Chapter 202: 400 million investment
Mira. When Jovovich entered the audition office, he could tell from where several people were sitting in the room that the principal of the room was the yellow-skinned Asian sitting in the middle, but he didn't know which country it was.
This made Mira a a little curious, after all, in Hollywood, it is rare to see yellow-skinned directors from Asia.
But no matter who this person is, Mira is determined to show her best self, she must seize this opportunity, so Mila also has a confident smile on her face, but it didn't take long for her to find that the young East Asian refugee frowned just by looking at herself, which made Mila a a little panicked, she didn't know what was wrong with her, but she knew that she was likely to lose this opportunity!
Mira stood there at a loss and didn't dare to ask questions, while Lin Nan sat in front of her and looked at the woman with a frown, neither of them spoke.
But the assistant director on the side couldn't help it, this assistant director's name is Mailer, a short and chubby middle-aged man, very kind.
Mailer saw that Lin Nan frowned and didn't say a word, so he asked Lin Nan in a low voice, "What?" Looking for the wrong person? ”
Lin Nan nodded and shook his head, and then explained in Mailer's puzzled look: "I don't know, theoretically according to the information I gave you, there should be nothing wrong, but this woman and the image in my heart are a little inconsistent!" ”
"Then redesign an image for her!" Mailer shrugged, what else should he be doing. It turned out that Lin was worried about this.
After hearing Mailer's opinion, Lin Nan thought about it for a while and then said to the woman in front of him, "I need to change your image to decide whether to use you or not, is that okay?" ”
"Well, no problem!" Mira nodded, and agreed very happily, for her, as long as the man in front of her did not directly reject her, it means that there is still a chance, and as long as there is a little opportunity, she will seize it, not to mention just changing the style, it doesn't matter if you shave your beautiful long hair!
In fact, Lin Nan had no way to identify whether the woman in front of him was Mira or not, which was understandable. Because Lin Nan himself has a relatively low recognition of the face shape of Europeans and Americans. And even in the previous life, to that Mira. Jovovich is also not familiar with it, and the only thing he remembers is the image of Alice in "Resident Evil".
And now the woman in front of her and Alice's style are too different, the most notable is that Alice in "Resident Evil" has short hair, and the woman in front of her has long dark yellow curly hair. Originally, a woman's image was greatly affected by her hairstyle. What's more, it is a European and American woman that Lin Nan is not familiar with. It's hard to tell.
And in order to solve this problem and tell if the woman in front of him is the Mira he is looking for, Lin Nan can only describe the image of Alice in his memory to the stylist. Although Lin Nan's description is not professional, with the efforts of the stylist, the stylist still changed the shape.
Then, an "Alice" appeared in front of Lin Nan's eyes!
In fact, halfway through the modeling, Lin Nan was already sure that this woman was the person he was looking for, but he still insisted that the stylist finish Mila's modeling, and after the modeling was over, Lin Nan said to the stylist: "The heroine of this movie should be this image!" ”
After changing Mira's shape, Lin Nan looked Mila up and down again, and then nodded with satisfaction, this Mira and Alice's image are very close, the only pity is that Mila in this world. Jovovich seems to be slightly older than Alice from the first part of "Resident Evil" in Linnan's memory.
In fact, if you think about it, in another world, "Resident Evil" was released in 2002, and now it has been 08 years in this world. If Jovovich's birth time has not changed, then Mila of this world is six years older than Alice in the first movie.
Fortunately, the age of European women seems to be easier to hide, at least Lin Nan can't tell the essential difference between a twenty-two-year-old European and American woman and a thirty-two-year-old European and American woman.
Next, Lin Nan asked Mila to try a few scenes, and the effect was not bad, although Mila's performance was relatively immature, it was still within the acceptable range, and I believe that after a period of exercise, greater progress will be made.
So Lin Nan directly signed a filming contract with the jubilant Mira for the "Resident Evil" series of movies, and it was only then that Lin Nan discovered that Mira in this world. Jovovich's lack of fame also has a great advantage, that is, he has saved himself a lot of salary, not to mention that Linnan also signed a five-movie shooting contract with Mila at one time.
After several main actors Lin Nan personally interviewed, the selection of other secondary actors Lin Nan was directly handed over to the assistant director Mailer, Mailer's personal ability Lin Nan is still very relieved, and the script of "Resident Evil" Mailer has also read it many times, and he also has a good understanding and grasp of this movie, and there will be no problem in selecting only a few actors with minor roles.
After arranging the recruitment of actors, Lin Nan personally went to find James Brown, a special effects makeup artist who had worked together and completed the "Chainsaw" series of movies for himself. Ryder.
After meeting Ryder, Lin Nan also quickly told him about "Resident Evil" and asked him if he would like to participate in the makeup team he formed.
Ryder didn't hesitate at all, and directly agreed, just kidding, a "Saw Horror" has already made him famous, maybe "Resident Evil" can make him make another breakthrough!
This kind of thing, unless he is stupid, he will refuse, Ryder didn't think about what kind of impact it would have on him if "Resident Evil" failed, because he didn't think that this movie would fail at all, for some reason, for the Chinese man in front of him, Ryder had trust beyond his expectations!
After pulling Ryder, Lin Nan asked Ryder to introduce himself to a few equally excellent special effects makeup artists, after all, "Resident Evil" is not "Saw Horror", there are too many aspects that need to be used in special effects makeup, and the amount of work is very large, and it is not enough for Ryder alone.
Moreover, many of the shapes of lost creatures cannot be designed by one person, and in this kind of thing, several people can get together and communicate to collide with the spark of wisdom, and finally ignite the torch of imagination.
Ryder also did not disappoint Lin Nan, and soon brought Lin Nan a few special effects makeup artists whose level was not below him at all, and instantly helped Lin Nan solve this problem.
Just when Lin Nan was running around in the United States for the events of "Resident Evil", the country was already boiling because of this incident.
As early as after the cooperation with Twentieth Century Fox was implemented, Wei Junbo returned to China, and then began to help Lin Nan build momentum and promote Lin Nan's upcoming new film.
Soon, with the help of various media, many people knew that Lin Nan and Twentieth Century Fox collaborated to make movies in the United States, of course, Lin Nan's entry into Hollywood is not a very surprising thing, after all, the big sales of "Chainsaw" have given people a preventive shot, making everyone think that it is only a matter of time before Lin Nan goes abroad, because he has the potential to become an international director.
And if this news is not shocking, then the next second news is enough to make everyone's mouth open in shock - that is, Lin Nan invested 400 million Huaxia coins in order to shoot a new film!
What is the concept of 400 million Huaxia coins? Let's put it this way, this time the movie with the most investment in Huaxia before was "Journey to the West", which reached 1.5 billion Huaxia coins, and this time it was directly 400 million Huaxia coins, and the investment increased nearly three times!
This made people who had always thought that Lin Nan liked to make small-budget and small-production movies eager to slap himself twice, and first made a movie with an investment of 1.5 billion, which became the most Chinese film, and basically broke all the records that people could think of.
This is not the end, and now another 400 million yuan has been invested to shoot a movie, and it has been filmed in the United States, which makes people not amazed.
Generous, absolutely generous!
"Nanda is domineering enough, looking forward to your 400 million Huaxia coins!"
"The movie was filmed in the United States, who else is there besides NTU among the directors of Huaxia, ah? Who else!! ”
"A "Journey to the West" has abused the domestic film circle, and NTU deserves to be the first director in China!"
"Looking forward to the new film of NTU, I can't wait!"
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Soon, there were waves of craze on the Internet because of this, and fans gave Lin Nan's 400 million investment a thumbs up and praised him, but when praising Lin Nan, it seems that some fans were more excited, and by the way, they hacked other directors, but they invisibly made a lot of enemies for Lin Nan.
In fact, not only these fans, but also those bigwigs in the domestic circle secretly smacked their tongues after hearing the news, and were amazed by Lin Nan's actions, anyway, with their character, they would never spend 400 million to shoot a movie, because they would definitely lose money.
Generally speaking, the box office of a film must reach more than 2.5 times the investment, so that the film can make money, if it is less than 2.5 times, then it will definitely lose money.
What is 2.5 times 400 million? That's a billion!
Just kidding, Huaxia only has one movie with a box office of one billion so far, and then the second place is more than 600 million, and it is almost impossible to reach a box office of one billion, so they will never do it. (To be continued......)