The new movie "Tomorrow's War " released in theaters these days has finally been named by CCTV-6. This movie Louis Koo is the project initiator and director.
To a certain extent, the process of the birth of "Tomorrow's War" is more exciting than the movie itself. If I could sum it up in one word, it would be "detailed".
10 years, 1,700 special effects shots, and a budget of 450 million. Louis Koo's original intention was to use his time and energy to make "Tomorrow War" China's first science fiction mecha movie, filling the "threshold gap" with Hollywood first-class science fiction films.
Preparation, mid-term shooting, post-production, story, script, concept design, props, animation preview, if something goes wrong in one step, it will affect the whole body, without direct reference.
Produced by a purely Chinese special effects team, one shot takes 48 seconds, and it takes 12 days to render in one second. It took 576 days to complete 48 seconds, 1,700 special effects shots, and 90% of the special effects of the whole film were completed. In order to shoot "Tomorrow's War", Louis Koo also acquired A local special effects company.
started everything from scratch, and it took three years just to prepare the machinery. It is just a helmet worn by a mecha soldier, with more than 200 parts. First draw a picture, then disassemble each part, and then polish each part from scratch until the entire set of mecha is completed.
Everything is carefully crafted to enhance the viewing experience!
is the "first time" for Chinese movie sci-fi mecha. Louis Koo spent a lot of money and even overdrawn the future!
Unfortunately, reality is so cruel. Marvel's "Avengers 4" has ended in ten years. Ten years ago, Transformers was a big hit. Ten years later, the market has undergone earth-shaking changes. The audience's enthusiasm for such movies has greatly diminished. The requirements for science fiction plots are also advancing with the times!
In the past few days, Louis Koo visited ten movie theaters in one night; went to the Oriental Selection live broadcast room to promote the movie with Yu Minhong , Dong Yuhui ; and learned to shoot short videos and videos on the short video platform. Audience dialogue.
Goo Jai said, I don’t know how to live broadcast, I have to learn! If you don’t know how to shoot short videos, learn! If you don’t know how to do special effects, learn! This is not only Goo Jai’s attitude towards making movies, but also his attitude towards life.
Louis Koo has made so many movies over the years, but none of them have seen him work so hard to promote and interact with the audience seriously. He really loves science fiction mechas and really wants to contribute to Chinese science fiction mecha movies.
Louis Koo once said ambitiously at the Academy Awards award ceremony, "Everything I got today was from this film industry. Everything I got today was given to me by the audience and the movie. I will be in this circle no matter what, I will definitely make a good Hong Kong movie, and I will definitely complete "Tomorrow's War"! "
"Tomorrow's War" is the starting point of Louis Koo's science fiction dream, and we may see it again in the future! More sci-fi movies produced by Louis Koo's "Tianyi Company" may have slow project progress, even unstable quality, and the box office will not reach the level of blockbusters, but this responsibility from Chinese movies will always be remembered by history. .
Louis Koo said, "Someone always has to do these things." wants to be China's independently completed science fiction movie .
Today, "Tomorrow's War" was finally reported by CCTV-6. The Sixth Princess first admitted that it is more difficult for domestic science fiction films to gain recognition, and then praised "Tomorrow's War" from an objective perspective because of its excellent special effects and that it is a movie close to international standards.
"Such a movie has reached a level close to internationalization, which is very worthy of praise."
"Mr. Louis Koo's love for mechas. When he discovered that China was making mecha action movies and all the visual effects needed to be redone, he specially set up a company called Tianyi. This is the special effects made by us Chinese ourselves. , I have invested more than 10 years to make such a movie, and it has achieved the highest level of Chinese-language movies on these two points, and it is very enjoyable to watch."
At the same time, the Six Princesses of CCTV fully affirmed that Gu Zai’s persistence is very meaningful and has long-term value of being the first to do so. With more such people planting trees, the entire industry will improve.
"If more people plant trees, the entire industry will actually improve."
Tomorrow's War brings not only the shocking look and feel of the special effects display, but also Louis Koo's ten years of persistence, which is a kind of Chinese science fiction film. Breakthrough and lead. Louis Koo has been sharpening his sword for ten years, filling the important territory of "mecha science fiction" for Chinese movies.
CCTV Six Princess film critic experts said that ’s accumulation of experience in mecha science fiction films will feed back future science fiction film productions.
"Mecha science fiction, as a sub-type of science fiction, is different from other types and has basically never appeared. The emergence of this type will raise the level of the entire film industry chain. Whether it is the creative level or the capital level, in 5 years From now on, the scale will increase, and only with the scale can we have various possibilities. This path is China's manufacturing industry, just like the path of many industries that start from scratch and build up bit by bit."
"When a film like this is completed, it can improve your industry as a whole, whether it's your service or your special effects, so a film like this will actually drive the improvement of the entire industry!"
Throughout the history of film, sci-fi works at the top of the pyramid can never be created just by "hard work". What they require is a complete set of "industrial systems", all-round "professional talents", and decades of "high-cost" "Investment", "accumulation of experience" through continuous trial and error, and a market that can "recover". "The Wandering Earth" has proven the "return potential" of Chinese science fiction, but even if a sequel is made, the production team remains cautious.
Suddenly thought of Louis Koo's previous speech at a movie event, "If you say anything bad to me, of course I will listen and change it."
It takes ten years for trees to grow and hundreds of years for people to grow. Finally, please give domestic science fiction some time. , we must first learn to run before we can fly!
