Chapter 665: It’s the Foggy City!

A few days later.

Jiangbei International Airport in Fog City.

Wu Yuan arrived on a bad day. There was a heavy fog in Chongqing today. He arrived in the morning and felt surrounded by fog as soon as he left the airport.

"It's Fog City!" Wu Yuan sighed in a poor Sichuan-Chongqing dialect, and suddenly a lot of Sichuan-Chongqing rap melodies emerged in his mind.

For him, the most prominent feature of Sichuan and Chongqing, in addition to hot pot, is the filming location and rap, which are most related to the entertainment industry.

There is no doubt that Sichuan and Chongqing's rap is the best region in China. Many excellent Chinese rap singers are from Sichuan and Chongqing, and Fog City also occupies a large part of them.

Perhaps it is because the Sichuan-Chongqing dialect is very suitable for rap, which sounds very exciting.

And the filming location is Fog City.

Fog City has almost become the favorite filming location for domestic movies.

This magical but literary city seems to naturally attract various film crews to come here.

Ning Hao loves this place, and so does Jia Zhangke.

According to incomplete statistics, more than 200 movies have been filmed in Fog City since the 1930s.

If Hengdian is the holy land for domestic TV series, then Fog City is the holy land for domestic film shooting.

Why has Fog City become a favorite of movies?

First of all, the topography of Fog City has shaped a unique urban layout, which is divided into the upper and lower cities without inner and outer cities.

Houses and roads are not divided into east, west, south, and north, but are built according to the direction of the mountains and water systems in the main urban area.

This also makes all kinds of transportation in Fog City full of magical colors. The Yangtze River Cableway, ferry and rail transportation have made Fog City the only city in China with amphibious tourism in the form of water, land and air, and it is jokingly called "3D city" by everyone.

The light rail passes through buildings and mountains, and people chat and walk into the bus parked on the eighth floor. These "magical" scenes are all played out in Fog City.

As a historic southwest city, Fog City also has a profound historical and cultural heritage. New and old buildings coexist harmoniously in the city. The Huguang Guild Hall is under the Dongshengmen Bridge, and there are high-rise buildings behind the Luohan Temple. Abandoned factories coexist with the city skyline, presenting a unique style of ancient and modern brilliance.

Some people say that Fog City and Hong Kong Island are the only two cities in China with cyberpunk style.

Wu Yuan agrees with this.

And he came to Fog City today to do a field investigation.

The realistic plot of the movie "Ready Player One" needs to be filmed in the magical city of Chongqing.

This city is magical.

Across a river, there are high-rise buildings with a strong sense of cyberpunk and neon night scenes on the opposite side, but on the opposite side of the river there are a large number of old and dilapidated houses built on the mountain, which can even be said to be slums.

In this city, you can not only find places with a strong sense of technology, but also find old mossy houses full of poverty.

Just select a few locations and do some targeted scene setting, and the cyberpunk world of "Ready Player One" with a huge gap between the rich and the poor, low-end life and advanced technology was born.

With the assistant director and the team leader of the crew's set group, Wu Yuan started "playing" in the big city of Fog City from dawn.

Foggy days are certainly not a good time for playing, but he is not really here to play, he is here to scout the scene.

From morning to night, after a simple sleep, Wu Yuan walked from morning to night again the next day. He deeply experienced the charm of this 8D magic city.

Took the elevator to the fifth floor, and found himself in a large square when he got out of the elevator. Can you believe it?

Climbed along the steep steps for more than ten minutes, and found himself in the underground garage when he climbed up. Can you believe it?

In this city, it is absolutely easy to get lost without a strong sense of direction and three-dimensional thinking.

Wu Yuan, who has been around the world and visited countless cities, thought he would never get lost. However, facing the 8D urban area of ​​the Fog City, he almost got lost.

The map clearly said that the place could be reached by walking 500 meters, but he had to search for half an hour before he found the place.

The Baidu Map APP not only failed to provide navigation, but also took him to various detours.

This really cannot be blamed on the Baidu Map collectors. This kind of flat map is really unable to handle the three-dimensional orientation of Chongqing with more than ten layers.

This problem may take more than ten years to be solved in a targeted manner.

However, encountering various difficulties during the location scouting process is also a fun thing for Wu Yuan.

In this way, he and his team stayed in Chongqing for five days and almost decided on the location for filming, and asked them to negotiate with all the people in these locations and prepare to rent them.

Including a very high-tech building, an old and dilapidated slum area near the old upper city area that overlooks the entire Fog City New City, plus several wastelands on the outskirts of the city.

After renting these places, the crew of "Ready Player One" will also carry out various scene modifications for about a month to make these places more "futuristic" and cyberpunk.

After confirming the location, Wu Yuan did not stay in the foggy city, but went back home to continue to decide on other actors for "Ready Player One".

The male and female protagonists of this movie have been confirmed. The female protagonist is Liu Yifei, and this time she can play a cool role again.

The male lead has been confirmed to be Peng Yuchang. He has signed a contract with Light and Shadow Times. He will be a contracted artist of the company in the future. Maybe he will be arranged into the fairy-tale movie universe.

But this movie needs several other supporting roles.

At present, Wu Yuan has an idea in his mind.

First of all, the founder of "Oasis". As a Frankenstein, his personality is elusive.

In order to find the most suitable "Oasis" manager, he designed many thrilling and suspenseful levels and challenges for players.

Wu Yuan plans to let Chen Daoming play this role. In fact, Chen Daoming is quite suitable for playing this kind of weird Frankenstein. It is a waste of talent to always let him play the emperor.

For several adventurers in the protagonist group, Wu Yuan plans to use the company's artists directly.

Zhu Yawen, Yuan Hong and Jinsha are all very useful tools. They are more than enough to play supporting roles.

There is only one role, that is the Japanese ninja Xiu in the original film-Shoto.

This character is actually an 11-year-old kid who is brave and mature beyond his age.

He hates being looked down upon because of his age, so he behaves like an adult. Later, he joins the male lead in fighting against the IOI Corps.

It is not easy to find a child actor of similar age.

However, Wu Yuan quickly found a suitable candidate among a large number of actors collected by the company.

A child actor who has just debuted for a few years - Hu Xianxu! (End of this chapter)