In the afternoon of the day Peng Yichen and Yu Jing went to visit News Corporation.

The production department of Times Hua Na received the shooting plan for Peng Yichen's next science fiction movie.

However, after a while, the entire senior management of Hua Na Pictures was alarmed by this plan.

No one thought that Peng Yichen and Chen Jing Film Company would build a science fiction film and television base in order to make a science fiction movie, just to make the shots in the movie more realistic.

So much so that the total investment of the entire film exceeded 200 million US dollars.

Then, a news came out that shocked them even more.

Peng Yichen has successfully acquired the shares of David and Ivey, the two largest individual shareholders of Time Hua Na, and now he has 15% of Time Hua Na shares.

It has become a veritable major shareholder of Times Hua Na.

As soon as these two pieces of news came out, everyone knew that the sky of Time Hua Na was probably going to change.

Early the next morning, Peng Yichen took the staff of Chenjing Film Company to the headquarters of Time Huana.

As a major shareholder, he convened the board members of the board of directors and held a board meeting.

No one knows the content of the meeting, but the employees of Time Huana only know that after the meeting, Robinov returned to take charge of the production department and publicity department of Warner Pictures, and Peng Yichen was also hung up as a senior producer in the production department of Huana.

After Robinov returned to the helm of the production department, the first thing he did was to divide three of Hua Na's existing five major film production teams into the science fiction film project that Peng Yichen planned to shoot.

Subsequently, Robinov signed a film co-production contract with Chenjing Film Company on behalf of Hua Na Pictures.

According to the provisions of the contract, Chen Jing Film Company will also set up two film crews to work on this project.

In other words, before the filming of Peng Yichen's movie started, a huge crew consisting of five film crews and at least 1,000 behind-the-scenes staff had already been formed.

Investing so many resources in a movie is unprecedented both in the history of Hua Na Pictures and for Peng Yichen and Chen Jing Film Company.

For a while, even Sun Yizou, Yu Jing and others, who had great trust in Peng Yichen, were a little worried that he would not be able to control such a huge crew and complete this epic science fiction movie.

But Peng Yichen is not too worried about this.

He knows very well that there is a great difference between the shooting method of Hollywood movies and the shooting method of domestic films.

In Hollywood, movies don't all rely on directors, but instead have screenwriters, producers, and producers as the core.

The director is more of a willful craftsman who is responsible for executive writing and producers.

In addition to super directors like Spielberg and Cameron, who can control the entire filming process of the film by themselves, other directors often only have the right to shoot when shooting commercial productions.

The disadvantage of this is that it greatly restricts the director's creative freedom, resulting in the same movie.

But the advantage is that Hollywood has cultivated a very mature film shooting system in this way, and someone is responsible for every detail of film shooting, and there is no need for the director to be proficient in everything and take care of everything.

This is the confidence of Peng Yichen who dared to form such a huge crew and complete the shooting of his first science fiction movie.

He is now the largest individual shareholder of Hua Na, and he has Robinov's support, so he does not have to worry about Hua Na's producers pointing fingers at him.

At the same time, he can give full play to a large number of very professional screenwriters and film producers of Hua Na to help him control the plot of the whole movie, ensure that it is divided into 5 film crews to shoot, and still ensure that the overall style of the whole movie can still be highly unified.

The only problem now may be how to coordinate the cooperation and friction between the shooting team. This is what he, as a director, needs to do with all his might.

To put it bluntly, the reason why he wants to assemble such a huge crew to shoot the movie is to complete the shooting and post-production as soon as possible, so that the film can be released in North America and China at the same time before next year's Oscar selection.

In order to better coordinate and control this huge crew, avoid conflicts between Hua Na's film crew and Huaxia's film crew.

Peng Yichen also specially asked Robinoff to introduce him to a very powerful producer - Bill Black.

He used to be just an inconspicuous Hollywood independent producer, but later because of a series of more successful independent films such as "District 9", "Fury" and "Elysium", he was favored by Warner Pictures, and finally signed a contract with Times Huana and became the contracted studio of Huana Pictures.

The reason why Peng Yichen chose him is because he has experience in making science fiction movies, and secondly, he has not been in Hua Na for a long time, and his qualifications are still relatively shallow, so he will not and cannot point fingers at Peng Yichen as a director.

This also means that the core of the team of this science fiction film project is Peng Yichen and this very experienced producer Bill Black.

When Bill Black first received a call from Robinoff, he wasn't really willing to take the job.

Although Peng Yichen's status in Hua Na is now extraordinary, being able to protect this golden thigh is a dream for ordinary producers.

But for an aspiring producer like Blake, who loves filmmaking, it's not a pleasant thing for the director of the crew to be a big guy who can kick himself out of the crew at any time.

From the beginning of the emergence of the position of producer, it is to check and balance the rights of directors.

In Hollywood, the role has reached its peak because producers often stand with investors, and they understand the needs of the market and the ideas of investors.

This is the biggest means they use to counterbalance film directors.

Today, Peng Yichen himself is one of the largest investors in this sci-fi movie, and he is also a commercial director who has already achieved brilliant results.

Blake can even imagine that if he entered his crew, he might not have as much voice as the security guards who watched the crew.

And the most important thing is that Blake has supervised science fiction movies, which is still a small-budget science fiction film, so he and the director have worked hard to get a relatively good movie shooting effect.

Now a Chinese director wants to make a science fiction movie with such a huge investment, such a complex crew, and such strict requirements for special effects production.

In Blake's opinion, this is simply a dream.

Although the script of Peng Yichen's sci-fi movie is very well written, everyone who has seen it in the production department of Hua Na Pictures has to admit it.

But in fact, no one thinks that Peng Yichen can shoot the content in the script, and Blake certainly thinks so.

But Robinov didn't care if he wanted to or not, and directly arranged him into the film project, and asked him to represent Hua Na as the producer of the film.

Of course, Peng Yichen knew that Hua Na, the people who joined this film project, didn't really have much recognition of him in his heart.

But what he needs now is not recognition, but dedication and efficiency.

Therefore, he did not have too many greetings and communication with Blake, who had just joined, but directly told Blake what he needed to complete.

In the early stage, Blake was responsible for two tasks.

The first is to reorganize and organize all the staff of the three film crews of Hua Na.

All three film crews must be sent to Kyoto, China, within a month.

Where, the reception staff of Chen Jing Film Company will arrange for them to stay in the first phase of the science fiction film and television base that has just been built. After waiting for the film to start, I will meet with the two film crews in Huaxia to complete the filming of the movie.

Second, Blake needed to install the list of role requirements provided by Peng Yichen and recruit a group of actors in Hollywood, most of whom would play role in the movie or small supporting roles. Therefore, they also need to rush to Huaxia in advance and properly conduct some pre-shooting training.

Although Blake is reluctant to come to this crew, since he has come, his work ethic requires him to do his best work.

Therefore, he immediately began to work on the reorganization and deployment of the Hua Na film crew.

At the same time, according to the list of actors provided by Peng Yichen, he began a large-scale public audition in Hollywood to recruit the required actors.

With Blake joining, Peng Yichen's preliminary preparations are obviously much easier.

He can finally be freed from all kinds of trivial matters of building a crew, and returns to Huaxia to determine the shooting props and special effects production method of this sci-fi movie as soon as possible.

This is the most urgent problem for him to solve at the moment.

Yu Jing needs to stay in the Star Flag Country for the time being, responsible for various personnel and financial matters with Warner.

When the movie can officially start filming, she, the heroine, will follow Blake, the producer, and return to China together.

As for the filming plan and release schedule of the movie, it will be finalized by Peng Yichen and Blake.

After all, this kind of large-scale cooperative shooting is the first time for Hua Na and Chen Jing Film Company.

In the early days, a lot of running-in was required for the cooperation of the two films, and whether the three film crews sent by producer Blake and Hua Na could cooperate with the two film crews of Huaxia was one of the keys to the success or failure of this movie.

Therefore, Peng Yichen attaches great importance to the coordination work that the two sides have seen.

Even after returning to Kyoto, he still kept in touch with Blake on the phone at least once a day.

In the process of preparing for the start of filming in less than half a month, Peng Yichen also felt quite difficult.

In fact, filming a big sci-fi movie was much more difficult than he thought.

In particular, this science fiction movie needs to take into account the unity of humanistic feelings and scientific theory, and it must conform to today's special effects lens shooting rules.

This requires the director to have a very precise and comprehensive control of the whole film.

And Peng Yichen still needs to play the leading role in it, which makes him feel even more exhausted.

Fortunately, with the help of Sun Yizou, and Blake from the Star Flag Country has basically completed the work he is responsible for very well.

Finally, twenty days after Peng Yichen returned to Huaxia, he could put down the trivial crew formation work. put all his attention on the various theoretical support and special effects production of this science fiction movie.

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