Just when the director was still digesting the news that "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" was finalized, the news that another Hollywood blockbuster had been confirmed to be introduced to the mainland came.
Today, "Star Quest", which has just been released in North America for less than 4 days and has achieved a global box office of $45.2 million in the first weekend, announced the introduction of mainland China!
This is a sci-fi disaster masterpiece starring Hollywood's top traffic Brad Pitt, and its production cost is as high as $80 million, plus the overall cost of post-publicity is $100 million. (Silently complaining about the film's publicity plan)
The film debuted at the Venice International Film Festival this year and was shortlisted for the Golden Lion Award in the main unit, of course, we all know what happened: "Joker" won the Golden Lion Award. But this still reflects the quality of the film, at least how the films that competed with "Joker" can be worse.
Currently, it has a freshness rating of 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, up from 72% for Interstellar 5 years ago, while it scored 7.1 on imdb and 80 on metacritic.
The worldview of this film is extremely ambitious, even spanning the entire solar system, as a "near science fiction" film in recent years, it can be said that it is very ambitious (near science fiction: the background is a story that is not long after the current human society).
The story tells the story of a slightly autistic engineer (Pete), in order to find his father who went to Neptune twenty years ago to explore and search for intelligent life but never returned, he must follow in his footsteps and cross the entire solar system like his father, and find out the reason for his disappearance.
The story introduction is so concise and clean, but it catches the eyes of the director - the vast solar system, can carry more than hundreds of millions of human beings, for small human beings, beyond the earth is actually an infinite abyss, a little careless will be swallowed up without a trace.
And his father, who disappeared more than 20 years ago, is very likely to be anywhere at this time, and the reasons for his disappearance are very likely to be diverse.
However, Pete's character embarks on a journey to find his father alone, and this desperate determination is in stark contrast to the vast universe. That's what appealed to the commissioner, and the film may present this epic, tragic story.
In this movie, Pete and his good friend James Gray have collaborated again after "Lost Z City". James Gray became famous at a young age, winning the Venice Silver Lion award for "Little Odessa" at the age of 25.
Between 2000 and 2013, Gray's work was shortlisted for the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival four times, but it did not win at the Oscars. The sharp-eyed Pete has long taken a fancy to the director's talent, and "Lost Z" is the collaboration he promoted.
This time "Interstellar Exploration" is also prepared and produced by Pete's Plan B Company, and it should be known that Plan B's "Infernal Affairs" and "Vice President" are Oscar hits.
And Pitt has previously been nominated for an Oscar for "Penalty Into Gold" and "The Wonders of Benjamin Button", but they have missed it. In addition, this year's b plan company only has 3 works, in addition to the other two "poor coffee position", this work that has dragged on for two years is likely to be Pitt's ambition to rush the Olympic masterpiece.
Of course, the production of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", also starring Pitt, is not bad, but everyone knows Quentin's relationship with the Oscars... In addition, although it is a drama film, the entertainment of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is slightly higher in the eyes of the director, and may not be suitable for the tastes of the Oscar judges.
So, this "Star Quest" may be very heavy for Pete.
At present, it has confirmed the introduction of the mainland, presumably the release date is also within the near future (two or three months the most), for science fiction fans, this kind of masterpiece is different from the "laser stroboscope" of the "big show", or very worth watching.
Of course, judging from the popcorn score on Rotten Tomatoes, its content may be really like some netizens said: too long, but after all, the film has not yet been released, and what it looks like still needs to be personally verified to know. As Pete responded: I care more about this film about what it leaves the world twenty years from now than at the box office.
At that time, the director will watch this movie for the first time to share his feelings with everyone.