director of the millennium

Chapter 79 "Pirates of the Caribbean" starts!
October 10th, Los Angeles, sunny.

Wu Yuan's transoceanic flight was delayed for more than an hour and landed at Los Angeles International Airport.

This time it was no longer John who came to pick him up, but the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

"The director and the actors are all here, and the makeup photos will be taken tomorrow, and the official shooting will start on the 13th!"

Listening to the schedule reported by the staff, Wu Yuan nodded without any comments.

For him, the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" was a job on the sidelines, and he borrowed chickens to lay eggs to cultivate his own crew.

Thinking of this, Wu Yuan closed his eyes in the car and opened his eyes: "Have all the arrangements for the Huaxia staff that were sent a few days ago?"

"The overall planning has been arranged, and they all work with the group as assistants." The staff immediately introduced.

Wu Yuan nodded and didn't speak any more.

Jerry finally defended him.

Although Jerry promised Wu Yuan that he could bring people into the crew to study, he had to do so after the official shooting of the crew started. That means he could only join the crew with Wu Yuan.

Wu Yuan’s people were not allowed to participate in advance in the crew’s preparatory work, including the creation and arrangement of props and scenes, the preliminary preparation and production of special effects, and the design and customization of costumes.

Because these things involve the entire Hollywood film industry system. Without the various art teams, clothing factories, and industrial prop departments that serve large-scale movies, it would be impossible to do all this well.

Jerry wasn't afraid that Wu Yuan would send people to learn how Hollywood crews work on set, how to assign positions reasonably, and how to run the crew in a more streamlined manner, but that was all he had to learn.

No matter how many things there are, it cannot be taught by paying a little tuition.

Fortunately, Wu Yuan had no intention of learning the Haolaiwu system. These things cannot be learned by more than 20 people.

He really just wants to cultivate an elite crew for himself that can catch up with Hollywood level.

As for domestic film industrialization and systematization, it will take at least ten years to start promoting it. It is impossible to think about flying before learning to walk.

The domestic staff sent to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" crew this time are all young people selected by Wu Yuan from Beijing Film Studio, Qingying Film Studio, and Xinyang Film Studio.

As private capital enters the film industry, the first to be affected are the major state-owned studios in the country.

Although it is not as serious as the wave of layoffs in state-owned enterprises in the 90s and [-]s, it is certain that the major state-owned factories will go downhill.

Under such circumstances, if Wu Yuan wanted to recruit a group of people to form his own crew, it would not be too easy!
As a well-known domestic and even international director currently second only to Zhang, Chen and Jiang, Wu Yuan's name is the biggest attraction.

Even if his company "Era of Light and Shadow" is just an empty shell for the time being, he easily signed the contracts of more than 20 crew members, and signed them for five years.

Yes, the leather bag company established by Wu Yuan in China has finally begun to become formalized.

This company called "Light and Shadow Era" was first established when "The Night the Comet Came" was released in order to facilitate the establishment of public accounts and settlement of accounts with China Film.

For a long time after that, the company even borrowed finance from China Film Group and had no permanent employees.

However, in the past few months when Wu Yuan returned to China, during his breaks, he finally built the skeleton of this company.

Not only have we found qualified accountants and cashiers, but now the company has more than 20 employees.

All the staff sent to the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" are employees of Light and Shadow Times, and they will work exclusively for the films produced by Light and Shadow Times in the future.

Of course, for the time being, this company will only participate in Wu Yuan's own film investment work. In fact, they are working for Wu Yuan alone, which is similar in nature to Zhang Yimou's studio.

It has to wait until the policy is formalized next year before the Light and Shadow Era is eligible to participate in film production and distribution.

Wu Yuan and the more than 20 employees are not in a hurry. The production of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is not expected to be completed until February or March next year.

Even if Wu Yuan wants to make a new movie next year, it will be in the second half of the year.

After resting for a night to adjust to the time difference, the next day, Wu Yuan, led by the assistant Jerry assigned him, arrived at the filming location for the final makeup photos of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

As soon as he entered the studio door, Wu Yuan saw Johnny Depp wearing a classic "Jack Sparrow" costume, holding a gun in one hand and a bayonet in the other, grinning widely.

"Hey, Depp, your four gold teeth are so cool!" Wu Yuan praised without hesitation.

He was really moved by Johnny Depp's dedication. In order to make the character more suitable for the image of a "pirate", he specially asked a dentist to inlay 4 gold teeth for himself, one 14K gold, one 18K gold, One is 22K gold, and the last one is platinum.

This is really four teeth extracted and then put in gold teeth!
With this dedicated attitude alone, Johnny Depp is definitely qualified to be the soul of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series!
Depp naturally knew Wu Yuan.

Although Wu Yuan has not been in the United States for a long time, everyone in the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" knows the chief director.

Huang Bo has a good saying, when you become popular, there are good people around you.

Now Wu Yuan is not considered a small director in Hollywood. Although his films have not been released in the United States since "Juno", he has won many awards!
The crew is looking forward to the best director in Berlin, the Oscar nominee for best director to rule the crew.

"Daniel, you're finally here." Although Depp had a shy personality, he still took the initiative to hug Wu Yuan: "If you don't come again, Jerry will be very anxious."

Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, who were also taking makeup photos, also came up to say hello to Wu Yuan.

The elf prince is still so handsome, and the English rose is also at its most beautiful age.

Especially KK who was wearing a 17th-century European tunic dress, it was so exciting!

When hugging the other person, Wu Yuan clearly felt the pressure on his chest.

The actors and the director had held many video conferences before to discuss the details of the script.

Therefore, although it was the first time Wu Yuan met them offline, they were not strangers to each other.

"Seeing your appearances, I believe our movie will be a hit!" Wu Yuan praised with a smile, "You seem to have stepped out of a script."

"I hope." Depp shrugged, and Orlando said helplessly: "There has never been a pirate movie that has sold well. I hope we can break this curse."

"Yes!" Wu Yuan nodded firmly.

As a director, he needs to give the actors confidence. How can he give up without a fight?

And as a person with future memories, he also knows what kind of results the film will achieve in the end, so Wu Yuan is really confident at the moment.

His confident appearance easily infected the actors, and everyone became full of confidence!

The next day, the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean 1" announced in beautiful Los Angeles that they had officially started filming!
(End of this chapter)