As the last superhero blockbuster in 2018, have you seen “Sea King” this weekend?
Friday (December 7th), “Sea King” was officially released in China. In just two days, the cumulative box office was 480 million, creating a record for the super hero movie the next day, breaking the highest single-day box office record in December..
Word of mouth rating, cat’s eye 9.5, Taobao ticket 9.3, Douban 8.2. Many netizens lamented that it was really shocking. After the “Justice League”, DC finally had to be proud
海王》, based on the DC comics, starring Jason Morma (Ning Haiwang), Aimei Hilde (Jura), Nicole Kidman and others, telling the story of having half humans The story of the sea king of the semi-Atlantis blood. In fact, for most superhero powders, “Sea King” is no stranger. Before “Superman vs. Batman” and “Justice League”, Neptune briefly appeared. As the first film about underwater superheroes, the first challenge of Sea King is to show the mysterious underwater world. “Sea King” was mainly filmed on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia. The film has built more than 50 scenes, and combined with advanced blue screen shooting, shows the gorgeous scenes of the Atlantis submarine palace, arena, warships and so on. In addition, there are ancient Roman-style buildings, seven ethnic Atlantis, saltwater aquariums, fishermen, and gulls, as well as marine creatures such as Neptune, War Shark, Seahorse, Octopus Drummer, and Jellyfish. Bombing. The entire world of underwater creatures and the equipment of the people are all amazing. Many viewers compare it with the Pandora Planet, The Lord of the Rings and The Star Wars of Avatar
The film was directed by Wen Ziren, a Chinese ghost director who created the “Spiritual” series. He mentioned that everyone should be familiar with the horror film, from the “Saws of the Chainsaw” series, “The Latent” series, “The Soul” series, “Annabel” series to this year’s “Ghost Sister”, Wen Ziren is good at making small high-selling box office at a small cost. Take “Soul of the Soul” as an example, the investment cost of the film is only 20 million US dollars, but it has won a global box office of 318 million US dollars, and won the American movie Saturn Award for Best Horror Film. After “Hidden”, Wen Ziren said in an interview that he wanted to try other movie types and emphasized that he likes movies, not just horror movies. “I like action movies. I hope I can take action movies one day. I also like romantic comedies. If I find a good material, I will definitely do it.
” In an interview with The Verge, Wen Ziren once again stressed that he has always liked action movies, like Hong Kong director Wu Yusen, some of Wu Yusen’s early years. Action movies, such as those crazy, exaggerated gun battles and action scenes, are very familiar to them
In 2013, Lin Yibin, who continuously directed four “Speed and Passion”, did not continue to direct the issue due to the schedule problem. The producer Neil H. Moritz found Wen Ziren and threw an olive branch to him. Neil H. Moritz believes that Wen Ziren has always been a good director and has made great achievements in his own field, so it is very reassuring to give the film to himself
He also said that Wen Ziren knows how to grasp the audience’s psychology and has experience in cost control. The most important thing is that his years of shooting experience may be able to break through the imagination of the audience and bring a different experience to the audience..
In 2015, “Speed and Passion 7” was released in the world, and it has set off a movie-shaking frenzy in the world. It only won the 2.623 billion yuan box office in China, and became the first film of the mainland film history to break the 2 billion yuan movie. The box office broke $1.51 billion (about 10.3 billion yuan) and is the highest box office of the “Speed and Passion” series
Since then, Wen Ziren has continued to explore in different types of films. This time, “Sea King” is also his first attempt at science fiction movies. It is worth mentioning that “Neptune” was released in the country two weeks earlier than the North American market, and the North American release time is December 21. However, there are still some viewers who saw the movie in advance. Many viewers publicly called Warner after watching the movie, and handed over the task of creating the DC universe to Wen Ziren
