China's most "scary" director has made a new film

Rong Yu, chief reporter of Jimu News

For ordinary audiences, director Ma Kai is almost equivalent to strangers, but for thriller fans, this is an extremely terrible man.

In 2016, he filmed a domestic thriller "China Evil" with 50,000 yuan. At the FIRST Film Festival, he conquered the chairman of the jury Wang Jiawei and scared a lot of self -proclaimed fans. After 6 years, the most "scary" director in China finally made a new film.

The director of "horizontal drift" is a blockbuster

Recently, the new domestic film "The Great Night" released a full lineup poster. Fan Ye, the leading actor in the center of the poster, attracted countless fans' attention, but the "screenwriter and director Ma Kai" marked in the upper right corner made the thriller fans emit "Understand The admiration of "knows".

The reason why Ma Kai could become a treasure in the niche fan circle originated from his alarm 6 years ago. The post -85s director originally worked as a mass actor in Hengdian Film and Television City. He had a "terrible" thriller movie reading volume. Because he couldn't bear a dream of a director, he pulled a few "horizontal drift" to test the water. A pseudo -documentary style "China Evil" was shot with 50,000 yuan.

The film tells that two college students went to the countryside to shoot folk documentary, but they encountered an accident of "scaring half dead". From the director to the producer to the actor, the film was almost born in a non -professional team, but after the film came out in 2016, the film was first recognized by the jury at the FIRST Youth Film Exhibition. "Ma Kai made a lot of directors' faces with 50,000 yuan."

Although after several twists and turns, the "China Evil", which was "exceeded", was still not released in the theater, but Ma Kai successfully occupied a place in the heart of thriller fans by this movie. In an exclusive interview with Jiyu Journalists, he also acknowledged that after the success of "China Evil", a large number of investors and film and television companies came to cooperate with him, hoping that he could continue to make a difference in the field of thriller. He also revealed that he had written several stories and waited for the appropriate time to make the movie "Scare the audience".

New film scale bird gun changing cannon

When filming "China Evil" 6 years ago, Ma Kai had no money, no one, no resources, but judging from the creative team of "The Great Night", Ma Kai has fully realized the "bird gun change". In addition to inviting Fan Ye's "super traffic" among the young actors, as the actor, and Yi Xiaoxing, a famous comedian who became famous with super popular online dramas such as "Unexpectedly" "Dongpinxi's" China Evil "with 50,000 yuan" was so we couldn't reach.

According to the public information of the film, "The Great Night" tells a story about the studio, dreams, and friendship. "The three brothers came to the thriller crew for sneak shots for special invitations. The misunderstanding is intensifying, and the three brothers can only be randomly respond. "From the context of the film, Ma Kai, who is the screenwriter, still uses his best thriller element, but with the comedy master Yi Xiaoxing's entry, the film will increase the proportion of comedy. Broaden the audience. After the information of the "Great Night" project was released, many thriller fans have high hopes for it, and reminded Ma Kai to "don't forget the basic skills", "Waiting for you to scare us to the cinema!"

Jimu Journalists noticed that the main producers of "The Great Night" are from Hubei, and they are the same as the Chinese movie "Love Myth" with the highest score in Douban in 2021. The relevant person in charge of the producer revealed in an interview with Jimu Journalists that the film has now finished the main scene and was initially scheduled to meet with the audience in 2023.

(The picture comes from the filmmaker's public poster)

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