Chapter 529

"At present, 89 people have signed up for the audition, most of them are unknown actors."

In the office, as the casting director, Michelle Williams told Murphy, "more people have signed up for the audition for the heroine, more than 100 people, including some famous stars."

Murphy nodded and asked, "who are they?"

Before the audition was announced, the crew had already revealed that the maximum pay for the role would not exceed $500000, which would have little appeal to famous female stars.

They only participate in the audition for other reasons, such as his appeal.

In this respect, Murphy will not belittle himself. Let alone him, any new work by a leading Hollywood director will be the focus of media attention. The name of such a work will be mentioned in numerous reports. Even a little actor who has not received any media attention before will become the target of paparazzi and reporters.

If you can, the crew also want to choose the famous actors, their appeal and more rich work experience can also make the preparation and shooting avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Michelle Williams also understood this, took a look at the names specially marked on her list, and then said, "there are Blake raffley, Lindsay Lohan, Lupita nyeono, Alexandra dadario, Alicia vicander..."

He suddenly glanced at Gail gado, who was sitting opposite Murphy. "And miss Margot Robbie."

Gail gado didn't say anything. Murphy raised her chin, thought for a moment, and said, "I'll allow them to audition, except Lindsay Lohan and Lupita nyeono."

"All right." Michelle Williams crossed them off the list.

Like the kind of actors who don't meet the requirements at a glance, Murphy won't let the crew waste their time on them. Lindsay Lohan is simply synonymous with trouble. There are countless Hollywood drug addicts, but few of them are as unrestrained as her. Lupita nyouno is a black man. For the black actors who have the same trouble to play the main role, Murphy is the best beg to be excused.

He doesn't want any scandals of discrimination against black actors in the future, and black actors are far from as tall as they boast.

In my impression, Lupita nyeono was also very interesting. In the second year after she won the Oscar, she claimed to have prepared a $150000 pearl dress for herself before she took part in the Oscar ceremony, which immediately won the attention of numerous media. As a result, the white dress inlaid with 6000 pearls was stolen on the eve of the ceremony, and the thief took off the dress The two pearls were identified and found to be fake. The angry thief later revealed to TMZ website that "we should let the world see the hypocrisy of Lupita nyeono."

It was also the biggest joke of the Oscars.

For the other major roles, the cast needs older actors. Murphy asked Michel Williams to send auditions to Liam Nissen, Kevin Spacey, Christopher waltz, Gary Oldman, Ralph Fiennes and other actors. The exact candidates will depend on the audition results.

Because there are too many actors who want to take part in the audition, the cast will hold two auditions like auditions to eliminate those actors whose appearance does not meet the requirements.

Michelle Williams quickly left the office. When only Murphy and Gail gado were left in the office, Gail gado suddenly said, "I've invited David Robbie and Margaret Robbie to come home for the weekend."

"Well." Murphy nodded. "You can handle these things."

He understood what Gael gado meant and said, "as long as Maggie's audition is good, I'll think about it."

Gail gado smiles and doesn't say much. Margot Robbie and Murphy have a good friendship. It's said that they have known each other for a long time. Murphy will give priority to her.

Hollywood is also about relationships. Now Margot Robbie signs up for an audition. When Murphy hears her name, she is actually considering the feasibility of her acting as a heroine.

In this movie, the heroine is just like a vase. With Margot Robbie's appearance and acting skills trained over the years, she is more than enough to play this role.

However, in the second film, the heroine will become more important and need explosive performance. Margot Robbie's acting skills are relatively green.

But in line with the principle of giving priority to one's own people, Murphy will use Margot Robbie as long as the audition result is not too bad.

The first audition to Michelle Williams in charge, Murphy more energy on the whole project planning.

In the 20th century, fox successfully raised funds from various channels, and the film began pre-sale in the international market under the banner of "Murphy Stanton". It has to be said that now Murphy's signboard is quite easy to use, and many overseas distributors have gathered in Los Angeles, so it's no use paying in advance.With the first batch of funds to the account of the third party guarantee company, the preparatory work of the crew is also in full swing.

The base camp of the crew is still in Stanton studio's Venice warehouse studio. No matter where the crew uses the venue, they need to pay a certain venue fee. In this regard, of course, Murphy will give priority to his own studio. He has always been taboo about "flowing water into the field".

At the end of the assembly in the warehouse, Murphy's directing team immediately split into two parts. A small number of people helped Michelle Williams run the audition, while others wrote more specific shooting plans.

Among them, the most important is to write the script and draw the draft, and refine the shooting budget into each shooting scene.

At the same time, the crew is still recruiting staff behind the scenes. The departments in charge of Philip Raschel, Helena espora and David Robbie all need to temporarily increase some staff.

Then Gail gado flew to New York with a team of filmmakers to investigate the location of the location and explore the feasibility of shooting on the streets of New York.

Then there is the indispensable props production and equipment leasing. Murphy has detailed planning, and the person in charge of each department is responsible for it.

As a director, Murphy has enough knowledge of all kinds of work in the project, but now, he has enough funds and manpower to deploy. Many things are not done by himself as they were at the beginning, but are more in the overall planning, as far as possible to reasonably mobilize and allocate the preparatory tasks of various departments.

"In terms of props, the protagonist's props have special requirements."

On the second day after moving to the warehouse, Murphy specially found the props engineer wells Brooks. It was the first time that the props engineer cooperated with him. Of course, he had to tell him, "first of all, the protagonist's clothes are mainly black, which should reflect the texture of Kevlar materials. In this aspect, you should communicate more with Jack's modeling department."

Wells Brooks nodded.

Murphy took a look at him and trusted the props group that Bill rosis and CAA solemnly recommended. After all, the props group that CAA recommended to him was definitely not a general level props teacher.

Since the prop team that has been cooperating with us has separated from the props industry and set up a special effects company to switch to special effects production, Murphy can only seek a new prop group.

"Besides, I need a motorcycle."

Earlier, Murphy had given the concept sketch to the props group, and then stressed, "this motorcycle needs to have a very strong sense of technology."

Wells Brooks asked tentatively, "can you add some elements of science fiction to it?"

"You can add a little bit as appropriate." Murphy raised a finger, "but it can't be divorced from reality. It's a realistic black crime movie, not a science fiction movie!"

"I know what to do." Wells Brooks said cautiously, "I'll design and make a reduced scale model first."

"Yes." Murphy nodded. "Let it go."

Since he chose to use this prop team, he would certainly give them some autonomy.

Of course, the premise is that motorcycles can't look like the products of science fiction world. It can be said that realism and avoiding science fiction are the keynote of this film.

Murphy emphasized this point in the initial preparatory meeting of the crew. The film is a black crime film based on the real world, with the theme of showing ideological conflict, rather than a popcorn sci-fi film with serious homogenization in Hollywood.

From computers to appliances to vehicles, some of the equipment in the film may be slightly ahead of the current era, but it will never lead too much, let alone have too much sense of science fiction. All props and background production should be based on the concept of dark realism.

Darkness is Murphy's style. This darkness is not only the tone of the film, but also the theme. Realism is the basic requirement of shooting and production

In order to be realistic, Murphy also plans to use film to shoot films to present the realistic texture. Moreover, he asked Gail gado to contact IMAX company to shoot some clips in the film through IMAX cameras.

With a cost of 150 million US dollars, it is impossible to shoot too many IMAX shots. In the final cost of Murphy's plan, 30 to 40 minutes of IMAX shots will be enough.

IMAX technology has unparalleled advantages in displaying panoramic lenses.

However, such plans still need to be approved by 20th century fox. Although these plans were submitted to 20th Century Fox very early, there has been no specific feedback.

After Murphy called to urge her, 20th Century Fox sent Kara Firth, but sending her here is not to make friends, but to send a message to Murphy.

When she came to Murphy's office in the warehouse, Carla Firth put forward the idea of fox in the 20th century.

"Can you make this film in 3D format?" (to be continued). )