hollywood melon man

When making movies, one must respect the objective laws of the film production industry, especially for large-scale, high-investment films.

Generally, a film will go through five stages: project approval, pre-production, filming, post-production, and release. These five stages usually take about seven months to a year, and some even take more than a year to two years.

It is extremely rare in the entire history of film for a filmmaker like Gilbert to release a big-budget film almost every year.

Even Spielberg, who is known for his quick shooting, cannot achieve the same level of stability as Gilbert Jr. for twenty years.

The most important thing is that even Spielberg sometimes makes mistakes, but Gilbert Jr. has truly achieved the level of never making mistakes, which is terrifying.

It is also rare to shoot films consecutively in a short period of time. From the end of 1992 to the first half of 1993, Spielberg shot "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List" consecutively.

Spielberg later revealed that that period of time exhausted everyone and he even took a year off before returning to the set.

And now, Gilbert Jr. seems to be repeating Spielberg's situation.

After giving the team members a short break, Gilbert Jr. made a special trip to NASA to discuss the possibility of cooperation through the introduction of a former NASA engineer from SpaceX.

The current NASA Administrator, Charles Bolden, has flown into space four times and has spent a total of 680 hours in space.

In 2009, Charles Bolden became NASA administrator. He was the first African-American administrator and the second astronaut to serve as NASA administrator.

When Charles Bolden heard that Gilbert Jr. was visiting and wanted to seek cooperation, he received him warmly.

In fact, except for a few special agencies, other federal government departments such as the Pentagon, the Black House, and NASA are willing to interact with Hollywood to create their own people-friendly image.

Charles Bolden was amazed by the story concept of "Gravity", believing that it reflected the perseverance of NASA astronauts.

Just a little bit.

"Director Gilbert, can you change the protagonist?"

"Change the protagonist?"

Little Gilbert asked, "Who?"

Charles Bolden laughed and said, "There are many outstanding black actresses in Hollywood. How about changing the heroine to a black actress?"

It's not that good, and if a black actress was used instead, the box office would explode, the kind that would explode downwards.

Of course, this cannot be said.

Little Gilbert showed a helpless smile: "Chief Bolden, it's too late to change now. We have already signed a contract with the actor.

unless……"

"Unless NASA is willing to pay the penalty, a total of $4500 million."

Anne Hathaway's salary is not $4500 million, but the penalty is usually higher than the salary, which is normal. Otherwise, the actor can cancel the contract if he wants, which will be a big trouble for the crew.

Of course, Anne Hathaway's agent has not yet discussed the salary with Charles Roven, but Charles Bolden is not aware of it.

Gilbert's subtext was that if he wanted to change the heroine, he could buy her with money. Charles Bolden knew this very well, but he had no say in the matter.

NASA was quibbling over coffee cups and paper clips, let alone $4500 million, which was enough to start a scientific project or satisfy Commissioner Smith.

Once it is used elsewhere, the federal government will inevitably intervene, and Charles Bolden's political career will basically be over.

So Charles Bolden had to give up, but NASA still continued to support the film.

NASA allowed the crew to visit a space shuttle on the ground. It was not a model, but a real space shuttle, Atlantis. In July last year, the Atlantis space shuttle was retired after completing its last mission, which also marked the end of the space shuttle era.

This is certainly sad news for space shuttle enthusiasts.

But NASA had no choice because they found that the space shuttle did not save costs compared to conventional spacecraft, and even far exceeded that.

In addition, the space shuttle has major safety risks.

In history, there have been two major accidents of the Challenger and Columbia space shuttles, in which a total of 14 astronauts were killed, exposing fatal design flaws.

In addition, due to technical limitations and payload issues, the space shuttle has found it difficult to meet the needs of modern space missions.

Gilbert's crew arrived at the right time, because before that, the Atlantis space shuttle had already entered the dismantling phase according to the procedure.

“Why don’t they put it in a museum?”

A member of the production's art team asked as they scanned and took photos.

Art director Serena Heffey shrugged and said, "Because it's a painful memory, Charlie, NASA probably doesn't want to see the space shuttle again."

The art team then visited the model of the International Space Station. Gilbert Jr. said to Selina Heffey: "Based on the model of the International Space Station, you and NASA engineers can roughly guess the appearance and internal facilities of China's Tiangong.

It would be best if Chinese elements were reflected, such as table tennis, space crops, etc. ”

Selina Hafey said she understood and she would work with NASA experts to try to reproduce the internal structure of the space station and the Shenzhou spacecraft on the ground.

Although little Gilbert had paid attention to China's Tiangong space station in his previous life, he knew nothing about it except that it was a space station in the shape of a Chinese character "干".

Similarly, the internal structure of the Shenzhou spacecraft is not very clear, and ordinary people cannot see it.

However, based on the International Space Station and Russia's spacecraft, we can make a pretty accurate guess.

Moreover, based on stereotypes, Americans think that Chinese people can only copy, and even the Chinese themselves say that they are crossing the river by feeling the way. Therefore, it is not surprising that the internal structure of its space station is similar to that of the International Space Station.

NASA is currently short of funds, so the crew hired several experts as consultants, who are also happy to make some extra money. Moreover, this key NASA cooperation project is under the name of scientific research.

In addition, the crew also hired two active astronauts as consultants, allowing them to communicate with Anne Hathaway about what they saw and heard in space.

NASA's training facilities were also open to Anne Hathaway. After a short rest, Anne Hathaway came to the astronaut training base and began special training.

Fortunately, when filming "The Dark Knight Rises", Anne Hathaway had to perform a lot of action scenes herself.

So she had enough physical strength to persevere and complete the training.

In order to let Anne Hathaway feel the feeling of weightlessness, Gilbert Jr. specially rented NASA's KC-135 weightlessness training aircraft used to train astronauts.

Accompanied by active astronauts and security personnel, Anne Hathaway conducted a total of five weightlessness training exercises using this aircraft.

When she came down for the first time, Anne Hathaway felt her calves trembling, but she still thought it was fun.

During the rest of the training, Anne Hathaway had already adapted to the intensity and had a lot of fun.

Tom Cruise also joined in the next two training sessions. Although it was just a cameo, Tom Cruise was still very dedicated.

Back in Los Angeles, the crew began to build the interiors of the International Space Station, Tiangong, and the Shenzhou spacecraft at the Fox Studios, striving to restore them 1:1. (End of this chapter)