Early the next morning, Tang An came to Huayi. Today he will discuss the preliminary preparations for the film, mainly the shooting location.
Of course, Tang An made the decision after considering this movie for a long time.
The first is the technical issue, which is the most important factor in science fiction films.
It's mainly about the aliens and the actors' exoskeletons. There aren't many scenes where the aliens appear in the film, and there are a lot of repeated shots at the beginning.
Exoskeletons are not too difficult. The US military has been studying this type of individual combat weapon for a long time.
Civilian exoskeletons have been used in medical and other fields.
Even a few years later, if a tech geek spends some time and money, he can make it himself, but it will just be a showpiece.
In a few years, veteran exoskeleton power system supplier ReWalk Robotics will be listed on Nasdaq.
He just wanted to use it for filming, not for real.
Although the domestic special effects are much worse than those in Hollywood, if you give it the time and money, you can do pretty well.
Hollywood special effects companies have many domestic professionals holding important positions.
You can buy both hardware and software with money, but you can't afford the top ones, and the money you make is not enough to buy equipment and software.
Another thing is experience. If you work on those shoddy special effects all day long, no matter how good your skills are, they will be wasted.
Furthermore, special effects are only part of a movie. No matter how good they are, it will be useless if other aspects are not enough.
The special effects of "The Great Wall" are better than those of "The Secret of the Dragon". The latter has become the benchmark for domestic special effects, while the former has been criticized for being useless.
Also in "Havoc in Heaven", what was wrong was not the special effects, but the way of the special effects.
90% of the backgrounds are made. If you ask Cameron to lead the "Avatar" team to do it, it won't be any better.
If 90% of the backgrounds in "Avatar" didn't use real scenes, it wouldn't be much better.
Part of it is okay, but it is all made and will definitely be distorted.
Tang An doesn't expect to be able to achieve the special effects of "Avatar", but he can actually shoot it and should be able to meet the standards of the first-tier Hollywood blockbusters of this era.
The cost and time of actual shooting must be relatively high. Fortunately, the movie has a lot of repeated shots, which are repeated again and again. The total number of interior and exterior scenes only has about 40 scenes, which saves some time and expense.
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It was almost time. Tang An came to the conference room. Chen Guofu and Zhao Jun came first, followed by Wang Zhonglei and Wang Zhongjun.
"Director Wang, everyone, I have already produced the script for the new film, as well as some concept drawings of the scenery. Please take a look."
"Mr. Tang's efficiency is so high. It took only one and a half months for the script to be completed." Wang Zhongjun praised and took the script.
Tang An smiled and said, "I've had the idea for a long time, and it will be quick to implement."
They stopped talking and read the script carefully.
"Edge of Tomorrow"?
The name is quite good, but I don't know how powerful it is.
I read it for half an hour before I put down the script in my hands.
Wang Zhonglei touched his chin and said, "This concept is somewhat similar to "Terror Reincarnation"."
Opposite Chen Guofu said, "The idea is the same, but it is a completely different story. Even if it is placed in Hollywood, it is a very creative science fiction film."
Chen Guofu, who had worked in Colombia, understood the excellence of this script better. First of all, he thought beyond imagination. This is a story about ordinary aliens invading the earth and being killed by the protagonist.
There are climaxes, laughs, excitement, tragedy, and of course bloody love, the standard Hollywood blockbuster model.
The rhythm is also very good, there are not too many things that require your brain, it is easy to understand, and there are many things worth recalling if you delve deeper.
Another one is imagination. It’s not that Hollywood movies don’t need imagination, but they can’t be overly innovative and the audience won’t be so receptive.
Wang Zhongjun has nothing to say. Anyway, it’s enough to pay for Tang An’s movie with your eyes closed.
He just had some questions, "Mr. Tang, is this mecha too crude?"
"It seems a bit crude, but we can't make "Transformers". It will take at least four to five years," Tang An said.
Chen Guofu added, "But I'm afraid there are some scenes that I can't talk about. At the beginning, the helicopter landed at the Ministry of National Defense, and they also bombed the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven..."
Chen Guofu couldn't continue talking. If this were in the United States, it would be easier to say that the Pentagon and the White House could be bombed at will.
But in China, not to mention bombing, even if you go to Tiananmen Gate to film, you have to be reviewed by the superiors at all levels, and you won't be able to come back within a month.
The movie "Tiananmen" was shot on location in Hengdian, not in Tiananmen.
"Let's try our best. If bombing is not allowed in places like Tiananmen and Temple of Heaven, then we can find some more iconic buildings."
There are indeed too many restrictions in the country. Tang An changed the background to say that the world has almost fallen, and only China is left. This time we Chinese people come to compete for the earth.
In addition to domestic landmark buildings, various countries must also bomb them.
But they only flashed as clips of two or three seconds each. The White House, the Louvre, the Kremlin, and the East Meridian Tower were built in scaled-down models and exploded.
Then blurring the picture a little bit has no effect at all.
After discussing some details to see if there was anything wrong with it, we talked about the sets in the movie.
"This beach position must be surrounded by at least 60,000 square meters of blue screen, almost 200x300, and it must be selected in a dry place with little rain."
Originally, the movie only used a green screen to circle 30,000 square meters of land for filming, but the country is such a big place that 60,000 square meters shouldn't be a problem.
"60,000 square meters is no problem. When will this scene be filmed?" Chen Guofu asked.
The climate in each place is different in each season. There may be little rain in the past few months and continuous heavy rain in the next two months.
Tang An thought for a while and said, "The war scene at the beginning will be shot later, probably in May or June next year. I will definitely not be able to catch up with the summer schedule. It will be released during the New Year."
Other settings, including the airport converted into a military base, the heroine's training ground, the interior of the base, and the arsenal are all explained one by one.
A copy of the script was also kept for filing with Optoelectronics, and then Wang Zhongjun asked Tang An if there were any actors he was interested in.
Tang An just said that we would wait until the exoskeleton mecha is built. After all, it still depends on whether the actor's appearance is suitable for this kind of mecha.
Chen Guojia and Zhao Jun were responsible for the early preparations of the film, along with the production department. Tang An would make the final decision when the time came. Now he had to make the storyboard script first.
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On October 17, the 27th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival was held in Yuzhang City, Jiangnan Province.
"Chinese Partners" is a favorite to be nominated for six awards: Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Newcomer, and Best Music. Tang An also flew to Henan with the crew.
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Moreover, as "The Founding of a Republic" has just exceeded 400 million in more than 30 days since its release, it is no longer expected to break the 427.5 million of "Partners in China", and the possibility of winning the grand prize is even greater.
After all, he is the box-office champion in mainland film history. Even if Tang An is young and makes a commercial film, he deserves to win an award.