director of the millennium

Chapter 57 Both parties are very satisfied
Jerry has seen a lot of directors who want to add actors to the team.

It was really the first time he met the director who wanted to add crew members to the set.

Considering Wu Yuan's nationality, he understood instantly.

In the eyes of Hollywood, the current Chinese film industry is basically equivalent to a barren desert.

Although Chinese-language literary and artistic films really shine in Europe, the domestic film market in China is almost zero, and the box office of a year is less than a fraction of the box office of a North American movie in a month.

The market gap has almost reached about a hundred times!
It is true that such a barren soil cannot cultivate a film industry system like Hollywood, and the working mode of the crew is relatively primitive.

Among other things, a commercial blockbuster film crew in Hollywood has nearly a hundred people in various positions, which can be divided into more than ten groups, adding up to 500-600 crew members, each with a clear division of labor.

In China, there are only 30 people working on a film crew, which is more than 60 people, and many common positions in Hollywood crews are not filled by anyone in China.

Such as art directors, gunsmiths, digital imaging technicians, equipment technicians, maintenance engineers, pre-visualization technicians, etc...

And most of their work is generally covered by "field affairs".

This has also led to the fact that in China's domestic production crews, those who do field work are like a brick, which can be moved wherever it is useful.

This kind of approach is full of human touch at best, but it is actually unprofessional at worst.

It is quite normal for Wu Yuan to want to use the crew of a film with a mature industrial system like "Pirates of the Caribbean" to train his own crew.

Jerry pondered, thinking.

Do you want to agree to this condition?
Jerry never thought that Wu Yuan could use this method to imitate the Hollywood film industry and replicate it in China.

Are you kidding me, a mature film system cannot be established with just a few professional crew members.

At best, Wu Yuan can use this method to cultivate a crew that is close to the Hollywood system.

It seems that this is not an unreasonable condition.

At least it's much easier to talk about than asking for a share of the box office.

"Daniel, I can agree to your condition, but the number of people cannot exceed 30 people, and you need to bear their own wages for the crew." Jerry shrugged and agreed without much hesitation.

"No way, I have to pay the salaries of several crew members?" Wu Yuan said a little speechlessly.

"Hey, Daniel, I'm doing this for your own good." Jerry looked straight into Wu Yuan's eyes and said meaningfully, "In this way, you can sign a reasonable long-term employment contract with them, isn't it?"

Ho, Wu Yuan was taken aback.

As expected of being from a capitalist country, Jerry is the best.

It is true that Wu Yuan can't train crew members in vain, he has to sign a guarantee contract. It is indeed more suitable for him to pay the salary himself.

But this matter can be arranged slowly later.

With a smile on his face, Wu Yuan reached out to shake hands with Jerry: "Then first wish us a happy cooperation!"

Wu Yuan initially agreed to direct "Pirates of the Caribbean".

The director of a tool man is a tool man. After all, the script of this movie is very good. Even if he doesn’t change anything, it will be a commercial film that is well-received and well-received. Otherwise, it would be impossible to make five films.

Although the box office share is impossible to talk about, $800 million is not a small sum of money.

The most important thing is that he really needs a crew that is at or close to the Hollywood level.

Through the training of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy, Wu Yuan believes that he can use this platform to train himself a Chinese crew that can handle commercial blockbusters.

In this way, after the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" is finished, the mainland market is about to rise. If someone has money, he can create his own Chinese-language commercial blockbuster!
Thinking about it in this way, it is difficult for Wu Yuan to give a reason for refusing due to emotion and reason.

The only pity is to sacrifice his rest time.

Originally, Wu Yuan planned to take a break after filming "The Undertaker", but now he is going to continue filming "Pirates of the Caribbean", it seems that he has no time to spare.

After negotiating the intention, Jerry was not in a hurry to return to the United States, but went to Anshan with Wu Yuan.

During the day, he followed the crew almost the whole time to watch Wu Yuan's play, and judged Wu Yuan's directing level.

In the evening, he and Wu Yuan discussed the big project of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

According to Disney's plan, the film must be launched in November 2002 at the latest.

Before that, the crew had to do a lot of preparation work.

Including building a one-to-one physical version of the Dreadnaught, the Black Pearl, and multiple 17th-century pirate ships. These must be made of real objects rather than using CG special effects.

And the final plot point of the first part, that is, the cave where Barbossa hides his treasures, Disney also plans to fully shoot it. The construction of this cave alone is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Although Wu Yuan does not need to do these things himself, as a director, he also has the right to make suggestions and know the information, and Jerry must communicate with him.

In addition, the most important thing is the issue of actor selection.

The script is in place, the investment has been paid into account, and the crew is also preparing in an orderly manner. The only thing missing now is the actors.

In this regard, Jerry still attaches great importance to Wu Yuan's opinions. He pulls Wu Yuan to hold video conferences with the two screenwriters every night to choose suitable actors.

Because most of Wu Yuan's focus was still on his "The Embalmer", and he felt that the original casting for "Pirates of the Caribbean" was pretty good, so he didn't give much advice.

In the end, the crew still chose the trio of Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley to play Jack, Will, and Elizabeth.

The villain of the first film, Barbossa, is also played by Geoffrey Rush.

Everything is no different from the original track, the only difference is that the Huaxia director has been changed.

Wu Yuan has no plans to change anything about "Pirates of the Caribbean" this time.

The movie was already good enough, and the script wasn't original to him, so he completely positioned himself as a tool man.

Jerry is also very satisfied with Wu Yuan's attitude. He also doesn't want a Chinese director who doesn't understand the 17th century Caribbean Sea to be too fiddling with scripts and casting. Professionals should be left to other professionals. .

On the contrary, after half a month of observing the crew of "The Undertaker", Jerry is very satisfied with Wu Yuan's director level.

Let’s not talk about whether he can shoot big scenes. At least in the field of feature films that focus on small scenes, Wu Yuan did a very good job. The image, composition, color, and shooting skills are all impeccable.

Even Wu Yuan's proficient directing level doesn't look like a rookie director who has just entered the industry for two years.

Of course Jerry didn't know that Wu Yuan had been doing related work in Dreams for 20 years. He just felt that the director he found was really talented and would at least be qualified for the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean"!

Jerry, who was very satisfied with Wu Yuan, finally finalized the casting of "Pirates of the Caribbean", bid farewell to Wu Yuan with peace of mind, flew back to the United States, and began to make preparations for the film wholeheartedly before the film started.

And Wu Yuan also needs to find time to make storyboards based on the storyboards after finishing "The Undertaker", and often exchange ideas with the production designer and several screenwriters to perfect the filming plan for this film .

After that, before November 2002, he took more than 11 "trainees" and went to the United States on time to take over the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean"!

　Thanks to the lord!
　　The leader adds three chapters, but it is owed first, and will be added together after it is on the shelves.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)