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"There should be more sand here."

"And here, the processing is too vague. Readjust."

"Show me the reshoots from the past few days."

In the Industrial Light and Magic Special Effects Company, Wu Yuanzheng and a group of special effects artists were adjusting the special effects images of "The Martian."

Although this movie is positioned as a "science fiction blockbuster," to be honest, there are not many special effects scenes used in this movie.

In addition to the evacuation of the Mars base team members at the beginning, there is also a part in the middle and later stages where the Earth launches a rescue rocket, and the male protagonist uses the return capsule to escape on Mars. A small part of the plot requires a lot of special effects. The remaining nearly 80% of the scenes were shot in real life. of.

Including the most important plot content on the surface of Mars, most of it was shot in Jordan, and only some special effects processing was needed for the sky.

After all, the Light Age is a small business. Movies that often require tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of special effects shots are really not something that the Light Age can afford.

The production cost of "Avengers 1", a visual blockbuster with real special effects, was US$2.2 million.

The production cost of the follow-up "Avengers 3" soared to US$3 million, and "Avengers 4" was even higher, costing a record US$3.56 million.

In comparison, the production cost of "The Martian" was just over $100 million. The biggest gap was the money spent on special effects.

However, the total budget of "The Martian" is still nearly $2 million, as there is also a $7000 million publicity and promotion budget.

This aspect is not as large as those of blockbuster films, such as the Avengers series, whose promotional budgets are between US$1 million and US$1.5 million.

Of course, for "The Martian", 7000 million is enough.

After all, this movie is not aiming for a box office of 17.8 billion US dollars.

It’s just that during this period of post-production, Wu Yuan had to re-shoot some scenes. Wu Yuan was a little dissatisfied with some of the leftovers that he had previously asked the assistant director to return to the United States, so he re-shot them himself. This also made the time Was delayed a lot.

In a blink of an eye, the time has come to June 2012, but the post-production work of "The Martian" has not yet been completed, and it will take at least two months.

“It looks like we can’t decide on a summer schedule.”

"It can only be scheduled to be released in October."

Wu Yuan reluctantly called John and asked him to arrange the release date with Warner.

Although it was not released during the summer season when he was most at home, October is not a bad release date.

If Wu Yuan remembers correctly, the original version of "The Martian" was released in October, and it later achieved good global box office results.

For Hollywood blockbusters, the schedule is relatively unimportant. As long as the film is good, it has the chance to be a hit all year round. It is not like in China where the Lunar New Year block dominates the crowd.

Wu Yuan called John to inform him of the schedule for "The Martian," and then he received a call from China.

"Brother, when will you return to China?"

"In one month, I will return to China. What's wrong?"

"I have a script here."

The call was from Liu Yifei. Ever since Wu Yuan flew to the United States to do the post-production of The Martian and finalize the sale of the company, Liu Yifei has been working hard in China.

After the release of "Love Letter", she stayed at home again and became a homebody. She only occasionally showed up to participate in one or two activities to maintain the lowest exposure.

After careful calculation, she has not been filming for more than half a year. After filming "Love Letter", she has not taken any more scripts.

It's not that Liu Yifei doesn't want to take on new dramas, it's just that when she brought those script invitations to Wu Yuan for reference, Wu Yuan was disgusted and criticized.

Movies like "The Banquet at Hongmen", "Four Famous Catchers" and "Nie Xiaoqian" are really not good.

The only interesting episode of "Detective Dee: The Dragon King of the Dragon King" was that Xu Ke invited her to play the role of the oiran, the role played by Yang Ying in the movie.

With the revealing clothes and the rather charming and slutty character requirements, Wu Yuan would never agree, so Liu Yifei refused.

In this situation where there were no good scripts coming to her, Liu Yifei naturally chose to show off at home. She is not the kind of person who accepts any movie just to make money.

Even if there is a good script, she will work on one film after another every year. She feels that only in this way can she devote herself wholeheartedly to the filming of the film and give her best performance.

When you don't have a good script, you'd rather leave it at that. Anyway, with Liu Yifei's current fame and influence, she no longer needs constant exposure to maintain her fame.

Even if she has no new works for a year or two, she is still the fairy sister in the eyes of domestic audiences and movie fans. She is so rich.

But if a good script comes to her, she will definitely be happy to take it.

On the phone, Liu Yifei told Wu Yuan in detail about the new script she had received.

It is a new script by director Han Yan who was trained by the company's previous young director support program.

On the original track, Han Yan should now be cooperating with LeTV and working for LeTV to film their online dramas.

However, Han Yan's life trajectory has been changed in this life. He grew up early due to the young director support program and was valued by the investment of the Light and Shadow Era. Therefore, he no longer became a director of online dramas for a living, but has been studying and polishing. My next movie project.

So "Roll!" was originally supposed to be completed and started filming in 2014. "Tumor King", in this life, Han Yan had already written the script in 2012, and started looking for investment to recruit the crew for filming.

The film is adapted from Xiong Dun's comic book of the same name. On February 2012, 2, Xiong Dun started posting on Tianya with the title "Get out of here, Mr. Tumor, recording the days in the hospital fighting against tumors." Han Yan saw it immediately. After this post, I contacted Xiong Dun to understand the situation with her, and then wrote her story into the first version of the script.

There is no doubt that if Han Yan wants to make a new movie, his first choice partner will definitely be Light and Shadow Era.

After all, he is still a contracted director of the Light and Shadow Era, and the Light and Shadow Era has always paid him wages to support him. Otherwise, how could he be so devoted to writing scripts.

As for the Light and Shadow Times, because Wu Yuan attaches great importance to the young director program, Li Xiaoping also attaches great importance to these directors who stand out. They did not hesitate to invest in Han Yan, who signed a contract with the company, and soon passed the "Roll!" "Tumor King" project approval.

Han Yan naturally started looking for actors, and the first actor he found was Liu Yifei, who he wanted to invite to play the heroine Xiong Dun.

Liu Yifei's performance in "Your Name" left a deep impression on Han Yan, especially her courage to shave her head in the movie, which Han Yan admired very much.

It just so happened that Xiong Dun was going to lose his hair due to chemotherapy in the film, so Han Yan wanted to invite Liu Yifei to play the heroine.

After all, she is well-known, has great box office appeal, and is the company’s own boss lady, so she must be the best choice! (End of chapter)