Meiyu: I don’t care about the cost when making movies

Chapter 107 Be sure to thank Mr. Wayne

On the side, Yuan Baye, who was watching his nose and nose, subconsciously moved his mouth when he heard this. He wanted to say that Asian female stars can still hit even when they are 40 years old.

However, as a Chinese with normal aesthetics, he also felt that Lucy Liu's appearance was not very good, and it really did not meet the setting of Ada Wang's beauty, so in the end he chose to remain silent.

So Nolan was successfully convinced.

Not only producers, but also a qualified director must learn to control costs.

Although Zhang Ziyi is a bit inferior in image, she is famous and cheap enough at the same time. Overall, she is indeed the most suitable candidate.

Susan knew that Zhang Ziyi was also having an affair with Wayne, so she didn't delay after settling the matter and contacted Mike directly and asked her to tell Zhang Ziyi.

After Zhang Ziyi learned that she successfully got the role of King Ada, a big stone finally fell to the ground, and she breathed a long sigh of relief.

Especially after learning that Wayne insisted on using her, she immediately became more interested in Wayne.

"Mike, I heard that Mr. Wayne will be back soon, right?"

"Uh, that's right."

"Then you must notify me immediately when Mr. Wayne comes back, and I must thank Mr. Wayne."

Zhang Ziyi couldn't help but lick her lips as she spoke, feeling restless in her heart.

It was completely different from before. Not only did she not reject the idea of ​​thanking Wayne from the bottom of her heart, but she was looking forward to it.

Unfortunately, she didn't know that Wayne had already lost interest in her.

Nolan and Susan were not wrong in their evaluation of her. Her figure was indeed not good enough, and her face could only be described as pretty. Apart from the star halo, she had no appeal to Wayne.

The next two auditions were for the second, third and fourth male roles in the film.

The second male lead in "Resident Evil 1" is 'Spence' who was stunned by the hive defense mechanism after stealing the T-Virus, the third male lead is 'Kaplan', the computer expert among the mercenaries, and the remaining male fourth leads Needless to say, it is naturally the mercenary captain 'James' who was cut into pieces by the laser trap.

To be honest, in the original "Resident Evil 1", 'James' and 'Caplan' left a much deeper impression on the audience than the male protagonist 'Matt'.

Therefore, in line with the principle of being responsible for the quality of the film, Wayne personally designated a few 'seed' contestants.

Needless to say, 'Spence' designated Heath Ledger as 'Joker', and 'James' designated Samuel L. Jackson.

For the remaining role of 'Caplan', he originally wanted Tobey Maguire.

Although Tobey Maguire had appeared in many movies at this time, he was not as famous as him.

Among the works that he has starred in, the one with the best performance is "There's Always a Sun" starring Charlize Theron, which only grossed US$8800 million at the global box office.

Compared with the US$1.8 million global box office of "Admission" in which Wayne starred, it is more than double the difference. It can only be regarded as a lower position among second-tier male stars.

The third male lead in "Kaplan", which doesn't have a lot of roles, can almost get it with 200 million.

However, after learning that "Spider-Man 1" would also start filming in mid-January, Wayne took the initiative to change the cast. After all, "Spider-Man 1" was related to his big plan to bring the Marvel Universe to the screen.

It is worth mentioning that during this period, Avi Arad has used the newly injected US$1000 million to successfully recover the copyrights of Iron Man and the Hulk, of which the repurchase price of Iron Man was the price at which it was sold 1.5 times, and Hulk’s repurchase price reached 3 times that of that year.But even so, it only cost less than 500 million US dollars.

I can only say that it was sold too cheaply at that time.

In addition, Avi Arad also independently purchased the rights to the superhero Deadpool from Fox in accordance with Wayne's instructions.

This unique anti-hero is very simple to produce in independent movies or to be integrated into the Avengers. The price is only 80 US dollars, which is really cheap.

In addition, while completing these repurchases, Avi Arad has also started negotiations with Constantine Company and Sony Columbia on the repurchase of the rights to the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man.

Although it is extremely difficult to recover all copyrights, it should be no problem if only shared copyrights are recovered.

Now that Tobey Maguire's filming schedule for "Spider-Man 1" conflicts with "Resident Evil 1", he has no longer designated the role of 'Caplan'.

And this has become the most competitive role in the entire "Resident Evil 1" audition.

I don’t know if it was fate. This role, which was completely decided by Nolan, eventually fell on his other favorite Cillian Murphy, who had just come to Hollywood for less than two years and had almost no reputation. .

That's right, it's the Scarecrow in the Batman trilogy and Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer.

This is a very distinctive, low-key and hard-working actor.

Although he never won an Oscar or was even nominated, his acting skills were outstanding.

In his previous life, he developed steadily step by step, and finally in "Oppenheimer" even Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon had to co-star him.

Among the auditions for "Resident Evil 2", the most competitive role was undoubtedly the third female lead, 'Terry'.

Naomi, Anne, Megan, plus two actresses from CAA, a total of five people auditioned for this role.

In the end, after Susan and Nolan discussed it, they chose Naomi, who had the best reputation and acting skills among the five.

And Megan got the female number five, that is, the nameless girl who jumped from the rooftop of the building in front of the male protagonist 'Carlos' after being bitten by a zombie.

Only Annie didn't get any roles. She was so angry that she almost smashed her phone when she received the notice.

"Fake Fake Fake!"

"It doesn't matter if I lost to that old woman Naomi, this time even Megan beat me and got the role! This is definitely a shady story!"

"Yes, it must have been Susan and that Nolan who saw that they were both clients of Mike, so they gave them the roles!"

In the spacious and bright bedroom, Anne sat alone on the bed, holding a pillow and throwing it around in a rage.

Unfortunately, this doesn't change the outcome of the audition.

Among the remaining major roles, the second male lead Valentine's little black colleague 'Payton', after some thinking, Wayne decided to debut in 98 at the age of 31. This year he just starred in Brad Pitt Jason Statham played a major supporting role in "Kidnapping".

(End of this chapter)