Chapter 386 Launch Conference

Start-up press conference.

This is a kind of pre-filming publicity work that is quite Asian.

In general, there is no habit of holding a start-up press conference in Hollywood.

Although Hollywood blockbusters often hold press conferences, they are all pre-promotional activities after the filming of the movie is completed and before the release period.

Few Hollywood movies will hold a special press conference before the start of filming.

But who can blame Wu Yuan, the director, who is from China?

Thanks to Wu Yuan, Disney and Universal, the six Hollywood companies that have worked with him, have a lot of in-depth understanding of China or the Asian film industry.

They know that in Asian countries, there is a form of publicity such as a start-up press conference.

Now that they know the news of the film's start, there are too many media reporters surrounding the studio.

In order to prevent them from interfering with the normal filming, the heads of Universal and Paramount also thought of this kind of start-up press conference that Asian movies often do.

Not to mention, this kind of gathering of media together at the start of filming, announcing the film project to the media, and satisfying their desire for interviews is indeed a good way of publicity.

The media got the press release, the crew got pre-promotion, and the staff didn't have to worry about reporters staring at the studio every day trying to get the actors for interviews.

Win-win-win!

Hollywood can also accommodate such excellent ideas from the Chinese film industry!

Wu Yuan had no objection to this.

"OK, you guys arrange it." Wu Yuan nodded: "I only have one request, that is, as soon as possible, don't delay the crew's filming."

The next day, the second-floor banquet hall of the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, which was originally used to hold large banquets, has been arranged as a press conference site.

Hollywood media, paparazzi, and reporters carrying long guns and short guns almost filled the entire banquet hall, leaving only a gap at the front row of the press conference.

The seats arranged in a long row were still empty at this time.

However, in the lounge behind the banquet hall, the leading actors of the "Interstellar" crew were all present.

Mads Mikkelsen plays the male protagonist Cooper, Michael Caine, a Hollywood veteran, plays Professor Brand, Anne Hathaway plays Cooper's daughter, and Liu Yifei plays Professor Brand's daughter.

These four are the main actors of "Interstellar". As for the other supporting roles, they don't need to attend the launch conference.

"Hey, my actors."

"I'm glad to see you join the group in the best condition. I hope our cooperation will go smoothly in the next few months."

With one hand around Liu Yifei's waist, Wu Yuan did not hide his relationship with Liu Yifei in front of several actors, and greeted everyone with a smile.

Anne Hathaway, who was wearing a simple white suit and standing aside with her arms crossed, looked at Wu Yuan's hand for a moment, and then smiled: "Wow, this is Crysta, she is as beautiful in real life as in the movie.

"It's been a long time since Hollywood has seen such a beautiful Asian actor."

"Daniel, you have a good eye. "

Wu Yuan raised his chin proudly, tightened his grip on Liu Yifei's hand, and said proudly: "Of course, my vision is the best."

"You may not know that Crysta is called Yuan Girl in China, which means the same as Bond Girl."

"I discovered and cultivated her."

Liu Yifei reached out and hit Wu Yuan's shoulder with a funny hand, causing a commotion.

The most commotion was Max Mikkelsen. Although Max's screen image is always a "big villain" style, and looking at his face, he feels insidious and cunning, but in fact his personality is quite good.

Although he is not an extrovert, he is not a gloomy person, and he likes to joke.

"Okay." Wu Yuan stopped holding Liu Yifei, smiled and clapped his hands: "Guys, it's time for us to go on stage for interviews."

"Remember, except for not leaking the plot, you can talk about anything else. "

After that, he led the four actors out of the lounge and walked to the front desk of the banquet hall.

"They are here!"

"Wow, it's Anne Hathaway!"

"Daniel!"

Amid the shouts of the reporters, Wu Yuan took the four leading actors to the stage of the press conference and sat down.

The host invited by Universal began to control the scene.

"Dear media friends, good afternoon, welcome to the launch conference of the movie "Interstellar" jointly produced by Paramount, Universal and Light Age."

"I know you have a lot of questions and want to ask our excellent directors and actors, so I won't waste your time. "

"Let's start the interview directly."

The host knew very well why the media on the scene came, and he didn't say anything nonsense, and directly called the media.

A reporter from the Los Angeles Times was called first, stood up and asked excitedly: "I want to ask Director Daniel, according to the information that has been announced, this "Interstellar" is a science fiction movie, right? ”

“Why do you want to make a science fiction film? Is it because of the success of your film Gravity in China that you feel you can make a science fiction film that is more suitable for global audiences?”

Is Gravity a good movie?

If this is a Hollywood work, then Hollywood reporters will definitely praise it without hesitation.

But this is a Chinese film, so whether from the perspective of ideology or camp, Hollywood will not give this film too much praise.

Even if this film was successfully released in North America and achieved a box office of more than 20 million US dollars.

But it is amazing that, except for the astronomy circle and some hard science fiction fans, most other North American people know nothing about this film.

No media has written a film review column for "Gravity", and the discussion of this film on the Internet has been limited to a few small circles, and it is difficult to set off a big wave.

This is the result of the tacit understanding and joint efforts of major Hollywood film and television companies.

However, these reporters are people who control public opinion, not people who are dominated by public opinion. They can still make objective evaluations of "Gravity" and recognize Wu Yuan's ability to direct science fiction films.

"There are reasons for this." Wu Yuan nodded: "The success of Gravity has indeed given me great confidence, making me believe that I can also make good and excellent science fiction movies."

"But I want to make the movie Interstellar, not just because of this, but more importantly because I like this story."

"When I learned about the initial script of this movie from Paramount, I wanted to make this movie. I think this is a great story, a movie that truly has the spirit of science fiction, not a fake science fiction movie that is under the banner of science fiction but is actually just blindly piling up special effects."

The reporter sat down with satisfaction, and the headline of the Los Angeles Times tomorrow's sub-edition was - [Daniel is dissatisfied with Hollywood being full of various fake science fiction movies, and believes that Hollywood science fiction movies have lost the spirit of science fiction! ]

Another reporter stood up and pointed the microphone at Anne Hathaway.

"I want to ask Miss Anne Hathaway, there are rumors that you squeezed out Natalie Portman through unfair competition, and became the star of Interstellar."

"Do you want to respond to this?"