October, JFK Airport.

Shen Ming was wrapped in a long coat and carrying a suitcase, only to feel a chill surging into his chest.

Really Nyima Cold!

A lot of people say that New York's air is sweet...

Is your sugar so cold?

It's only October, and I obviously feel the clammy cold, no, I have to hurry to the hotel and change into a down jacket!

The city of New York, it is difficult to describe the sophistication, its texture is rough.

You see, New York has been criticized by so many people for being too dirty, but New Yorkers have never had any idea of mobilizing the whole city to clean up New York and strive to become a national health city.

The star cities of the Middle East and East Asia are scrambling to build skyscrapers, but what about New York?

Since the completion of the old World Trade Tower, there has been no interest in joining the skyscraper race, and the Empire State Building, built in the thirties, is still in the top few tallest buildings in New York!

Why was Joker filmed in New York?

Because New York is Gotham!

Gotham is also based on New York.

Frank Miller (comic book writer for Batman, The Dark Knight) once said, "New York is a metropolis by day, and Gotham by night." ”

While Tim Burton's Gotham in Batman's previous films was largely based in New York, Christopher Nolan created a Gotham that was closer to Chicago.

Todd Phillips didn't want to follow Nolan's path, so he chose New York!

Of course, the main reason is that the crew is rich!

No kidding, the crew of "Joker" is really rich, yes, the investment of $52 million doesn't seem like much, but this work is completely live-shot, and some special effects may be added when it is rendered in the later stage, and the actors' salaries add up to less than 12 million, Robert De Niro is the highest except for Shen Ming, $1 million, he is a supporting role, friendship price...

Close to $40 million, enough for Todd Phillips to splurge!

……

The National Day file is over.

"Wushuang" successfully counterattacked with a box office of 700 million yuan and became the champion of the National Day file.

This box office data is not good-looking, last year's leader "Iron Fist of Shame", the National Day file brushed down 1.37 billion box office results in 7 days...

It also led to this year's National Day stall market being 25% lower than last year!

How miserable is "Li Cha's Aunt"?

The total box office in the first three days exceeded 300 million, and the total box office forecast is indeed 600 million...

The stage play is adapted from the movie, and it still needs to be changed!

"Li Cha's Aunt" tells the story of "men disguised as women", this design is very hypothetical, in the lines in the movie, it is "a person with a normal IQ can see that it is pretending", but the characters in the story can't be seen at all?

It's fine to look at such a setting on stage, but on the screen, if you don't change it, it will be exaggerated!

If the audience can't even enter the big picture of the movie, how can they laugh in it?

It's just Chi Guoguo's treating the audience as a sand sculpture...

"Wushuang" can win the box office championship, mainly relying on the foil of peers!

Otherwise, last year's "Chasing the Dragon", which also had a good reputation, failed to counterattack for Mao?

The worst thing is not "Li Cha's Aunt", the movie must be profitable, but it just didn't meet expectations...

"The Legend of the Ancient Sword: The Moon Zhaoming" suffered a blood loss, a cost of 250 million, and found Wang Lihong and Song Qian as the male and female protagonists, and the director Renny Haring...

The total box office did not reach 20 million, and after eight days of release, the number of films was directly cut to one percent...

Renny Haring is not a pheasant director, "Die Hard 2", "Mighty Mountains", and the year before last, he also collaborated with Big Brother Cheng in "Jedi Escape"...

Find a foreigner to shoot the theme of Chinese Xianxia, Ahri Pictures is really talented, last year's "Three Lives, Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" found American visual effects artist Anthony Lamerinara as the director, and the box office failed miserably, and he didn't learn his lesson...

Anyway, Lao Ma is rich, the richest man in China!

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The filming location of "Joker" is in the Brooklyn area, so the hotel of the crew is also in the Williamsburg Hotel in Brooklyn.

It is a very tall Gothic building, strange and rugged.

After paying the fare, the doorman immediately came to help with the luggage, and as soon as he pushed open the carved wooden door, he saw Todd Phillips, who was wearing glasses, smiling and smiling.

Well, just gave him a hug ...

"Dear Shen, I knew it was you when I heard the horn, I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you doing?"

"It's okay, I've lost 120... 132 pounds..."

Hurry up and convert to an American-style unit...

"I knew you were the kind of actor who could work hard to lose weight for the role!"

Todd Phillips is very happy with Shen Ming...

Todd Phillips is also one of the most popular Mesozoic directors in Hollywood, the "Hangover" series, "Due Date", and the adapted screenplay "Borat" have also won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

The "Hangover" trilogy has a global box office of nearly $1.5 billion...

These are all chips that he can convince Warner to make "Joker"!

By the way, in addition to serving as the director, screenwriter and producer of "Joker"...

Todd said: "Your room is on the third floor, you go to the room first to rest a little...; Two hours later, in the conference room, there is the small room on the far right on the third floor, and I will introduce you to your friends. ”

“OK！”

Farewell to Todd for the time being, Shen Ming quickly completed the registration and then went upstairs.

The layout of the hotel is not bad, a very spacious single room, everything is available.

After entering the house, he sorted his luggage and sat on the bed in a daze.

I was thinking about how to handle the characters along the way, and it was quite scary to completely forget the supporting cast of this movie.

Robert De Niro, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Mark Malone, Saki Baez, among which his mother is played by white actress Frances Conroy...

Shen Ming first asked why he was assigned a white man as a mother, and Todd Phillips said very clearly: "Arthur Fleck is adopted!"

Also, the male lead has already used Asians, and other actors use Asians, what do you want to do?

It's hard to accept that Shen Ming's dream lover, Saki Baez, is a black man...

That Harley Quinn is the blonde, blue-eyed, hot-bodied Margot Robbie?

Could it be that after completely becoming a clown, even the aesthetics have changed?

In fact, most of the actors are packaged by CAA, and Todd Phillips himself is a signed director of CAA...

Brother Ming sat on the sofa, at this time, the biggest problem in his mind was actually that it felt a little unrealistic...

How did you get "Joker"?

If I recall it carefully, it seems that when I was watching the movie "Animal World", I saw the clown on the big screen, and I was a little excited in my heart, and then took the initiative to take a salary cut to take the role...

It's the same as neuropathy.

"Alas!"

He sighed, paused again, took out his mobile phone and sent a WeChat message to Milk Xiao.

"All the best, I've arrived in New York!"

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