Director’s Legend - Chapter 356

The acquisition of Lucasfilm will have to be reviewed by the US antitrust organization, and the procedures will be very cumbersome. Therefore, after the press conference, Shao Shuaijun did not have a deeper conversation with Lucas. If the acquisition fails, the conversation will be a joke.

As the hostess, Li Xiuxiu invited Lucas to dinner. There was no business discussion on the table. Lucas was more interested in Shao Shuaijun’s movie “The Night Watcher: Reflection”, and Shao Shuaijun discussed his own plan with Lucas. .

There are not many opportunities to communicate with the legendary director.

“Listen to your explanation, “Night Watcher: Reflection” completely subverts the plot of “Night Watcher”, but it is more reasonable and has a lot of sublimation. It is conceivable that this is definitely an amazing modification!”

“George, do you think this modification will succeed?”

“Why not, I think it’s a cool story, even though it is biased towards the dark. I have seen the IMAX version of “Nightman”, the picture is very shocking, your first plot processing is slightly frizzy, this time it is subversive The changes, coupled with the impact of such a picture, will surprise the audience.”

“Thank you.” With Lucas’ affirmation, Shao Shuaijun is more confident.

The next day, Shao Shuaijun returned to the crew again. It took three days to shoot the last set of shots. Then, “The Night Watcher: Reflection” was finished.

“Hi, everyone, this time the filming was very hard. To be honest, I don’t know if this reconstructed plot can be recognized by the audience. But I want to say, thank you for your hard work in these two months, regardless of success or failure, We plucked up the courage to make up for the regrets of the year. November of this year is the time to test the results, no matter if we can see again in the future, at least, we are happier than most crews who can only meet once. Thank you. Cheers!”

Cang-dang, the full champagne collided, not wine, but laughter.

At the end of the shooting of “The Night Watcher: Reflection”, Shao Shuaijun completed the editing of the film and handed it to Louis Leinard to help oversee the post-production. Now with Jiahe D2 and ILM soon, movie special effects can be produced and sold by ourselves. After finishing the work in this area, the filming work of “Avengers” was put on the table.

With the collection of actors and the preparation of the crew, Shao Shuaijun flew to India.

The cast of “The Fantastic Drifting of the Junior School” is holding a casting event in Mumbai, India. The casting event organized by Dream Chase South Asia has attracted tens of thousands of Indians to participate. Countless people come to sign up every day. The crowd is unimaginable. There is no way. The three movies released by Dream South Asia last year have refreshed the Indian box office three times and won several Indian superstars.

These Indians are full of expectations for this movie, and naturally want to be selected and become a big star.

The casting will last for six months, and the suitable “Pi” candidates in Li Yu’s mind will be selected. At the same time, it is also a very important task to build filming bases in Hong Kong, Treasure Island, French India, local governance, and magic land.

The world’s largest automatic wave device tank will be built in Hong Kong to imitate the wind and waves on the sea. The magnificent and mysterious floating islands on the sea will be filmed in the Bairong Garden on the treasure island of Kenting. The city will be filmed in the magic city. The most important thing is that the scene will be shot in the local administration of French India to shoot the early stage shots of the film.

Shao Shuaijun did not participate in the casting, Li Yu is the director, he has his ideas. Shao Shuaijun mainly went to French India to choose a suitable shooting location.

French India is the general term for the land occupied by France in India in the past, which was later returned to India, and these places are still called French India. Because it has been ruled by France for a long time, the customs and customs have been Frenchized, and many people still retain French nationality and live a French life. Plus, it is close to the sea. The scenery and environment are just like France, which is very suitable for tourism and shooting.

Local governance is a city, the most famous place in French India, and it is picturesque.

With several assistants, bodyguards, and crew photographers, accompanied by the Indian staff who chased the dream of South Asia, Shao Shuaijun spent a long time in local governance. In “The Fantastic Drifting of the Boy School”, “Pi”‘s childhood lived in the fictional Pondicherry Zoo. There was no zoo in the local management. In the end, everyone decided to transform the local botanical garden into a zoo.

The local government is also very supportive of this filming, and specially opened the thousand-year-old Virianur Temple for filming by the crew. In short, the trip was very rewarding. A total of 18 locations were found in local governance and French India, and studios were set up in the Muslim quarter.

When Li Yu came from Mumbai, he was very satisfied with the scenes: “Director Shao, this place is really beautiful. I now feel that you can shoot anywhere with a camera, and the lens is beautiful.”

“It’s fine if you are satisfied. You are in charge of shooting. I will provide you with the logistics. If there are any shortcomings, you can directly say that if I am not here, Wang Wei will cooperate with you. I have been an old friend of Wang Wei and have cooperated with many movies. strong ability.”

I discussed the script with Li Yu for a few days. Seeing that the time is approaching the end of February, the 83rd Oscar award ceremony will be held. However, Shao Shuaijun did not intend to participate in this awards ceremony, because the entire 2010 Summit Entertainment was noisy and made outstanding commercial achievements, but was completely wiped out at the Oscars.

Only “Iron Man 2” and “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” won the best visual effects nominations and are still competitors. However, these two films have little chance of winning, because this year Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” was released. Although Shao Shuaijun does not like this director who has despised China, he wants to know with his toes, “Hugo” won the prize. It is destined.

Shao Shuaijun has no interest in sitting in the theater for half a night just to applaud others.

In communication, Shao Shuaijun is always a bit nonsense. Reluctant to engage in messy things, such as the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited him to serve as an Oscar judge, but Shao Shuaijun refused. Let him be the guest of honor, but also refused. The reason is very simple, he has not won the Oscar personal award, sorry to go up!

Others squeezed their heads and wanted to go up. Shao Shuaijun was invited by others several times, but he did not do it. Just like he never goes to the Berlin Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, and Venice Film Festival, he feels that he is quite far away from art. It would be nice to be able to make movies and lively. Talking about art is hypocritical.

When the Oscars ended, sure enough, “Hugo” won the best visual effects award.

In March, Shao Shuaijun left India and flew back to the United States, which also represented that “The Avengers” officially entered the shooting state. Of course, in the assembly of the women’s federation (the Avengers) team, Louis Lenard and Gao Zhisheng, as the associate directors of the crew, first began to set up the studio, and Shao Shuaijun went to the Jiahe D2 studio in Florida. “The Night Watcher: Reflection” is here for post-production.

He plans to spend two or three days to deal with the problems encountered in production.

At this moment, a piece of news outside was noisy.

“Breaking news! Summit Entertainment General Manager Mitchell Bruce appeared in Glendale, California, and met with DreamWorks Animation President Lewis Coleman. Summit Entertainment’s fourth acquisition this year surfaced, acquiring DreamWorks Animation The company, fully enter the animation film industry!”-“The Sun”.

Known as the most pervasive “The Sun” revealed the shocking news, and accompanied by a pair of fuzzy photos, you can still see the image of Mitchell and Coleman shaking hands in the parking lot together.

“Shao, I’m sorry, my whereabouts have been followed.” Mitchell called Shao Shuaijun the first time.

Shao Shuaijun frowned: “It’s not your fault, Mitchell. Now that the media knows about it, will it affect our acquisition of DreamWorks?”

“There will definitely be an impact. Walt Disney was also seeking cooperation with DreamWorks before. I am worried that Disney will compete with us and participate in the acquisition.”

“Quickly cut the mess, spend more money, don’t be afraid to spend money, we will earn more after spending, we must not give up animation movies. If the acquisition is really not achieved, then make preparations for second-hand now to acquire Armand Animation Company Right!”

“Well, I will hurry up and negotiate with DreamWorks, Shao, if I can, how about I invite you to have dinner with Katzenberg? You are the most eye-catching director and boss on the planet, you can ask him Outline a beautiful blueprint for the future. With your back on the Chinese market, this is more useful than what I said!”

“Hehe, forget it, I don’t know how to negotiate.”

“No negotiation, you just need to outline the prospects to Katzenberg. We are professional businessmen. What we say is too low convincing. What you say is different. You are the most discerning director in Hollywood! Just tell him and join the pinnacle. The prospects for entertainment are just fine.”

“Then… I’ll try it, but don’t have high expectations. I might just talk to him without speculation.” Shao Shuaijun hesitated. What he hates most is dealing with people in a commercial way. .

DreamWorks was originally just a studio, founded in 1994 by the great director Steven Spielberg, animation geek Jeffrey Katzenberg and music godfather David Geffen. In the 1990s, Hollywood was monopolized by a major production company. In order to pursue free creation, these three dreamed of creating DreamWorks.

With their talents and their respective appeals, DreamWorks has been built into a dream kingdom. At its peak, even the six major Hollywood players have to retreat. However, it is difficult for independent film companies to reach the six heights. Without the support of major entertainment groups, they cannot match their opponents in terms of financial resources and available entertainment resources.

In addition, Jeffrey Katzenberg only likes to do animation. David Geffen was tired of the risk of investing in movies. Finally, in 2004, DreamWorks was split into DreamWorks Films and DreamWorks Animation. Pierberg is in charge of the film company, Katzenberg is in charge of the animation company, and David Geffen announced that he will no longer intervene in DreamWorks affairs.

In the same year, Katzenberg went public with DreamWorks Animation.

DreamWorks Studios was first sold to Paramount by Spielberg, and then left Paramount with “Transformers 2” in 2009 and fell into the arms of Walt Disney.

The free movie kingdom that was built with dreams back then finally collapsed due to various reasons.

And DreamWorks Animation, despite the ups and downs, is still the first of the three major Hollywood animation companies. Even if Disney annexed Pixar, DreamWorks still never lost its reputation. Last year, “How to Train Your Dragon” was produced at the global box office of $495 million. “Super villain” global $320 million, “Shrek 4” even achieved a global box office of 750 million US dollars.

It can be called the big *OSS in the animation industry.

Let Shao Shuaijun convince this big animation *OSS. Shao Shuaijun thinks this is really a difficult job. He is more accustomed to spending money and not talking nonsense. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)