Chapter 348 Will Start Filming in July Next Year!

Mads Mikkelsen is 43 years old this year.

As a Danish actor, his acting career in Hollywood has not been smooth, and it can be said to be very bumpy.

If Anne Hathaway's road to fame is smooth and perfect, then Mads Mikkelsen's road to fame is tortuous and difficult.

Since his debut in 1996, Mads Mikkelsen has acted in more than ten works in 12 years, including movies and TV series, but his popularity in North America is still very low.

Only crime TV series and literary films will ask him to play some roles, and commercial films will occasionally ask him to play some villains.

If Wu Yuan hadn't appeared, he would not really enter the public eye until he won the Cannes Best Actor Award for "The Hunt".

Then this Cannes Film Festival winner condescended to play in the TV series "Hannibal", and then he became really famous. He began to play in Hollywood A-level movies, and continued to play villains.

From Mads Mikkelsen, we can see that Hollywood says that it welcomes the world's top filmmakers to develop, but in fact it is full of restrictions on foreign actors.

The Cannes Film Festival winner can only play villain supporting roles in Hollywood.

But this world is different.

Wu Yuan, a Chinese director who is also an outsider to Hollywood, admires Mads Mikkelsen because he has worked with him before, and chose him to play the male lead Cooper in "Interstellar".

Although this role does not seem to attract many fans, the character's charm is not great, and it is completely a tool to serve the plot.

But being able to become the male lead of a blockbuster with an investment of 180 million US dollars, Mads Mikkelsen's resume will be deepened, and his future acting career will undoubtedly be much smoother.

Not to mention, Wu Yuan is still considering whether to work with him for the third time and shoot "The Hunt" together.

The more Wu Yuan looks at Mads Mikkelsen, the more he appreciates him.

Mads Mikkelsen is also very happy that he can be valued by Wu Yuan and have the opportunity to star in such a super A-level production.

Mads Mikkelsen, who always looks cold and seems to be autistic, rarely shows a brilliant smile on his face and hugs Wu Yuan warmly: "Daniel, I really didn't expect you to invite me to play the leading role in this movie."

"When I heard the news from my agent, I was stunned."

"You know, I am a Dane, and my development in Hollywood has not been smooth..."

Mads Mikkelsen couldn't hide his excitement, and talked a lot with Wu Yuan, mostly about the difficulties he had along the way. When he talked about the depths, there were even tears in the corners of his eyes.

Anne Hathaway, who had been sitting dignified on the sofa, looked at the two big men hugging each other with some curiosity.

She didn't have the bumpy experience of Mads Mikkelsen, and her acting career was very smooth, but she could also understand Mads Mikkelsen's feelings.

Not to mention him as a young actor, even Anne Hathaway herself was a little excited when she learned about Wu Yuan's invitation.

Admittedly, in terms of achievements in the field of commercial films, there is actually not much difference between Wu Yuan and director Nolan, whom she has worked with.

However, Wu Yuan's achievements in the field of art films are much higher than Christopher Nolan.

He debuted only four years later than director Nolan, but he has won major awards in Berlin, Cannes, and Venice, and even won the Golden Bear Award this year!

Since Nolan debuted, he has only won the Best Screenplay at the Saturn Awards in the United States and was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars.

In terms of awards, Wu Yuan's first film in North America, "Juno", is enough to beat Christopher Nolan.

Anne Hathaway is an actress who pursues art. She has made a lot of sacrifices for film art and wants to be recognized by awards and honors.

She is naturally excited about the opportunity to work with Wu Yuan and wants to seize it firmly.

With the attitude of both actors catering to Wu Yuan very much, the atmosphere of this meeting is undoubtedly very good.

Handing two drafts of the script to the two, Wu Yuan explained to them: "The script is still in the process of being perfected. This script may not be the final version, but most of the plot has been determined. Even if there are changes later, they will only be minor changes."

"You can read it carefully first. If you understand it thoroughly, the subsequent filming will be smoother."

"The current filming date should be July or August next year, and the filming will be completed by the end of November next year."

"You must be prepared to join the crew."

The preparation of "Interstellar" is more difficult than Wu Yuan imagined.

Originally, he thought that after the preparation work of "Gravity", he should be familiar with the early preparation of such a science fiction blockbuster.

But unexpectedly, the preparation of "Interstellar" is even more difficult. Not only do we have to make active robots and spacecraft, but we also have to improve a lot of scientific theories and modify the plot settings.

Even if Wu Yuan has the original plot and the film effect in mind, it is estimated that the preparation work of this movie will be completed around March next year.

But we can't start shooting immediately in March next year because we have missed the corn planting period.

In North America, corn is usually planted from March to June.

Generally speaking, corn can be planted from late February to mid-April in the southern region, from mid-April to early May in the central region, and from late May to early June in the northern region.

The land contracted by the crew is in Alberta, Canada, which is the northern part of the North American continent. Planting can only start at the end of May, and it will take until mid-to-late September for the corn to grow.

Although the crew does not necessarily have to wait until the corn is fully grown before starting filming, considering the specific filming arrangements, the earliest it will start is in July or August. By September, after filming the cornfield scenes, it will be almost finished.

In this way, "Interstellar" is likely to compete with "Inception" and be released at the same time.

And for Wu Yuan, he had been dragging Liu Yifei and had not agreed to her acting in a TV series together, and it is likely that she will do as she wishes.

The company's "Goblin" has already decided that Liu Yifei will play the leading role, and the specific start time has not yet been determined, because it will be arranged according to the time when Liu Yifei joins the "Interstellar" crew.

Now that the start time of "Interstellar" has been basically determined, then "Goblin" will definitely be put on the first half of next year.

From March to July next year, Wu Yuan will have nothing to do for the time being, and Liu Yifei can't hide this schedule.

At that time, he will definitely be dragged by Liu Yifei to act in this TV series.

Wu Yuan was thinking about it all over again, until Anne Hathaway and Mads Mikkelsen finished reading the script, and then he came back to his senses.

"Come, let's talk about what you think of your respective roles, just speak freely."

Crossing his legs, Wu Yuan began to test the two pre-selected actors.

Although they are pre-selected, we must ensure that the two can really play the role. We can't just push them up based on our own preferences.

Wu Yuan has always been very serious about his own movies. If the two don't perform well, they should be replaced!

Mads Mikkelsen and Anne Hathaway also became nervous. They looked at each other, and the older Mads Mikkelsen spoke first: "In my opinion, the role of Cooper is a person with firm ideals..." (End of this chapter)