screenwriter mystery

Chapter 273
After a round of global tour promotion, the United States mainland.

"Heroes Out of Control" was also approaching the eve of its release, and before the film's release, Universal brought Zhao Yuan and his team back to the United States, and launched an intensive publicity campaign.

In this way, the last surplus value is squeezed out of them.

The movie "Heroes Out of Control" has also followed the publicity, and it's officially time for release.

……

As a well-known story, the plot of "Hero Out of Control" is not complicated.

It mainly describes the story of three teenagers who acquire supernatural powers and become superheroes, from initial excitement to conflicts, turning against each other and finally fighting.

Because of the 'pseudo-documentary', many plots in the movie perfectly reproduced the previously reported pictures.

Especially when the three main characters, dressed in crude superhero costumes they made themselves, appear on the streets of New York to stop bank robbers on the big screen.

Not surprisingly, it caused a burst of exclamation from the theater audience.

In these movie clips, the audience vaguely returned to the time when 'Andrew' and others appeared in New York a few months ago, especially when the movie screen was interspersed with the TV report footage at that time, it made many audiences forget What I'm watching at the moment is just a movie, completely brought into the plot of the movie.

As a "pseudo-documentary" type of film, as long as the audience can be brought into the film, half of the success is already achieved.

……

Washington, in the movie theater.

Amanda and his party are watching the plot of the movie on the screen intently.

Washington, as the most important political center in the United States, is unexpectedly monotonous in terms of entertainment. There are only two movie theaters in the entire city.

In order to be able to catch up with the premiere of "Heroes Out of Control", everyone in the team has worked hard.

Fortunately, the plot of the movie did not disappoint them.

Especially as an actual participant in the New York War, looking at the content of the movie from another angle always gave Amanda and the others a kind of immersive and paradoxical illusion.

Immersiveness is naturally due to the content of the movie, especially those scenes that reproduce real-life reports.

The Amanda team and others have personally experienced it, and now they see it in the movie, which somewhat brings back the memories of that time.

It is specious because the scenes in those movies, including the scene where the three protagonists gain supernatural powers, obviously do not match what Amanda and the others know.

In the movie, the protagonist and his party came into contact with an unknown crystal during a field expedition and gained powerful supernatural power.

In fact, Amanda and the others know very well that the reason for 'Andrew' gaining power is because he came into contact with [BSI-013 Psychic Water Pool], and the process and price of their power gaining are far from being as understated as shown in the movie. It's as simple as leaving some nosebleeds behind.

Of course, if you leave out the plots in the movie that do not conform to the truth in the eyes of BSI agents, if you judge simply by the results presented in the movie.

Even Amanda had to admit that she was somewhat carried into the movie.

Those detectives who still know the movie is true, not to mention the audience who themselves know little about superhero events.

In fact, after watching the movie, many viewers subconsciously mistook the plot of the movie for the truth about real superheroes.

Under their publicity, the movie "Heroes Out of Control" was released for three days, and it became the North American box office champion.

With a cumulative box office of 2800 million, the film's shooting-level publicity costs were recovered after only three days of release.It once again proved to the market that Zhao Yuan, as the father of "pseudo-documentary", has a strong box office appeal.

Even, the media with good news has already posted the headline in advance.

It is said that Zhao Yuan is the most profitable and money-saving director in Hollywood today.

On this point, it is not easy to argue.

After all, although limited by the innate strength of the "pseudo-documentary" type of film, this type of film often falls into decline quickly after the early box office surge, and often two to three hundred million is already the film's box office limit.However, don't forget how much these films cost. After the first "pseudo-documentary" "Blair Witch", even the so-called most expensive "Heroes Out of Control" cost only 500 million U.S. dollars .

A movie with such a cost is not even considered a medium investment in Hollywood.

However, every time it passes through Zhao Yuan's hands, this kind of low-cost movie is like a chicken blood, and it directly becomes a dark horse at the box office.

Once or twice, Hollywood is used to it.

Therefore, as long as Zhao Yuan's movie is released, most of the film production companies will take the initiative to avoid his edge. After all, the movie in their hands is not a low-cost movie with a low cost of tens of millions or 11 million, so there is no need to confront him.And this choice gave Zhao Yuan a lot of space. Without a strong competitor, the box office of "Heroes Out of Control" naturally rose all the way, and it seemed that it quickly broke through [-] million in just one week. And up.

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With the box office exceeding [-] million yuan, various media also began to follow suit and make praises.

"The film's strong characters, brilliant stunts, and realistic effects lend weight to the moral conflict at the heart of the film. The director slowly moves the story forward emotionally and visually, in a superhero genre of this type. One of the best breakthroughs ever made in a genre film. -- "San Francisco Chronicle"

"Since Blair Witch, Ghost Story: Invisible, Zhao delivers yet another perfect 'mockdocumentary' film. - Los Angeles Times"

"This is a collision of reality and illusion, which makes people unable to distinguish what is real and what is unreal. - "Rearview Mirror""

……

"Congratulations, Zhao, another movie with over [-] million yuan was born from your hands."

On the other hand, Ron Meyer immediately called Zhao Yuan when Universal got the box office of "Out of Control Heroes" that day.

Undoubtedly, this time, Universal, which chose Zhao Yuan to direct the filming of the film, made the right choice again.

It successfully seized the market and at the same time made up for Universal's vacancy in the superhero market.

"It's not just my fault."

For Zhao Yuan, the filming of "Heroes Out of Control" is just a matter of money. Although he is confident in the film's box office performance, the box office trend of the whole film is also faster than he expected before. It is guessed that after a few days of calmness, the box office of "Heroes Out of Control" will drop to a certain extent. After all, it is not the first time that a "pseudo-documentary" movie has appeared.

Of course, there should be many viewers who are bored.

(End of this chapter)