Dong Qun, the screenwriter of ＂Wolf Warriors 2＂, is an online writer, and he will shoot ＂Bullet Marks＂ in the future.

Since its release on July 27th, the box office of "Wolf Warriors 2" has gone red all the way, breaking 2.4 billion by the time of press release.

Wolf Warriors 2 released a poster with a box office of 2.4 billion.

This box office figure is equal to that of monster hunt, but the goal of Wolf Warriors 2 seems to have already pointed to Stephen Chow’s Mermaid.

In fact, before the release you see now, Wolf Warriors 2 had already killed three scripts: the first was about the Indian border, the second was about the Myanmar border, and the third was the active version of Lengfeng. Screenwriter Dong Qun recorded that time in Weibo @ Dancing Demon Ji: "We kept trying all kinds of stories and kept standing still, and everyone was so upset that their temper was crazy."

Dong Qun talks about the script of "Wolf Warriors 2" in her Weibo @ Dancing Demon.

Dong Qun is still a newcomer in the screenwriter industry. His first screenplay was Wolf Warriors, which won the Best Screenplay Award in the 20th Huading Award and was shortlisted by Hundred Flowers Award. Before that, more people knew him because he had written online novels on military subjects for eleven years and was a platinum writer at the starting point.

"In 2013, Jason Wu looked for nine screenwriters before looking for me, and it was a helpless move for him to look for me. Because I have never been a screenwriter before. " On August 4th, Dong Qun was interviewed by a reporter from The Paper. "There is a big difference between writing a script and writing a novel. Writing a novel can vent my emotions, but I will be highly nervous when writing a script, because the script is logically much more demanding than the novel. "

Arguing about details can make Liu Zhenwei angry.

Before and after, the script of Wolf Warriors 2 took Dong Qun and two other screenwriters, Jason Wu and Liu Yi, a year. In this year, quarreling is a common occurrence.

"Liu Yi’s personality is still relatively mild. Both Jing Ge and I are particularly paranoid, and we can often argue for an hour or two on a detail."

Dong Qun recalled that he once argued with Jason Wu about whether there should be a picture of someone vomiting on the street when the cold front first arrived at the African market. Jason Wu’s idea is yes, suggesting that there is a virus spreading here. Dong Qun thinks that this burden must not exist-if the virus spreads like this, this area will be listed as a red alert by the World Health Organization, and then overseas ships are not allowed to enter Hong Kong at all.

Just for this little detail, Jason Wu was so anxious that he even struck the table and said, "If you want to do this, then don’t shoot.".

"After calming down, he still took the initiative to apologize first." Dong Qun said with a smile, everyone can be stubborn, but the director still has the final say. "Later, when the movie was released, I found that this’ goof-off’ shot was still cut off, which was very happy."

Six minutes underwater, a mirror to the end.

Similar disputes are too numerous to mention. Dong Qun is particularly serious about details. The six-minute opening scene left a deep impression on many people. Perhaps only a few people noticed what weapon the cold front took and how to take it out. But these non-military fans may not pay attention to the details at all, which made the writers argue for another day.

"At the beginning, it was set that the cold front took a rifle and aimed at the pirate’s head hundreds of meters away. I was impatient when I heard it, and the rifle had a range of 50 meters. Isn’t this a joke? Later, it was changed to an old rifle prepared by the captain to shoot lions. I said it still missed. Then it can only be a military sniper rifle, but how can there be a military sniper rifle on the cargo ship? "

At that time, the producer Liu Zhenwei, who was on the side, couldn’t listen to it anymore and said to Dong Qun, "According to your method, The Fast and the Furious can’t shoot it."

"Later, I got angry with Mr. Liu. Now I am very embarrassed to think about it. But I think the success of Wolf Warriors has a lot to do with our clinging to some details. " Dong Qun told The Paper reporter, "Reality is divided into reality reality and film reality, and there is no need to equate the two. But once you make the audience doubt the truth of your film, the logic of this film will collapse and the audience will play in minutes. For example, in The Fast and the Furious, jumping from Building A to Building B is inclined downward, which is in line with the parabola principle. But if you change it to fly from bottom to top, the audience can’t stand it. "

Dong Qun during the filming of Wolf Warriors 2.

"Although the plot and picture of the movie are exaggerated, it should also conform to the reality of the movie. The audience of our military films, especially military enthusiasts, will have higher requirements for details. "

"There are also many times when movies don’t explain to the audience and need the audience to think." For example, when the mercenary leader was only one shot away from killing the cold front, he chose to retreat because of the command of the military region leader. Some viewers will have doubts: "It would be nice to shoot at this moment."

Dong Qun said, "First, there is the aura of the protagonist, and second, there is a strategic priority. In the situation at that time, the mercenaries no longer regarded the cold front as an opponent, but just a prey to play with, and the military leaders who clamored for "hurry back" were their opponents in the future to seize power. If you don’t listen to orders at the scene, it’s like tearing your face. Therefore, the mercenary leader chose to go back and kill the military leaders first. "

The earliest box office estimate was 1.5 billion to 2 billion.

Dong Qun recalled that when Wu Jinggang found himself in 2013, the online atmosphere was very bad. "After the release of Wolf Warriors, a famous film critic said,’ I am so ashamed to see it’, and before the release of Wolf Warriors 2, thousands of people gave it a star. There are still a lot of sprays, but now more and more comments have pulled back the douban score. Generally, movies are expected to have high scores. After the actual release, the scores are reduced, and we count as counterattacks. "

"In fact, we can come together. First of all, we all have a common belief. We love our country and firmly believe in our army. "

"From the point of view of the founders, both Wolf Warriors are good. When filming Wolf Warriors, no one in the industry was optimistic about this kind of film, and the investment was small. We can only use the money in one scene, that is, sniper warfare in the jungle. Now people often compare the two Wolf Warriors, saying that 2 is much better than 1. It is much better, because the money invested by 2 is five times that of 1. "

Wolf Warriors 2 tank

"But the first" Wolf Warriors "made a movie that made everyone happy with very little money, and with more than 500 million box office receipts, it was a small opening of this theme. When filming "Wolf Warriors 2", the investment was in place. The martial arts direction and music direction we were looking for were all Hollywood. The whole process had the style of Hollywood heavy industry movies, and then we maintained our persistence and concentration on details in "Wolf Warriors". "

Dong Qun told The Paper that his initial box office estimate for "Wolf Warriors 2" was 1.5 billion to 2 billion, and the minimum estimate was 1 billion. "Because I think it represents the rise of heavy industry movies in China. Now there is too much traffic, small fresh meat and big IP, so please ask Shuijun to go online and say’ Happy New Year’ in an attempt to lower the aesthetic IQ and standards of the audience, but the audience is not stupid. When "Wolf Warriors 2" finally appeared at a level close to Hollywood heavy industry movies, the audience’s enthusiasm suddenly broke out. "

Wolf Warriors 2 chose Hans Zhang, which is closer to people, instead of the popular small fresh meat.

However, Dong Qun also admitted that military movies were still greatly restricted. "One is professionals, such as screenwriters. For example, there are too few China action actors who really went to the special operations brigade for 18 months in order to shoot a good role. The other is the control of the policy, that is, in the’ pony crossing the river’, which draft will be taken. "

Military novels are well written because they are "unreasonable"

When "Wolf Warriors" came out in 2015, some netizens shouted in the post bar: "Who is the screenwriter of" Wolf Warriors "? Dare to admit that you copied the novel bullet marks? "

User tucao screenshot

But in fact, Dong Qun is the author of this smash hit military novel "Bullet Marks". He took "Dancing Demon" as his pen name, and also wrote works such as The Pirate King of the Fifth Army, The Law of Survival, Thorning, The Fifth Army, Special Kind: We were Special Forces.

"The cold front is very similar to the hero’s chivalrous song in Bullet Marks in terms of personality, behavior and fighting skills, but the sense of substitution is still different." Dong Qun said that he is still writing online articles on military subjects, which is just equivalent to "practicing writing" and will not be published online.

"If you can’t guarantee the speed, you can’t guarantee the results." Dong Qun said, "The competition in online writing is particularly fierce. When I left (in 2013), there were 3 million people writing, and all the people who can fight for it are people with both speed and quality. It took me 11 months to write the 1.8 million-word bullet mark, which is only moderate in the online circle. But now it’s slower, sometimes one or two thousand words a day. Because writing is a rest and pastime for me now. "

"However, the average quality of online writers is far lower than that of our period (early 2000)." Dong Qun bluntly said, "The net text is updated too quickly. We started writing more than ten years ago, when the net was not profitable. That’s true literature lovers, that is, they didn’t use the word’ faith’, at least they had pursuits. Now that online literature has formed an industry, it has also spawned plagiarism, which has become a common problem. "

Dong Qun is still confident about his achievements and position in the history of military online novels. "The key is that I believe in something." He said, "People with faith write different things. After the hit of Bullet Marks, the website also held a military novel creation competition while it was hot, and a large number of authors appeared. If it is not what you believe in, words will lose their souls. Faith is unreasonable. I think I write well because I am unreasonable. "

"Wolf Warriors 2" stills

The first film to be filmed in the future will be Bullet Marks, which is more publicity than Wolf Warriors.

It can be said that Dong Qun’s "brute strength" is also reflected in several identity changes: from online writer to screenwriter, and then to the director who is starting. "I just don’t like standing still."

"At first, I just wanted someone to read it. I started writing in 2001 and became a full-time online writer in 2005; Later, I came up with a physical book, and it was still difficult to publish it in 2006. But in the second year, "Bullet Marks" sold more than 1 million copies, which were sold in all airport bookstores at that time. "

A wish came true, and Dong Qun came up with another idea-to push the work to Taiwan Province and publish the traditional version. "Friends say it’s impossible, because people don’t watch mainland military novels. So I specially wrote a military novel "The Trapping" which is more in line with Taiwan Province’s aesthetic, and the result was also published in Taiwan Province. I asked the publishing house if it had lost money, and people said it was a small profit, so I felt it was worth it, and I no longer considered publishing in Taiwan Province, because I had already done it. "

"Later, I was tired when I wrote the net, because I felt that I had been spinning around. So when Jason Wu found me in 2013, I felt that the opportunity came. "

Dong Qun said that he had been studying in the director department of Beijing Film Academy since last year. He said frankly: "My future is not a screenwriter, but a director. I want to have a try. At present, I will spend most of my effective working time on my studies: watching movies, reading director’s books and learning how to use the lens. "

"Some readers want to see the original" Bullet Marks "and have been waiting for ten years. If I am a director, my first film will also be Bullet Marks, and it will be more flamboyant than Wolf Warriors. I believe that as soon as the name "Warrior Song" comes out, book fans will be excited. " However, Dong Qun said that he does not want to limit himself to military themes. "For example, making science fiction films, in short, don’t seal up your choices."