The male and female protagonists of "Teddy Bear" were designated by Shao Shuaijun, and the rest of the roles were selected by Yan Louis Lenard.
The teddy bear will be voiced by Louis Renard himself, Giovanni Ribisi will play the psychotic Donnie who always wants to steal the teddy bear for his son, and Laura Vandervoort will play the heroine's best friend.
Tanya, Joel Markhal plays the heroine's boss Rex, and Edin Minx plays Donnie's son Robert.
In addition to these main roles and some supporting roles, "Teddy Bear" also invites three stars who perform their own roles, Sam Jones, Norah Jones and Tom Skerry, who will all play themselves,
Because of the teddy bear, he entered the life of the hero and heroine.
Among the staff, there are a total of four assistant directors. The first assistant director is Inst, who was the assistant director of "Inception" and worked well with Shao Shuaijun. The second assistant director is Gao Zhisheng, Shao Shuaijun's old subordinate.
The other two assistant directors are both full-time assistant directors of Summit Entertainment and are responsible for the specific preparations of the crew.
The photographers are Huang Yuetai and Lu Le. After many collaborations with Shao Shuaijun, the two have gradually become mingled in Hollywood. The other prop artists, lighting engineers, and sound engineers are basically those who have collaborated with Dream Chaser, Dingfeng
Entertainment contract worker. Shao Shuaijun likes familiar staff, because he knows each other's temperament, which makes it easier to arouse him.
Looking at the crowd of people, Shao Shuaijun cleared his throat and said: "I'm glad that we can get together again and have fun shooting a movie. Most of you have worked with me and know my shooting habits. What do I need to pay attention to?
, you are responsible for telling your new colleagues what you need to be careful about, what you must abide by, and what you don’t need to be nervous about. We strive to enter the shooting state faster, complete the production of the film as soon as possible, and release it early and get it early.
Red envelopes. You all know that I have always been a generous person. As long as I am happy, I will never have less red envelopes."
The crowd applauded enthusiastically, and a few familiar veterans even flattered Shao Shuaijun at the top of their lungs, saying "the boss is wise" and "the director is awesome".
Shao Shuaijun pressed his hand and signaled everyone to be quiet: "I plan to release this movie in May, so we have to complete the filming before March. There are only two months. Normal scenes are not difficult, but Teddy
The bear needs to use motion capture technology, and you must cooperate well. In a few days, Weta, the CG special effects team of "Avatar", will stay on the set of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". I will arrange for them to come over and have a good discussion with you.
Things to pay attention to when doing motion capture. Especially Joseph, you have a lot of interactions with teddy bears, and you basically perform in the air to get me into the state as quickly as possible, can you do it?"
Joseph nodded: "Of course, I have been practicing like this since I received the script."
Joseph is the young actor Shao Shuaijun admires most in Hollywood. He is studious, has a good appearance, and is a good person. He is worth cultivating. Nolan can cultivate superstars like Christian Bale, and Shao Shuaijun also wants to cultivate some of them.
Hollywood superstars.
Scarlett Johansson is one of the people he is ready to support, and the future role of "Black Widow" in Marvel's superheroes will be created for her. Joseph is also one of the people Shao Shuaijun is supporting, and the role of the super hero "Ant-Man" is also for her.
Hero movie, Shao Shuaijun plans to wait for Joseph to hone his skills for a few years before taking up his role as a superhero.
In addition to these two, Jake Gyllenhaal, Shao Shuaijun's first Hollywood collaborator, is also the target of Shao Shuaijun's praise. The superhero movie "Thor" is already waiting for him, and the actor of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
The protagonist was chosen to be Gyllenhaal.
The great director Christopher Nolan has his Nolan Army, Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine and Marion Gloria. Shao Shuaijun also has his own Shaw Brothers Army, two popular young actors with unlimited potential.
and a future Hollywood queen.
The mobilization meeting ended with Shao Shuaijun’s arrangements and the responses from the cast and crew.
As soon as it was over, Shao Shuaijun called the entire director team together: "With two movies this time, I definitely don't have much energy to keep both crews running smoothly, so you, the director team, have to step up."
, you are the first assistant director. When I am away, the crew will be in charge of you, and you will be in charge of the microphone for those simple shots."
Inst responded: "Shao, don't worry. Although I'm not as talented as you, I can still handle some simple shooting scenes. "Teddy Bear" is an R comedy, so you don't need to worry about us not handling the details enough.
, you could put most of your energy into War for the Planet of the Apes.”
"With your words, I feel relieved." Shao Shuaijun patted Inster's shoulder gratefully. After explaining some precautions, the director team's meeting also broke up. Shao Shuaijun was about to go to "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
The crew has assigned tasks.
Gao Zhisheng sent Shao Shuaijun out. Before getting into the car, Shao Shuaijun told Gao Zhisheng: "Xiao Gao, this time you come to the United States to make a movie, learn more. You are also the assistant director who has been sitting behind me for several years.
You have filmed several TV series in the Mainland, especially the Chinese version of "The Big Bang Theory", which was very good. Now you have the ability to direct a movie alone. You need to share more of Inster's work on the crew. I have a good one.
The script is called "Warm Corpses", do it well and I'll ask you to direct it alone!"
"Thank you, boss, I will work hard!" Gao Zhisheng couldn't help but patted his chest and promised.
"kindness."
Gao Zhisheng is a top student at the University of Southern California. He has been practicing for several years. Whether it is "33 Days of Love" or "Oldboy", as well as working as a director's assistant in "Inception", he has performed well. It would be too difficult not to shoot a movie.
What a waste of talent. He is different from Wang Yixue, who is the kind of director born specifically for TV series. Gao Zhisheng, like Li Fangfang, is a film director.
Being able to personally bring out a great director is no worse than making a classic movie. Shao Shuaijun is still looking forward to Gao Zhisheng.
The bodyguard opened the car door, Shao Shuaijun got in with his head lowered, and drove towards the suburbs of San Francisco.
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" was filmed daily in the small town of Patel in San Francisco. Going north from the town is the Moore Redwood Park. The scene in the movie about the chimpanzees gathering in the forest will be filmed in this Moore Redwood Park.
Looking towards the seaside from the park, you can see the city of San Francisco and the most conspicuous Golden Gate Bridge.
It was already evening when we arrived at the crew in Patel Town, and the crew had already gone back. However, for the director team, the eight-hour work system did not apply. A phone call from Shao Shuaijun was completed in a very short time.
The members of the directing team are Paul, Alves and Lisa. Paul and Alves are the assistant directors of "Inception", and Lisa is the assistant director of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon". They are all acquaintances.
There are also two CG directors, Loyer and Carlos, technicians from Weta Digital. They are responsible for assisting Shao Shuaijun in completing all CG directing work.
Weta Digital's CG team has not yet arrived. Currently it consists of Shao Shuaijun, three assistant directors, and two director assistants who have just graduated from the University of Southern California.
"Hi everyone, how is the set-up going?" Shao Shuaijun motioned to the two assistant directors to make coffee for everyone, and then asked.
"The crew has already started rehearsing. Jake Gyllenhaal has been nervously opposite Andy Serkis for the past two days, and Andy Serkis is working even harder. In addition to facing Gyllenhaal,
I also go to the zoo every day to watch chimpanzees." Paul said with a smile.
Among the cast of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", the male protagonist Will will be played by Jake Gyllenhaal. Jake Gyllenhaal has good acting skills. He was nominated for an Oscar in "Brokeback Mountain", but "Nighthawks" made him
He lost a lot of limelight, and it wasn't until "Inception" that he made a slight turnaround. His salary was the highest, 10 million US dollars.
The heroine Caroline will be played by Freida Pinto. Freida is the heroine of this year's Oscar hit "Slumdog Millionaire". Shao Shuaijun and Freida were also acquaintances when they were producing in India.
.The reason why Freida was invited this time is also to build Freida into an Indian superstar, which will serve as a killer weapon for pursuing the dream of South Asia and establishing a foothold in India.
Indians are not friendly to Chinese people. Although Dream Chasing South Asia has several excellent films in production, it is not smooth to expand further. Relying on promoting Indian stars to open doors is the best way. Freida
It is an Indian superstar in the plan.
The actor who plays the gorilla is Andy Serkis. When Andy's name is mentioned, many people may have heard of it, but if he walks in front of anyone, they probably won't recognize him. He has performed in "The Lord of the Rings"
" trilogy, and starred in "King Kong", but unfortunately they were all performed using motion capture technology and expression capture technology.
He was one of the earliest actors in the motion capture industry. He portrayed Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" and King Kong in "King Kong" through his movements and expressions.
Sony's latest facial expression technology is derived from motion capture technology and can show the expressions of non-human characters in more subtle ways. This technology was used for the first time in "Avatar", and this time "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" will rely on it.
This technology perfectly displays the gorilla Caesar.
Different from the violence of King Kong, the gorilla Caesar is a guy with superb intelligence and the future leader of the ape gang. It is not easy to play Caesar well. In fact, before Shao Shuaijun decided to film "Oldboy", the script was
It was given to Andy Serkis, and Andy pondered over it for a long time.
Basically, the above three are the protagonists, and the other actors are supporting roles with very few scenes, so there is no need to go into details one by one. It can be said that there are not many normal scenes in this movie, and the majority of them are special effects. Especially the ones involved in the movie
The extremely large number of apes will be created by CG special effects and will not involve a real ape.
It was already midnight after the director team finished their meeting.
Shao Shuaijun did not delay any more and asked everyone to go back and rest. He also called back to China and chatted with Li Xiuxiu for a while before falling asleep.
Tomorrow, the really hard shooting time will begin! (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
