Chapter 591 Han Yan and "Go Away! Tumor"

"The wind and sand here should be added more."

"Also here, the processing is too blurry, readjust it."

"Show me the pictures reshot a few days ago."

In the Industrial Light & Magic special effects company, Wu Yuanzheng and a group of special effects artists are adjusting the special effects pictures of "The Martian".

Although this movie is positioned as a "science fiction blockbuster", to be honest, there are not many special effects scenes used in this movie.

In addition to the evacuation of the Mars base team members at the beginning, there are also a small part of the middle and late stages of the Earth launching a rescue rocket, and the male protagonist using the return capsule to escape on Mars. A small part of the plot requires a lot of special effects, and nearly 80% of the remaining pictures are real shots.

Including the most important plot content on the surface of Mars, most of them were shot in Jordan, and only some special effects processing was needed for the sky.

After all, Light Age is a small family business. The kind of movie that requires tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of special effects shots is really not something Light Age can afford.

The production cost of a real special effect blockbuster "Avengers 1" is 220 million US dollars.

The subsequent Avengers 3 cost $300 million, and Avengers 4 cost even more, a record-breaking $356 million.

In comparison, the production cost of The Martian was just over $100 million, and the biggest difference was the money spent on special effects.

However, the total budget of The Martian was still nearly $200 million, because there was also a $70 million publicity budget.

This aspect was not as much as those blockbusters, such as the Avengers series, which had a publicity budget of $100-150 million.

Of course, for The Martian, $70 million was enough.

After all, this movie was not aimed at a box office of $1.7 billion or $8 billion.

It was just that during the post-production period, Wu Yuan had to reshoot some scenes. Wu Yuan was not satisfied with some of the scraps that the assistant director of the crew had taken in the United States before, so he re-shot them himself, which also delayed a lot of time.

In a blink of an eye, time had come to June 2012, but the post-production work of The Martian had not been completed yet, and it would take at least two months.

"It looks like it won't be released in the summer."

"It can only be released in October."

Wu Yuan helplessly called John and asked him to arrange the release date with Warner.

Although it didn't release in the summer, when he was most comfortable, October is not a bad release date.

If Wu Yuan remembered correctly, the original version of "The Martian" was released in October, and it later achieved good global box office results.

For Hollywood blockbusters, the release date is relatively unimportant. As long as the film is good, there is a chance of a big hit all year round, unlike in China, where the Lunar New Year's Day is the best.

As soon as Wu Yuan called John to inform him of the release date of "The Martian", he received a call from China.

"Brother, when are you going back to China?"

"I will go back in a month. What's the matter?"

"I have a script here."

The call was from Liu Yifei.

Since Wu Yuan flew to the United States to carry out the post-production of "The Martian" and the finalization of the sale of the company, Liu Yifei has been picking up her feet in China.

After the release of "Love Letter", she stayed at home again and became a home girl, only occasionally appearing in one or two activities to maintain the lowest exposure.

If you count carefully, she has not been in the crew for more than half a year. After filming "Love Letter", she has not accepted any scripts.

It's not that Liu Yifei doesn't want to take on new dramas, but when she brought those script invitations to Wu Yuan for reference before, Wu Yuan was disgusted and criticized.

Movies like "The Feast of Hongmen", "The Four Famous Detectives" and "Nie Xiaoqian" are really not good.

The only interesting one is "Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame", Xu Ke invited her to play the role of the oiran, which is the role played by Angelababy in the movie.

Wu Yuan would never agree to the revealing clothes, plus the requirements of a rather charming and dissolute character, and Liu Yifei also refused.

In this situation where there are no good scripts, Liu Yifei naturally chooses to stay at home and do nothing. She is not the kind of person who takes any movie just to make money.

Even if there are good scripts, she only takes one a year, thinking that this way she can devote herself to the filming of the movie and present the best performance.

When there are no good scripts, it is better to have nothing than to do something bad. Anyway, with Liu Yifei's current fame and influence, she no longer needs continuous exposure to maintain her fame.

Even if she has no new works for a year or two, she is still the fairy sister in the minds of domestic audiences and fans, and her blood is too thick.

However, if there is a good script, she will definitely be happy to take it.

On the phone, Liu Yifei told Wu Yuan in detail about the new script she received.

It is a new script by Han Yan, a director who was trained by the company's previous young director support program.

In the original trajectory, Han Yan should now be cooperating with LeTV and working for LeTV to shoot their online dramas.

However, Han Yan's life trajectory has been changed in this life. He grew up early because of the young director support program and was valued by the Light and Shadow Times investment. Therefore, he no longer directed online dramas for a living, but has been studying and polishing his next film plan.

So the movie "Turning Point! Tumor King", which was supposed to be completed and started filming in 2014, was already written by Han Yan in 2012, and he started looking for investment to attract a crew to shoot.

The movie is adapted from the comic of the same name by Xiong Dun. On February 2, 2012, Xiong Dun began to post on Tianya with the title "Turning Point! Tumor King, Recording the Days in the Hospital Fighting Against Tumors". Han Yan saw this post as soon as possible and contacted Xiong Dun to learn about the situation with her, and then wrote her story into the first version of the script.

There is no doubt that Han Yan's first choice for a new movie is definitely Light and Shadow Times.

After all, he is still a contracted director of Light and Shadow Times, and it has always been Light and Shadow Times that pays him a salary to support his life, otherwise he would not be so devoted to writing scripts.

On the side of Light and Shadow Times, because Wu Yuan attaches great importance to the young director plan, and Li Xiaoping also attaches great importance to these outstanding directors, they are not stingy with investment in Han Yan who has signed a contract with the company, and soon approved "Turning Point! Tumor King" was approved.

Han Yan naturally began to look for actors, and the first actor he found was Liu Yifei, who he wanted to invite to play the heroine Xiong Dun.

Previously, Liu Yifei's performance in "Your Name" left a deep impression on Han Yan, especially her courage to shave her head in the movie, which made Han Yan admire her very much.

Coincidentally, Xiong Dun also had to lose all her hair due to chemotherapy in the film, so Han Yan wanted to invite Liu Yifei to play the heroine.

After all, she is famous, has high box office appeal, and is the company's own boss lady, so she must be the best choice! (End of this chapter)