Chapter 517: Meeting the First Time, and Then Suffering in the Later Stage

"Death on Earth" has been in preparation for a long time. At first, it was said that it would be launched immediately, but later Lin Xing decided to make all preparations before talking about it.

The reason is very simple. This science fiction movie has hit rock bottom. At this time, they should stop being gravediggers.

During the meeting with Sun Feng and Wei Fei, Lin Xing said that he hoped that this science fiction movie would bring some recognition to the industry and change some of the audience's opinions.

That is, although China's more than one billion people cannot form a good football team, cannot play basketball well at the moment, and even table tennis is somewhat dangerous, there is still a chance for science fiction movies.

This "Death on Earth" is the answer sheet they want to hand over.

Sun Feng has always had a dream of science fiction, otherwise he would not have insisted on filming "Death on Earth".

But like I said before, why should others pay for your dreams? ?

The most important thing as a director is not only responsible for the audience, but also often responsible for investors.

Why do so many directors go crazy? ?

Isn’t it just because my movie failed, it will be too difficult to get investors to invest in it in the future.

Of course, there are some directors who are not short of investment, so they have been sitting around with investors' money. Not only that, they also feed shit to the audience for a long time.

These naturally exist.

All birds in this circle understand.

Lin Xing can't control other people. He just wants to make "Death on Earth" as good as possible.

To this end, Lin Xing personally invited documentary director Pang Ge to make the documentary "Death on Earth".

"We may not necessarily succeed, but even if we fail, we can still bring some experience to many people..."

These are Lin Xing's original words.

Therefore, leaving aside the previous preparations, from the moment Lin Xing prepared to invest and participate in "Dead on Earth", Lin Xing asked Pongo to shoot this documentary.

As for today, it is the first [Script Seminar] for "Death on Earth".

It can be said that the conference room is already full of people.

And today is actually not just a [script seminar], but also the actors’ first meeting.

Sun Feng first said a few words, and then asked many actors to introduce them one by one.

Of course, people like Lin Xing, Wang Ruoan, Zhu Biaohai, Liu Baofeng, Guan Peng, Ren Yi, Wei Fei, Wu Qifeng and others do not need additional introduction.

They are already known to everyone.

It's mainly about young actors.

Except for Feng Qing, most of the young actors this time are really not resource actors. They were all selected by Sun Feng through a nationwide audition.

You are like Zhu Ze, who plays Lin Xing's son in the film. He is currently a student at the Imperial Film Academy. Before this, he didn't have much acting experience and had only filmed a few commercials.

In addition, there is the young actress Zhao Xiyi who has a lot of roles in the play. She is only 14 years old and also started out as a child star. Sun Feng thought her appearance was very suitable and cast her directly.

In short, many young actors are selected through auditions.

Not only did Lin Xing not take care of these unimportant characters, but Wei Fei also didn't bother to take care of them.

Except for Zhu Ze and Zhao Qianyi, who asked Lin Xing a little question, Feng Qing and others really didn't care too much.

There are not many roles, but there are occasional highlights. There are too many actors in this circle, so it would be more appropriate to audition some newcomers.

In Sun Feng's words, he just wants to consider whether it is appropriate or not.

That's why the outside world feels that the cast of "Death on Earth" is too broad.

The wide here means that this actor is really too mixed.

But there are no traffic actors.

There are really no traffic actors.

The outside world's expectations for "Death on Earth" have been slightly increased. This is because everyone is looking forward to this cast.

Do all the members have acting skills? ?

Except for Feng Qing, after all, Feng Qing is quite well-known now. He gained some popularity due to his participation in variety shows. Later, with the support of his peers, his acting skills improved a bit.

After all, Feng Qing was crushed by a group of veteran drama stars in "Anti-Gangster". Later, Situ Hui learned the wisdom and asked Feng Qing to act in a daily life drama. After all, this does not require acting skills, and more importantly, Young artists may not have the same acting skills as Feng Qing.

It will take a few years of practice.

And this time, Situ Hui originally thought that it would be okay to let Feng Qing come to the crew to practice, but when she learned that there were so many actors coming to act, her first reaction was: "How about forgetting it."

In response to this, Lin Xing shook his head and said: "Feng Qing's acting skills have improved to a certain extent, and there are many actors used this time. Sister Hui, why don't you also come as the performance coach, and you can also accompany Feng Qing."

Just like that, Lin Xing brought Situ Hui over, along with Feng Wei.

Today's discussion of "Death on Earth" was intense outside, but at the same time, everyone in the conference room was also a little excited.

As of now, this sci-fi movie is at least not a con crew.

That's right.

In fact, even Wang Ruoan was a little worried at the beginning. Even Zhu Biaohai had not filmed for a long time. He did not expect that he would be invited to film.

Not to mention Liu Baofeng. Liu Baofeng first acted in comedies and then dramas, but this is his first time in science fiction.

Needless to say about the others, most of them were begged by Lin Xing.

Sun Feng begged for part of it, Lin Xing begged for part of it, and then we have the current team.

At present, the screenwriter team of "Death on Earth" is still very strong, and this is all brought in by Sun Feng's begging.

Not only that, Sun Feng also specially invited several professors from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to serve as the consulting team.

After all, this science fiction movie must be true, especially during this period, the screenwriters directly wrote the timeline.

Let's put it this way, this "Death on Earth" makes the timeline more three-dimensional based on the original work.

Because every time node is crucial.

Today's [Script Seminar] is actually mainly about discussing these nodes.

Because according to the original work, the span of this drama is actually very large.

Take Wu Ziqiang played by Lin Xing for example. He was a young man when he first appeared, and then he married, had children, and went to the International Space Station to perform the navigation mission.

And this time has been more than ten years, and his son has grown up.

By the way.

Wu Ziqiang's character is that his parents are both Chinese pilots, but both died while performing missions, and he was raised by his father's friend Wang Ning.

It can be said that Wang Ning is Wu Ziqiang's master, and Wang Ning even regards Wu Ziqiang as his own child.     The role of Wang Ning is played by Guan Peng.

"Although "Death on Earth" has less than 500,000 words, the time span of the original work is very large. Many times, a sentence has several scenes in the script..."

After many actors were introduced, Sun Feng said: "At the beginning, we wanted to shoot the first "Mountain Moving Plan". Originally, Lao Wu and I were one-on-one to make up according to the timeline in the original work. At that time, I was thinking about starting the filming as soon as possible..."

Today is a free speech.

As a director, Sun Feng is naturally not the first time to meet everyone. He has met them all. For example, Wang Ruoan was also the one Sun Feng wanted to invite at the beginning, and Zhu Biaohai and Liu Baofeng were more favored by Sun Feng.

But Sun Feng himself didn't have much hope, after all, Wang Ruo'an was not easy to invite, and Zhu Biaohai and Liu Baofeng were even harder to invite.

Fortunately, everything was invited.

More importantly, Lin Xing gave Sun Feng a heart-saving pill, that is, there is no rush to shoot "Death on Earth", because as long as it is shot, it will be a big loss if it stops at that time.

For this reason, it is better to shoot a few months less to do the preliminary work well.

Especially for science fiction movies, it is necessary to take all the conveniences into consideration.

Therefore, during this period, Sun Feng led the screenwriter team to rewrite the chronicle of "Death on Earth", and also the world view, which has been written for 500,000 words.

That's right.

The world view alone is almost the same as a novel.

Everything is for rigor.

Sun Feng roughly talked about the situation, and then it was the turn of the actors to speak.

Zhu Biaohai's health was not very good, so he was the first to speak at the [Script Seminar]: "I have read the original and script of "Death on Earth" in this section. I think my role is very powerful, and I hope he can be more three-dimensional..."

This is a real actor. A real good actor can know what is going on when reading the script, especially the understanding of his role.

The character played by Zhu Biaohai is called Meng Qinghai, who is the representative of China in the United Government and a firm believer in the "Mountain Moving Plan".

In "Death on Earth", there are actually several factions. One faction is the Mountain Moving Plan, which is advocated by our side.

There are also three plans: the Ark Plan, the Moon Plan, and the Digital Life Plan.

In the script, the Digital Life Faction is more divided from the government. At the same time, when the United Government is facing rebellion and marches, they think that the US's "Ark Plan" is better.

At this time, it was still Meng Qinghai who firmly convinced everyone and continued to advocate the Mountain Moving Plan.

It can be said that one of the three lines of "Death on Earth" is the Meng Qinghai line, and this line is also crucial.

After Zhu Biaohai briefly expressed his feelings, Wang Ruoan, Guan Peng, and Liu Baofeng also spoke one after another.

Lin Xing said: "I think my role can be reduced a little bit..."

This made everyone slightly stunned.

You know, Lin Xing is the absolute male lead in "Death on Earth", so it is not surprising that he has more roles.

The second is naturally Wang Ruoan, who has the second most roles, and even Wang Ruoan can be regarded as the leading actor.

The third is Zhu Biaohai.

These three people belong to the three lines of "Death on Earth", and the others are just supporting roles.

"I mean the love scenes..."

Lin Xing looked at everyone and said: "The love scenes between me and Chen Ning are too dragged out, and they can be appropriately cut. In addition, Chen Ning should have more fighting scenes. She is also an astronaut, so she should be very powerful. I think Chen Ning should have more roles when the space elevator is in crisis..."

This [script discussion] is originally to discuss the issue of roles.

To be honest, Lin Xing reduced his role to give it to Chen Ning, and everyone had no objection to this.

On the contrary, everyone who had not worked with Lin Xing was a little surprised.

Everyone had only seen people who added scenes, but had never seen people who took the initiative to reduce scenes.

In the next hour, everyone mainly discussed the role issues. At the same time, the lines were not read yet. The main thing was to get to know each other first, and then deepen the impression of the whole movie.

After 1 hour, the [Script Seminar] ended.

"Brother Xing, thank you..."

Chen Ning looked at Lin Xing and said from the bottom of her heart.

She was a young actress. She felt that she was lucky to get such an opportunity to play the leading role. During the [Script Seminar], her speech was quite conventional and she didn't dare to say too much.

When Lin Xing said that he wanted to reduce some of the emotional scenes with her, Chen Ning's first reaction was that her role might be reduced.

But she had long been accustomed to being reduced in various scenes in the crew, so she was not too disappointed.

Being able to star in "Death on Earth" was already a blessing in itself.

But Chen Ning never expected that Lin Xing would not reduce her scenes, but on the contrary increase her scenes.

No wonder Lin Xing asked her to practice martial arts as much as possible, saying that there would be some fighting scenes.

So this is how it is.

"Don't thank me, it's all for the movie."

Lin Xing waved his hand slightly and said, "Go back and read the script carefully. If there is anything you don't understand, bring it up at the [Script Seminar] tomorrow..."

Chen Ning said hurriedly, "Okay, I got it."

As soon as Chen Ning left, Yang Tian came over and asked, "Axing, can I have more scenes?"

You know, Yang Tian found out that he was just a cameo, and he finished filming in just one scene, and the scene was only a few dozen seconds.

This guest appearance is too simple.

"Your role is like this, and Sister Tian, ​​don't worry, although your role is not big, the audience will definitely remember you..."

Lin Xing smiled and said what Yang Tian cared about the most, and he also said: "Next, the most important thing for you is the promotion of "Parallel Cohabitation". This movie is what you should care about, after all, it will be released soon."

Yang Tian nodded gently: "I know this, but Ah Xing, it's only a few days, will it be in time for post-production by then?"

"It's in time. Recently, the post-production has been working overtime. At present, we can only suffer the post-production first."

Lin Xing nodded gently.

In the next few days, many artists still came to participate in the [Script Discussion] every day, because Lin Xing had already greeted everyone, and this [Script Discussion] was also counted as the start of filming.

Everything is for the movie.

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……(End of this chapter)