Zhang Tan's new work soon appeared in the eyes of the public with reporters' reports, and then Warner Bros. announced the name of the film and the first version of the poster - "The-Departed", the Chinese name is "The Departed".

"This is not a commercial film, I want to try to hit the Oscars."

Zhang Tan positioned the movie.

The Warner Brothers will promote the film in accordance with Zhang Tan's positioning. Commercial films have the routines of commercial films, and Olympic films have the routines of Olympic films.

Gorwin's trust in Tan Chang is now basically to the point of unconditional trust: "The Warner Brothers will run 'The Departed' at full capacity, Tan, even if it's filmed as you want." ”

Without Galvin, Zhang Tan would shoot as he wanted.

Immediately instructed the casting director, Frank: "I need big names to play the show, Frank, help me connect Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio, and Jack Nicholson, to see if they are interested in joining my film." ”

Matt Damon, actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and a talented Hollywood star who won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for "Soul Catcher" and was twice nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Hollywood's little plum, has been nominated for five Oscars for Best Actor, and each time he has unfortunately lost, leaving fans around the world to choke.

Jack Nicholson, on the other hand, is a truly award-winning Oscar-level actor, twice Oscar for Best Actor, and five nominations. Unlike idol actors like Matt Damon and Leonardo, he is a famous veteran actor.

Under normal circumstances, Zhang Tan doesn't care much about the fame of the actor.

But "The Departed" requires a lot of dramatic plots, and without Oscar-level actors joining, it can't deduce that kind of flavor.

Three Oscar-level actors, if they are ordinary directors, they can't be invited if they want to.

Zhang Tan wasn't too sure that he could invite them all over.

However, in fact, Zhang Tan underestimated his influence too much, and Matt Damon and Leonardo agreed to join immediately.

"Tan wants to make a Chong Olympics movie?" Leonardo almost agreed when he heard that the director was Zhang Tan, and he didn't even talk about the salary.

Matt Damon is the same, he heard Zhang Tan's call, did not hesitate, and immediately turned down an invitation to a commercial film and decided to join "The Departed".

For top directors who have become famous all over the world and have never missed, Zhang Tan is in the minds of actors who pursue honor and box office, that is, "dream lover-person", and he can't walk if he hooks his fingers.

Only Jack Nicholson hesitated for a while, he had already gained fame and fortune, and he took the movie purely for interest.

"Send him the script." Zhang Tan saw that Nicholson did not directly refuse, so he sent the script, hoping to impress the other party with the script.

Shortly after the script was sent, Nicholson called: "Is it Tan, I read the script for "The Departed", it's amazing, I don't think I can refuse such a great script." ”

"Then welcome to join!"

With three Oscar superstars joining, "The Departed" has not yet been scared, and it has been crowned the 2018 Olympic hit by countless media.

"Los Angeles Times" immediately said: "After using commercial films to show off his strength in Hollywood, Tan Zhang finally launched an attack on the Oscars!" The latest movie "The Departed", three Oscar superstars are in full swing. ”

The New York Times used a rhetorical question as the headline: "Does Tan Zhang want to compete for the youngest Oscar for Best Director?" Oh, and he's got one more chance. ”

In the eighty or ninety years of the Oscars' history, the youngest winner for Best Director is Norman Taorog, who was born in the last century. Norman was born in 1899, became a director at the age of 29, and at the age of 32, he made a children's feature film "Tao Geer" for Paramount.

finally became the Oscar for Best Director with "Tao Geer", and he had just turned 32 years and 260 days old when he won the award.

Zhang Tan is 31 years old this year, and next year is indeed his last chance.

But the New York Times is clearly the headline party, and next year's Oscars will be held in February 2018, and Zhang Tan has no works running this year. No matter how filmed "Departed" is, it will not be completed before the deadline for Oscar registration, and it can only participate in the 2019 Oscars.

In 2019, Zhang Tan will be 33 years old and is destined to miss the youngest Oscar for Best Director.

In fact, Zhang Tan didn't attach much importance to this title, because he felt that although "The Departed" won the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director in his previous life, it was more or less related to the fact that the director was Scorsese, Scorsese has made movies all his life, and his qualifications are too deep.

You can get the Lifetime Achievement Award.

His best director, the consolation component is a little more than the real level.

Zhang Tan is so young, it must not be easy to win the award.

The Oscars have always favored directors with old qualifications, otherwise Norman Taorog's record would not have been unbroken for more than 80 years.

This is what it actually looks like, but it does not prevent the media from hyping up the youngest Oscar director as a gimmick.

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The media hype has not affected Zhang Tan's work, and he has long been less involved in external propaganda work.

While completing the casting of "The Departed", Zhang Tan also took time to prepare for the casting of another film "Infernal Affairs".

"The Departed" and "Infernal Affairs" are both classic works of Zhang Tan's previous life.

"Infernal Affairs" is the last glory of Hong Kong films, and it is also a pinnacle of police and gangster films, which caused huge repercussions after its release. was then bought by Scorsese for the copyright and remade into the American version of "The Departed", which won four Oscars for "The Departed".

Of the two movies, Zhang Tan prefers "Infernal Affairs", but "Infernal Affairs" is more oriental romance and profundity, and is not as direct and rough as "The Departed". Obviously, European and American audiences are more receptive to the simple and crude "Departed" than "Infernal Affairs".

So, to make a compromise, Zhang Tan filmed both.

used "Infernal Affairs" to swipe a wave of Chinese awards, and "The Departed" to rush for a wave of Oscars.

He still remembers that he has only won the best director of Golden Rooster, Baihua, and Huabiao, and he is still two short of the Golden Horse and Golden Statue to be able to win the Chinese award grand slam. "Infernal Affairs", which is difficult to produce a good movie in ten years, swept the awards and box office, which should be a matter of course.

Because "Infernal Affairs" involves gangsters, there is basically no such soil for filming in the mainland, Zhang Tan did not change much, and directly cooperated with Orange Sky Golden Harvest in Xiangxiang, planning to shoot in Xiangxiang as a co-production.

The two male protagonists are also the two actor-level stars who chose Xiangxiang.

However, for the time being, he is just preparing, Zhang Tan can't take care of the two crews in the eastern and western hemispheres at the same time, he has to finish filming "The Departed" first, and then come to Xiangxiang to shoot "Infernal Affairs".

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For Zhang Tan's two new works.

Mtime has given the treatment of several consecutive headline columns, not only expecting the movie, but also summarizing Zhang Tan's personal works from beginning to end, including his novel adaptation of film and television, personal screenwriting works, etc.

The yield is frighteningly high.

Finally, the editors of Time.com summarized all of Zhang Tan's works and came up with a few key words: "high-yield, best-selling, best-selling, masterpiece, top list, and recorded in film history." ”

"The only great director in China who swept the Eastern and Western film circles, Tan Zhang took his thinking about Eastern and Western cultures and used "Infernal Affairs" and "The Departed" to declare his film philosophy!" (To be continued.) )