my movie years

Chapter 268 Batman Movie Final Chapter

No.70 The three American Film and TV Golden Globe Awards were held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. "The Dark Knight" directed by Zhang Hao received a total of three nominations.

At the opening of the awards ceremony, the British comedy star Ricky Gervais presided over the awards ceremony and made fun of Zhang Hao who was not at the scene.

"You know what I felt when I first saw The Dark Knight? I couldn't believe it was real.

oh!My God, God seems to have abandoned us to give talent to a Chinese director.

Do you know how much the global box office of "The Dark Knight" is?Nearly $17 billion worldwide, that's $17 billion, my God.

So I sometimes think, why should Chris Zhang stay in Hollywood and return to China?

If he stays in Hollywood, he will definitely become a top director. "

Indeed, Zhang Hao's business performance is outstanding, and now is the time to be sought after by Hollywood film companies. If he stays in Hollywood to develop, he will have a broader platform.

At least for now, the result is like this.

But no one would have thought that Hollywood, like the country behind it, would slowly decline in the future.

Although there are reasons for the general environment, it is more likely that Hollywood committed suicide.

Zhang Hao didn't want to be buried with Hollywood. It's good for him to dominate the Chinese film circle, and he lived a very comfortable life.

At this awards ceremony, Heath Ledger successfully won the Best Supporting Actor Award for his role as the Joker.

The Golden Globe is known as the weathervane of Oscars, and winning the Best Supporting Actor award this time seems to indicate that Heath Ledger will gain something in the Oscars.

At midnight after the award ceremony, it happened to be daytime on the Chinese side, Zhang Hao received a call from Heath Ledger in the editing room,

"Heath, congratulations, how are you doing recently?" Zhang Hao asked.

"I'm fine, Zhang, in great shape." Heath Ledger's tone was full of joy.

"That's good, come to China to play when you have time, and bring your family with you." Zhang Hao issued an invitation.

"I know Zhang, I will go to China to see when I have time."

Probably because of Zhang Hao, Heath Ledger has been very obsessed with Chinese culture recently, and he even signed up for Chinese classes.

But the effect is mediocre, Zhang Hao listening to him speak Chinese is like listening to Jay Chou's rap songs.

This time Heath Ledger successfully won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, Zhang Hao doesn't know whether he can gain anything from the Oscars.

And looking at Heath Ledger's state, it seems that the probability of death is not high.

In the previous life, he was able to get the sympathy points given by Oscar because of his death.

Now there is a high probability that it will not. Although the old man Oscar has a preference for psychopaths, evil criminals and other types of characters, the clown comes from superhero movies after all.

But it is not hopeless. After all, Joaquin Phoenix won the Oscar winner for his independent film "Joker" in his previous life.

If he doesn't win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor this time, Heath Ledger may consider making "Joker".

The title of actor is much better than the title of best supporting actor. With Heath Ledger's strength, he should not be worse than Joaquin Phoenix.

There is another very interesting thing at the Golden Globe Awards. When awarding the best soundtrack, the award presenter Anne Hathaway applied for a job on the spot.

"I like bats very much. I don't know if Chris Zhang has watched this awards ceremony. I applied for a job on the spot and wanted to star in the third Batman movie."

In fact, regarding the final chapter of the series, after "The Dark Knight", Batman fans have the greatest expectations for how Zhang Hao will complete the final chapter of the series.

This kind of anticipation can be said to be motivation, and more importantly, it is pressure.

As we all know, it has always been a difficult problem to make sequel movies well. As time goes on, the quality of sequels is also declining.

Especially after "The Dark Knight" created the pinnacle of the series of movies, how to perfectly end the final chapter of the series has become a question for Warner Pictures to think about.

And Warner Pictures directly threw this question to Zhang Hao. After the Golden Globes, Doug Walter, the vice president of Warner Pictures, flew directly to China to communicate with Zhang Hao on this issue.

"Doug, this matter can't be rushed. Fans' expectations for the final chapter of the series are too high now. We have to wait for the popularity to drop a little before we can start the production of the third part." Zhang Hao said to visiting Doug Walter.

"Time, I need time, Zhang, when are you free to make this movie?" Doug Walter came with a mission.

Zhang Hao thought for a while and said, "It will be produced next year, and then it will be released in the summer of 2018."

"That's good, there is no problem with an exact timetable." Doug Walter finally heard the final news.

But then Doug Walter thought of a question: "Couldn't you use the final chapter movie to fight the last part of the "Avengers" series?"

"Doug, I do have that in mind, and I don't think it's going to be the last Avengers movie."

After a pause, Zhang Hao continued: "It should be said that this is the last part of the older generation of Avengers heroes. In order to maximize profits, Disney must split it into two parts."

Others don't know Disney's thoughts, how can Zhang Hao not know?
Precisely because of this, 2018 is definitely a suitable time point. There will be the aftermath of "The Dark Knight" in the future, and "Avengers 4" in the future.

In the future, it will be a time when super-English movies usher in political correctness.

At that time, it is estimated that in order to cater to ZZ's correctness, the role of Catwoman will be intervened and replaced with a black Catwoman.

And it's the kind of black catwoman with dirty braids, short and fat body, big fat lips, flat nose, and biological sex.

Halle Berry is already a rare black beauty with black pearls, but her solo Catwoman movies have been criticized.

If he were to find such a catwoman again, Zhang Hao would not dare to imagine what the movie would look like, and he would feel that he could compete with Disney's little scavenger.

If nothing else, the final chapter of Batman's last series is Zhang Hao's last Hollywood movie.

Hollywood in the future is a bit difficult to mix. There are too many factors that can interfere with the creative process of the film, which is even more outrageous than the big scissors.

After talking about the Batman series of movies, the two continued to chat about Warner's overseas distribution.

"Zhang, "Knives Out" has done well in overseas releases, with a box office of US$1300 million in North America and US$1150 million in other regions," Doug Walter said.

Zhang Hao is not surprised. "Knives Out" does not bring overseas audiences the unparalleled IMAX3D viewing experience like "Gravity", and it is all about the plot content to attract people.

After a certain degree of localization, it is sometimes difficult for overseas audiences to understand the stalks of oriental culture.

This box office can be achieved because of Zhang Hao's accumulated reputation in "The Dark Knight", which has a certain box office appeal.

Warner's overseas distribution strategy is also very conservative, and the film still made a fortune.

These days, there are not many Chinese movies that can make money overseas, after all, costume blockbusters are no longer popular.Zhang Hao is one of the rare directors who can sell Chinese films overseas.

National teachers are also fine, at least before the release of "The Great Wall".

Although it made money, Warner Pictures regretted the release of "Knives Out". This time, it was also for Doug Walter to see how Zhang Hao's new film was.

In the editing room, Doug Walter saw a portion of The Martian finished.

"How do you feel? Doug." Zhang Hao asked.

"It's a pretty good movie to watch, and the story is great, honestly, it's not a sequel to Gravity, is it?"

"In a sense, it is indeed a sequel movie." Zhang Hao replied.

Back in the office, Zhang Hao and Doug Walter said: "I have always liked the theme of space movies, the vast starry sky, strange planets, and black holes all attract me.

For this I have prepared three stories, the first of which you have seen, and the second which is now in production. "

Doug Walter's eyes lit up, and he quickly encouraged Zhang Hao: "Zhang, how about handing over the third part to Warner Pictures?

I think we can create a classic space sci-fi movie. "

"Let's talk about Doug, you just came to the capital, you must stay for a few more days." Zhang Hao played a sloppy eye and pushed this out.

After talking about work, Zhang Hao threw Doug Walter to Xin Shuang, and asked Xin Shuang to take Doug Walter around for a few days.

And Zhang Hao himself continued to devote himself to the production of "The Martian".

As time went on, the working hours behind the scenes became more and more intense.Because of the lack of some shots, Zhang Hao had to call the actors back to make up some shots.

In fact, the most challenging thing is the editing work.

In an exclusive interview with CCTV's "Face to Face" column, Zhang Hao mentioned some problems in post-editing.

“During the entire editing process, the team used Avid Media Composer, a new editing system developed based on existing editing software.

The Avid Media Composer software is very comfortable to use. "

Zhang Hao continued, "I really wish I could learn all its techniques and usage. But basically, its method of organizing and organizing materials has convinced me.

My assistant organizes the footage for me and keeps all the metadata trackable.

Create lots of bins to organize your clips: dailies, alternates, music, vfx, files...everything you need is there, never offline. "

"Film is an art, but also an industry. What do you think this represents?" the interviewer asked.

Zhang Hao replied: "In fact, for a long time, film editing has been done manually, which is very inefficient and slow.

However, since the development of computer software technology applications and the emergence of digital storage systems, creators can retain more images they want.

As a director, I never reject the application of new technology, but can develop more and better application fields from it. "

Zhang Hao is known as a genius director. The outside world believes that it is mainly his youth that makes him full of research spirit and better use of various new technologies.

After the interview was aired, this statement was confirmed even more.

　I was poisoned by eating fungus, look at the villain, so weak...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)