Nie Wei left the role directly to Fan Binbin, on the one hand, it was indeed out of compensation for Fan Binbin's loss of the role of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", and secondly, because this role is really unimportant, just like he and Fan Binbin said, although she is the heroine of this movie, in fact, the role is not as much as an important supporting actress in ordinary movies.

Of course, Nie Wei will not pay attention to the role because there are not many roles in the movie, Fan Binbin's acting skills Nie Wei is numerous, although it is not as good as the natural 'drama essence' of Zhou Xun, but compared with domestic first-line actresses, her acting skills are above the level.

After choosing the hero and heroine, the rest of the supporting roles Nie Wei still have to worry about.

Don't look at this movie, 80% of the scenes are focused on the male lead, but there are not many supporting roles in this movie, and it also involves different countries.

In the original movie setting, this rescue plan was jointly completed by the aerospace agencies of the United States and Huaxia, but in the original version, the United States was mainly the main force, and Huaxia was the auxiliary, Nie Wei changed the setting because of the adaptation needs, but the personnel composition of the two sides did not change.

Coupled with some folk masters, there are as many as 20 supporting roles in this movie with lines and more than ten seconds of shots, although most of them are group scenes, but each character has its own independent personality.

For actors in the United States, Nie Wei plans to directly contact the Actors Guild in the United States to help assist in the audition.

Anyway, he doesn't need those big Hollywood names to support the box office, and Nie Wei also knows that it is impossible for those big Hollywood names to come to him as a little green leaf for this Chinese actor, so for the choice of actors, Nie Wei only requires acting skills.

As for at home, there are even more options.

Because of the 'leakage' of the news of the amount of investment in the movie, there are really a lot of actors staring at the roles in this movie.

And there are many big-name artists like Fan Binbin, who don't seek the number of roles, but Nie Wei also doesn't like popularity for domestic casting, only strength.

After all, in China, he Nie Wei is the most popular actor, and with him starring, the box office in the mainland and even Asia is a super guarantee, as for abroad, there are really few actors in China who can be famous in Europe and the United States, so their popularity is not important.

It took Nie Wei a week to determine the casting of the Chinese characters in the movie, and then Nie Wei flew straight to the United States, and after paying a fee, the local actor association issued an audition notice.

The audition was held three days later, which was similar to what Nie Wei expected, because the roles were not very important, and it was a movie with a large proportion of Chinese elements, so there were not many actors interested.

There were more than 60 auditioning actors present that day, which is really not much, or even very little, compared with the huge number of personnel in the Actors Association, plus the relaxation of the audition conditions.

But this is because Nie Wei had directed "League of Assassins" before, and his popularity in Hollywood at this time still has a residual temperature, otherwise he may not even be able to reach these sixty people in the audition.

And in this group of people, many people don't come to like a certain role, this group of people completely belongs to the kind of stunned young people who want to act when there is a play, or the old fritters who are purely for mixed food.

Interestingly, on the day of the audition, there were seven or eight reporters from where Nie Wei was.

This group of people came specifically to block Nie Wei.

On the same day, Nie Wei came to the audition site in a presidential No. 1, and as soon as he got out of the car, this reporter surrounded him.

"Mr. Nie Wei, can you answer us a few questions, and I promise that we won't delay you too long. Because they were stopped by Nie Wei's bodyguards, several reporters could only raise their voices and shout at Nie Wei.

"Five minutes. Nie Wei glanced at his watch, then stopped and motioned for the bodyguard to let the reporter come over.

Several reporters who were allowed by Nie Wei to interview showed expressions of surprise, and hurriedly held up the recorder and began to ask questions to Nie Wei.

"Mr. Nie Wei, it is rumored that your new movie this time is a space theme, and the world is well known that the United States is leading the world in space exploration, so do you think that as a Chinese, the space-themed movies you have made can be comparable to the space movies made by those directors in our country?"

Facing the reporter's arrogant question, Nie Wei replied indifferently: "The space theme is indeed a movie theme that Americans are good at, but it does not mean that only Americans can make a good space-themed movie, after all, the starry sky has not been contracted by you, it belongs to the world, and as a Chinese director, I also have the confidence to control this theme." ”

"I hope you're not blindly confident. The reporter who asked the question shrugged his shoulders and muttered something in a low voice.

He thought that his voice was very low, only he could hear it, but what he didn't expect was that Nie Wei's ears were far sharper than ordinary people, and his small muttering all fell on Nie Wei's ears word for word.

When he heard this, Nie Wei's eyes suddenly fixed on the reporter's face, which startled the reporter.

Because the time Nie Wei looked at him, it was as if he was suddenly pointed at a gun, and he instantly had goosebumps, and his eyes immediately avoided Nie Wei's gaze.

When he came back to his senses from these knee-jerk reactions, he only felt his heart beating hard, and he knew from his heart that the feeling of making him so flustered was actually fear.

Thinking of this, the reporter secretly glanced at Nie Wei again, and the young Chinese man still had a smile like a spring breeze, which made the reporter even feel that he had some illusion just now.

When this reporter was stunned by Nie Wei's eyes, the rest of the reporters were not idle, and kept throwing questions at Nie Wei.

"Mr. Nie Wei, I heard that your film investment this time is 100 million US dollars, this should be the most invested film in the history of Chinese films, is it because of the success of "League of Assassins" that you are so invested?"

"I need a production fee of 100 million yuan, because this movie needs so much money to meet the standards in my mind, and it has nothing to do with the previous results, because no matter whether you did it well or badly before, it is all in the past, and for a director, the current work is what you should put all your energy into. ”

"Mr. Nie Wei, what is your expected box office for this movie?"

"I think it's better to let those box office prediction experts give you this answer, I'm only responsible for making this movie good and making it enjoyable for the audience. ”

"Then if you buy AMC Cinemas, will you give the green light to your own movies?"

"If my film does well at the box office, of course I will arrange more films, and if it doesn't perform well, I will also reduce its schedule, am I the kind of fool who knows that I will lose money and still want to save face?"

Nie Wei said this, several reporters laughed at the same time, and subconsciously shook their heads, because no matter how Nie Wei looked, he didn't look like a fool.

Nie Wei ignored the reporter's reaction and continued.

"Since I bought AMC Cinemas, I will naturally use the most rational commercial means to operate it, it is not my Nie Wei's personal toy, it is a theater chain that serves fans all over the United States, and I will only consider the scheduling of movies for the audience's preferences. ”

Nie Wei's words make people can't find the slightest fault, but in fact, all of this is based on Nie Wei's inner confidence in the box office of his movie.

How could he not take care of his films?

From the time of the acquisition of AMC, wasn't one of Nie Wei's purposes to add a guarantee to the release of his future movies in Hollywood?

He has long been ready to arrange the best first-day film schedule for "The Martian", and in terms of publicity, he will let all his theaters exert their efforts, have the right not to use it, and pay attention to fairness and justice, which is stupid in Nie Wei's opinion.

Of course, the beautiful things that should be said still have to be said, so there are Nie Wei's high-sounding words.

Sure enough, everyone loves to listen to beautiful words, and several reporters applauded on the spot, admiring Nie Wei's noble appearance, of course, they didn't know what they thought in their hearts, and they were not interested in knowing.

Then several reporters asked a bunch of questions, and Nie Wei also answered, and soon five minutes were up, Nie Wei was just about to get up and leave, when suddenly another reporter raised his hand again.

"Mr. Nie Wei, Mr. Nie Wei, please wait a minute, I want to ask you one last question, many movie theaters under AMC Cinemas have recently suddenly closed for temporary rectification, what is the reason for this?"

Originally, Nie Wei was not ready to pay attention to these reporters, but when he heard this question, he still stopped and answered, because this question was very suitable for Nie Wei's appetite, and it was just a good opportunity to promote his own theater.

"AMC Cinemas has not improved its cinemas for more than a decade, and many of the facilities are outdated, so the first thing I did when I took over this cinema was to determine a plan to rectify its cinemas. ”

Speaking of this, Nie Wei smiled and took the initiative to break the news: "And this time in the rectification of its cinemas, we will introduce the most advanced 3D projection technology, and when everything is completed, our AMC cinema chain will also become the cinema chain with the most 3D screening halls in the world." ”

"3D screening?" The reporters were confused by Nie Wei's sudden revelations, and some people wanted to continue to investigate, but this time Nie Wei didn't stop again, after all, if some things are too thorough, it won't be fun, and this kind of digging with their own interest is the most interesting.

Obviously, these reporters were attracted by the 3D projection technology that Nie Wei finally revealed, and several people left in a hurry, obviously to learn the details of this technology.

What Nie Wei hasn't told them yet is that "The Martian" will also use some 3D technology, which Nie Wei has sent to Weta Digital and Industrial Light & Magic to reach a cooperative relationship, and these two world-class special effects companies will work with Nie Wei's PO Thunder to complete the production of 3D pictures for "The Martian".

Of course, the 3D production of "The Martian" is not as troublesome as "Avatar", it takes several years, and the key is that because those special effects companies have produced "Avatar", their 3D film production technology has become mature, and the cooperation at this time actually avoids many technical problems.

Of course, "Avatar" as a pioneer is not unrewarded for just paying, just because it is the world's first technologically mature 3D film to be released, it is enough to leave a glorious footprint in the history of world cinema.

What's more, it is also the first movie in modern times to eat the cake of 3D movies, Nie Weike clearly remembers that this movie won a box office of 2.788 billion US dollars worldwide, and it really achieved that in the next ten years, no film can surpass this movie at the box office.

It is worth mentioning that the record that Cameron is about to set is also the record he set himself, and he is also the global box office champion in the first ten years and the global box office runner-up in the next ten years, the famous "Titanic".

For the business ability of this great director, Nie Wei really admires it from the bottom of his heart, if he has the opportunity, he really wants to get to know this great director, and as a director.

The audition in the United States was faster, and it only took two days for Nie Wei to find enough actors he needed.

In this process, the kind of undiscovered Puyu that Nie Wei was looking forward to, or hidden gods such as the pearl of the sea, did not appear, and the few actors selected in the end all performed decently.

After the actor's audition, accompanied by a staff member of the Actors Guild, the person in charge of Nie Wei's crew also signed a contract with these selected actors, and also signed a guarantee contract with the Actors Guild.

It stipulates the working hours of these actors selected by Nie Wei's audition, and if they exceed the daily working hours, or shoot at special times, they will have to add an additional amount of money.

When Luo Yuan read these terms to Nie Wei, Nie Wei also had to sigh that the American Actors Guild is really responsible for the protection of actors, and at this point, the domestic Actors Guild is more like an ornament.

After all the actors are selected, the preparation of the crew can be regarded as the most important part, of course, Nie Wei is not idle because of this, he also needs to fly to Jordan to go to the Valley of the Moon for a field trip to determine the final filming location, and there are also so many special props The production progress needs to be followed up by Nie Wei at any time.

Just when Nie Wei was immersed in the busy work schedule of the crew, among the several plans announced by the company at the beginning of the year, the online drama "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", which only filmed 25 episodes, finally took the lead in completing its own production.

On the same day, the Fanxing Video website hung a teaser banner on the homepage, announcing that this TV series will be officially broadcast exclusively on the Fanxing Video website on June 1, which is also the first official TV series in China that is only broadcast on the Internet.

As soon as the news came out, the fans of the original batch of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" were immediately excited.