Chapter 558 "The Martian"

Just when domestic media reporters speculated that Liu Yifei would star in Wu Yuan's new movie and reported it in length on the Internet and newspapers.

Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei had already landed in Hungary and headed directly to the studio of "The Martian".

Hungary is a small country, but it is amazing that it has the largest studio in the world.

The crew of "The Martian" rented this studio covering an area of ​​more than 10,000 square meters and built a "real" ground base on Mars in the studio.

Half of Matt Damon's main scenes were to be shot here, including all indoor scenes and some scenes shot at the entrance of the Mars base.

For example, the scene of the Mars team evacuating at the beginning.

When shooting this scene, tens of thousands of feet of green screen were used in the studio to cover the background of the entire studio, making it convenient for post-production background synthesis.

This is why the crew came to Hungary to shoot.

Whether in China or Los Angeles, you can't find such a large indoor studio unless you spend money to build one.

Wu Yuan is not so extravagant. If there is a ready-made studio to rent, then he will definitely rent it. It is much cheaper to pack up and send the crew to Hungary than to build a studio.

"Hey, Daniel, you are back."

As soon as he returned to the studio, the crew members and actors who had been waiting for a long time surrounded him.

"I heard that you won an award when you returned to China?"

"Crystal also won a trophy for Best Actress?" Matt congratulated with a smile.

The influence of the Golden Horse Awards is of course not that great, but Matt and others are deliberately paying attention to Wu Yuan's schedule.

After all, once Wu Yuan takes a leave, the work of the entire crew has to stop, which is equivalent to them taking a holiday. Naturally, they will be curious about why Wu Yuan takes a leave when they have nothing to do.

"Small award, small award." Wu Yuan smiled and waved his hand. A Best Screenplay Award is indeed a small award for him.

"Guys, you have rested enough, let's get started!" Wu Yuan clapped his hands and greeted.

After getting off the plane, he planned to start working directly without even taking a break.

There was no other way. If he stopped working for one more day, he would waste more money.

There are many dark clouds over Guangshidai now, and Wu Yuan also hopes to save as much as possible.

As for Liu Yifei, she came to the crew for a tour, said hello to everyone, showed her presence as the "director's wife", and then went back to the hotel to rest and adjust to the jet lag.

Unlike what the domestic media speculated, Liu Yifei did not have any role in "The Martian" this time, not even a surprise cameo.

There are really too few characters in this movie. The roles of other characters combined are not more than one-third of Matt's.

Although there are characters from the China Space Administration, the role of the director's secretary is obviously more suitable for the mature and generous Gong Li to play.

There is no need for Wu Yuan to force Liu Yifei to play a cameo for a few seconds.

She came to Hungary this time mainly to accompany Wu Yuan in filming.

Before the release of the movie "Love Letter" on Valentine's Day next year, Liu Yifei has no work. Even if she won the Best Actress trophy, she is still a salted fish Fei.

After finishing the promotional activities and advertising video shooting of the brand she endorses, she will not accept any notices during the non-promotion period of the work.

If there is no Wu Yuan, she will definitely stay at home or travel abroad.

Now that Wu Yuan is around, she must come to accompany Wu Yuan and play in Hungary by the way, which can be regarded as traveling.

In this way, Wu Yuan's life has returned to work again, and he joins the crew to shoot "The Martian" from 9 to 5 every day.

Liu Yifei traveled in Hungary with her assistant, and came to the crew from time to time to accompany him. This little life can be regarded as happy and fulfilling.

Soon, after only 20 more days of shooting, the shooting of "The Martian" in Hungary was almost completed.

The potato fields that had been cultivated in the "Mars Base" also contributed wonderful acting skills.

"Honestly, I think this movie will do well at the box office if it's released in the UK." Matt, who had been filming scenes of eating potatoes for several days and was almost vomiting, said with a wry smile, holding a potato he dug from the potato field himself.

Even if he was a white man, he couldn't stand such a forced potato.

"I really don't know how those British people eat potatoes every day."

"NO, Matt, you are stereotyping." Wu Yuan stuck his head out from behind the monitor and said with a smile: "The British don't eat potatoes and fried fish every meal."

"Well, they only eat potatoes five or six times a week at most."

"You know all this?" Matt asked in surprise.

"Of course." Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows: "This is what Keira told me, she is an English rose."

As a Greater China person, Wu Yuan is more curious about the British food culture that can be called hell than Matt. When filming "Pirates of the Caribbean" that year, he talked to Keira about the British food culture, and he knew it too well.

It can only be said that Matt's stereotype is not without reason. The British really eat steamed potatoes and cheese in the morning, fish and chips at noon, and mashed potato bread in the evening.

Whenever you don't know what to eat, you can't go wrong by eating potatoes.

"Matt, when I go to the UK to promote, I will definitely take you with me." Wu Yuan winked at Matt and said, "You will definitely be very popular in the UK."

"After all, you survived on Mars by eating potatoes. This is a great promotion for British food culture."

"Oh, Daniel, stop it." Matt Damon said with a frown, "You know, I'm from Cambridge, and I'm very familiar with it."

(Matt Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, which has the same name as Cambridge, England.)

"Haha." Wu Yuan laughed, clapped his hands, and said loudly: "Okay guys, I declare that "The Martian" has finished shooting in Hungary!"

"Everyone, clean up the set and prepare to move to Jordan!"

"The next step is the most difficult time to shoot this movie, be mentally prepared!"

"The Martian" has only the last few exterior scenes to shoot, and all of these exterior scenes will be shot in Jordan's Rose Desert, which is known as one of the places on Earth that looks most like Mars.

Desert.

For any human being, this is a place with a very harsh living environment. Let alone coming here to work and shoot a movie, just wanting to survive in the desert is a very burdensome thing.

The crew of "The Martian" will have to work in this desert that looks like Mars, carrying a lot of props and equipment for 20-30 days.

This is definitely a very torturous thing.

But every staff member's face is full of excitement, shouting loudly: "Let's go!" (End of this chapter)