In the original time and space, the "Resident Evil" game came out first.

After the game was launched, it performed well in terms of sales and reviews, and was hailed as the pioneer of horror adventure games.

Therefore, a few years later, the "Resident Evil" movie was also released.

However, the plots of the movie and the game are not exactly the same. The heroine Alice is an original character in the movie and does not exist in the game.

After the movie was released, it was a huge success, and this IP has become one of the most successful IPs in the history of game adaptations.

In this world, the "Resident Evil" movie has also achieved extremely good results, and has also created a schedule that has incubated more than 500 themed escape room stores.

But its potential is still huge, and there are still many places to explore, and gaming is one of them.

When Song Qi was filming the movie, he already had plans to develop a AAA game with the theme of "Resident Evil", and arranged for Xiao Ran to contact domestic game manufacturers to learn about the relevant situation of game production.

But after learning about it, Song Qi discovered that the production of 3A games was more difficult and time-consuming than he thought.

If we look at the production cycle of first-tier 3A games on the market, a top 3A game will take at least 3-5 years to be initially completed, and it will continue to be supplemented and improved in the future.

Fortunately, Miracle Studio has a weakened version of the software, which is of great help to game production.

Movies and games are interoperable to a certain extent. The post-production CG special effects of the movie are actually images made from animation.

Miracle Software has a massive material library, as well as powerful rendering technology and ray tracing technology, which can greatly shorten the game production time.

Therefore, Song Qi arranged for Xiao Ran to select a small and medium-sized game studio to cooperate with Miracle Studio to develop the 3A game "Resident Evil".

Xiao Ran has no relevant experience in these tasks, but experience is gained through trial and error over and over again. Song Qi is willing to give her this opportunity to trial and error, just like letting Xiao Ma, who is also inexperienced, develop a self-operated APP.

Unlike company executives and others, Xiaoran and Xiaoma are his right-hand men and shareholders of the company. They don't need to do too specific work, they only need to do a good job in management and control the direction.

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Today, Miracle Film and Television is already a very powerful company with a rich financial background, so it can afford to lose money.

However, if it succeeds, Miracle Film and Television will have expanded into two extremely profitable business sectors, and the returns will be very attractive.

By handing over these tasks to Xiao Ma and Xiao Ran, Song Qi can focus on promoting the movie.

There are not many special effects shots in "Mr. Zombie". According to the studio's efficiency, it can be completed in two weeks at most.

This year’s Zhongyuan Festival starts on August 30th, and there is still one month left for promotion, which is more than enough time.

As the saying goes, when one person attains enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.

Since Song Qi's monster movies became popular, horror movies have also experienced a wave of resurgence, which can be seen from the many monster movies that followed suit.

There are viewers who are willing to watch, so people follow suit and take pictures. This is a causal relationship.

Although traditional horror movies did not get meat, they did get some soup. At least the number of moviegoers and the number of movies released during the Zhongyuan period are increasing year by year, which illustrates the situation.

The market for horror movies is improving, the confidence of producers is recovering, and the number of viewers is steadily increasing. This is an indisputable fact.

Therefore, You Bin and his like are just a few people in the industry who hate Song Qi. Most horror film directors and production companies are grateful to Song Qi.

This year's Zhongyuan Festival is particularly lively because this is Song Qi's return to the Zhongyuan Festival after three years of absence.

Three years ago, he made history in the mid-2010s with "Jaws" and opened the door to his monster universe.

Three years later, he returned to the Spring Festival with a traditional horror movie. This time, he was no longer the street-beating director back then, but as a legendary young director who had won the Spring Festival championship for two consecutive years.

Once again he returned to the place where his dream began.

Since the promotion of "Mr. Zombie" began on August 5th, the film's attention has skyrocketed, causing widespread discussion.

Netizens' evaluations of Song Qi's return to traditional horror movies are not unanimous.

Supporters, mainly his fans and movie audiences, are looking forward to the movie and remain optimistic about the movie's results.

There are also quite a few netizens who are not optimistic about this movie, including many Song Qi fans.

It's not that they don't think highly of Song Qi himself, nor do they believe in Song Qi's abilities, they just don't think highly of traditional horror movies.

In various social groups for movie lovers, posts about "Mr. Zombie" are pushed up almost every day. Netizens with different opinions argue endlessly below, but no one can convince anyone.

The horror movie bar is the main battlefield for this debate. The bar friends here are all horror movie lovers, and their understanding of horror movies is far deeper than other types of audiences.

And this is also the area hardest hit by the bad viewing of "Mr. Zombie".

In the forum, a post with the title [This is the first time you don’t like Song Qi’s new movie, can you save traditional horror movies? God can’t do it] has been pinned to the top since August 5th and has already received tens of thousands of replies.

The author of the post is an old user of LV15 named "Tianmu".

He is a senior horror movie enthusiast in the bar, and he is also a master who knows traditional horror movies very well. It is said that he himself is a screenwriter of traditional horror movies.

He said in the post: He is a fan of Song Qi and a lover of Behemoth movies. For every one of Song Qi's works, he went to the cinema to contribute to the box office and made box office predictions.

There is basically not much difference between his prediction and the final box office of the movie.

But this time, he was not optimistic about Song Qi's new movie because Song Qi chose traditional horror movies.

In his opinion, the reason why Song Qi was successful was because he did not make pure horror movies, but created a new movie type, which is equivalent to the founder of the sect.

In behemoth horror movies, Song Qi is the only god.

But a god chose to step down from the altar and shoot a traditional horror movie. This is undoubtedly exposing his own shortcomings and is an extremely irrational behavior.

"Tianmu" believes that traditional horror movies have been around for more than a hundred years, and all the stories that can be filmed have basically been filmed. All new scripts and new stories are nothing more than old wine in new bottles, spinning within the original framework.

That's all.

It is precisely because of this that modern horror movies were born and Song Qi's success was achieved.

Song Qi's new approach can only work on the basis that traditional horror movies have no room for innovation.

However, Song Qi's current filming of traditional horror movies seems to him to be a rather arrogant approach. It is very likely that Song Qi will experience his first box office failure in several years, because this is determined by the market.

He doesn't think Song Qi has the ability to take the entire traditional theme of horror movies a step further. Even if he is a god, he is only the god of monster movies.

So he made a prediction in his post that Song Qi's new movie will probably not exceed 500 million in box office.
Chapter completed!