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Chapter 385 Master of Terror

"Wen Ziren?"

Ding Cheng looked at the script, and a big fish came just after the New Year?
"This time it's not a horror movie, but a manga." Su Yao said with a smile, "Sea King, you haven't seen it, have you?"

Ding Cheng shook his head. To be honest, he didn't know much about American comics. He watched Spider-Man and Superman from movies, but he was still looking forward to Wen Ziren.

There are only two directors of Chinese descent who can be recognized in Hollywood, one is Ang Lee who makes literary films, and the other is Wen Ziren who makes horror films.

"Actually, in my opinion, in terms of film business achievements, Wan Ziren has already surpassed Ang Lee in Hollywood and has become a legendary existence."

Yaozai explained: "Because of the box office-oriented commercial film market, he has never missed a shot!"

Ding Cheng nodded, no matter horror movies or action movies, this Malaysian Chinese can handle it with ease, and adapt to all changes with the same.

From becoming famous in 004 with "Chain Saw" to the present, the 15 years have gone smoothly and steadily.

For him, most of the ups and downs in life seem to be concentrated before becoming famous?
After receiving the information collected by Yaozai, Ding Cheng took a look and said with a smile: "The university is actually studying the history of Chinese ethnic classification?"

After graduation, Warner, a good friend who studied screenwriting, entered Melbourne TV to work as a host, but Wen Ziren was hit by walls because of the remoteness of his major and could not find a job.

The two rented a basement together and spent the most difficult time in their lives together. Under the pressure, Warner couldn't help but wonder if he had a brain tumor?

Using this as inspiration, he created the most classic character in horror movies, a perverted killer with terminal cancer—Jigsaw.

After telling Wen Ziren his thoughts, he filled the story with the plot of his nightmare.After a year of polishing the script, the two created the first story in a dank bathroom in the basement.

He also conceived the sketch of the bathroom game designed for "Chain Saw 1". After creating it, he spent another year looking for investment in Australia.

As a result, no one cares about the script.

When desperate, Whannell's status as a child star had an unexpected effect.

His agent told them that he was going to Hollywood in the near future and was willing to help them try their luck there.

In order to better present the script, the two made an 8-minute DVD short film within two days with $[-] they cobbled together.

It was this short film that finally brought them good luck.

Lionsgate executives were surprised and frightened after watching the short film.

Surprisingly, this movie's mind-blowing conception is very breakthrough for existing horror films. What is frightening is that the shaping of the horror atmosphere and the in-depth discussion of human nature and life in the film give people a chill that goes deep into the bone marrow. .

18 days of filming, with an investment of 120 million US dollars, and good friend Warner as the starring role.

Wen Ziren's debut novel was born under such simple conditions.

The movie eventually grossed $1.03 million worldwide.

Since then, Xianyu has turned around, and as the number one horror IP of Lionsgate, it has successively invited Wen Ziren to serve as the producer and filmed seven series of works.

This series has been officially certified by Guinness as the most successful horror film series in film history for 10 years!

Taking "Chain Saw" as a high starting point, Wen Ziren started his road to box office harvest in Hollywood.

"Insidious" cost $150 million and grossed $9700 million worldwide;
"The Conjuring" cost $2000 million and grossed $3.2 million worldwide;
"The Conjuring 2" cost $4000 million and had a global box office of $3.2 million...

It can be called a seed player with a small fortune!

Ding Cheng put down the information and began to study the script. This time it was not a low-budget horror film, but...

DC universe hero?

What the hell is Aquaman?

After reading the script, ask Yaozai to contact the other party, and we will meet and chat in two days.

Flying directly to Hollywood, and coming to the world's most powerful film industry center for the first time, even the well-informed myself couldn't help feeling overwhelmed.

"You are better than I thought!"

Seeing Wen Ziren, the first sentence the other party said was enthusiastically in fluent Chinese: "I finally met the legendary actor who swept away thousands of troops!"

Ding Cheng laughed loudly. Although the other party was only Malaysian-Chinese, he still felt very friendly with yellow skin and black eyes. He responded: "I am also honored to meet the legendary master of horror. Please take care of me."

The two looked at each other with a smile, and sat down to chat about the script. Wen Ziren was very excited. The first transition to making a hero film was actually very risky. The reason why Ding Cheng was invited to cooperate was because of his box office appeal in Southeast Asia and France.

"Western Christian culture, Asian haunted houses, Hong Kong ghost movies, adaptations of real events, childhood shadows..."

"These are all important elements of my early horror films!"

Wen Ziren shared: "In my opinion, horror movies need three elements: first, fear of the unknown, second, fear of life, and finally, fear of losing the people we love."

Ding Cheng nodded secretly, comparing the three kinds of fears made Wen Ziren's horror films explore a new path that is completely different from Hollywood's traditional horror films.

His horror films are often not scary for the sake of being scary, but bloody for the sake of being bloody.

And his core is always to interpret human nature with the atmosphere and blood of horror movies.

Not only has subversive visual impact, but also has quite profound philosophy of life.

"So I hope that when the audience is lost or facing failure in life, they can go and watch these movies, and feel the beauty of life even more when they have lingering fears."

Ding Cheng looked at the Chinese director in front of him who talked eloquently. Although he was very thin, his confident temperament was admirable.

In addition to being a genius in making movies, he is also a genius in marketing.You Qi was recruited by Warner, and now he is trying his best to create a unique soul-calling universe.

Annabelle, the ghostly nun, the hunchback, the twisted man...

Through the linkage between each other, the past and present life of each character is fully restored.

Once successful, the achievements are limitless, and the commercial value is definitely not comparable to that of Ang Lee who only knows how to make literary films.

"I've always wanted to make a mainstream commercial film!" Wen Ziren looked at Ding Cheng and said seriously: "I have worked so hard for so many years just to wait for such an opportunity."

After finishing speaking, he took out a thick stack of renderings and showed it: "The Aquaman I designed is the first underwater world where a superhero movie has a big scene."

"Be prepared to shoot with a lot of green screens and blue screens, and find the most professional team to carefully carve out local scenes full of imagination and artistry..."

"Look at these scenes, the magnificent underwater buildings, the churning ocean ship, the unique dense forest waterfall, the ruins of the ancient Roman style..."

"Besides, props and make-up are also top-notch technology, Neptune Arthur, Mera, King Om, Black Manta Ray and strange species of the fisherman clan..."

"This time Warner's investment budget is [-] million U.S. dollars..."

"what do you think?"

(End of this chapter)