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In the next few days, Zhao Miao and Chen Mengyi's wedding will be the most popular headline in major news media and entertainment forums.Media reporters and melon-eating netizens picked up from the guests attending the wedding, the scale of the wedding, the dishes of the wedding banquet, the red envelopes of the guests, and the photos of the couple’s wedding dress and toast, all the way to the anecdote of Lu Heng grabbing the bouquet .Just when Lu Heng's fans and good-natured netizens ran to Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan's Weibo to post "marriage" comments, the audition for the role of "Havoc in Heaven" also came to an end.

In fact, it’s a character audition. For a film like Lu Heng’s, you must also pay attention to the spirit of “not letting the rich water flow to outsiders”. The characters that can be selected for the audition are almost all characters with few roles and no room for development. For example Speaking of the shrimp soldiers and crab generals in the Dragon Palace, for example, the Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals in the Heavenly Palace, the monkey grandchildren and elders of the Huaguo Mountain... If so, there are still many people who come to participate in the audition, except for the major students of major film academies , there are quite a few well-known idols Xiaosheng Xiaohua who debuted in the past two years...

Directors Lu Heng and Fang Kaizhi led the producers, screenwriters and directors, as well as Zhao Miao and Liu Jiawei, who had time to come to interview the examiners, formed the final interview team. It took three days to interview nearly two Hundreds of contestants made the final selection, and after the candidates for the final roles were determined, it took nearly a month before the film and television base was officially completed."Havoc in Heaven", which has attracted much attention in the entertainment industry, has finally officially launched.

The launch conference is still scheduled to be held at the Yanjing Grand Theater under Huaxia Cinemas. At ten o'clock in the morning, the media reporters who received the invitation letter have already arrived at the theater hall early, and Lu Heng and other main creative personnel of the film are sitting in the background to make up Small talk—by the way, make fun of Zhao Miao and Chen Mengyi who just got married.

The freshly baked little husband sat in front of the dressing table and became a fool. Facing everyone's ridicule, the most "powerful" counterattack was to point to Lu Heng at the side and say: "...I have already picked up my wife's bouquet. Go get a marriage certificate..."

All of a sudden, everyone's attention was shifted to Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan.

Hearing this, Lu Heng held Wei Linxuan's hand generously, and said with a smile, "If the two of us can get the certificate, it will be unless we change our nationality."

Wei Linxuan also smiled and said: "However, after the filming of this film is finished, we will consider holding a wedding and collect the money from recycling."

As soon as such "utilitarian" words were uttered, everyone in the backstage roared with laughter.Director Fang, Liu Jiawei and others quickly said: "Then you can send us invitations in time after you have booked a date, so I can save money early and send a big red envelope when the time comes."

Lu Heng said with a super thick skin: "Then you can save red envelopes now..."

When the media reporters and fans guarding the hall heard the laughter from the backstage, they couldn't help but looked at each other anxiously, scratching their heads.I can't wait to get into the background immediately to see what happened.

Finally, at 58:[-] a.m., when the day was auspicious, a host from Huaxia TV Station, who was in charge of hosting the launch conference, walked to the front of the stage first. They were introduced to the stage one by one.

As the film's director and lead actor, Lu Heng received absolute attention at the launch conference.What makes everyone most curious—or the biggest gimmick in the entire press conference is whether Hengxuan Studio will pay 2.4 million M gold for the filming of "Havoc in Heaven", whether it can guarantee the return of the cost.

"I don't think it's a problem to answer the question. After all, we have such a wonderful script, and so many such good actors..." Lu Heng picked up the microphone and answered the reporter's question with a smile: "And My teacher, Mr. Fang Kaizhi, who is also the producer of this film, also gave me a lot of help. I believe that if we all work together, we will definitely dedicate a very good work to everyone.”

So another reporter secretly asked Zhao Miao about Lu Heng receiving the bouquet on the wedding day——

"May I ask if you plan to continue following the traditional habit of catching flower balls?"

For a moment, the main creators on the stage all smiled meaningfully and looked at Lu Heng.Wei Linxuan, who was sitting next to him, subconsciously picked up the microphone and fiddled with it in his hands.

Lu Heng lowered his head and smiled, looked at the media reporter who deliberately made the question a tongue twister, and said with a smile: "Yes!"

The succinct answer successfully caused the guests, reporters and fans in the venue to say "oh" in a long voice. Lu Heng couldn't help but waved his hand, and before the host could speak, he said, "Next question!"

After the nearly two-hour launch conference, all the actors moved to the filming studio of "Havoc in Heaven" film and television base, and began to take makeup photos.

Because it is an oriental fairy tale blockbuster in which demons and monsters all appear in battle, all the actors spend a lot of time on makeup and styling.In particular, characters with obvious "alienation" such as Monkey King, Zhu Bajie, and Dragon King of the East China Sea need to use "inversion molding" and other techniques for modeling.So by the time all the cast and crew had finished taking their makeup photos, four days had passed.As early as six months ago, Lu Heng invited performance masters from the Peking Opera Theater to train the most basic movements for Zhao Miao, Liu Jiawei and others who were the first to confirm their roles. This kind of basic skills has been trained intermittently for half a year. As the martial arts director of the film, he also brought his "Fang Jiaban" to the crew during the training period, and has been deliberating with the director team, producer and other actors on the action style and fighting details of the entire film.So after the film was turned on, even though there were many "older martial artists" with "old arms and old legs" in the crew, everyone's movements were very well done.When it's time to actually shoot, and with the use of a martial arts stand-in, any fighting scene can be full of flowers and full of energy.

However, this point is also slowly honed out in the long-term and a large number of dramas that hang on to Wia.

The main shooting scenes of "Havoc in Heaven" are divided into four parts, one part is Tiangong, one part is Huaguo Mountain, the other part is the underworld where Monkey King made troubles in the underworld, and the last part is the East China Sea Dragon Palace when Monkey King took Ruyi Golden Cudgel... …

Among the four parts of the scene, most of the Huaguoshan part was shot in real scene, and the remaining three parts were basically shot in the newly built film and television base.

Actors and staff who are familiar with the shooting process of 3D special effects know that the real shooting location and shooting process are far less magical and magical than what the audience saw in the movie theater. Most of the time, a magnificent scene is created by a green screen and a few monotonous and crude sets.During the shooting process, actors need to imagine the scenery and monsters they will face according to the description of the script and the requirements of the director, which requires the actors to have strong professionalism and professional acting skills.Otherwise, in the eyes of outsiders, it would be a bunch of psychopaths threatening the air or the green cloth.

It can be said that during the entire shooting process, almost no one knew what the finished film would look like after the film was made.Including Lu Heng as a director.

But everyone has done their best for this "China's first 3D-IMAX movie".Even the Shenmo Digital Special Effects Studio under Huaxia Emperor Entertainment also settled in the crew during the filming period. According to Lu Heng's request, they began to find ways to tailor-made 3D special effects scenes with the style of Huaxia splash-ink landscape painting to match the filming.

And this part is actually the most difficult, because of the cultural barriers between the East and the West, it is obvious that the special effects team members of Shenmo Digital Special Effects Studio can't fully understand what is the special effects scene that "has the style of Chinese splash-ink landscape painting".After the two sides joined the group, they kept communicating and friction and then communication and friction again... In the end, Wei Linxuan had an idea and simply followed the production process of the cartoon "Havoc in Heaven" 40 years ago, and hired Chinese painting professors from Yanjing Academy of Fine Arts to follow Lu Heng and the script requested that the important scenes be drawn frame by frame in the way of drawing, and then made into cartoons for the special effects team to watch. After such a back and forth, the special effects team fully understood Lu Heng and The effect that the crew of "Havoc in Heaven" wanted to achieve.Make 3D special effects according to those paintings.

But in this way, the filming progress of the crew has slowed down significantly.Fortunately, Lu Heng and the main creative members of the crew worked slowly and meticulously, and didn't care about the filming rhythm of the crew - no matter how slow Lu Heng shot, it would not be like a certain Xiangcheng director, a film Literary films can also last for three or four years, and finally dragged on until the budget was exhausted and had to temporarily stop and shoot a comedy film to save the budget.

Because of this, Liu Jiawei, Zhou Jingxiao and others, who have long been accustomed to the shooting rhythm of an old partner, unanimously expressed that they are not afraid of Lu Heng's dragging rhythm.

"Yeah, yeah, it's rare that you keep all your good friends in one movie. Everyone can travel while filming the movie, and gain a lot of knowledge along the way. I don't want such a good thing to end too early."

One day during the filming lunch break, Lu Heng was taking all the crew members to sit on the rocky beach in front of the waterfall and have a barbecue.In the hot summer, the waterfalls on Huaguo Mountain flow straight down, merging into the stream and winding down the mountain like a string of pearl curtains, dispelling the scorching heat.

Surrounded by birdsong mountains and secluded forests dripping with greenery, Zhao Ermiao, who is wearing the Nezha shape, holds five or six skewers of grilled shrimp in one hand and a bunch of chicken wings in the other, expressing his satisfaction with dancing: "...I'll tell you the truth, I I especially hope that this movie never ends—"

Before he finished speaking, he was stopped by Chen Mengyi, who was sitting on the side roasting peppers: "Shut up. Don't be so childish, okay? I just want to have fun while filming and playing, don't forget The Hengxuan studio spent 2.4 million US dollars to make this movie. If it can never be completed, Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan will have to pay for it. Will you support others by then?"

"If I raise it, I will raise it." Zhao Miao took a bite of the chicken wing with a smile, and winked at Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan: "Then you two will come to our house for dinner every day, and I will make a year round."

After a pause, Zhao Miao laughed again: "But I guess this kind of situation will not happen. I read the financial newspaper said that taking advantage of this financial crisis, brother Lu Chi made a lot of money in Wall Street. Make a conservative estimate..."

Zhao Miao moved the chicken wings from one hand to the other, pinched his fingers, and said with a smile: "Even if the 2.4 million M gold from "Havoc in Heaven" is completely lost, it will not affect your ability to wash your face with bird's nest and brush your teeth with ginseng. .”

Wash your face with bird's nest and brush your teeth with ginseng...

Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan rolled their eyes, and they were too lazy to complain about Zhao Ermiao's description of an upstart.

The eyes of the melon-eating friends who were sitting on the barbecue at the side lit up. Everyone has been paying attention to the financial news recently, and basically they have all seen Brother Lu Chi's exploits again.Hearing what Zhao Miao said, some curious people also asked, "Xiao Heng, do you know how much money your elder brother made during this financial crisis?"

"Your elder brother is really powerful. Others have lost their fortunes in the financial crisis. It is not ordinary to be able to make money in such a turbulent stock market."

"I just don't know if those who lost money will trouble your brother later!"

"I don't think so. Brother Lu Chi is not fighting alone on Wall Street. I heard that he also has the support of many big chaebols and big capitalists behind him..."

The topic suddenly changed from the filming rhythm of the movie to Wall Street on the other side of the world.Lu Heng has never been very sensitive to things like finance. He could only smile naively when he heard everyone's words, and said honestly and cunningly: "I don't know how much money my elder brother has earned. But he must be earning money." It's-"

"No, I have to go to your house for Chinese New Year this year!" Before I finished speaking, I was interrupted by Nezha, who was excitedly baring his teeth and claws: "Brother has made so much money, the red envelopes for Chinese New Year this year must be thicker. No, Lu Heng, let me take our Mengyi to your house to celebrate the New Year this year!"

"Oops!" Chen Mengyi, who was accidentally bumped into by Nezha with his teeth and claws, screamed. Looking at the skewers that almost missed the hot charcoal, Chen Mengyi complained helplessly: "I said, Zhao Miao, don't you!" Is it okay to be startled? You are playing Nezha, not startled!"

The complaints with the smell of corn stubble instantly made everyone laugh.Xu Baoyan simply gave Chen Mengyi a few bunches of green vegetables that she had grilled, lest Chen Mengyi continue to toss that pitiful colored pepper that had been roasted into black charcoal on one side...

Seeing everyone enjoying themselves, Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan looked at each other with a smile, and Fang Kaizhi and Fang Qizheng, who were sitting beside them eating skewers and drinking a little wine, said: "Everyone pay attention, the sticks and charcoal after eating Don’t forget to put away the stove, we’ll take all the rubbish away when work is over at night. This place is so beautiful, we must not pollute it.”

A group of juniors suddenly agreed.Several young rookies and popular idols who were selected through the audition were also very familiar with everyone during the filming during this period. Hearing what the old man said, he quickly smiled and said: "Don't worry. We will definitely put Everything is cleaned up, not even a piece of carbon dust is left behind. Be sure to implement the three-light policy of eating everything, cleaning everything!"

Zhou Jingxiao, who played the role of Guanyin Bodhisattva, frowned and covered her small waist, and said quietly and resentfully: "It's all because Xiaoheng made the crew's food so good. After several months of filming, I have gained weight." gone."

"Isn't it? If this continues, I estimate that most of our crew's budget will be spent on food supplements." Xu Baoyan answered the question with a smile.As for the other half, it is estimated that most of it has to be spent on the set special effects and location shooting (all the leading actors take the share of the salary, and the special actors and group performers selected through the audition are not high. Seo Bo-yeon is ignored).

After what Xu Baoyan said, everyone became more and more worried that the crew would be unable to continue after half of the filming, and then Lu Heng led everyone to seize the time to shoot a Lunar New Year comedy to raise budget.

Thinking of this, Liu Jiawei and Rong Xiu raised their paws to recommend themselves: "If the crew is really out of money by then, we can actually play guest roles as makeup artists and stylists."

Hearing this, Zhao Miao nodded and said, "I can do it, I can do it too. I can freely paint my own makeup—hey, what do you think we should just do a sex-translated version of "Havoc in Heaven". I Just change roles with our family Mengyi. She plays Nezha and I play Chang'e, and I also have a beautiful face..."

The two stalks of co-authorship and beauty can't get through, right? ! ! !

Lu Heng rolled his eyes, unable to complain.However, Zhao Miao's extremely nervous proposal aroused everyone's interest.Not only a few people who are out of character and love to join in the fun, even the two old men, Fang Kaizhi and Fang Qizheng, are enthusiastically discussing what kind of roles they can play...

As the chief director of the movie, Lu Heng couldn't bear to look directly at him and wiped his face. What about the burden of idols belonging to the big guys?How about the halo of being an old people's artist?One or two of them are all like this...the morals are all flowing down the Huaguoshan Waterfall to the underground river!

Fortunately, even though everyone is eagerly looking forward to making a sex-translated Lunar New Year comedy when the movie budget is exhausted, Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan still stick to their wallets and morals-to ensure that "Big Brother" Even though the filming pace of "Havoc in Heaven" was under meticulous and slow work, it did not drag on for three or four years, or even dragged to the point where the budget was exhausted and the film was temporarily suspended and started anew.On the contrary, before Christmas in 08, the early filming of the crew was successfully completed.

Lu Heng took everyone to a wrap-up banquet at an interstellar resort near Huaguo Mountain, and had a great time playing for three days by the way.Then!It didn't disband on the spot as everyone imagined, and go back to each family, find each mother, and spend each year, but took advantage of the fact that the big guys were still immersed in the state of passion when they were filming, chartered a plane to carry everyone Back to Yanjing to start the first wave of actor dubbing.

This wave of dubbing is mainly divided into Chinese dubbing and English dubbing-after all, the 3D-IMAX special effects version of "Havoc in Heaven" is going out of the earth and into the universe-ah bah!It should go abroad and go global. Of course, everyone can understand the operation of bilingual dubbing.Moreover, the actors present are all professional actors with superb professional ability, affected by other aspects of their careers, whether it is the emotional Chinese dubbing or fluent spoken English, it is not a problem at all.Therefore, Lu Heng's request is also the meaning in the question.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that when the big guys finished the first round of dubbing passionately, the hateful big capitalists Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan gave everyone red envelopes while shamelessly exhorting: "Then what?" , This is just the recording of the rough version. After our movie completes the official editing and special effects soundtrack, we may need everyone to come back to do the second version of the dubbing, mainly to match the picture, so that the sound does not match the lip-synch! "

This is not a problem.but!

"Well, why don't you all take advantage of the fact that the crew is still there, and let's shoot a 10-minute super long promotional video of the sex change version of "Havoc in Heaven"!"

A group of celebrities and old artists looked at Lu Heng with stern faces and sneered!

A joke, don't we have the burden of idols and the aura of artists?

We don't want to lose face!