In the past 3 months, domestic theaters have been swept away by "Chosin Lake".
Since the launch of the National Day file, this war epic that gathers the top lineup of Chinese films and invests up to 1.3 billion yuan has quickly swept the theaters.
With as many as 120 million viewers, "Chosin Lake" has so far won 5.7 billion at the box office, breaking the record for domestic films.
Until now, this heat has not diminished, and it still has a schedule in the current theater.
As the Chosin Lake heat continues to spread, the filmmakers launched a sequel while it was hot.
This week, the "Changjin Lake" crew took advantage of the Golden Rooster Award to hold a press conference for the sequel "Watergate Bridge" in Xiamen, including Wu Jing, Zhu Yawen, Xu Ke and other main creators appeared on the scene.
After "Chosin Lake" and then "Watergate Bridge", what story will happen to "Wu Qianli" Wu Jing and his Steel Seventh Company?
Let's take a look and see what information this conference reveals, right?
Message 1: The sequel production has been completed and will be released this year
At the beginning of the press conference, the filmmakers announced the progress of the sequel.
Producer Yu Dong made it clear that "Watergate Bridge" has completed all the filming work and has now entered the internal trial link.
He also confirmed that the film will be launched in the Year of the Tiger (2022), and the specific scheduling date is expected to be determined.
In the context of the extension key of "Chosin Lake" and the fact that it will remain in theaters in early 2022, the sequel is constantly on the agenda, and the speed of the crew is really amazing.
Yu Dong said that since the start of filming, the entire crew has basically not stopped working, and they have overcome all kinds of unimaginable difficulties and fatigue.
For example, Xu Ke, one of the directors of the film, led the team to shoot for 4 consecutive months in a minus 30-degree snowstorm.
Many of the main actors also rotated between multiple crews, and Zhu Yawen rushed to the "Watergate Bridge" crew immediately after filming the 16-hour scene.
Behind the crew's hot iron launch of the sequel, there is the continuous efforts of a group of filmmakers.
Message 2: The original squad is out of line, but the Seventh Company of Steel has "changed the old people into a new look"
At the press conference, the filmmakers also announced the "Watergate Bridge" group portrait poster and a 40-second trailer video, and the "Steel Seven Company Squad" currently active in the theater line entered the public eye with a different look.
Following the plot of "Chosin Lake", "Watergate Bridge" tells the story of the seventh company of steel led by the male protagonist Wu Qianli in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
This time, the Seventh Steel Company participated in intercepting the remnants of the American army and fought a heroic decisive battle with them at the Watergate Bridge, a choke point.
In the sequel poster, the gang seven company will be all listed, including Wu Jing, Yi Qianxi, Li Chen and other characters with resolute eyes looking straight ahead.
Even the veteran "Lei Dad", who has died in "Chosin Lake", is listed in an alternative form, and the goggles left behind are hung on Yi Qianxi's head.
Coupled with the appearance of the former company commander Tan Ziwei played by Duan Yihong, it is still the familiar "Changjin Lake" flavor.
However, from the perspective of intuitive perception comparison, compared with "Chosin Lake", the "Seven Steel Companies" of time and space conversion has become another tragic appearance.
In the poster, the protagonist Wu Jing and others have severe frostbite on their faces, their faces have become extremely white, and Li Chen's faces have become blurred and difficult to recognize in the wind and snow.
In the trailer, the protagonists struggle to move forward in a cruel environment, which accounts for a large proportion.
Compared with the occasional laugh point in the early stage of "Chosin Lake", the tragic tone of this sequel is obviously stronger, which is also the intuitive difference between the previous and subsequent works.
Message 3: There are more group portrait plays, and the character lines of the Seven Links of Steel are deeply extended
After the launch of "Chosin Lake", there were viewers who "complained" endlessly, thinking that the story line of the characters such as the instructor and sharpshooter Pinghe was slightly weak and did not look addictive.
At the press conference, the creators responded positively to the audience's questions, saying that "Chosin Lake" is a plot of "Watergate Bridge".
In the previous game, the characters were laid out, and the sequel will slowly unfold the group portrait scene.
In this regard, producer Huang Jianxin promised that "Watergate Bridge" will meet the audience's wishes and tell the entire story line of 7 people in the steel seven companies.
With the "guarantee" of the main creative staff, the blank parts of some supporting roles are expected to be filled one by one.
For example, the reason why the cold-faced gunman Ping He (Han Dongjun) is usually silent, such as the story of the former steel seventh company commander Tan Ziwei (Duan Yihong), and even the story of the "first company commander Wu Baili" who stays in the narration is expected to unfold to narrate.
Lead actor Zhu Yawen also said that each character will go to the step of their most colorful fate in "Watergate Bridge".
Of course, in addition to the supporting roles, the Wu family brother story line of Wu Jing & Yi Qianxi is also expected to be further deepened.
There is such a scene in the trailer, Wu Qianli, played by Wu Jing, throws a sentence at his brother Wu Wanli:
In the past, I didn't let you run around, because I was afraid that you would cause trouble yourself; Today, how you want to run, you decide.
The gritty light in the younger brother's eyes makes people see the transformation of the characters through the baptism of the battlefield, from boy to man, and the brother's gratifying gaze also looks touching.
With the wonderful laying out of this character line, the character image has been enriched, and the story of the entire Steel Seven Company has been more perfected.
Message 4: Prepare more tissues? The plot of "Watergate Bridge" may be more tear-jerking
In "Chosin Lake", the veteran "Lei Dad" played by Hu Jun sacrificed himself to save his comrades-in-arms to divert the signal bomb, and the scene of his heroic sacrifice cried a large number of people.
Although the proportion of the main characters going offline is not high, "Chosin Lake" is madly harvesting tears with the "death of Thunder Daddy".
Judging from the information of the "Watergate Bridge" conference, this sequel may have a higher tear-jerking degree than "The Death of Ray Daddy".
Producer Yu Dong revealed that when trying out the film internally, the friends on the scene were crying.
Producer Huang Jianxin said that he cried 5 times alone.
Although the filmmakers who refused to spoil the spoilers were silent about the fate of the characters, from the main tone of the film, the main characters being "sent out a box lunch" may only be a digital problem.
Judging from the historical Battle of Watergate Bridge, our army paid a huge price for three bombs of the Watergate Bridge, but in the end, under the disparity in equipment between the enemy and us, it failed to successfully prevent the remnants of the US army from retreating.
Compared with "Chosin Lake", which ended with the annihilation of the polar bear group, this time "Watergate Bridge" will probably produce more tear-jerking points after it is destined to end in tragedy.
It can only be said that in 2022, we will have to prepare more tissues to watch "Watergate Bridge" in the theater.
Message 5: Top team hard work to upgrade again, or the strongest sequel ever?
At the press conference, producer Yu Dong confidently said that "Watergate Bridge" surpassed the previous work in terms of production scale and actor acting excitement, so he spoke more directly:
This is the strongest sequel ever
Judging from some tidbits and trailers revealed at the scene, Yu Dong's "bottom line" is very sufficient.
The first is the dazzling big-scene scenes in the trailer.
Under the combination of actual explosions and special effects technology, the scene of the three explosions of the Watergate Bridge was accurately restored, and the outside world felt the magnificent scene at the same time, but also felt the strong strength of the team.
The second is the top specifications and size of the entire team.
In terms of specifications, from actors to directors are the top names in the industry, which no longer needs to be proven.
On top of the scale, the crew of 70,000 group performances and 1,400 main creators is still a big project.
This time, the main creator Huang Jianxin added a small detail, and "Watergate Bridge" alone dispatched as many as 100 new tanks this time, which is surprisingly large.
In addition, it is the efforts of a group of filmmakers day and night, without fear of hard work.
For example, in the team group led by director Xu Ke, he took Actors such as Wu Jing and Yi Qianxi to shoot wind and snow scenes at 3 a.m. and minus 30 degrees, and even kept blowing wind cannons under the needs of the plot.
Wu Jing also opened a small hot pot in his room every night, "working overtime" with the crew to study the daily scenes and discuss how to act the next day.
When talking about filming the wind and snow scene in the early morning, Wu Jing did not deliberately emphasize how hard it was, but ridiculed himself for putting a stomach "fart" because the wind cannon was too big, and attributed all the suffering to laughter.
In this regard, Xu Ke also said that this is the hardest crew he has ever seen, and he even said that this "Watergate Bridge" that made the top supporting team work hard will shock the audience for three years.
These are the 5 important pieces of information worth noting about "Watergate Bridge" in this conference.
It is worth mentioning that shortly after the end of the "Watergate Bridge" conference, the relevant terms have been crazy to detonate the network, receiving 11 hot searches, and the reading popularity is as high as 850 million.
Judging from the momentum, the second "Chosin Lake" level hit is coming again?
Obviously, after the "Chosin Lake" fever in 2021, followed by 2022, "Watergate Bridge" is bound to generate huge heat.
This time, the upgraded "Watergate Bridge" will ignite a new wave of patriotic sentiments at the same time, but also show the top fighting power gathered by Chinese filmmakers, and continue to show the muscles of Chinese films to the world.
2022 is already under the moment, let's look forward to the arrival of this epic war film.
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