Chapter 691

Busy, busy, busy. In the twinkling of an eye, the time in the morning flies. As this is the first day of the official start-up, all work starts from scratch, and the crew is also running in. Trivial things are beyond imagination. The start-up ceremony originally scheduled for 9:00 was finally delayed until 10:30.

It's just a ceremony for the interior.

There was no media invitation and no open visit. The internal staff gathered together and the representative of producer Tim Lewis spoke, expressing the vision of safe shooting, smooth shooting and successful shooting; Then the crew took group photos together. Finally, through Warner Bros. official channels, the group photos and press releases were sent out to announce the official shooting of "tomorrow's edge".

That's all. It's not a grand and formal propaganda occasion.

The most important part is undoubtedly the determination of the cast, which is also the first time that the cast has been officially released after the announcement of the project of "tomorrow's edge".

In addition to Langley hall, Jennifer Lawrence is finally determined to be the heroine of the film, playing the role of Rita. It's worth mentioning that less than five days have passed since the "hunger game" was finished. Jennifer left the "hunger game" shooting set and joined the shooting of "tomorrow's edge" nonstop. She was the last one to arrive on the set, even later than Paul.

This will be the second time that Langley and Jennifer have worked together, or the first time that they have played together as male and female protagonists. It's got a lot of attention.

Team J, with six members, is starred by Paul Walker, Lamy Marek, Donald Glover, Kaya scudario, Tony way and will Poulter.

Among the five actors, Paul, the oldest, is 38 years old; Will, the youngest, was only 18 years old, a total difference of 20 years. However, these actors all have similar characteristics: their reputation is mediocre, but their own characteristics are distinct, and most of them have been in TV dramas, like lanli, who is a model from small screen to large screen.

Lamy has played in "the Pacific War", Donald is playing "the waste wood League", Kaya is playing "leather bag", Tony has played "detective Shylock" and "the game of power", and Paul's career also started from the TV series "energetic city men and women". Will is the only exception. He was born as a child star. At present, he has only played in "the son of Rambo" and "the legend of Narnia".

In addition, there are two important roles: Sergeant Rael, cage's immediate superior, and general Brigham, who threw cage into the front line.

Generally speaking, for commercial blockbusters like "tomorrow's edge", these two characters often choose the old actors to improve the quality of the whole work. At the same time, they are also familiar actors to the audience, and they have unexpected effects on boosting the box office; Moreover, the old actors who played the supporting role are of good quality and low price, which is really cost-effective.

In the last life, these two roles were played by bill Paxton and Brendan Gleason respectively. This time, the two roles were handed over to Alexander scargaard and ray Stevenson, respectively.

It is worth mentioning that Alexander was born in "true love is like blood", while ray played in "Rome" and "bloodthirsty forensics".

It's not difficult to see that the entire cast of "tomorrow's edge" is "dressed lightly", with actors from TV dramas as the main team and actors from British dramas as the main target. On the whole, the cast members are not well-known, but their basic performance skills are solid enough and trustworthy.

Most importantly, the average age of the cast is very young, only 28.8 years old. Ray, who plays general, is only 47 years old this year. Of course, the cast of "tomorrow's edge" is more diversified, richer and more mature than that of "Twilight" and "hunger game", whose average age of the cast is only in their early twenties.

Nevertheless, after Warner Bros. released its official press release, the major media still regarded "tomorrow's edge" as a science fiction film for teenagers, and they were even less optimistic about the box office prospects of the film. The reason is very simple. The main audience groups of science fiction films are male audiences in their 30s to 40s, and audiences in their 20s or below, It is often difficult to resonate with such films.

However, all this was expected. The media are not optimistic about the "edge of tomorrow". Before the works are really published, they are bound to maintain the same view, and then try their best to find fault. It is impossible to change the camp easily. Therefore, this situation is not surprising.

After the opening ceremony, the crew began to work hard to prepare for the first scene.

"Tomorrow's edge" is a huge production group. It is impossible to complete the shooting according to the time line, but arrange the parts according to the configuration of the studio. The first scene today is the match between Langley and Alexander.

The plot is not complicated. Cage tries to avoid going to the battlefield. As a result, the general orders the law enforcement team to corona him and throw him directly to Heathrow airport.

When cage wakes up, he lies on a pile of luggage on the tarmac and meets sergeant zhifarrell. Cage persuades Farrell that he doesn't belong here and asks to call his immediate superior. Farrell agrees and they walk towards the barracks.

But after arriving at the camp tent gate, cage realized that Farrell didn't listen to him at all. Because the general has made all the preparations and issued the order, not only to demote cage to second class, but also to position cage as a deserter. So Farrell was not moved at all, and took cage directly to team J.

The first part of the play, the dialogue and persuasion between cage and Farrell, will be filmed at Heathrow airport; Today, we'll start shooting from the second half, where cage and Farrell stand at the door of the camp tent and realize the truth.

Different from the original novel, "tomorrow's edge" gives the story a playful joy from the adaptation of the script. This joy is not the kind of humor that makes people laugh, but the contrast created by the plot gap, which brings a relaxed story atmosphere.

The most typical one is cage, who is confused, confused and confused. His sense of consternation is incompatible with the seriousness of the plot and the sincerity of the atmosphere. Inadvertently, it makes the corners of the mouth rise, and he can watch the film in a relaxed and happy mood.

On the edge of tomorrow, Tom Cruise's performance is not satisfactory. On the one hand, he has the burden of idols and is not willing to put down his airs to be funny; On the one hand, his performance is too rigid, lost the witty and funny lines. The film relies more on the difference between the plot itself and the character itself to create a relaxed atmosphere.

In this life, Lan Li is willing to try more. For comedians, how to use understatement and serious way to combine lines and expressions to create humorous effect is a serious subject.

Before the first scene was officially filmed, Langley and Alexander hid in the corner beside them, not for reminiscence, but for studying the performance of the next scene. The drama has been urged twice, but the two people still did not finish the negotiation, which led to the official shooting time delayed by 10 minutes than expected.

However, today is the first day. Everything is in chaos. Even if it's not on time, it's no surprise.

The staff and actors of the whole cast didn't have much expectation. The burden of the play itself was not obvious. If Kim Carrey was to perform, it might make people laugh; But the two handsome guys, Langley and Alexander? This makes people have to put on a question mark.

Not to mention that the two handsome guys are not funny type, even if they are willing to put down their airs, it is not necessarily suitable. This is also the most difficult part of Comedy - comedy can be imitated, but not copied. If you want to interpret real humor, you must have your own style and characteristics. What's more, no one wants to see the handsome guys crowing and making fun of themselves, and the audience is still more willing to see the handsome guys playing. Just like Tom Cruise in the last life, he has been handsome all his life and still enjoys it.

Finally, Langley and Alexander came out one after another. The actors cast their eyes one after another. Today, Jennifer, who has no acting task, whistled, "Wow, just this picture, I'm willing to buy tickets to enter." A joke made everyone around laugh.

The two men, one 6.2 feet and the other 6.4 feet, were extremely tall, especially in enviable proportions. At this time, they were both dressed in military uniform, tall and straight, and their slender legs brought a strong visual effect. They walked face to face, as if they saw a supermodel walking on the platform.

As Jennifer said, the effect is satisfying.

"Roar, roar, roar", everyone began to roar, whistling is also endless, lanli and Alexander two people do not know, so, only see everyone's face laugh, one by one are living treasure, especially Jennifer.

Langley ignored it, nodded to Paul Greengrass in the crowd, signaled that they were ready, and then moved to the starting position to shoot the official first scene of "tomorrow's edge".

Abby mills stood on a lift platform, picked up the loudspeaker, and yelled, "everyone pay attention. Now we're counting down ten seconds. The shooting officially begins. You can enter the performance state. Remember, don't look at the camera. Don't look at the camera. And don't look at lenley and Alexander. Focus on what you're doing. Well, I'll start counting down now. "

The first scene, this is the big scene. Heathrow Airport in the story is in the state of war, and it will go to the battlefield the next day, so the whole airport is very busy, and there are countless recruits and veterans coming and going. In order to create a sense of reality, according to the requirements of the director, 600 people are mobilized to shoot this scene, just the first scene on the first day, which is a big battle that Langley has never experienced, The whole scale is different.

As a leading role and as a supporting role - even the third leading role, the scale and pattern are very different.

"... three, two, shoot!"