Chapter 546 The Martian Starts Filming

Los Angeles, Hollywood filming district.

In a filming building next to the "White House", the crew of "The Martian", which was established not long ago, is preparing for filming.

"Hey, Daniel, I'm here."

"How is it, not bad?"

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

"Hey, Matt."

"Why are you here?"

Sitting behind the monitor, directing the camera position adjustment, Wu Yuan raised his head in surprise and said, "You don't have any scenes these days. Didn't I tell you not to come?"

In the filming schedule of "The Martian", the first half of the month's filming is mainly to shoot scenes on the ground NASA side, which has nothing to do with Matt Damon, the scientist left on Mars.

Filming in the United States is different from that in China. Generally, actors who don't have scenes will not come to the set.

Filming is a slightly special kind of work. You work eight hours a day, and you go to get off work on time. If you have a role, you come to work, and leave after filming. If you don't have a role, it's like a holiday.

It's just like clocking in to work.

Who would come to the company on their days off when they are working in the company?

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

"I came to see." Matt Damon shrugged: "This is the first time I've filmed a movie where I'm the protagonist but I don't have a role in the first half of the month."

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

"Ha." Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows: "I hope that when you have all the roles in the future, your mentality can still be as good as it is now."

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

This movie has a lot of scenes shot in the desert, and Matt Damon has to wear a 20-pound space suit, which is definitely very tiring.

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

Matt has been working out hard these past few months, and now he has a great body, with bulging biceps and pectoral muscles, and he looks like he will be quite durable.

"I'm ready." Matt Damon did a bodybuilding move and said with a smirk.

"OK, all units get ready, first scene, first shot, start!"

"The Martian" started filming in North America in such a low-key manner.

There was no press conference for the start of filming, nor was there any deliberate press release for publicity. Filming started in a building in Hollywood that was transformed into a building similar to the NASA headquarters.

Because Wu Yuan is not an American director, compared with the original "The Martian", Wu Yuan did not receive much support from NASA, although there were also NASA scientific advisors who provided scientific support, and there were also advisors who helped to restore some of NASA's professional things.

But Wu Yuan could not visit NASA's headquarters directly like the original director Ridley Scott and get NASA's full support.

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

Wu Yuan can't compare with him.

However, he is not a person without support behind him. The Chinese Space Administration also provided technical support to Wu Yuan. At the same time, because of the memory of the original movie, some details that originally required detailed communication with NASA to know, Wu Yuan was able to write them directly into the script without communication.

As for whether NASA would wonder why Wu Yuan knew NASA so well after the release, even knowing the real name of NASA's supercomputer platform - Pleiades.

Let NASA guess slowly.

Anyway, this kind of secret that is not a secret is not completely unknown. At least influential space experts in the circle and the biggest rival next door, the Chinese Space Administration, must know it.

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

In this way, The Martian got on the right track.

However, even though Wu Yuan deliberately kept a low profile, there were still many media reporters who were always watching him.

Since the release of "Interstellar", the box office performance and reputation that swept the world have made Wu Yuan the world's best hard science fiction director.

Perhaps the box office of "Interstellar" is not as impressive as "Avatar". The hard and deep plot and content of the movie also make this movie naturally unsuitable for audiences of all ages.

But it is this hard science fiction depth that has raised Wu Yuan's status a lot.

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

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

These days, there are really too few directors who can really make good hard science fiction masterpieces, so few that there are only Nolan and Wu Yuan.

Since Wu Yuan's new movie was leaked and it was still a science fiction movie, countless eyes in North America and even the world have been staring at him.

Even though there was no special publicity, the news of "The Martian" was known to the media reporters as soon as it started filming, and a large number of reporters came to the set with cameras.

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

Hollywood is the birthplace of paparazzi.

In less than two days, most of the main actors in this movie were exposed by the so-called "insiders".

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

"Daniel finally cooperated with a real big-name actor!"

"I thought Daniel would find an unknown actor to take the lead like in "Interstellar"."

"Wow, the cooperation between Matt Damon and Daniel is really exciting."

"Is it going to let Matt Damon go to space as a spy this time?"

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

"This movie is called "The Martian", which is obviously a space disaster movie like "Gravity". Maybe Matt will play a hero who will rescue the victims in space?"

"Is it the space version of "The Bourne Supremacy"?"

"No, Daniel will not make such a superficial movie, maybe it will be a more profound "Avatar"!"

On the North American Internet, the discussion about "The Martian" is boiling.

Matt Damon saw that the news of the start of filming of "The Martian" had spread all over the streets. With Wu Yuan's consent, he simply retweeted a BBC report on the start of filming of "The Martian" on his Twitter, and commented:

"Yes, I joined Daniel's new movie. This is full of challenges for me, but I am confident that I can make this movie well."

"Daniel is a very good director. I am really happy to work with him!"

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