Although the cost of 200 million special effects will hollow out almost all of Lin Yuan's belongings, Lin Yuan has never thought of bearing it alone.

If the special effects expenditure alone will cost 200 million, if "Pacific Rim" wants to be filmed, the production cost will have to go to 350 million.

Coupled with the publicity, it will easily reach 400 million.

That's it, Lin Yuan calculated it under the condition that the male and female protagonists were paid zero.

I really don't know how "Three Dozen White Bone Spirits" spent 450 million production costs, is Guo Tianwang and Gong Li's salaries really so high?

Anyway, I really don't feel how good the special effects of "Three Dozen White Bone Spirits" are...

Don't look at the production cost of 400 million yuan, it is terrifying, and it may be difficult to recover the cost. But in fact, there are still a lot of high-cost domestic movies in 6 years.

The production cost of "The Great Wall" is 000 million Chinese dollars, of which the salary of the male protagonist Matt Damon alone is as high as 400 million...

The production cost of "Jue Ji" is also about 300 million, although "Jue Ji" does not have an [international superstar] like Matt Damon, but judging from the stars that the film intends to invite, the total salary may not be less than 500 million.

Regarding the salary of "Jue Ji", Lin Yuan is still very clear.

When "Living Together in Time and Space" first started, Guo Xiaosi came to contact Da Mi Mi, hoping that Da Mi Mi could play the role of Shenyin in it.

For a role with not many roles in six scenes, Guo Xiaosi can give Da Mi Mi a salary of 5 million, so you can imagine how high the salary of the all-star lineup of the Jue is high.

There is also the famous "Legend of the Gods", which was later known as the legend of Lei Zhenzi, the star lineup is only stronger than "Jue Ji", and the production cost is as high as 500 million!

These movies can find investors, Lin Yuan, a popular fried chicken who just won the [700 million box office director], is still worried about finding a company that will pay with him?

The light should not recognize people as soon as they eat a mouthful of fat!

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With his passion for "Pacific Rim", Lin Yuan could only say sorry to Su Lun for the time being. After a week's leave in one go, the staff who stayed at Digital Dynasty and here prepared the preliminary work for "Pacific Rim".

The five mecha drawn by Lin Yuan before are actually inconsistent with the name setting of the mecha in Lin Yuan's script, and Lin Yuan's painting level is really limited, so Lin Yuan's hand-painting can only be used as a reference for the art team.

The specific shape of the mecha can only be decided after the brainstorming and discussion of the big guys in the art team.

In particular, the Huaguo mecha promoted in the two dramas [Great Sage] and [Heavenly General] are not only domineering, but also combine Chinese characteristics and conform to the codename.

Lin Yuan put forward an idea - the appearance of the [Great Sage] can refer to the equipment of the Monkey King: chain golden armor, wind galloping purple gold crown, and lotus silk walking clouds. The color, of course, is Huaguo red!

As for the [Heavenly General], you can consider the silvery-white.

In addition to the appearance of the mecha, the appearance of the monster also needs to be carefully considered by the art team.

Previously, whether Lin Yuan was "You from the Star", "Langya Bang" or "No Man's Land", at most, he drew as detailed a storyboard as possible.

But "Pacific Rim" is a movie with a high level of special effects participation, and every shot has the smell of money, if you want to save money as much as possible, you still have to make an animated version of DE before starting it.

The so-called animated version of the movie DE is to make the whole movie in a simple animation way, and after it is approved by multiple parties, it must be shot in strict accordance with the animation when shooting.

Whether it is the performance of the actors, the way the camera moves, or the scenes, they must be carried out in the way they are presented in the animation.

This way, you don't have to wait for the on-set shooting to finish, and the special effects can be produced well in advance of the film.

In this way, it can not only shorten the post-production time, but also save production costs.

This method was only used for a while in some low-budget films in Europe that were shot on government grants, and the original purpose was to save on the amount of film that would be wasted during filming due to NG and waste films.

This is an approach that is becoming less and less widely used these days.

First, after entering the digital age, the scrapped footage only needs to be deleted, and the cost will not increase due to film waste.

The second reason is that the vast majority of directors are not sure in their hearts about what the movie will be made before the filming starts.

How to shoot a scene, you have to shoot several different plans on the set, and then choose them later.

The most typical representative is the king of glasses, a movie was filmed for three years, and the actors acted for two months and finally all of them were cut, which is really a good hand for torturing people.

And after many movies are filmed, the director is often reluctant to cut them out when they take them to edit, resulting in the last cut lasting of three or four hours.

In the end, there was really no way, so it was compressed to within 40 minutes under pressure from many parties.

For those special effects blockbusters in Hollywood, some of them have to do all the special effects of the 200-minute ultra-long version of the film, and the director cuts out 40 minutes from it, which is really a waste of money!

Lin is far less difficult to choose than those directors.

In his opinion, movies are just for the audience to see, and the shots that can't enter the final film are meaningless shots.

So whether it is "Star You", "Langya Bang" or "No Man's Land", the waste rate is within 0.

Of course, this also has to do with the way he directs almost borrowing from the original.

Although "Pacific Rim" only borrows from the setting and fight scenes for Lin Yuan, it is precisely these two pieces that burn the most money, although there are also a lot of special effects involved, but in terms of burning money, after all, it is still a lot less.

The original work of "Pacific Rim" is more personal heroism and more in line with Hollywood values. But now that Lin Yuan is coming to shoot it, it is naturally going to be overhauled to make it more in line with Huaguo's values as a whole!

After all, Lin Yuan is not like Lao Mouzi, who wants to break into Hollywood with "The Great Wall", so he pinched his nose and made a movie about foreigners saving Chinese people on the Great Wall!

Lose face!

To carry out a major transformation of the values of the whole film, you must first shoot at the protagonist.

The protagonist in the original work is like a prodigal who does not obey discipline and orders, which is definitely not good.

The battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is understandable that the king's life will be affected by the foreign monarch's life, but after returning to the base, who will show the shelf of the eldest and your second child?

You can control mechs because you're awesome? Without the technical support of the state, and without many staff to design, manufacture, maintain, maintain, and overhaul the mecha, how old are you?

Do you really think you can defeat the monster with your fists?

The three-legged toad is hard to find, and the country is vast, and there are still 100 fighters who can control mechas?

This is really treating the movie as a national football team.

Also, the governments in the original film are too incompetent, and they can't do it.

The fate of humanity is at stake, and governments have no use for anything but to build walls, and they have also cut off the financial support of the only hunter base that can defeat the monsters.

All of humanity is about to be wiped out by monsters, and the battle organization to save the world is not led by the government? What a joke.

When this kind of monster invaded the earth, there was actually an underground organization that monopolized the right to dispose of the monster's corpse, and took the monster's corpse to the black market for trading, which is purely the overflow of American-style liberalism, I don't know if it's right or wrong!

In this case, this kind of thing is not allowed! Scientists want to study the organization of monsters, and they have to go to the black market to find merchants to buy them.

If this kind of plot dares to appear in a Chinese movie, let alone the General Bureau, the audience can drown you with one spit.

Therefore, in order to improve the structure of the original work that does not conform to the values of China, Lin Yuan can only bring in a group of screenwriters to help him improve the logic of the overall script.

In the end, with the efforts of a large group of people, it took a whole week for Lin Yuan to finalize the final script, and he was finally ready to start making animation.

At this time, Lin Yuan's leave from Su Lun was also coming to an end.

If he doesn't go back, Su Lun may not dare to say anything, but Da Mi Mi, as the producer of "Living Together in Time and Space", will definitely not let go of himself easily.

Therefore, Lin Yuan could only reluctantly step on the plane to Shanghai, and recently he could only contact the special effects staff online.