Chapter 653

"Tomorrow's edge.". After a series of twists and turns, lanli's next work has finally been made. This is not only lanli's first challenge to sci-fi action movies, but also his first role as a leading actor in a commercial blockbuster.

Interestingly, this is the first time that Langley has been involved in the production of a work. Although Langley strongly doubts how many of his opinions about the script and the director will be adopted, it is really a new experience.

There is no doubt that this is a very different and very difficult challenge.

The most obvious difference between commercial film and art film is that the future of art works can be predicted to some extent. The quality of performance, the depth of script and the skill of director are good or bad; But the future of commercial works is unknown. Even for the highly recognized excellent products, the box office performance is still out of the control of the crew, and the first standard to measure the works is the box office data.

Other than that, "tomorrow's edge" is the best example. In the last life, Tom Cruise's "tomorrow's edge" with good reputation was only $100 million at the box office in North America; What about this life? What's more, it's not just the change of the leading actor, the entire cast seems to have many variables.

With Tom as the core, the "edge of tomorrow" is created. All links of screenwriting, production, photography, soundtrack, lighting, clothing, make-up and so on are brought by Tom himself. Everything is the top configuration in the industry; And so is the cast. Emily Bronte, Bill Paxton and Brendon Gleeson are all famous actors in the industry; Although the director Doug was not selected by Tom, in the process of shooting, Doug was well versed in the cooperative routines of front-line actors, cooperated with Tom tacitly, and made many adjustments to the finished product.

In addition, the crew also spent money on the film and went to London to shoot on the spot, showing a real world as much as possible, and then implanted sci-fi scenes with computer special effects to detonate the viewing effect. Throughout the shooting process, the cost of each day consumed by the crew is an amazing number.

It has been estimated that the daily cost budget of commercial blockbusters shooting in the first tier cities is between $700000 and $1 million, which is also the reason why many film crews are keen to go to Philadelphia, Toronto and Atlanta to shoot. In order to boost the economy and reduce the tax revenue of film crew, the city or state governments of these cities are eager to shoot, This saves the crew a lot of money.

The rich filmed London in London, while the poor filmed London in Atlanta.

But now that Langley has replaced Tom, it also means that it is very likely that the whole crew will be replaced, from the producer and director, to the props and scheduling, and even the shooting occasions and special effects team. Just because of Langley, the little butterfly, the whole crew will be replaced from top to bottom, from the inside out, "Tomorrow's edge" or "tomorrow's edge" in memory? Will the quality of the finished product be better or worse?

However, these variables are still controllable. Choose the right director, communicate more with the screenwriter, find the right crew members through the producers, and then strictly abide by the Hollywood commercial film production process, the final product quality is guaranteed. After all, Hollywood industry has formed an assembly line operation, and the range of quality deviation will not be too outrageous.

No matter how bad, as a reborn man, lanli still has images of the previous life in his mind. In the process of shooting, he will actively participate in the creation.

For lanli, the biggest variable is actually the schedule - the last world, "tomorrow's edge" was released in 2014, but now it has to be released in 2012, possibly 2013 at the latest. What kind of impact will the schedule change bring?

The success or failure of a work is closely related to the timing, which is the so-called harmony of time, place and people.

In 1995, "future water world" was released. At that time, the doomsday disaster movie was still a new type, which could not be accepted by the mainstream audience. The shooting style based on computer special effects was too avant-garde. Of course, the computer special effects of that year were not mature, and the effect was not satisfactory.

In the end, the film has ushered in a complete collapse by setting a Guinness record - the most loss making film in the world before the 21st century.

Ten years later, when people look back at this work, they suddenly find that: in fact, the later disaster movies of the same type have more or less continued the frame structure and narrative style of "future water world", and the quality of this work is far from as bad as they think. It can be asserted that the release of "future water world" will be delayed for another two years, so maybe it is not "Titanic" that makes history, but it.

On the other hand, in 2009, when "Avatar" was released, 3D imaging technology had matured, and all the ideas in James Cameron's mind could be realized smoothly, creating an unimaginable and wonderful viewing experience, so the historical record was born. However, if the release of "Avatar" is delayed for two years, people will be used to 3D technology, even tired of vision; Or two years ahead of schedule, technology still can not meet the requirements, then the film can still achieve such incredible box office results?

The same film, placed in different historical background, cultural atmosphere and characteristics of the times, has different repercussions.

This is only the first hurdle that "tomorrow's edge" needs to face. In addition, the schedule of "tomorrow's edge" is particularly important.

It's like "speed and passion 5" versus "Thor," or "Harry Potter versus Deathly Hallows (2)" versus "Captain America.". A correct schedule can often make the film break out more box office potential, even double or triple the expected results; A wrong schedule may ruin the box office prospects of a film.

In addition to the summer holiday, independence day, black pride month, Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's day and so on have a very obvious impact.

In 2014, "tomorrow's edge" is scheduled to be released in the second week of June. In the first three weeks, "X-Men: reversing the future", "sleeping curse", "Godzilla" and other films have been bombed in turn; When it premiered the same week, it encountered a strong volley of the sudden emergence of "mistakes in astrology"; Later, he also faced the sniping of "Dragon Tiger youth team 2", "dragon training master 2" and "Transformers 4".

This is not a time of crisis, but a trap of frequent dark horse.

So what about 2012“ What fate will "tomorrow's edge" face. Objectively speaking, it avoids the aesthetic fatigue caused by the "lost war scene" in 2013, and the "edge of tomorrow" is advanced from 2014 to 2012, which is a positive factor; However, the problem is that the summer archives in 2012 are very strong.

Suppose that "tomorrow's edge" is put from the second week of June 2014 to the second week of June 2012, then it will face the collective encirclement of "Avengers", "man in black 3", "Snow White and the hunter", "Madagascar 3", "Prometheus", "brave legend", "Teddy Bear", "magic Mike", "extraordinary Spider Man" and other works Front and back.

According to the historical track, five of these works have exceeded 200 million, and the box office of all the works has exceeded 100 million.

"Tomorrow's edge" want to break through the siege, the difficulty is increased, or reduced; It's hard to say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, and it's hard to predict. Compared with the quality of the work itself, the changes of timing, schedule and opponents are immeasurable and uncontrollable.

In short, everything is brand new, "tomorrow's edge" is a completely new work!

In this case, lanli has long expected that the historical track will be different from that of the previous life. This is also the goal that lanli has been striving to achieve. Sooner or later, the "future" that lanli knows will be beyond recognition; However, Lan Li did not expect that this day would come so quickly. Now it's a "tomorrow's edge". Who can predict and what's the next step?

In the period of rapid rise of lanli's career, "burying alive" and "love crazy" have made great contributions successively, "speed and passion 5" has made an amazing breakthrough, and everything has gone smoothly. Now it is facing severe challenges. It is hard to predict whether the appearance of "tomorrow's edge" is a blessing or a curse.

However, what he felt was not fear and fear, but excitement, uncontrollable excitement.

For him, the future has always been unknown. He not only needs to break the shackles of the last life, but also needs to break the shackles of fate, from scratch, step by step to the present, which is a phased victory for lanli. As for the success or failure of the "tomorrow's edge", the future is not determined by panic speculation, but by down-to-earth efforts.

The surging emotion in my chest can't be calmed, as if I once again tasted the taste of winning the "Pacific War" performance opportunity. Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. Lanli raised his hand to the waiter and took a glass of champagne. The cold touch passed through his fingertips, which calmed him down a little.

Between Jeff's introductions, Langley walked most of the party. This is different from the Golden Globe Award at the beginning of the year. It's a social occasion. Everyone is just nodding friends, just acting in front of the camera; Today, however, there is Jeff's lead. Lanli not only met the actors, but also the producers, screenwriters, photographers, magazine editors and so on.

In a flash, lanli became the protagonist of the afternoon swimming pool party, appearing as "fresh meat", as if everyone wanted to come and take a bite.

After walking around for nearly an hour, the amount of champagne in lanli's hands did not seem to decrease, but the number of "friends" he made had already reached three figures.

Langley has been trying to find the figure of Paul Walker, but there are too many people inside and outside the party, upstairs and downstairs, and the crowd is surging in every corner, which has never been found. Finally found a gap, blue Li left the turbulent crowd, found a quiet corner, can temporarily breathe a sigh of relief.

No, this corner has been occupied.