Lin Zixuan plans to turn "Journey to the West" into a series of movies, and to capture stories that the audience likes to watch from "Journey to the West" and continue to shoot.

For example, "The Great Trouble in the Heavenly Palace", "Three Fights of the Bone Demon", "Pan Si Cave", "The Kingdom of Women", etc., are enough to make dozens of movies.

These movies are connected to one TV series.

He believes that this is definitely a box office hit series, more popular than the art films like "Sunrise".

Although in this era when domestic films are approaching a desolate era, as long as you shoot carefully and don’t fool the audience, you can make money no matter what content you shoot, Lin Zixuan has self-esteem.

He disdains to film movies that fool the audience. If you want to shoot, you can shoot classics, otherwise he will be sorry for his identity as a time traveler.

Moreover, he wants to build celebrity film companies into leading Chinese film companies and rush into Hollywood with Chinese films.

Therefore, celebrities must be fine products.

This is his most basic requirement for celebrity film companies.

However, before filming, we need to discuss with Zheng Zhengqiu, the director plays an extremely important role in a movie.

Zheng Zhengqiu prefers shooting realistic themes with social education, which are so-called dramas, such as "Sunrise" and his favorites.

I am not very interested in comedy or mythological drama.

Of course, he is not the kind of person who doesn't know how to adapt. He also understands the current situation. Mastering the shooting technology of audio movies is the key, and he must squeeze out the technology mastered by Douglas Hilla in a short period of time.

Although Douglas Sheila is just a small person in Hollywood, she has been in Hollywood after all. Even if she has never been a director, she has seen other directors make movies.

Besides, his sister is still an actor, and he has been in the film for a long time.

Filming "Journey to the West" is more difficult than filming "Sunrise". "Sunrise" is like a few people chatting in a hotel, just putting the camera there and not moving, mainly looking at the actors' performances.

"Journey to the West" requires outdoor scenes and fighting scenes, which greatly tests the skills of the shooter and the recording engineer.

Lin Zixuan had one of the contracts with Douglas Sheila, that is, he had to complete an audio movie in China.

Zheng Zhengqiu had no objection to Lin Zixuan's idea, but he was not sure about mythological dramas like "Journey to the West", because some parts of the play require some special treatment.

For example, flying clouds and fog, like Sun Wukong's seventy-two transformations, like the setting of the Heavenly Court...

According to later generations, it is called movie special effects.

In this era, there is no computer post-processing, so you can only use various props to make up for it during shooting, such as the golden cudgel that can be big or small, stretch and shrink, so you have to use magic props to perform.

In this way, the funds needed for shooting will increase exponentially.

Zheng Zhengqiu suggested whether to change to a story that is less difficult to shoot, so that it requires less funds. Once the filming is broken or the audience does not buy it, the losses will be much smaller.

With such a huge investment, he is under great pressure as a director.

But Lin Zixuan refused, telling him not to worry about money, just work hard to make the movie well.

Zheng Zhengqiu didn't understand that Lin Zixuan was not only filming, but also a nostalgic feeling. It was the memory of later childhood and a kind of nostalgia for time travelers.

After making the decision to film "Journey to the West", Lin Zixuan still has a problem to solve.

After returning from Hollywood, he realized a problem, that is, film companies cannot do without theaters. No matter how good the quality of the movies you shoot, there will be no income without theater screenings.

Moreover, if he wants to shoot audio movies, he needs to transform the existing theaters, otherwise he will not be able to screen audio movies.

You must take the theater chain into your own hands.

At this time, most of the luxurious theaters in Shanghai were in the hands of foreigners. They could enclose land in the concession and build theaters, such as the Spanish Remas.

In 1908, the Spanish Remas built the Hongkou Activity Cinema with lead iron at the intersection of Haining Road, Hongkou, Shanghai, which was the earliest professional cinema in Shanghai.

Until now, he has many luxurious theaters including Hongkou Grand Theater, Card, Wanguo, Xialing Peak, etc., and can be said to be the leader of Shanghai cinema chain.

Other theaters built by foreigners are mostly located in bustling neighborhoods and are profitable.

In the concession, Lin Zixuan could not make any decisions about foreigners, so he could only look at the theater built by domestic merchants.

Although these theaters have poor geographical locations and the facilities in the theater are not good, they can always show movies. As long as they spend money to renovate, they will not be much worse than foreign theaters.

He needs to discuss this matter with Feng Jingyao.

Feng's trading company mainly operates big tobacco and monopolizes the big tobacco industry in the French Concession, including several nightclubs and dance halls, and even several small theaters.

Lin Zixuan persuaded Feng Jingyao to invest in the theater.

Not only the theaters under oneself, but also the theaters under others have also been acquired to form an alliance of at least dozens of theaters to form a scale so that they can compete with foreign theaters.

Feng Jingyao did not hesitate and fully supported Lin Zixuan's proposal.

On the one hand, Lin Zixuan and Feng Chengcheng had an engagement; on the other hand, Lin Zixuan's social status was bullish at this time and had a lot of reputation in the country, especially after returning from the United States.

Finally, it is driven by interests, and Feng Jingyao also believes that investing in movies is profitable.

Since the domestic feature films "Yan Ruisheng" and "Shanghai Holiday", the high box office has hurt the eyes of many businessmen.

Especially "Shanghai Holiday", which was screened in many theaters in Shanghai, has not yet been released. In the past few months, the profit is initially estimated to be more than 100,000 yuan, which is even more profitable than the big smoke business.

No wonder Feng Jingyao agreed immediately after hearing Lin Zixuan's proposal. He felt that Lin Zixuan is worthy of being his future son-in-law, and there will be benefits for everyone to make money together.

Lin Zixuan didn't ask Feng Jingyao what methods to acquire other theaters, and it didn't think it would be a normal acquisition.

But this has nothing to do with him. As long as the French Concession and even the theaters in the public Concession can be united together, the celebrity film company will gain a firm foothold in Shanghai.

In Shanghai, there are many people who want to enter the film industry, just like Feng Jingyao, who want to get a share of the movie industry.

Some people have funds and some have ways. As long as you have the opportunity, you can do something big.

Zhang Shichuan was waiting for the opportunity.

He opened a stock exchange last year, but he didn't expect that he encountered the letter exchange trend at the end of the year and lost a lot of money. Fortunately, he was smart enough. Seeing that the situation was wrong, he decisively stepped out, and finally he had two thousand yuan left.

When he didn't know what to do, someone asked him to jointly operate the "laughing stage" of the Civilized Drama New Drama Club, and Zhang Shichuan served as an consultant and manager.

This person and him are from Zhenhai County, Ningbo, and are called Shao Zuiong.

Zhang Shichuan originally runs Minming Club and is familiar with it. However, he is not optimistic about the development of civilized dramas. Although "Thunderstorm" has been popular for a while in Shanghai, it is not a long-term solution.

He saw news about his old friend Zheng Zhengqiu in the newspaper, and the old friend went to make a movie.

Due to the popularity of "Shanghai Holiday", he also had the idea of ​​re-making the movie, but he was suffering from lack of funds.
Chapter completed!