Director: The special effects are too expensive, so I had to make real shots

Chapter 6 Crew Preparation and Cast Auditions

As a classic movie of Cameron, "Terminator" not only made Cameron himself, but also made Schwarzenegger.

Xu Nuo chose this movie as his first film after traveling to this parallel world. One of the reasons is that Xu Nuo liked the director Cameron very much on Earth before traveling.

This time, Xu Nuo localized it on the premise of following the main plot core and characters of "Terminator".

After all, in Cameron's "Terminator", one of the two human characters is named Kyle and the other is named Sarah. Obviously this name is very eagle sauce, and it needs to be changed to the Chinese names of the two rabbits.

So Xu Nuo made up the names of two characters in his "Terminator", namely: Ding Nuo and Xu Ya.

The cost of Cameron's "Terminator" was 640 million US dollars, and Xu Nuo prepared a production cost of 2 million yuan for the Terminator. To be precise, Xu Nuo did not prepare it, but the value of 2 million set by the system.

Among them, 1 million is the financial reward given by the system, and the other 2 million is the investment of the three coal bosses.

Of the [-] million yuan cost, Xu Nuo will spend most of it in the filming and production process, and the actor's salary is very low.

Even Xu Nuo, who played the leading role of T-800, only offered 200 million as a salary.

Fortunately, the actor in T-800 was caught in the gym, and the salary of 200 million yuan is already a very large sum of money for an ordinary person.

This is why Xu Nuo would rather choose newcomers than those so-called actors in the domestic entertainment industry.

The other two main characters in "Terminator" have a salary budget of 150 million respectively.

Xu Nuo controlled the remuneration of all the actors in the whole film to less than 1000 million, so that the money could be spent on filming and post-production special effects.

Yes, although Xu Nuo had to shoot many scenes in "Terminator", after all, there are still some scenes that cannot be shot in real life under the existing conditions and must use special effects.

The system allows scenes that really need to use special effects. After all, the system's "truth principle" is that the core of the movie must be real, and the rest should be shot as real as possible.

Otherwise, the future robot in "Terminator" travels to modern times through a time-space tunnel. How can people make real shots without special effects?

As well as the battle scenes between robots and the human rebels in the future, some special effects are also needed.

Due to age and cost constraints, Cameron's "Terminator" actually didn't have many big scenes, and there were relatively few exciting scenes of booming explosions. Xu Nuo added some more explosion scenes due to his sufficient budget, making this "Terminator" more exciting. Terminator is more in line with the era of 2023.

Xu Nuo's shooting location was set in Yuzhou City.

I have to say that Yuzhou City is indeed a very suitable place for filming. Many domestic movies and even foreign movies have all been filmed in Yuzhou City.

and.

Just adding a little special effects can make Yuzhou City look like a cyber city. Therefore, many domestic and foreign movies with the theme of cyberpunk will choose to shoot in Yuzhou City.

Xu Nuo also planned to shoot this "Terminator" in Yuzhou City.

Now the production crew is being prepared, and various filings and approvals required for filming are proceeding in an orderly manner.

The actors for the three main roles of "Terminator" are also time to audition, and then finalized as soon as possible. After all, the actors have to be given some time to familiarize themselves with the script.

then.

Xu Nuo arranged an audition a week later.

The main audition actor for T-800 was Zhou Junwei who was scouted by Xu Nuo and He Feiyang in the gym together.

Of course.

In addition to Zhou Junwei, there are two other fitness hunk up masters who are looking for online, and there will also be an audition.

One is to put some pressure on Zhou Junwei to quickly build up his muscle mass, and the other is to not put all eggs in one basket. If Zhou Junwei can't train, it is good to have a backup option.

Then for the role of the human hero Ding Nuo, He Feiyang found an actor named Xiong Li in Hengdian.

Xu Nuo, a tough guy, fell in love with him immediately, so he was asked to interview for the role of Ding Nuo.

Finally, there is the heroine Xu Ya. He Feiyang searched a lot through relationships, and found about five actresses, all of whom belonged to Xu Nuo. He was not so satisfied, but it was okay.

Among them, the asking price of three of them exceeded 300 million, which was directly rejected by Xu Nuo.

The remaining two will also come to audition today.

In addition to what He Feiyang was looking for, Xu Nuo gave Guan Ju some key words, and asked Guan Ju to screen them on the Internet, and indeed screened out a female fitness up master.

This up host is a small internet celebrity with few fans, called "Ms. Cheng", and her full name is Cheng Zhixin. Xu Nuo is very satisfied with her appearance and has a good figure.

Big tits, buttocks.

Most importantly, it's cheap.

At first, Xu Nuo privately messaged this Ms. Cheng, telling her that there was a business cooperation of 50 yuan.

A small Internet celebrity with only tens of thousands of fans, when he saw a business cooperation of 50, he probably had a smile on his face.

Later, after an in-depth discussion, the other party knew that it was a movie, and it was the heroine, so they wanted to raise the price.

Anyway, Xu Nuo originally had a budgeted salary of 150 million for the heroine, so he doubled it for Ms. Cheng and mentioned 100 million. Ms. Cheng was also very interested and decided to come to audition today.

Today is the audition day, and Xu Nuo came to his real media technology company early in the morning.

The assistant Wen Ruohan comes very early every day, and she will tidy up Xu Nuo's office. Every day, she will tidy up the documents that the company needs to report and put them on the boss's desk before the boss comes.

I have to say that this assistant was really right.

At 09:30 in the morning, Xu Nuo asked Wen Ruohan to go downstairs to pick up the actors who came to audition.

At about [-]:[-], all the actors who came to audition arrived.

Xu Nuo also came to the company's studio, and met the Xiong Li whom He Feiyang found in Hengdian for the first time, and Ms. Cheng.

"Let me introduce to everyone, this is the director of our movie, just call him Director Xu."

He Feiyang introduced Xu Nuo to the audition actors.

"Hi Director Xu."

Suddenly everyone shouted in unison.

"You don't need to be so cautious, just show yourself in today's audition. Among you, only three of you can get a million-level salary contract."

Xu Nuo said to everyone with a smile.

Then he turned his head and said to He Feiyang: "A Fei, take Zhou Junwei and the others to set the makeup of the T-800 first."

"Row."

He Feiyang nodded, and then led Zhou Junwei and the others to the next room.

"Are you familiar with the parts of the roles that each of you will be auditioning for?"

Xu Nuo asked the audition actors again.

"Uh-huh."

"Keep it in mind."

"I can recite it by heart."

"no problem."

Everyone seems to be quite confident.

Auditions are a way of selecting actors, but nowadays there are very few directors in the entertainment industry who use auditions to select actors.

Most of them directly choose traffic stars who have a schedule. It doesn't matter whether they fit the role positioning or whether their acting skills are good or not. As long as they are famous, they can use them.

Xu Nuo nodded: "Okay, let the staff take you all to prepare for makeup."

Just now, Xu Nuo took a look at the actor Xiong Li that He Feiyang had found from Hengdian. He thought it was pretty good looking at the photos before, but now that he saw him in person, he felt that the external image of Xiong Li was completely suitable for the role of a tough guy.

Although the human male protagonist in "Terminator" is not as strong as the T-800, and even makes people feel thin in comparison, he is actually a tough guy.

After meeting Xiong Li himself, Xu Nuo's satisfaction level increased a bit.

This is obviously an actor with high plasticity, and I don't know what the current director thinks. Such an actor with potential has not been tapped yet?
Is it possible that there is no need for tough guys in domestic film and television works?

"Your name is Xiong Li, right?"

Xu Nuo came to Xiong Li who was waiting in line for makeup, and asked.

"Yes, Director Xu."

Xiong Li replied.

Xu Nuo could tell that he looked simple and honest, but he spoke powerfully and was full of vitality. Xu Nuo saw a little shadow of Wang Baoqiang in him.

But he is much more upright than Baoqiang.

"How long have you been in Hengdian?"

Xu Nuo chatted and asked again, which seemed like a family chat.

"I worked in Hengdian for five years."

From his statement that he has been working for five years, Xu Nuo confirmed his opinion that he is a very simple person.

"How many crews have you run?"

"There must be one hundred and eighty, there are many opportunities for running groups here."

Experience is rich.

It's a pity that because of his mediocre appearance, there has never been any good opportunity to go further, and no one is willing to dig him out of the bottom of the sea of ​​actors.

Fortunately, he met his good friend He Feiyang.

Xu Nuo decided to give him a chance.

(End of this chapter)