Due to problems in the producer, Wang Yang followed the crew of "Sweetheart" for more than a week, far exceeding the budgeted time, and seeing that Anne Fletcher could cope adequately, he left the crew and continued to be busy with the preparation of "District 9".

Discussing the shooting plan with Valley Pfister is one of the main tasks, but they have already discussed and agreed that in addition to some stunt shots that must be assisted by equipment, "District 9" will use shoulder and handheld shooting throughout the whole process, and will not keep the camera in a very stable state, of course, some pseudo-documentary news shooting, monitors and other shots are not included.

In terms of color and film style, it is naturally gray and textured, gray is to make the audience feel depressed, and texture is for reality.

Another job was to fill in the last few important positions of the crew, including the sound engineer and lighting engineer of the film crew, as well as the blasting, speeding stunt team, which he completed with VFX director Chad Kidd ("The Matrix", "Transformers" 1&2, "Spider-Man 3", etc.). When everything is ready and the time has come to September, "District 9" can be officially launched at any time.

In this month, "Youth Musical" collected 100 million at the box office in North America, as the last part of the trilogy, and with excellent publicity, fans and fans are more enthusiastic than the second part, and it is expected to eventually receive more than 130 million box office in North America, and there is no reason why the overseas box office will not break 100 million.

The happy ending of the "Youth Musical" series has made Flame Movies a lot of money again, and it has also allowed Wang Yang to produce "District 9" without any worries about finances.

However, before the start of filming, he had to go to New York, in addition to personally going through some procedures related to his sentence that had already ended, by the way, he took a look at the newly established I&B department of Blue Sky Studio and Image Engine, and accompanied Alice Hansen, the producer in charge of the commercial side, to negotiate with several companies, such as sponsoring some real and expensive props in "District 9", and his task is to explain to the manufacturer, how to shoot during filming, which will make the audience impress your products, so sponsor it!

Even though he has a lot of money and the company has a lot of money, he is not the kind of miser who saves costs regardless of the effects of the film. But if you can save 5 million, 10 million or 10 million dollars in this expensive prop, why not save it? Next, you can use these 5 million or 10 million to burn on special effects, so that the movie will be better and the manufacturers will be happy, and everyone will be happy.

In any case, he doesn't deliberately point the camera at the logo, but often he doesn't need to do that, and the IBM laptop is just sitting there quietly as a set, which only means that the MNU and the protagonist are using IBM computers.

After a long period of negotiation and interviews in the past few days, several companies, including IBM, have agreed to sponsor it, which can save five million in the cost of "District 9", which also means that the special effects cost is another five million.

The morning sun is very warm, the autumn is crisp, Manhattan is in the midst of a busy day, although the streets are constantly roaring, but looking at the smiling faces of young students returning to school, energetic office workers, in this good weather, everyone's mood is very comfortable, autumn is really the best season in New York.

Wang Yang, who was wearing a gray light coat, walked out of the hotel where he was staying and came to the street, where he ate the bread in his hand and walked towards the newsstand. He was going to spend a day in New York and then take an evening flight back to Los Angeles, he had been working almost every day for more than two months, and he was also feeling a little tired, and people needed to rest and relax.

When he came to the newsstand, he smiled at his boss and said, "Hey, sir, give me a copy of The New York Times!"

"Ok, young man, your newspaper. The half-white-haired white boss pulled out a newspaper and handed it to him, and said with a smile: "Today's weather is really good!" Wang Yang took the newspaper and paid for it, the smooth and pleasant weather of the trip to New York made him feel very good, and said with a smile: "Yes, the summer in San Francisco, the autumn in New York, and the winter in Los Angeles, my favorite." ”

At this time, a blonde girl who bought a newspaper next to her laughed accostingly: "What about spring? Which city?" Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders with a smile and asked, "Where is the spring that people don't like?" The white boss and the blonde girl both laughed suddenly, she nodded and smiled: "That's true, spring is always so cute." ”

Wang Yang smiled at them, then turned around and walked with the newspaper, facing south, he could see the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the tallest building in downtown and the whole of New York, he suddenly frowned suspiciously, a plane flying at a low altitude?

A loud muffled bang came faintly from afar! Everyone on the street was suddenly startled and stopped, what had happened? Wang Yang stared blankly at the north building of the World Trade Center, where the smoke was billowing out, and the plane just now crashed straight into it...... The white boss, the blonde girl, and everyone else looked up at the other side, their faces full of shock, and in a few seconds, everyone who reacted shouted, "Oh, my God!"

"Hell, how could it be on fire!?" A black man shouted in surprise: "What's the matter with that loud noise, was it hit by a missile? Or is it a bomb?" Wang Yang frowned tightly and shook his head: "No, I saw a plane, and a plane crashed into it!" The people around couldn't help but exclaim, the blonde girl covered her mouth and said with a worried face: "How could this accident happen? It's terrible, can those people on it escape?"

Some of the people on the street continued to go to work, while others stopped to watch, or took out their mobile phones to make calls, and there were people who took pictures with digital cameras and voiced: "This accident is terrible." "It's so sad, a lot of people are going to die. ”…… Looking at the towering building with flames and black smoke at the top far away, Wang Yang felt very sad and regretful, and he also had a trace of doubt: Was this really an accident? The plane just now flew smoothly...... Maybe it was a terrorist attack, and in '93 the underground parking lot of the World Trade Center was planted by terrorists with a car bomb that exploded and killed several people...... But it's better just bad accidents!

He walked back to the hotel, intending to see what was going on on TV, when he took out his phone and dialed a number, which was quickly connected, and said, "Jessica, a plane just hit the World Trade Center." ”

In Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, there was no shot of her in the filming plan of "Sweetheart" today, so even though it was almost nine o'clock, Jessica stayed at home dressed in home clothes, pruning her love flowers in the back garden. Hearing Wang Yang's heavy voice on the mobile phone, she immediately frowned, and wondered: "What? The plane crashed into the building? Why is this happening? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, I'm just telling you I'm fine. Wang Yang hurriedly replied to her that if the accident had happened two days ago, maybe he would be in trouble, and he and Alice Hansen had been to the World Trade Center to discuss it that day. As he walked, he looked at the building and said, "I don't know what's going on, are you at home? ”

"Hmm!" Jessica answered, walked briskly back to the living room of the house, turned on the TV, this is the news on the CNN channel, listened to the host say "This may be a terrorist attack", looking at the building with smoke on the screen, her heart sank, and hurriedly said: "Young, stay away from the World Trade Center! You know? Oh, no......" She stared at the screen with wide eyes, shivered, and lost her voice: "Someone jumped from above, oh my God...... Another one, oh my God......"

Wang Yang couldn't help but sigh, did all the lives and people who could laugh and cry die like this? He comforted: "Jesse, I'm going back to the hotel now, it's far away from the World Trade Center, don't worry." Jessica's voice was still full of worry and anxiety, and said, "Yang, you leave Manhattan immediately, the news says that it is likely to be a terrorist attack of a suicide hijacking, it is too unsafe there!" Wang Yang nodded and said, "Well, I will." ”

After chatting a few more words, I was about to return to the door of the hotel, when suddenly there was a loud bang, which resounded throughout the sky over Manhattan, and I saw a fiery red mushroom cloud rising from the south building of another building on the other side of the World Trade Center. Everyone on the street reflexively cowered back, their faces full of astonishment and fear.

"Oh my God!!" Jessica felt her heart pound as she watched a plane crash into the south tower of the World Trade Center at high speed...... She hurriedly said: "This is a terrorist attack, this is a terrorist attack! Jan, hurry up and leave! Hey, are you okay?" Listening to the sound of a beep on her phone, she took a deep breath, dialed back, and muttered, "Please, please......"

In a women's dormitory at Harvard University in Boston, Natalie and her roommates looked at the screen of the flat-screen TV, frowning tightly, and she used her mobile phone again to call her parents' mobile phones, but they couldn't get through; she called her home on Long Island, but they couldn't get through; she gritted her teeth and dialed Wang Yang in New York, but it still didn't work! She was about to lose her cool and knocked on her mobile phone and scolded: "Paralyzed, all paralyzed!"

In Toronto, Rachel listened to the sound of a blocked line on the phone, remembered his blog post "I'm in New York!" and closed her eyes in silent prayer. Los Angeles, Joshua, Zachary, Michael Pitt...... Whether they were calling Wang Yang, Tom Welling, or other friends in New York, none of the cell phones and calls in New York and the surrounding areas could get through.

Wang Yang reluctantly and anxiously typed his mobile phone, Los Angeles and San Francisco couldn't get out, so he pulled his legs and ran to the hotel. There seemed to be a commotion in the hotel lobby, too, with guests either hurrying in and out or crowding around the front desk, where the receptionist said, "Sorry guys, I think the communication is paralyzed and I can't get out at all." ”

"Bitch-raised terrorists!" a big black man punched the counter in anger, and another white young man sighed, "I don't know how many people are going to die, it's work time!" Another blonde white man said in disbelief: "Maybe it's just two unrelated coincidence......s?"

Everyone in front of the service desk was talking, Wang Yang frowned and looked at the big TV screen, only to see smoke and fire all over the top of the Twin Towers, and suddenly a person jumped out and fell, and everyone suddenly let out an "oh", full of sadness and sympathy. Wang Yang pressed his forehead a little unbearably, this is a living person dying, not a movie special effect...... He shook his head, Jessica must have been very worried about the interruption of the call just now, fortunately Mom and Dad didn't know that he was in New York, and they didn't use the Internet much...... "Internet!" Wang Yang suddenly shouted, and rushed to the elevator, to go back to the room to surf the Internet.

"How can it not be done!" Jessica frowned tightly, looking at the chaotic screen and listening to the host say, "I hope the pedestrians on the street will pay attention to the wreckage of the plane, and the momentum of the wreckage can reach at least 6 blocks away", she felt more and more scared, afraid to think about the worst, if anything happened to him...... She shouted, "Stop, no!" Danny curled up with his head curled up.

At this time, the mobile phone on the coffee table and the phone side by side suddenly rang, Jessica's eyes lit up, she immediately picked it up, and pressed the channel without looking: "Hello!" But the voice that came was not Wang Yang, but a very deep girl's voice: "It's me, Natalie." Do you know what Jan is like? He's not on a plane, he's on a World Trade Center, is he?"

"No, of course not! Jessica said hurriedly, she sighed, and said, "Just now he was on the street and was about to go back to the hotel, and the phone was broken while we were talking, just when the second plane hit, but he was fine...... I hung up, maybe he's calling right now. Natalie over there snorted and said, "It's useless, the phone system is down, I'll go check it out on the Internet." Jessica nodded helplessly and said, "Well, I'll go too, bye-bye." ”

As soon as he returned to the room, Wang Yang hurriedly opened his laptop, opened all his instant messaging software such as ICQ and MSN, and immediately went to the blog to update a message: "I'm in New York, I'm fine." This incident is a national tragedy, God bless all innocent and good people. After the quick update, he took a long breath, picked up his mobile phone and dialed it again, but naturally he couldn't get through.

He picked up his notebook and went to the balcony to look at the burning World Trade Center to the south, the weather was still so crisp and crisp, but in just over half an hour, New York City and the whole country were in a panic. The message prompts of ICQ and MSN kept ringing, but he looked at the Twin Towers and was a little distracted, because just now, five or six people jumped in a row and fell from a height of more than 400 meters...... "Shit." Wang Yang scolded in a deep voice, why is there no superman in this world? Catch those people in the air, or intercept the whole plane before that! But there are many heroes in this world, those firefighters, ambulances...... He looked at the latest news item on AOL on the screen: "A firefighter on the ground floor of the World Trade Center was hit by a jumper, and after being rescued, he died. ”

He sighed, opened the message of the instant messenger software, and refreshed the website, but immediately the result was "unable to find the server", and even the network was blocked.

He first opened Jessica's ICQ window, which was already full of information such as "Are you there?", "Yang, speak!", "Please, hurry up and speak!", Wang Yang's heart warmed, and he quickly tapped a paragraph and sent it over: "Jessie, I'm fine, I'm in the hotel now." ”

Seeing this text in the chat window, Jessica suddenly closed her eyes with a smile and said softly, "Thank God! Thank God!" She exhaled a long breath and felt relieved all over, he was fine now! She glanced at the TV screen in front of her and typed, "Young, I'm so scared, it's terrible to see those people jumping down...... It's fine if you're okay. ”

Boston, seeing his reply, Natalie couldn't help but clench her fists and laugh, her parents, Jan, and friends were all safe, and misfortune didn't happen to her......! Natalie shook her head, she really wanted to ask God, why all this pain and sorrow, can't all people and animals be happy all the time?

"My friend, I'm fine, I'm inside the hotel now. ”…… Wang Yang copied and pasted a group of friends such as Natalie and Rachel, as well as Mark Slant and others, and returned to Jessica's window and sent: "Don't be afraid, contact my parents and tell them I'm okay." I'll be taking the train back to Los Angeles right away, and I'll be by your side soon. ”

According to news reports, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States has now set New York, Washington and other places as no-fly zones, and if it is classified as a terrorist attack, it is believed that the surrounding airports and flights will soon be closed;

Jessica frowned, hoping to see him next to her for the next moment, but ...... She typed: "No, don't move yet! Trains, planes, who knows if there will be any terrorist attacks?" Young, promise me!"

"Well, I'm not moving, but I have to get out of Manhattan first, and I feel like I'm going to be evacuated. So Jesse, let's talk about it first, and I'll get back in touch later!" Wang Yang finished typing this text and sent it, and copied another paragraph: "I have to leave Manhattan, bye-bye." After glancing at the black smoke of the World Trade Center, he closed his notebook, walked back into the house, quickly packed his important things, and walked away with his duffel bag on his back.

When he boarded the 10:17 train to New Jersey at Penn Train Station, Wang Yang silently found a seat and sat down, according to the conductor, this was the last train of the day, after which the traffic tunnel between New York and New Jersey would be closed. The lower part of Manhattan is paralyzed because the south tower of the World Trade Center has collapsed, and I don't know how many floors have fallen, but it is known that many people have lost their lives as a result.

Everyone on the train had a heavy face, and just now through the TV in the train station, they all knew some of the latest news, and they talked one after another: "I heard that the south building is all down!", "all down...... How is it possible?!", "Didn't you see the news, the Pentagon also fell, and I don't know how many planes were hijacked......"

Terror enveloped the entire train, and the outside world.

(To be continued)