Chapter 318 Zombie Shape!

Of course, none of this has anything to do with the overall situation, and Zhou Shaoming, who was in the middle of the storm, seemed extraordinarily quiet. No comment, no riposting is the highest instruction he gives to all the employees of Supernova Films.

His move made many anti-weekly media actions such as the Chicago Sun-Times unable to carry out, like a punch on cotton.

The dog draft finals are a total of seven days, and the judges are all senior zoologists or pet experts. They will start from all aspects of the dog and observe whether the dog is qualified for the role of the leading actor.

In the end, it was Germany's Duras who managed to beat the other opponents and became the champion of the dog talent show.

After the dog talent show ended, Zhou Shaoming devoted himself to the preparation before the filming of the movie. Now there are still two actors left, Zhou Shaoming naturally will not personally choose, nor will he deliberately find the real actors in the previous time and space to play.

Jon found two actors long before the dog talent show began. After Zhou Shaoming auditioned casually, he successfully let them pass. After all, these two characters don't have many roles and don't need to put in too much energy.

Then there are visual effects and makeup, but these are not problems, because with "Resident Evil" as a foreshadowing, this time Zhou Shaoming is also familiar with the road. Industrial Light & Magic had a good cooperation with Zhou Shaoming last time, so this time Zhou Shaoming decided to shoot "I Am Legend" with them again.

In fact, Supernova has acquired some special effects companies, but it has not been integrated for the time being, and when it comes to special effects technology, it is still Light and Magic that is the most powerful, and it is about to shoot a movie now, Zhou Shaoming has no time to wait for Supernova's own independent team, maybe the next movie will do, right?

And there is one more question about the movie. It was the last time "Resident Evil" was a zombie movie. This time too. If you do it again. will give others a feeling that Jiang Lang is exhausted. After all, I Am Legend is not from the Resident Evil series.

Zhou Shaoming's definition of "I Am Legend" is not exactly a disaster horror film, but more of a literary film. Because there are not many descriptions of zombies in the movie, the filming of the film is completely based on Will Smith's mental activities. Take advantage of Will Smith's performance. Let people experience the loneliness and horror of the apocalypse, and better cherish the people in front of them.

But even so, if the depiction of zombies is still the same as "Resident Evil", the impact of visual effects is not as great as imagined.

Because the success of "Resident Evil" has attracted a lot of followers. The current zombie movie zombie looks similar to Resident Evil's.

Even if the kind of movie with a small investment is trying to get closer to "Resident Evil" in terms of styling, it has now caused the audience's aesthetic fatigue, and if "I Am Legend" uses this kind of styling, it is estimated that just saliva can drown Zhou Shaoming.

Zhou Shaoming went to Industrial Light & Magic, and today he has made an appointment with the director of Industrial Light & Magic, Dave, to talk about the visual effects of the new movie.

ILM is based in San Francisco. So Zhou Shaoming had to take a plane to San Francisco with his bodyguards. Dave, the film director of Industrial Light & Magic, said that he didn't dare to work on Zhou Shaoming's drive, and he would come to Los Angeles to talk to Zhou Shaoming in person. But Zhou Shaoming felt that he just had time in the afternoon. I went to San Francisco. Because the movie is about to start, it is best to be able to talk about everything early.

After Zhou Shaoming came to the Industrial Light & Magic Company, he saw a beautiful woman with glasses. He was familiar, but he couldn't remember who this person was. Especially when the glasses beauty kept looking at Zhou Shaoming with very sad eyes, he was even more confused by the second monk.

"Could it be the love debt owed by that Smith Zhou before?" Zhou Shaoming thought in his heart.

He couldn't remember the glasses beauty, but the glasses beauty remembered him well. Because when Zhou Shaoming came to Industrial Light and Magic for the first time, it was this glasses beauty who was in charge of reception. He casually said that he invited people to dinner, but as a result, this glasses beauty waited until the evening, and Zhou Shaoming did not appear. And Zhou Shaoming just said it casually at the time, but he didn't expect that this glasses beauty would actually take it seriously.

However, the glasses beauty did not have any bad feelings towards Zhou Shaoming because of this incident, because he knew the gap between himself and Zhou Shaoming, and the other party was just hot-headed at that time.

Zhou Shaoming and the glasses beauty came to Dave's office together, and Dave greeted him warmly. Zhou Shaoming shook hands with Dave, and then went directly to the topic: "Have you read the script?" Do you have any thoughts on what I requested? What I need to write clearly in the script, especially in a few places that you need to pay attention to, is that the blowing up of the bridge and the helicopter collision there, it has to be real, can it be done? ”

Seeing what Zhou Shaoming said solemnly, Dave also nodded seriously: "If we can't even take our industrial light and magic, I dare to say that no company in the United States dares to take it." ”

Zhou Shaoming nodded, he was still very relieved of Industrial Light & Magic, because Industrial Light & Magic's works were far more than just "Resident Evil".

"Also, this time the zombies are also played by real people, so that they can be more shocking. Moreover, this time the zombies look completely different, you have to be mentally prepared. ”

Dave nodded, he knew that Zhou Shaoming was the kind of person who pursued perfection, although it was still a zombie movie, it was definitely different from "Resident Evil". Although there is no world of difference, there is a huge difference.

After talking to Dave, Zhou Shaoming visited ILM again. This time, he found that ILM's technology had improved again, after all, two years had passed. At the same time, I am also looking forward to the special effects company that supernova acquisition and integration is also very much looking forward to.

Dave has been introducing the development of ILM in the past two years, and Zhou Shaoming is now a thorough professional, so he can distinguish which technologies are useful for movies and which technologies can achieve how much effect.

This time, Zhou Shaoming's VFX budget is only $10 million, far lower than the $25 million spent on the last "Resident Evil", although it is more than half less, but Industrial Light & Magic is very concerned about Zhou Shaoming's total requirements.

Zhou Shaoming, now as a world-class director, can be a partner with him, for Industrial Light & Magic. It's a good opportunity, no matter what. Naturally, ILM will not give up such a good opportunity.

Zhou Shaoming stayed in San Francisco that night. Although Dave prepared a luxurious room in a five-star hotel, he was rejected by Zhou Shaoming.

Zhou Shaoming directly joined his personal bodyguard and returned to Los Angeles.

Just went back, and after lingering with Christina for a while. Zhou Shaoming got busy again, this time to find Rick Baker. This is the most crucial part of this play. Now the following trend of "Resident Evil" has reached the point of flooding. The cast of "I Am Legend" must be unconventional.

There's no doubt that Ryl Baker is a genius makeup artist. But a genius makeup artist also has to make up the actors according to the director's requirements. He could only make a few comments. For the final typesetting, the decision is still in Zhou Shaoming's hands.

But Zhou Shaoming didn't have too good advice at this time, so he took screenwriter Aziwa to Rick Baker's studio to find Rick Baker.

Aziva has been thinking about the appearance of zombies for the past few days. According to the description of the script, zombies actually have feelings. Aziva and the other writers gave "I Am Legend" two different endings.

The first ending is that at the moment when the actor successfully isolated the antibody, the zombies also invaded his fortress, and he could only sacrifice his life to let the mother and son who fled for their lives leave, and finally these two people sent the antibodies he bought at the cost of their lives to those human settlements who were not infected with the virus and had no antibodies.

In the second ending, after the zombies break through the protagonist's fortress, the male leader draws a butterfly pattern on the glass of the laboratory (the female zombie captured by the male protagonist for experiments has a butterfly tattoo on her body). The male protagonist only then understands that the reason why the zombies are crazy to attack his fortress is to rescue the female zombie - the male leader's lover.

In the end, the male protagonist returned the female zombie to the male leader, and completely changed his opinion that the zombie had no IQ and no emotion for three years. Acknowledging the existence of zombies as a new species on an equal footing with humans, Anna's mother and son drove to a survivor colony in Vermont.

Zhou Shaoming knew that the first ending was a public version in the time and space before him, and the second ending was generally seen on the Internet. He didn't know which ending was better, but for himself, he was more inclined to the second ending, so there was no need to make two endings.

Aziva is a very good screenwriter and has a great talent for directing. Zhou Shaoming is going to let him try to shoot a movie alone after a while.

During this time, he has always been by Zhou Shaoming's side, and Benjamin is arranging the problem of supporting roles, after all, Jon has a lot of things, and the supporting roles are just found, and then how to perform them is all left to Benjamin to do.

After Zhou Shaoming came to Rick Baker's studio, Rick Baker was still very busy. He had communicated with Rick Baker on the phone before, so Rick Baker had already prepared a few looks.

Zhou Shaoming went directly to the topic, and the few looks that Rick Baker came up with actually did not get out of the style of zombies in the past. But this is not to blame Rick Baker's lack of imagination, but his thinking has been fixed.

In fact, Zhou Shaoming himself has no other good ideas, whether it is in his past life or in this life, the zombie movies he watched are all movies with this shape, a fundamental breakthrough.

Just when Zhou Shaoming was thinking, Aziwa proposed a plan, that is, not to call zombies zombies, but to call them night demons. Most of the zombies in the movie can wander around and eat people at night, day or night.

If you learn from Chinese zombie movies, zombies can't come out during the day, and they will be burned to death by the sun when they see the sun. And the shape of the zombie is also darker, the skin is exposed blood vessels, and the blood is black. The epidermis, like other zombies, has no hair.

These zombies are bloodthirsty, not only like to eat people, as long as they are living creatures, they are all delicious. The zombie's teeth are protruding, that is, the canine teeth show their lips, they are afraid of light and fire, and their strength is strong enough to climb dozens of floors. Because they hide in the basement during the day, the skin of the zombies is pale.

According to Aziva's description, Rick Baker has come up with a new zombie look. Zhou Shaoming looked at it and was very satisfied, it was more shocking than the zombies in "Resident Evil". And most importantly, this time all the zombies are played by real people. Although there are not many zombie shots, they can also give people a refreshing feeling.

"Well, let's tentatively decide on this look first!" Zhou Shaoming nodded with some satisfaction, and then returned to his office for other work.

In addition to Zhou Shaoming's busyness, Will Smith, as the leading actor, is not easy, he has been cultivating a relationship with Duras in the past few days, and even eating and sleeping together. However, although Duras has a good relationship with Will Smith, he is more sincere to his original owner, which no matter who he is, there is no way to change this.

Dogs are very faithful animals, and they do not betray because of the betrayal of their owners.

Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

For the filming location, Zhou Shaoming chose New York, although the price is more expensive, but the shooting is very real. Movies, because they come from life, must restore life.

But permission to block off multiple blocks of the Grand Central Viaduct on Fifth Street in Washington Square has never come down. To that end, Jon had been at New York City Hall at this time, lobbying New York City Councilors. And those plants and animals, which are already ready in Florida at this time, can be flown in as soon as they start shooting.

After solving the problem of modeling, Zhou Shaoming rushed to New York non-stop. He's scheduled to play golf with New York City Mayor Bloomberg tomorrow, and today he's on a night flight.

In the evening, in New York City, Jon picked up Zhou Shaoming at the airport.

As he walked, he gave a briefing on his work in the last few days, and some lawmakers were worried that such a shoot would affect the travel of New Yorkers, so they were slow to let go. New York City Mayor Bloomberg had already negotiated it, and Bloomberg promised to sign the permit as soon as the council agreed.

Zhou Shaoming thought for a while and said: "Jon, you go and tell them that we can shoot at night or on weekends, and we will also take out a sum of money as a subsidy for New York citizens, well, this money will be donated to the New York City Red Cross." ”

Jon nodded, if this is the case, then the probability of getting the license will be infinitely expanded.

Mr. Bloomberg is a well-known figure who, after being elected mayor of New York City in 2001, still commutes to work by the subway every day, and has always claimed that he doesn't even have an office, much to the satisfaction of voters.

And he also founded several television stations and news agencies, and was a successful businessman. In Zhou Shaoming's time and space, he once played a billionaire in 2009, which shows that he still has a little acting talent. It's just that Bloomberg has a straightforward personality and often offends people, which is his greatest weakness.

However, this weakness did not affect Zhou Shaoming's dealings with him, because Bloomberg was a Jew, and Jews rarely had racial ideas, and they only had interests in their eyes.

Therefore, Bloomberg attaches great importance to a phenomenal director like Zhou Shaoming, and Zhou Shaoming also has a film company, and even in the future, it is likely to be able to compete with large companies such as Warner and Columbia.

Early the next morning, Jon continued to lobby the councillors. And Zhou Shaoming went to visit Bloomberg, today is the weekend, so Bloomberg rarely has a day off.

came to Bloomberg's so-called home, Bloomberg first gave Zhou Shaoming a big hug, and then introduced himself and his two beautiful daughters. Bloomberg's two daughters are also fans of Zhou Shaoming, and after pestering Zhou Shaoming for an autograph, they were driven into the room by Bloomberg.

Bloomberg is dressed very casually today, and so is Zhou Shaoming, Zhou Shaoming rarely wears formal clothes, after all, he is only a young man in his twenties, and it is a little inappropriate to wear formal clothes.

Today, the two of them made an appointment to play golf together, for this kind of game that can only be played by the rich, Zhou Shaoming naturally had no contact with it in his previous life. But Smith Chow, who grew up in a wealthy crowd, is no stranger to golf, but has little interest.

Zhou Shaoming didn't have much interest, but sometimes there was still a need for necessary entertainment. (To be continued.) )