Chapter 553 Bond Girl

By August, Fan Bingbing had finished filming the first season of "Succession".

Generally, the production cycle of each episode of American TV series is 7-14 days. The first season of "Succession" has a total of 10 episodes, which takes about three months to shoot.

However, the role of "stepmother" played by Fan Bingbing was not the protagonist in the first season, but only a supporting role with a little drama, so she was able to complete her part of the filming early.

In fact, "Succession" did not follow the filming process of many American TV series.

How are most American TV series produced?

Generally speaking, most American TV series are created by screenwriters, but some American TV series are also discovered by producers - in the United States, producers are the largest in the television industry, and many producers are screenwriters.

Even many times, the status of directors is not as high as that of screenwriters. On average, a complete American TV series has 15-18 screenwriters. The screenwriters of sitcoms change faster than those of dramas, because each screenwriter has limited jokes, and directors usually change every few episodes.

Generally speaking, the first step of American TV series comes from the recommendation of screenwriters to producers or film and television companies.

When a screenwriter has a good idea or a good script, he will first persuade the producer or film and television company. When the other party thinks that the script is promising, they will start to work together on the idea or script. The next step is to recommend it to the TV station.

If the TV station is also interested, they will buy the script (most of them buy the first episode of the script), wait until the first episode is filmed, and then give it to the TV station for a small-scale preview, and finally decide whether the TV series will be included in the broadcast list for the next year...

It can be said that there are countless new drama ideas every year, and the TV station will screen them layer by layer to determine the final small-scale list for trial shooting, and then give each TV series a trial and error cost of 50,000 to 500,000 US dollars. In the final product, they will choose the TV series that they will buy all the scripts for filming. This is the usual process for those TV stations in the United States to broadcast American dramas.

"Succession" is completely different. Its filming is directly decided by the TV drama production department of Marvel-MGM Group-or, it is directly decided by the behind-the-scenes boss Barron.

Therefore, there is no need to go through the screening of the TV station at all, and the quality of the TV series only needs to be controlled by the group.

Moreover, "Succession" will not be a mode of filming and broadcasting at the same time, but will be filmed directly in the first season of 10 episodes. Anyway, for Barron, there will be no shortage of broadcast platforms for this TV series. Whether it is the TV station under the Sinclair Group or Netflix in the United States, or ITV and DailyVedio in the UK, they are enough to ensure that this series will be delivered to the audience.

After filming "Succession", Fan Bingbing began to "come back" and appeared in front of the public.

She took a private plane directly back to China - the Gulfstream G450 that Barron bought first is now used very rarely, and she will be allowed to use it temporarily.

This also made it convenient for Fan Bingbing to return to China with her two children, Andy and Bell. In Yanjing, they lived in a low-key courtyard house near the Summer Palace, which was very well renovated.

The first event that Fan Bingbing appeared in was the Huabiao Award ceremony in August. At this award ceremony, Fan Bingbing appeared on the red carpet in a gorgeous dress, which naturally caused a sensation in the media.

You know, this actress who was previously considered the "top star in China" has "disappeared" for a year...

It's not that she has completely disappeared. During this period, there have been occasional news about Fan Bingbing. According to Fan Bingbing's studio, Fan Bingbing went to the United States for further studies and will return to China soon.

On Fan Bingbing's personal blog and her Woaw personal page, some photos of her in Los Angeles are updated from time to time - of course, the angles of those photos are very professional and will not show her body shape...

Her latest news is that she participated in the filming of an American TV series, but she did not introduce it in detail.

When interviewed by reporters, Fan Bingbing thanked everyone for their concern for her, and said that studying in Los Angeles made her realize many of her previous shortcomings, and she will soon join the crew for filming. As for which movie it is, she did not say it directly, but said that she would keep it secret for the time being.

The most interesting thing is that Fan Bingbing presented the Best Actress award at the Huabiao Awards ceremony, and the winner was Li Bingbing, another "ice" among the "Four Dan and Two Bing"...

She won the Huabiao Awards for "The Clouds and Water Ballads".

And this scene also became the cover photo of many media reports afterwards.

Just when the public was talking about Fan Bingbing's return to the domestic entertainment industry, a piece of news soon came out and ignited the topic.

Marvel-MGM Group announced that it will soon start filming a new 007 series movie - "007: Quantum of Solace".

"Casino Royale", which was just released last year, has achieved unprecedented success in both word of mouth and box office. The total global box office of this movie reached 616 million US dollars, ranking fourth in the global movie box office list in 2006.

So Marvel-MGM Group decided to launch its sequel "007: Quantum of Solace". Unlike the previous film, this film will be produced independently by MGM Pictures instead of cooperating with Sony Pictures.

"007: Quantum of Solace" can indeed be called the sequel to "007: Casino Royale", because the plot of "007: Quantum of Solace" begins one hour after the end of "007: Casino Royale", which is the first time that the 007 series has two truly closely connected films.

This is because there are some clues in "007: Casino Royale", and these clues have not been answered at the end of the film, so the screenwriter continued the story content.

This film will still be starred by Daniel Craig, who played 007 in the previous film - in the previous 007 film, Daniel's style is very different from that of 007 in the past, and he has been accepted and affirmed by the audience.

Chinese journalists discovered that Fan Bingbing's name appeared in the cast announced by MGM Pictures. She will play Fields Fan, a British MI6 agent, in this film, and is considered the second "Bond girl" in this episode.

So far, Fan Bingbing has become the first Chinese "Bond girl".

The first Chinese actor to appear in a 007 movie was Zhou Caiqin, a Chinese actor in "You Only Live Twice" in 1967. Later, other actors who appeared in the 007 series include Yuan Qiu, the "landlady" in her youth, and Michelle Yeoh, a Chinese actor who married a Jew...

Yuan Qiu had too few roles in that 007 movie and didn't even have any lines, so she couldn't be considered a "Bond girl". The other two can only be said to be Chinese, so Fan Bingbing's appearance in the 007 series this time was quite a sensation.