Director’s Legend

() The male and female protagonists of "Teddy Bear" were designated by Shao Shuaijun, and the rest of the characters were selected by Yan Luis Renard.

The dubbing of the teddy bear will be played by Luis Reiner himself, Giovanni Ribisi will play the psycho Donny who always wants to snatch the teddy bear for his son, and Laura Vandervoort will play the heroine's good friend Tanya, Joel Mark Hale as Rex, the boss who entangles the heroine, and Edin Minks as Downey's son Robert.

In addition to these main roles and some supporting roles, "Teddy Bear" also invited three stars who performed their own roles, Sam Jones, Norah Jones and Tom Schirer, all of whom will play themselves , walked into the lives of the hero and heroine because of the teddy bear.

Among the staff, there are a total of four assistant directors. The first assistant director is Inster, who is the assistant director of "Inception" and has a good cooperation 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, responsible for the specific preparation of the crew.

The photographers are Huang Yuetai and Lu Le. After working together with Shao Shuaijun, the two have gradually drifted apart in Hollywood. Other prop artists, lighting engineers, and sound engineers are basically contracted personnel of Golden Harvest and Summit Entertainment who have cooperated with each other. Shao Shuaijun likes familiar staff, because they know each other's temperament, so they are more handy to call.

Looking at the crowd, Shao Shuaijun cleared his throat and said, "I'm glad that we can get together again and shoot movies happily. Most of you have worked with me before, and you know my shooting habits, and what you need to pay attention to , What do you need to care about, what must be followed, and what is not necessary to be nervous, you are responsible for telling the new colleagues. We strive to enter the shooting state faster, complete the production of the film as soon as possible, release it early and get it early Red envelopes. As you all know, I have always been a generous person, as long as I am happy, there will never be less red envelopes."

Everyone applauded enthusiastically, and a few familiar veterans patted Shao Shuaijun's flattery at the top of their voices, saying "the boss is wise" and "the director is awesome".

Shao Shuaijun pressed his hand and signaled everyone to be quiet: "My plan for this movie is to be released in May, so we have to finish filming before March, and it only takes two months. Normal scenes are not difficult, but Teddy The bear needs to use motion capture technology, and you have to cooperate well. In a few days, Weta, the cg special effects team of "Avatar", will move into the "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" crew. I will arrange for them to come over and have a good communication with you Things to pay attention to in motion capture. Especially Joseph, you have a lot of interactions with teddy bears, basically you will perform in the air, let me get into the state as soon as possible, can you do it?"

Joseph nodded: "Of course, after I received the script, I have been doing such exercises."

Joseph is Shao Shuaijun's most admired young actor in Hollywood. He is hardworking, has a good appearance, and is a very good person, worthy of training. Nolan can train superstars like Christian Bale, and he, Shao Shuaijun, also wants to train some big-name Hollywood superstars.

Scarlett Johansson is the one he is going to support, and the role of the "Black Widow" of the future superheroes under Marvel is created for her. Joseph is also one of Shao Shuaijun's favorites. In the superhero movie "Ant-Man", Shao Shuaijun plans to wait for Joseph to hone his skills for a few years, and then use it as his superhero role.

In addition to these two, Jack Gyllenhaal, Shao Shuaijun's first Hollywood collaboration, is also the object of Shao Shuaijun's praise. As the protagonist, Gyllenshire was chosen.

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, two popular niches with unlimited potential, and a future Hollywood queen.

The mobilization meeting ended with Shao Shuaijun's arrangements and the cast and crew's responses.

As soon as it was over, Shao Shuaijun called the whole director team together: "This time, two films will be double-released. I certainly don't have much energy to keep the two crews running smoothly. Therefore, your director team has to stand up. Because Ster, you are the first assistant director, when I'm not around, the crew will be handed over to you, and those simple shots will be handed over to you to take charge of the microphone."

Inster replied: "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 don't worry about our insufficient handling of the details. You can put most of your energy into Rise of the Planet of the Apes."

"With your words, I feel relieved." Shao Shuaijun patted Inster's shoulder emotionally. After explaining some precautions, the meeting of the director team was also broken up, and Shao Shuaijun was about to go to the crew of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" to assign tasks.

Gao Zhisheng sent Shao Shuaijun out, and before getting into the car, Shao Shuaijun told Gao Zhisheng, "Xiao Gao, come to the United States to make a movie this time, and learn more. You are the assistant director who has been sitting behind me for several years, and you are also in the Several TV dramas have been filmed in the mainland, especially the Chinese version of "The Big Bang Theory". Good script, called "Warm Corpse", do it well, I ask you to direct it alone!"

"Thank you boss, I will work hard!" Gao Zhisheng couldn't help but patted his chest and promised.

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Gao Zhisheng is a top student at USC, and he has honed his skills for several years. Whether it is "33 Days of Broken Love" or "Old Boy", as well as working as a director assistant in "Inception", he has performed well. Qu Cai. He is different from Wang Yixue. Wang Yixue is the kind of director who is born for TV dramas. Gao Zhisheng, like Li Fangfang, is a film director.

Being able to bring out a great director with his own hands 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 down, and drove to the suburbs of San Francisco.

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" was filmed in the small town of Patel in San Francisco. Going north from the town is Moore Redwood Park. The scene in the movie about the gathering of chimpanzees in the forest will be shot in this Redwood Park in Melbourne. From the Redwood Park overlooking the sea, you can see the city of San Francisco and the most conspicuous Golden Gate Bridge.

When we arrived at the crew in Patel Town, it was already evening, and the crew had already gone back. However, for the director team, the eight-hour working system does not apply. Shao Shuaijun made a phone call, and within a very short period of time, he came to No. 24 Twisting Street, Shao Shuaijun's temporary residence.

The director team consists of Paul, Alves and Lisa. Paul and Alves are the assistant directors of "Inception", and Lisa is the assistant director of "Twilight: New Moon". They are all acquaintances. . There are also two cg directors, technicians from Weta Digital Company, Leuer and Carlos, who are responsible for assisting Shao Shuaijun to complete all the director work of the cg part.

Weta Digital's cg team has not arrived yet, currently it is Shao Shuaijun, three assistant directors, and two assistant directors who just graduated from USC.

"Hey everyone, how is the production crew going?" Shao Shuaijun asked the two assistant directors to make coffee for everyone.

"The crew has already started to rehearse the play. Jack Gyllenhaal has been nervously playing with Andy Serkis these two days, and Andy Serkis is working harder, in addition to facing Gyllenshire I also go to the zoo every day to watch chimpanzees." Paul said with a smile.

The actor of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", the leading actor Will will be played by Jack Gyllenhaal, Jack Gyllenhaal's acting skills are good, he was nominated for an Oscar in "Brokeback Mountain", but "Nightman" made him The limelight lost a lot, and it was not until "Inception" that it made a slight turnaround. His pay is the highest, $10 million.

The heroine Caroline will be starred by Freida Pinto. Freida is the heroine of this year's Oscar hit "Slumdog Millionaire". Shao Shuaijun was also an acquaintance with Freida when he was producing the film in India. . The reason for inviting Freida this time is also to make Freida a superstar in India, as a major weapon for Chasing Dream South Asia to gain a foothold in India.

Indians are not friendly to Chinese people. Although Chasing Dream South Asia has several excellent films in production, it is not smooth to further expand the scale. Relying on the promotion of Indian stars to open up the door is the best way. Freida is one of the planned Indian superstars.

And the actor who plays the gorilla is Andy Serkis. When mentioning Andy's name, many people may have heard of it, but when he walks in front of anyone, it is estimated that no one will know him. He has acted in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "King Kong", but it is a pity that he performed with motion capture technology and expression capture technology.

He is the first batch of actors in the motion capture industry. The Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" and the perfect King Kong in "King Kong" are all shown by him through movements and expressions.

The latest facial expression technology developed by Sony is born out of motion capture technology, which can show the expressions of non-human characters in a more subtle way. This technology is used for the first time in "Avatar", and this time "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" will rely on this technology to perfectly display the gorilla Caesar.

Different from the violence of King Kong, the gorilla Caesar is a guy with high intelligence and the future leader of the ape war. It is not easy to play Caesar well. In fact, before Shao Shuaijun decided to shoot "Old Boy", the script was given to Andy Serkis, and Andy also pondered over it for a long time.

Basically the above three are the protagonists, and the other actors are supporting roles with very few roles, so there is no need to repeat them one by one. It can be said that there are not many normal scenes in this movie, and special effects account for most of them. Especially the extremely large number of apes involved in the movie will be created by cg special effects, and will not involve a real ape.

After the meeting of the director team, it was already midnight.

Shao Shuaijun didn't delay any longer and asked everyone to go back and rest. He also called back to China and chatted with Li Xiuxiu for a while, then fell asleep.

Tomorrow, it will be time for the really tough shooting! rs! .