In the face of a large-scale film with a $500 million investment, even a big director like Ridley Scott will feel a heavy burden, and even Cameron Kashen, who is the most money-burning in Hollywood, will probably have to hesitate.

Since Zhang Chu, the author of the original book and one of the screenwriters of the script, was invited, it was time to go to New Zealand to investigate it for himself and see what was so strange about that small island in the South Pacific, which was worthy of such a strong recommendation.

It just so happened that there were already members of the framing crew there, and Ridley decided to fly over with producer Chris.

He didn't want to have multiple locations, it would be difficult to travel between different countries, after all, there are thousands of people in a crew, and it is too troublesome to migrate, so it is better to include all the scenes!

Ridley Scott's last two films have not done very well at the box office, although there is no worry about no film projects to accept, but those better and more expensive movies will choose the rest.

This series of "Lord of the Rings" movies cannot be missed, once you lose money again, it is estimated that you will really have to say goodbye to big-investment films in this life.

is obviously in his eighties, but he is still unwilling to retire and end his career as a director in this way.

Over the years, he has been nominated for several Oscars for Best Director, but he has passed by the little golden man, if "The Lord of the Rings" can be filmed well, it will surely become his best chance to hit the Oscars!

What's more, his director's salary is the same as that of Christian Bale's starring role, high box office means high responsibility, and there are few thirty years in his life to make a comeback.

"I have to go home and look at the homework that the kids are turning in, and I don't know how they're going to see the books. ”

Four generations in the same house, Ridley was worried that his aesthetics were different from today's young people, so he assigned simple homework to his grandchildren, let them see Zhang Chu's set, and then extract the attractions from the book.

A book that has sold more than 10 million copies around the world definitely has its merits, and not just because the author is famous.

Before adapting the movie, he also wore reading glasses all the time to read the book, and at the same time, he would properly read the reviews of book critics and the feedback of readers, which were of great help to the creation of the movie!

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Yanjing Airport on National Day is overcrowded, and the congestion level is comparable to that of the Spring Festival.

The capital, Yanjing, has always been one of the busiest tourist cities, and people from all over the world gather here to see the Forbidden City and the Great Wall.

Zhang Chu stood at the door of the domestic arrivals, and anxiously looked inside with many tour guides who received tourists.

Obviously, the plane has landed for almost 20 minutes, but his parents have not appeared, fortunately, there is more time for the transfer, otherwise he would really have to fly to the international departure side!

There was an accent in his ears, and he wanted to take out his phone but didn't want to rush too much, so he had to wait.

Matcha is very uncomfortable staying in the cage, and has always been used to free-range, but it is suddenly locked up and fried directly in a noisy environment.

"Thank goodness you guys are finally out!"

Zhang Chu carried the cage of matcha and went up directly, Chu Lan and Zhang Bowen looked around with their suitcases, completely frightened by the crowd.

Chu Lan asked curiously, "How long have you been waiting?"

"It didn't take long for me to sit in the coffee shop, waiting for your plane to land before I walked slowly. Let's go to the international departure side to check in your suitcases first, otherwise it will be inconvenient to carry it all the time. ”

Zhang Bowen turned his head to look around and said, "It is worthy of being the capital airport, which is much bigger than our Jiangcheng Airport." When did you book your ticket?"

"In two hours, it's going to take a long time, about twelve hours. ”

New Zealand isn't a particularly good tourist destination right now, and Queenstown hasn't been developed yet, so you have to fly straight to Auckland first, and then wait for the Universal Pictures guys to come over while you play.

Chu Lan lifted the cage of matcha and teased it through the fence, he hadn't seen him for a month, and he missed it very much!

There are a lot of people here at the pick-up gate, and Zhang Chu's plan is to go to the check-in first, and it's not good to stand here and block others.

"Are you really going to finish Ghost Blows the Lamp? This is your best-known series. Zhang Bowen took advantage of his daughter-in-law's time to tease the cat, and planned to talk to his son in detail.

Zhang Chu replied with a smile: "For the time being, but not after the release of the "Lord of the Rings" movie." ”

A considerable number of domestic readers are not very interested in fantasy epics, although there are various races in them, but the force value seems to be too low.

He believes that after the release of the epic blockbuster "Lord of the Rings", it is estimated that audiences around the world will have to kneel down, provided that it can really be filmed well.

Zhang Bowen felt a little regretful, "Even if you don't write for the time being, it's best not to finish." What if you have inspiration in the future? If you write a sequel at that time, everyone will not look forward to it, but worry that you will continue to be a mink and pull down the work of the gods!"

"I do have plans to write about tomb robberies in the future, but the correlation with "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is not so strong, but it is definitely related. There is no need to write this story anymore, and to continue serializing it for so long is about to empty my inventory. Now you see that I am reading books at random, and I have no intention of writing new books in a short time. ”

"Yes. Now "Ghost Blows the Lamp" has been written, but you haven't finished sending it out. Don't be in a hurry to write, think about it, and come back when you're ready! In addition, I read the news that the pre-sale of your "The Silence of the Lambs" actually broke the record? More and more people are reading your book. ”

Although Hanlinxuan Bookstore also wants to engage in pre-sales, the scale is limited after all, but there are hundreds of people who will go to the bookstore to pick up on the 8th of the month, which is completely negligible in the face of millions of copies sold.

In 24 hours, the Chinese Simplified Chinese version of "The Silence of the Lambs" sold more than 710,000 copies, a speed that almost caught the attention of the publishing industry.

It is so excellent at home, and it is not inferior at all internationally!

The small country of the United Kingdom is probably also interested in suspense thrillers, and even broke out 80,000 copies of pre-sales on the first day, you must know that this group of pretentious Britons are fanatical fans of physical bookstores, and probably only fashionable young people will choose to pre-order online.

As for the United States, it is even more powerful, with more than 350,000 orders from Amazon alone, not to mention the rest of the websites.

Including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and other countries, the pre-sales of "The Silence of the Lambs" exceeded 1.3 million copies within 24 hours!

As for whether there was such a record or the question before, anyway, the media reported it like this, and Hanlin Culture Media, Random House, and Nanhai Publishing Company were also happy to enjoy this kind of free publicity and free popularity!