Matt Damon is indeed one of the few actors who can take the lead alone.

In the "Mission Impossible" series, he is almost alone in the lead, and the other actors can only be regarded as marginal.

As he said, the whole Hollywood, maybe Leonardo is better than him and more able to sing a one-man show.

Perhaps this is also the reason why Ridley Scott, the director of the original "The Martian", chose Matt Damon.

By the wayside, Ridley Scott is the director of "Alien Prequel", which has now been renamed "Paradise" and will eventually be named "Prometheus".

In the original time and space, "Prometheus" and "The Martian" were both movies produced by Fox, and "The Martian" still bought the copyright.

However, in this time and space, Wu Yuan won the copyright in advance, and set up a project with "Prometheus", which made Ridley Scott have no chance to direct this movie, and Wu Yuan also prostituted the materials and a large number of props for the modeling and design of "Prometheus" in turn.

In terms of relationships, the relationship between him Daniel Wu and 20th Century Fox is not bad.

"Potatoes?" Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows, and said as a matter of course: "Of course it's planted, it's in the Hungarian studio." ”

"In order to ensure the smooth filming, the crew created three identical planting areas at the same time, and planted three potato fields at different times."

"One bite each of the potatoes that have just sprouted, the potatoes that have grown to half-fruit, and the potatoes that are fully ripe."

"So when you shoot when it's time to shoot, you don't really have to wait for the potatoes to grow little by little."

The growth cycle of potatoes is very short, at least shorter than corn, but Wu Yuan doesn't want to be like Ridley Scott, really planting potatoes from beginning to end during the 65-day shooting period, or it is convenient to plant them in advance.

"It's you, Daniel." Matt Damon had such an expression on his face, "When you first filmed "Interstellar", you asked the crew to really rent a piece of land to grow corn. ”

"I knew you were going to plant potatoes this time, too."

"Well, if you are such a director who pursues real shooting, it's just you and Nolan."

"You are all directors who like to make sci-fi movies, and this is really a wonderful fate."

"Now Leonardo is messing with Nolan, I'm messing with you, I hope we can surpass them!"

"It's inevitable." Wu Yuan smiled and said a little frivolously: "Nolan's box office results have never won me. ”

Nolan is Wu Yuan's idol, the kind of idol in the true sense of the word, so he knows Nolan's movies better than most people.

Nolan's movies are good and really good.

But because it's so good, the audience of his movies is actually not so high, after all, every movie has to engage in some esoteric physics knowledge.

This kind of tall sci-fi movie, no matter how well it is done, is not as marketable as popcorn movies after all.

"Interstellar" is a clear proof of this, although the film performed well at the global box office, the box office was still not as strong as the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, and even the box office of the girl's book "Twilight" could not be compared

In contrast, "The Martian" performed better at the box office, with a final box office of $630 million, which caused a sensation in Hollywood.

It's not that the box office of this movie is so scary, but the cost of this movie is only $100 million, and the return rate is the highest among science fiction movies in recent years.

Even higher than Avatar.

Although the box office of "Avatar" has reached a record in film history, the production cycle of this film is too long, it took ten years from the establishment of the project to the actual shooting, plus the budget has been overspent several times, the time cost plus inflation plus the production cost, the actual rate of return is not as high as "The Martian".

From the standpoint of Hollywood Film Capital, let them choose, a "Avatar" produced in ten years and a "Martian" that can be filmed in less than two years, it must be more cost-effective to choose the latter.

Wu Yuan believes that with his international fame and influence, which is now far greater than that of Ridley Scott, the box office performance of his "The Martian" should be higher than the original version.

This has nothing to do with the quality of the film itself, but his name Daniel Wu is worth 100 million dollars in the international film market!

This is the word-of-mouth influence he has accumulated since his debut.

No matter how bad his new movie is, there will be a group of people who blindly choose to go to the cinema to watch it.

"Matt, you have to continue to work out next, but you can't relax."

Stretching out his hand to look at the time on his watch, Wu Yuan muttered: "There is still a month and a half, and the movie will start shooting in Hungary, and the production cycle is expected to be 65 days." ”

"In the first ten days of the start-up, you didn't have anything to do, mainly on the NASA side, filming the scenes on the earth."

"After that, the crew will transfer to Hungary and Jordan to shoot your scene."

"In the end, after most of the movie is completed, I will take the crew back to Huaxia by myself, make up the scenes in Huaxia, and then start post-production."

"Your finishing date is expected to be January 10th, in Jordan."

"Get ready."

"No problem." Matt Damon gave a thumbs up, looking like he would do whatever Wu Yuan said, focusing on being obedient.

Wu Yuan smiled with satisfaction, he likes to work with such a well-behaved actor.

As for the filming of the Huaxia part he said, of course, it is the scene in "The Martian" that involves the Huaxia Space Agency helping to rescue together.

In this part of the script, Wu Yuan changed the name of the Huaxia rocket, the Sun God rocket, to the Long March-9, and the other parts did not change, and even increased the scene.

The screenwriters of Hollywood really don't pay attention to Huaxia, but anyone who pays attention to Huaxia Aerospace can know that Huaxia's rockets have always been the Long March series, and it is impossible to make a "Sun God Rocket" full of European and American styles.

This is exactly the name that Hollywood's screenwriter came up with with a pat on the head based on the United States' own Ares series of rockets.

This kind of low-level mistake is something that Wu Yuan, a Chinese director, would not make.

In addition, Wu Yuan directly invited Wang Xueqi and Gong Li to make cameos, which can be regarded as a small easter egg linked to "Gravity".

They are also the only familiar faces in the world of Chinese science fiction films.

There are not many scenes in this part, even if Wu Yuan's selfishness aggravates the part, he only needs to borrow the office of the Huaxia Space Agency, and he can shoot it in two or three days, there is no need to take Matt Damon to Huaxia together, he can finish it directly in Jordan.

"Well, that's exactly what happened." Wu Yuan spread his hands and said to Matt Damon with a smile: "You go back and prepare, and when the time comes, we will set off for Hungary together." ”

"I still have something to talk to the company executives about, so I won't leave you for lunch."

"See you next time!" (End of chapter)