In late April, the three film projects of Firefly started almost at the same time, and the schedules are all set for this year's summer vacation. This move violates the normal release cycle of many movies. After all, many Hollywood movies in this era are usually released after a few months or more than a year after they are produced. Such an arrangement has been questioned.
However, Eric did not respond to these remarks, because there is still a big difference in the operation of Firefly and the seven major film companies.
After all, Firefly is still a lot smaller than the huge seven big companies. For big film companies, they have to arrange dozens of movie release plans a year. Of course, some movies will be repeatedly delayed due to various conflicts, but Firefly is It's different.
After merging with New Line, Robert Shea has suspended New Line's small-cost production plan. Therefore, Firefly only has three film release plans to arrange in the first half of the year, including "The Silence of the Lambs", "Against the Enemy" "Sleep" and "The Love Between Humans and Ghosts is Unfinished".
"Basic Instinct" was released by Universal, and Firefly didn't have to worry about it at all, while "Ghostly Love" was still co-published with Disney. Simultaneously with the production of the film, simple publicity work can begin.
By the time the movie was released, the promotion had actually been going on for three months. Compared with the promotion time of many films of major film companies, which only has one month, the promotion of Firefly is already very sufficient.
At the same time that the filming started, Eric's "The Matrix" with only 50,000 words was also quietly put on sale, and Michael Krauss hardly spent any effort on publicity. The book easily climbed to the top of the bestseller list.
What followed was a voice of doubt. after all. This book was written too hastily. Eric only spent more than a week of free time. Many details were not considered completely, and it was more like telling a lot of specious fragments.
Therefore, many newspapers criticized Eric's book for having an exquisite idea, but the details were completely shoddy, which is simply fooling readers. Some newspapers even criticized Eric for making money. For this point of view. Even readers who didn't like this book laughed it off. With Eric's current net worth, how could he be interested in those insignificant royalties.
Of course, many people in Hollywood are aware of Eric's true purpose in writing this book. Compared with the previous "Jurassic Park" and "Resident Evil", this novel is obviously going to the movie, and, After carefully studying this novel, many people also realized the great potential of "The Matrix" in movies.
Even though they knew that the chances were slim, the people who came to contact the film copyright continued to continue. Even Cameron, who is preparing for "Terminator 2", has a strong interest in this novel, and even made a special call to New York. Talked to Eric about some of his thoughts on some of the points in The Matrix.
Of course, Cameron wisely did not mention the film copyright in the end, and Eric did not have the idea of handing over "The Matrix" to Cameron to direct. Although this idea is very attractive and interesting, "Hackers" "Empire" is very different from Cameron's film style.
There is no lack of thinking in Cameron's movies, such as the "Terminator" series, which can be said to express a strong concern about the endless expansion of human nuclear arms, and the "Avatar" in the previous life, which is through Neville The story of human beings, an alien race defending the planet Pandora, expresses a concern that human beings may be plundering natural resources endlessly, and may be strongly backlashed by nature in the end.
However, despite some thinking, Cameron's movies have always pursued the most gorgeous visual effects and the hottest camera scenes, and these are not the main focus of "The Matrix".
The trend of "The Matrix" is still going on, no matter what outsiders say, Eric has not been affected in any way, but the filming of "The Ghost" is proceeding in an orderly manner in various districts of New York.
"Stan, the Grim Reaper I need is a real Grim Reaper wearing a black cloak and holding a Death Scythe in his hand, not a few blurred shadows, but according to what you said, the final effect is likely to be A few dark shadows."
The night in New York has just fallen, and on a closed street, the staff are busy with pre-shooting preparations. Eric and Stan Winston, who is in charge of special effects, are discussing something: "By the way, speaking of shadows, this It’s a big problem, Sam has become a ghost, so, according to common sense, he shouldn’t have a shadow in the end, and he shouldn’t have footsteps when he walks, the sound of footsteps is easy to solve, what about shadows?”
Stan Winston pondered for a moment, and said: "This is very simple, use a shadowless lamp, and then adjust the light in the later stage, but it is very troublesome to shoot like this."
"I'm not afraid of trouble, as long as I can do the details well," Eric said decisively.
At this time, the scene manager in charge of the set came over and told Eric that everything had been arranged.
A few extras wrapped in blue body tights came to Eric and Stan Winston. These people are the frightening 'Reaper' that appeared in the movie. However, these people not only have no The scary thing, it looks a little funny.
Stan Winston and Eric went forward to personally inspect the costumes of several extras and said: "Eric, I don't think the Grim Reaper needs to be too realistic, it becomes a horror movie if it is too realistic, so a few groups Sombra is just right."
"No, Stan, I mean realistic effects, not scary effects."
"If the Grim Reaper is realistic, wouldn't it be terrifying?" Stan Winston asked somewhat aggressively.
Eric shrugged helplessly: "You just need to do it according to the effect I want, and I will be responsible for the rest."
Stan Winston shrugged: "Well, as you wish, this is actually related to the rendering in the later stage. The rendering farm in the digital field has not yet been established."
"Then borrow Pixar's. They have a ready-made rendering farm. Although it is used to render 3D animation, but I remember the principle is similar. You can communicate with John Lasseter. If it doesn't work, rent Industrial Light and Magic of."
After Eric and Stan Winston checked out a few tricks, they gave an ok gesture to the assistant director, and then the shooting started again. (To be continued..)