Located just a few dozen miles north of Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, just a few dozen miles from Brisbane, Warner Movie World is a theme park that would become world-famous and divided into two parts, like Universal Studios: the tour area and the studio.

Considering the location and the Queensland government's more generous incentives, The Hunger Games chose this location as the main filming location.

A few months ago, preparations such as set construction began in Warner Studios. Kennedy and Sophia? Coppola and the tiger in charge of the action scenes? After Chan arrived, the pace of preparation was greatly accelerated, and they also recruited a large number of extras from Australia to shoot scenes such as the tribute exhibition.

Except that Natalie was so tigered? In addition to the actors who have developed a separate training plan, the other actors who are going to participate in the Hunger Games Kills came to Brisbane more than a month ago to get training.

At the beginning, Ryan proposed to build yì, in terms of actor selection, the acting skills can be slightly worse, but there must be the vitality and youthfulness of young people, as well as a few key supporting roles, and I also found a few people who are not worth a lot in Hollywood, but their acting skills are good.

Like Stanley? Tucci, Donald? Sutherland and so on.

Counting up, apart from Ryan himself, the most famous of the actors are Natalie and Scarlett? Johnson, in addition to James, the 10,000-year-old supporting actor in "Spider-Man"? Franco, who will play Gail, and Peta, another tribute in District 12, the crew chose a newcomer, who is about the same height as Natalie, but looks like a standard little white face.

See this called John? Morrick's guy, Ryan still thought about it, and he didn't have any impression in his memory, so he was probably a lucky one.

Although he trained alone for a while, after coming to Australia, he was included. All received short intensive routines to practice.

It's all beautiful and straightforward fighting.

The training ground was full of futuristic style, and the actors were scattered on black mats everywhere, practicing their different routines according to the guidance of the action group.

"Are you ready, Nat?"

Standing at the end of the rectangular black mat, Ryan looked across the corner, and Natalie, twenty feet away from him, was wearing a tracksuit and giving a thumbs up.

"Pay attention to the essentials!" Tiger? Chen shouted after reminding him loudly. "Let's go!"

As soon as the words fell, Natalie rushed forward as fast as she could, and when she reached the middle of the mat, she turned over on the spot, dodged the attack that did not actually exist zài, grabbed the recurve bow on the mat, and pulled out the long arrow from the quiver behind her back with her other hand, got up and knelt down on one knee, and turned back to bend the bow and arrow. The black arrows flew wildly into the open space behind.

Just as she was shooting the arrow, Ryan quickly rushed towards her according to the pre-set design.

Natalie turned around, and Ryan was already in sight. The longbow was of no use, and she immediately threw it away, and her legs exerted her strength like that of a sturdy female leopard. Caught up with Ryan.

She dodged the seemingly fast, but actually limp fists, and grabbed Ryan's arms. With the strength of his forward rush, he used a standard back fall.

With Natalie's movements, Ryan kicked the ground hard with both feet, and his body immediately rose into the air, and Natalie Ha's waist 'fell' on the black mat.

"Perfect!"

A tiger standing next to a mat? Chen clapped his palms vigorously.

"Wow, Nat defeated Ryan, the Great Demon King!"

Tiger? Next to Chen, Taylor's cheers rang out again, followed by Scarlett? Johnson's bewitching voice, "Nat, shoot him with a bow!" Hurry up and shoot him with a bow! ”

"These two guys who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic!"

Lying on the mat, Ryan rolled his eyes helplessly, and Natalie's hand fell in front of his eyes, "Are you waiting for me to pull you up?" ”

Grabbing Natalie's hand, Ryan followed the force of her pull, stood up, and said to the two girls who were giggling, "Don't you need to practice?" ”

"My character is good at using throwing knives." Scarlett? Johnson pointed at the tiger? Chen said, "The tiger said that my movements are very standardized, and the effect of the flying knife is all based on post-production. ”

"My character is good at hiding and escaping." Taylor looked at his long legs proudly, "Running doesn't have any difficulty for me. ”

After coming here, there was an actress who temporarily quit the crew due to family reasons, and several friends starred in the movie, Taylor was also very excited, and after participating in an audition, he got this role with almost no sense of zài.

She came here mainly to shoot a MV with the film's tidbits.

That's right, she will sing the theme song of this movie.

Picking up the longbow on the ground, Ryan pulled a long arrow from the quiver behind Natalie's back, buckled it to the string, walked to the front of a target in a few big strides, and after a little aiming, pulled the bowstring.

The prop bow looked like that, but it was actually soft and not very strong, and Ryan only used a little force to pull it into the shape of an almost full moon.

After a 'whoosh', the unedged arrow hit the edge of the target and landed on the ground.

Shaking his head, Ryan returned the bow to Natalie, who came with him, and picked up the rubber-chrome prop sword from the shelf next to him, "It's still the best weapon for me." ”

After speaking, he also put on an almost standard knight's sword-wielding salute.

"Are you going to duel me?" Natalie tilted her head to look at him and poked him lightly with her longbow, "My knight? ”

"I just want to protect you, my princess!"

Shrugging his shoulders, Ryan put the sword back on the shelf, "Alright, let's go rest for a while." ”

While the main cast is still in the final intense training, the filming of the crew began a few days ago, Sophia? Coppola's assistant went to the farm with a camera team to shoot some scenic shots, while she herself was filming a large number of extras.

Every day these extras are hired, that's an expense, and although the crew's upfront budget is as high as $100 million, Catherine? Kennedy, a veteran producer, naturally knows how to operate in the most cost-effective way.

Like the Fox Studios in the suburbs of Sydney, a large industrial belt has also formed around the Warner Movie World production area.

"What about Scarlett and Allison?"

Upon entering the lounge, Natalie found the other two girls missing, sat in a chair, took the hot coffee Ryan poured from the thermos, and asked, "These two guys are always going to make some inexplicable situation when they get together." ”

"Don't worry." Ryan poured another glass and sat down next to Natalie, "They all have bodyguards. ”

"Hmm~"

Natalie nodded, chatted with Ryan for a few moments, took her bag, took a book out of it, and flipped through it.

Ryan answered the phone, George? Clooney called, and all the post-production of "Argo" was completed, and it was only released after full publicity.

The film's North American release date is in October, and the film is inherently flawed in terms of subject matter and genre, and it is impossible to compete with the super blockbuster zuò of Thanksgiving, which seems to have more momentum than "Argo", that is, "Alexander the Great".

Perhaps it was because "Troy" was too far behind expectations at the box office, or perhaps because several of this year's historical epics had all taken a heavy hit, Warner Bros. moved the film out of the Christmas slot and placed it in October, when there was little competition from major productions, two weeks before "Argo."

In a way, Warner was clearly underconfident in the film.

Listen to George? Clooney said a few words about publicity, and Ryan hung up the phone, and the relevant departments of Disney would naturally take care of these tasks.

He turned his head and saw Natalie reading intently, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Honey, what are you reading?" ”

"I bought it from the airport when I came." Natalie flipped over the cover and gave Ryan a look, "A memoir of a rock climbing enthusiast." ”

"A dilemma of life and death?" Ryan muttered, "Why such a weird title?" ”

"The person who wrote the book is called Alan? Ruston, now an all-American celebrity. ”

Seeing Ryan a little curious, Natalie simply introduced the general content, "In May last year, Alan? While climbing in Blue John Canyon in Utah, Ruston was trapped for 5 days and 5 nights because his right arm was crushed by a rock, and he ...... to escape"

"I think I've seen it somewhere." Ryan couldn't help frowning, "But I can't remember." ”

"A lot of media reported on this last year." Natalie bookmarked and closed the book, "Still listening?" ”

"Of course." Ryan gestured to her to continue.

Natalie probably guessed that Ryan might have the same idea as herself, and continued, "Alan? It took more than an hour for Ruston to break the radius and ulna of his upper arm, use his own exercise rope as a makeshift tourniquet, and then use a knife to cut his right forearm from the elbow. ”

At this point, Natalie let out a sigh of relief, as if to lament the hero of the memoir, "After escaping from under the rocks, in order to gain time from the loss of blood, he crawled through the narrow and windy canyon with astonishing perseverance, descended to the bottom of the valley sixty feet deep, walked another five miles and met the rescuers, and finally survived." ”

"And then wrote this memoir?" Ryan answered, pinching his chin, "Nat, don't you think it's a good subject?" ”

"You mean the film adaptation?" Natalie had guessed his thoughts just now, "Actually, that's what I thought too, I was going to ask Pat to contact Alan?" Ruston, buy the adaptation rights. ”

"I'll leave this to me." Ryan took out his phone and dialed Julis? Stewart's phone. (To be continued......)