I’m Almost Losing to a Muggle

Lin Dong didn't leave Quancheng until the next day.

Instead of going back to the capital, he went directly to the filming location of Lonely City. The distance of three to four thousand kilometers can only be taken by plane.

First fly to Urumqi, and then wait at the airport for the evening plane.

No way, only one class in the morning and one in the evening.

Otherwise you'd have to spend ten hours on the train, or the same amount of time by car.

When we arrived in Kuqa, the journey did not end.

The rest of the distance you can only rely on driving.

Fortunately, it's not very far, about half an hour's drive away.

In such a remote small county, the total population of the county is less than 600,000, and there is an airport, which is actually not easy.

There are ruins in the ancient city of Kucha.

It is located in Pilang Village, about two kilometers west of Kuqa County.

The circumference of the ancient city is nearly 8,000 meters, the north wall is 2,000 meters, the south wall is 1,806 meters, the east wall is 1,646 meters, and the west wall is about 2,200 meters.

The whole city is in an irregular square shape, and the city wall is about 2-7 meters high, built of rammed earth, with battlements every 40 meters or so.

Except for the east, south and north walls of the existing ancient city of Kucha, which can still be identified, the west wall has disappeared.

In 2013, the ancient city of Qiuci was announced as the seventh batch of key cultural relics protection units.

Maochang intends to invest 20 million yuan to restore this ancient building here, and immediately received strong support from the local area.

There are also many kinds of cultural relics, and not all cultural relics are valuable.

First of all, archaeological mining has been encountered here, and many places have undergone many repairs, which are not really the original appearance.

Secondly, it is not a masonry wall, but rammed earth.

Not too high preservation value.

In the end, a few half-collapsed earthen walls and some earthen houses that were later restored did not really attract any tourists.

The idea of ​​Maochang is to restore this important town in the ancient Western Regions and reproduce the style of the past.

This is a great benefit to the local tourism industry.

Moreover, with the shooting of Lonely City, it is possible to attract crews who need this kind of scene shooting in the future.

It is precisely because of this reason that the local area is very polite to the crew.

They arranged for local guides and staff to help the crew purchase and hire labor to build the shooting venue.

Since it is only about half an hour's drive from the scene, the crew arranged accommodation in the county seat.

Even so, the conditions were appalling.

Almost no crew is willing to film in such a difficult place.

The features of many ancient cities in the Western Regions were actually filmed in the film and television studios in the capital.

If it were any other crew, if they dared to film in such a place, it would be difficult to find any decent stars. Once they heard about your crew conditions, they probably wouldn't even give you a chance to negotiate salary.

Everyone is working hard, isn't it just to live a better life?

The screenwriter Wei Laina was trembling.

He originally thought that he had just said that he would invite so-and-so to play, and if two or three out of ten people could play, it would be considered a luxurious lineup.

I never expected that as long as it was mentioned before, all of them were signed.

He thought about it and couldn't figure it out.

Even if Lin Dong is a billionaire leader, it is impossible to have such a big influence.

In fact, Lin Dong is not a big director of tens of billions. Even if his New Shushan includes the overseas box office, it is not enough for tens of billions.

Moreover, Lin Dong only has one movie.

More than a flash in the pan.

Who knows what level he will be in next.

From Wei Lian's point of view, Lin Dong's topic selection is very deadly.

You made a big hit with the Xianxia movie, but you didn’t make Shushan 2 and your company's Shanhai 1, so you actually wanted to make Lonely City.

This is not what killing is.

If you want to rush to the street with all your heart, you are probably talking about this.

Lonely City may become a good movie, it may move many people, it may become a hit, but it is destined not to be a blockbuster movie.

A deadly director, a deadly movie.

Why on earth do these people want to die together.

After a while, Wei Lai found out that not only the actors who wanted to use had signed contracts, but also some actors who had never thought of using them also came to the door.

When Fang Long contacted and said that he wanted to participate in the performance, Wei Lai almost fainted.

This is not rhetorical hyperbole.

It was true that his eyes went dark, and he almost fainted.

It took a long time to slow down.

Then ask what kind of role you want over there.

Are you trying to embarrass me, the screenwriter, to death!

I have finished writing the script, and the main actors of the crew have also signed the contract. How many hairs do I have to pull out to put your big Buddha in it.

As a result, they said something casual, just watch the arrangement.

Damn, is the sun out in the west?

At Fang Loon's level, even if the actors are easy to talk to, their team will not say something that is simply mentally retarded.

Wei Lai felt that he was mentally handicapped.

When you feel that everyone is abnormal, the abnormal person must be you.

This is the same as when you drive and find that everyone is going retrograde.

Another punch came quickly.

Li Feihong will also play.

This one seems to be more difficult to invite, because his body is not as good as before, and he has almost stopped filming.

What kind of crew did I join?

Wei Lai felt that he really had no future, he was aging before he was old, and his brain was showing off.

Waiting for Real Kung Fu, Wang Shunliu, these people also came to participate in the opening ceremony... Wei Lai appeared at the opening ceremony of the film crew carrying a hot water bottle on a hot day.

Lin Dong originally didn't intend to do any opening ceremony.

But the rest of the crew felt that it should be done.

That being the case, let's do it.

The opening ceremony generally involves worshiping God.

Worshiping gods comes from the rules of the opera world; there is another way of saying that offering sacrifices to heaven and ghosts has existed in China since ancient times.

In the past few decades, it has disappeared in the atmosphere of atheism in the mainland.

And Xiangjiang has preserved this kind of cultural tradition.

The culture of worshiping gods was first spread from Hong Kong and Taiwan to the mainland, and the gods they worship are Lord Guan, Huang Daxian and the like.

But Lin Dong opposed the worship of Guan Erye.

The grievances and grievances in this are not enough for outsiders to understand.

The statue of Guan Erye in his office is still there.

It's just that no sacrifices are allowed.

As for why, Lin Dong didn't tell anyone, even if asked.

But in his heart, he made up his mind to starve Guan Erye to death.

Unless he asks himself to beg for mercy and is willing to bless himself for losing money.

Guan Erye didn't pay homage, so naturally Huang Daxian didn't either.

Simply worship the camera, and the crew called this worship of the machine god.

Logically speaking, Lonely City is not a big production, and there are no particularly big scenes, and the number of people worshiping gods should not be many.

Many people only have one or two shots, a short fight scene, call the actors to come, and it can be completed in half a day at most.

There is no need to participate in this opening ceremony at all.

But in reality, it was so crowded with people that it was almost impossible to stand.

They are all big names, so how to stand is also a problem.