"Avatar" was popular before it was filmed, which shocked the film circles all over the world, and this is also the effect that Zhang Heng wants.

The first one is naturally to register the copyright of "Avatar" and roughly reveal the content of the story to the audience, in case Cameron accidentally shoots a movie with the same idea as himself, and there is a copyright dispute......

The second is that the time is ripe, after two or three years of preliminary preparation, today's special effects have been able to produce the scenes depicted in the plot of "Avatar", and now in this era, it is also possible to produce 2D, 3D and IMAX-3D movies, so Zhang Heng feels that it is time for him to show his strength.

Soon, Zhang Heng selected several actors for the leading role and the main supporting role from the actor interview.

The actor Li Jieming is a disabled earth soldier who has retired from the army, and the so-called fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders, such a blockbuster opportunity, Zhang Heng naturally left the candidate to Wu Yanzu, an actor who has been signed to his own subsidiary.

The heroine Nadiri is the princess of the Omadikaya tribe of the Na'vi tribe on the planet Pandora, and the spiritual leader of the future tribe.

Liu Yifei became an instant hit because of the girl in "Those Years, The Girl We Chased Together" as Shen Jiayi, and then starred in the role of Wang Yuyan in "Dragon Babu" directed by Zhang Heng, but handed over to the director team leader Cheng Huiyou to lay the foundation for her skillful acting skills.

Nadiri is the princess of a large tribe of the Na'vi tribe, and her appearance is different from that of the earthlings, which Liu Yifei's good looks do not add the slightest point, and it is also Zhang Heng's only regret, because once the filming starts, Liu Yifei will have to put on Nadiri's makeup, so ...... No matter how good-looking a person is, he will be ugly and terrifying if he becomes a Na'vi.

The second female Scientology Augustine, an idealistic botanist and the chief scientist of the "Avatar" project, is played by the Golden Bear actress Gong Li.

And other roles, such as retired female pilots, military commanders, etc., who have appeared more often, are also played by actors from Huaxia, the United States, South Korea and other countries.

With the successive announcements of the actors, Nirvana's official website also ushered in the peak period of the average daily traffic exceeding 10 million people for the first time in 2005.

This time, Nirvana Film and Television announced the official website of the "Avatar" movie on the official website, providing a "Avatar" movie area for "Avatar" fans to rush into.

On the official website of "Avatar", in addition to announcing the basic information of the film, Zhang Heng chose to announce the expected filming time on the notice, which requires a three-to-five-year production period.

Previously, Nirvana's official website announced the estimated production cost of "Avatar" of up to 500 million US dollars, and I also knew that this was a super special effects movie composed of almost all special effects.

What is the significance of special effects movies?

For most audiences, it is the gorgeous and colorful film and television effects, coupled with realistic 3D technology, and the playback of special effects movies, which can completely allow the audience to enter the world of movies.

And for most filmmakers, special effects movies mean - burn money!

That's right, it's burning money!

Keep burning money!

Before the establishment of Nirvana special effects company, there has never been a decent special effects movie in China, because the special effects are too expensive, and if you want to make beautiful special effects, the production team has to fly thousands of miles to the United States, begging grandpa to tell grandma to kneel all over again, even if you send money to the staff of the special effects company, people may not have time to take care of you, want to make special effects?

Okay, get ready for money several times higher than the market price, then go out and turn right and line up in the back!

It is said that consumers are uncles, but once the film and television production team runs to the four major special effects companies to produce special effects, there is no other way to meet the boss of the special effects company except to make an appointment in advance, unless you are a Hollywood superstar like Schwarzenegger and Cheng Long, otherwise people don't even care about you!

This is the era of special effects movies in the monopoly period, everyone wants to participate in the production of special effects, but not everyone can afford special effects.

Because it's too much money.

The emergence of Nirvana special effects has broken the monopoly circle formed by special effects companies such as industrial light and magic, and it often solicits business in the form of eight-fold and seven-fold discounts.

The allure of discounts is unstoppable!

Coupled with the Nirvana Group standing behind the Nirvana special effect, it is even more impossible to have an effect! Nirvana Media Group is a large group with a market value of tens of billions, and it is still unknown whether the four major special effects companies such as Industrial Light and Magic can suppress Nirvana Media together, not to mention that these four major special effects companies have always been incompatible, who dares to communicate with others with their hearts and lungs.

After half a year of development, the list of Nirvana special effects is soft, and the daily profits are terrible, and they are no longer afraid of the joint suppression of the four major special effects companies.

Therefore, in terms of the purity of the special effects and techniques, as well as market feedback, in terms of the special effects production of "Avatar", Nirvana Film and Television is completely stress-free!

But even so, "Avatar" still needs to be produced for at least three years, which makes many netizens very incomprehensible to Zhang Heng's approach.

According to Zhang Heng's production rate in previous years, the opportunity is that one or two movies will come out every year, and the filming of "Avatar" will take the time to produce six films.

A "Avatar" is expected to be a terrifying investment system, but can it sweep the global box office of six billion dollars?

It's simply impossible!

The market is so big, and now the highest-grossing movie "Resident Evil II" can only exceed 2.2 billion US dollars, and "Avatar" is estimated to be this number, even if because of the quality and production cost, the ticket price of "Avatar" is a little higher than the price of "Resident Evil II", it will definitely not exceed 3 billion US dollars!

Three billion US dollars, this is a heart-wrenching number, how many companies in the world can have the scale of this movie box office?

A movie can make countless entrepreneurs fight for it for a lifetime, once this number is realized, Zhang Heng's title of "King of Directors" can no longer be stopped, and there will be no more controversy about the ownership of the crown of the director industry!

However, with a box office of $3 billion, the probability of realization is less than half!

Even if director Zhang Heng's film quality rate is rising, even if this is a special effects movie with an investment of about 500 million US dollars and composed of more than 80% of special effects content!

But can it really reach $3 billion?

Even Zhang Heng didn't know.

Because in the previous life, the movie "Avatar" directed by Cameron had a total global box office of only 27. $8.9 billion!

Not to mention three billion US dollars, can it exceed the box office record held by "Avatar" in his previous life, Zhang Heng feels mysterious and mysterious!

But if you don't give it a try, how do you know what the result is?

In a director's lifetime, it is definitely the honor of a lifetime to have a three-billion-dollar movie. Although the super high box office of $2.2 billion of "Resident Evil II" also made him quite hot, he has long said that people have limited energy in their lives and will not repeat the same theme and the same story.

So whether it is the Unexpectedly Unexpected series, the Crazy Boy series, or the Resident Evil series, all series of works, Zhang Heng has always created Zào after its value, and then replaced by other directors, and he only needs to be on the side for a little guidance, correct the director's mistakes when directing, and try to hand over the relevant shooting techniques to his directors.

Fortunately, his vision is not too bad, and every director he chooses is doing his best to help him maintain the film brand he created!

This is the reason why Zhang Heng was once called "Miracle Zhang" by domestic and foreign media!

Therefore, it is incumbent on Zhang Heng to start filming "Avatar", which is a new height that Zhang Heng needs to face and challenges in his career!

To this end, Nirvana Special Effects has purchased six supercomputers in succession to facilitate the production of special effects for other films.

The original ten supercomputers were all invested in the special effects production of "Avatar", and a special effects team of more than 280 people served a movie of "Avatar" alone!

In terms of cameras, the 3-D camera was independently developed by Nirvana Special Effects Company for nearly three years to shoot the plot and characters.

After three years of twists and turns, this technology has created a world-class new photography system, which captures images with a realistic three-dimensional sense and renders images that are more intuitive and visible.

Because the pictures of "Avatar" 80 are all CG effects, in the shooting, the live-action performance and the final CG picture must fit seamlessly. In order to achieve this condition, Nirvana Special Effects also developed a virtual camera according to Zhang Heng's instructions, so that it can be more accurately previewed when filming live performances.

The camera can observe the actors' movements and interact with the virtual world in real time, allowing the director to adjust and direct each scene on the fly.

While the actors are performing, the director can use the LCD viewfinder next to Guò to preview the image effect of the actor "incarnating" as a blue Na'vi who is nearly 3 meters tall and walking on Pandora!

Also because of the 80 special effects, when shooting this film, the traditional live-action shooting of portable photography, rocker photography and other equipment, the table xiàn has great limitations.

The virtual camera developed by Nirvana Special Effects perfectly solves this problem.

With this virtual camera, not only can you preview the footage that has already combined the actors' performances and the virtual set, but also lay out all the camera movements that the director wants. In this process, the movement trajectory can be captured by the system and synthesized into the post-image processing. Relying on this magical device, the director makes himself move freely in the CG world, making the picture appear as if it were a real shot.

Therefore, when the new camera system developed by Nirvana Special Effects, as well as the virtual camera registered and patented by the world's leading copyright agencies, film practitioners all over the world felt the shock!

For a movie, after so many years of preparation, so many technologies have been developed, and a separate alien language has been created!

This......

It is no longer possible to use madness to describe Zhang Heng's love for the director!

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