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Cheng Yu'an had to go to the premiere of Mr. Zhou's movie.

"If she doesn't come again, she will lose her face." Cheng Yu'an said with a smile at the premiere.

During the media interview, the reporter asked Mr. Zhou: "Now that I am a producer, do you plan to become a director in the future?"

Mr. Zhou said with a smile: "People can only eat one bowl of rice. Being a producer is so uncomfortable for me. I wouldn't consider being a director. I don't have the talent."

The reporter intends to advance the matter some time: "You and Cheng Dao have known each other for more than ten years, you can ask him to teach you."

Cheng Yu'an answered, "I've known her for more than ten years and never asked her to teach me acting."

Mr. Zhou smiled and said, "You should be a director honestly."

The reporter asked the two: "Since "The Wind", the two have not worked together again, will there be a chance to cooperate in the future?"

The two looked at each other, Young Master Zhou first said to Cheng Yu'an, "Ask you."

Cheng Yu'an picked up the microphone: "With a good script, we will definitely cooperate again."

Cheng Yu'an quietly left the premiere scene without watching the movie.

Zhao Jinmai took a long vacation from school because of filming and training.

When Cheng Yu'an arrived at the training ground, the little girl was sitting at a table in the corner doing her homework in regular clothes.

It was agreed that Cheng Yuan would help the little girl with her homework. Cheng Yu'an had never been free before, but when he came here today, he felt embarrassed to see people working so hard.

Going up to take a look, Zhao Jinmai saw that it was Cheng Yu'an, so he quickly covered up his homework.

"Hey, what are you writing? Don't let me read it." Cheng Yu'an laughed.

"I won't let you see it."

Cheng Yu'an didn't force it either: "It's agreed that I will help you with your homework, and if there is anything you don't know, just ask me."

Hearing this, Zhao Jinmai quickly took out an exercise book from his schoolbag, pointed to a question on it and asked, "Can you do this?"

Cheng Yuan probed to see, it was a math problem.

Cheng Yu'an looked at it for a while, then frowned more and more, and said, "What is this?"

"Math finale. Can you?"

Cheng Yu'an knew all the symbols on it, but his head was big when put together, but he didn't lose his mouth: "Joke, I'm a professor, can I?"

I took the exercise book and pretended to read the questions twice.

Forgive Cheng Yu'an, he can solve an equation, but he can't make a big problem.

He has already returned the knowledge of mathematics to the teacher.

"Are you sure?" Zhao Jinmai urged.

"Isn't this just looking at the question, don't worry."

"Aren't you a professor? No matter how you read the questions in junior high school, you have to read them for a long time."

While looking at the question, a producer of the crew called him: "Yu'an, come here."

Cheng Yu'an resolutely agreed: "Hey, here we come." Turning to Zhao Jinmai, he said, "I still have something to do. You should think about this question first, and I'll teach you when I'm done."

After finishing speaking, he walked away quickly, "complaining" as he walked: "I tutor the children with homework, why can't I talk about it later, the little girl is so nervous about homework."

How could Zhao Jinmai not know that Cheng Yu'an was pretending, looked at Cheng Yu'an's back, and muttered: "If you don't know it, just say no, such an adult is still lying to children."

As he spoke, he took his hand away and wrote in the previous notebook: "Mai Mai's studio diary. Director Cheng came to the crew today and said he was helping me with my homework. The question is an Olympiad question. In fact, it’s normal not to do it, even the uncles and aunts of the crew can’t do it.”

Cheng Yu'an and the producer came to the side.

"When Uncle Xia Da comes, he doesn't believe our crew."

It's funny, Cheng Yu'an's three words are golden signs, and some people don't believe his crew.

"It's nothing else," the producer continued, "He didn't believe that we could play such a theme. We showed him the script in advance. He thought our story was incredible. He wanted to act but was afraid that it would be late, so Come and see."

"It's okay, I'll show him the set." Cheng Yu'an said, "As long as he gets to the set, I can keep him."

Just as he was talking, Uncle Da's car had arrived.

Cheng Yu'an likes and respects Uncle Da very much. Of course he also makes bad movies, but this does not affect his status in the hearts of the audience in the slightest.

Uncle Da came alone, dressed very simply, with white beard and hair, no matter how you looked at it, he looked like an ordinary old man.

"Uncle Da." Cheng Yu'an came forward to shake hands affectionately.

"Cheng Dao, hello, hello, I've heard of you for a long time."

"I've admired your name for a long time." Cheng Yu'an smiled.

After saying hello, Cheng Yuan led him in: "I heard that you have some doubts about our show?"

"It's a little bit. Of course I believe in Director Cheng's ability. It's just that I haven't made this kind of film before, so I will inevitably be worried. I hope the director understands."

"Of course I understand. When I established the project, many people were not optimistic, saying that I was joking."

This is really true.

Cheng Yu'an's reputation is one thing, but there are also many voices of doubt from the outside world. The main focus of discussion is the script and visual effects presentation.

Liu's works are notoriously hard to change, and Cheng Yu'an's "The Wandering Earth" is a somewhat crude novella.

Many science fiction fans do not have great expectations for Cheng Yu'an's adaptation.

Cheng Yu'an took Uncle Da to the wonderful studio and showed him the finished visual effects.

"In order to shoot this movie, we bought the best and latest 4K 3D IMAX cameras. We have prepared six such cameras and five cameras of other specifications. The range is the best."

The extraordinary special effects artists showed the audience how to make visual effects shots.

"This is the scene where the magic city is frozen. This shot was made by us in conjunction with 5 special effects companies in the country, all of which were produced by CG. For this scene alone, more than 70 special effects artists worked for two months, and it was completed last week. .”

"This image is a rendering of the sky as Earth approaches Jupiter."

"It's so beautiful." Uncle Da smiled.

"We cooperated with the supercomputing center on a cloud rendering center, and this shot was completed there. The special effects of "Avatar" were rendered using supercomputers. With the addition of supercomputers, we will save a lot of post-production time. "

The special effects artist said with a smile: "Using supercomputers to save time is time-saving, but it is too expensive. It is billed by the minute, 1 per minute."

Uncle Da joked: "You Director Cheng is so rich, you can afford 1 million a minute."

Cheng Yu'an sat aside and answered: "I really can't afford 1 million yuan in one minute. The supercomputer rendering will only be used on the most critical shots, and ordinary rendering must be used for the rest."

Money is one thing, another reason why you can’t use supercomputers to render the whole process is that you have to leave room for other special effects companies to eat.

"The Wandering Earth" has united a total of 12 special effects companies at home and abroad, and the rendering work is scored for everyone.

The production process of "The Wandering Earth" is already long, which has already lengthened the payment cycle of various special effects companies. Tiangong Yicai will swallow up the rendering money again, and other companies will really work hard. Eating alone will be tolerated by the industry.

After watching the visual effects, Cheng Yu'an talked with Uncle Da about the script and the character Han Ziang.

In fact, Uncle Da has already had the answer in his heart, and he came here this time to dispel his last worry - can domestic production crews really make such a good science fiction film?
Cheng Yu'an broke up "The Wandering Earth" and told Uncle Da, and finally said: "I don't want to shoot Hollywood-style hero rescues, I want to shoot the doomsday romanticism that belongs to us Chinese."

After listening to Cheng Yu'an's explanation, Uncle Da sighed: "It's only you who have the spirit and structure to make such a film. Hong Kong Island filmmakers can't think of such a story even if they shoot their heads."

"Then you...?"

"What else can I say, it is my honor to be able to participate in this kind of movie."

"Thank you, Uncle Da, welcome to join "The Wandering Earth"."