The director who wants to stuff actors into the group, Jerry has seen a lot.

The director who wants the crew to join the crew, he is really the first time to meet him.

Considering Wu Yuan's nationality, he instantly understood again.

The current Chinese film industry, in the eyes of Hollywood, is basically equivalent to a barren desert.

Although Chinese literary films do shine in Europe, the domestic film market in China is almost zero, and the box office of a year is less than a fraction of the box office of a month in North America.

The market gap has reached almost a hundredfold!

With such a barren soil, it is indeed impossible to cultivate a film industry system like Hollywood, and the working mode of the crew is relatively primitive.

Not to mention anything else, a commercial blockbuster crew in Hollywood has nearly 100 positions alone, and it can probably be divided into more than 10 groups, adding up to 500-600 crew members, each with a clear division of labor.

In China, there are only twenty or thirty people in a film crew, and there are fifty or sixty people, and many common positions in Hollywood crews are not done in China.

For example, art directors, gunsmiths, digital imaging technicians, equipment engineers, maintenance engineers, pre-visualization technicians, and so on......

And most of their work is covered by "field work" in general.

This also leads to the fact that in the domestic crew in Huaxia, the people who do field work are like a brick, and they will move wherever they are useful.

This kind of practice is full of human touch if it sounds good, but it is unprofessional when it is ugly.

Wu Yuan wants to borrow chickens to lay eggs, and use the crew under the mature industrial system movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" to train the crew for himself, which is quite a normal behavior.

Jerry groaned, thinking.

Do you want to agree to this condition?

Jerry never thought that Wu Yuan would be able to learn from the Hollywood film industry through this means and reproduce it in China.

What are you kidding, a mature film system cannot be established by a few professional crew members.

At most, Wu Yuan can use this method to cultivate a crew close to the Hollywood system.

It doesn't seem like it's a hard condition to agree to.

At least it's much easier to talk about than asking for a box office account.

"Daniel, I can agree to your conditions, but the number of people cannot exceed 30, and you need to bear their own salaries in the crew." Jerry shrugged his shoulders and agreed without much hesitation.

"Isn't it, I still have to pay the salaries of several crew members?" Wu Yuan said a little speechlessly.

"Hey, Daniel, I'm doing this for your own good." Jerry looked directly into Wu Yuan's eyes and said meaningfully, "So that you can sign a reasonable long-term employment contract with them, isn't it?" ”

Ho, Wu Yuan was stunned.

It is worthy of coming from a capitalist country, and the fine is still Jerry's fine.

Wu Yuan really can't train the crew in vain, he has to sign some guarantee contracts, and it is indeed more suitable to pay this salary by himself.

However, this can be arranged slowly later.

A smile appeared on his face, and Wu Yuan reached out to shake Jerry's hand: "Then I wish us a happy cooperation in advance!" ”

Wu Yuan initially agreed to the intention of directing "Pirates of the Caribbean".

The director of the tool man is the tool man, after all, the script itself is very good, even if he doesn't change anything, it will be a popular commercial film, otherwise it is impossible to make five.

Although it is impossible to talk about box office sharing, eight million dollars is not a small amount of money.

The most important thing is that he really needs a crew that is at or near the level of Hollywood.

Through the training of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy, Wu Yuan believes that he can use this platform to cultivate a Chinese crew team that can get started with commercial blockbusters.

In this way, after the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", the mainland market is almost up, and if someone has money, he can create his own Chinese-language commercial blockbuster!

Thinking about it like this, it is difficult for Wu Yuan to give a reason for refusal.

The only pity is to sacrifice his rest time.

Originally, Wu Yuan planned to take a break for a while after filming "The Undertaker", but now he is going to continue filming "Pirates of the Caribbean", and it seems that he has no spare time.

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After negotiating the intention, Jerry did not rush back to the United States, but followed Wu Yuan to Anshan.

During the day, he followed the crew to watch Wu Yuan's directing almost the whole time, and judged Wu Yuan's directing level on the side.

In the evening, he and Wu Yuan discussed the big project of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

According to Disney's plan, the film must be launched in November 2002 at the latest.

And before that, the crew had to do a lot of preparation.

This includes the one-to-one creation of the Dreadnought, the Black Pearl, and a number of 17th-century pirate ships, all of which were made in real life rather than CG special effects.

And the final plot point of the first part, that is, the cave where Barbossa hides the treasure, Disney also plans to shoot it completely live, and the construction of this cave alone is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Although Wu Yuan doesn't need to do these things himself, as a director, he also has the right to suggest and know, and Jerry must communicate with him.

In addition, the most important thing is the selection of actors.

The script is in place, the investment is in place, and the crew is also preparing in an orderly manner, and now the only thing missing is the actors.

In this regard, Jerry still attaches great importance to Wu Yuan's views, and he pulls Wu Yuan and the two screenwriters to hold a video conference every night to select suitable actors.

Because Wu Yuan's focus was mostly on his "The Undertaker", and he felt that the original casting of "Pirates of the Caribbean" was very good, he didn't give too many suggestions.

In the end, the crew still chose the trio of Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley to play Jack, Will and Elizabeth.

The villain of the first part, Barbossa, is also played by Jeffrey Rush.

Everything is no different from the original trajectory, the only difference is that there is a Chinese director.

Wu Yuan didn't plan to change "Pirates of the Caribbean" anything this time.

The movie was originally good enough, and the script was not original to him, so he completely put himself in the position of a tool man.

Jerry is also very satisfied with Wu Yuan's attitude, and he doesn't want a Chinese director who doesn't know the 17th century Caribbean to be too critical in terms of scripts and casting, and it is better to leave professional things to other professionals.

On the contrary, after observing the crew of "The Undertaker" for half a month, Jerry was very satisfied with Wu Yuan's directing level.

Let's not talk about whether you can shoot big scenes, at least in this kind of feature film field that focuses on small scenes, Wu Yuan really shoots very well, and the picture, composition, color, and shooting skills are impeccable.

Even Wu Yuan's skillful directing level doesn't look like a rookie director who has just been in the industry for two years.

Jerry naturally didn't know that Wu Yuan had been working in his dream for 20 years, he only felt that the director he found was really talented, at least he would definitely be able to do the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean"!

Jerry, who was very satisfied with Wu Yuan, said goodbye to Wu Yuan with peace of mind after finalizing the casting of "Pirates of the Caribbean", flew back to the United States, and began to wholeheartedly make preparations for the film before it started.

And Wu Yuan also needs to find time to make plot boards according to the storyboard according to the storyboard, and often exchange ideas with the production designer and several screenwriters to improve the filming plan of this movie.

Then, before November 2002, he took more than 20 "trainees" to the United States on time to take over the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean"!