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Previously, Gilbert Jr. had also thought about acquiring the filming rights to "Mad Max: Fury Road", but George Miller disagreed and wanted to do it himself, so he had to give up.

After a long delay, the film has finally entered the preparation stage.

At the same time, "Gravity" successfully completed the shooting of the last set of shots at Fox Studios and announced that it had wrapped filming.

Gilbert Jr. immediately gave vacation to the team members who had been working for a long time. Shooting a movie non-stop is a very tiring process.

After all, humans are not machines and need rest.

However, Gilbert Jr. himself cannot rest right away, as he still has to oversee the post-production of "Gravity".

If this film wants to be a box office success, it must put in enough effort in special effects to immerse the audience in the breathtaking and magnificent scenery of space as much as possible.

Among these, the rendering effects of the earth are particularly important.

Since the acquisition, special effects engineers from Industrial Light & Magic have joined in and worked with Orange Studio to complete the special effects construction of "Gravity".

The special effects work started from the time the film was approved, and only three-quarters of the content was completed by the end of the filming.

However, the release date and publicity cycle of "Gravity" are tight. In order to catch up with the release date, special effects engineers must work together to complete the special effects production as quickly as possible.

The person in charge of the film's special effects is Timothy Webber, a senior special effects engineer at Orange Studios who has been responsible for the special effects of many films.

In order to speed up the progress, he and the special effects team members brainstormed and cooperated with hardware manufacturers to speed up the rendering speed.

Timothy Webber admitted: "Every frame of special effects in the film is based on real logic, including the position of the earth and the light.

The locations of the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle are very carefully considered.

In order to make every light source perfectly match the real space environment, we invited NASA scientists to guide the special effects team to complete these complex tasks. "

The early promotion of the film has also begun. Gilbert Jr. and Anne Hathaway accepted an exclusive interview with the Los Angeles Times and talked about the film.

"When Jacqueline and I first discussed this film, we both saw it as a challenge to the impossible. I wanted to present those unimaginable images to the audience, beyond what we have known about space movies before."

Anne Hathaway said: "In order to make my performance realistic, I received training from active astronauts and experienced the feeling of weightlessness in space five times in a special training aircraft.

However, all this is not easy. It is very difficult to create the feeling of weightlessness in space on the ground.

I am often suspended in mid-air to perform, and my muscles need to be exerted but not obviously, so it is very exhausting.

Fortunately, we had a great team that helped me pull off the show.”

Gilbert Jr. continued about the making of the film: "After more than 50 years, space travel has lost some of its luster, perhaps in part because the movies have made it so commonplace.

It’s been a long time since any director has been able to evoke the awe of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the terror of Alien, or recapture people’s inexplicable curiosity about outer space travel.

This "confined space" movie set in the space field has very few characters, almost only these two protagonists, who will face the vastness of the universe and the loneliness of mankind together.

Tom and Jacqueline both performed very well, especially Jacqueline. Even Tom said that the intensity of the filming was too high. But Jacqueline did not complain and persevered. "

The actors worked hard to shoot, and if the film failed, it would not matter. But if the film was successful, it would be a plus. This is one of the reasons why traffic stars in the past were annoying. No matter whether a drama or a movie was good or not, you could see the fans of traffic stars bragging about it crazily and the marketing accounts working hard, toiling, and being dedicated.

All kinds of incredible praises came out, such as "brother's original lines are amazing; brother's fighting scenes surpass those of Cheng Long, Jet Li, and Lian Li; brother's acting skills beat Tony Leung Chiu Wai, etc."

Of course, Anne Hathaway doesn't have these problems. After all, she works really hard and is very dedicated.

Gilbert Jr. said: “In order to make the audience as immersive as possible, we communicated with NASA and obtained a lot of information.

Jacqueline's monologue was very difficult, so I paid more attention to the details and her every breathing rhythm.

For special effects, the biggest challenge of the film is to express the state of weightlessness and present it to the audience.

In addition to letting the actors forget the feeling of gravity as much as possible, we also used a lot of CG animation technology to make the synthesis more realistic. "

The exclusive interview with the Los Angeles Times has made fans look forward to this film. If my impression is correct, Gilbert Jr. rarely appears in space-themed films.

Most of the stories in his films take place on the ground, so Disney also used the gimmick of Gilbert Jr.'s first space blockbuster to attract the audience's attention.

As a director with super hot momentum, "The Dark Knight Rises" directed by Gilbert Jr. is still in theaters. Taking advantage of this momentum, "Gravity" naturally also attracted attention.

With his twenty years of consistent success, Gilbert Jr. has proven that any movie he makes will never fail.

Although countless people in Hollywood are expecting Gilbert Jr. to fail, this damn guy is becoming more and more successful, which is infuriating.

While Gilbert Jr. was busy with the post-production of "Gravity", something happened that concerned him: "Battleship" produced by Sky Studios flopped.

And it was the kind of failure that happened quietly without causing any splash at all.

Long before the film was released, Michael Ovitz had anticipated the prospects of the film and advised David Ellison to make a careful decision.

But David Ellison, who had already invested more than 200 million US dollars, was eager to make his money back, and the distributor was also urging him to do so, so the film was hastily released during the summer vacation.

Just before the film was released, Michael Ovitz, who had been active in Hollywood for many years, announced his retirement, ending his career as Hollywood's ace agent.

Looking back on Michael Ovitz's career, he once led CAA to the peak, but was also kicked out of Disney by Michael Eisner, and later failed to make much of a splash.

He has succeeded and failed, but the undeniable fact is that he is a legendary Hollywood agent and has left his mark in Hollywood history.

However, David Ellison's stubbornness did not save the prospects of the movie "Battleship", and the film failed miserably.

For David Ellison, this was a helpless move. Sky Studios has relied on the "Transformers" series for many years.

Other films basically lost more than they earned. Even if Larry Ellison was rich, he wouldn't spend it like this on David Ellison.

Now it's time for David Ellison to make a difficult decision: whether to continue working in Hollywood?
This is a very big question, so big that even David Ellison doesn't want to think about it.

However, this did not prevent those traditional Hollywood forces that did not welcome David Ellison from besieging Sky Studios. Sky Studios still had some valuable assets, such as the Transformers series. (End of this chapter)