There are still more than 9 months left before June 2005, and the post-editing work of "Firefly" has just begun, which is enough time, after all, "Fantastic Four" and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", which are scheduled to be released at the same time, are still in the filming stage. However, it has always been slow to work hard, especially in a sci-fi masterpiece with such an innovative style, no one will be afraid of too much time. The special effects production of "Firefly" has already begun, and the whole film will have more than 1,800 special effects shots, more than 1,000 more than "District 9".

From the Battle of Tranquil Valley, the Great Train Robbery...... Until the battle of Xinshanxi, the end. The storyline tandem board has given the graphics engine special effects team a detailed drawing order, and the shots of some scenes have been done one after another, so that people can try to combine effects, and it doesn't hurt Wang Yang and others to cut out a rough cut version without soundtrack and special effects, this time there are three signed editors of "Firefly", Wang Yang, Margaret Goodspeed, and Lee Smith.

In terms of original soundtrack, Wang Yang invited Hans Zimmer and Jenn Kezmerik to co-create.

Inviting Hans Zimmer as the soundtrack seems a bit "cheesy", since 1988 with "Rain Man" landed in Hollywood and won the first Oscar nomination, after more than ten years of accumulation and growth, the 47-year-old German is now deservedly the "Hollywood blockbuster soundtrack spokesperson", from "Thunder", "Flowers of the End......", "The Lion King", "Brave Island", "Gladiator", "Mission Impossible 2", "Black Hawk Down", "Pearl Harbor", "The Last Samurai", ...... Over the years, he has scored 48 films, received 7 Oscar nominations for Best Original Score, and won once.

If you count the information of the future film and television library, he also scored blockbusters such as the "Batman" series, "Pirates of the Caribbean" 2, 3, and 4, "Kung Fu Panda" 1, 2, and "Inception", and is an absolute top master.

Hans-Zimmer is a master of combining electronic and traditional instrumental music, and is always able to show a striking and unique style, which is a combination of the glitz of electronic music, the majesty of symphonies, the tragedy of traditional orchestral music, and often the classic, deep grandeur or passionate vocal cry like "Rain Man", all of which are composed into a colorful, awe-inspiring, compact, and heroic moving movement.

This is exactly the note that Wang Yang wants, and the emotional accent needs the soundtrack to make up for the fatal blow, especially the huge tragedy pursued by the "Battle of New Shanxi", which wants the audience to burn, and the Hans-Zimmer level soundtrack is indispensable. Now that Wang Yang is the youngest Oscar-winning director, and "Firefly" is a 200 million sci-fi production, it is not surprising that Hans Zimmer can be moved and let him enthusiastically say "This is my most important plan in 2005", he knows that "Firefly" is a good opportunity to hit the Oscars.

Jenn Kezmelik and Wang Yang are old friends, and the two have previously collaborated on "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" and "District 9" twice. If Wang Yang needs Hans Merdy to deal with the "moving" scene, and Jenn Kezmelik needs to deal with the "quiet" part, this 51-year-old Polish man may not be so passionate, but the tenderness revealed in his piano, strings, and children's voices, and the sorrow that penetrates the heart are what Hans Zimmer lacks.

It's not a huge and amazing sci-fi scene, it's not a slow-entangled literary atmosphere, Jenn Kezmelik wants to bring lightness and innocence to "Firefly", Wang Yang is 100% convinced that this old guy can do it, take a look at the upcoming "Looking for Neverland" on November 12! The chic and elegant piano, the light and pleasant strings, and the lively and aura children's chorus, even the brass that has always been rough are used by Jenn in a relaxed manner, which is very fairytale-like style.

During the test screening of "Looking for Neverland", some film critics commented that the only drawback of its soundtrack is that it is too "light", piano, strings and children's voices, the "three magic weapons of Kezmelik" play an extremely similar role, the same melody, rhythm, strength, and the separation of the musical parts are not obvious, and there is no distinction from the essence of the music, which also causes many passages to sound natural, but the harmony and timbre are not highly recognizable, and there is no spatial tension that Hollywood soundtracks have always had.

However, Wang Yang felt that the film critic was simply a fart, what a beautiful melody "Finding Neverland" has!

Including many different forms of creation, the creator is usually too restricted, or the contradictions and entanglements of the self, or the external oppressive pressure, and in his opinion, some composers are often lost in the publicity of the form, and like to do some boring piling up of different elements; film scorers pay more attention to music to serve the video content, resulting in a congenital inability to release themselves, especially in Hollywood, which is seriously commercialized, sometimes "experience" and "risk" trump everything, just follow the rules, so what emotional investment is there to talk about?

That's right, to let the strings and harmonies, strings and piano appear in unison and in harmony, this is to abandon the epic and massive texture that Hollywood soundtracks have always adhered to, weaken the spatial tension, and pursue a light and light expression effect.

But if you give up, you should give up, why do you have to pursue the tension of the same magnanimity every time? Different film contents, different scenes, and shots have different ways of expressing and contrasting, and the "lightness" of "Finding Neverland" is so light! Wang Yang hopes that several important scenes in "Firefly" can also have this kind of atmosphere.

In fact, because of the soundtrack, Jenn Kezmelik and the producers of "Finding Neverland" had a lot of disagreements, and of course he has persevered now. Perhaps it was Wang Yang's private support and confidant, as well as his usual enthusiasm and sincerity, that Jenn Kezmelik agreed to the invitation to work with Hans Zimmer on the soundtrack, knowing that in the previous series of film works, he was created independently.

Hans Zimmer and Jenn Kezmelik are undoubtedly master scorers, and the combination of movement and stillness is perfect. It's not just Wang Yang who knows people, this time the two are going to cooperate in "Firefly", which suddenly made many fans and movie score fans look forward to it, what kind of collision will happen to their scale symbols? !

Of course, the soundtrack team can only start working when the editing team has achieved results, and it naturally depends on whether the video content of "Firefly" can provide them with creative passion and inspiration. However, the soundtrack team is not without preparation, they also need to think about how to integrate cowboy + Oriental, how to perfectly add some traditional Chinese instruments such as erhu, pipa, and small gongs to show some oriental artistic conception atmosphere?

They plan to travel to Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Chinese mainland to discuss and study with local Asian musicians and film scorers, and also recruit some outstanding musicians to join the team to participate in the work, vowing to make "Firefly" a new peak of their careers.

In terms of editing, this is the sixth time that Margaret Goodspeed has served as the editor of a film directed by Wang Yang, and Lee Smith (representative works "Truman's World", "Raging Sea", "The Dark Knight") is the second collaboration after "District 9", plus director Wang Yang himself, the three constitute the leading members of the editing team. Although they are all editors, the three of them have different tasks, Margaret mainly edits the "quiet" part, the other two focus on action and battle scenes, and Wang Yang has to keep an eye on those martial arts scenes.

OBVIOUSLY, "FIREFLY" IS NOT A CULT MOVIE FROM BEGINNING TO END, AND THE EDITING STYLE CAN'T BE SO CULT, IT NEEDS TO TAKE A GRAND AND ATMOSPHERIC ROAD.

Excluding the opening flame animation and end credits, the default length of "Firefly" ranges from 150 to 180 minutes, that is, 2 and a half hours to 3 hours, and Wang Yang hopes to control it to about 165 minutes. This broke his single-film length record in a large way, except for "Ghost Shadow", which was 90 minutes long, the other seven films were all around 120 minutes, and now this change also means that this is a new narrative rhythm.

"The Battle of New Shanxi" is only the biggest ** in the whole film to the end, theoretically the battle of Tranquility Valley at the beginning of the film is shocking, the fighting adventure along the way, the huge and rapid scene changes, and all the characters who appear on the stage are all divided into the perspective of the two lines of Tranquility and Blue Glove.

Now Wang Yang's task is to cut a rough cut version, and the more urgent task is to cut out a 2.5-minute teaser to support the development of multiple viral marketing plans for "Firefly".

"My first requirement is that it must have the power to be intense and tense and burning!" In the dimly lit editing room, several computer screens on the table display different picture shots, Wang Yang is telling several people involved in the editing of the trailer The requirements can find a special company to conceive and produce the trailer and the end credits, but Wang Yang has always liked to do it himself, and he has always done a good job. Glancing at Margaret and the others, Wang Yang continued: "In these two minutes, we have to roughly explain a gripping story, as well as one or two humorous and interesting lines and shots. ”

Art director Kevin Kavanave nodded, and heard him say again: "But! The relationship needs to be clarified, this time we are within the framework of the set soundtrack, following its rhythm with suitable wonderful shots and split lines, this is like a symphony, a rock song! excited, heartbeat, anticipation! And you know, it has to have that kind of 'spoof template' effect, so don't have extra narration voices, all of them are strung together by the characters' lines! Don't be too wordy about the information of the starring role, just appear in a separate scene with a position and name......"

"You've all heard Hans Zimmer's trailer soundtrack just now, now let's start thinking about it!" After saying the request, Wang Yang opened the script and scene sequence book, and Margaret and the others also looked at their own share, the soundtrack just now does have the power to make people adrenaline. Wang Yang looked at the script and thought: "Try this at the beginning, with the line of blue gloves: one thing you must know, she is a very dangerous character, and she holds some secrets that you should not know...... The camera uses an overhead shot of Reva hiding in a box. ”

Margaret thought of something, she lifted the frame of her glasses, and smiled seriously: "Yang, you also want to appear in the trailer, right?" Wang Yang raised his eyes and swept everyone, nodded and smiled: "Yes, I will!"

"Firefly" has more than just a "spoof trailer", and many film distributors have been put to shame by the frequent new tricks, and in recent days it has given everyone a lot of insight.

Flame Films reached a cooperation agreement with the Italian game publishing company "Leonardo da Vinci Games" to launch the "Firefly" version of "BANG!".

BANG!, a board card killing game launched in 2002, is now gaining popularity around the world, and just won the Origin Award for Best Traditional Card Game of the Year in 2003 this year. It is designed with the theme of wild Westworld, with four player roles: Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, Gangster and Renegade, and the core victory rule is that the gangster kills the Sheriff, the Deputy Sheriff helps the Sheriff kill all the gangsters and traitors, and the traitor must kill the Gangster and the Deputy Sheriff first and then kill the Sheriff, and survive to the end.

The game is set up with real or fictional characters such as Bart Cassidy, Black Jack, and Susie Lafayette, as well as prop cards with different functional effects such as guns, mustangs, and beer.

The "Firefly" version changes the world background to a new galaxy in the future, and the four identity changes correspond to the Star Alliance, the Blue Glove Organization, the Marauders, and the Independents. In addition to changing "Indian Invasion" to "Marauder Invasion", that is, all players except the initiator must discard a BANG! (attack minus 1HP), and players who have no BANG! to discard and those who are unwilling to discard will be deducted 1 HP, and the equipment card "Mustang" has also been changed to "Firefly", which reduces the distance to all players by 1 after equipping, and the characters have naturally changed.

Captain Marr, Blue Gloves and others play poker cards, with Mal's character skill being able to draw a card from any player's hand during the draw phase, Blue Gloves being able to use any number of BANG!s in a turn, and Reva being able to use BANG! and MISSED! (dodging attacks) interchangeably...... I don't know how many people will play the "Firefly" version of "BANG!", but the novel trick of the flame movie is really eye-catching! It has attracted many media reports such as Yahoo after the release of a set of hand-drawn comics and a set of live-action actor cards on the official website, and the rising traffic on the official website can show that this move has achieved the purpose of publicity well, and more people have a deeper impression of the characters and world background setting of "Firefly"; This game, Fire Movies and Leonardo da Vinci Games is a win-win.

Flame Movie does not plan to print it on a large scale as a physical card sale, or operate it online, which is written in the terms of cooperation between the two parties, but it is not a pair of unprinted, as long as you participate in other viral marketing activities on the official website, you will have the opportunity to get a gift package containing physical poker cards, T-shirts and other gifts.

OFFICE WHITE-COLLAR WORKERS, HOUSEWIVES AND OTHER AUDIENCE GROUPS BUY IT? THIS IS NOT IN THE SCOPE OF CONSIDERATION FOR THE FLAME TO PLAY THIS BANG!, BUT IT DOES MAKE GEEKS AND NERDY MOVIE FANS HAVE NO MISSED! AVAILABLE, LOSING 1HP, AND COUNTLESS PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T PAY MUCH ATTENTION TO "FIREFLY" BEFORE HAVE A STRONG INTEREST IN IT, AND WHAT MAKES THESE GEEKS EVEN MORE EXCITED AS IF THEY ARE GOING TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS IS THAT "The Big Bang Theory" is about to BANG!!

(To be continued)