Chapter 141: Tales of the Night
On May 1, the preliminary preparations for "Tales of the Night" were officially completed, and the crew was officially established, and on May 2, "Tales of the Night" officially began filming in the digital studio of Industrial Light & Magic in Burbank.
The original version of "Tales of the Night" is a European and American magical action movie directed by director Len Wiseman and starring Kate Beckinsale. The original time and space was officially released on September 19, 2003. The film combines the themes of vampires and werewolves to depict an underground world full of mystery and violence. It ended up grossing $95.7 million.
Wang Jie has made a lot of editing and revising "Legend of the Night", re-structuring the movie world, and sorting out the chaotic plots of the following films to a certain extent, especially the inexplicable death of the male protagonist Michael Cowen, which made Wang Jie speechless. In the life of Cowen, the hero is defined as a retired instructor of the British Royal Marine Corps, and after retiring, he opened a private clinic and became a doctor. As for the combat effectiveness in the original version of the hidden boss Alexander Kovinas, it's really weak, please, you are the ancestor, and you were solved by your own son by dividing it by three times five, which is also ridiculous, Wang Jie increased Alexander Kevinas's ability several times, and attributed the cause of his death to the debt to his descendants, and his heart was unsettled, and finally gave a body of blood to Selena, the goddess of the moon, and Michael Cowen, a descendant.
After Wang Jie's adaptation, "Legend of the Night" tells the story that a long time ago, there was a man who experienced the plague but did not die, and found that he had an immune constitution, he was the true origin of all vampires and werewolves - Alexander Kovinas, and he had three sons, two of whom were William and Marcus. William became a werewolf ancestor after being bitten by a wolf, and Marcus became a vampire ancestor after being bitten by a bat, but William, who is a white werewolf, has no self-rationality, and those who have been bitten by him will become werewolves, and like William, they will lose their rationality, they can't change back into human form and are contagious. Marcus asks for help from a dying lord, Victor, who gives Victor infinite life and asks Victor to help him control William, and then lays a lie that if he kills him or William, all the vampires and werewolves will die. So, with their efforts, William was caught. Victor tries to imprison William, but Marcus wants him not to, but the persuasion fails because he has no real power in the Vampire Legion.
The first part of "Tales of the Night" that Wang Jie will shoot takes place hundreds of years later, when these two powerful and hostile races still live in the modern civilized world - the noble and mysterious and elusive vampire clan and the cruel and wild werewolf clan. The two races have been fighting for centuries for absolute dominance of the underworld. For hundreds of years, the two sides have never stopped fighting fiercely, and many clansmen on both sides have been fighting each other for the rest of their lives, and new and old hatreds have piled up and entangled.
In the protracted contest, the vampire clan has the upper hand, compared to the savage werewolves, the vampire society is more formal and more organized, but the werewolf clan is still the biggest threat to their noble status if they are not eliminated for a day, so the leaders of the vampire society set up a force composed of the most elite warriors of the vampires - "Death Walker", and the task of all members is to eradicate the werewolves without mercy.
The Werewolf Tribe is a group of thugs who roam the streets and alleys, and their habitat is an underground warehouse left over from World War II, and although they are fierce and tough, they lack organization and size, which puts them at a disadvantage in the battle against vampires. The vampire and werewolf tribes, each with their own arsenal and the production of large quantities of lethal weapons, are always looking for opportunities to kill each other in the dark night, watching the two dark forces fight each other......
Late one autumn night, Selena, one of the most prominent female warriors in Deathwalker, is chasing a group of werewolves when she accidentally learns from a captive that the werewolves are planning to kidnap Michael, a human doctor. Selena, who is thoughtful, has a hunch that this is part of a huge conspiracy of the werewolf clan, so she decides to investigate alone, but she is seriously injured by the werewolf when she falls into a coma while driving, but is fortunately saved by Michael.
Selena takes Michael into the vampire's secret territory, only to find out that Michael has been bitten by a werewolf leader named Lucian, so he may turn into a werewolf. However, Selena only learns Michael's true identity, it turns out that Michael is a descendant of Alexander's third son, and his blood can create a hybrid of vampires and werewolves, but it also indicates that Michael has a chance to become a half-blood.
Because of this, Michael is embarrassed by the situation of being intolerable between the two races, and after Lucien knows that Michael is the target he has been looking for for a hundred years, he sends his fellow werewolves to chase him, hoping to gain stronger power through his blood, that is, "evolution". Selena sympathized with Michael's plight when she learned about it, and she wanted to do her best to help the benefactor who had saved her life, so in the process of understanding each other and fighting together, a wonderful love germinated in two young people who were burdened with racial feuds.
However, the family behind the two people has no way to undo the feud that has accumulated over the centuries. The vampire clan's large-scale operation to annihilate the werewolves has been prepared, and the werewolves are fully prepared for their revenge.
On a stormy night, the Armageddon of vampires and werewolves is staged......
The heroine of the play, the beautiful and charming vampire female warrior Selena, the goddess of the moon, is of course starring Kate Beckinsale, who is not deeply involved in the world, after this period of ear and sideburn grinding, Wang Jie has already eaten and wiped this British rose, after the combination, Wang Jie also opened up the second bridge of heaven and earth of Kate Beckinsale, because Kate Beckinsale did not lose the yuan yin before this, so with her own luck and the guidance of Wang Jie's combination and double cultivation, her physique has more than doubled compared with ordinary people, and it only took a week to learn the Gongsun Sword Dance.
The young and handsome actor Michael Cowen Wang Jie decided to play it himself, and the male and female protagonists in the play have a lot of intimate scenes, and he doesn't want to suffer. In the play, Michael Cowen embarked on the path of medicine after retiring from the military because his wife died in a fatal accident. Since then, he has devoted himself wholeheartedly to helping others. However, he had no idea that he had a connection to the dark werewolf world. He knew very little about his family, and he didn't know about the war between the wolf clan and the vampires. And he became the key figure in the revenge of the wolf clan.
The arrogant and cold-blooded vampire Victor Wang Jie in the play still found Bill Nigh to play the role, and his acting skills in the original version left a deep impression on Wang Jie.
The role of Lucian, the wolf king in the movie, was handed over to Russell Crowe, which was introduced to the crew by Nicole Kidman, the Australian gang in the previous life was a very influential circle in Hollywood, although they also have contradictions with each other, but in the face of external pressure, they will unite and make the same voice, which should not be underestimated.
Now in Hollywood, Nicole Kidman is one of the most famous Australian movie stars, and she is backed by the mountain of Wang Jie, so actors and actresses who come to Hollywood from Australia to look for opportunities often ask for Nicole Kidman, and Nicole Kidman also gives these fellows some help as much as possible within her ability, which also makes Nicole the leader of the Australian gang.