Hong Kong Comic Master

Compared with the rest of the world, Hong Kong's animation films started off slowly. They really started to develop vigorously when Shenlong Company started to produce the theatrical version of "Bleach". ♦♦  ♞♦

After that, throughout the 1980s, Shenlong Company launched a large number of animated theatrical versions of popular comics, which can be regarded as the complete cultivation of Hong Kong's animation film market.

Lo Chi-ying is a man with a long-term vision. Whether it was when he founded the "Firebird Film Club" during college, or later joined DreamWorks instead of Shenlong Company, and now for the development of animation films, he has his own ideas.

Obviously, he has spotted the gap in the animation film market in Hong Kong Island and is ready to make original animation films in the style of Disney.

Of course, considering the small market in Hong Kong Island, even if he does this, he may not be able to guarantee that the film will not lose money.

But he is an ideal animator after all, and has always been proud of making animated films.

Unfortunately, the technology and positioning of DreamWorks Animation Department have never allowed him to realize this dream.

Now this dream seems to be getting closer and closer to him.

"Boss, why do you say 'also'?"

"Nothing, tell me, what do you think?"

At this time, Li Wannian was also interested in Lu Ziying's proposal, and even began to be interested in Lu Ziying himself.

In his heart, he always thought that Lu Ziying was just a technical geek, but now he found that this guy seemed to be not simple. He not only had his own persistence, but also had unique insights.

"I always felt that the animation market in Hong Kong was matured by you, boss. Although the market looks prosperous now, everything is still in the primary stage, not like the United States and Japan, which are mature markets!

Take original animated films as an example. This art form can only be born on mature soil.

Fortunately, after these years, you have used popular comics to launch theatrical versions and laid a foundation for popularity. I think it is now time to try it!"

Through Lu Ziying's explanation, Li Wannian frowned and rubbed his chin slightly with his right hand.

He was not against Lu Ziying's opinion. On the contrary, he agreed with Lu Ziying's idea and was even a little surprised. How did the other party think of it?

Although he has discovered over the years that there are many smart people in the world who do not have the memory of the future like himself, but with the existing knowledge and experience, they can actually infer the inferences that have been proven by time, which is very rare.

Just as Lu Ziying said, when Li Wannian made the plan, he planned to use the theater version to cultivate the market first, and then launch the original animated film.

Unexpectedly, Lu Ziying has taken the lead now.

Fortunately, he did not say much, but suddenly asked Lu Ziying: "What movie are you going to launch?"

"I have prepared this for a long time!"

However, what surprised Li Wannian was that Lu Ziying was also prepared and took out a script directly.

Good guy, you are Doraemon, right?

How come you have everything?

"Let me take a look first!"

So, Li Wannian picked up the script that Lu Ziying had prepared long ago and opened it to check carefully.

At the same time when Li Wannian lowered his head, Lu Ziying turned his head and glanced at his sister Lu Yuying, who was also nervous at this time.

The reason is very simple, because the script was actually written by Lu Yuying, and Lu Ziying was just assisting.

Li Wannian did not notice the two people's small movements, and all his attention was on the script at this moment.

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Even Li Wannian did not expect that the script of the Lu brothers and sisters would be Yang Jiajiang.

Although this is a movie script adapted from classical novels and storytelling, it can be seen that the brothers and sisters were very careful in making the changes. They reduced the huge story of Yang Jiajiang to an hour and a half of plot.

At the beginning, the Song army fought against the Liao army in Jinsha River. Yang Ye was framed by the treacherous minister Pan Renmei, and was defeated and killed. Several sons also died on the battlefield one after another.

The protagonist of the story is placed on Yang Zongbao, whether it is going to Mount Wutai to invite Wulang and the monks to go down the mountain, or winning Mu Guiying, and finally She Taijun led the Yang family women to fight the national crisis together, and finally defeated the Liao army and captured Pan Renmei alive.

To be honest, such a script can be used to shoot a movie on the market, but the box office... it's hard to say!

After all, it takes a lot of money to achieve the scenes and battles in the script. Such a high cost cannot be achieved by relying on the market in Hong Kong Island.

But it will undoubtedly cost much less to express these big scenes with animation.

"It's well written!"

After roughly reading the plot, Li Wannian closed the script and praised it sincerely.

"Thank you, boss!"

The Lu brothers and sisters immediately smiled excitedly after hearing it. It was worth their hard work for more than a month to get Li Wannian's affirmation.

However, before the two of them could joke, they heard Li Wannian say: "But this script cannot be filmed!"

At this time, the smiles of the two froze instantly.

"Why?"

Lu Yuying was impatient and asked angrily.

"Yuying! Don't worry first!"

"I know you are very anxious, but don't worry first!"

Li Wannian waved his hand, and then said slowly and orderly: "Let me ask you, how much is your investment plan for this movie?"

"One... ten million! Nine million is also OK!"

Lu Ziying said a little unconfidently.

"Can 10 million produce the effect you want? Well, even if it can be produced, what is your estimated profit?"

"Hong Kong Island plus Taiwan, about 30 million, in Southeast Asia and Japan, it should also be able to earn some, so it may be possible to get 50 million box office!"

The return on investment ratio can reach 1:5, if it were other investors, they might really agree.

But Li Wannian is different, what scene has he not seen?

So he interrupted the two people's dream directly and said bluntly: "With your subject matter, Japanese people will not like to watch it, and an animation is full of bitterness and hatred. Do you think the audience in Hong Kong Island, where comedy films are dominant, will really like it?"

At this point, the Lu brothers and sisters also understood that Li Wannian was not optimistic about the prospects of this movie at all.

For a time, the two were very disappointed. Obviously, Li Wannian's words hit them hard.

Then they heard Li Wannian continue: "However, an animated film can be made. Let me tell you a subject, and see if you can make it work?"

The two people's hearts were beating fast with such a sudden turn of events. Lu Yuying couldn't wait to ask: "What subject?"

"What do you think of the story of Hua Mulan being adapted into a movie?"