Chapter 647 [Movie Casting, Face-changing Master]
In the parallel world, "Dallas Buyer Club" won six Oscar nominations and two performance awards. However, before its release, the film was almost ignored and was completely unpopular.
The film was produced by Focus Film Company. The two most famous films in the company are "Brokeback Mountain" and "Lust and Caution", both directed by Ang Lee. The company was founded in 1991 and started with an affordable production of Ang Lee's first film "Pushing Hand".
"Dallas Buyer Club" is not only difficult to produce, but also the crew is particularly poor. Due to the limited cost, the filming cycle of the film has to be compressed in just 25 days, and the crew time, funds and equipment are very tight.
Clegg Bowden found the Focus Film Company and wanted to seek cooperation, and hoped that Ang Lee would be the director. The film Ang Lee was going to shoot was "The Fantasy Drift of Pi", and he was not interested in this movie.
"It happened that Liang Kun came to visit Ang Lee and read the script by the way, expressing his interest.
Bowden was flattered. He spent a lot of effort to visit Ang Lee, and it was even more surprising to meet Liang Kun. Liang Kun is now one of the top commercial directors in Hollywood, and he is not something he can see at all. His movie is obviously not a commercial movie.
Ang Lee asked with a smile: "Do you have time to shoot this movie? I heard you are going to shoot another superhero movie soon."
"I have time, because I can finish filming this drama within a month. Choose the actors and make them familiar with the script and prepare for it. The filming will be done soon. I like this story very much. There are similar things in China and have been on the news."
Liang Kun is an actor and will not make small-cost movies after his value increases. However, as a director, he has a higher degree of freedom. It is normal for a big director to make a low-cost movie in order to win awards. Directors with artistic pursuits will receive higher evaluations.
Those who won the Oscar nomination for Best Director’s Award generally make movies that are not big-name, and the judges do not like commercial films.
Liang Kun made this movie in the United States and wrote a similar script in China in the future, which would be reasonable for Yingyi Entertainment to shoot. With his current status, if he did not shoot this movie, he would directly make a movie "I Am Not a God of Medicine" in China, there would be great controversy.
He will definitely get investment when he comes forward. The original cost is only 5.5 million US dollars, mainly due to the pay of several actors.
This film has no special effects, the shooting cycle is short, and the only difficulty is the male protagonist's weight.
Christian Bale is not convenient for him to play this role because he is too expensive. He is currently at the peak of his career. "The Dark Knight Rises" will be released next year. His pay is the highest in the crew. This year, Bale participated in the Chinese film "The Flowers of War" and the pay is said to be 100 million yuan, which is all the friendship price. He only took it if he likes the script.
Matthew McConaughey is much cheaper and hasn't had a good work for many years. His last movie that made the lead role a big box office hit was the 2003 "Ten Day Dating Manual".
Matthew is a hard-working actor. In order to play the role of this terminally ill addict, he frantically lost more than 40 pounds of weight, almost losing weight beyond recognition.
It is said that for four months, Matthew only had two boiled egg whites every day, a small piece of chicken, a small spoonful of tapioca flour and two cups of diet coke. Later, he said in an interview: "I lost my hunger strike and occasionally I got emotionally out of control, but that hungry feeling purified my spirit and helped me eventually enter the world of Ron Woodruff."
Liang Kun can easily reduce his weight with a body adjuster, but this is a prototype character and it is impossible to change it to a Chinese actor to star in it, otherwise he can strive for the Oscar for Best Actor again.
Having agreed to make a drama film, Liang Kun started to work on the movie "Wonder Woman" again.
Because DC movies are profitable and have to compete with Marvel, Warner's work efficiency has improved. Soon they made preparations and started casting for the crew.
The casting location was in Los Angeles instead of New York, and Liang Kun didn't have to fly back and forth between two cities, so he attended the audition on time.
Wonder Woman still chose Gal Gadot. In order to act, she decided to have children with her husband later. The girl born in 1985 got married very early and got married in 2008.
She has the red mission to win this role and the red mission to become an international female star. Liang Kun took it all, and as long as she chose her, she can complete it in the future.
While filming "Body of Steel", Gado auditioned for Foora. Liang Kun chose Cobbie Smodes. Gado thought Liang Kun didn't like her, but he didn't expect that the heroine audition was successful.
The important reason why Liang Kun didn't consider her was that she had to play Wonder Woman and play the villain in advance, so the big role had to be replaced.
During the break, Luo Wen asked with a smile: "Are you sure you want to choose her? Although she has a heroic spirit, her breasts are too small and do not match the image of the comics, and many movie fans may be dissatisfied."
Liang Kun said seriously: "This is why I chose her. Small breasts seem more feminist. Moreover, Wonder Woman's new armor can make up for this flaw. She has long legs."
Luo Wen nodded with a smile. Gadot's legs are really long. In the comics, Wonder Woman is 183CM tall, Gadot 175CM plus special high-heeled boots are almost the same.
Why not find a taller actress to play? Because she is not good enough. Adrene Palic, who is 180cm tall, came to audition for this role. Liang Kun didn't like her, and she was too stout.
She starred in the pilot episode of the DC TV series "Wonder Woman" this year, and was cut in one episode. The heroine chased an ordinary person at the beginning, ran for more than a minute but couldn't catch up with her, and was hit by a car. The heroine was so weak that she was destined to be cut in two minutes.
Gadot has another huge advantage, which is that her pay is super low, and she can handle it with a $300,000 USD. Chris Evans was also worth this when she was in the Marvel drama "Captain America".
Liang Kun did not choose Chris Pine as the male lead, but chose Ryan Gosling. Gosling's acting skills are better than Pine. He was nominated for the Oscar winner as early as 2006. He has not had a box office hit in recent years, and his pay is lower than Pine.
Gosling has an orange task to win a role and wants to prove that he can withstand the box office. Although he is a normal career now, he will be a male star who can reach the front line in a few years.
His 2015 "Big Short" has a good reputation and has 5 nominations for Oscars. In 2016, "La La Land" has a huge box office reputation, with 14 Oscar nominations, and he won the Golden Ball Best Actress Award.
Gosling plays Steve, and the crew will definitely make a profit. Pine has a low cost performance and is the leading actor in "Star Trek". But he is not good at acting. He has low combat power in the film and can't tell any acting skills.
Liang Kun made the decision to choose an American actress born in 1979 to play Queen Hippolyta, named Blana Brown. This is a blonde beauty with a height of 170cm and she can't become famous no matter how she has never played an important role in a TV series and has been a supporting role in American dramas for a long time.
As long as she gets the role of Hippolyta and sneaks into DC blockbusters, she can complete a red mission. Her requirements are so low that she basically has no chance to act in a movie.
There are many scenes in "Dr. Elizabeth Pill". Liang Kun chose the Australian actress Melissa George, who was born in 1976, to have an orange mission.
Melissa has excellent acting skills and has starred in many thrillers. She is known as the "Queen of Thriller". But she has never been popular. In 2009, she starred in the famous suspense thriller "Horror Cruise" with a good reputation, with a box office of less than 1 million US dollars.
General Rudendolph is starring Danny Houston, an old actor with a height of 188cm. He has a low pay and no task.
When the villain "Aris" turned into Sir Patrick, he didn't have many scenes, so anyone could act. Liang Kun chose someone with an orange mission to play, Mark Strong, who is 188cm tall.
DC's casting director likes Mark very much. In the parallel world, he played the famous villain Tal Senisto in "Green Lantern". Unfortunately, this Green Lantern's nemesis is just a supporting role in the movie, and there is no sequel after filming.
Apart from these people, there are no important roles, and there are very few scenes. Even so, Liang Kun has orange tasks to do, just choose a few people.
Liang Kun is so famous now that the movies made by directors are very high in box office. Many ordinary actors who are not popular want to become familiar with their movies. They do not want to become big-name stars, but can slightly increase their popularity and be satisfied with a stable job.
A few days later, the actors officially signed the contract, and Liang Kun completed two red tasks and five orange tasks.
The rewards for the two red tasks are lifespan +5 and advanced recovery potion +1.
The Orange Mission has three stamina potions, and the actors all attach great importance to their image. One is an intermediate recovery potion and one is a permanent prop.
The red mission hasn't released permanent props for a long time. The orange mission has recently released two. The body shaping suit has a good effect, and now another "face change master" has been released.
The function of this prop is to disguise, not as simple as Liang Kun wearing a wig or a fake beard. A mask is connected to the system, Liang Kun can set the face and then become that way, ensuring that no one can recognize it.
The body adjuster is to adjust his figure, which is like a face-pinching game, both men and women. After using the mask, it completely covers the skin and has a small button on the right ear to take off the mask.
This thing looks like the electronic mask worn by Black Widow in "Captain America 2". Now Liang Kun has a black technology mask in his hand, which can also work with characteristics. He will not show his true face when he wears a mask to change his face, and he will increase his mysterious charm without showing his true face.
If Liang Kun is willing, he can change Zhang Shuai's face to play the Elf King, but he does not plan to act with a mask. It's not his face, so it doesn't make any sense to act well. Moreover, he is not sure whether he can express his expressions freely after using the mask. Maybe his appearance can change, and he will be a "face paralysis".
The biggest function of this prop is that he can go out to the streets freely and will not be recognized by fans when he changes his face.
He is not the only one who can use the mask. If your girlfriend wants to change her face, you can also try it...
Chapter completed!