After Tom Cruise's joining "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" was finalized, Zhang Ran flew to Ireland to join the crew of "Future Apocalypse".

Filmmaker Marty Bowen picked up Zhang at the airport and drove directly into the underground parking lot of the Hilton Hotel, and then took the elevator to settle Zhang Ran in the room that had been booked. Immediately afterwards, Marty Bowen took Zhang Ran's passport and went to the hotel front desk to check in.

When he finished the formalities and returned his passport to Zhang Ran, Marty Bowen told Zhang Ran that Simon Parley, the president of the Irish Film Society, had come and wanted to meet Zhang Ran.

The filming of "Future Apocalypse" in Ireland itself was a thread drawn by the Irish Film Society, and now that the chairman came to the door in person, Zhang Ran was sure to see it, so he told Marty Bowen to let Simon Parley come up. He poured himself a cup of tea and sat on the couch in the living room, waiting to meet Simon Parley.

Simon Parley was in his sixties and had a typical Irish appearance, red hair and pale skin. When he saw Zhang Ran, he gave Zhang Ran a hug very warmly: "Mr. Zhang, welcome to Ireland!"

Zhang Ran invited Simon Parley to sit down on the sand, poured him a cup of tea, and smiled, "Thank you, Mr. Parley." I am also very honoured to be here in Ireland and I am sure it will be a wonderful journey!"

"With over $200 million invested in Apocalypse Future, the largest film ever made in Ireland, we feel fortunate to be part of such a major production that we can offer a fresh start to the younger generation of filmmakers," said Simon Parley. I hope to have more cooperation opportunities with you and Summit Entertainment in the future!"

Zhang Ran is filming in Ireland for the first time, what is the situation, what are the conditions in all aspects, he didn't dare to say it to death, but he still gave a positive answer: "My assistant director has never been to Ireland before, and after coming here to survey the scenery, he was deeply fascinated by the scenery of Ireland, he told me that this may be one of the most suitable places in the world to make movies, and I believe we will have more opportunities for cooperation!"

Simon Parley was very happy to hear Zhang Ran say this, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang Ran, Mr. Quinn, the Mayor of Dublin, is also very welcome to the arrival of "Future Apocalypse", and I hope to meet you!"

Zhang Ran was not surprised, in the past year or so, with the rise of the peak of the century, Zhang Ran has gone to many cities, and the mayors of these cities will meet with him. They said almost the same thing: Welcome to the summit of the century to invest. When I came to Dublin this time, the mayor of Dublin invited me to a banquet, and I must have said the same thing.

But this face Zhang Ran must be given, he still has to film here, and it is very important to have a good relationship with the government, so he said: "Thank you Mayor Quinn for the invitation, I look forward to meeting him!"

After that, Zhang Ran chatted with Simon Parley for a while about Irish cinema and discussed the possibility of cooperation between the two sides. By the time the conversation was over, it was close to noon, and Zhang Ran invited Simon Parley to lunch.

After lunch, Zhang Ran went back to his room to rest for a while, and then asked Marty Bowen to take him to the barracks. Since March 1, the cast has been training in a military camp on the outskirts of Dublin. The only exception is Matt Damon, who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and was going to attend an Oscar event, knowing that he would only join the crew after attending the Oscars and start training.

"Future Apocalypse" is a science fiction film, but Zhang Ran wants the film to be realistic, at least to look like that. This is a military science fiction film with two very important war scenes in it. Since it is a war drama, it involves many aspects of the army's firepower allocation and soldiers' tactics. It's not impossible if each person is holding a laser for a brainless charge, but that's not the movie Zhang Ran wants.

The unit of the male protagonist is the First Cavalry Division of the United States, take the current First Cavalry Division as an example, a mechanized infantry platoon has three squads, equipped with 4 M2 Bradley combat vehicles, equipped with three sets of Javelin anti-tank missile launchers, each platoon has three squads, and each squad has 9 people. Each squad had two combat teams, each fire group of four people, one fire team leader, one machine gun shooter, one grenadier, one rifleman, and each squad was equipped with a set of Javelin anti-tank missiles.

However, the story of "Future Apocalypse" takes place 50 years later, and the staffing of the First Cavalry Division in it is completely different from now, the entire unit is a mixture of human soldiers and machine soldiers, each squad is composed of four human soldiers and eight robots, human soldiers wear exoskeletons and two robots to form a combat team, and a squad of four combat teams.

Since the troops are a mixture of humans and robots, how to match firepower and what tactics soldiers use in combat need to be considered. In order to solve this problem, the crew found some retired US military officers and military experts to form a military advisory group of 20 people. In order to hire these expert crews spent a lot of money, but the money was not spent in vain, the military advisory group according to the setting of the movie, the military equipment, tactical tactics and tactics were carefully studied, and finally designed the tactics of human and robot cooperation, the combat team attacked with two machine soldiers in front and human soldiers in the back, in a triangular attack formation. Among them, the heavy robots are responsible for attacking, the light robots are responsible for covering, and the human soldiers are the core of the entire combat team, responsible for commanding and supporting. In addition, the Military Advisory Group designed a set of tactical maneuvers and sign language signals that could be used.

These are all things designed by the military advisory group, neither the actors nor the Irish soldiers who assisted in the filming, and it must have been specially trained to present them in the film.

On the way to the barracks, Marty Bowen told Zhang Ran that in order to cooperate with the filming of "Future Apocalypse", the Irish military transferred a battalion of troops to cooperate with Zhang Ran and them for filming, and set aside a special area in the training camp to facilitate the training of the actors and soldiers of the crew.

After passing the inspection of the guards and entering the barracks, Zhang Ran soon saw the actors of the crew. Their outfit is so conspicuous that they wear exoskeleton combat armor. At this time, they were training with the Irish soldiers who participated in the exercise. Now the whole team is divided into three companies, and two-thirds of the soldiers in each company wear ordinary military uniforms, and the rest wear exoskeleton combat armor.

These exoskeletons appear to be all-metal, but they are actually made of a special material by ILM, which is much lighter than expected, and the entire set weighs only 25 kilograms. "Future Apocalypse" is an action movie, with running, jumping, climbing and fighting plots, and it is necessary to ensure that the costume allows the actors to move freely, and the actors can wear it all day long, otherwise the scene cannot be filmed.

Now the soldiers are practicing the offensive tactics designed by the military advisory group at the training ground, and the battle formation is an inverted triangle, with soldiers wearing exoskeletons in the back and soldiers in ordinary military uniforms in front. However, when it comes to the actual shooting, these soldiers wearing ordinary military uniforms will wear green clothing, so that they will be cut off in the later stage and replaced with two different models of combat robots, and the audience will be able to clearly see how the army will fight in the future when watching the movie.

On the training ground, the actors are very serious, whether it is a superstar like Matt Damon or an unknown young actor, they are all training seriously, and that serious attitude looks no different from that of a real soldier.

After watching from a distance for a few minutes, Zhang Ran walked over and greeted Davis, the chief instructor in charge of training, and asked about the training.

Davis is a former captain of the U.S. Marine Corps, not that Zhang Ran distrusts the training of the Irish army, but that the tactics, tactical movements, and sign language signals of the 1st Cavalry Division in the movie were designed by Davis and can only be trained by him.

Davis told Zhang Ran that in the morning, the actors mainly conduct physical training, train them like real soldiers, let them think and act like real soldiers, which is what Zhang Ran asked him to do; in the afternoon, the actors wear armor for tactical training, and conduct individual exercises, such as movement and concealment, in addition to the three-person combat team also has to conduct tactical drills, how to cooperate, how to cooperate and how to cooperate in combat.

Zhang Ran noticed that Davis had a smile on the corner of his mouth when he spoke, and the whole person looked very proud, thinking to himself, Davis should feel very cool about the training of so many Hollywood stars being called by him.

After communicating with Zhang Ran for a few minutes, Davis continued to practice Matt Damon and them, and Zhang Ran kept walking around the training ground, observing from all angles to see which angle presented the best effect.

It wasn't until 5 p.m. that Davis announced that today's training was over.

The soldiers who played the robot were in good shape, while the soldiers who were trained in exoskeletons were all paralyzed on the ground, and more than twenty of the actors were snorting as if they had been shot.

Zhang Ran walked over and asked with a smile, "Gentlemen, how do you feel?"

Seeing Zhang Ran, the actors all sat up and greeted him.

Matt Damon smiled and said, "It feels okay, it's just that this armor is a bit heavy." ”

Zhang Ran shrugged his shoulders and said, "The armor of our play is light. Last year, our company filmed a drama called "Edge of Tomorrow", which is also an exoskeleton, and it is also a real thing. However, their exoskeleton is relatively bulky, of which the male model weighs nearly 60 kilograms, and the female model also weighs 40 kilograms, and the heroine Emily Blunt cried directly when she put on the armor for the first time, I think it's too terrifying, how can I act with such a heavy thing on my body!"

Hearing this, the actors and soldiers present all gloated and laughed, it turned out that someone was worse than themselves!

Zhang Ran continued: "In order to get used to that armor, Tom Cruise and they trained for a long time to be able to act in that bulky armor, and in the end they both liked their armor, and when they were fine, they walked around in armor in the crew, which was very cool. We're sure you'll love your armor as much as your wives in the future!"

One of the soldiers patted his armor and said triumphantly: "This is my wife Scarlett, none of you are allowed to touch my wife, otherwise I will kill him!"

There was a burst of laughter, and some whistled.

A soldier looked at Zhang Ran expectantly and asked, "Mr. Zhang, when is Scarlett Johansson coming?"

Zhang Ran found that many soldiers were looking at him with anticipation, and couldn't help laughing, it seems that Scarlett Johansson is very popular with these soldiers, but this is not surprising, she herself is famous for her sexy image, so she said: "She doesn't have her share in the war scenes in front, and she won't join the group until the war scenes are almost finished." But I promise, you'll see her. ”

The soldiers all laughed and applauded, they really wanted to see Scarlett Johansson.

In the next few days, Zhang Ran was busy like a war, making the final sprint for the start of the movie, and it was at this time that Netflix's carefully prepared drama "House of Cards" was officially launched.

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