Full-time actor

Chapter 630 [56] IMAX, here it comes!
Paramount outdoor shooting location in Hollywood.

"Did you really say that?"

"Seriously say it?"

As night fell, Cheng Long sat at a roadside dining table and looked at Chen Yu in surprise.

What the two people are currently shooting is the ending part of "Invisible Bourne". After Chen Long, played by Chen Yu, completes his mission, the guest appearance of Cheng Long, the hero behind the scenes, finally shows up.

The other three members of Chen Long's team are also waiting to leave the country.

Scarlett Johansson, who will play Marvel's Black Widow in the future, plays the leading female character Jane in this drama, a strong female agent. Although she does not have much experience as a field agent, she actually has other motives for wanting to complete the mission!
Scarlett is not very famous at the moment. Although she has won many awards, her pay is not high.

As for the other two male assistants of the team, Brent, like in the previous "Mission Impossible 4", is played by Jeremy Renner, the future actor of Marvel's Hawkeye, and Benji, renamed "Ben" in the script, is played by Chris Pratt, who plays Marvel's Star-Lord.

These three future leading actors of the Marvel Universe currently have average popularity in Hollywood and are considered second- and third-tier actors.

Although the casting was not decided by Chen Yu, he was actually involved in the final decision.

The cost-effectiveness is very high. After all, these three will be very famous in the future. Their low pay now means that the movie will continue to generate income in the future because of their skyrocketing fame.

This is one of Chen Yu’s advantages.

As a reborn person, he knows which Hollywood stars will become famous all over the world in the future. If he chooses them now, he can make money from their movies after they become famous.

The revenue of many Hollywood films is calculated over several years or even more than ten years. It is common for a film to be unknown at first but then become famous and see a huge increase in dividends.

For example, after Scarlett Johansson became famous, many paid or even subscription TV stations would broadcast her previous films, earning ratings while increasing film revenue again.

This film, adapted from "Mission Impossible 4", also features an unforgettable female killer character.

The actress who played this supporting actress was Léa Seydoux, a French Parisian model in her previous life. She was stunning as soon as she appeared in the movie, with extraordinary skills, and she directly shot and killed Jane's lover.

Although her appearance was only for a few minutes and two scenes, she was unforgettable and even left a greater impression on the audience than the leading actress.

Even though he is a villain, he is so good-looking and he is the first one to appear, so the audience can't hate him at all.

In the script, Chen Yu created this role for Liu Yifei - Crystal.

In order to get the diamond, Crystal sold the nuclear bomb launch code to the terrorists, but ended up falling into a trap carefully designed by the protagonist and his gang.

She is a cold-blooded female killer who has no expression management, is very cruel, and kills only for money.

In the end, she died at the hands of the leading female character Jane, and was kicked out of the window of a building several hundred meters high by Jane. She died a death that could not be deader, which was considered as revenge for the shooting by her lover!
Before filming, Chen Yu asked CAA for this role, which was specially reserved for Liu Yifei.

The filming does not require advanced acting skills. All you have to do is play the role of a cold-blooded female killer. If you are fast, it can be completed in 2 days.

However, one of these scenes was filmed in Brisbane, Hungary.

One section is at Formosa 101 Building.

Brisbane was Chen Yu's first filming location, which lasted for half a month. He then moved to Russia, then to Taiwan, and finally to India.

The reason why Hollywood has moved around the world to shoot movies is for sponsorship, advertising and cultural tourism promotion of various countries.

The second is the final box office.

For example, if a film is shot in China, after the publicity is released, many people will be curious and go to the cinema to watch the part shot in China, and they will have a sense of immersion.

Only Hollywood can do this. Before investing, a lot of advertising and sponsorship can become the cost of making a movie.

So it seems that "Invisible Mission" has an investment of 1 million US dollars, but in fact, including various product placement sponsorships, etc., it costs 1.2 million or even more.

Of course, these are resources brought in by the producers and CAA, and they all have corresponding commissions and dividends.

"Ok!"

Chief director Brad Bird watched with satisfaction as Chen Yu and his team finished filming the scene in front of them.

That’s all for Hollywood’s indoor green screen and outdoor shooting.

They will then meet in Brisbane.

Brad Bird, who directed the animated film "The Incredibles" and was directing a live-action movie for the first time, still appeared very humble. The atmosphere of the entire crew was pretty good, and Liu Yifei even got to know them.

The main reason is that there are no big names. Even Chen Yu, the most famous leading actor in the crew, is not as famous as Cheng Long, who made a cameo appearance.

After the photo shoot, Scarlett and the others took photos with him.

Now, Jackie Chan is already an absolute top-tier star in Hollywood and is famous all over the world.

"Brother, thanks for your help!"

Chen Yu and Cheng Long hugged each other tightly.

In fact, the character played by Jackie Chan is the same person as the one he will star in the upcoming movie "Escape Plan".

This is a film of the same series with different characters.

It can also be regarded as an attempt by Chen Yu.

He wrote the script anyway.

The character of Cheng Long is the leading male in "Escape Plan", and he only has a cameo appearance in "Invisible Mission", while Chen Long, played by Chen Yu in "Escape Plan", is still the leading male. These three movies are all related to each other.

The future film and television industry will have a professional name, called linkage or series.

Chen Yu hopes that these three movies will be a big hit, and this series will be considered his and Cheng Long’s flagship product in the future. Other action stars can also be added later to start connecting them into an “action universe”!
This idea obviously came earlier than Marvel.

"You're welcome!"

“We’re all in Hollywood, helping each other out!”

Cheng Long patted Chen Yu's shoulder with a smile, appearing very polite.

He just happened to come to the United States to attend an internal screening of "Escape Plan". Chen Yu and Liu Yifei will also be there tomorrow.

As for "Mission Impossible 3", which will be released earlier than "Era", an internal screening has been held recently. Chen Yu did not attend the previous internal screening because he was filming, but he has to attend this time.

So after finishing filming the American part of "Invisible Spy", Chen Yu will be busy watching several movies that are about to be released.

After agreeing to have dinner together the next day, Cheng Long left in his car.

Chen Yu greeted everyone in the crew. He also had to take a car to the climbing training building on the South Coast for his daily climbing practice.

In less than half a month, Chen Yu had almost mastered some tricks of climbing, and he was also training his finger strength every day.

"Great!"

“Scientifically break down the target route. Don’t regard the target route as an insurmountable mountain. Instead, break it down into several achievable parts. According to the resting points or places to put plugs on the route, break it down into 3-5 parts and complete it step by step!”

"come on!"

Aaron Robert no longer needed to follow Chen Yu and watch him climb up. Instead, he looked up and watched Chen Yu's climbing route.

In the past few days, Chen Yu has climbed to the roof twice with his guidance.

This time, he planned to climb to the final top floor without any instructions and rely on the rope.

“Find the moves that work for you!”

As Chen Yu climbed, he was thinking about some of the things Aaron Robert had taught him in the past few days.

He is not in a hurry because now it is just a process of becoming proficient.

Besides, teaching is different from climbing yourself.

If you climb by yourself, you need to find the climbing position by yourself, and Aaron can point out the climbing points for you. But in climbing, the most taboo thing is to blindly follow the advice of others.

Because everyone's height, strength and force generation method are different, it is more important to find a movement that suits you.

Moreover, the training of skills is fundamentally about building a database, learning specific climbing techniques, emphasizing the exploration of different movements, learning skills under the best physical conditions, and practicing in a safe environment.

Sometimes, a small bag of climbing chalk can be tied around your waist to absorb sweat.

Chen Yu groped his way towards the top floor.

It was not until dark that Chen Yu finally climbed to the top floor, and everyone who was waiting for Chen Yu on the top floor cheered.

This was a great success.

It can almost be said that Chen Yu's filming of this segment in "Invisible Spy" should have faced much less risk, and the success rate and filming would have been relatively smooth.

For these shots, Chen Yu also wants to try IMAX shooting.

If he remembered correctly, this scene in the previous life's "Mission Impossible 4" looked extremely shocking on the big screen because of the use of IMAX technology.

Although there are currently few IMAX theaters in China, the use of IMAX technology has become popular in Hollywood.

Ever since IMAX and Universal jointly launched the IMAX version of "Apollo 02" in 13, the market has seen the money-making potential of this technology.

The first is the experience and picture quality, and then the presentation and immersion of the movie.

Of course, the most important thing is money!

Movie tickets can be sold at a higher price, and the audience will be able to accept it, so the corresponding box office will also go up.

Therefore, with the help of this technology, many Hollywood visual effects blockbusters have been converted into IMAX format for release.

However, due to technical reasons, the length of films processed by DMR in the early days could not exceed 2 hours.

However, in 2003, "The Matrix Reloaded" finally broke through this limitation and became an important milestone in the history of IMAX technology development.

At the end of 2003, "The Matrix Revolutions" became the first film to be released simultaneously in IMAX and traditional theaters. After it was released on the market, the audience response was particularly good because the audio-visual effects were truly extraordinary.

But these movies are just the transformation of IMAX technology.

In the true sense, the first film shot with IMAX film camera was "Batman: The Dark Knight", and Nolan was the first to use it.

Although only 30 minutes of it were filmed.

That is to say, if a movie is 3 hours long, Nolan used this camera to shoot half an hour of it, for the final presentation of the film. Some of the shots in it look extremely shocking and ultra-high definition.

After all, the theoretical equivalent resolution of videos shot by IMAX film cameras can reach 18K.

You read it right, it’s 18K!

This is what the future 4K HD and 8K HD mean.

However, IMAX film cameras also have disadvantages.

The large size, heavy weight, and high shooting cost limit the use of IMAX film cameras. Due to these problems, even in Chen Yu's previous life, there was no movie that could be shot entirely with IMAX cameras.

That is to say, there is no movie that is shot from beginning to end with an IMAX film camera.

One is that it is too expensive, and the other is that it is too difficult to shoot.

Nolan is the most supportive. In addition to using this technology for the first time, his subsequent "Interstellar" exceeded 1 hour, and "Dunkirk" was as long as 2 hours...

Mission: Impossible 4 was shot for half an hour in its previous life and is the third film to be shot using this technology.

The second one is "Transformers 2", and director Bay only shot 3 action scenes.

In this life, Chen Yu wants to be the second person to try something new. If he can be chosen for the role of the Joker in "Batman: The Dark Knight", he will be lucky enough to become the leading actor in the first and second films in the history of IMAX shooting.

"Chan, that's awesome!"

"If you weren't so famous, I'd really like you to try extreme rock climbing with me!"

Aaron Robert's words were absolutely from the bottom of his heart. He really saw Chen Yu's talent and potential for extreme climbing. Most importantly, he had resilience and strong psychological support.

This is the most necessary foundation for extreme climbing, and it can screen out 99% of ordinary people.

Many people get scared of heights just by standing there.

"I don't want to be on tenterhooks. I don't have a heart as strong as yours!"

"I can climb only because I have protection!"

Chen Yu called Liu Yifei out as well, and they had dinner outside with Aaron Robert and the others.

"No, no, no, we practice climbing, and we have protection at the beginning!"

"Once you have the ability to believe in yourself, you can try practicing without protection!"

Aaron Robert was still tempting him, but Chen Yu waved his hand and said, "Sorry, Aaron, I still like filming!"

"Hahaha!"

Everyone present laughed.

“Hope your shoot went well, man!”

“I will definitely go to the theater to support the movie after it is released!”

Aaron clinked glasses with Chen Yu, who smiled and said, "Same to you. I wish you success in your challenge to build taller and more skyscrapers. I heard that Dubai is building the world's tallest tower over 1000 meters. You can go and try it!"

The Burj Khalifa was originally intended to be 1000 meters high, but after completion it became 828 meters.

"Haha, how do you know my next target?"

"Burj Khalifa, this is exactly what I want to challenge!"

Aaron said excitedly.

This guy actually succeeded in the challenge. He climbed to the top of the 828-meter Burj Khalifa with his bare hands and without any protection. He also took a selfie, which caused a sensation on the entire Internet for a while.

"Then I wish you success, come on!"

As an extreme climbing enthusiast, Chen Yu certainly respects their hobbies and interests.

Although this seemed to be courting death, Chen Yu still admired him from the bottom of his heart.

Because he just can't be so free and easy.

……

After having a midnight snack and saying goodbye to Aaron, Liu Yifei took Chen Yu's arm and walked in South Coast Plaza.

Two people digest food after meal.

"By the way, you haven't answered me yet, why do you set me as a villain?"

Liu Yifei has read the script of "Operation Spy" and she knows that she plays Crystal, but what she doesn't understand is that her boyfriend actually wrote her as a villain in the script? !

Although Liu Yifei has no objection to playing Crystal, she urgently needs to know what Chen Yu's mental activities were like when he was thinking about this role? !

She actually wanted to make a Hollywood-style movie with Chen Yu called "The Chen Yu Couple"!
She plays the leading female role and Chen Yu plays the leading male role.

It’s true that domestic audiences are tired of seeing couples like these, but many people abroad have never seen it!
(End of this chapter)