On the afternoon of January 4th, Tang An led the crew to the Yangtze River in a small city in northern Hunan Province, which is the location with the most scenes in the movie, the riverside battlefield.

The actors all went to the nearby set to rest, and Tang An came to the scene with various departments and the action director team to inspect.

After more than a month of construction by hundreds of employees, this empty beach has become a huge battlefield.

All the previous fight scenes containing alien creatures have been completely simulated on the computer through 3D animation, and the entire battlefield has also been determined by the action director and special effects director after repeated calculations and drills.

Including where there is a mountain bag and where there is a pit, every detail of the entire battlefield of more than 60,000 square meters has been done.

Holding the computer and looking at it as you walk, you can see the three-dimensional image on it and the fight between the aliens and the soldiers simulated with the three-dimensional animation.

The alien creatures in the movie move quickly, and there are many "tentacles", which often sweep a large area at once.

For a certain action shot, there are five or six group performances involved, and there must be a complete design in advance, and each group performance is reversed to that side, and what posture must be simulated repeatedly.

Walking all the way from the riverside to the shore with a laptop, looking at the computer screen, forming pictures in my mind.

"In this location, make a pit about 30 square meters and nearly three meters deep. ”

Tang An stood in one place and looked back to estimate.

"Deng Chao in the right rear was hit by a falling plane when he just landed, Liu Ye was in this position, and the air wave generated by the explosion directly lifted him into the pit. ”

Tang An drew a rough position to the person in charge of the set team.

"Okay Tang Dao. Chen Jinhe, who was in charge of the set, immediately responded, turned his head and gave an order to his subordinates, remembering the direction.

The entire battlefield went around in a circle, retreating into the distance and preparing to return to the set.

"Director Cheng, Director Li, in the next week, you will take someone to familiarize yourself with all the action scenes on the entire battlefield and see if there is anything that needs to be improved. ”

There are a lot of action scenes in this film, and Tang An found Li Zongzhi, who previously collaborated with Wu Jing in "Wolf Teeth", and is one of the most outstanding action directors of the young generation in Xiangjiang.

Later, Yu Dong invited Cheng Xiaodong over, and the best action directors of two generations escorted the action scenes of the movie.

"Director Tang rest assured, we will make sure that nothing goes wrong. Cheng Xiaodong and Li Zongzhi nodded.

Tang An then asked Zhao Jun, "Mr. Zhao, there is no problem in blocking this piece of more than 6,000 square meters for a few months." ”

Zhao Jun immediately replied, "No problem, the local government welcomes our shooting." ”

Tang An nodded, this riverside battlefield and airport are all within the scope of this small city, in addition to paying some expenses, there is also a public relations fee of nearly one million, otherwise it would not have been so smooth.

And that's not even the most troublesome, as the film uses a large number of fighter jets, helicopter gunships, large transport planes, and dozens of warships capable of carrying tanks and armored vehicles.

Han Sanping has helped a lot here, otherwise he would hardly have been able to apply because he has little to do with the government and the military, but he owes a lot of favors.

Take the car to the nearby set, a military base with a total area of more than 150,000 square meters, three runways, hundreds of fighters, transport planes, helicopter gunships, and a large number of armored vehicles and tanks.

However, most of them are empty shells, and only a few are real, used to shoot a panoramic scene from above.

The layout of this military base was specially planned by experts, and it was as reasonable as possible, otherwise it would look messy.

In fact, if you want to save money, you can build a model at scale.

However, since it was filmed, it was shot a little bigger, and this overlooking full shot had to go through the entire base from beginning to end.

After dinner at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, it took two hours to prepare, and the shooting officially started at 6 o'clock in the evening.

In the huge military base of more than 100,000 square meters, more than 1,000 group performers wearing military uniforms are distributed throughout the military base, standing guard and patrolling, and from time to time transport, landing, and taking off, bringing in large quantities of ammunition and materials.

Armored vehicles and tanks returned to the camp after a day of training.

Two helicopters in the sky shot one after the other, and it took four trips back and forth to shoot this full shot.

As the sky gets darker, the entire steel (wood painted) military base stands quietly in the wilderness, exuding a cold, dangerous atmosphere, like a dormant beast in the wilderness.

"Good!"

"Let's call it a day, Xu Tao will take someone to send a box lunch. ”

"Rest early, recuperate, and wake up early tomorrow. ”

Tang An didn't eat with them, he still had to deal with the bureaucrats of the local government, and took Zhao Jun and Zhao Lei to block the wine.

I woke up at 6 o'clock the next morning to get ready for shooting.

There is a huge military base, and the entire crew lives in it, and it is also saved to rent a hotel.

And there is also a special kitchen, employing a large number of chefs, some of whom cook big pot meals for group performers and ordinary employees, and some who specialize in cooking meals for middle-level and above personnel and actors in the crew.

It's not as terrifying as those big-name stars who eat more than a dozen dishes by themselves at every turn, and Tang An's best food is only two meats, one vegetable and one soup.

It's just that it tastes a little better, after all, the chef who was invited at a high price.

The crew has to use money everywhere, and what can be saved is still to be saved.

After eating breakfast in three or two bites, drinking the milk, and watching a few actors eat slowly and methodically, Tang An smiled and smiled.

"Eat well, don't run out of energy when filming. ”

"Director Tang, I'm full. Deng Chao wiped his mouth and said.

"Tang Dao, I'm fine. ”

Everyone put down their bowls one after another, indicating that they could start makeup shooting.

Tang An glanced at the bowl in front of them, and no one had eaten it all.

"I can tell you, you have to do 50 push-ups later, don't blame me if you don't eat enough and don't have the strength. ”

"Director Tang is really shooting?" everyone smiled bitterly.

This push-up is not something to deal with, it is not easy for them to do 50 push-ups in a row according to the standards of the army.

And God knows if one can pass, and when the time comes, it will fall apart after a few more shots.

"Don't tell me you can't even do 50 standard push-ups during this time. Tang An asked as he swept around.

50 is not too little, in the movie, a group of 100 is a group of two groups, if it weren't for the fear that they would do too much and prostrate the whole person from exhaustion, how would they look like a soldier at that time.

How can a soldier who has really been on the battlefield do two hundred push-ups and lie on the ground.

Ignoring their complaining gazes, Tang An came to the road in the middle of the base and began to shoot the first scene, that is, the scene where Liu Ye was thrown into the base at the beginning.