October 8th, Los Angeles, sunny.

Wu Yuan's transoceanic flight was delayed by more than an hour and landed at Los Angeles International Airport.

This time it was no longer John who came to pick up the airport, but the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

"The director, the actors have already arrived, we will take makeup photos tomorrow, and the official shooting will start on the 13th!"

Listening to the schedule reported by the staff, Wu Yuan nodded and had no opinions.

For him, the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" is to take on a special job, plus to train his own crew by laying chickens and eggs.

Thinking of this, Wu Yuan, who was in the car with his eyes closed, opened his eyes: "Have all the Huaxia staff sent a few days ago been arranged?" ”

"The coordinators have already been arranged, and they all work as assistants." The staff immediately introduced.

Wu Yuan nodded and didn't speak again.

Jerry finally defended him.

Although Jerry promised Wu Yuan that he could bring people into the group to study, he had to join the group after the crew officially started filming, that is, he could only join the group with Wu Yuan.

The preparatory work of the crew, including the creation and arrangement of props and scenes, the preparation and production of special effects, and the design and customization of costumes, etc., did not allow Wu Yuan's people to participate in advance.

Because behind these things is the entire Hollywood film industry system, it is impossible to do all this without the various art teams, garment factories, and industrial props departments that serve large-scale films.

Jerry is not afraid that Wu Yuan will send someone to learn how to work on the scene, how to reasonably allocate positions, and how to run the crew more efficiently, but it is limited to letting him learn these things.

No matter how much you do, you can't teach it for a little tuition.

Fortunately, Wu Yuan didn't have the idea of learning the docking system well, these things are not something that more than 20 people can learn well.

He really just wants to train an elite crew for himself that can catch up with the level of Haolaiwu.

As for the industrialization of domestic films, the systematization of things can only be promoted after at least ten years, and it is impossible to think about flying without learning to walk.

The domestic staff who sent the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" this time are all a group of young people selected by Wu Yuan from the Beijing Film Studio, Qingying Studio, and Western Film Studio.

With the wind blowing about private capital entering the film industry, the first to be affected are the major state-owned studios in China.

Although it is not as serious as the wave of layoffs of state-owned enterprises in the 80s and 90s, it is an ironclad thing that the days of the major state-owned factories will go downhill.

In this case, Wu Yuan wants to recruit a group of people to form his own crew, so it's not too simple!

As a well-known domestic and international director whose fame is second only to Zhang, Chen, and Jiang, Wu Yuan's name is the biggest attraction.

Even if his company's "Light and Shadow Era" is just an empty shell for the time being, he easily signed the contracts of more than 20 crew members, and signed them for five years.

Yes, the leather bag company established by Wu Yuan in China has finally begun to be formalized.

This company, called "The Age of Light and Shadow", was first established when "The Night the Comet Comed" was released, in order to facilitate the settlement of corporate accounts and the settlement of accounts with China Film.

For a long time after that, the company even borrowed China Film for its finances, and did not have a single resident employee.

However, in the past few months after Wu Yuan returned to China, he finally built the bones of this company in addition to resting.

Not only have we found qualified financial and cashiers, but now the company has more than 20 employees.

All the staff members who were sent to the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" are employees of the Light and Shadow Age, and they will work exclusively for the films produced by the Light and Shadow Age.

Of course, for the time being, this company will only participate in Wu Yuan's own film investment work, in fact, they just work for Wu Yuan alone, which is similar in nature to Zhang Yimou's studio.

This will have to wait until next year's policy is officially down, and the Light and Shadow Era will be eligible to participate in film production and distribution.

Wu Yuan and these more than 20 employees are not in a hurry, and it is estimated that the completion of "Pirates of the Caribbean" will not be completed until February or March next year.

Even if Wu Yuan wants to shoot a new drama next year, it will be in the second half of the year.

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After resting for a night to adjust the jet lag, the next day, Wu Yuan came to the filming location of "Pirates of the Caribbean" under the guidance of Jerry's assistant.

As soon as he entered the door of the studio, Wu Yuan saw Johnny Depp wearing a classic "Jack Sparrow" dress, holding a gun in one hand and a bayonet in the other, grinning loudly.

"Hey, Depp, your four gold teeth are so cool!" Wu Yuan praised without hesitation.

He was really moved by Johnny Depp's dedication, in order to make the role more suitable for the image of "pirate", he specially asked the dentist to set himself with 4 gold teeth, one 14K gold, one 18K gold, one 22K gold, and the last one was white gold.

It's literally the removal of four teeth, and then the gold tooth is inserted!

With this dedicated attitude alone, Johnny Depp can become the soul of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, which is definitely qualified!

Depp naturally knew Wu Yuan.

Although Wu Yuan has been absent from the United States for a long time, no one in the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" does not know the chief director.

Huang Bo has a good saying, when you are popular, you are surrounded by good people.

Now Wu Yuan is not a small director in Hollywood, although he has not had a movie released in the United States since "Juno", but he has won a lot of awards!

The crew is looking forward to the Berlin Best Director, Oscar nominee for Best Director, to rule the crew.

"Daniel, you're finally here." Although Depp was a little introverted and shy, he still took the initiative to hug Wu Yuan: "If you don't come again, Jerry will be in a hurry." ”

Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, who were also taking makeup photos, also walked up to greet Wu Yuan.

The elven prince is still so handsome, and the English Rose is also at her most delicate age.

Especially KK, who wore a 17th-century European tunic dress, was called a chop!

When hugging each other, Wu Yuan obviously felt the pressure on his chest.

The actors had had many video conferences with him, the director, to discuss the details of the script.

So although Wu Yuan met them offline for the first time, they were not too strangers to each other.

"Seeing your appearance, I believe that our movie will definitely explode!" Wu Yuan praised with a smile: "It's like you came out of the script." ”

"Hopefully." Depp shrugged, and Orlando said helplessly: "There has never been a pirate film that has been a big hit, I hope we can break this curse." ”

"Yes!" Wu Yuan nodded firmly.

As a director, he needs to give the actors confidence, how can he defeat before fighting.

And as a person with future memories, he also knows what kind of results this movie will achieve in the end, so Wu Yuan is really confident at the moment.

His confident appearance easily infected the actors, and everyone was full of confidence!

The next day, the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean 1" announced the official start of filming in beautiful Los Angeles!