Disney Studios, in the studio of the "Martian" crew.

Dressed in a gray uniform, Martin arrives in a planting barn where the soil is stacked, ready to be a Martian farmer.

Ridley Scott walked over and reminded, "You have to use the primitive way of farming. ”

Martin nodded: "Don't worry, I'm ready." ”

Growing vegetables, he was quite good at growing vegetables in the countryside in his previous life, and his hometown was a well-known vegetable province in the country at that time.

On this planet, there are very few people who are more proficient at growing vegetables than in his hometown.

A prop master came with a bag full of sealed bags.

Martin took a bag and pinched it.

Ridley told him, "For the sake of the film, it was full of real human feces. ”

Martin put the bag back and clapped his hands: "No problem. ”

The crew's departments were in place, Ridley returned to the back of the director's monitor, and with the slate on the board, filming began.

Martin takes on the role of a farmer leveling the soil and digging a ridge with a simple tool, while he looks at the selfie device and keeps coming out of his mouth.

If you want to be wonderful in a one-man show, self-deprecation is inevitable.

Filming had just begun, and it wasn't going very well, Martin was looking for form, and Ridley was also looking for form.

After the painful failure of "Pharaoh and the Gods", Ridley, a veteran director, knows very well that if he messes up another first-line production with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, the future situation will not be good.

Therefore, at the beginning of the filming of "The Martian", he strictly required all personnel, including himself and Martin, to determine the high standards of filming.

For nearly two hours, the crew only shot four shots.

During this time, Ridley left the director's chair several times to coordinate the filming.

Compared with the crew, he doesn't ask much of Martin, because Martin can always make adjustments in time to perform the effect he wants.

The last scene before noon started filming.

Martin opened a bag of feces with his nose gagged and put it in the dirt.

This thing may have been wrapped up for a while, and the weather in California at the end of May was a bit hot, and the smell of fermentation, even if it plugged the nose, still drilled into the brain.

In recent years, Martin has also been pampered, and the taste is very disgusting, but he can still tolerate it.

In his previous life, when he helped his family with farm work, he once personally processed the fermented chicken manure, and the taste was more than sour and refreshing.

Martin was quick with his hands and feet, as Ridley Scott had requested, processing bag after bag of manure in preparation for planting potatoes.

According to his experience, farmyard manure cannot be used in this way, especially if it is buried in the roots.

At that time, the cow and sheep manure and other things collected had to be piled up together to ferment and make fertilizer naturally, and would not be used directly.

He still remembered what the old man had taught him that fresh feces were easy to burn the roots.

But Martin didn't say much, the things presented in the movie are different from real life.

The footage of the five male protagonists using manure to grow potatoes was filmed back and forth by Ridley for nearly an hour before it was announced.

As a result, Martin couldn't eat anything at noon, and smelled a smell of in every meal.

During the afternoon shoot, Martin finally got rid of the manure and moved to another studio with the exact same layout, selling the planted potato fields to the selfie camera.

In order to shoot this scene, Ridley had someone plant potatoes in the studio a long time ago, and now they are basically grown.

Although the crew started filming a difficult one-man show, Ridley and Martin quickly got into work after a short period of adjustment.

The former belongs to experienced veteran directors, and even if the crew has an emergency, it can be solved as quickly as possible.

Martin's professional attitude and quality are undoubted, and none of the directors he has worked with are bad.

Hollywood has also proved over the years that as long as the management does not mess around and the big-name actors do not make trouble, the filming of the crew is often relatively smooth.

More than 80 percent of the filming takes place on Disney Studios' studios.

The crew of "The Martian" went in and out every day, in an orderly manner.

Across the main road of the studio, the studio opposite is stationed the crew of "The Lone Ranger".

After months of preparation, the film officially started filming in June.

In the morning, a battery car drove up and stopped at the door of the studio, and Meghan Ellison jumped out of the car, but instead of entering the studio of the "Lone Ranger" crew, she stood on the side of the road and looked diagonally opposite.

The last time she teased and teased Martin, it was very cool, and she was cool for the first time, so she naturally wanted a second time.

Recently, she has been busy and has not met Martin, and today I came here not only to watch the crew filming, but also to see if I can meet Martin and be cool again.

Meghan looked at it for a while, the door of the studio diagonally opposite was closed, and several security personnel had been guarding the door, and the inside was obviously in a state of filming, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

After waiting for a while, the studio door over there never opened, Meghan lost her patience and walked towards the studio where her crew was.

When she came to the door of the studio, the door was open normally, and when she entered, she found that the studio was brightly lit, and the crew members had nothing to do, sitting or standing together chatting and talking, like employees who went to work and fished.

Megan's fire rose all of a sudden, and as an excellent employer, she absolutely can't stand this kind of waste of money!

But she didn't rush into it, after all, the crew promised Jerry Bruckheimer that Jerry's team was completely responsible.

Megan went inside and saw Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gol Vibinski, who was exchanging ideas with the director of photography, and the former kept on the phone.

The two men had anger on their faces, and a little helplessness.

Looking at the actors again, they are all sitting in the resting area.

Meghan frowned slightly because she didn't see the male lead, Johnny Depp.

Yesterday, she asked her assistant to confirm with the crew that there was a play with the actor Depp this morning, so she came to visit the class.

Meghan waited a little longer, and until producer Jerry finished calling, she still didn't find Depp's shadow.

And after such a long time, the crew still has no intention of starting filming, and they are still in the same idle state as before.

Every minute and every second of this is a waste of her Megan Ellison investment!

Jerry saw Megan Ellison and hurriedly walked over to say hello, he still had a lot of respect for this rich female investor on the surface.

Megan asked directly: "Jerry, why hasn't it started?" It doesn't take so long for the crew to rest, right? ”

Deep down, Jerry looked down on the outsider and coped, "We'll start shooting in a moment." ”

Meghan was not fooled and asked, "What about Johnny Depp?" I've seen the crew's filming schedule today, and there are many scenes of the male protagonist in the morning, why didn't I see him? ”

Hearing Depp's name, Jerry had a headache one after another, the green tendons on his forehead kept bulging, and the cerebral blood vessels seemed to explode at any time.

Meghan knew that something must be wrong with Depp's side, and asked again: "Where is Johnny Depp?" What about my male lead? ”

There is a financial officer of Annapurna Film in the crew, as long as you inquire carefully, the situation cannot be concealed at all, Jerry said stubbornly: "Depp is late and has not come to the set yet, the crew is ready for filming and is waiting for him to come." ”

"Late?" Megan was first surprised, then looked at her watch, it was almost eleven o'clock in the morning, she was angry, pointed to the watch dial, and said, "Do you think this is late?" ”

Jerry was also irritable, but this was his crew, and he didn't want the management to interfere too much with the crew's work, and said: "I will communicate with Depp about these small problems......

While he was talking, at the door of the studio, seven or eight people came in, two of whom were holding dogs.

Johnny Depp, who walked in the middle, had deep sunken eye sockets and dark circles under his eyes, as if Captain Sparrow had come to the real world, and he even staggered when he walked.

Without waiting for Megan Ellison to say anything, director Gore Verbinski erupted: "I said, don't let the dog on set!" Take the dog away right now, now! Immediately! ”

The hangover Depp burped: "My baby goes, I'll go!" ”

After speaking, he waved his hand and beckoned his followers to prepare to leave.

Verbinsky's face changed.

Jerry hurriedly came out and said, "John, let the dogs take to the lounge in the office area, there are many people and equipment here, and it is not good to hurt them." ”

Depp could hear this, and said a few words to his attendants, and these people led the dog to the side of the lounge.

When he worked with Depp on the first "Pirates of the Caribbean", although he had a strange temper, he was still within the range of Gore Verbinski.

By the second collaboration, Wibinski was full of opinions about Depp, a geek with capital who quickly transformed into one of Hollywood's toughest and most undedicated actors.

But Captain Sparrow was so popular, Disney pinched his nose and worked with Depp, and so did Verbinski.

No one will be able to cope with huge profits.

Wibinski glanced at Depp and said, "I can't shoot in the morning, and I don't have enough time to do styling." ”

The actor's makeup is quite troublesome.

Jerry frowned and said, "I'll communicate with him and let him do the styling first, and at the same time sober up." ”

Verbinski couldn't help it and reminded: "It's not a way to go on like this, he alone will torture the crew to the point of collapse." ”

Depp is now the top coffee in the industry, and the Caribbean series is added, and the momentum is unparalleled for a while, even if a gold medal producer like Jerry has to discuss with him.

Jerry finds Depp and communicates.

From Jerry's expression, it is not difficult to guess that the communication is not very smooth, and the drunken Depp doesn't seem to understand what others say.

Since the start of filming, the film has been difficult everywhere, and with Meghan Ellison's investment budget sufficient, almost all of the difficulties are related to Depp.

Wibinski vowed that this was the last time he would work with Depp, unless someone offered him $30 million to direct next time.

Meghan couldn't bear to say anything, just watched coldly.

(End of chapter)