Legendary Hollywood Director

With a project such as Mrs. Smith that was affirmed by Lehman, and a formal contract was successfully signed, Paramount couldn't wait to show off its strengths and wash away its slump.

Even thinking about participating in the competition for this year's summer vacation - the time is a little tight, but it is not impossible.

But Lyman dismissed Shirley Lansing's unrealistic idea.

It should be known that although the market capacity of the summer season is quite large and the space for movie sales is the highest, this year is different from last year's collapse, and the competition pressure is very large.

As far as Lehmann can foresee and hear the news in the circle, there are Warner's reboot masterpiece Batman: Mystery of the Shadow, 20th Century Fox's sequel ace Star Wars: Episode 3: Counterattack of the Sith. , Madagascar, the strong work of the DreamWorks animation department, and The Longest Yard, a comedy film cooperating with Columbia and Paramount, not to mention the many independent works that want to get a piece of the pie.

Moreover, Lehman is very clear that none of the above-mentioned films that have already been released are easy to compete with each other. Although the competition between them is fierce, the box office of any one has not fully released its potential, but they are all big money-suckers, and it is difficult to compensated.

Therefore, this summer season is definitely a year of blockbuster movies. If you don't want to put Mr \u0026 Mrs. Smith under too much market pressure, it is best to wait until the Christmas screening-if you don't know the potential of these movies, forget it. If you use it to collide, wouldn't it hurt both sides?

After thinking for a long time, Lehman was moved by emotion and reason, and persuaded Paramount not to fight with him.

After all, everyone is here to make money, so why bother picking some soft persimmons?

Paramount naturally understands these principles, but the problem is that before the movie is released, who knows how much the market prospect will be.

If everyone else is thrown into the street, wouldn't they have missed the opportunity?

As a result, Paramount believed half of Lehman's reasons. If it wasn't for the fact that the production cycle of the project was not clear, it was just thinking about it when it was said that it was competing for the summer season. what.

But the urgency cannot be faked, and Paramount quickly began to contact the three candidate directors, and also announced that they would cast roles for the new film.

Of course, these decisions are mutually approved by both parties, and the issue of candidates is just the beginning. After all, the investment is made by both parties.

As for Lehman, his personal connections are not as deep as Paramount's, so I'm relieved to leave the contact and screening to them.

After he went back to Firefly Pictures and asked Blake to follow up, this project was over for him, and he didn't need to worry too much about it.

On the other hand, Wen Ziren was filming Dead Silence. He rented a studio in Warner Studios for more than half a month, and he didn't know how it was shot.

You don't have to run around, you have free time.

On March 7, Lehmann wanted to go around the filming site in his car after handling a little business at the company.

The work Dead Silence is also his nominal producer and one of the screenwriters - the plot about the villain's whitewashing was proposed by Lyman, and the addition of some characters is more reasonable.

After going there, the first person Lyman met was Ray Warner.

He greeted politely and took Lehmann to the set.

At this moment, the crew is filming the scene where the protagonist and the doll Billy are in the same room, inexplicably flustered.

The two cameras, one for a close-up close-up and one for lateral movement, have long been placed according to a pre-designed path. When shooting, the lights were dark to simulate a night scene, while Jamie, the protagonist played by Ryan Covanton, was sitting on the bed. The director Wen Ziren was talking to him about the scene. The props team and the filming staff were busy preparing the scene, and they had no time to take care of one more person on the scene.

Lyman watched from the side,

I saw the shooting props like the doll Billy being placed in the diagonally opposite corner of the bed by the staff.

When I looked closely, I couldn't help but think: This is too realistic, even in broad daylight, it feels evil, just like the doll's eyeballs move...

Don't say, this prop is very expensive. For the best shooting effect, Wen Ziren ordered more than 30 different styles of doll productions, and finally selected the most satisfactory one. Among them, only this one A single expenditure amounted to more than two hundred thousand dollars.

However, Lehmann felt it was too realistic, and it was quite disconcerting, although the terrifying effect was already there.

Lehman leaned over to Wen Ziren and asked, Did the filming go well?

Wen Ziren smiled and said, It's alright. If there is no accident, it will definitely not exceed the scheduled shooting plan, and there is no need to increase the budget.

The two chatted casually, and the scene was ready.

Act 34, Scene 3, Scene 2,—

Ryan Cowanton closed his eyes immediately, but he couldn't fall asleep. Between tossing and turning, he accidentally caught sight of that strange doll...

Yes, sight, at this moment, he felt that the doll was laughing at him, staring at him, an inexplicable fear rose in his heart, as if he had always felt that someone was watching secretly in the past two nights, but he did not understand the source of the sight. , now, he knows...

Ryan Cowanton's performance is not outstanding, but he has good looks, is an Australian movie star, and is willing to work hard and be obedient. Wen Ziren still appreciates this, even if his acting skills are a little worse, it doesn't matter- Anyway, it is enough that Wen Ziren's works can match the scene to show that kind of appeal. Acting skills are not the most important thing.

Everyone was watching, Ryan Cowanton completed the entire performance naturally, at least his expression was not stiff, he could know that he was afraid, afraid...

cut, Wen Ziren shouted, prepare for the next scene.

With an order, all the staff began to get busy again.

Wen Ziren pulled Laiman to watch the replay again before saying, Would you like to take a doll back, I have customized a lot of this style, and now most of its scenes have been filmed, and there is no need Here, so, do you want it?

Haha, don't. Lyman refused decisively.

To be honest, he really didn't understand why Wen Ziren likes to shoot horror themes so much.

Even if this product takes over the box office of Fast and Furious 7 in the future, he is willing to return to the field of low-cost horror.

You know, the average director always hopes that the bigger the investment, the better.

Now seeing this scene, I also heard Ray Warner say that Wen Ziren liked to take pictures with the doll Billy on the set, and even kept one at home.

It can only be said that Wen Ziren's hobby is really unique - it's no wonder that the horror films made by others are sought after by many fans, and he himself is one of the addicts, the kind who can't extricate himself.

Forget it, Lyman felt that he should not bother him anymore...

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