and "She Was Vanished" started filming almost simultaneously and were both shot in Hainan, the "mutual cooperation" that Chen Sicheng had mentioned before was completely impossible to achieve.

The setting of the story of All or Nothing is Northern Myanmar, which is an inland area. So when the crew was shooting, they mainly took pictures in Danzhou and Haikou in the north.

Although the background of "Her" is also in Southeast Asia, the main location is a fictional tourist island. In order to meet the needs of the plot, the crew chose the southernmost Sanya and Lingshui areas.

Although Hainan is an island, it covers a vast area, with a north-south distance of nearly 300 kilometers. The two crews are separated by one in the south and one in the north, and it takes an hour by plane to travel there. Forget about cooperation, the two sides can't even meet each other.

"No wonder you agreed so readily when I asked to borrow some of your props for the scene. It feels like you were waiting for me here."

On the phone, Chen Sicheng pretended to complain.

"This is not my fault. You didn't tell me you were going to the south to film."

"I told you that the plot is mainly set at the seaside, so it has to be Sanya."

"So, Haikou is not a seaside?"

The two of them teased each other for a while, and Chen Sicheng smiled and said, "Oh, by the way, Teacher Li will come to film a guest role in a few days, why don't you come and see it?"

"I know, she told me." Meng Bai said, "I've been to Shanghai these two days, I'll see if I have time to go over then."

"I thought you were in Hainan. Why are you going to Shanghai?"

"Hasn't The Three-Body Problem started filming? Part of the plot was shot here. I came to take a look."

ArcLight’s three key projects this year, in addition to “The Wandering Earth 2” and “All or Nothing”, is “The Three-Body Problem”.

Although it is just a web series, the production level and investment scale are comparable to those of big-budget movies. Arclight, Ruyi and Tencent have cooperated and offered an investment quota of 1500 million per episode.

Although it is not as good as the Netflix version of The Three-Body Problem, which cost tens of millions of dollars per episode, the English version has only 8 episodes per season, while the Chinese version has more than episodes per season. If you really calculate it, the total investment of the two sides is actually similar.

The "Three-Body" fans on the Internet have their own expectations for the two versions that were filmed at the same time. Surprisingly, this time there are more people supporting the Chinese version.

Netflix does have a lot of quality content, but Arclight has almost never failed. So if we only look at past performance, it's hard to tell who's better and who's worse. The key lies in the adaptation ideas of both sides.

The weakness of the domestic version is obvious. The first part involves the "Red Shore Base" and the plot of that era, which must be the focus of the review, and the scale will definitely be weakened.

In comparison, the Netflix version is unlikely to delete this part of the content. However, the poor performance and chaos of the United States in recent years have also awakened many domestic audiences.

Faced with the increasingly obvious cultural and public opinion disputes between the East and the West, it is hard for fans to believe that Netflix can ignore the messy political correctness and discrimination and seriously film "The Three-Body Problem".

Fans on both sides argued endlessly, and both felt that their support was justified.

“This is actually a good thing.”

In Shanghai, on the set of The Three-Body Problem, Meng Baichong said to Yang Lei beside him: "In the past, when it came to this kind of debate, British and American dramas were almost overwhelming domestic dramas. Now the voices of both sides are almost the same, which is enough to prove the progress of domestic dramas."

The director of the online drama "The Three-Body Problem" was Yang Lei, who had previously collaborated with Arc Light on "Peace Hotel".

Although he had never filmed science fiction before, he had rich experience in spy war dramas and period dramas. The plot of the first part of "The Three-Body Problem" happened to be similar to this, so it was a good match for him to shoot it.

Hearing what Meng Bai said, Yang Lei nodded and said, "It's true that domestic dramas are improving, but it's also true that American dramas are regressing. The popular American dramas in the past two years basically follow the same routine, with a novel setting at the beginning, and then keep people on suspense all the way, and then end up with a bad ending if it can't be resolved." Hearing this, Meng Bai smiled and agreed, "In fact, this routine is not only now, it was also used in the past. It's just that no one watched it much at that time, so they were not so sensitive to these routines."

After saying that, he patted Yang Lei on the shoulder and said, "No matter what, we really have to shoot well this time. The Three-Body Problem is considered the flagship of domestic science fiction. It would be a shame if the result is not as good as Netflix's."

Yang Lei frowned and nodded seriously: "I understand, don't worry."

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Because the original novel covers a wide range of space and time, many locations were chosen for the filming of The Three-Body Problem. Shanghai is just one of them, and it is mainly responsible for the plot of the "ETO organization gathering".

As we all know, the protagonist of the first part of "The Three-Body Problem" is undoubtedly Ye Wenjie, the "real heroine". The performance of this character is directly related to the overall quality of the first part.

The crew initially wanted to find Lü Zhong, as her role as "Wu Zetian" was very impressive and quite similar to "Ye Wenjie".

However, she was too old and did not fit the role, and she hardly filmed any movies nowadays. So the crew chose Chen Jin, a younger actress who was also a powerful veteran actor.

Meng Bai watched her performance on the set and had to say that she was a perfect match for "Ye Wenjie". Zhang Luyi and Jiang Wu, who acted opposite her, were also excellent actors, but she still felt suppressed in terms of momentum.

This also made him feel relieved. At least in terms of the performance of the actors, the domestic version can be said to be very strong. The quality of the next film will depend on the script and post-production.

The web drama is progressing smoothly, and Meng Bai can't help but start thinking about the movie version.

Although both are adapted into movies and TV series, the adaptations of movies and TV series are still very different. When Liu Cixin wrote "The Three-Body Problem 1", he did not think much about the subsequent plot and added almost all the science fiction ideas he could think of.

This results in the amount of information in "The Three-Body Problem 1" being so huge that it can be called an explosion. Despite the large number of TV series and the long duration, it still requires two seasons of seventy to eighty episodes to barely complete filming.

Even if we calculate the maximum length of a movie, it is only two hours. It is impossible to cram a whole book into this time. But if we want to shoot it in parts, the workload will be too large, at least we have to follow the specifications of "Avengers".

The "Avengers" here does not refer to the four "Avengers" films, but a complete period spanning ten years and a total of 22 films.

In addition to its large size, who will direct it is also a problem.

Guo Fan is definitely not suitable, as the three films of The Wandering Earth would take him five or six years to make. But apart from him, it seems that there is no other director who is suitable for shooting science fiction.

Thinking about it this way, it seems that it makes sense that Lin Qi wanted to hand over "The Three-Body Problem" to Zhang Yimou before his death.

Regardless of whether this nearly 70-year-old national director can understand science fiction, if he can finish filming the two parts of the special era and "human computer" in the first film, and then use up all his efforts, and hand over the sequels to other young directors, his status as a great director will not be in vain.

Of course, that's just saying, at his age, he still hopes to live two more years. He can just make some comedies and get some box office, so who would bother with that?

Forget it, let’s wait until the online drama of “The Three-Body Problem” is broadcast and see the effect.

As he was thinking this, Meng Bai's cell phone suddenly rang. He glanced at the caller's name, raised his eyebrows and answered the call, and immediately a cheerful voice came out.

"Boss, I said I wanted to treat you to a meal. Do you have time recently?"

(End of this chapter)