Chapter 658

After signing the investment agreement with 20th century fox on behalf of Stanton studio, Murphy's whole energy turned to the preparation of "dark city". He went to New York with Gail gado and Helena espora first, and signed a formal agreement with the relevant parties in New York on location shooting.

The location of the film will be all in New York, and some special effects and interior scenes will continue to be shot in the warehouse set next to Venice.

The warehouse studio has once again become Murphy's base for filming.

With the efforts of Kara Firth and Murphy, 20th Century Fox finally agreed to Murphy's IMAX shooting plan. More than 60% of the scenes in the film will be shot with IMAX cameras. Due to Murphy's current status and the momentum of winning the best director Oscar, IMAX company also attaches great importance to it. After the crew contacted the Los Angeles branch of IMAX company, IMAX company established a new shooting plan That is, internal deployment, and soon sent two huge bulky IMAX cameras.

Two IMAX cameras were set up in the largest shooting area by Philip Raschel for debugging. They are really big guys. They are several times larger and heavier than the cameras used in Hollywood. The increase in weight and volume means that the operation will be more cumbersome and inconvenient.

Standing next to an IMAX camera, Murphy tried to operate it. After standing up, he said to Philip Raschel, "some of the scenes we need to shoot with IMAX cameras are very powerful shots."

After circling around the IMAX camera, Murphy said, "for example, in the scene of Chris Dann chasing on a motorcycle, I need to show the first perspective based on Chris Dann!"

"Last time we tied the camera to the front of the car to shoot." Philip Raschel frowned, "but the effect is average, the impact is not strong enough."

"Well!" Murphy nodded and suggested, "Philly, is it OK to tie this guy up in front of the plane and take pictures when the plane takes off?"

Philip Raschel thought for a few seconds and said, "it's not easy to do. The IMAX camera is too heavy. The nose of the plane needs to be specially modified."

Murphy immediately made a decision. "I rented a business jet from Gulfstream. Well, I'll have someone contact them to see if they can provide relevant services."

These are problems that money can solve.

"Wait, Philly, Murphy, wait."

IMAX company people have been paying attention to them, Murphy and Philip Raschel's voice is not low, all fell to IMAX company's representative in the crew Tolby Martinez's ears, the IMAX company in charge of the crew quickly came over, "I think your proposal is too risky, it is likely to damage the equipment."

Murphy can't help frowning, "Toby, if you want to show the advantages of IMAX technology, you need to build a good enough scene."

Tolby Martinez seems to want to say something, Murphy did not give him a chance, directly said, "if there is damage to the equipment, the crew will pay for it."

Tolby Martinez opened his mouth and closed it again. In front of Murphy, his weight was obviously not enough.

Besides, IMAX cameras are very expensive, but they are not so expensive that a crew with an investment of $220 million can't afford to pay for them.

Since the shooting equipment has been rented from IMAX company, Murphy will not be polite to use it. IMAX company always adheres to the principle of renting but not selling, otherwise there will not be so much trouble.

After that, Murphy left the studio and went to the representatives of Mercedes Benz company in the production team to discuss Chris Dann's special motorcycle.

Many similar problems can always be found in the early preparation. This is a stage to solve problems. The more problems we encounter at this stage, the less trouble we will have in the later shooting.

From equipment to props, from actors to costumes, from shooting plans to sub shot drawings, Murphy will participate in and review every preparatory work, and know the progress of the whole preparatory work.

In the 20th century, Fox also gave him maximum support. Except for the necessary financial problems, he basically delegated power to two producers, Carla Firth and Gail gado.

After reading the design draft of Mercedes Benz company and exchanging opinions with the designer, Murphy went to the office where the pyrotechnic group was located. This time, several persons in charge of a pyrotechnic group he specially hired were studying the blasting scheme.

Unlike previous films, Murphy plans to try out a lot of gunfights and bombings in this shooting, because in order to conform to the style of the film, all the explosive potential must be shot on the spot, and it can't be as exaggerated and unlimited as the explosion made by Michael Bay.

"I think explosives should be abandoned."

Murphy discussed the most important explosion scene in the film with Michael Bates, the head of the fireworks group. He suggested, "as the script says, try to make an explosion with a few bullets and some gasoline."

Michael Bates holds his chest in one hand and raises his chin in the other. "If we use the model, there is some uncertainty about the gasoline explosion.""Make sure you shoot with a model." Murphy said as succinctly as possible, "the special effects team of Vita studio is making models, and will communicate with you later."

"Give me some time and let Vita studio make more models." Michael Bates frowned slowly, then let go. "I need to do some experiments to get the best results when shooting."

"There's another one." Murphy looked at Michael Bates and said seriously, "you study how to completely blow up a large hospital."

After reading the script of the explosion scene, Michael Bates immediately realized that Murphy wanted to shoot it in real time and asked, "do you really want to blow up the hospital?"

"That's right." Murphy simply explained, "I've asked people to look for a suitable hospital to be demolished, or a building similar to a hospital."

For the realistic style of the film, he really worked hard.

Then Murphy went to see the actors, mainly James Franco, whose role as a magician was crucial.

However, walking into a studio, Murphy sees James Franco in a stiff magician's dress, looking through the script, pondering, and leaving without disturbing him.

The magician, James, is thinking about his character in the script.

There is no doubt that the role set by Murphy puts the evil side of human nature into infinity, and forms a set of distinctive logic, which makes the role of magician extremely crazy and Amazing!

"There's a pervert like Murphy..." James - Franco can not help shaking his head, "to design such abnormal and wonderful characters."

Thinking of this, James Franco looked down at the script and read it again.

In this character script, the magician shows a kind of madness, madness without bottom line and criterion, and evil to the peak.

And what is the evil at its peak? In the highest evil, evil is not a means, but an end. Evil at the peak is pure, not for money, not for color, not for any other purpose. Creating evil and performing evil itself is the only pursuit.

The evil of the magician is such a pure evil. He just wants to create "higher taste evil" for the city. In James Franco's view, compared with the magician, even the anonymous crime in the seven deadly sins is not "high taste evil", because there are too many additions to the evil.

Even in some ways, the magician is actually an evil Puritan. In his eyes, crimes for money, power, sex or any other purpose are actually blasphemy of "evil". Evil is pure only in his hands.

In the hands of a magician, evil and chaos become a work of art. He paints like a painter and composes like a musician. So from the beginning to the end, no matter what the situation, he kept a pride and complacency as a demon.

The magician's behavior in the play seems to be crazy and chaotic, but it's not difficult for James Franco to analyze that the character has a fanatical idea of breaking through everyone's bottom line.

Faced with such a role, James Franco sometimes feels powerless and feels that his acting skills and state are hard to reach the level of a magician.

"It's really hard to shape this character successfully!"

James Franco closed the script, stood up and walked a few steps. He sighed, "Murphy, you've dug such a big hole, just waiting for me to jump in!"

He stood there, thinking quietly for a while, knowing that he had to do more preparation for the role.

Then, James Franco leaves the rehearsal room, finds Murphy in the director's office, and makes a direct request.

"Murphy..." James Franco pulled a chair and sat down. He said to his friend across the street, "from tomorrow on, I won't come back to the cast for the time being."

"No crew?" Murphy asked curiously, "why?"

"I think the magician is a very special role."

When it comes to the character that will be created in front of the camera, James Franco is not as cheerful as he used to be. He is extremely serious. "I want to find a quiet and undisturbed environment and spend some time studying this character."

Hearing this, Murphy couldn't help looking at James Franco. In Frankie's eyes, there was a kind of fanaticism that the actor met the character he really liked.

Murphy thought for a moment. "That's good."

"See you later."

James Franco stood up and wanted to leave, but Murphy called out, "wait, James."

"Anything else?" Asked James Franco.

"Well!" Murphy stood up and said, "very important thing!"