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Chapter 488 How to Reconstruct Batman

"That's not a good choice, is it, Barry?"

"It's indeed not a good choice, but the director is little Gilbert, and nothing is impossible for him," said the reporter named Barry.

The colleague nodded and said, yes, after all, he was called Little Gilbert.

If it was any other director, the voices of doubt would only be louder. But as long as Gilbert Jr. took action, everyone had a blind confidence that he would succeed.

There have been many successful superhero movies in Hollywood recently, but most of them are from Marvel. The success of DC's superhero movies seems to date back to Tim Burton's version of Batman in 1989.

That is also recognized as the best Batman movie in history. Can Gilbert Jr. surpass it? I am afraid there is a big question mark.

As Gilbert Jr.'s official media outlet, the reporter from the Los Angeles Business Journal was called on first.

"Director Gilbert, what motivated you to take over the Batman project? You have to know that this series has been a complete failure since 1997."

Gilbert Jr. explained: "I don't think Batman has completely failed. It may be that Batman has temporarily withdrawn from the fans' field of vision due to his poor performance in the past.

But now David, Jonathan and I have come up with some great stories that I believe will be able to capture the hearts and minds of people and bring out the Batman in them.”

The second reporter to be called was Barry, who asked, "Director Gilbert, can you tell us how the new Batman story was created?"

Gilbert Jr. responded, “We watched all the previous Batman movies before we started writing them.

Including Joel Schumacher's 1997 Batman, Tim Burton's 1989 Batman, and even Adam West's 1966 Batman.

Some of these versions of Batman are good, some are terrible, but what they all have in common is that they are too comic book.

So we tried our best to avoid this in the creative process, that is, the birth of Batman cannot be separated from the real context, so we are determined to tell a story about the origin of Batman. "

Here, Gilbert Jr. did not use me to take all the credit for the creation of the entire project. Although he proposed the story outline, it was David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan who completed the script.

The third reporter was from The Hollywood Reporter: "Director Gilbert, can we know how you plan to tell the story of Batman this time?"

“We all know that Batman is Bruce Wayne, but there are very few moments when Batman is Bruce Wayne.

So at the beginning of the creation, I told David and Jonathan that Batman in the comics looks like a god. But we know he is not a god, so we decided to give him more of a human identity.

As a human being, he will be afraid, confused and bewildered.

Because of these emotional factors, Bruce Wayne is forced to embark on the process of transformation into a superhero.

When I first started writing the script, I told David Jonathan that I wanted to make the superhero movie that I wanted to see when I was twelve years old.

In terms of script creation, I drew inspiration from the three comic books "Batman: Year One", "Batman: The Long Halloween", and "Batman: The Man Wo Falls" to complete the current script."

The last question came from a reporter from the New York Post: "Director Gilbert, Gotham is a fictional city? How would you present Gotham City?"

“An exaggerated version of New York, a depressing, suffocating international metropolis. In order to capture the essence of the city, the film was shot on location as much as possible.”

The filming locations have been selected, New York is only a small part, and the main part of the film was actually shot in Chicago. At the same time, some styles of international metropolises such as Hong Kong Island, Paris, and London will also be incorporated.

Gilbert Jr. hopes that all movie fans around the world can find the shadow of their country's representative city in the movie.

Of course, as a real-life shooter, Gilbert Jr. did not give up on miniature models and CGI to make the film. For example, the city train scene had to be made with CGI.

Shortly after the press conference, major news media and websites updated the content of the press conference. Media supporting Gilbert generally expressed their expectations, but most media chose to wait and see.

The Hollywood Reporter said: "Although we know that director Gilbert never fails, the Batman movie may be a surprise in his directorial career."

The New York Post said: "Compared to DC, which has not produced a movie for seven years, it would be better for Gilbert Jr. to take over the Marvel movies, which are more likely to succeed."

The Washington Post was even more exaggerated: "No one is always successful. Little Gilbert succeeded for so many years, but he finally failed as expected."

Even before the film was even started, it was shrouded in a shadow of distrust. It seemed that as long as Gilbert Jr. started filming, Batman would definitely fail.

In contrast, fans of Gilbert Jr. are full of confidence.

On the social networking site, after Gilbert Jr. posted a few design drafts, fans soon left messages.

Jack Zhao left a message: "If anyone can save the Batman movie, it must be Gilbert Jr."

Zoe also left a message: "I'm looking forward to Gilbert Jr.'s version of Batman. I can't wait."

Alex, a New York street kid who came to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams and was almost tricked into going to the neighboring San Fernando Valley, also said: "The new Batman movie is going to be very epic." However, after the press conference, the new Batman project fell silent, as if the press conference had never been held.

Gilbert returned to Stardew Valley Farm in Topeka, Kansas, to continue his leisurely vacation. He also gathered the team members here to get together and talk about their views on the project.

"Annie, how are your two boys?" After taking the grilled lamb chops handed over by Charlize Theron, little Gilbert took a bite and chatted with his assistant director.

Anne Burton felt a headache and said, "She is not very obedient and is very naughty at school. I heard from Paul that she had a fight with her friends two days ago."

Little Gilbert smiled and said, "Children of this age are really disliked by dogs. They will be fine when they grow up. I believe the two boys will gradually mature."

Art director Serena Heffey came over with two glasses of wine and joked, "Annie, I envy you for having two children. That's great."

Anne Burton rolled her eyes at Serena and said, "If you want a child so badly, why don't you have one?"

"No, no, no, no," Serena refused. "I still want to enjoy my wonderful single life. Aren't handsome guys good enough?"

Selina Heffy leads a rather dissolute life, often sleeping with more than two handsome guys, and never getting tired of it.

As a core member of Little Gilbert's team, it was easy for her to sleep with a few handsome guys. As long as she gave them a chance to play a minor role, they would flock to her.

Gilbert Jr. never cares about the private lives of his team members. In North America, this is considered interference with freedom and is taboo.

However, most people in the team, such as action director Luca Farias, would have extramarital affairs, but none of them were as extravagant as Selena.

Little Gilbert smiled and said, "Selena, your work will be a bit harder from now on. I hope the set design team will contact the Chicago City Government to see how much preferential treatment they have.

At the same time, we will go to Iceland to select the appropriate locations for filming.”

Serena had seen the project plan a long time ago, and she asked curiously, "Isn't it set in the Himalayas in the script? Why not shoot there?"

Given director Gilbert's connections with the ancient Eastern country, it would be easy to get filming permission.

However, Gilbert Jr. said: "This is unrealistic, the altitude there is too high, the average altitude is more than 4,000 meters, which is even more exaggerated than the Denver Plateau.

Iceland is good, and it has preferential policies.”

In recent years, Hollywood crews have been leaving the country and rarely shoot in the Los Angeles area. This is actually inseparable from the globalization of Hollywood. After all, the monotonous Los Angeles cannot represent the whole world.

Due to economic reasons, major cities in North America have extended olive branches to Hollywood crews and offered relatively favorable policies.

The same is true in other parts of the world. In order to attract the "Harry Potter" crew to return to the UK for filming, the UK offered the greatest preferential treatment. Even the British Prime Minister's spokesman publicly called on the crew to return for filming.

The reason is simple. We have all seen the effect of "The Lord of the Rings". It is simply a huge series of commercials that has set off a wave of tourism in China.

Relying on tourism income, a lot of foreign exchange has been generated, and its international reputation and image have been enhanced.

You know, before this, many Westerners didn’t even know where China was or what it was.

This is the role of a hit movie, which drives local economic development and its impact is immeasurable.

So Gilbert Jr. felt that with his reputation and that of the Batman movies, no place would refuse.

In the kitchen, Gilbert Jr. chatted with production designer Nathan Crowley and talked about the Batmobile.

"When the Warner executives asked me if Batman could have a car that was even wilder than before, do you know what I wrote in the script?"

"What?" Nathan was curious.

"What I wrote in the script was, is there a black model of this car?" Little Gilbert laughed, then pinched a piece of dough from the dough rising in the kitchen and made a shape.

Nathan looked at the abstract shape of the dough and said he was a little confused. What is this?
"This is how I imagined the Batmobile to look like," Gilbert Jr. explained. "I thought it would have the agility of a sports car but the flamboyance of a tank.

That’s where you need to work with Lamborghini to design it. I need to make a Batmobile that’s real, that works, that can be filmed.”

Nathan pouted, feeling embarrassed because the dough shape was very abstract. But he still took on this difficult task and planned to discuss it with Lamborghini when he returned.

In fact, Gilbert Jr. had previously approached Lamborghini and asked them to help him design a car that combines the attributes of a Hummer and a sports car.

Little Gilbert was not satisfied with the several design drafts that Lamborghini presented, so he had to keep going back to the drawing board.

The Batmobile from the previous life was pretty cool, but little Gilbert still wanted to see what kind of monster Nathan and Lamborghini could create.

(End of this chapter)