Chapter 1270

"But in this way, there will be many problems!" Jon Landau shook his head. "There are so many plots under the first movie fortress. I'm afraid a movie will last more than 150 minutes!"

"Not enough. Give him 180 minutes. Like the first part of the Lord of the rings, we'll give him three hours!" boss Jia said.

"Three hours!" Jon Landau hesitated even more.

According to the long-term experience of the American film market, two hours is a perfect time for a film. If it is more than this time, many problems will arise.

For example, the audience's attention drops, they are impatient, they can't stand the lengthy plot, they will reduce the number of screenings every day, and the ticket price will be higher, which will lead to a decline in the willingness to buy movie tickets.

Therefore, the industry generally sets the film duration at about 120 minutes, and few films exceed this duration.

Or they don't expect the film to make money, just want to make the literary and artistic films they want to make.

There is also a big production that is extremely confident in the film and can make money even in three hours.

For example, Titanic, the Lord of the rings series and so on, these films are more than three hours.

However, because the Titanic is blessed by the world's top directors, and the Lord of the rings series is backed by fantasy masterpieces that are popular all over the world, they are confident to sell for three hours.

Although the romance of the Three Kingdoms itself is also an epic novel, after all, it is a Chinese novel. It is not highly accepted in the world market, or it has no fame at all. It is too dangerous for such a film to sell for three hours.

"Just three hours, even if you lose money, it doesn't matter!" boss Jia smiled.

To be honest, boss Jia actually has no confidence in this film, because it is a film without any reference in previous lives. It is a completely original new film born in the hands of boss Jia in this era.

Therefore, boss Jia can't be so sure of the final box office of the film as the Titanic and the Lord of the rings. He even thinks that the first film of the romance of the Three Kingdoms is likely to end up on the street. After all, the box office of Chinese films in the United States has always been the same. This is a cultural problem.

However, boss Jia still decided to work for three hours. The reason is very simple, because boss Jia wants to make the film into a boutique. Even if the film has a huge loss, it must also be a boutique.

Because only high-quality products can make the audience remember that even after the film is released, the film can appear in the world of all Americans by selling DVDs.

At the same time, there is a truth in the world that as long as a film is good enough, it will be valued by people sooner or later.

For example, when the hero was released for the first time, he was scolded bloody in China.

But 20 years later, when Chinese people saw the hero film again, they found that it might be the most perfect martial arts film in China.

Therefore, many films need the fermentation of times and time. Boss Jia can wait until the fermentation of romance films of the Three Kingdoms.

Finally, and most importantly, it's just a few hundred million dollars of investment. It doesn't matter if you lose it all. It's drizzle for boss Jia!

After that, Jon Landau and boss Jia talked for a full day. When they finished talking, they found that they didn't even eat lunch and dinner. They were so hungry that their stomachs hurt. They didn't feel hungry at all. They didn't feel a huge sense of swallowing until they finished talking.

"Let's have dinner!" boss Jia laughed and waited for the Secretary to order the food immediately. Only then did he bring the food prepared for the tenth time.

Boss Jia didn't eat, so the Secretary ordered the kitchen to cook all the time.

Boss Jia can't eat cold or reheated dishes. If boss Jia eats, it must be freshly baked and freshly cooked.

So the kitchen keeps cooking dishes, and when these dishes are cold, they are all poured out, and then cooked again, so that boss Jia can eat fresh dishes anytime and anywhere.

A boring life with money!

During the more than 10 hours of free talk, boss Jia and Jon Landau determined more details of the film, in addition to the shooting of the next five films.

Jon Landau originally planned to shoot a trilogy, but as soon as boss Jia talked about it, he directly turned it into a six part trilogy.

The first one is about the Yellow turban rebellion.

The second part is the 18 princes' crusade against Dong Zhuo. Starting from Zhang Fei's whipping of governor post, the climax is the three British war against Lv Bu, which turns into ash fly at Luoyang palace. Sun Jian dies miserably at the hand of Liu Biao.

The third part is the flying generals dancing. The plot is more complex. The story should be divided into several lines. One part is that Lv Bu killed Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao narrowed the emperor to make the princes blacken, and Liu Bei's three concessions to Xuzhou.

Finally, the story lines gathered together. Liu Bei and Lv Bu lived together in Xuzhou and fell in love and killed each other. Finally, Liu Bei was defeated miserably and Lv Bu's generation of heroes died in the white gate building.

The fourth part is to look at the Maolu three times. At the beginning, Guan Yu's five passes and six generals were killed, as well as the unparalleled war of Guandu.

In the second half, Liu Bei lived in Xinye and looked at the cottage three times, but in the end, Liu Bei and Cao Cao, two close friends who once had the same interests, launched a final decisive battle. Liu Bei lost miserably all the way to Jiangdong and met Sun Quan, the son of another good friend Sun Jian. They worked together against Cao Cao.

The end of Part 4 is Cao Cao's defeat of Huarong Road.

The fifth part is Liu Bei's complete home. He entered Xichuan, collected Hanzhong, appointed general Wuhu, and finally ascended the throne after the death of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty. It is the peak period of the whole Shu Han Dynasty.

As for the sixth film, it is the end of an epic. Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei died one after another. Finally, Zhuge Liang died in wuzhangyuan as the end of the whole series of films, which can be regarded as the component of the epic film of the Three Kingdoms.

In fact, Jon Landau is very opposed to whether to make the sixth film. He thinks that the part of Chibi can be stretched a little more and divided into two films. The final film ends with Liu Bei's accession to the throne.

As for the later plot, the reason is very simple. Jon Landau is afraid that the audience will not accept the three heroes so perfect, but eventually die at the hands of villains, and the whole Shuhan will be completely defeated.

It's like looking at the avenger alliance. In the end, almost all Avengers died together with mieba, not even a surviving hero, which will definitely let the audience explode.

However, boss Jia insisted on making the sixth film, because only by making the sixth film and giving the whole series a tragic end, can he finally sublimate the whole series of films, rather than become a bad ending film like star wars.

As for the final tragic ending, the avenger alliance will be scolded if it takes such a shot, but Daqian will never be scolded because this is the real history. If Daqian changes history, it will be really scolded.

There is real history. This is a death free gold medal. It is impossible for the audience to scold thousands for this.

Of course, the box office of the sixth film will be a fiasco. After all, when boss Jia watched the romance of the Three Kingdoms, he jumped directly to the Nanman rebellion after watching Liu Bei ascend the throne and claim the throne.

After Zhuge Liang's seventh meeting in Qishan, he gave up the plot and didn't watch it at all.

If you can't stand the pain, you might as well pretend you can't see.

But it doesn't matter, nor does the box office explosion. As long as the romance of the Three Kingdoms can be promoted all over the world, it doesn't matter if boss Naga loses billions of dollars.

In this way, the next day, under the order of boss Jia, Jon Landau began to prepare for the romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the first step was to go to China to find actors.

Moreover, this actor is also very easy to find, because it is only a few years since the shooting of the TV version of the romance of the Three Kingdoms. Those old actors are basically still at their peak. They can be recruited directly according to the characters in the TV Version, and there is no need to change anyone.