After his partner Jason Wu became famous, he brought high-burning military films!

Special feature of 1905 film network About three or four months ago, Lv Jianmin, the producer of the series, had a phone call with him, talking about the industry, and also gossiping. They haven’t seen each other for some time, so Jason Wu "complained" to him that he was too busy now and didn’t have time to do some things he wanted to do. After listening, Lv Jianmin expressed his understanding and didn’t take the initiative to mention it to him. He is waiting, waiting for Wu Jing to be free one day, and then come to him to discuss, "Lao Lu, let’s do it?"

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Lv Jianmin always has a place in the "third part" in his heart. Only before the film was developed, he also devoted a lot of energy to the creation of new works. Among them, Wolves, for which he is the producer, will meet you soon.

Also named after the word "Wolf", it is also a military action movie. "Wolves" starring,, tells the story that in order to safeguard national dignity, the wolf squad will fight with foreign terrorists at all costs and will be released in the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 9.

Directed and starring, "Sweeping the Black" tells a story about sweeping the black with a sword and eliminating evil with an iron fist. "It’s already finished." Lv Jianmin said with a smile, "I especially hope it can be released as soon as possible."

He said that if "Wolves" and "Sweep the Black and Clear the Clouds to See the Sun" can perform well, we can have a good year this year. ……

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Lv Jianmin is not only a military fan, but also a literary fan, especially preferring male works that depict brotherhood. He doesn’t know why he likes it, but when he looks at it, it gets out of hand. Seeing more, he began to consider developing such exciting stories himself.

When chatting with a friend who is engaged in security work, he was particularly curious. "What is the temporary protection center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?" "Who will protect the Chinese when they encounter difficulties overseas?" A friend answered him, just as he said in the movie, "As a Chinese, no matter where you are, when you encounter difficulties, please remember that there is a strong motherland behind you." It is their job to defend the country and protect their compatriots.

Lv Jianmin was encouraged and inspired by this, and soon found director Michael Chiang to share his thoughts about movies. Within a month, Michael Chiang handed the first draft script to him. The story revolves around an overseas energy crisis. Later, after three years of polishing, the script focused on the "Wolf Team" composed of seven people, including Lao Diao (Max Zhang) and Ke Tong (Aarif Lee) and Monster (Jiang Luxia), to protect peace in extreme environment.

There are many high-burning plots in the film, such as sand raid, airborne surprise attack, indoor gunfight, close combat with cold weapons and street pursuit. One of Lv Jianmin’s pursuits for military action movies is "cool".

He explained to us that the reason why he named his film "Wolf" again after "Wolf Warriors" was because he felt that wolves were a species that would never stop until they reached their goals. In the play, the team members trust each other, have a clear division of labor, and unite and cooperate, which is a portrayal of wolves. "Especially when standing on overseas land, they can only fight like wolves."

As the captain of the wolf pack squad, Lao Diao is responsible and charismatic, and can always infect and unite the team members with faith. Max Zhang was the first to play the role. Lv Jianmin bluntly said that Max Zhang’s ability to be literate and martial, and his state of being a veteran cadre, are particularly suitable for this role. Max Zhang also asked him at that time, "Brother Lu, did you really decide to let me play the captain?" Lv Jianmin said, "it’s you. When you come, the’ backbone’ of the wolf squad will be there. "

Jiang Luxia is an actor who was quickly confirmed after Max Zhang. As for Aarif Lee’s acting in this film, it’s a coincidence.Lv Jianmin revealed that Aarif Lee’s role was originally played by a traffic actor. At that time, he had already talked to the other party about it, but he always felt that it was not right. "It seems that something is missing."

I met Aarif Lee by chance, and Lv Jianmin was quickly attracted by his muscular body. He immediately joked with Aarif Lee, "Take off your clothes!" I didn’t expect the other person to really take off his coat without hesitation, revealing a tendon.Lv Jianmin thought that he had met the ideal person to play Ke Tong, "Aarif Lee".

It was just that he had entered the contract stage with other actors, and he was in a dilemma. The twist is that the original actor decided to quit due to physical reasons, and the role fell to Aarif Lee.

Somehow, it seems that something has been arranged, and Lv Jianmin finally activated what he had in mind. Aarif Lee’s appearance in "Wolves" wearing a tendon has also become one of the famous scenes in the film.　

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After the original flow actor quit, the crew once encountered a problem, and some investors chose to withdraw their funds. They questioned, can this film still have a market without traffic blessing?

It is true that traffic actors can bring heat and popularity to movies. However, Lv Jianmin also retorted that movies are not completely sold, and more energy and funds could be put into film production, which might lead to better creation.

Under the pressure of the management withdrawing halfway, he increased his investment in film production and kept improving.In order to ensure the professionalism and visibility of Wolves as a military action film, the crew invited Wu Xinlei, a special soldier who had served in the French foreign legion for ten years, as a military officer.attend toask.

Wu Xinlei introduced that everyone’s equipment in the film, including M4, glock 17, M1911 and G36K, was modified according to personal signs, habits and division of labor, and each gun had its own characteristics. Among them, the "sky umbrella" technology to cover the retreat of important people is improved according to the escape cable car of La nacelle ESCAPE.

In the film, the shape and color of each firearm, as small as the shape of a magazine and a fire cap element have been debugged many times, which can stand the examination of professional eyes.

The film was roughly cut around June.On Father’s Day, Lv Jianmin couldn’t wait to hold a small movie party, and invited his neighbors to his house to drink beer and watch Wolves.

A friend said to him after the movie, "I didn’t find out until I watched this movie, was the movie I watched before fake?" Lv Jianmin was amazed. "Why do you think other movies are fake?" "Because after watching this movie, I feel that it really costs money, but other movies don’t seem to have …"

After listening to her words, Lv Jianmin was a little moved and felt that the money spent on creation was worth the money. "At least I was satisfied with the result, and I think I did the right thing."

"Wolves is definitely not a great movie, but it must be a good movie." Lv Jianmin revealed that he signed three film contracts at one time with the film’s creator. Wolves is likely to develop into a series in the future and continue to focus on the stories behind the members of wolves.

"Of course, whether Wolves can be made into a series depends on whether the first one can be recognized by the audience."

Lv Jianmin has expectations for the box office performance of the film. "If it is not, it is false. Making movies is a commercial activity. We really hope to make money through movies, but we hope it can win the praise of the audience. We can give investors confidence, and I think it will be successful! "

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Lv Jianmin’s greatest success certainly comes from the Wolf Warriors series."Those two films brought me a lot, brought me the basic recognition of this industry, and let me find a way that may be more suitable for me on the way of trial and error. I have been on this road until today. " Lv Jianmin said.

Lv Jianmin officially broke into the film circle in 1998. In the early days, he produced or distributed more art cinema, which was once known as the "godfather of literary films". Many directors of the sixth generation created art cinema with his strong support.

Later, with the development of the film market in China, he began to switch from the field of literary films to the horror film market, and successively invested in and produced. The former was the first horror film since the commercialization reform of China films, and it won a strong box office of 13 million; The latter received 17 million at the box office, which set a record for the return on investment of China films at that time.

But for him, these "achievements" have passed away."Just as an actor will be defined, I will be defined sometimes. If I tell investors and actors that my friends want to make a romantic film, I guess they will definitely laugh at me and say,’ Just forget it and shoot what you are good at!’ "

At that time, when Jason Wu was preparing to shoot Wolf Warriors, it was in financial difficulties. At one time, it even relied on the mortgage of real estate to get funds. It was Lv Jianmin who made suggestions behind the scenes, so that Wolf Warriors won the box office of 544 million in one fell swoop and Wolf Warriors 2 successfully broke through the box office of 5.6 billion.

Since then, everyone has decided that Lv Jianmin is more suitable for making military movies. Therefore, he changed his strategy in the film circle and began to take root in the field of "cool films", which has been adhered to until now.At present, he is developing two new works, one about drug control and the other about diplomatic struggle, both of which are male-oriented works.

Lv Jianmin said, "I’m in my fifties, and I have less and less time left to create. I just hope I can do more things I like in a limited time. I dare not expect the audience to evaluate the film well, but if the audience says that the film is worth the ticket price, I feel that my efforts have paid off … "