Chapter 43: Limited War

After four months of preparation and filming, all the shots have been completed, followed by seven months of post-production and promotion.

"Captain America 1" was originally scheduled to be released on December 10, because the name of the Weilong movie has not been launched, and it is even a little stinky, so it can only avoid the Christmas war, and if the reputation is good, it can also have a wave of rebound during Christmas.

However, Shao Diheng believes that if his plan can be achieved perfectly, in less than three years, it will not be Weilong Movies avoiding other movies, but other movies avoiding Weilong Movies!

The outline of "Captain America 1" is still based on this version of the world, and the story takes place during the American Civil War.

The American Civil War was the only civil war in the history of the United States, and the first two years of the war were also one of the most famous "limited wars" in the world!

The story begins in June 1862, a year after the Civil War, and although the Confederate Army has achieved a series of brilliant victories on the Western Front, seizing several important strategic positions from the Confederate Army, these achievements have been offset by the crushing defeat on the Eastern Front.

Although the military strength of the Northern Army was twice that of the Southern Army, the Southern Army had two military wizards, "Stonewall Jackson" and Commander-in-Chief Robert Lee, which made the situation very anxious, and in order to end the war as soon as possible, President Lincoln approved the "Super Soldier" plan.

The "Super Soldier" project is presided over by Dr. Abraham Erskine, and the serum has been made, but there are no experimenters, and most of the fighters cannot bear the pain of serum modification and have failed.

Steve Rogers, originally a thin and sickly young man, although he aspired to join the army, was repeatedly turned away by the enlistment office because of his poor health. General Chester Phillips, who overhears of Steve Rogers' genuine wishes, decides to give him a chance to participate in Project Rebirth.

After weeks of testing, Steve Rogers was injected with the serum of the "Super Soldier" and bombarded with ultraviolet light, finally possessing the most perfect human body.

Unfortunately, at the time of this success, Dr. Abraham Erskine was killed by spies.

Later, the Southern Alliance Army stole the incomplete "Super Soldier" serum data, and under the research of Dr. Anim Zola, created a mutilated version of the serum, and tested it on a general named John Schmidt, but this serum was imperfect in the end, causing John Schmidt's flesh and blood to shrink, his complexion was purple, and his face was shrunk like a skeleton, so he called himself "Red Skull"!

After the contraction of flesh and blood, John Schmidt's muscle density was greatly enhanced, and his physique was increased by more than ten times, and under the breeding of ambition, he gradually began to break away from the control of Robert Lee, the commander-in-chief of the South, and secretly founded "Hydra" with Dr. Anim Zola, in an attempt to control the world!

At this time, Steve Rogers also received physical and tactical training.

Three months later, the federal government designed Steve Rogers with a red, white, and blue combat uniform representing the American flag and a shield made of the latest alloy (not Edman alloy), and gave him his first assignment as "Captain America" - to perform the stage play "Emancipation Slaves" to promote President Lincoln's preparatory emancipation proclamation on September 22!

At this juncture, an unusually strong "super soldier" appeared in the south and led the army to sneak attack an important stronghold of the Northern Union Army, including James Barnes, a good friend of Steve Rogers, was captured.

Steve Rogers secretly ran to the stronghold without the Federal Government's consent, successfully rescued all the soldiers, and became a battlefield hero in one fell swoop.

The federal government also began to take Steve Rogers' power seriously, and made him officially lead a squad into battle.

Unfortunately, James Barnes died in a mission, and in the end, "Captain America" Steve Rogers and "Red Skull" John Schmidt had a final showdown, and finally sank into the Pacific Ocean together.

Not being able to complete the last dance with his lover Peggy Carter became Steve Rogers' biggest knot, and also laid the groundwork for the choice he made after the end of the "Infinity War" more than 100 years later.

At the end of the film, the Confederate Army is victorious, and Dr. Arnim Zora leads the "Hydra" to escape from Germany, in an attempt to provoke a war on a larger scale, even affecting the whole world!

By the way, Shao Diheng also specially asked them to add easter eggs.

In 1990, in an office, a dark-haired man turned his back to the camera, and a beautiful female secretary stood next to him.

The female secretary said, "Mr. Howard, is it any use for you to buy Edman alloy and sound-absorbing steel this time?"

The man, with his back to the camera, said, "Well, Tony's kid is about to graduate, and he has admired Captain America the most since he was a child, so I hope to recreate a Captain America shield and give him a graduation gift!"

Because in the Avengers Civil War, the biggest bond between Captain America and Iron Man is Iron Man's father Howard, and in the movie, Captain America returning the shield to Iron Man has become the biggest climax of the film, so this must be made up in the easter egg.

In this life, Shao Diheng's fate for "Steve Rogers" was to run through the American Civil War to the Avengers Civil War.

Beginning with "finite" and ending with "infinite", it is the beginning and end of his story!

This film has been roughly cut by the director once, which can greatly reduce the cost of special effects, but even then it takes five hours! And the special effects are not added, many scenes are under the green screen, which makes people very dramatic, but Shao Diheng still watched it three times very patiently!

Then he tried to recall the content of the movie in the previous life, although the background of the story is different, but the soup is not changed, and 90% of it can be copied, so he put forward some suggestions, minus some cumbersome scenes, and shorten the duration to four hours, before nodding with satisfaction.

Don't look at just shortening it by one hour, this may be able to reduce the cost of special effects by millions, and this time their budget includes the final publicity cost of about 100 million US dollars, of course, it can be saved.

After the special effects are completed, Shao Diheng still needs to do it again to control the final fine cutting link.

Shao Diheng came to the office of Weilong Company and found David Lee.

"Old man David, is your body okay?" Shao Diheng looked at this lovely old man.

"Of course, I don't know how energetic I am now, as if I have returned to the hairy boy back in time!" said David Lee in a muscle-flexing pose.

"Haha, that's good, "Captain America", I've already finished putting forward my opinions, there are four hours left in the cut, and I can start the special effects production, and then I need you to check it well!" Shao Diheng instructed.

"What, you cut so much, didn't you cut my shots, did you?"

"Of course not, you are the soul of the movie, how dare I subtract you!" Shao Diheng said with a smile.

David Lee made a cameo appearance as a government officer in the movie, well, only one line!

"That's good! By the way, have you read the "Thor" comics, and now the plot is more than halfway over, and it is very well received by readers!" asked David Lee.

"I really didn't pay attention to this, but can the preparations for "Thor 1" begin?" Shao Diheng really forgot about "Thor".

"It's already started, and the actors and directors are already in the process of being selected. ”

"Very good, remember the protagonists and supporting characters of each series, supporting characters like 'Peggy Carter', 'James Barnes', 'John Schmidt', 'Dr. Anim Zola' will appear in subsequent spin-offs or other series, so you have to sign as long as possible and as many contracts as possible, you can increase the salary a little in the early stage, coax them into the bowl first, and the money we spend now will definitely be doubled in the future!" Shao Diheng reminded again.

"I know, I know, you said that you have not been eight times out of ten, the old man is not old and confused, and I can memorize the ten-year outline you wrote, and I am more verbose than my old man at a young age. "David Lee danced like an old urchin.

And Shao Diheng, like the protagonist of the novel, touched his nose awkwardly, and he found that this action seemed to be becoming more and more skillful.