Since that meal, Zhou Xingchi has gone to chat with the chef every week. He just has some ideas for a new movie, but he has no clue about the specific plot, so he has to get inspiration from chatting.
"The God of Cookery" is of great significance to Zhou Xingchi. "Westward Journey" is the first film in which he participated in directing, and "The God of Cookery" is the first film for which he served as the main script writer.
While Zhou Xingchi was working hard to conceive the script, Kang Jianfei's "Resident Evil" had already started filming.
April 1st, April Fool's Day.
In front of an office building in Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City, more than a dozen actors and hundreds of crew members were gathering together to hold a start-up worship ceremony. There were also more than 0 media reporters who had been approved to come in for interviews.
Kang Jianfei stood at the front, followed by a group of assistant directors such as Xu Ke, Wu Ruiqing, Zhou Cheng, etc. This film alone had 8 assistant directors, and there were also a lot of photographers such as Zhong Zhiwen and Du Kefeng.
The actors include Li Jiaxin, who plays the heroine Alice; and Tom Cruise, let's just think of him as the male protagonist.
Aishwarya plays Rayne, a female member of the commando team. The background of this story is in India, so naturally there must be an Indian beauty;
Zhao Wenqian plays Matt, the one who deliberately leaked the zombie virus. He is the actor Xu Ke forced to insert;
Sophie Marceau also appeared in the film, guest starring as hive researcher Lisa, who is Tom Cruise's sister in the film;
There are also some minor supporting roles, arranged according to the ratio of Chinese, Americans and Indians in a ratio of 1:1:1. For example, Carina Chow plays a small role as a female villain.
The popular young actress is Neha Dalvi. She was born in Pakistan and later moved to Mumbai with her parents. She is only 7 years old this year. In order to build momentum for the film, Kang Jianfei specially asked people to advertise in Indian newspapers, and eventually it was published in thousands of copies.
In the information, a little girl was selected to play the role of the Red Queen.
The reason why I chose a 7-year-old girl is because this character has not yet appeared in "Resident Evil". If a 10-year-old girl is chosen, then when the second part is filmed in two or three years, she will probably become a grown-up character.
Lolita.
Kang Jianfei led everyone to worship God from the front. Tom Cruise was quite novel in holding incense and pretended to follow him. After worshiping, he asked Sophie Marceau: "Do Hong Kong people have to have this kind of ceremony when making movies?"
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"Yes, just like we say God bless, this is their tradition." Sophie Marceau explained casually.
"It's a very interesting tradition." Tom Cruise laughed.
The master of ceremonies suddenly shouted: "After worshiping God, take off the red cloth!"
Kang Jianfei walked up to the camera, reached out and lifted the red cloth, revealing the long camera: "I announce that "Resident Evil" has officially started filming!"
The next step was to be interviewed by reporters, which took a long time, and the filming didn't actually start until the afternoon.
The filming in Hong Kong was all indoor scenes, so everyone moved to office buildings. Several offices here were renovated, and even one of the non-load-bearing walls was smashed in order to turn them into laboratories with a full sense of technology.
Wearing a chemical protective suit, Zhao Wenqian carefully operated the robotic arm to take out the test tubes. Then he put the T-virus and antidote into the suitcase, then threw away one of the tubes of virus and smashed it to pieces on the ground.
"Click!"
With Kang Jianfei's shout, the first scene ended perfectly, and then came the group scene where the Red Queen closed all the channels.
The actors in these scenes were all supporting actors, and there were dozens of them. There were also more than 0 extras wearing scientific research uniforms as human backgrounds, and there were big wolfdogs locked in a row of iron cages.
There are many Europeans and Americans living in Hong Kong, as well as many Indian Asans. This all stems from the British colonial rule. Most of them live in ordinary lives because the Hong Kong film industry is developed, and some have also joined it, specializing in special roles.
——Those gringos in Hong Kong movies.
These are the foreign scientific researchers who acted in several group scenes.
James is one of them. His father used to be a British sailor. After retiring, he did not return to China. Instead, he stayed in Hong Kong to live happily. So his mother took him to look for relatives. Instead of finding his father, he even returned to his hometown.
All the travel expenses were spent.
Later, his mother died of illness, and James had to make a living on his own when he was more than ten years old. He has now signed a contract with Oriental Entertainment Agency, specializing in starring in ghost roles in film and television works, and occasionally filming some commercials, which is the kind that specializes in using foreigners to enhance the quality of products.
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In the long corridor, James walked quickly with a suit on his arm and a cup of coffee, humming an unknown English ditty.
Zhao Wenqi walked past him with a backpack on his shoulder, and the backpack hit James' hand, causing the coffee to scatter all over him.
"Click!"
Kang Jianfei shouted: "James, you poured the coffee too deliberately. Try again."
"OK, my mistake." James quickly admitted his mistake. He has nearly a minute of scenes in this film, which is already a big role for him. It is a good opportunity that he must seize, and maybe he will become famous from it.
He came again, and this time coffee spilled on his chest. James glanced at Zhao Wenqian angrily, and after realizing that the other party didn't say sorry, he smiled and said sarcastically: "Thank you, brother!"
Even after this scene ended, he continued to move forward after restarting the camera and walked to an elevator. There were already several people here, wearing researcher uniforms, with Indian, European, American and Chinese faces.
An Indian nurse with dark skin turned to look at James with a kind smile on his face.
James was a little embarrassed and explained: "Someone else did it."
"Click!"
The second group scene ended, followed by the elevator scene, where James, the Indian female nurse, and several other people were trapped in the elevator.
These group scenes of the company only lasted six or seven minutes in the cinema. But the actual filming took about two to three days, which is quite fast. After the filming, the extras can't leave, they have to put on makeup.
Zombies, fight to the death with the heroine and team members.
The zombie scenes are the most time-consuming. The crew hired more than ten makeup artists, and it took more than three hours every day to put makeup on the zombies.
"Oh my god, this looks so cool!" James said after putting on makeup and looking at his face in the mirror.
"Pap-pap-pap!"
Kang Jianfei clapped his hands and walked over and said to the zombies: "Come here, I will show you the zombies' movements."
Everyone gathered around, including the makeup artist.
Kang Jianfei raised his hands and walked forward stiffly, opening his mouth and baring his teeth from time to time. His eyes were filled with confusion. Then he suddenly sped up a little and limped toward a staff member.
"Ah!" The staff member was startled and subconsciously stepped back.
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "OK, that's it, let's practice it first." (To be continued)
