My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 827 Casting
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The moment when the news that Boss Wu, a Hong Kong boss, an international director, and a new rider of Chinese-language movies, announced the selection of actresses for a new movie came out.The entire entertainment industry is already boiling.

The amateur まとめ circle enthusiastically signed up. . . . .

After many investigations, many people also learned the inside story of this movie that was tentatively planned as "Rose" in [-]:

1. Co-production.

2. Female themes.

3. Investment of more than 1500 million Hong Kong dollars.

4. A large ensemble movie with multiple heroines.

These four points are vague information flowing from the inside of the [-] locomotive. Such a positioning instantly makes many actresses excited and eager to try—if Director Wu hadn't been the producer of the "Suit Thug" crew, I don't know how many [-]-line The bus will go to meet him specially, and stage the scene of "the bus driving into the rich man's house".

Logically speaking, this drama is definitely not a big cast. Although the investment of 1500 million Hong Kong dollars is not a trivial matter in today's Hong Kong circle, it is at most a moderate one.

After all, the production costs of Big Nosed Dragon and Sanmao's big cast movies are all upwards of 3000 million.

The production cost of "Suit Thug" is 2500 million + 1000 million, although the cost of placing advertisements has recovered half of the investment. 2500 million Hong Kong dollars is the normal production cost, and the next 1000 million is the publicity fee.

For such a big cast movie, smashing publicity and expanding the market is the right way.This is also the case with "Once Upon a Time".

However, the size of the investment does not represent the attractiveness of the film to the actors.

1500 million is not the same as 1500 million.For actors, Wu Xiaozu naturally has an attractive buff!Who the hell doesn't want to go abroad for a while?
"The Rose" is actually corporate obfuscation.

Among the few core creative teams including Wu Xiaozu, this play was named "Huaxia Women's Volleyball".The purpose of drawing up the film title is to avoid unnecessary trouble...

Think about it, when Zhang Yimou accepted the Olympic mission, he was publicly ridiculed by the Beijing media as a "National Teacher". At this time, Wu Xiaozu took the initiative to shoot a "gift film", would it attract criticism?
However, Wu Xiaozu is not a small schemer, allowing some people to spread rumors indiscriminately, fabricate them out of thin air, and then swallow their anger. . . . . .

Is it true that Boss Wu's more than 800 chapters are vegetarian?

Of course, Wu Xiaozu is also downplaying the term 'gift film', he just wanted to shoot a sports movie that reflected the women's volleyball team, that's all.

...

[-] locomotive.

Long queues lined up in the corridor, and Yingying Yanyan was so noisy that the air was filled with the pungent smell of perfume.

A row of beauties, a row of big white legs, a row of flirtatious eyes...

Anyway, have you ever seen a fucking service?It doesn't matter if you haven't seen it before, if you go to the entertainment industry... you will know that this is the biggest Brothel in the world!

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A short girl with a wool curl on her head, a baseball cap, an I·T pink hoodie, and a pair of high-top Air Force 180 white sneakers on her feet held a resume in her hand.

Eyes are very spiritual looking up at the long queue ahead...

giggle.

The classmates who came with her beside her frequently looked sideways.

"Hey, Athena, are you not nervous?"

"Well, a little nervous."

The thin and dark Zhu Xi looked around, his big eyes were full of curiosity.Now that she is studying, she is very interested in acting and is preparing to apply for the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

This time when I heard that Wu Xiaozu had an actor for a play, I came to try my luck with my classmates, full of confidence.

pity……

She would never know that as soon as her resume entered the hands of the interviewer, it had already been brushed down, crumpled into balls, thrown in the trash can, and stepped on a few times-the movie "Women's Volleyball" does not need shorty music. . . . . .

Zhu Yu's height is less than 160cm, so she is destined to miss this drama.

You can't shoot 'ground ball', right?

In this way, the future Fairy Zixia participated in the casting of a movie for the first time in her life, and was unfortunately eliminated.

The reason turned out to be short...

Although it is impossible for the actors of "Women's Volleyball" to choose the big men of 180cm and 190cm like the reality, they should at least be around 170cm, right?Otherwise, the effect of shooting is really impossible to see.

……

In the dark night of Mong Kok, a few light poles were erected at the T-junction with dense billboards. Under the lights, several staff members wearing T-shirts with the artistic words of "Suit Thug Crew" were cleaning the asphalt road with bamboo brooms.

Yellow stop lines and white zebra crossings are worn out.

Two black BMW-E30M3Sport Evolutions were parked on the side of the road, and BMW's professional workers were inspecting them. At the same time, the camera crew was directing the vehicles to be loaded into trucks and setting up camera positions.

There are a lot of drag racing scenes in "Thugs in Suits". Since Luo Dong became the spokesperson of BMW, the other party naturally replaced Mercedes-Benz and became the largest sponsor of the crew, and it is also the car that Luo Dong drives in the film.

Action director Li Zhongzhi and stunt director Luo Lichen were explaining to Luo Dong, and beside him stood Ke Shoucan, who was a stunt double for speeding cars.

"The camera is mounted here at position ③, and the bottom camera position is displayed, matching the T-junction and street lights, presenting the loneliness and contradictions of the space.

Another machine is going to perform fast tracking on the No. [-] slide rail...the car will drift here...

correct.

Let the medical staff and the protection team be prepared here, and safety measures must be taken when shooting car chase scenes. "

Wu Xiaozu, with a cut head and a beard, was wearing a black fitness hoodie and sweatpants. He stood on the side of the road and led Liu Weijun, Huang Yuetai, and Ao Zhijun to give a lecture. Jiang Digui and Guo Zairong took a pen to remember.

"I've got all the medical staff in place," Liu Weiwen replied.

"The explosion-proof team and the props team also need to communicate well, and the safety of those cars must be controlled under the premise of ensuring the effect." Wu Xiaozu attaches great importance to safety work.

This kind of action movie with a big cast, especially the scenes full of car chases and explosion scenes, pays more attention to safety.

A single mistake may cause huge losses to the crew.

People are worthless, but sometimes people are very valuable.Dangers and accidents are commonplace during filming. Can you ask which action film crew has not injured a few people?
So, don't think that commercial action movies are easy to make.

Quite the opposite.

It is not easy to be able to shoot the action with a full sense of coolness, not as simple as an art film.A mature commercial film director is often also a master of on-site scheduling.

After the cultivation of Wu Xiaozu's several plays, Wu Xiaozu did not doubt Liu Weizhen's mastery of action scenes.

But he was very afraid that the other party would make a good action scene look like a young and Dangerous boy.So it is also stationed in the crew to continuously supervise the production work.He even gave Liu Weichen a lot of advice on many occasions.

Hong Kong Island's supervisory center system is also a normal operation.

However, this thing is too much.

Wu Xiaozu also avoided imitating Tsui Hark. The works supervised by Mr. Xu will easily become his own works.

He is not a guy like Tsui Hark who is narrow-minded and doesn't know how to respect the old and love the young, but he wants to be Teacher Wu who is full of peaches and plums.

However, Teacher Wu is also inexplicably a little embarrassed this time... There is no way, he is going to secretly hide Chen Cang... Bah, slap the disciple from the bottom of the cauldron...

"what?"

"o((⊙﹏⊙))o"

On the makeup van of the crew, Wang Zuzhen looked surprised, while Liu Weichen was full of astonishment.

"Boss~ Brother Dong and Sister Xianxian we agreed to lead the leading roles in this movie~ Now you take away my heroine...my movie..." Liu Wei was in a hurry.

Especially when he heard that Wu Xiaozu was going to take Wang Zuzhu away, he almost jumped up.

Wang Zuzhuan also looked puzzled.

Wu Xiaozu didn't tell her about this news before.

Yes.

After much deliberation, Wu Xiaozu still thinks that the basketball player Wang Zuzhen, a 175cm tall girl, is the most suitable for participating in "Women's Volleyball".

Although basketball is not the same as volleyball, his own Lao Wang must be very good at sports talent. Learning volleyball is definitely more suitable than ordinary actresses.

Furthermore, the subject matter of this drama will limit the audience and commercial value of the movie.Wu Xiaozu had to choose an actress with box office appeal.

Obviously, his own old Wang is the most suitable.

"It will take at least six months for this film to go from pre-production, learning, preparation to filming. It is estimated that the filming will be completed in May next year and the post-production will end in July. The whole film will be officially released around August.

I have already sent role invitations to the branches in France and Italy. At the same time, I also asked Wang Jiawei and the others to conduct castings on Hong Kong Island, involving actors from Russia, India, Southeast Asia, and Europe and the United States.

At the same time, I have already asked Wu Tianming, Chen Kaige, and Tian Zhuangzhuang to help me cast roles in the mainland...

Then there will be two and a half months of closed training and life experience in December and January this year. "

When Wu Xiaozu said these words, not only Wang Zuzhen and Liu Weijun, but also Huang Yuetai, Ao Zhijun and others beside him looked at Wu Xiaozu in shock.

"The fund of 1500 million Hong Kong dollars will be relatively tight, so I can only let Xiaoxian come. It is impossible for others to cut their salaries to film..."

He was right about that.

You tell actresses with box office appeal on Hong Kong Island to talk about salary cuts for filming, and they may agree.

After all, Wu Xiaozu's cards are here.

but……

6 months! !

Half a year without earning a penny to experience life and act in a play, I am afraid few people will do it!

Thinking of this, Wu Xiaozu looked at Wang Zuzhen with love in his eyes, and his voice seemed far away.

"I remember, that summer, I sat in the theater hand in hand with you. You said that you really wanted to be a real actor.

I looked at you with a smile, and told you, I will make a special film for you..."

The voice paused.

Wang Xianxian opened his mouth wide, eyes full of surprise, covered his mouth with his hands, and looked at Wu Xiaozu in front of him in disbelief.

"You said that you don't want to be just a vase. You said that when you were practicing, you were so tired that you fell to the ground every time... You said that you miss those youthful years when you sweated. You also said that you used to be chasing Dream……

Sorry, I can't make a movie about basketball, but I will never forget your dedication to your dreams.

The road of youth is the road of growth. There is no lack of flowers, but also thorns. It is full of happiness, but there must be trauma.It was the pain of growing up, the cruelty of maturity.

Therefore, I really want to make a movie about dreams and youth, and a story about hard work and honor.

So there is this script. "

"Damn it, I'm not as good as you said." Wang Zuzhen looked like a Chopper, and couldn't help grinning.

"..."

Liu Weijun and the others looked like they were full of dog food.

"Then I'll catch up with the progress." Reluctantly, Liu Weiyun could only choose to focus on filming the scenes of Wang Zuzhen first.

"It's okay, I'll recommend your personal choice again." Wu Xiaozu had already thought about it.It's nothing more than a vase, and Li Jiaxin is very suitable there...

In fact, Wu Xiaozu didn't tell Wang Zuzhuan.

His "Women's Volleyball" also invited Gao Lihong to play a cameo, and the other ghost girl's appearance just happens to be a guest of women's volleyball players from other countries.

(End of this chapter)