On December 29, 2005, the crew flew to the Czech Republic to shoot part of the plot of the killer meeting.

In the afternoon of the same day, the crew rushed to the hotel that was scheduled in advance, there was no shooting task today, and most of the personnel could move freely, except for Li Mu, assistant director, external producer, art director and others, Li Mu took these people around the textile factory in the afternoon.

Half an hour later, Li Mu said to the international producer and art director: "This place is good, and it completely meets my requirements for quaint, gloomy and mysterious." ”

The liaison producer laughed: "At first, we only looked around New York, and after hearing the director say that you can look at the whole world, I only happened to know this place through friends in Europe." ”

Li Mu pointed to the roof of the shed and said: "The huge net-like weaving cloth laid on the ceiling is quite a bit of a finishing touch, such a scene, the mystery of the entire factory building has immediately improved to a level, and Mr. Zhang is worthy of being an old art master from our Xiying." ”

The art director smiled: "The director said that you want a Gothic-style factory, so I had an idea and used weaving to make a Gothic-style roof. ”

"Anyway, this place is well found, well furnished, and has completely exceeded my expectations." Saying that, Li Mu casually pointed to the glass at the height and said: "Break a few pieces of glass at random in the high place, and arrange some spider webs in the corner of the wall at the high place, so that the atmosphere of mystery and fear here can be more highlighted." ”

The art director thought for a few seconds, then nodded: "Don't worry, director, these can be arranged before the official shooting tomorrow." ”

How to arrange the scene, of course, the art director has to listen to the director, but the director's layout opinions, the art director will also examine whether it is reasonable from a professional point of view, if the art director feels unreasonable, he will put forward his own opinions to the director, so just now he will think for a few seconds before replying to Li Mu.

The next morning, the crew officially started, Li Mu came to the textile factory early in the morning, at this time, several pieces of glass had been smashed in several places on the heights, and a few very large cobwebs appeared in the corners of the wall, because they were far away, and they didn't know if they were real cobwebs or props.

Li Mu sat in front of the monitor, the director's assistant handed the megaphone to Li Mu, and Li Mu shouted to the camera crew: "The lighting contrast of the camera team is slightly strengthened, and the color tone is mainly cold, highlighting the sense of mystery and gloom." ”

Someone replied, "Understood." ”

Cheng Long was sitting on the chair next to Li Mu, there was no role of Cheng Long's big brother today, Li Mu informed him that he could move freely, but Cheng Long wanted to come to the scene to take a look.

"Li Mu, the selling point of this movie is that I and Li Lian are fighting, but I can shoot back and forth, I haven't started fighting with Li Lian yet, Li Lianlian is going to be scrapped." Cheng Long took a bite of the apple and continued, "I carefully studied the scenes to be filmed today, and they are basically scenes where Li Lian was violently beaten, beaten by Li Lianhua, beaten by the pig killer, beaten by Barry, and put his hand into the loom, it was really miserable." ”

Li Mu looked back and smiled: "Without these devil training, how can a cowardly middle-aged man start to rise." ”

Cheng Long smiled: "Yes, but the scene where Li Lian was beaten was rare before, I can't miss anything." ”

At this time, the assistant director came over and reminded: "Director, all departments and actors are ready. ”

Li Mu nodded and picked up the megaphone and said, "Okay, let's rehearse first, listen to my password, 321, start." ”

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At the beginning of January 2006, the filming of the movie "Assassin" continued, and at the same time, Li Mu's second full-length English novel "The Martian" was officially sold in major bookstores in the United States.

Due to the huge popularity accumulated by the previous game "The Hunger Games", the release of "The Martian" caused quite a stir in the United States.

Marco Krauss is a well-known science fiction writer in the United States, and his friends say that his work is even eligible for the Hugo Award, and Marco Kraus agrees with this half of the time, and the other half of the time says that he writes shit.

For example, recently, he has not written a word for three consecutive days, and now he is not to mention winning the Hugo Award, and he is even beginning to doubt whether he is suitable for this profession.

Since he had no ideas for the time being, Marco simply closed the computer and relaxed, only then did he suddenly remember that today was the day when Mu Li's new book "The Martian" was released, so he decisively picked up his coat from the hanger and went out.

His daughter Rannicklaus is a die-hard fan of The Hunger Games, and today she told him before she went to school that she must help him buy Mu Li's new book.

Because my daughter likes it very much, so Marco has also read the book "The Hunger Games", but I haven't finished reading it, and when I say it, this novel has some highlights, and the emotional rendering in some places is quite desirable, such as the plot of the little girl being shot through by an arrow and the heroine making that ancient gesture in front of the live broadcast, which is very moving.

But on the whole, this "Hunger Games" is still far from a good book in Marco's eyes, and if he is to evaluate it, it is only occasionally highlighted, but the overall absurd and uninteresting.

When he went to a bookstore he frequented, he took down a new copy of "The Martian" from the shelf, and when he arrived at the checkout window, he found that seven of the ten customers in front of him and behind him had bought "The Martian", and most of them were women.

Back at home, Marco was uninspired for a while, but fortunately sat on the couch and read the novel he had just bought. This Mu Li's short story "The Moon" is not bad, since this book is called "The Martian", those may be novels like "The Moon"? In that case, it's worth a look.

"Log: SOL6

I'm.

That's what I came to after much consideration.

Finished.

These six days, which were supposed to be the beginning of the most glorious two months of my life, turned out to be the prelude to a nightmare. ”

It took less than ten minutes for Marco to be completely immersed in the story, and he asked himself, under the same conditions, if he was put on Mars, would he survive?

Definitely not! So he was even more curious about how the Chinese astronaut in the novel would survive.

It is possible to survive, it is reasonable, and there is no possibility that people can survive with basic convincing!

Marco, who had just seen the beginning, predicted.

But in any case, this Mu Li is really powerful, and with just a few strokes, the reader's interest has been completely aroused.

As a result, after reading chapter by chapter, Marco watched the protagonist overcome one almost insurmountable difficulty after another, generating electricity, making water, and growing potatoes, and it seemed that he was really going to save a year's rations, and Marco didn't even pick out a single logical loophole.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, his stomach was rumbling, and he realized that he was so obsessed with reading that he forgot to eat lunch, he shook his head with a smile, put the book on the coffee table and prepared to find something for himself to eat first, and then fill his stomach first, and at the same time a thought was generated in his mind: "If the author of this book is an American, then there is almost no suspense about winning the Hugo Award, but unfortunately ......"

A large percentage of the voting members of the Hugo Awards are from the United States. Conservative and averse to people of color, they spontaneously formed "tendentious" organizations that targeted minorities, women, young writers, and tried to monopolize the Hugo Awards. With the existence of these people, a work of a Chinese writer, no matter how high the level, is almost destined to miss the Hugo Award, and Marco himself is interested in the Hugo Award, so he understands these more clearly.

Around the same time, George Martin, the author of the American science fiction novel A Song of Ice and Fire, had just finished reading The Martian and made no secret of his love for the book.

At a writers' salon the next day, he publicly said: "I think 'The Martian' will be the first Chinese work to win the Hugo Award." ”

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On February 13, 2006, Liu Yifei joined the group, and the filming of the movie "Assassin" entered the final stage.