Actor: I picked up attributes on the set

Chapter 228 Movie Casting, "Ready Player One" Trailer Released!
The "My Motherland and Me" film seminar was much faster than expected. Originally, a week had been prepared for the seven directors to discuss the topic selection. As a result, it took only three days to decide the seven directors of the film. This topic directly entered the stage of film casting.

After returning to the hotel, Lin Yuan paced back and forth in the room, thinking about which actors should be cast in the unit drama he was in charge of.

He returned to the hotel at six o'clock, and he didn't write down the three names on the paper until eleven o'clock.

Wang Baoqiang, Huang Bo, Deng Chao.

Needless to say, the acting skills of the first two have been guaranteed to be online in every movie they star in. As for Brother Chao, as long as he does not appear in the movies he directed, his acting skills are completely trustworthy.

Originally, Lin Yuan still had Xu Zheng and Zhang Yu in his mind, but Xu Zheng himself had to be busy with directing, and Zhang Yu's popularity was a little low, so it would be fine for him to play a supporting role, but if he played the leading role, it would be obviously a little bit Doesn't live up to the lavish cast that the film advertised at the outset.

After confirming the list of leading actors, Lin Yuan called the three of them one by one.

As long as any one of them can be confirmed to star in this movie, Lin Yuan's mission for this seminar will be completed, and then he can basically go back to Shanghai to work on the script.

But things obviously didn't go as smoothly as he expected.

After coming out of the meeting room this afternoon, Guan Hu called Huang Bo immediately. The two had collaborated in the two films "Killing" and "Cook, Opera, Ruffian" before, and the results were pretty good. good.

Faced with Guan Hu's invitation, Huang Bo didn't think too much about it. After checking that there was no conflict in his schedule, he agreed directly. Not only Lin Yuan was a step slower, but Xu Zheng and Ning Hao were also slower. Just take a step.

Wang Baoqiang did not receive invitations from other directors, but it is a pity that he has two films in the second half of the year, one "Frozen Man: Time and Space Traveler", and one "The New King of Comedy" co-operating with Xing Ye. There is no schedule to film "My Motherland and Me", and it is not realistic for people to push these two films.

As for Deng Chao, I don't know if he was stimulated by Lin Yuan's filming of "I'm Not the God of Medicine". And My Motherland" is also obviously unlikely.

It was hard to choose three suitable actors in my mind, but none of them were available.

"Forget it, let's decide on the other roles first. If we can't find the leading actor when the script comes out later, at worst, we can take the lead." Lin Yuan muttered softly to himself.

The number of candidates for supporting roles suddenly increased.

However, Lin Yuan didn't think too much about it, and directly called Wang Yanhui and Zhang Yu. After all, they had just collaborated in the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine", and the movie shooting wouldn't need to spend too much time to get used to it. .

The most important thing is that the acting skills of the two have not only been recognized by him, but also by the audience. If they can keep the original cast of "I'm Not the God of Medicine" to shoot this unit drama, then they can also contribute to "The God of Medicine" The movie became popular even though it had already been released by then.

After receiving Lin Yuan's call, Zhang Yu didn't ask any more questions, and agreed directly.

He has actually appeared in many movies before, but like most actors, he is a transparent person on the big screen, and rarely gets the attention of the audience. Still lingering among second- and third-tier actors.

Although Wang Yanhui was a little happy about Lin Yuan's invitation to cooperate again, he still asked about the script.

But the answer I got was: "I'm sorry, Teacher Wang Yanhui, the script hasn't come out yet, but I have a prototype in my mind. If you are worried about the quality of the script, I can find a place to talk to you face to face about the script."

If it hadn't been for the cooperation in "I'm Not the God of Medicine" before, I'm afraid Wang Yanhui would have hung up the phone directly.

The script has not been finalized yet, and he started looking for actors. Isn't this a fool?

When the coal boss first invested in making movies, there was such a deception. Some scammers took the "scripts" that were printed out casually and squatted at the gates of major film schools. The "crew members" seek investment from the coal boss, and when they get the investment, they just pat their ass and leave.

So these actors behind have learned experience, and would rather sign a non-disclosure agreement than read the script first.

Of course, big directors like Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang naturally don't need to spend all this effort. If they have a new work waiting to start shooting, there will naturally be a lot of actors lining up to audition.

Seeing some hesitation on the other end of the phone, Lin Yuan could also guess what Wang Yanhui was thinking.

If it were him, when the quality of the movie could not be guaranteed, he would also hesitate to act in it. After all, the reputation of these actors among the audience was formed by the gradual accumulation of a movie. If there is only one bad movie, the accumulated good reputation will be greatly reduced.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Yuan said flickeringly: "Teacher Wang Yanhui, otherwise, as long as you are willing to act, I promise to find you a movie star opposite."

Hearing this, Wang Yanhui's heart began to move.

In fact, even if the quality of Lin Yuan's movie was poor, he would agree to make a cameo in this movie because of his affection for starring in "The God of Medicine".

However, if Lin Yuan can invite actor-level actors now, not only does it mean that the quality of the movie will not be too bad, but also the cast is guaranteed, and the supporting roles he plays can still have room to play. From this point of view, it is a good choice.

After weighing the pros and cons, Wang Yanhui agreed decisively, and joked: "Lin Yuan, this is what you said. If you don't invite the actor to play the role, I won't join the team."

"Teacher Wang Yanhui, don't worry." Lin Yuan patted his chest on the phone and said.

Isn't he the actor?

Anyway, he has already made up his mind. If he really can't find a leading actor, at worst, he will play in person. Anyway, he is also the best actor, so he can't be regarded as a lie.

After confirming the two supporting roles of Wang Yanhui and Zhang Yu, Lin Yuan suddenly felt that the pressure was relieved by more than half.

There are not many roles in the unit drama. After the two leading supporting roles are determined, the other supporting roles are basically actors arranged by Guangguang Media. It is to take this opportunity to let other artists under the banner show their faces in the movie.

The other six directors have more contacts in the circle than Lin Yuan, and it is not difficult for them to finalize the starring role.

In the end, the list of leading actors was preliminarily finalized. Guan Huo was looking for Huang Bo, Xu Zheng was looking for Wu Jing, Zhang Baibai was inviting Zhang Yi and Ren Suxi, Chen Kaige and Xue Xiaolu were looking for leading actors, although they were not as big as the previous few, But they are also very popular, namely Liu Haoran, Du Jiang and others. The most unexpected thing is that Ning Hao directly invited Uncle Ge over.

Only Lin Yuan reported himself on the starring list.

But I have to say that this lineup is too strong. The top three chief directors in China can also be ranked among the other six directors. It's hard not to be excited, not to expect it. The director is a top director in China. Although the actors are not experienced actors, they are basically capable. In addition, Lin Yuan, an actor whose acting skills are well-recognized, as long as the main creators' unit The plot can be handled well, and it seems unlikely that the filming will be bad.

However, the movie is still kept under wraps, and the movie conference will only be held when the script is finalized.

After returning to Shanghai after BJ's seminar, Lin Yuan locked himself in the apartment and devoted himself to writing the script.

He knew very well in his heart that he was able to be the director of the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" because he had acted in enough movies and had a rich understanding of the characters and the sense of the camera. "It is absolutely no problem for a good actor to transform into a director.

But wanting to transform into a screenwriter is not that simple. The reason is very simple. Screenwriting requires a certain level of writing skills. Unfortunately, Lin Yuan is not good at this aspect.

After several days in a row, the prototype of the script was finally completed.

Just when Lin Yuan was about to find a screenwriter and ask professionals to help him complete the entire script, an overseas call came to his mobile phone, and the note on the caller ID was Spielberg.

Just seeing the caller ID, Lin Yuan probably guessed the purpose of the call.

After answering the phone, Director Spielberg's voice came from the other end of the phone. After a simple greeting, he went straight to the topic: "Mr. Lin Yuan, the finished film of "Ready Player One" has come out, we expect It will be released on Easter Day, so you don’t have to worry about the release in mainland China, there will be a special person in charge there, but I hope you can cooperate with the film promotion work when the time comes.”

The work Spielberg mentioned is naturally a matter of submitting films for review. Imported films are different now, and reviewing must be troublesome, but it is not a big problem for Warner Bros. Pictures, which has already prepared. I took the sample film for review in a short time, and the edited film will be submitted for review this time. It will only be smoother.

At least it will definitely not be a problem if it is released smoothly in the mainland.

"Okay, I will cooperate with the promotion of the movie." Lin Yuan agreed.

Although he is not the main character in this movie, it is his first foreign movie after all. If the domestic box office results are too poor, it will not be beneficial for him to develop in the international film market in the future.

"By the way, Mr. Lin Yuan, when will the release date be set? We have three plans here. One is to release it all over the world in March, the second is to release it on the Ching Ming Festival in China, and the last one is to set a date for May [-]st. It will be released on Labor Day."

It can be seen that Spielberg has done research on the domestic film market, knows about the release on holidays, and even knows about the May [-]st schedule.

In fact, for an action sci-fi film like "Ready Player One", it is definitely the most suitable to participate in the movie wars in the May 3st schedule, such as "Avengers [-]", "Star Wars" and "The Silence" in the May [-]st schedule this year. The Hollywood blockbusters like "Earth" are all chosen to be released in mid-May.

However, the option to be released on the May [-]st schedule was directly dropped by Lin Yuan.

As far as the audience is concerned, they all paid for movie tickets. Why can audiences from other countries watch it first, but they have to wait two months before it is released after being spoiled?
And more importantly, in addition to theater movies in China, there is also a "Baidu Cloud Movie". In two months, the Blu-ray gun version of "Ready Player One" may have become a regular visitor of pirated video websites. Is it possible to want the audience to pay to enter the cinema to watch a movie they have seen?
Since it can be released at the same time around the world, Lin Yuan will naturally not choose to postpone the May [-]st release by two months. The only thing that needs to be considered is whether to release it at the same time at the end of March, or postpone it a few days, and release it during the Ching Ming Festival holiday.

"Director Spielberg, do you know which Hollywood movies will be released in China in March and April?" Lin Yuan asked.

As long as domestic films are competitive, they generally do not choose to be released in March and April. The only competitors to worry about are those imported films that also come from abroad.

"Wait, I'll let the assistant take a look."

Spielberg asked his assistant to help find the information, Lin Yuan was not idle here, turned on the computer, and browsed the movie preview information on Maoyan. The movie at the end of March has not yet opened for pre-sale, but the release date has been confirmed. down.

Lin Yuan took a look and found that there are still a lot of movies in March and April in China. After thinking about it, it seems understandable. There are many movies that were originally scheduled to be released during the Spring Festival. After watching "Kung Fu Yoga", "A Good Show ", "Tang Detective 2", naturally there is no idea of ​​competition, and they have been withdrawn and postponed.

However, no matter in terms of cast or subject matter, these movies can only be described as "stinky fish and rotten shrimp".

Just when Lin Yuan was about to turn back, Director Spielberg's voice rang from the phone again.

"Mr. Lin Yuan, the news I got here is that there are quite a few blockbuster movies imported from China in March and April, but Fox's "X-Men: The New Mutants" seems to have been withdrawn. Two films, Warner Bros. and Disney as well, and unfortunately, there seems to be a Legendary-Universal joint film.”

"Director Spielberg, can you tell me the main point?"

Lin Yuan complained secretly in his heart, and after talking for a long time, the result was all to raise others' ambitions and destroy his prestige, which made him a little embarrassed to promote the movie "Ready Player One".

“March has Black Panther, Wreck-It Ralph 2, The Flash, Pacific Rim 2.”

Just hearing the names of these movies, Lin Yuan had a bad feeling in his heart. Not only are there American manga movies that are popular in the market, but also two well-reputed movie sequels, "Wreck-It Ralph" and "Pacific Rim". do.

Even if "Ready Player One" has the signature of director Spielberg, coupled with a certain fan base of the original work, it may not necessarily be the opponent of these movies.

"What about April?"

"There's Annihilation at Paramount Pictures and Rampage with Dwayne Johnson."

"Gone?"

"No, just these two."

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Yuan blurted out, "Then it will be released on Qingming Festival in April."

Counseling should be done, confronting these big IPs, waiting to be ridiculed by others at the box office?

Originally, the competitiveness of Hollywood movies was strong, especially the giants like Marvel and DC, which not only had huge IPs, but also released a lot of movies, and they were individual movies and big alliance movies, occupying several movies throughout the year. In the film market for a month, it is basically useless to fight against these guys.

In contrast, the two Hollywood movies "Annihilation" and "Revenge Behemoth" are completely harmless pet cats to humans and animals. In addition, Lin Yuan has an advantage in home games, so it is no problem to win these two movies .

As for the release a week earlier in foreign countries than in China, domestic audiences have long been used to it, and I believe they can understand his good intentions if they know what's going on behind the scenes.

In this way, the publicity work of "Ready Player One" was officially put on Lin Yuan's next agenda.

Within two days, netizens who were bored at work and eating melons on Weibo suddenly popped up a push news.

"The first trailer of "Ready Player One" directed by Spielberg is released, come and see @actor林远's brilliant performance in the movie!"

Also as an imported film, other Hollywood films obviously do not have this treatment.

No way, why don’t they have a Chinese actor in their movie? Even if China Film wants to promote the movie, it has to find a better entry point. You can’t let your imported movie win the domestic box office, and then you have to sell it Domestic movies step on it.

After the official Weibo push message was released, Lin Yuan also followed up with a post.

Lin Yuan's Weibo: "The trailer for the new movie "Ready Player One" has landed on the entire network, please support us, Huaxia players will always be no.1!"

These two microblogs have attracted the attention of many netizens, including many insiders.

We all know that this year's Hollywood imported movies are on the rise, among which "Ready Player One" is also a movie that has attracted the attention of netizens, but no one thought that Lin Yuan, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would secretly go abroad to participate in "Ready Player One" "this movie!
Netizens originally focused their attention on American comic super-English movies such as "Black Panther" and "The Flash" in March, but now that they learned that Lin Yuan starred in "Ready Player One", they immediately focused on It's on "Ready Player One," which won't be released for a whole month.

"When did Lin Yuan go abroad to make a movie?"

"Am I not mistaken? Lin Yuan starred in "Ready Player One"? He made so many domestic films last year, and still has time to go abroad to make films?"

"Liu Cixin: 6!"

"What else is there to say, hurry up and release the pre-sale, don't fail to get tickets for the pre-sale in the last few days."

"Brothers, the trailer link is here, pick it up below!"

"His grandma's, you're cutting a link from Pinduoduo, damn it!"

Netizens posted all kinds of comments under the feed, and only after all the chores that could be adjusted were almost finished, did they click on the 37-second trailer of "Ready Player One" with a sense of anticipation.
(End of this chapter)