The great victory of "People on the Road" in June 2010 gave Xu Zheng another hope.
Earlier, when Xu Zheng was interviewed, he said: In fact, I transformed into a director because there was no drama to shoot, and I did not receive a film contract for more than a year, but people always have to live, I have no income, I have no way to support my family, I can only come out as a director.
Judging from the many comedies that Xu Zheng has acted in over the years, he is quite suitable for this path.
At that time, "People on the Road" was a big fire, but he did not eat much dividends, one is that even if he starred in a movie that was overheated, but his play path was very narrow, and there was no new script to find after getting paid for dead films, and the second was that he did not have a special amount of savings for so many years.
He thought that the IP of "People in the Way" was so hot, he could rub a wave of heat, so he thought of using this to make a "Tai Lu of Man Again" (later renamed "Tai Lu"), Xu Zheng's idea was too simple, he was a fledgling director, no status, no funds, no connections, and the film career was full of difficulties.
The first is the question of money. He had no money but to pull investment, and it took a lot of effort to pull thirty million from the light media, thirty million looks a lot, but after a play, these are not too many, and they also need to hire actors.
But there are so many scripts in the hands of the star, he will not pay too much attention to him as a rookie director, the salary restriction order at that time has not yet come out, the salary of the traffic star is very high, he can't afford to pay, under the embarrassment, fortunately, There are Huang Bo and Wang Baoqiang to help him.
At that time, the two people, it is said that he could not afford to be invited, Huang Bo's new film emperor, Wang Baoqiang is in the limelight, but both of them are lower than the usual film remuneration to calculate with Xu Zheng, Wang Baoqiang is two million, Huang Bo is really nervous to see Xu Zheng, just tell him that the film remuneration is counted as an investment, and three million is an investment.
Originally, neither of them paid attention to it, after all, it was Xu Zheng's first directorial work, Huang Bo and Wang Baoqiang both thought, originally it was to help.
After the launch of "Tai 囧", it was extremely popular (it may also be borrowed from the wind of "People on the Road"), and the box office exceeded 1 billion yuan in 22 days of release, becoming the first Chinese film in the history of Chinese cinema to exceed 1 billion yuan.
Speaking of which, Huang Bo's remuneration for this film has also doubled, and when all the dust settles in the movie, Huang Bo takes more than 40 million, I don't know if Wang Baoqiang will be bitter after watching it, anyway, I am bitter.
Of course, in principle, Huang Bo needs to bear the risk, if the film does not succeed, his money will be lost, and Wang Baoqiang is taking a stable remuneration, the film loses money is not his business, the money should be given to the user.
Xu Zheng also revealed to himself: When he first looked for Huang Bo, at first he refused, just came out of other crews with physical and mental worries, just wanted to go on vacation, but one is suitable for him and the other is not chosen, and then finally Huang Bo was grinded over, which is probably Providence.
The tree is a big wind, and Xu Zheng is still a borrowed tree.
Originally, Xu Zheng's IP was borrowed, secretly borrowed, and returned so much money, who is anxious to change.
According to the court judgment, Xu Zheng and his investment company violated the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, ordered Xu Zheng and his investment company to compensate 5 million yuan, and also apologized in public and stopped infringing, which is probably the reason for the name change of "Tai 囧".
Huaqi believes that:
"Ren Zai 囧之泰囧" "deliberately carries out misleading false propaganda to imply and explicitly indicate that the two films are related", "directly and heavily uses the unique name of "Man on the Road"" without authorization", "whether from the film name, concept, plot, story, theme or line, etc., the two films are substantially the same or similar", and the company owns the intellectual property rights of all the intellectual achievements of "Man on the Road", thus believing that "Man Re 囧 Road" constitutes infringement of it.
The gist is that Xu Zheng did not buy the copyright from them at the beginning, and also announced that this was the sequel to "People in 囧途", and the name in "People in 囧途" was not changed directly, and there were many plagiarized plots, so it constituted infringement.
However, Xu Zheng's value has risen because of "The Journey of The Journey of Man Again", because of the promotion of local tourism culture in Thailand, on March 13, 2013, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck also received Xu Zheng and the staff at the Prime Minister's Palace to express his gratitude.
Xu Zheng was also successfully promoted to "big director", and in recent years, he has also been filming continuously. In 2014, "Master of Hypnosis", which was supervised and starred, broke the box office record of domestic suspense films; in 2015, the "Hong Kong 囧" directed by him received 180 million box office on the first day of release; in 2018, "I Am Not a Medicine God" accumulated 3.1 billion box office, won the 55th Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, the reputation is also very good, tear-jerking blockbusters, Xu Zheng officially sat in the position of big director.
Fame and fortune should be to describe Xu Zheng's present, although at the beginning it was a good result of "copying", but in the end it was not to live up to the expectations of the audience, and produced a very phenomenal 2018 annual word-of-mouth work, so that a large part of the people have noticed the phenomenon of "sky-high drug", can not afford to eat medicine can only eat the medicine smuggled outside, the grandmother's words are still very tear-inducing when I think about it.
"I beg you not to track down indian medicine anymore?" I was sick for three years, forty thousand yuan a bottle of medicine, I ate for three years, the house was gone, my family was crushed by me, and now it is hard to have cheap medicine, you have to say that it is a fake medicine, fake or not, can we not know? ” "That medicine is only 500 yuan a bottle, the drug dealer does not make money at all, who can not meet a patient, can you guarantee that you will not get sick in this life?" You took him away, we all have to wait to die, I don't want to die, I want to live, okay? ”
Because of this movie, the domestic "sky-high drug" problem has also been on the hot search, the domestic department has also begun to "clarify or adjust", the quality of qualified drugs is indeed the top priority, the drug is too special, an negligence is a human life, so it is still necessary to eat at ease.
The film produced by Xu Zheng can also be regarded as a certain good impact on society, if there is no original "Tai 囧" and no current him, his bet is right.
Have you ever seen "I'm Not a Medicine God"?