Three Hundred and Twentieth Seventh Chapter Dragon Set Death

In late April, Firefly's three film projects were launched almost simultaneously, and the schedules were all set for this year's summer. This move goes against the normal release cycle of many movies. After all, many Hollywood movies in this era are usually released after a few months or more than a year after the production is completed. Therefore, many media criticize Eric Such an arrangement has been called into question.

However, Eric did not respond to these remarks, because Firefly and the seven major film companies still have very different operations.

After all, Firefly is still a lot smaller than the huge seven. For big film companies, dozens of movies have to be released a year. Of course, some movies will be repeatedly delayed due to various conflicts. Not the same.

After the merger with the new line, Robert Shea has suspended the small-cost production plan of the new line. Therefore, in the first half of the year, Firefly has only three movie distribution plans to be arranged, including "Silence of the Lambs" and "Communist with the Enemy". Sleep" and "The Ghosts Are Over".

"Instinct" is released by Universal, and Firefly doesn't have to worry about it at all, while "The Unfinished Man" is still co-published with Disney. In this case, Firefly's release pressure is less, and it is easier to operate, almost in While the film is being made, simple publicity work can begin.

By the time the film was released, the promotion had actually been going on for three months. Compared to the one-month promotion period for many movies from big film companies, Firefly's promotion is already very sufficient.

At the same time as the filming of the film, Eric's "The Matrix" with only more than 50,000 words was also quietly put on sale, and Michael Krause spent almost no effort to promote it. The book easily climbed to the top of the bestseller list.

What followed was a voice of doubt. after all. This book was written too hastily, Eric only spent more than a week of free time, and many details were considered very incomplete, more like telling a lot of specious fragments.

Therefore, many newspapers have criticized Eric's book, although it has an ingenious idea, but the details are completely shoddy, which is simply fooling readers, and some newspapers even criticized Eric for misappropriating money. for this view. Even readers who didn't like this book laughed it off. With Eric's current wealth, how could he possibly care about those insignificant royalties.

Of course, many people in Hollywood are aware of the real purpose of Eric's writing this book. Compared with the previous "Jurassic Park" and "Resident Evil", this one is obviously going for the movie, and, carefully After studying this, many people also realized the huge potential of "The Matrix" in terms of movies.

Even knowing that the chances are slim, the people who come to contact the film rights continue to continue. Even Cameron, who is preparing for "Terminator 2", has developed a strong interest in this,

Also made a special call to New York. Talked to Eric about some of his thoughts on some of the ideas in The Matrix.

Of course, Cameron didn't mention the movie copyright very interestingly in the end, and Eric didn't have the idea of ​​handing over "The Matrix" to Cameron to direct, although the idea was very tempting and interesting, but, "The Matrix" Empire is very different from Cameron's film style.

There is no shortage of thought in Cameron's films, such as the "Terminator" series, which can be said to express a strong concern about mankind's endless expansion of nuclear armaments, and "Avatar" in previous lives, which was made through Neville. The story of human beings, an alien race defending the planet Pandora, expresses a concern that humanity's endless grabbing of natural resources may eventually be violently counteracted by nature.

But, despite some thinking, Cameron's films have always pursued the most gorgeous visual effects and hottest camera scenes, and these are not the main focus of "The Matrix".

The trend of "The Matrix" is still going on. No matter what outsiders say, Eric has not been affected in any way, but the shooting of "Ghost Story" is proceeding in an orderly manner in various districts of New York.

"Stan, the god of death I need is a real god of death with a black cloak and a scythe in his hand, not a few blurred shadows, but according to what you said, the final effect is likely to be A few dark shadows."

Night has just fallen in New York. On a closed street, the crew is busy with the pre-shooting preparations. Eric is discussing something with Stan Winston, who is in charge of special effects: "By the way, when it comes to shadows, this It's a big problem, Sam has turned into a ghost, so, according to common sense, he shouldn't have a shadow in the end, nor should he have footsteps when he walks, the footsteps are easy to solve, what about the shadow?"

Stan Winston pondered for a moment and said, "This is very simple. Use shadowless lights and then adjust the light later. However, it is very troublesome to shoot like this."

"I'm not afraid of trouble, as long as I can do the details," Eric said decisively.

At this time, the scene manager in charge of the set came over and told Eric that everything had been arranged.

A few extras wrapped in blue full body tights came to Eric and Stan Winston. These people are the terrifying 'death' that appeared in the movie. However, these people not only did not have any The scary thing is that it looks kind of funny.

Stan Winston and Eric went up to personally inspect the costumes of several extras and said, "Eric, I don't think the god of death needs to be too realistic, it becomes a horror movie if it is too realistic, so a few groups The shadow is just right."

"No, Stan, I mean realistic effect, not scary effect."

"Wouldn't it be scary if the god of death was realistic?" Stan Winston asked with some competition.

Eric shrugged helplessly: "You just need to do it according to the effect I want, and I will be responsible for the rest."

Stan Winston shrugged: "Well, as you wish, it's actually related to the post-rendering, and the rendering farm in the digital field has not yet been built."

"Then borrow Pixar, they have a ready-made rendering farm, although it is used to render 3D animation, but I remember the principle is similar, you communicate with John Lasseter, if not, rent Industrial Light and Magic of."

After Eric and Stan Winston checked out several reapers, they made an ok gesture to the assistant director, and then filming started again. (To be continued..)u