King of Special Effects

The filming of Yi Yang's Under Deep Space and Guo Fan's The Wandering Earth is in full swing.

At the Huayi Film and Television Production Center in Beijing, preparations for the shooting of The Three-Body Problem are also underway. However, they have to face big problems.

The first thing is the funds. Although Hua Yi is rich and powerful, but he has to spend 500 million yuan in one go to take such a big risk. Even Wang Jun himself has no idea about this, let alone getting other people to agree.

Huayi is a bigwig in the film and television industry, with many well-known artists under his umbrella, and has also developed very well in film and television production and music production.

But sci-fi movies, even from a national perspective, are a very risky attempt at movie themes.

Regardless of the box office and word-of-mouth success of the first The Wandering Earth, in fact, the heel of sci-fi movies is still unstable in China, and even if it is filmed, the audience may not necessarily buy it.

In addition, there is the issue of special effects technology.

A few years ago, Huayi held a national Special Effects Competition and gave relevant rewards to each group of award-winning contestants. To be honest, this competition can be regarded as a test of Huayi's production level of domestic special effects.

Although they are all small teams, they are generally good.

However, if these people are used to produce the special effects of the movie Three-Body Problem, then Hua Yi will be in a hurry.

It's not that China can't afford the special effects production of this movie, but that Huayi has to consider the cost issue while completing the special effects.

Besides, on the side of director Lin Xin, Lin Xin is not considered a newcomer.

He is also well-known in the film industry. The most important thing is that he does not have much shooting experience in other themes, which also allows him to accept the film production of science fiction.

However, sci-fi has always been a weak point of domestic films, and Lin Xin himself may not be sure.

He is responsible for the preparatory work of the film, such as actors, costumes, props, and the formation of the crew.

For this reason, he also specially organized an actor audition to select actresses.

Today is the day when the main female characters of The Three-Body Problem are being auditioned in the capital. There are many actresses participating in the audition, and they are all newcomers or unknown.

The first hurdle for Lin Xinhai's selection is appearance. Unless it is necessary for the role, otherwise, if the actress is ugly, the audience will not want to watch the movie immediately. This is also Lin Xin's theory of casting. Every movie will hold such an audition for actors.

At the audition site, Lin Xin, several other members of the production team and several people from the producer formed a judging panel to be in charge of actor confirmation.

In addition, there were only reporters at the scene.

Some posters about the Three-Body Problem actor audition were posted all over the place.

This is also a consistent method used in many movies. When choosing actors, the publicity has already kept up.

Lin Xin is 40 years old this year. He is a director and screenwriter by profession. He watched a contestant's talent show on the stage and adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose.

The actresses who came to participate in the election today all appeared without makeup, which allowed him to see the most authentic faces.

After the contestants finished dancing, they bowed deeply to the judges in the audience, Lin Xin.

From Lin Xin's point of view, this bow is quite angled, and he can see some snow-white things at a glance.

He adjusted his glasses again, picked up a pen and ticked off the actor's information: Okay, you enter the next round.

When the actress heard this, she was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed again: Thank you director!

Next! Lin Xin shouted.

Another actress who participated in the election came on stage. She was a fresh face. According to the information on the information, she was a senior student in the Acting Department of Beijing Film and Television. She hadn't graduated yet.

Liu Yuyu, right? Please start your performance, talent or role clip.

talent.

It’s nothing more than singing, dancing, piano, chess, calligraphy, and the like. If it’s an actor audition scene for a literary film, it’s normal to perform these items, but The Three-Body Problem is a science fiction film. Some are redundant.

In the audition for actors, the most important thing is acting skills.

Yi Yang watched the live broadcast on a certain live broadcast platform on his mobile phone. At this time, the number of online viewers had reached 14,000.

Zhang Jin was sitting next to Yi Yang, taking a sip of water and another sip of ice cream.

Brother Jin, I don't know much about actor auditions. Does every director have to let the participating actors sing and dance when casting?

Zhang Jin also looked at the screen on Yi Yang's phone, shook his head and said, No way!

What's so strange about auditioning an actor? Aren't big directors like Gan Xiaofeng and Xingye all auditioning actors?

It's not surprising. What I'm wondering is why does a sci-fi film have actors singing and dancing?

Zhang Jin was stunned: What science fiction film, who is the director?

Lin Xin, Three-Body Problem produced by Huayi is a very powerful IP, but looking at their audition scene and the actor recruitment requirements they posted on the Internet, I feel like I am doing a model What about the draft contest?

Zhang Jin just smiled lightly, and didn't pick up the trouble again.

Director Yi, I can only say that you are a clear stream in the entertainment industry. This kind of thing is not surprising. Let's just say that there are many actresses participating in the audition for a movie. Several of them, Maybe standing on stage during the day, lying in a hotel room at night, with a director, producer and investor next to him!

After saying this, Yi Yang understood.

After all, Huayi is also a first-class entertainment company in China, but Yi Yang doesn't really believe that they play such a foolish way.

But this is Lin Xin, he may not be sure.

Yi Yang is now full of expectations for Three-Body Problem, he looks forward to seeing what Three-Body Problem will look like after being filmed in this way.

Two-thirds of the filming of Under Deep Space has been completed, and more than 90% of the film is filled with special effects shots. After the rest of the filming is completed, Yi Yang will also devote himself to this film In the post-production of the film, and then began to plan for the release.

Produced by Liangyi Media, Yi Yang's first sci-fi movie has a strong selling point.

As for the second part of Guo Fan's The Wandering Earth, Yi Yang doesn't know the progress of their filming yet, but the special effects are produced by himself, so he is not in a hurry.

The Three-Body Problem is still in the preparatory stage. According to Yi Yang's prediction of their progress, it will take at least two years for this movie to be able to meet the audience, and it may die prematurely. According to the current situation Looking at it, this is not impossible.

Lin Xin is a director who has never had any good works. Yi Yang really couldn't figure it out. How could a company with more than 100,000 Huayi be able to let him be the director?