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Chapter 1053 is officially released in North America

"Of course, do you have any questions?" Seeing that Gal Gadot was very polite, Zhou Xia replied politely.

"I don't know when the director plans to arrange to read the script and analyze the characters. Is it after the other main characters are settled?"

Gal Gadot hesitated a little, but still asked the question.

If it's just a matter of talking about her alone, Zhou Xia probably doesn't have that much time to arrange it. She simply wants to see how Zhou Xia arranges it, and then concentrate on asking for advice when the time comes.

"This..., it should be relatively late. I will arrange it a week before the filming starts. I am going back to my country to film another work of mine. If you have any questions during this period, you can contact my assistant. We will coordinate time, we can discuss via video or phone.”

Zhou Xia thought about it, estimated the time, and replied to the other party.

"Okay, then trouble the director."

Gal Gadot saw that Zhou Xia didn't want to talk about the movie now, so he was very sensible and didn't ask any more questions.

"Well, don't worry, just prepare carefully. If you grasp the similarities between superheroes and ordinary people in the performance of this drama, there should be no problem."

After Zhou Xia thought about it, she simply reminded her.

After all, in the movie, the female lead and the male lead have some emotional scenes, such as the male lead showing his chest muscles in the bath, showing mermaid lines to seduce, affectionately facing "Wonder Woman", and embarrassing jokes about men and women sleeping together and reproducing, etc.

This Wonder Woman is the first one, so the heroine is still growing up, and she is not detached from ordinary people. It is just that she is changing, and the Paradise Island where she grows has only women, so she often seems a bit silly and sweet.

"Okay, I will definitely prepare the role carefully, thank you director."

"Okay, look forward to our cooperation."

Zhou Xia stood up while talking, and the conversation among the senior executives over there was also over, and the related cooperation with Warner Bros. was also finalized smoothly this time.

And as Warner Times reached a strategic cooperation with Xiahua studio8, it was also a huge blow to Legendary Pictures.

Large production companies such as Warner and Disney often hand over many projects to subsidiaries or cooperative companies for development.

Warner handed over many well-known IP films to Legendary Pictures to lead the production, or co-produced them together, and then Warner was responsible for distribution.

Films such as Nolan's "Batman" series, "King Kong: Skull Island" and "Godzilla" can all see Legendary Pictures appearing on the list of producers.

Now that the two parties have reached a cooperation, although Xiahua studio8 cannot completely replace Legendary Films, it can at least form a competitive relationship with the other party.

Once Xia Hua studio8 is in charge of some of Warner's films and achieves success, it will gradually marginalize Legendary Pictures.

After all, cooperating with Xiahua studio8 means that the film will have a certain guarantee at the box office in Greater China in the future, which is a huge advantage that Legendary Pictures or other companies do not have.

After seeing off Warner's group, Zhou Xia talked with the female director Patty Jenkins about the preparations for the filming of "Wonder Woman".

The director of the original film is now the most important director of Xia Hua studio8. This time, Zhou Xia decided to invite him to co-shoot this super heroine blockbuster.

This will also form the basis for future films in the series.

After all, Zhou Xia's time is limited, and now he plans to let other directors accept the directorship of "New Detective 2" and "Chinatown 2".

This Hollywood movie is no exception.

Taking advantage of these few days in North America, Zhou Xia plans to set up a filming team, and then hand over a lot of work, so that he can return to China to film "Chinatown 2" with peace of mind.

Regarding the location selection of the movie, a special location director is in charge, and several main shooting locations have been selected.

For example, the famous Selfridges department store in London, where the crew will shoot on location in the Victorian building in Bloomsbury Square, London.

A large number of interior scenes were filmed in the Australian High Commission. The second main scene in London was the reconstructed Paddington Station. The real Paddington Station was renovated for the Olympics. The crew finally chose the king’s building built in 1852. Cross train station to shoot.

Only in this way will there be a sense of age, in line with the atmosphere of the 50s and [-]s.

In addition, for the shooting of Paradise Island, the main location is New Zealand.

However, Zhou Xia has his own selfish intentions, and plans to choose several scenes of Amazon Paradise Island in the movie to be filmed in Xiahua Film and Television City in the mainland.

Such a blockbuster movie that is released worldwide, after the movie is released, will definitely bring fame and increase the popularity of some locations. Naturally, this cannot be wasted, and he has a lot of say in this matter, so naturally it cannot be wasted.

In addition to the location selection of some main scenes, Zhou Xia also talked with Patty about some problems in the script.

Obviously, Nolan's "Batman" series made Warner and DC Entertainment late. This super blockbuster "Wonder Woman" is not just a simple popcorn movie. The tone of the battle.

This is also the personal shooting concept that Zhou Xia mentioned when talking about the concept of film shooting with relevant personnel of Warner before.

Because this movie has many similarities with "American Team", there are some things that must be distinguished. It can't be like a military technology promotional film, through a dark battlefield, a gloomy tone, a stirring soundtrack, and women Perspective, meditation on the pain caused by war, will all enhance the connotation of this film.

Two days passed quickly. Zhou Xia communicated with Patty Jenkins and the filming team recruited by the company about his thoughts on the filming of the film. After explaining the matter, the matter was considered over.

And at midnight on Friday, August 8th, Zhou Xia's "Descendants of Yanhuang" finally officially landed in major theaters in North America, and was screened on a large scale in 14 theaters.

"Fantastic Four 2015", which was released almost on the same day, was officially released six hours earlier at 8:13 pm on August 20 in order to seize the opportunity. The number of screening theaters also increased by 4005, reaching [-].

This is not good news for "Descendants of Yanhuang". Obviously, the other party wants to use the popularity of superhero blockbusters to completely crush Zhou Xia's movie in the early stage.

Zhou Xia didn't take this film too seriously.

Sure enough, as he judged based on the absence of this movie in his memory, the box office and movie reviews came out in advance the next morning, which was exactly what he thought.

This superhero blockbuster has become a super bad movie with a lot of word of mouth.

The old version of "Fantastic Four" ten years ago was known for its bad reputation. The North American critics originally thought that the new version with a large production scale has been kept secret, and they wanted to make a blockbuster surprise and surprise everyone, so as to avenge shame.

However, after the early screening and midnight screening, only 9% of North American film critics who had watched the movie gave it a favorable review.

(End of this chapter)