At the moment when Shu Chang watched the calligraphy and painting he was holding on the auction table, Nie Wei, who was far away in Jordan, had just set off from the hotel, preparing to complete the last half day of shooting here.

As the gray-yellow hills and Gobi along the road gradually decreased, Nie's only pedestrian destination was getting closer and closer.

After driving for about two hours, the car finally saw the door of Moon Valley, because it had been filming here for more than half a month, so the ticket sales staff at the door had already recognized the convoy of Nie Wei's crew, and opened the main gate directly without checking it.

From here, it still takes more than half an hour to get to the filming location selected by "The Martian".

Nie Wei looked at the sky outside through the car window, the weather was very good, cloudless, so that when it came to dusk, the sunshine would be enough, and the valley would definitely be the most beautiful at that time.

Nie Wei looked at the time, the time for his crew to rent the venue was coming soon, thinking that it would take some time for the crew to be built, Nie Wei took out his mobile phone and called Luo Yuan, asking her to ask the entire crew to speed up and arrive at the destination as soon as possible.

After receiving Nie Wei's order, Luo Yuan immediately conveyed it, and then the convoy of the "Martian" crew also began to speed up, which originally took about thirty-five minutes to travel, but finally arrived at the destination in less than half an hour.

When the car stopped, Nie Wei put on a mask and sunhat, and the moment he opened the door, he only felt a heat wave coming in front of him, even if it was covered by a mask, it still made his cheeks feel hot.

Nie Wei estimated that the temperature at this time was close to 40 degrees, nearly two degrees higher than the temperature given by yesterday's weather forecast.

Don't look at it as just two degrees, but the calories of this gap are not at the same level at all, fortunately, the crew has already prepared themselves, and when they left the hotel, they had already boiled a large pot of mung bean soup with them, and the tablets to prevent heat stroke were also distributed to everyone, plus the pure water brought was also sufficient, as long as the shooting time was not too long, there should be no major problems.

In fact, the whole crew, the most tested is Nie Wei, because he will be wearing a heavy spacesuit to shoot for a while, and at such a temperature, the spacesuit can be saunaed.

The last set of shots of "The Martian" in Jordan Nie Wei hoped to be completed in the most beautiful time in the valley, that is, within an hour when the sun set, so the shooting time was very tight, Nie Wei got out of the car and quickly put himself into work.

Fortunately, the people who work together are Nie Wei's old employees, and they have been working together for a long time, and they are all very efficient, and Nie Wei is not afraid that when the sun sets over the valley, this group of people will not be able to complete their work.

However, just as Nie Wei was checking the camera track, he heard a sudden sound of quarrel not far away.

At first, Nie Wei thought that there was a conflict between the actors in the United States, because the people arguing there were all in English, but soon Nie Wei realized that something was wrong.

"Little Liu, come with the camera. Nie Wei greeted Xiao Liu of the camera crew and walked in the direction where the quarrel occurred, and soon Nie Wei saw the two sides of the quarrel, one of them was one of the producers of the crew, named Wang Ziqian, because she has strong foreign language skills, she is mainly responsible for helping the communication between American actors and the staff on the Huaxia side.

The other was a man Nie Wei had never seen, who looked to be about forty years old, wearing a pair of tortoiseshell gold-rimmed glasses, his skin was a little red from the tan, and his face was covered with beads of sweat, and he was panting for breath because of anger at this time, looking like a hairy crab that had just been steamed.

"This land is something we have negotiated with the local area, and now is our shooting time, please don't disturb our normal shooting, you know?"

"But the appearance of your crew has affected the picture we filmed, this is simply a crime against art, I now want you to quit this venue immediately, as for your losses, our crew will be responsible. ”

"Are you responsible for the loss? It's easy to put it mildly, do you know how much you have to pay for delaying our crew's filming?" Wang Ziqian said angrily.

However, these words did not make the foreigner flinch, he glanced at the people around him, showed disdainful eyes, and sneered: "I don't think your crew's time is very valuable. ”

Without waiting for Wang Ziqian to refute, the foreigner who came to make trouble continued: "We have Shia LaBeouf in the crew, and Megan Fox, and the total investment of our film is close to 200 million US dollars, and you guys, there is not even an actor I can name here, and what the hell is "The Martian". ”

After saying this, the foreigner pointed to the sign held by a staff member on the side with a mocking face, on which the name of the crew and some precautions were written.

"Pay attention to the way you speak. Just after the foreigner had just put down a bunch of sarcastic words, Nie Wei, who had been watching for a while, finally walked out of the crowd.

"Who are you?" Seeing that Nie Wei suddenly stood up and spoke, the man asked subconsciously.

"This is the director of our crew. Wang Ziqian introduced on the side.

"Oh, that's great, Mr. Director, I don't know if you heard what I said just now, I'm willing to be patient and tell you again, please ask your crew to remove this area for the time being, and we will give some compensation for the loss of your crew. ”

The tone of charity from the crew of "Transformers 2" made Luo Yuan, who had just rushed over, suddenly angry, and he had to go to the theory on the spot.

But before she could act, Nie Wei took the lead in speaking.

"OK, it's not impossible for us to back down, but I think the compensation is better to negotiate in advance, first of all, the venue fee, we need to pay 60,000 US dollars every day to shoot here. ”

"I understand that, we will pay you the full amount of $60,000. The staff member of "Transformers 2" immediately agreed, he knew that Nie Wei's price was not outrageous, after all, their crew was also filming here, and they knew the cost of the venue.

"Wait a minute, don't be in a hurry to agree, there's nothing else to do. Nie said indifferently.

"What else?" The other party immediately frowned dissatisfiedly, just now he thought that the director was quite honest, but now he began to feel that Nie Wei was a little insatiable.

"Don't you have to pay for the loss of work of the two hundred and sixty-three people in my crew?" Nie Wei asked rhetorically, this sentence made the other party choke immediately.

Without waiting for the other party to say anything, Nie Wei continued: "My crew has a total of 263 people, and they spend a total of 85,000 US dollars per day, which includes the daily salary of the crew and the daily life expenses of the entire crew, such as food and beverages, car rental fees, fuel costs, room fees, etc., and this cost does not include the actors' salaries. ”

"In addition, today we rented a helicopter with the local area for the purpose of filming, which is 3,000 dollars per hour. ”

Seeing that the crew of "Transformers 2" had wrinkled their faces, Nie Wei chuckled lightly and said: "Moreover, because your vexatious troubles are likely to delay our filming, if we can't finish filming today, then the next time we make an appointment to this venue, we will have to wait for a week, and are you sure you will be responsible for the losses in between?"

"Hell, what are you kidding!!" When he heard this, the crew of "Transformers 2" couldn't hold back anymore and immediately screamed loudly.

Because if it is calculated according to Nie Wei's statement, then they may have to compensate the nameless crew for more than one million dollars, this amount does not say whether he can make this decision, just by looking at it, he knows that it is too unreliable, although his director is a person who spends money like water, but it is impossible to be willing to throw millions of dollars on this kind of compensation.

"I'm not kidding, and what I haven't said is that you're wasting my precious time right now, and I'm probably making more money every minute and every second than you've made in your whole life, so enough of the vexatious fussing, please leave, or I'll have to call in the police to deal with you." ”

Seeing Nie Wei's fierce eyes glaring at him, the crew member of the Change 2 crew who came to find trouble immediately took a step back in fright, and when he came back to his senses, his face turned even redder, and he glared at Nie Wei with an angry look, but under Nie Wei's calm expression, the staff member of Change 2 looked a little nervous.

"Expelled him from the crew, don't affect our filming, besides, haven't you seen enough excitement, go to work, you missed the filming time for a while, you will live in the desert today." Nie Wei didn't bother to care about this guy at this time, and turned around and reprimanded the people who were watching the excitement loudly.

These people still have the leisure to watch the excitement, and they don't know if the time is pressing.

Nie Wei turned around and continued to deal with the orbital problem, while the staff member of the Change 2 here stood in place like a fool, and was swept a few times with playful eyes by the staff of the "Martian" around him from time to time.

"This, how long will you stand here, aren't you afraid of heat stroke?" Hearing these cool words, the staff member of the 2 changed and couldn't stand still, and left here as if he had escaped.

When he returned to the filming site of "Transformers 2", he immediately ran to the director to make a small report.

"Michael, listen to me, I have told the other party that I originally intended to compensate them for their losses, but their director is so insatiable, they have listed a lot of unreasonable compensation, and they are looking for us to lose millions, of course I can't agree to this. ”

"Stephen, in other words, you didn't do the task I gave you, right?" Director Michael looked at Stephen with an unhappy face, he didn't care what the process was, he only knew that the result made him very dissatisfied.

"But it's not my fault. Stephen exclaimed: "It's those Chinese people who are insatiable, do I really want to agree to the other party's conditions? Don't you hear how excessive the director over there is, he actually said that his income in one second is more than my lifetime's income, don't you think they have no idea of negotiating with us at all?"

Director Michael pondered for a moment and asked Stephen, "Do you see that they have foreign actors on the crew?"

"It should be us Hollywood actors, because I saw in the crowd one of the advisors of the Screen Actors Guild, and it was clear that those actors were from the Screen Actors Guild. Stephen replied.

Michael nodded subconsciously, so that the Actors Guild can shoot consultants, it must be because the other crew has recruited a lot of actors under the Actors Guild, in this case, the Actors Guild will shoot consultants, and the main role of this consultant is to monitor the crew's use of these actors and protect the rights and interests of these actors at any time.

"You know the consultant, do you have any contact information for him?" asked Director Michael.

Stephen was stunned, and then immediately reacted, this is Director Michael wants to do the other party's work in other ways, and quickly replied: "I don't have the contact information of the other party, but I know his name, give me five minutes, and I can find out his contact information immediately." ”

"Then you don't want to go quickly. Director Michael said.

Five minutes later, Stephen ran up to Director Michael, panting, still holding a note with the phone number of the Screen Actors Guild advisor he had asked.

"You go and tell him our conditions, as long as it is a reasonable compensation, we are willing to pay, but if you take advantage of this to blackmail us, please ask the other party to think about the production companies behind us are Paramount and DreamWorks!"

Director Michael's idea is very simple, compensation can be given, but if you want to treat him as a Kaizi, that's not good, and he specifically mentioned Paramount and DreamWorks, just hoping that the other party will understand something, after all, the backer behind him is a big Hollywood company, and the other party's crew, listening to Stephen's report, is estimated to be just a crew made up by a second-rate production company, after all, even a well-known actor can't be found.

After Stephen listened to Michael's instructions, he immediately stepped aside and called the advisor of the Screen Actors Guild, Michael didn't pay too much attention to what Stephen was going to say, anyway, in his opinion, he had already lifted Paramount and DreamWorks, and as long as the other party was a little more interesting, he should take a step back.

And it's not that he doesn't take compensation to the other party.

But a minute later, Stephen turned pale and found director Michael.

"I'm sorry, Director, but I don't think I can complete your assignment. Stephen's face turned a little pale, and his tone was dejected.

"What's wrong? The other party rejected us, why?" said Director Michael, puzzled.

Stephen looked around, and then whispered: "Director Michael, the director of the other crew is Nie Wei." ”

"Nie Wei, who is he?" Michael asked subconsciously, but as soon as the words came out, a message suddenly flashed in his mind, and the whole person was stunned.

At this time, Nie Wei, who was waiting for the crew to be completed, received a call from Shu Chang, and as soon as the phone was connected, he heard Shu Chang's excited voice ringing in his ears.

"Nie Wei, Nie Wei, you are so powerful, do you know how much your calligraphy work will cost?