Chapter 79: "Pirates of the Caribbean" Starts Filming!

October 8, Los Angeles, sunny.

The transoceanic flight that Wu Yuan took was delayed for more than an hour and landed at Los Angeles International Airport.

This time, it was no longer John who came to pick him up, but the staff of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" crew.

"Director, the actors are all here. We will take the final makeup photos tomorrow and start the official shooting on the 13th!"

Listening to the progress report of the staff, Wu Yuan nodded without any opinion.

For him, the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" was just a side job, plus a chicken to lay eggs to cultivate his own crew.

Thinking of this, Wu Yuan, who was resting in the car with his eyes closed, opened his eyes: "Have all the Chinese staff sent a few days ago been arranged?"

"The overall planning has been arranged, and they are all working with the crew as assistants." The staff immediately introduced.

Wu Yuan nodded and said nothing.

Jerry was still on guard against him after all.

Although Jerry promised Wu Yuan that he could bring people into the crew to learn, he had to join the crew after the crew officially started shooting, which means he could only join the crew with Wu Yuan.

Wu Yuan's people were not allowed to participate in the early preparations of the crew, including the creation and arrangement of props and scenes, the preliminary preparation and production of special effects, and the design and customization of costumes.

Because these things involve the entire Hollywood film industry system. Without the various art teams, clothing factories, and industrial props departments that serve big-budget movies, it is impossible to do all of this.

Jerry is not afraid that Wu Yuan will send people to learn how the Hollywood crew works on the scene, how to reasonably allocate positions, and how to run the crew in a more streamlined manner, but he is limited to letting him learn these.

More things cannot be taught by paying a little tuition.

Fortunately, Wu Yuan did not have the idea of ​​learning the Hollywood system. These things cannot be learned by more than 20 people.

He really just wanted to train an elite crew that can catch up with the level of Hollywood.

As for the industrialization and systematization of domestic films, it will take at least ten years to start promoting it. It is impossible to think about flying before learning to walk.

The domestic staff sent to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" crew this time are a group of young people selected by Wu Yuan from Beijing Film Studio, Qing Film Studio, and Xi Film Studio.

With the top brass pushing for private capital to enter the film industry, the first to be affected were the major state-owned film studios in China.

Although it is not as serious as the layoffs in state-owned enterprises in the 1980s and 1990s, it is certain that the major state-owned studios will go downhill.

In this case, it is not too easy for Wu Yuan to recruit a group of people to form his own crew!

As a well-known domestic and even international director whose fame is second only to Zhang, Chen, and Jiang, Wu Yuan's name is the biggest attraction.

Even though his company "Light and Shadow Era" is just an empty shell for the time being, he easily signed contracts with more than 20 crew members, and signed them for five years.

Yes, the shell company established by Wu Yuan in China has finally begun to be formalized.

This company called "Light and Shadow Era" was first established when "The Night the Comet Came" was released, in order to facilitate the public account and settle accounts with China Film.

For a long time afterwards, this company even borrowed the financial affairs of China Film, and there was no permanent employee.

However, in the past few months since Wu Yuan returned to China, he has finally built up the skeleton of this company while taking a break.

Not only has he found qualified financial and cashier personnel, but the company now has more than 20 employees.

All the staff sent to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" crew are employees of Light and Shadow Times, and they will work specifically for the films produced by Light and Shadow Times in the future.

Of course, for the time being, this company will only participate in Wu Yuan's own film investment work. In fact, they work for Wu Yuan alone, and their nature is similar to Zhang Yimou's studio.

Even so, we have to wait until the policy is officially implemented next year before Light and Shadow Times is eligible to participate in film production and distribution.

Wu Yuan and these more than 20 employees are not in a hurry. It is estimated that the completion of "Pirates of the Caribbean" will have to wait until February or March next year.

Even if Wu Yuan has to shoot a new movie next year, it will be in the second half of the year.

After resting for a night to adjust to the time difference, the next day, Wu Yuan, led by the assistant assigned to him by Jerry, came to the shooting location of the final makeup photos of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

As soon as he entered the studio, Wu Yuan saw Johnny Depp in his classic "Jack Sparrow" costume, holding a gun in one hand and a bayonet in the other, smiling broadly.

"Hey, Depp, your four gold teeth are so cool!" Wu Yuan praised generously.

He was really moved by Johnny Depp's dedication. In order to make the character more in line with the image of a "pirate", he specially asked a dentist to inlay four gold teeth for him, one 14K gold, one 18K gold, one 22K gold, and the last one was made of platinum.

This is really pulling out four teeth and then inlaying gold teeth!

Just based on this dedicated attitude, Johnny Depp is definitely qualified to become the soul of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series!

Depp naturally knows Wu Yuan.

Although Wu Yuan has not been in the United States for a long time, no one in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" crew does not know this chief director.

Huang Bo said it well, when you are famous, you are surrounded by good people.

Now Wu Yuan is no longer a small director in Hollywood. Although he has not had any movies released in the United States since "Juno", he has won many awards!

The crew is looking forward to this Berlin Best Director and Oscar Best Director nominee to lead the crew.

"Daniel, you are finally here." Although Depp is a little introverted and shy, he still took the initiative to hug Wu Yuan: "If you don't come again, Jerry will be very anxious."

Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, who were also taking makeup photos, also came up to greet Wu Yuan.

The elf prince is still so handsome, and the British rose is at the most beautiful age.

Especially KK, who was wearing a 17th-century European corset dress, it was so turbulent!

When hugging each other, Wu Yuan clearly felt the pressure on his chest.

The actors and the director had held many video conferences before to discuss the details of the script.

So although Wu Yuan met them offline for the first time, they were not unfamiliar with each other.

"Seeing your looks, I believe our movie will be a big hit!" Wu Yuan smiled and praised: "You are just like walking out of the script."

"I hope so." Depp shrugged, and Orlando said helplessly: "No pirate movie has ever been a big hit. I hope we can break this curse."

"Yes!" Wu Yuan nodded firmly.

As a director, he needs to give the actors confidence. How can he give up before the battle?

As a person with future memories, he also knows what kind of results this movie will eventually achieve, so Wu Yuan is really confident at this moment.

His confident look easily infected the actors, and everyone became full of confidence!

The next day, the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean 1" announced the official start of real shooting in beautiful Los Angeles!