Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

Now Don can finally put down everything at hand and concentrate on preparing for the movie "The Avengers".

If nothing else, "The Avengers" will be the last Marvel movie that Donn will shoot.

He used a "Spider-Man" to start the prelude to Marvel.

With another "Avengers", it is enough to completely end the first phase of Marvel Studios.

Marvel's movies have gone beyond the traditional concept of film.

It's a bit like a hardcover version of a big-screen feature-length TV series.

There is a unified style.

In the past, Hollywood movie series basically revolved around the main creative team such as directors, screenwriters, and producers to make sequels. Through the continuity of the main creators, the style continuation of the series of movies is completed.

For example, the pioneering work of superhero movies - the "Superman" trilogy.

The first three parts of "Superman" are directed by Richard Donner and Richard Lester, and the screenwriters are mainly David Newman and Mario Puzo, starring Christopher River.

When there is an accident in this lineup, the movie "Superman" will immediately have problems.

Because every director has a different directing style.

For the same series of movies, if the style is too different, the audience will definitely not buy it.

However, Marvel Studios has broken this rule.

In Marvel's "Avengers" series, except for the pioneering work "Spider-Man", fans don't know who the directors of the later movies are.

After the overall style of the series was established, the director's uniqueness had been reduced to an unrecognizable degree.

It is necessary to put the series style of the movie above the main creative team!

It's like an American drama.

For example, "Band of Brothers", a total of 10 episodes, directed by 10 different directors, but the style is surprisingly unified, and it is difficult for ordinary audiences to distinguish by film and television content.

In this way, the importance of the director will be greatly reduced, and the artistry of the work will also be greatly reduced.

Even Donne, when filming "The Avengers", had to closely follow the style, style, rhythm and narrative flow that Marvel Studios had determined for the "Avengers" series.

Ordinary fans are of course looking forward to a top director like Done Walker taking over the filming of "The Avengers".

However, people in the industry were quite shocked by Tang En's decision.

It's hard for them to show that a big director of Donne's level would shoot a ...... Arts and crafts films.

The soul of cinema is creation.

However, the filming of "The Avengers" largely did not have room for creation, but was assembled step by step.

It's like having Steve Jobs go down to the production floor and assemble the iMac.

It's not that it can't be done, it's a tyrannical thing.

"Many industry peers still can't see the situation clearly, and they don't understand the concept upgrade of commercial films. ”

In the past few days, Donn has held many meetings with many senior executives of Marvel Studios, including the main creative team of the two Marvel movies "Ant-Man 2" and "Iron Man" that have been completed.

Don wants to establish the correct determination of Marvel Studios' strategy from the theoretical aspect, and give the directors confidence. At the same time, it is also to encourage Marvel executives not to care about rumors from the outside world and firmly believe in the existing management, creation and production style of Marvel Studios.

"Since the 70s of the last century, science fiction has gradually become a popular field of commercial films. Movie props and special effects have become the wings that hold up the take-off of science fiction movies. In the 21st century, computer digital imaging technology has taken over the production of special effects. ”

"In the past, Hollywood regarded creativity as the soul of the movie. Even today, this is an iron law of cinema. However, in commercial films, especially in the science fiction genre, the concept of cinema has been upgraded! Today, technology and creativity are beginning to be matched for commercial films!"

"Many critics, and even many producers and directors, are puzzled, why is the box office of "Pirate League 2: Soul Coffin" so high? That movie, from a creative point of view, is really good, and the 65% freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is enough to show that this is not a story with excellent ideas. But the result? We've all seen it. ”

In the conference room of Marvel Studios, Donn, who was sitting at the head of the conference round table, talked eloquently.

Technology and creativity are on par, what a deafening theory!

Now Donn is definitely a master of Hollywood film theory.

His words are justifying the name of Marvel's movies!

Especially Jon Favreau, the director of "Iron Man", Doug Liman, the director of "Ant-Man 2", Sam Raimi, the director of "Spider-Man 3", and others.

Nina Jacobson added with a smile: "The latest data, "Pirate League 2: Soul Coffin" was released for three weeks, with a national box office of $320 million, and the global box office has exceeded $680 million. It seems that it is only a matter of time before the global box office exceeds $1 billion. ”

So far, this summer's summer box office champion is DreamWorks' animated film "Shrek 2".

The film is still in theaters, grossing $410 million in North America and $790 million worldwide.

However, in the field of live-action films, "Pirate League 2: Soul Coffin" is a well-deserved king, and even "Ghost Rider", which led the dark trend for a while, has to bow down.

As the president of Marvel Studios, Nina Jacobson should be indignant when she sees the box office of "Pirate League 2" crushing "Ghost Rider", at least not too happy.

However, Don had already promised her.

In the future, she will succeed Bill McNick at the helm of Down Pictures!

"Pirate League 2" is a famous movie series owned by Down Pictures.

In addition, there are many series of brands that can be developed, such as "Harry Potter", "007", "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", "National Treasure", "Mad Max", "Night at the Museum" and many others.

Compared to Marvel Studios, it is even better.

During this time, she was in a good mood.

Donn continued: "Some time ago, George told me that he said that the movie world of 'Pirate League' was comparable to 'Star Wars', and to be honest, I was a little flattered. But then again, the idea of Star Wars...... In my opinion, "The Pirate League" and "Star Wars" are far inferior to the unprecedented cinematic universe created by Marvel Studios!"

"The previous movie series, whether it is "Star Wars", "Harry Potter", "Mission Impossible", "The Lord of the Rings", are linear plots. Only Marvel's cinematic universe is a mesh structure. Each superhero is like a little star in the starry sky, and they reflect each other to form a grand world system. Each new Marvel movie can be seen as a sequel to the previous movie, a side story, or a trailer for the next movie. ”

"What is the biggest feature of the finale of the big series of "The Avengers"? Is it really an assembled movie as the outside world says? Yes and no! This will be the first time in history that many superheroes with different personalities, superpowers, and different worlds will be put in the same universe. ”

"We want to create a world!"

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Back then, George Lucas created a technical precedent and filmed "Star Wars", which soared into the sky.

If Cameron wants to make a name for Star Wars, he must also pioneer technology!

For "Avatar", Cameron almost has to renovate and integrate the current Hollywood film technology, which is far from being as simple as 3D.

This naturally cheapens Donn.

Don wanted to borrow several techniques from this and apply them to the filming of "The Avengers". Among them, the two main ones are real-time preview technology and expression capture technology.

However, when the film started shooting, the technical problems had not yet been solved.

"Avatar" only officially started filming in 2007.

It's only 2004.

The technology is not yet mature.

The real-time preview technology is okay, the visual presentation is a little worse, but at least it can have a general appearance, which can provide specific visual analysis to the director team and the special effects team, which is much better than the previous green screen shooting with dark eyes.

Expression capture technology is a big problem.

This is a set of equipment developed by the Optical Physics Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and New Global spent $30 million on it!

Of course, $30 million is not just a set of equipment, but also a detailed R&D process and related technical materials that can be provided to Dolby Laboratories for scientific research.

This head-mounted optical expression capture system, because the design is too complicated, occasionally has a small problem of leakage, which is more dangerous.

It has been changed for more than a month, but it still hasn't been resolved.

"What do you say?" Don was very displeased when he heard this report.

Nina Jacobson, who will be the executive producer of "The Avengers" herself, is also helpless, "Two options, either with old-fashioned expression capture technology, or ...... I can only postpone the shooting schedule. I watched some shots from "The Polar Express", and the expression capture of ILM was excellent. ”

Tang En said angrily: "If I want to use the technology of industrial light and magic, I will spend 30 million US dollars to buy such a set of semi-finished equipment?"

The visuals of Avatar are so shocking.

"Polar Express" is far inferior to it.

If you have a good one, of course you can't use a bad one.

Nina Jacobson tentatively said, "It's really not going to work, so let's postpone it." "Ant-Man 2" was only completed at the end of June, "Iron Man" only finished filming for a week, and "Thor" even had to be filmed until mid-August. The actors worked too hard to film. ”

Don frowned.

Switching to filming is of course very tiring for the actors.

But for the production company, there is a big benefit - saving money!

For example, in "Thor", all the costumes, props, sets, and even movie shots and actors' statuses can be well connected to "The Avengers".

If you shoot a year apart, you have to rearrange everything and have to pay an extra extra expense.

Now, "Ant-Man 2" and "Iron Man" have just been completed, and "Thor" is still being filmed, so it is the best time to start "The Avengers".

Why did the Lord of the Rings trilogy be filmed in three consecutive parts?

The biggest reason is that continuous shooting is more cost-effective!

If the filming schedule of "The Avengers" is delayed, I am afraid that it will cost at least an additional $20 million to $30 million.

It's enough to buy a set of the latest headgear optical expression capture equipment.

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