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"Currently 89 people have signed up for the male lead audition, most of them are unknown actors."

In the office, Michelle Williams, who is the casting director, said to Murphy, "There are more people signing up for the audition for the female lead, more than a hundred people, including some famous stars."

Murphy nodded and asked, "Who is there?"

Before announcing the audition, the crew had already revealed the salary of this role, the upper limit would not exceed 500,000 US dollars, such a salary is hardly attractive to famous actresses.

They participated in the audition only for other reasons, such as his charisma.

In this regard, Murphy will not underestimate himself, let alone him, any new work of a major Hollywood director will be the focus of media attention, participating in such a work, his name will be mentioned in countless reports, even before A young actor without any media attention will also become the target of paparazzi and reporters.

If possible, the crew also wants to choose well-known actors. Their charisma and richer work experience can also save a lot of unnecessary troubles in preparation and shooting.

Michelle Williams also understood this, glanced at a few names specially marked on the list in hand, and then said, "There are Blake Lively, Lindsay Lohan, Lupita Nyong Oh, Alexandra Daddario, Alicia Vikander..."

He suddenly glanced at Gal Gadot who was sitting opposite Murphy, "And Miss Margot Robbie."

Gal Gadot didn't say anything, Murphy raised his chin, thought for a while, and said, "I agree with them to participate in the audition, except for Lindsay Lohan and Lupita Nyong'o."

"Okay." Michelle Williams crossed the two off the list.

Like the kind of actors who don't meet the requirements at first glance, Murphy will not let the crew waste time on them. Lindsay Lohan is simply synonymous with trouble. There are countless female stars who take drugs in Hollywood, but there is nothing like her Few were restrained, and Lupita Nyong'o was black, and Murphy was insensitive to casting similarly troubled black actors in leading roles.

He didn't want his crew to cause any scandals of discrimination against black actors in the future, and black actors were far from being as tall as they advertised.

In my impression, this Lupita Nyong'o is also very interesting. In the second year after winning the Oscar for Supporting Actress, before participating in the Oscars, she claimed to have prepared a pearl dress worth 150,000 US dollars, which instantly won countless Due to media attention, this white dress inlaid with 6,000 pearls was stolen on the eve of the award ceremony. The thief took off two pearls from the dress for identification, and it turned out that the pearls were fake. The angry thief then reported to TMZ The website broke the news, saying: "Let the world see the hypocrisy of Lupita Nyong'o."

It was also the biggest joke of the Oscars.

For the other main roles, the crew needs older actors. Murphy asked Michelle Williams to offer Liam Neeson, Kevin Spacey, Christopher Waltz, Gary Oldman, Actors such as Ralph Fiennes issued invitations for auditions, and the specific candidates depend on the results of the auditions.

Since there are too many actors who want to audition for the male and female protagonists, the crew will first hold two auditions similar to auditions to eliminate those actors whose appearance does not meet the requirements.

Michelle Williams quickly left the office. When only Murphy and Gal Gadot were left in the office, Gal Gadot said suddenly, "I invited David Robbie and Margot - Robbie is coming over for the weekend."

"Yeah." Murphy nodded, "You can take care of these things."

He understood what Gal Gadot meant, and said, "As long as Maggie's audition is good, I will consider it."

Gal Gadot smiled and didn't say much. Margot Robbie and Murphy also have a good relationship. It is said that they met a long time ago.

Murphy will definitely prioritize her.

Hollywood is also about relationships. Now that Margot Robbie has signed up for an audition, when Murphy heard her name, he was actually considering the feasibility of her as the leading actress.

In this film, the heroine is completely a vase-like existence. With Margot Robbie's appearance and the acting skills she has honed over the years, it is more than enough to play this role.

However, in the second part, the heroine will become more important and requires explosive performances. Margot Robbie's acting skills are still relatively young.

But based on the principle of putting oneself first, as long as Margot Robbie's audition results are not too bad, Murphy will use her.

Handing over the initial audition to Michelle Williams, Murphy focused more on the planning of the entire project.

Twentieth Century Fox has successfully raised funds from multiple sources, and the film has started pre-sales in the international market under the banner of a masterpiece of 'Murphy-Stanton'. It has to be said that Murphy's brand is quite easy to use now , Many overseas publishers have already gathered in Los Angeles, and it is basically a no-brainer to advance pre-sale funds.

With the first batch of funds transferred to the account of the third-party guarantee company, the preparatory work of the crew is also in full swing.

The base camp of the crew is still in the Venetian warehouse studio under Stanton Studios. No matter where the crew uses the venue, they need to pay a certain venue fee. In this regard, Murphy will of course give priority to his own studio. Taboo 'fertile water into outsiders' field' such a thing.

After gathering on the warehouse set, Murphy's director team was immediately divided into two parts. A small group of people assisted Michelle Williams in running actor auditions, while others wrote more specific shooting plans.

The most important thing is to write the storyboard script and draw the storyboard artwork, and refine the shooting budget into each shooting scene.

At the same time, the crew is still recruiting behind-the-scenes staff, and the departments in charge of Philip Raschel, Helena Espora, and David Robbie all need to temporarily increase some manpower.

Then, Gal Gadot flew to New York with a team of producers to inspect the location shooting site in advance and explore the feasibility of real shooting on the streets of New York.

Then there are the essential prop production and equipment rental. Murphy has detailed plans, and it is enough for the heads of various departments to be responsible.

As a director, Murphy has enough understanding of all kinds of work in the project, but today, he has enough funds and manpower to deploy, and many things will not be done by himself as he did in the beginning. It is more about coordinating the overall situation, and rationally mobilizing and distributing the preparatory tasks of various departments as much as possible.

"In terms of props, the protagonist's props have special requirements."

On the second day after moving to the warehouse studio, Murphy specially brought the prop master Wells Brooks over. It was the first time for him to work with him. Of course, he had to tell him, "First of all, the protagonist's outfit, with black as the main character. Lord, it should reflect the texture of the Kevlar material, and you should communicate more with Jack’s styling department in this regard.”

Wells Brooks nodded.

Murphy glanced at him, and believed in the props group solemnly recommended by Bill Rosses and CAA. After all, what CAA recommended to him was definitely not an ordinary prop master.

Since the prop team he had been cooperating with left the prop industry, set up a special effects company, and switched to special effects production, Murphy could only seek a new prop group.

"Also, I need a motorcycle."

Earlier, Murphy had handed over the concept sketches to the props team, and now he emphasized, "This motorcycle needs to have a very strong sense of technology."

Wells-Brookes asked tentatively, "Can you add some sci-fi elements to it?"

"It can be added appropriately." Murphy raised a finger, "But it can't be divorced from reality. This is a realistic black crime movie, not a sci-fi movie!"

"I know what to do." Wells-Brooks said cautiously, "I will first design and make a scaled-down model."

"Okay." Murphy nodded, "Let's go and do it."

Since he chooses to use this prop team, he will of course give them a certain degree of autonomy.

Of course, the premise is that the motorcycle cannot look like a product of the sci-fi world. Realism and avoiding sci-fi can be said to be the keynote of this film.

Murphy emphasized this point at the initial crew preparatory meeting. The film is a black crime film based on the real world, with the theme of showing ideological conflicts, rather than the popcorn sci-fi film with serious homogenization in Hollywood. .

From computers to appliances to vehicles, some of the equipment in the film may be slightly ahead of the current era, but definitely not too much ahead, let alone have too much sense of science fiction. All props and background production must be based on The concept of dark realism.

Darkness is Murphy's style. This kind of darkness is not only the tone of the film, but also the theme. Realism is the basic requirement for filming and production...

In order to be realistic, Murphy is also planning to use film to shoot the film, using film to present a realistic texture, and he also asked Gal Gadot to contact the IMAX company, wanting some clips in the film to be shot through IMAX cameras.

With a cost of 150 million US dollars, it is impossible to shoot too many IMAX shots. Murphy plans to have 30 to 40 minutes of IMAX shots in the final cost.

In terms of displaying panoramic shots, IMAX technology has an unparalleled advantage.

However, such plans still need to be approved by Twentieth Century Fox. Although these plans were submitted to Twentieth Century Fox very early, there has been no specific feedback.

After Murphy called and urged, 20th Century Fox sent Kara Firth over, but they didn't send her here for friendship, but to send a message to Murphy.

When he came to Murphy's office in the warehouse studio, Kara Firth was not polite, and directly proposed the idea of ​​20th Century Fox.

"Can this film be made into 3D format?"