In late April, Firefly's three film projects were launched almost at the same time, and they were all scheduled for this year's summer vacation. This move violates the normal release cycle of many movies, after all, many Hollywood movies in this era are usually released after the production is completed, and it usually takes a few months or more than a year to be released, so many media have questioned Eric's arrangement.

However, Eric did not respond to these remarks, because Firefly and the Seven major studios are still very different in terms of operation.

After all, Firefly is still a lot smaller for the huge Big Seven, and for big movie companies, dozens of movies have to be released every year, of course, some movies will be repeatedly delayed due to various conflicts, but Firefly is different.

After the merger with New Line, Robert Shea has suspended New Line's small-budget production plans, so Firefly has only three film distribution plans to arrange in the first half of the year, including "The Silence of the Lambs", "Sleeping with the Enemy" and "The Ghost Is Not Settled".

"Instinct" was distributed by Universal, and Firefly didn't have to worry about it at all, while "Ghost Love" was still released in cooperation with Disney, in this case, Firefly's distribution pressure was less, and the operation was easier, almost at the same time as the production of the movie, you can start simple publicity work.

By the time the movie was released, the promotion had actually been going on for three months. Compared with many movies in big film companies, which only have a month's promotion time, Firefly's publicity is already very sufficient.

At the same time as the film started, Eric's "The Matrix", which was only more than 50,000 words, was quietly put on sale, and Michael Krauss spent little energy on publicity. The book easily climbed to the top of the bestseller list.

A wave of skepticism ensued. After all. The book was written in such a hurry that Eric only spent a little more than a week free, and many of the details were not fully considered, more like telling a lot of specious fragments.

Therefore, many newspapers criticized Eric's book, although it has a clever idea, but the details are completely shoddy, which is simply to fool readers, and some newspapers even criticized Eric for collecting money. For this point of view. Even readers who don't like this book laugh at it, how could Eric's current net worth be able to look at those insignificant royalty incomes.

Of course, many people in Hollywood are aware of Eric's real purpose in writing this book, compared to the previous "Jurassic Park" and "Resident Evil", this one is obviously going to the movie again, and, after carefully studying this one, many people also realize the huge potential of "The Matrix" in terms of movies.

Even though they know that the chances are slim, the number of people who come to contact the film rights continues to be continuous. Even Cameron, who was preparing "Terminator 2", became interested in this one and made a special call to New York. Talk to Eric about his thoughts on some of the ideas in The Matrix.

Of course, Cameron didn't mention the film copyright in the end, and Eric didn't have the idea of handing over "The Matrix" to Cameron to direct, although this idea is very tempting and interesting, but "The Matrix" is very different from Cameron's film style.

There is no shortage of thinking in Cameron's films, such as the "Terminator" series, which can be said to express a strong concern about the endless expansion of nuclear armaments by humans, and the "Avatar" in the previous life, which is the story of the alien race of the Guò Na'vi people defending the planet Pandora, expresses a concern about the endless grabbing of natural resources by human beings, and may eventually be strongly attacked by nature.

However, despite some thoughts, Cameron's films have always pursued the most gorgeous visual effects and the hottest camera scenes, which are not the main focus of "The Matrix".

The trend of "The Matrix" is still continuing, no matter what outsiders say, Eric has not been affected in any way, but the filming of "Ghost Love" is being carried out in various districts of New York in an orderly manner.

"Stan, the Grim Reaper I need is the kind of real Grim Reaper with a black cloak and a Death Scythe in his hand, not a few blurry black shadows, but according to what you said, the end result is likely to be a few black shadows. ”

New York night has just fallen, on a closed street, the crew is busy preparing for the filming, Eric and Stan Winston, who is in charge of special effects, discuss something: "By the way, when it comes to shadows, this is a big problem, Sam has become a ghost, so, according to common sense, he should not have a shadow in the end, and there should be no footsteps when he walks, footsteps are easy to solve, what about shadows?"

Stan Winston pondered for a moment and said, "It's very simple, use a shadowless lamp and then dim the light in post, but it's a lot of trouble to shoot." ”

"I'm not afraid of trouble, as long as I can get the details right," Eric said decisively.

At this point, the person in charge of the set came over and told Eric that everything had been arranged.

Several extras wrapped in blue tights come up to Eric and Stan Winston, who are the frightening 'Grim Reaper' in the movie, but not only are they not scary, they look a little funny.

Stan Winston and Eric went up together to personally inspect the costumes of several extras and said, "Eric, I don't think the Grim Reaper needs to be too realistic, too realistic to make a horror movie, so a few dark shadows are just right." ”

"No, Stan, I mean the photorealistic effect, not the horror effect. ”

"Wouldn't it be scary if death were realistic?" Stan Winston asked, a little quizzy.

Eric shrugged helplessly: "You just need to do what I want, and I'll take care of the rest." ”

Stan Winston shrugged: "Well, as you might expect, it's actually related to post-rendering, which hasn't been set up yet. ”

"Then borrow Pixar's, they have a ready-made render farm, although it is used to render 3D animation, but I remember the principle is similar, you communicate with John Lasseter, if it doesn't work, rent Industrial Light & Magic. ”

Eric and Stan Winston check out a few of the Grim Reaper, make an OK gesture to the assistant director, and then shoot resumes again. (To be continued......) u