Chapter 778
A drama involving many human cooperation is not a simple task to shoot.
Think about it, when you are a group leader at the age of studying, you will manage the homework of less than 12 or 3 people. Not to mention that the crew of "Iron Man" will have an average of no less than 300 filming team members, and there will be about 100 actors with a little bit of scenes. At most, add extras, and how troublesome it will be to the entire crew reach a scale of thousands of people.
For this reason, the producer team also has more staff than the average project.
Black, who has finished his job in "Juno", has the most common associate and screenwriter Ryan, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, Craun, the CAA representative, Gatman, the actors union representative, and Lehman, who is named as the general producer and director, and almost half of Firefly's core team have joined the crew.
These people have experience organizing on set.
Lehman communicates with them first, they communicate with employees of the department below, and then get familiar with each other during the running-in to complete the specific shooting matters.
Scheduling, food and accommodation, and personnel expenses are the focus of the crew's daily busyness. Even the big budget for "Iron Man" is on this, followed by the special effects of burning money. The actor's pay in the face of such a big drama is not considered a heavy expenditure.
A large-scale commercial film is basically a team work with a meticulous division of labor.
Fortunately, Hollywood is used to such flow management and has great experience in dealing with it.
"Financial personnel must strictly control the flow of budgets. Any purchasing work must be handled according to the process and the accounts must be reviewed at any time."
Lehman repeatedly made strict instructions, and what he was afraid of was that the crew was not involved in the system and made money by making mistakes because many people who were not in the system joined, such as a straw hat that cost thousands of yuan, a beggar pretending to cost tens of thousands of yuan, and other obviously unreasonable things to treat investors as stupid people. This is not impossible.
Do some people always want to make quick money?
Anyway, if he was caught, he would know what a capital society was. He was capitalized and transformed by a lawyer to see how much money he had to pay.
The heads of various departments gathered together to discuss various matters before the start of the filming. In the dressing room, Robert Downey Jr. changed his clothes, and applied some powder on his face, and chatted with his agent and Susan about public relations.
Susan is actually a woman with quite a lot of experience on the set. Lehman spoke and asked her to take the job of communicating with vehicles.
Is it a waste to keep such manpower alone? Anyway, this person is also very professional.
As for image public relations, it is not that Lehman is kind-hearted, but that the movie has entered the promotional period. He is the starring actor, so the audience cannot still remember the "glorious" deeds of being caught with speeding.
At this time, because the main creator is confidential, the public does not know the specific situation of "Iron Man", but only knows that Marvel seems to be going to make a movie, and even who the director is not clear.
This is also to create a mystery and arouse public curiosity.
When the film is finished, Robert Downey Jr. will appear in several interview programs with the support of Fireflies and Warner, and then increase media exposure, focus on the "prodigal son's return" route, and let the public supervise his behavior.
If he really quit, this is the best way to restore his image, and he can even link with Tony Stark to play a publicity role of 1+1 greater than 2.
Paramount did this in the original time and space, and Downey was indeed no longer ridiculous, so he completed the rebirth of an actor.
As long as he doesn't give up on himself and gives him the opportunity to seize it, returning to the mainstream screen is not a big problem.
Because Hollywood is quite tolerant of this aspect, a popular singer who became popular with online traffic has more troubles. He can even urinate on the street and urinate on the street without affecting his career.
In a capital society, it’s good to prove that it is valuable.
After Donnie gained muscle, he also thought about the role hard and kept his anger in his heart.
Treat every staff member politely regardless of their status.
He really cherished this opportunity.
Maybe it was because I had it and lost it, that I developed a similar mentality.
Lehman reminded the actors to act against each other.
Among them, Samuel Jackson is the one who works the most, who is the most unrestrained among the actors who get along with Lehman.
Anyone who knows Lehman knows that this director is not a person who likes to show off his airs. This time, he heard that Director Lehman had a role looking for him and didn't even pay attention to the role, so he took it.
It was only when I finished reading the script that I felt a little confused.
Damn, he only had a few lines and a scene that said it was a character, but it was more like a guest appearance in a friendly manner, but when Lehman invited him, he didn't say it was a guest appearance, and he was a little surprised.
Is the result?...Ahem. His role is like this-
Tony Stark entered the room, a stranger in black stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with his back to him: "Do you think you are the only superhero in the world? We are just a small part of the vast universe, but you know nothing about it. I am Nick Fury, the commander of SHIELD, and I am here to talk to you about the Avengers..."
Yes, he didn't show his face at the beginning, and he even pretended to say the lines to others. Halfway through the scene storyboard of the script, he turned around and said calmly in Tony Stark's guard...
After getting the role, Jackson's first reaction was that he didn't know what was going on.
After talking about so much, it seems that there is no effect on establishing his image. I mentioned S.H.I.E.L.D. However, the power of S.H.E.L.D. in "Iron Man", it seems that there is no role. And what role does his role in the plot and how to act makes Jackson confused.
There are too few key points to give, so I don’t know how to play.
This is the character that actors are most afraid of meeting with insufficient background and no performance space...
"Director Lehman, my role?"
Seeing someone coming, Jackson quickly asked for help.
In fact, he really doesn't know what he is going to do when he appears. Could it be that he just shows his face, the kind that takes one or two seconds?
If he is a guest appearance, he can actually not have a paycheck. Anyway, he will take time to come and go to the formalities to deepen his relationship? He is still very willing to do this little thing.
At this time, he tactfully revealed similar ideas.
Lehman smiled.
He still attaches great importance to the role of Nick Fury.
Although he is a soy sauce character in "Iron Man", his appearance is just a small easter egg to attract the Hulk...... I have initially established a linkage character foundation, and lead the plane with points (independent works of each superhero) (established by Avengers).
But in addition to this, in terms of TV series, Nick Fury and Hell Kitchen will be the two adaptation directions that will focus on in advance, and we need to focus on digging.
In other words, in Lyman's vision, although Samuel Jackson played a screw connecting the past and the future in film planning, and had few roles, the key was that he could make great achievements in the field of TV dramas and become one of the top characters.
After taking over Marvel, Lehman has made many comics and has a more flexible mindset.
In May 1963, Nick Fury's image debuted in the chapter "Sergeant Fury and the Roaring Commando".
The comic's mouth-wrenching name comes from Stan Lee's bet with then-Marvel Chairman Goodman: No matter how bad the title is, there is a way to make it sell.
In fact, this comic is indeed very successful.
The background of the Roaring Commando is a special operations squad active during World War II, with Director Nick Fury (the comics are white faces, but Jackson is more suitable to play) being the captain of this squad.
The members of the commando come from all over the world: southern Americans, blacks, Italian Americans, Jews, British, Japanese Americans, and surrendered Germans.
Such a team consisting of different races and different skin colors is quite rare, breaking many conventions: the Jews in the team are the first well-documented Jewish superhero in history, and the comics also have a positive image of minorities such as blacks.
In the same year, attorney Jin and the benchmark black man Martin Luther King delivered a famous anti-discrimination speech "I Have a Dream". At this time, the comic has been released for three months, and the sales are OK and it can be profitable.
Furthermore, "Iron Man" has mentioned SHIELD. If you don't take advantage of the popularity of shooting SHIELD's benchmark character, mom, and use TV series to deepen the audience's impression, expand the popularity of the characters to form linkage, you will not be a qualified filmmaker with forward-looking vision.
In the setting, Director Fury would be injured by a landmine during an operation and his life was in danger, so the government also allowed him to participate in the Super Soldier Project.
The effect of super serum not only allowed him to completely heal, but also obtained an extraordinary physical fitness and a body that would not age.
But unlike Captain America's "Super Soldier" serum, the director's degree of integration is lower.
In Marvel's existing comic worldview, the director is equivalent to a weakened Captain America, but he is more experienced in overall situation, command and organizational skills. In other words, he is a natural leader.
More importantly, Lehmann has seen Marvel's past cooperation business before discovering that in the early 1990s, when Goodman was in charge of the overall situation, a very popular arcade "The Punisher", Marvel provided the copyright image-
This game has only two characters and is bound to the main and secondary joysticks.
The main operating lever is the punishment, while the secondary operating lever operates the one-eyed dragon wearing green overalls and always holding a pipe in his mouth is the young Nick Fury.
At that time, Lehman felt that the character of Director Fury could not be a supporting role in promoting the plot in a simple popcorn movie.
The world view created by "Sergeant Fury and Roaring Commando" is just in line with "Captain America", and its popularity should be the best in the third line. With some resources and media promotion, it is still very nice to shoot a TV series to deepen the breadth of Marvel.
A role that does not tempt the flames and follows the development of a flawed era, and does not bow to the incorrect mainstream, which does not respond to the political trend at this time—
Well, the election year is coming soon, and the politician with a black and white heart will come to power, setting off a more correct black trend in Hollywood.
In terms of the times, Director Fury is simply the most suitable role adaptation project.
Lehmann is not the Marvel management who was forced to prolong his life. How to expand Marvel's value is he standing higher and farther.
Chapter completed!