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"At present, there are 89 people who have signed up for the actor audition, most of whom are unknown actors. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

In the office, Michelle Williams, who is the casting director, told Murphy, "There are more people who have signed up for auditions for the actresses, more than a hundred, and some of them have become famous stars." ”

Murphy nodded and asked, "Who are they?" ”

Before announcing the audition, the crew had revealed that the salary for this role would not exceed $500,000, and such a salary would hardly have any attraction to the famous actress.

They may only participate in auditions for something else, such as his appeal.

In this regard, Murphy will not be presumptuous, let alone him, the new work of any Hollywood first-line director will be the focus of media attention, participating in such a work, the name will be mentioned in countless reports, even if there is no media attention before, the young actor will become the object of paparazzi and reporters.

If possible, the crew also wants to choose actors who have become famous, their appeal and richer work experience can also avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles in preparation and shooting.

Michelle Williams also understood this, glanced at the names on the list in hand, and said, "There are Blake Blively, Lindsay Lohan, Lupita Nyong'o, Alessandra Daddario, Alicia Vikander, ......"

He suddenly glanced at Gal Gadot, who was sitting across from Murphy, "And Miss Margot Robbie." ”

Gal Gadot didn't say anything, and Murphy held his chin, thought for a moment, and said, "Agree to their auditions, except Lindsay Lohan and Lupita Nyong'o." ”

"Okay." Michelle Williams crossed the two off the list.

Like the kind of actors who don't meet the requirements at first glance, Murphy won't let the crew waste time on them, Lindsay Lohan is simply synonymous with trouble, there are countless female stars who take drugs in Hollywood, but there are few who are as unrestrained as her, Lupita Nyong'o is a black man, and Murphy is insensitive to the use of black actors who are also troublesome for the main role.

He didn't want his crew to have any scandals that discriminated against black actors in the future, and black actors were nowhere near as lofty as they themselves claimed.

In my impression, this Lupita Nyong'o is also very interesting, the second year of winning the Oscar supporting actress, before participating in the Oscars, she claimed to have prepared a pearl dress worth 150,000 US dollars, which instantly attracted the attention of countless media, but the white dress inlaid with 6,000 pearls was stolen on the eve of the awards ceremony, and the thief took off the two pearls on the dress for identification, and it turned out that the pearls were fakes, and the angry thief then broke the news to the TMZ website, saying: " Let the world see the hypocrisy of Lupita Nyong'o. ”

This was also the biggest joke at that Oscars.

For several other main roles, the crew needed older actors, and Murphy asked Michelle Williams to send out audition invitations to actors such as Liam Neeson, Kevin Spacey, Christopher Waltz, Gary Oldman, Ralph Fiennes, etc., depending on the results of the auditions.

Due to the large number of actors who want to participate in the audition for the male and female leads, the crew will first hold two audition-like auditions to eliminate those actors who do not meet the requirements of appearance.

Michelle Williams quickly left the office, and when only Murphy and Gal Gadot were left in the office, Gal Gadot suddenly said, "I invited David Robbie and Margot Robbie to come over to the house for the weekend. ”

"Hmm." Murphy nodded, "You can just take care of these things." ”

He understood what Gal Gadot meant, saying, "As long as Maggie's audition is good, I'll consider it." ”

Gal Gadot smiled and didn't say much, Margot Robbie also has a good relationship with Murphy, it is said that they have known each other for a long time, and Murphy will definitely give her priority.

Hollywood is also about relationships, and now that Margot Robbie has signed up for an audition, Murphy is actually considering the feasibility of her as a leading actress when she hears her name.

In this one, the heroine is completely a vase-like existence, with Margot Robbie's appearance and acting skills trained over the years, it is more than enough to play this role.

However, in the second part, the heroine will become more important and needs explosive performances, and Margot Robbie's acting skills are relatively young.

But in line with the principle of prioritizing one's own people, as long as Margot Robbie's audition didn't work too badly, Murphy would use her.

With the initial audition in charge of Michelle Williams, Murphy focused more on the planning of the entire project.

Twentieth Century Fox has successfully financed from various channels, and the film has started pre-sales in the international market under the banner of "Murphy Stanton's masterpiece".

With the first batch of funds hit the account of the third-party guarantee company, the preparation of the crew is also in full swing.

The crew's base camp is still on the Venice warehouse set under Stanton Studios, and no matter where the crew uses, they need to pay a certain venue fee, and in this regard, Murphy will of course give priority to his own set, and he has always been very taboo about 'fat water flowing into outsiders' fields.

After assembling on the set of the warehouse, Murphy's directing crew immediately split into two parts, with a few people assisting Michelle Williams in running the cast auditions, and others writing more specific shooting plans.

The most important of these is to write storyboards and artwork, and to refine the shooting budget into each shooting scene.

At the same time, the crew is still recruiting behind-the-scenes staff, and the departments in charge of the likes of Philip Raschel, Helena Espora and David Robbie all need to add some staff on an ad hoc basis.

Then, Gal Gadot flew to New York with a team of producers to inspect the location and explore the feasibility of filming on the streets of New York.

Then there is the indispensable prop production and equipment rental, Murphy has a detailed plan, and the heads of various departments are responsible for it.

As a director, Murphy knows enough about the various tasks in the project, but today, he has enough money and manpower to deploy, and many things are not as hands-on as he was when he started, but more about the overall situation, and the best possible reasonable mobilization and distribution of preparatory tasks among various departments.

"In terms of props, the protagonist's Tao has special requirements."

The day after moving to the warehouse set, Murphy specially brought the prop master Wells Brooks, who was working with him for the first time, of course, to advise, "First of all, the main character's outfit, mainly black, to reflect the texture of Kevlar materials, you communicate more with Jack's styling department in this regard." ”

Wells Brooks nodded straight.

Murphy glanced at him, and still trusted the prop team solemnly recommended by Bill Rothes and CAA, after all, the prop team that CAA recommended to him was definitely not an ordinary prop master.

Since the props team that has been working together has left the props industry, established a special effects company, and changed careers to do special effects production, Murphy can only seek a new props team.

"Plus, I need a motorcycle."

Previously, Murphy had already handed over the concept sketch to the props team, and then emphasized, "This motorcycle needs to have a very strong sense of technology. ”

Wells Brooks tentatively asked, "Can you add some sci-fi elements to it?" ”

"You can add a little bit appropriately." Murphy held up a finger, "But it can't be divorced from reality, this is a realistic crime noir movie, not science fiction!" ”

"I know what to do." Wells-Brooks cautiously said, "I'll start by designing and making a scale-down model. ”

"Yes." Murphy nodded, "Just do it." ”

Since he chose to use this prop team, he would of course give them a certain amount of autonomy.

Of course, the premise is that motorcycles can't look like a product of the sci-fi world, and being realistic and avoiding sci-fi can be said to be the tone of this film.

Murphy emphasized this point at the original crew prep meeting, which is a real-world crime noir film based on the theme of ideological conflict, rather than Hollywood's heavily homogenized popcorn sci-fi movie.

From computers to appliances to vehicles, some of the equipment in the film may be slightly ahead of the current era, but definitely not too far ahead, let alone too sci-fi, and all props and backgrounds must be based on the concept of dark realism.

Darkness is Murphy's style, and this darkness is not only the tone of the film, but also the theme, and realism is the basic requirement of filming and production......

For the sake of realism, Murphy also prepared to shoot the film on film, using film to present a realistic texture, and he also asked Gal Gadot to contact IMAX and wanted some of the clips in the film to be shot with an IMAX camera.

At a cost of $150 million, it was impossible to shoot too many IMAX shots, and in the final cost of the Murphy project, 30 to 40 minutes of IMAX footage would be enough.

When it comes to showcasing panoramic lenses, IMAX technology has an unbeatable advantage.

However, such plans still need to be approved by Twentieth Century Fox, and although these plans were submitted to Twentieth Century Fox early on, there has been no concrete feedback.

After Murphy called and urged, Twentieth Century Fox sent Kara Firth over, but sent her not to make a friendship, but to send a message to Murphy.

When he came to Murphy's office on the set of the warehouse, Carla Firth was not polite and directly put forward the idea of Twentieth Century Fox.

"Can this film be made in 3D?" (To be continued.) )