1162. A new drama starts
Joseph still remembers that when he met Keanu Reeves two days ago, the other party was tall and handsome, with a smile like a spring breeze on his face, and his demeanor was full of gentlemanly demeanor, and that kind of mature and steady charm made Joseph envious.
But at this moment, Joseph's eyes were about to fall to the ground, and this was really the Keanu Reeves he knew?
The flattering smile, the stiff sycophant, and the most important thing is the sentence 'Master', what the hell is this.
The mature Keanu is gone, and at this moment, in front of Joseph's eyes, he is just a gluttonous baby who wants to eat candy and try his best to please adults.
"Nie Wei, come and guide me in my kung fu, I think I've improved a lot during this time. After Keanu saw Nie Wei, he couldn't wait to ask for kung fu advice.
How could Nie Wei have time to pay attention to his kung fu progress, ignoring Keanu's invitation, Nie Wei beckoned to Joseph and asked, "Do you know Keanu?"
"Mr. Keanu has taught me a lot in the past two days. Joseph replied quickly.
"Well, you should know about the cooperation between our company and Ms. Rowling, right?" Nie Wei said suddenly, and these words made Joseph's heart beat faster instantly.
Rowling sold the film adaptation rights of the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find It" to Max Films, of course he knew about such a big thing, but he always felt that such an important movie had little to do with a second-rate Hollywood star like him, but today Nie Wei suddenly mentioned this film in front of him, is it something that can't be hinted?
Joseph didn't dare to think too much, for fear that he would think too much, and if it didn't, it would be too frustrating.
But he couldn't help but think more in his heart, after all, what if?
"Of course I do, and I've heard that Ms. Rowling chose to work with us because of you. Joseph replied in a slightly trembling voice.
"Do you want to be the leading actor in this series of movies?" Nie Wei asked with a smile, and as soon as the words fell, Joseph immediately replied, "Yes!"
After Joseph answered, he began to come back to his senses, Nie Wei really wanted to use himself as the leading actor?
JK Rowling's, especially this one, is inextricably linked to "Harry Potter", many people feel that as long as they can play a role in it, they will have the possibility of popularity, and becoming the protagonist must be popular.
This is like a Marvel hero movie, it must be a guarantee of quality, not to mention that it is the hottest director Nie Wei who directs and adapts this one, which adds a little insurance to this series of adapted movies.
With the box office appeal of Nie Wei and JK Rowling, this movie has even been recognized by many media as a strong contender for the annual box office championship before it has even been filmed.
It's an honor to be able to participate in the production of such a movie, let alone be the protagonist?
"You can't just think about it, you have to at least show enough strength to convince Ms. Rowling, after all, you know, Ms. Rowling is very strict about casting, and she likes to use British actors, because she thinks that where the story takes place, she should use local actors to be able to present the role more perfectly. β
"So taking advantage of this movie, you have to study hard, and ask Keanu and many seniors in the crew for advice, so that your acting skills can at least have a qualitative leap, so that when I help you fight for this role, it will be easier to convince Ms. Rowling, right?"
Joseph looked at Nie Wei and nodded seriously, his heart was full of energy at this moment.
"Boy, I see the fire burning in your eyes, go for it. Keanu listened to it for a long time, and after seeing that Nie Wei and Joseph were talking about the same, he immediately stepped forward and patted Joseph on the shoulder and encouraged.
Of course, his actual purpose was to push Joseph aside, so that he could continue to ask Nie Wei about kung fu.
Joseph had long been dazzled by the promise given by Nie Wei, even if Keanu's encouragement was very perfunctory, he didn't notice it, but gratefully glanced at Keanu, a senior worthy of his respect, and really immediately ran to the corner to continue practicing his body and lines.
And after Keanu 'drove away' Joseph, he immediately came to Nie Wei's side and mentioned the matter of kung fu again.
"Keanu, when it's time to shoot, we have time to talk about kung fu, but it's not good, the two-week training time is very critical, I hope you can fulfill the responsibility of the protagonist of the movie and the seniors, and lead these children well. β
"I promise you, as long as the shooting goes well, I will teach you more powerful kung fu. "Nie Wei deeply understands the principle of 'let the horse run and give the horse grass', first draw a big cake for Keanu, and then let him work hard.
As for kung fu, Nie Wei just took the time to instruct him.
As soon as Keanu heard that Nie Wei was going to teach him the 'powerful kung fu' of his two hands, he was immediately excited, and he couldn't wait for Nie Wei to start teaching him kung fu immediately.
However, he also understood Nie Wei's words just now, and knew that work must be the first priority here in Nie Wei.
"Okay, I will work hard, I am a very dedicated person, you wait to see how I perform, Master, but remember, you promised me, as long as I do my job well enough, you will teach me kung fu. β
"Of course, we can pull the hook. β
"Retractor?"
"Ah, this is a way that we have agreed in Huaxia, just like this, you can hook each other with your little fingers. "Nie Wei taught Keanu the way to hook the hook, and Keanu made an agreement with Nie Wei very seriously after learning it.
Keanu smiled like a child, turned and walked towards Joseph, and soon the sound of a conversation of teaching and humbly asking for advice came from that corner.
In fact, in Nie Wei's eyes, Keanu is really like a child, he seems to be mature and stable, but in fact, he really retains a rare innocence in his heart, this is not that he is naΓ―ve about life, but when he concentrates on liking something, he can remain single-minded like a child.
In the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Ziyi and Jessica Chastain, who played Murphy, both came to Max Films to report, and the little girl Foy also took a half-day leave with Nie Wei through her mother's mobile phone, and is expected to come to Los Angeles tomorrow morning to meet the crew.
For example, the two actors Cassie and Timothy, who play Tom's son, had already come once a day ago, except for several elderly actors Nie Wei who were not invited, within three days, the crew almost more than a dozen actors of all sizes arrived.
After the members, Nie Wei first asked everyone to introduce themselves to each other, and then invited everyone to have a Chinese meal, which Joseph performed very well in this process, because in addition to Nie Wei and Zhang Ziyi, he and Keanu used chopsticks the best.
It's not surprising that Keanu can use chopsticks, he is a well-known Huaxia Tong in the circle, but Joseph is also very good at using chopsticks, which is surprising to many people.
In fact, this is a skill that Joseph learned when he worked with Nie Wei in "Inception" before, when he watched Nie Wei and many Chinese actors eat lunch on the set, which was different from them.
Nie Wei didn't treat them differently, they all ate very ordinary bento, but the style was Chinese, mainly rice and stir-fried vegetables, and for foreign actors, most of them were hamburgers, fries, steaks, etc.
Joseph was attracted by the aroma of the boxed lunch, and then by the way Nie Wei and others ate with chopsticks, and then because of curiosity, he learned this skill.
As a result, at today's gathering, a wave of praise was received.
Dinner is a good way to shorten the distance, not to mention that these actors already know each other, introduce each other, and they will soon be able to get close, but everything is not all smooth, and those who know each other are not pleasing to each other.
Nie Wei found that the relationship between Cassie and Bentley, who played one of the astronauts, was very cold, at least there was no communication between the two sides throughout the party.
Nie Wei later inquired curiously, it turned out that the two had a fight over a role before, and it seemed that it was supposed to be Cassie's role, but after the crew started filming, it was indeed Bentley who received the notification.
Cassie thinks that this is Bentley's trick behind his back to take the role that should belong to him, of course Bentley will not admit it, but only said that his acting skills are better, so the crew finally decided to play him.
The two quarreled so much about it, attacking each other during interviews or variety shows, and even almost made a big shot at an awards ceremony, which caused a lot of turmoil at that time.
This kind of gossip Nie Wei is just laughing, he doesn't care about the relationship between the two actors, firstly, there is no rivalry between them, and secondly, as long as the crew does not make trouble and affect the filming.
At present, it seems that both sides are at least restrained, and although they ignore each other the whole time, they also eliminate the possibility of conflict.
"Warn their agent that I don't care what their private relationship is, but please don't make trouble in my crew, or you will be responsible for the consequences. For the sake of safety, Nie Wei instructed the secretary assistant on the side to ask her to bring a message to the two agents.
Nie Wei didn't believe that these two people and the agency behind them would risk offending him to make trouble.
Two weeks have passed in a flash, and the actors get along well, although Nie Wei occasionally heard a few complaints, but the training and run-in are quite serious.
On May 20, "Interstellar" was announced in Alberta, Maple Leaf Country.
Many media reporters followed Alberta to attend the launch conference of "Interstellar" that day, trying to learn something about the movie through this press conference.
You must know that each of Nie Wei's movies is very mysterious when there is no final release of the promotional trailer, and many times everyone speculates on the content of the movie by guessing the name of the movie.
If it's just an ordinary director, forget it, the media doesn't have the kung fu to play a guess game with you, but Nie Wei is different, he is a god-level director in the minds of countless science fiction fans, and there are tens of thousands of viewers in North America alone who ask Nie Wei what kind of content his new movie is every day, and similar questions will pop up millions of them when searched on the Internet.
This is not counting the audience in Huaxia, the audience over there is even crazier, if they can't ask Nie Wei, they can ask about Nie Wei, such as Shu Chang, Zhang Ziyi who participated in the movie, and even Wang Zhonglei, Cheng Kun, Zhou Xun, Li Bingbing, who have a good relationship with Nie Wei, can't escape the questions of netizens.
The Chinese audience has cultivated a group of loyal sci-fi fans by Nie Wei over the years, to be precise, Nie is the only personal loyal sci-fi fan.
This group of people fanatically pursues Nie Wei's science fiction movies, and at the same time uses Nie Wei's science fiction movies as a benchmark to measure the rest of the domestic science fiction directors.
As long as it's bad, you can't escape the verbal criticism of this group of people, because of Nie Wei's sci-fi boom in China, hundreds of sci-fi movies have emerged, and this group of people has sprayed at least ninety so far, and when asked why they sprayed, these people's answers were also very simple and rude, that is, they were far worse than Nie Wei's sci-fi movies.
I don't know how many domestic science fiction directors are so angry that they vomit blood, Nie's only production is hundreds of millions of dollars, and it is already very good that they can have hundreds of millions of Huaxia coins in production fees.
Although foreign film companies have blown out hundreds of millions of production costs, in fact, there are very few that can reach hundreds of millions, and more are tens of millions, and even some are simply millions of production costs, which are naturally far inferior to the movies shot by Nie Wei compared to special effects.
Some people use the production fee to refute this group of people, but Nie Wei's avid sci-fi fans have another reason, that is, Nie Wei's movies not only have good special effects, but also good stories.
The vast majority of fans are convinced of this.
Nie Wei can write simple stories that are attractive, such as "The Martian", a typical personal heroism movie, from beginning to end, it is a story of being killed, self-improvement, and then being killed, and finally being saved.
But Nie Wei can also write complex stories very excitingly, such as "Inception".
Even if Nie Wei later took the initiative to inform the audience of the truth at the end, there are still people arguing about whether it is a dream or reality, a movie that can confuse the audience and make them not have a trace of impatience, but will continue to watch it, even if the more they watch it, the more confused they are, how wonderful the movie is that they are unwilling to give up, can be imagined.
Nie Wei has so many fans, so many media reporters know that even if they can find out a little bit of news from Nie Wei's mouth, then when the time comes, it will attract the attention of countless fans, and whether it is the online reading rate or the actual sales of newspapers and magazines, it will definitely skyrocket.
Therefore, there were so many media reporters who made appointments to participate, so much so that five days before the start of filming, the crew temporarily changed to a larger venue, because the previous venue could no longer accommodate the number of reporters in this group of reporters.
The candidates who attended the press conference, in addition to Nie Wei himself, also included the heroine Zhang Ziyi and the male protagonist Keanu Revi, in addition to Joseph as his own artist, he was also brought by Nie Wei as his own artist, for fear that the care would be too obvious, Nie Wei also brought the daughter of the male protagonist in the play, Jessica Chastain.
Of course, Xiao Foy is also indispensable, and the little girl was also pulled by Nie Wei to today's boot press conference, as a mascot, but what Nie Wei didn't expect was that when the press conference began, this group of undisciplined reporters was the first to 'attack' the mascot Xiao Foy.