director of the millennium

a few days later.

Jiangbei International Airport in the foggy city.

The day Wu Yuan arrived was not very good. There was a heavy fog in Chongqing today. He arrived in the morning and felt himself surrounded by fog as soon as he left the airport.

"It's a foggy city!" Wu Yuan sighed in a poor Sichuan and Chongqing dialect, and suddenly a lot of Sichuan and Chongqing rap melodies emerged in his mind.

For him, the most notable features of Sichuan and Chongqing, apart from hotpot, are the filming locations and rap, which are most closely related to the entertainment industry.

There is no doubt that Sichuan and Chongqing are the best regions in China for rap. Many excellent Chinese rap singers come from Sichuan and Chongqing, and the Fog City accounts for a large proportion of them.

Maybe it’s because the Sichuan and Chongqing dialects are very suitable for rap, it sounds very exciting.

The filming location is the foggy city.

This place, the Fog City, has almost become the favorite filming location for domestic movies.

This magical yet artistic city seems to naturally attract various film crews to come here.

Ning Hao loves this place very much, and Jia Zhangke also loves this place.

According to incomplete statistics, more than 30 films have been shot in the Fog City since the 200s.

If Hengdian is the holy land for filming domestic TV dramas, then the holy land for filming domestic movies is the Fog City.

Why has the foggy city become a movie darling?

First of all, the topography of the foggy city has shaped a unique urban layout, which is divided not into inner and outer cities, but into the upper and lower cities.

The houses and roads are not divided into east, west, south and north, but are built according to the direction of the mountains and water systems in the main urban area.

This also makes the various modes of transportation in the Fog City full of magical colors. The Yangtze River Cableway, ferry and rail transit make the Fog City the only city in China with amphibious tourism forms of water, land and air. It is jokingly called a "3D city" by everyone.

The light rail passes through buildings and mountains, and people chat as they walk into the bus parked on the eighth floor. These "magical" scenes are actually happening in the foggy city.

As an important southwestern city with a long history, the Fog City also has a profound historical and cultural heritage. Old and new buildings coexist harmoniously in the city. The Huguang Guild Hall is under the Dongshengmen Bridge, high-rise buildings are behind the Luohan Temple, and abandoned factories coexist with the city skyline, presenting a unique style that blends the past and the present.

Some people say that Hong Kong and Hong Kong Island are the only two cities in China with cyberpunk style.

Wu Yuan agrees with this.

And he came to the foggy city today to conduct a field investigation.

The realistic plot of the movie "Ready Player One" had to be filmed in the magical city of Chongqing.

This city is magical.

Across a river, on the other side are high-rise buildings with a cyberpunk feel and neon night scenes, but on the other side of the river there are a large number of old and dilapidated houses built on the hillside, which can even be said to be slums.

In this city, you can find not only places with a strong sense of technology, but also old mossy houses full of the flavor of poverty.

You just need to select a few locations and do some targeted set design, and the cyberpunk world with a huge gap between the rich and the poor and a combination of low-end life and advanced technology in the background of the movie "Ready Player One" will be born.

Accompanying the assistant director and the leader of the set design team, Wu Yuan started "touring" in the big city of Fog City from dawn.

A foggy day is certainly not a good time for sightseeing, but he is not really here to have fun, he is here to check out the sights. After walking around from morning to night, taking a short nap and walking around again from morning to night the next day, Wu Yuan deeply experienced the charm of this 8D magic city.

I took the elevator to the fifth floor, and when I got out I found myself in a large square. Can you believe it?
I climbed the steep stairs for more than ten minutes and found myself in an underground garage. Can you believe it?

In this city, it is very easy to get lost without a strong sense of direction and three-dimensional thinking.

Wu Yuan, who had traveled all over the world and visited countless cities, thought he would never get lost, but when faced with the 8D urban area of ​​the Fog City, he almost got lost.

The map clearly said that the place was only a 500-meter walk away, but he spent half an hour searching before he found the place.
Not only did the Baidu Maps app fail to provide navigation, it also took him on various detours.

This really cannot be blamed on the collectors of Baidu Maps. It is because this kind of flat map cannot grasp the three-dimensional location of Chongqing, which has more than ten layers.

This problem may take more than a decade to be solved.
However, encountering various difficulties during the location scouting process was also a fun thing for Wu Yuan.

In this way, he and his team stayed in Chongqing for five days and almost decided on the filming locations. He also asked them to negotiate with all the owners of these locations and prepare to rent them.

It includes a high-tech building, an old and dilapidated slum area near the old upper town that overlooks the entire new city of the foggy city, and several wastelands on the outskirts of the city.

After renting these places, the crew of "Ready Player One" will carry out various set modifications for about a month to make these places more "futuristic" and cyberpunk.

After confirming the location, Wu Yuan did not stay in the foggy city, but returned home to continue to decide on other actors for "Ready Player One".

The male and female protagonists of this movie have been confirmed. The female protagonist is Liu Yifei, and this time she will be able to play a cool role again.

The male lead has also been confirmed to be Peng Yuchang. He has already signed the contract with Guangying Times and will be a contracted artist of the company in the future. Maybe he will even be arranged into the fairy tale movie universe.

But the film also needs a few other supporting actors.

Wu Yuan already has an idea in his mind.

First of all, there is the founder of "Oasis", who is a Frankenstein with an elusive personality.

In order to find the most suitable "Oasis" manager, he designed many thrilling and suspenseful levels and challenges for players.

Wu Yuan planned to let Chen Daoming play this role. In fact, Chen Daoming is quite suitable for playing this kind of weird Frankenstein. It would be a waste of his talent to always let him play the emperor.

For the adventurers in the main group, Wu Yuan planned to directly use the company's artists.

Zhu Yawen, Yuan Hong and Jinsha are all very useful tools, and they are more than capable of playing supporting roles.

There is only one character, and that is Shoto, the Japanese ninja from the original film.

In reality, this character is only an 11-year-old child, who possesses courage and maturity that is disproportionate to his age.

He hates being looked down upon because of his age, so he behaves like an adult. Later, he joins the male protagonist to fight against the IOI Corps.

It’s not easy to find a child actor of similar age.

However, Wu Yuan quickly found a suitable candidate among a large number of actors collected by the company.

A young child star who has just debuted a few years ago - Hu Xianxu! (End of this chapter)