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Chapter 341 [The Lord of the Rings-The Legend of Sauron] is scheduled to be released

Hollywood, [Jurassic World] crew.

Zhang Nan never thought that he would stay on the set of [Jurassic World] for several months.

"Zhang, please stay a little longer. The movie will be finished soon." Spielberg enthusiastically persuaded Zhang Nan to stay.

"Yes, yes." James Cameron on the side agreed.

But in the face of the two directors' enthusiastic attempts to stay, Zhang Nan's attitude was very firm.

"Damn, that's what you said when I was finishing filming a few months ago. Today I say I'm going to leave. Warner Pictures is getting anxious. The crew of [Harry Potter 4] is about to wrap up. ”

Zhang Nan regretted a little. He shouldn't have finished his role in "Jurassic World". He thought that he would also shoot 3D movies in the future, so he stayed as an assistant director and tried to learn I would like to point out the 3D shooting skills of these two great directors, especially James Cameron.

But the process was not what Zhang Nan thought at all. He was learning from Spielberg and James Cameron. Instead, the three of them explored together. And since he had watched many 3D movies in his previous life, he naturally knew some 3D shots. , the shooting effect will be better, and good ideas and ideas will pop out from time to time.

The final result was that James Cameron and Spielberg followed him, learned his ideas and ideas, and themselves were entangled in the crew of "Jurassic World".

Completely stealing the chicken will lose the rice.

Seeing Zhang Nan's resolute attitude, James Cameron and Spielberg also knew that they could not keep Zhang Nan, so they had no choice but to let him go.

However, James Cameron took the opportunity to mention the "Avatar" project to Zhang Nan again.

"Zhang, how are you considering the [Avatar] project I told you about before?"

【Avatar】?
Of course, there is no need to consider it. With a global box office of 27 billion US dollars, he has been waiting for it for a long time.

It’s just that it’s only 2004, and [Avatar] won’t be released until 2009, so…

"You direct and I star, it's definitely no problem, but I'll give you three months at most in terms of schedule. If you try to stall on me like you did in Titanic, I'll leave immediately. You also know that I have There is no shortage of films to shoot, and the schedule must be written in the contract." Zhang Nan said bluntly.

James Cameron's mouth twitched a little when he heard this.

Because if Zhang Nan didn't make this matter clear, he really wanted to vaguely cheat Zhang Nan's schedule.

After all, during this period of contact, he really gained a lot of good ideas about 3D movie shooting from Zhang Nan.

But now that Zhang Nan has said this, James Cameron also knows that the idea will not work, so he can only say: "No problem."

……

After coming out of the crew of "Jurassic World", before Zhang Nan could go to "Harry Potter 4" and earn the 5000 million US dollars in cameo salary from Warner Pictures, he was hired by New Line Cinema. People are blocking the way.

"The post-production special effects of [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron] are almost complete. Can they be completed by the end of November at the latest?"

Zhang Nan looked at New Line Cinema President Alan Tobey in astonishment at the news brought to him, and asked with a bit of shock: "So fast? There is no cutting corners. If the movie box office is not good because of cutting corners on special effects, If the standard is met, don’t expect me to continue to fulfill the gambling contract.”

No wonder Zhang Nan was shocked, because the special effects production cycle for a movie like "The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron" starts at least half a year, and some even take up to a year.

But the special effects company won't be waiting there to make special effects for you. They have all the work on hand. If you want to make special effects, you have to queue up.

Therefore, generally speaking, the post-production time of a top-level blockbuster, including the actual production time and queuing time, starts at one year.

The shooting of "The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron" was only completed in March, and it is only the end of October now, with a gap of just over seven months.

"There is absolutely no problem with the quality of the special effects, I can guarantee that." Alan Toby said, patting his chest.

Zhang Nan was a little confused: "Why so fast?"

"Um..." Alan Toby thought for a while and said truthfully: "Warner Pictures, through its parent company Time Warner, did some operations at the special effects company to allow the post-production of [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron] For production, I joined a team at the special effects company.”

"Isn't your New Line Cinema at odds with Warner Pictures? I always feel that Warner Pictures wants to annex you. Why is Warner Pictures helping you so much this time?" Zhang Nan didn't understand.

Alan Tobey recounted his speculation, "It is probably that Warner Pictures wants to stagger [The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron] and [Harry Potter 4] in next year's Christmas time."

After finishing this guess, Alan Toby snorted and said disdainfully: "David Morris is a coward who never shows uprightly and only plays tricks behind his back."

Listening to Alan Toby describe the president of Warner Pictures like this, Zhang Nan had a strange look on his face.

Don't look at Alan Tobey's claim that David Morris is timid and is using tricks to speed up the post-production of "The Lord of the Rings: The Legend of Sauron" in an attempt to make "Harry Potter 4" follow "The Lord of the Rings: The Legend of Sauron". Fork.

But [The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron] is a fundamental project of New Line Cinema, and its progress will definitely be under the constant supervision of President Alan Toby.

It is estimated that Alan Toby has discovered David Morris's methods long ago, but turned a blind eye.

After all, the two current duels between the [Lord of the Rings] series and the [Harry Potter] series, calculated based on box office, are both a win, a loss, and a draw.

This year's "Lord of the Rings 3" directly exceeded the global box office of one billion US dollars in the absence of "Harry Potter 3".

Under such circumstances, coupled with the fact that the success or failure of "The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron" is at stake with the foundation of New Line Cinema, Alan Tobey would definitely be happy not to confront "Harry Potter 4".

"So... the special effects for the movie are almost ready, why did you come to me to talk about it?"

Zhang Nan was still puzzled and asked speechlessly: "What is the movie's release date?"

As a result, Alan Toby nodded crazily after hearing Zhang Nan's speechless inquiry.

Seeing Alan Toby's reaction, Zhang Nan was surprised at first, and then understood.

After all, even though he had a betting agreement with New Line Cinema that if the box office of a movie was less than one billion U.S. dollars, he would make up for the shortfall.

[The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron] is already a profitable project for New Line Cinema, starting with a global box office of one billion US dollars.

But if the movie fails at the box office, then New Line Cinema can only say that it has received a global box office revenue of one billion US dollars, while the IP of the "Lord of the Rings" series can be said to have suffered major trauma.

This is very detrimental to the development of New Line Cinema.

Therefore, the success or failure of [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron] is still very important to Alan Toby, and it is difficult to make up his mind at the moment.

Therefore, it is very necessary to talk to Zhang Nan, the box office mascot and the leading actor in the movie.

"Then let's set it on December 12st." Zhang Nan gave his answer.

Alan Toby heard Zhang Nan's reply and was a little confused, "Why?"

why?
Of course, because [The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron] is released earlier, he can use the success of [The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron] as a case earlier, and he can greatly bargain when cooperating with other Hollywood giants on top series spin-offs. !

However, this answer is obviously not suitable for the current environment.

"I have confidence in [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron] and can't wait to make a name for myself with it."

Hearing Zhang Nan's answer, Alan Toby smiled with satisfaction, and then said cheerily: "Zhang, your words are a bit too modest. Why do you need to use [The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron] to become famous?" Ah, it’s simply because of you that [The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron] is as famous as it is today.”

"Where is it? You praise it."

(End of this chapter)