In fact, Li Mu didn't really want to press "The Legend of Zhen Huan" to sell it for a year and a half, the reason why he said this was for two reasons, one was of course to bargain, and the other was also a certain amount of hype.

The original work of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is more inclined to costume idol dramas, similar to "Step by Step" and "Palace Lock Heart Jade", in the hearts of book fans, from the male and female protagonists to the male and female supporting actors, there should be all handsome men and beautiful women, as a result, the casting list of Huashang Media was announced, the male protagonist became Chen Jianbin, and the heroine became Sun Li.

For this reason, Chen Jianbin and Sun Li were also personally attacked by a large number of fans of the original book, and the scolding words were hard to hear, and voices such as the heroine was too old, too ugly, and unworthy of playing Zhen Huan flooded the Internet.

Now that the filming of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has finished and is about to be broadcast, the doubts of fans of the original work have once again become loud. In the face of overwhelming doubts, the major interested satellite TV and video websites, even if they do not reduce the price on the basis of dramas such as "Flower Thousand Bone", they are unlikely to take the initiative to raise the price, and when they can't get it, they will use this as a reason to reduce the price.

So Li Mu simply shouted publicly, "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is the NO.1 in similar dramas in his mind, and he wants to buy "The Legend of Zhen Huan" at the price of "Flower Thousand Bone" and "Palace Lock Bead Curtain"? NO！ I'm sorry, I'd rather press it for a year!

Li Mu's words are not only to be said to buyers, but also to be reported to reporters, and also to take the opportunity to kill the original fans who question the atmosphere just by casting, and at the same time, he also uses his own fame and vision as a guarantee to tell interested buyers - bid, it's right to buy this drama!

Since Li Mu's debut, whether it is a film project or a TV series project he leads, he has never missed, and it must not be wrong for a drama to be so evaluated by Li Mu!

handed over the matter of continuing the negotiations to Liu Siying, and Li Mu took Liu Yifei, Anne Hathaway, Deng Chao and others, as well as some other behind-the-scenes teams to the magic capital, which has a huge modern studio of Huashang Media, and a large number of interior scenes in "Interstellar" must be filmed in the magic capital studio.

David Guias, Wes Bentley, Cassie Affleck and a group of Hollywood foreign actors have also rushed to the magic capital in advance, although the film has not officially started at this time, but the parts of the filming involving spacewalks, weightlessness, and manipulation of various machines certainly require a lot of training in advance.

This time, Li Mu led people to the magic capital, and one of the purposes was to familiarize the actors and crew with the environment of the main filming location in advance.

Morning.

The group came to Huashang's studio in the magic capital, and in addition to Li Mu, Liu Yifei, Anne Hathaway and others, they also included Li Mu's assistant Liang Bing, photographer Zhao Fei, Lubezki, assistant director He Ping, Diao Yinan, Anthony Russell, Thomas Toll, external producers Vanessa Gian, Orol Copa, Zhou Chuan, etc.

Li Mu first led people to inspect a space capsule that had been properly arranged, and the Huashang props group and the layout team had already been familiar with creating similar scenes, and the space capsule looked full of science and technology.

In the cabin, a thin fishing line was used to lift some items commonly used by astronauts, creating a vacuum levitation effect.

Immediately, the props team demonstrated the use of the "dormant chamber" to the group, and the props team leader said that after the actor lies down, the staff needs to inject nutrient solution on the outside.

Then there's one of the highlights, a physical spaceship built by the props crew, which is fixed on a large hydraulic press platform and next to a triangular control device that can control the tilt angle of the spacecraft through the operation equipment, so as to simulate the various attitudes of the spacecraft when sailing.

Li Mu tried it himself, and then nodded to express his satisfaction, this attitude control device will be arranged next to the monitor during the official shooting, and it will be operated by Li Mu himself when the time comes.

Seeing Li Mu personally operating various equipment, Anne Hathaway couldn't help but compare Li Mu with Director Nolan, and finally came to the conclusion that Director Nolan and Director Li Mu had so many similarities in filming movies.

First of all, both directors are real estate maniacs.

In the past half a day, she has followed Li Mu and other people to visit too many physical space props, the amazing size of the spaceship mother ship, the small spaceship that can be used flexibly, the various cabins of the spaceship built by the entity, and the simple robot.

Anne Hathaway has worked with director Nolan, and now she has come into contact with the famous director Li Mu, so she unconsciously compares the two talented directors together.

"Sure enough, the world of geniuses is all connected." Anne Hathaway couldn't help but think.

WHAT ESPECIALLY SURPRISED ANNE HATHAWAY WAS THAT THE FILM DIRECTED BY LI MU WAS ACTUALLY SHOT WITH ORDINARY FILM AND 70MM IMAX FILM.

The film industry knows that director Nolan is very traditional in shooting, and in the era of 3D film and digital shooting, he still stubbornly sticks to the tradition of film shooting. I didn't expect Director Li Mu to have similar habits, but Director Li Mu is obviously one of the leaders of the global 3D movie storm in 08 and 09, and the release of "Gravity" was even earlier than Cameron's "Avatar".

Radical and traditional appear in the same director at the same time, speaking of which, Director Li Mu does have some special productions from Director Nolan, but the two are by no means the same type of director.

"Li Mu is a combination of director Cameron, who represents radicalism and constantly explores new technologies in filmmaking, and director Nolan, who stubbornly sticks to film shooting, he seems to have collected the advantages of these two directors, no wonder he can achieve such great achievements at such a young age."

This is the impression that Li Mu left on Anne Hathaway after contact.

After coming to the conference room, Li Mu began to ask about some details of the preliminary preparations for the film.

After everyone sat down, Li Mu first looked at the external producer Zhou Chuan.

"How's our corn growing?"

The cornfield in "Interstellar" is a relatively important scene, Nolan planted a large cornfield in Canada at a higher latitude when he filmed, and now many scenes in the story have been transferred to domestic filming, and the crew will naturally not go to Canada to plant corn in a parcel of land.

So the external producer traveled thousands of miles to the same high-dimensional black province, and then at the request of Li Mu, he also contracted a large piece of land, a full 5,000 acres, and hired local farmers to plant corn.

After Li Mu asked, Zhou Chuan, who was in charge of the cornfield, immediately took out the USB flash drive, and then played the picture on the slide.

Looking at the endless green cornfield in the picture, Li Mu frowned slightly and said, "Is this corn a little shorter?" Is it a breed issue or? ”

Looking at the corn strain, which was only about one person tall, Li Mu was not very satisfied.

Zhou Chuan said: "The local people said that it could still grow, and the height would be about the same when the movie started." ”

Li Mu nodded, and then he asked about the sandstorm town, since the cornfield was selected in Hei Province, the small town that covered the sky and the sun was also selected next to it, and the crew could save a lot of money and time by running one less filming location after the filming started.

This time Zhou Chuan replied: "The right small town is actually not difficult to find, it is rare to create a sandstorm scene that covers the sky and the sun, the director said that CGI technology cannot achieve a satisfactory sense of sand and immersion, so the solution is to create a similar effect in the real scene, that is, use a few large fans to blow, we tried it on the spot, and found that the real sand cannot be blown, the sand is heavier, can not achieve the ideal suspension time, and the impact on the environment is also greater." ”

"I asked a classmate from college, and the student's answer was C-90, which is a non-toxic, biodegradable, material made of crushed cardboard, which is often used as a filler for some processed foods, and has the advantages of safety and light enough weight, which can almost perfectly achieve the effect that Director Li wants."

Saying that, Zhou Chuan also used a slide to play a video of the live demonstration.

This time, Li Mu said that he was very satisfied with the effect after watching it.

In addition to domestic and foreign films, the crew of "Interstellar" also looked for many foreign filming locations, and this work was mainly handled by foreign liaison producers Vanessa Gian and Auror Kopa and others.

Two of the most important scenes in the film, the Big Wave Star and the Frozen Star, were filmed in Iceland.

Iceland is a country with extremely rich landscapes, with blue lagoons, geysers, volcanic landforms, glacial lagoons, numerous waterfalls and other landforms, known as the most alien-like place on earth.

The location of the Big Wave Star was set in Iceland's Bruner Sendu Lagoon, which looks unusually empty and has almost no obvious shoreline.

The location of the Frozen Star was set on Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland, where a glacier has settled along the volcanic eruption, creating a surreal gray marble effect on the ice that looks extremely harsh, brutal, and at the same time does not resemble the scene on Earth.

After Li Mu looked at the slides, he said to everyone in the conference room: "Yes, it doesn't even look like the scenery that should be on the earth, but it's so real that you can almost reach out and touch it, which is exactly the effect we want." When the astronauts officially step out of the spacecraft, the audience will feel the shock from the alien planet and the extremely real texture, which is the meaning of we must go to the scene to shoot instead of relying on computer stunts. ”

That night, Deng Chao called his wife Sun Li excitedly.

"You know what? In order to shoot this "Interstellar", Director Li's team built a series of spaceships almost one-to-one, and I now know why a movie can cost so much money of 150 million US dollars, and it is worth the money! Also, do you know how many places the crew ran around the world for casting? I now know why Director Li's movies are so popular! ”

Also at night, Li Mu asked Liu Yifei to help him name the three cute robots.

In fact, there are three robots of the same model, the English names are TARS, CASE and KIPP, this version of "Interstellar" is a Chinese film, so Li Mu feels that the names of these three robots should also be more Chinese.

When it comes to robots, Liu Yifei wants to laugh, in her words, how can there be such a strange robot in the world? Shouldn't all robots have a human head, human hands and feet? This is so advanced, even the noodle shaving robot in the noodle restaurant has a human head, and it turns out that the robot of a science fiction movie looks like that - isn't this a big refrigerator?

Li Mu also smiled: "I just want to do the opposite, just because almost all the intelligent robots in science fiction movies are too anthropomorphic, so I want to erase the human characteristics of the robots in the film as much as possible, the robots should be as simple as possible and can achieve more complex work, and the face is completely unnecessary for the robot." ”

Liu Yifei said: "You're in class with me, I'm going to sleep." ”

Li Mu smiled: "Don't, I'm still waiting for you to come up with a name." ”

Liu Yifei thought for a while: "Let me name me, this is what you said, I'm afraid you won't dare to use it if I do." ”

Li Mu said: "Let's talk about it first!" ”

Liu Yifei said: "Then call it a wooden strip, a refrigerator and a little four!" ”

She just said nonsense casually, to see if Li Mu dared to use it.

"Little four?" Li Mu asked.

He can understand anything else, but where did this little four come from?

Liu Yifei: "Isn't it made up of four square pieces of wood put together?" ”

Li Mu thought for a while, and said in his heart: "This is too perfunctory, right?" ”

……

Just when Li Mu and a group of others were busy with the preparations for "Interstellar", the global release process of "The Hunger Games 2" finally came to an end, and the film reached $943 million at the global box office in the first three weeks, and then won $15.78 million, $10.61 million and $12.24 million in the North American market in the fourth, fifth, and sixth weeks respectively, and then the film was basically released.

So what is the final score of The Hunger Games 2?

The North American box office was $487 million.

Overseas markets outside of North America totaled $462 million.

RMB1.45 billion for the mainland market.

In the end, its global box office total was $1.162 billion.

Looking at this box office result, Li Mu couldn't help but ridicule Liu Yifei and said: "Why do I think that the book "The Hunger Games" seems to have been completely written for you, the first global box office is 913 million, this one is 1.162 billion, only two combined, the total box office has reached 2 billion US dollars, and how many global actress movies have reached 2 billion US dollars?" You can achieve it in two parts. ”

In the end, Li Mu simply sighed and continued: "Who are you working so hard for, it turns out that you are making wedding clothes for others. ”

Liu Yifei couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this, and said: "I still feel that I have eaten for 25 years in vain, and it seems that I have grown more than 100 catties of meat for you, and you can use it as you want every day." ”

Li Mu was speechless when he heard this, and at the same time couldn't help but think crankily: "The entertainment industry is full of eighty-pound actresses, I just chose one over 100, I should have made money, right?" ”

To say that "The Hunger Games 2" is popular at the box office, in addition to Li Mu and other stakeholders, the most excited should be Liu Yifei's fans. Not counting other previous movies, the first two parts of the "Hunger Games" series are 2 billion, so what about the last two films?

The third part of "Twilight" was filmed in two parts, and "The Hunger Games" is not the same?

With the series "The Hunger Games", Yifei's global appeal is not only as simple as being the first in China, but how many of the female superstars in Hollywood surpass us?

"Looking forward to the last two!"

"Compared with the last two, I am looking forward to Director Li's new film "Interstellar"."

"Didn't you say that the heroine was Anne Hathaway?"

"You haven't read the original, have you? I guess it's true that Anne Hathaway is indeed a couple with the male lead, but isn't the protagonist's daughter also one of the heroines? Maybe this time I have to play the daughter of the protagonist. ”

"The protagonist's daughter? Li Mu plays the leading role - is it not that this time he wants to call Li Mu's father in the movie? ”

Yesterday's chapter was reviewed.

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