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"Wan Xiaohu's most expensive sci-fi film, do you need more reasons?" The editor gave a coquettish recommendation comment.

The mdb website also held a voting activity to select the most worthy summer movie for teenagers in 2010. This activity received a total of 35 votes, and 11 voted for "Inception", far exceeding The second place was "Iron Man 6" with 2 votes.And the third place with 5.5 votes "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows".

Everyone is looking forward to "Inception".

As the director, Wan Xiaohu almost forgot about this movie, because the Chinese New Year is coming.Handing over all the official duties to the assistants, he began to rush around the capital.Some people need him to pay New Year's greetings, and some people will come to give him New Year's greetings. These favors cannot be escaped every year.

I have been busy until the beginning of the year before I finally sorted everything out.

Then on the seventh day of the new year, Wan Xiaohu took Su Ya and Wan Chengyang on a vacation that wasn't considered a vacation.Su Ya is busy, as the head of Golden Harvest Entertainment, she is not under the control of thousands of things.Therefore, they can only play for three days and be busy for four days in a week.

When Su Ya was dealing with official business, Wan Xiaohu conceived the shooting plan of "Frozen".

There is a big difference between the director of an animated film and the director of a live-action film. A crew of hundreds of people has to be assigned various complicated tasks every day.The production team, director team, coloring team, modeling team, material team, animation team, lighting team, special effects team, rendering team, as well as the publicity team, logistics team, etc., all need Wan Xiaohu to coordinate and direct.

Fortunately, Wan Xiaohu knows how to delegate power. With his status, it is too easy to find some young directors as assistants.A lot of people want to hang out with him, so "Frozen" has a huge director team composed of 9 people.The specific work is all done by the assistant director, and Wan Xiaohu is the chief director.

With more assistant directors, Wan Xiaohu has less work.

Ordinary directors would never do such a thing. This is fundamentally weakening their own power, especially in the animation film industry where there are more radishes than pits. Many old directors are all about their jobs and never give newcomers a chance.

Only Wan Xiaohu is the boss, so he can let go.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Santa Monica, California, Sasha Entertainment Building.

Sasha Entertainment, Abao Animation, and Dragon Heroes are all located in this ten-story building, attracting Uber and Marvel Comics, and there are also resident offices in the building.

In the middle of the meeting, Wan Xiaohu was discussing the theme song and soundtrack of "Frozen" with a few foreigners.For the soundtrack of the movie, the famous Hollywood soundtrack master Christopher Baker was invited. He has composed many movies and TV series, including "The Hangover" produced by Sasha Entertainment.

As for the theme song, Robert Lopez and Kristen Andersen Lopez, the two authors of the Broadway award-winning musical "The Book of Mormon", are invited. This is a husband and wife team.

"I already have a rough prototype of the theme song, but I need you to help me complete it. The name of the song is "le--go", which is sung by one of the heroines of the cartoon, Elsa. It mainly expresses the spirituality of a person. transformation..." Wan Xiaohu handed the draft version of "le--go" he had written to the Lopez couple.

le--go, le--go (let him go, let him go).

cn-hold--bck-ny touch re (the secret has been revealed to the world).

le--go, le--go.

urn-wy-nd-slm-he-door (say goodbye to the past without leaving a trace of care)...

As the previous track, it is accompanied by the theme song of "Frozen" which hit the world. "le--go" triggered a global upsurge in cover songs and contributed a huge boost to the movie's box office.And also won the Oscar for Best Song, and the US Billboard music list champion.

It has become the most successful movie theme song in film history, second only to "Titanic" theme song "my-her-wll-go-on (My Heart Will Go On)".

Therefore, Wan Xiaohu's first thought was to create this song.

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The crew of "Frozen" was at full strength, and everyone was very busy. The director Wan Xiaohu, who should have been the busiest, was busy working.Accompanying my wife and children.

But the good times didn't last long, and his good life came to an end not long after.

James Cameron repeatedly urged Wan Xiaohu to also make a 3D movie to promote the layout of the 3D market.But Wan Xiaohu has been lazy and did not act, which made Cameron very dissatisfied, so he came to Santa Monica himself.Persuade Wan Xiaohu.This made Wan Xiaohu unable to refuse any longer, so he had to agree.Shoot a 3d movie as soon as possible.

"Hey, I haven't rested for a year or two, and I'm going to be tired again. Anyway, everyone is shooting 3D, and I can't be left behind, just shoot!"

Wan Xiaohu has made up his mind.Immediately start thinking about what kind of 3D movie to make.

""The Avengers"? Well, this movie has a global box office of 15 billion, but the commercial taste is too strong, it is not a dark version of superheroes. It is not interesting to shoot. "You Now You See Me"? Well, cool It's cool, but it's a bit exaggerated. It's not appropriate. "World of Warcraft"? Well, although the right to adapt the film has been obtained, Blizzard and the ghosts like to pretend to be compared. The company's screenwriter department has designed several sets of adaptation plans. If you don’t accept it, you can’t shoot it even if you want to!”

Browsing the resource library of Sasha Entertainment on the computer, Wan Xiaohu slowly searched for suitable scripts. Now the resource library of Sasha Entertainment is huge, and there are so many scripts.

Soon, Wan Xiaohu found a satisfactory script.

"I almost forgot about this one, tsk tsk, speaking of which, I wrote the script!"

On the computer screen, the title of the script is huge.

"Gravity".

On the previous track, this movie was released in 2013. Alfonso Cuarón took five years to shoot a 3D sci-fi blockbuster. On the Oscar podium.The box office and word-of-mouth have a perfect harvest.

What's interesting is that there are only three actors in the movie most of the time, and even in the second half, it's just the solo show of the heroine Sandra Bullock, which can be called a space "confined space" movie.

"I just made "Gravity". My uncle has made more than a dozen movies, and he can count the number of Oscars on one hand so far! This time, no matter how you say it, it's my turn to enjoy it! Best director I'm determined, even the best picture, I want to fight for it!"

Resolute and resolute is Wan Xiaohu's work attitude. He decided to shoot "Gravity" here, and Sasha Entertainment was notified to start preparations there, and the news can be released.

So, just now, fans who were feeling ""Inception" hasn't been released yet, and "Frozen" is about to start filming, the boss is worthy of being a fast shooter in the director's world", were surprised to find that there was another headline on mmetime.com new information.

"International director Wan Xiaohu, after announcing the No.14 movie as the animated movie "Frozen", announced his No.15 movie again after a month, which is the 3D science fiction blockbuster "Gravity" !Tell a shocking story that happened in outer space!"

"Don't be surprised, don't be surprised, not to mention that April Fool's Day is coming early, the above news is absolutely true! The movie will be shot in 3D format, and the schedule is scheduled to be released in 2012—Mme Time Network's character guarantee."

Netizens complained one after another: "Actually, we weren't very surprised, really."

0374【Made in China】

After participating in the 3D "Gravity" project, Wan Xiaohu's happy day officially came to an end.

While coordinating and directing the crew of "Frozen", he began to select the protagonist of "Gravity".Originally, Wan Xiaohu planned to make "Gravity" into a Chinese film, but after thinking about it, China's Tiangong International Space Station has not yet gone to space, it is only under construction, and I am embarrassed to blow it too loudly.

Therefore, the film will be shot in English, with a planned investment of 8000 million US dollars.

The plot outline of the whole story roughly happened on the US space station. When a male astronaut Matt Kowalski and his female colleague Ryan Stone went out of the cabin to repair the telescope, a missile hit a Russian satellite, and the chain generated debris Galloping in the synchronous orbit, it collided violently with the space shuttle. Except for the two people who got out of the cabin, all other astronauts were killed.

Afterwards, the two astronauts, who were floating outside and without power, tried their best to return to the earth. They encountered many dangers. Matt sacrificed himself for Ryan and let Ryan board the empty International Space Station. Then take advantage of the Tiangong space station close to China.

Various failures during the period made Ryan almost desperate, but relying on the vision of seeing Matt before she was dying, she cheered up, found a way to board the Guotiangong space station, and finally returned to Earth in the Shenzhou spacecraft.

It can be said that [-]% of the time in the film, the story takes place in space, but it is impossible to travel to outer space to shoot a film, so most of the time, the actors only need to perform in the studio.The rest is all done by computer CG special effects.

Thus.The location is saved, and the CG production is multiplied.

to this end.Wan Xiaohu not only handed over the CG business to Dragon Hero Digital Matte Company, but also invited D2, the digital field that has been acquired by Dragon Hero, as well as top special effects companies Industrial Light & Magic ILM and Weta Digital (e-Dgl) Many other special effects companies participated in the production together.

"Lubezki, here in the CG group, follow the script I drew, and lead everyone to create a low-resolution animation preview version. I will contact NASA and CNSA. Try to get as much information about the space station as possible. bring here."

At the meeting before the crew started, Wan Xiaohu explained to the photographer Emmanuel Lubezki.

Emmanuel Lubezki is a Mexican and one of the famous Hollywood photographers. Wan Xiaohu appreciates his style of using long shots. There will be a lot of long shots in "Gravity", so he invited Lubezki base.

"Don't worry, Tger. In a month, we can make the preview version."

"Well, if I have time, I will simulate the lighting design again. I hope to simulate the sky environment more realistically." After Wan Xiaohu finished speaking, he instructed the director team. "You set up the studio as soon as possible. After the actors arrive, hurry up and train them. Our shooting schedule is very tight, and there is no extra time to waste."

"Director, please rest assured. We will complete the task in full without any delay." An assistant director vowed.Compared with the 9-person director team of "Frozen", "Gravity" is even bigger, with 5 assistant directors and 4 assistant directors, and Wan Xiaohu makes it 10 people.