Los Angeles, Hollywood Shooting Neighborhood.

In a filming building next to the "White House", the crew of "The Martian", which has not been established for a long time, is in full swing preparing for filming.

"Hey, Daniel, I'm here."

"How's that, it's not bad, right?"

Matt Damon, dressed in a leather jacket and jeans, slipped into the shooting area with his hands in his pockets.

"Hey, Matt."

"Why are you here?"

Wu Yuan, who was sitting behind the monitor and directing the adjustment of the camera position, raised his head in surprise and said, "I haven't had your role in the past few days, didn't I tell you that I wouldn't use it?" ”

In the filming schedule of "The Martian", the filming of the first half of the month was mainly filmed on the NASA side of the ground, which had nothing to do with Matt Damon, a scientist left behind on Mars.

Movie shooting in the United States is not the same as in China, and generally actors who have no roles will not come to the set.

Filming is similar to a slightly special kind of work, with an eight-hour work system every day, commuting on time, those who have scenes come to work, and those who have scenes will withdraw after filming, and those who have no scenes are equivalent to vacations.

It's the same as clocking in and out.

Who comes to work on their days off when they work at the company?

Therefore, Wu Yuan was very surprised when he saw Matt Damon appear.

"I'll come and have a look." Matt Damon shrugged: "It's the first time I've made this kind of movie as the main character but there was no scene in the first half of the film. ”

"I have to say, this experience is quite special, I only did this when I first debuted, when I played a small supporting role, and I miss it a little."

"Huh." Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows: "I hope that when you play all the roles alone in the future, your mentality can still be as good as now." ”

The Martian is not an easy-to-shoot movie.

The film has a lot of scenes shot in the desert, and Matt Damon has to wear a 20-pound spacesuit, which is definitely going to be tiring.

However, Wu Yuan looked Matt up and down for a while.

Matt has been working his fitness for the past few months, and now he is in great shape, with bulging biceps and pectorals, and he should look quite durable.

"I'm ready." Matt Damon made a toning gesture and said with a hippie smile.

"OK, all units are ready, the first scene is the first shot, start!"

"The Martian" was launched in North America in such a low-key manner.

There was no press conference, and there was no deliberate press release to promote it, and filming started in a building that was transformed into a NASA headquarters in Hollywood.

Because Wu Yuan is not an American director, compared with the original "The Martian", Wu Yuan has not received much support from NASA, although there are also NASA scientific advisors to provide scientific support, and there are also consultants to help restore some of NASA's professional things.

But Wu Yuan couldn't go directly to visit NASA's headquarters like the original director Ridley Scott and got the full support of NASA.

Wu Yuan still remembers that 50 pages of Ridley Scott's script for "The Martian" are all about NASA details, of which it took the crew 21 days to shoot the details of NASA.

Wu Yuan can't be compared to him.

However, he is not a person who has little support behind him, the domestic Huaxia Space Agency also provided technical support to Wu Yuan, and because of the memory of the original movie, some details that originally needed to be communicated with NASA in detail to know, Wu Yuan could also be directly written into the script without communication.

As for whether NASA will wonder why Wu Yuan knows NASA so well after the release, even the real name of NASA's supercomputer platform - Pleiades (Pleiades) is known.

Then let NASA guess slowly.

Anyway, this kind of secret that is not a secret is not completely unknown to anyone, at least the influential space experts in the circle, as well as the biggest opponent next door, the Huaxia Space Agency, must know.

Wu Yuan is also not afraid of being checked by the CIA.

In this way, "The Martian" was on the right track for filming.

However, even if Wu Yuan deliberately kept a low profile, there were still many media reporters who kept staring at him.

Since the release of "Interstellar", the box office results and word-of-mouth that have swept the world have made Wu Yuan the world's most skilled director of science fiction films.

Perhaps the box office of "Interstellar" is not as bright as that of "Avatar", and the hard and in-depth plot and content of the movie also make this movie naturally not suitable for audiences of all ages.

But it is this kind of hard sci-fi depth that makes Wu Yuan's forced style a lot higher.

Just as Nolan became a god in the original plane with "Inception" and "Interstellar".

Wu Yuan has also been canonized in the field of global science fiction movies with "Gravity" and "Interstellar".

In these years, there are really too few directors who can really make good hard sci-fi masterpieces, so few that there are only two people, Nolan and Wu Yuan.

Wu Yuan's new movie, since it was revealed that it would still be a science fiction movie, there were countless pairs of eyes staring at him throughout North America and even the world.

Even if there was no special publicity, the news that "The Martian" was turned on on the front foot and the back foot was learned by media reporters, and a large number of reporters came to the set with cameras to squat.

A lot of gossip about Wu Yuan's new movie "The Martian" is flying everywhere online and offline, true and false.

Hollywood is the birthplace of the paparazzi.

In less than two days, most of the starring lists of the actors participating in this movie were revealed by the so-called "insiders".

The combination of Matt Damon X Wu Yuan also made many North American fans shine.

"Daniel is finally working with a really big-name actor!"

"I thought Daniel was going to find an unknown actor to take the lead like he did in "Interstellar"."

"Wow, Matt Damon and Daniel's collaboration, it's so exciting."

"Is this time to send Matt Damon into space as a spy?"

"It's also possible that he will go to space to save the world."

"It's called 'The Martian,' and it's obviously a space disaster movie like 'Gravity,' maybe Matt is playing a hero who's going to rescue victims in space?"

"Is there a space version of "Spy Shadows"?"

"No, Daniel won't make such a superficial movie, maybe it will be a more in-depth "Avatar"!"

On the North American Internet, there is a lot of discussion about The Martian.

Matt Damon saw that the news of the launch of "The Martian" had spread all over the street, and with Wu Yuan's consent, he simply reposted a BBC report on the launch of "The Martian" on his Twitter after holding back for a long time, commenting:

"Yes, I'm joining Daniel's new film, which is challenging for me, but I'm confident that I can make this film."

"Daniel is a very good director and I'm really happy to work with him!"

"This is a movie that is only about one person's life, but it highlights the cornerstone of the value of the entire human civilization, please look forward to it!" (End of chapter)