Millennium director

"Night at the Museum" has already started filming in Vancouver in January.

Originally, Fox planned to shoot in Montreal, Canada. Everyone knows that several big cities in Canada have preferential policies for film shooting, including tax reductions and cash rebates.

It's just that the actor Ben Stiller is relatively resistant to the city of Montreal. It seems that something very unpleasant happened while filming here.

So the crew changed the filming location to Vancouver.

It is worth mentioning that although the crew shot the scene outside the Museum of Natural History in New York, the Museum of Natural History that appeared in the movie was actually completely recreated in the studio.

The production's artists and designers recreated the interior of a world-class museum on a studio set in Vancouver.

Most of the film's production funds were spent on building this museum.

In the middle of the night, Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei flew to Vancouver, a relatively well-known city in North America.

"Brother, are we really going to guest star in this movie?" After getting off the plane, Liu Yifei was still a little bit overwhelmed, with curiosity and anticipation on her face.

Although it's just a cameo and there won't be many scenes, this is a Hollywood movie.

How many actors in China can star in Hollywood movies now?

It’s only three if you’re full.

Cheng Long and Li Lianjie each count as one, and Gong Li and Jiuji Zhang each count as half.

Except for the four of them, no other actors in China can receive film contracts from Hollywood.

Even if some Hollywood movies need Asian roles, they use their own people and it is impossible to find Chinese actors.

In this era of Hollywood blockbusters sweeping the world, being able to act in a Hollywood movie is a rare opportunity for actors from most countries around the world.

Otherwise, Liu Xiaoli would not have thought so hard about how to get Liu Yifei into Hollywood and become an international superstar.

"I, the boss, and you, the landlady, still have to help with our own movies." Wu Yuan replied with a smile and nodded.

But Liu Yifei was not stupid. She was silly and happy for a while, shook her head and said: "Obviously you are the one who helps me, how can I help this movie?"

She has no reputation in Hollywood, and her guest appearance in "Night at the Museum" also depends on Wu Yuan's reputation, so there is no way she can help her.

Liu Yifei looked at Wu Yuan with tender eyes, tightened her arms around his arms, and shouted happily: "Let's go!"

The crew of "Night at the Museum" is located in the Vancouver Film and Television Base. There are a large number of studios used for film shooting here, which is almost similar to the Huairou Film and Television Base in China.

Wu Yuan took Liu Yifei, and under the leadership of Daisy, they quickly arrived at the studio of "Amazing Night at the Museum".

This studio takes up a lot of space!

In order to restore the appearance of a world-class museum, about 10 designers were busy designing different layouts for the exhibition halls at the same time.

Each exhibition hall has gone through several conventional architectural steps such as illustration, design, and construction.

In order to be more realistic, the art masters spend more time on details, and the statues, models and specimens on display are all made by them.

As long as the exhibition halls of the New York Museum of Natural History need to appear in the film, they have basically been restored.

When he arrived at the studio, Wu Yuan met the film's director, Sean Levy.

This director actually has nothing to talk about. He became famous with two low-budget romantic comedies in 2003, and was spotted by Fox to direct "Night at the Museum"

He did a good job in the series "Night at the Museum", and Wu Yuan had no intention of replacing him, so he accepted Fox's choice.

The director has not changed, the producer has not changed, and naturally there has been no change in the selection of actors. The actors in "Night at the Museum" this time are exactly the same as Wu Yuan remembered.

"Wow, our big investor is here!"

As soon as Sean Levy saw Wu Yuan, he opened his arms enthusiastically and said, "Daniel, you are welcome to guest star. The whole crew is waiting to meet you, this great director."

Although Wu Yuan currently only has "Pirates of the Caribbean" with a box office of 700 million US dollars in Hollywood, which is relatively scary, theoretically speaking, he is not considered a top director. There are at least some Hollywood directors who have achieved such results. More than ten or twenty people.

But who said he also won the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes? There are very few directors who can walk on both artistic and commercial fronts and have achieved good results in both.

Therefore, although he has only two or three films released in Hollywood, he has become recognized as one of the great directors. There is only one Oscar for Best Director between him and the top.

The filming crew immediately stopped filming, and the leading actors all gathered around.

The leading actors, headed by Ben Stiller, dressed in costumes of various presidents, cowboys, and ancient figures, greeted Wu Yuan enthusiastically.

He even saw a few Mongolians and Eskimos, which was quite interesting.

At least Liu Yifei couldn't help laughing when she saw the actors' appearances.

No way, when you see President Roosevelt in military uniform and a Roman general wearing a red Roman helmet, arm in arm, it’s hard not to laugh at this absurd scene.

"She looks like one!" Liu Yifei couldn't help but exclaimed.

"This beautiful girl must be Crystal, right?" Sean Levy smiled and stretched out his hand to shake Liu Yifei's hand.

He knew that Wu Yuan's condition for agreeing to make a guest appearance was to include this beautiful Chinese girl in front of him.

"Daniel, your and Crystal's costumes are ready. We specially ordered them from a studio in China that makes antique costumes."

"You can go to the dressing room and try it on first."

"OK." Wu Yuan nodded, obediently followed the director's advice, and pulled Liu Yifei into the dressing room.

He is very accurate about his status. When he was the boss, he was the boss, when he was the director, he was the director, and now he is an actor, so he should do what an actor should do and listen to the director's words.

After a while, Wu Yuan put on a black crown with red underside, and a crown on his head. In front of the crown hung twelve streaks made of colorful silk threads threaded with colorful round beads.

This set of costumes is the most authentic emperor's crown from the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Liu Yifei also put on a Qin and Han Dynasty-style noblewoman's dress. It may be because the studio that made this dress didn't know the dress system of concubines in the harem during the Qin and Han Dynasties, so they simply made it according to the popular women's clothing at that time, but only used materials. Luxurious and noble.

This outfit is mainly white, with some bright red embroidery patterns. It may also refer to the appearance of Princess Yushu in the "Myth" movie.

After Liu Yifei put on this outfit, she immediately felt like a fairy, with an ancient charm. Otherwise, she could be said to be a chosen ancient. She is so beautiful in ancient clothes!

The two men in ancient costumes, the handsome man and the beautiful woman, came out of the dressing room dragging their long clothes, causing the on-site staff to exclaim.

"OMG, this is so beautiful!"

"Do all Chinese kings dress like this? Why do they have so many beads hanging on their heads?"

"Daniel should become an actor, I bet he will be more popular than Jackie Chan!"

"Chinese classical clothing looks so good when worn?"

"No, these two are good-looking themselves. Even if they only wear a piece of rag on their bodies, they still look like they are walking in Fashion Week."

The idle staff were all chattering, and Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei were also looking at each other with satisfaction.

"Brother, you look so handsome in this outfit." Liu Yifei smiled and reached out to fiddle with the beads on her crown, "It's just that you don't have the domineering power of Qin Shihuang."

But no, although Wu Yuan can be said to be true to his word in the crew, if you want to say that he has some kind of imperial aura in him, or the kind of imperial aura that unified the six kingdoms, then you are just thinking too much.

"It's not my fault." Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows, "How many actors in China can perform the domineering Qin Shihuang?"

Anyway, he has never seen any actor who can really portray Qin Shihuang's magnanimity. The best one was a young man working a summer job.

But it doesn't matter. "Night at the Museum" itself is not a serious drama, it just follows the absurd and funny route, and the actors don't need to really fit the characters.

Wu Yuan, the First Emperor of Qin, was just a puppet given the ability to move by a mysterious power, and he was not the real First Emperor.

On the contrary, he lamented that the clothes prepared by the costume department of "Amazing Night at the Museum" this time were quite original.

It can only be said that Hollywood is indeed a piece of cake.

Don't they know that when Chinese historical figures need to appear, it is best to hire some professional Chinese historians and Chinese costume studios to make costumes?

But in many movies that feature Chinese historical figures, they dress these characters randomly, and even make do with Chinese people wearing Japanese or Vietnamese clothes.

Isn't it because the status of those actors is not important?

Now it's Wu Yuan's turn, a native Chinese, to play a Chinese character. The costume team of "Wonderful Night at the Museum" immediately went to a professional Chinese costume studio to customize the costumes, and the restoration was immediately perfect.

To put it bluntly, isn't it because Wu Yuan is the boss of the production company, and he is afraid that he will be dissatisfied with the crew's preparations and fire them all.

Even if you were Li Lianjie, the crew wouldn't prepare the costumes so carefully.

Putting these thoughts down for the time being, Wu Yuan opened his hands and walked around in front of Sean Levy, "How about it, is it okay?"

"Perfect!" Sean Levy gave a thumbs up, "We'll start shooting directly after putting on makeup."

"The scenes between you and Crystal are very simple, mainly just two scenes."

"One was when Jedediah, a western cowboy, disliked each other and the Roman legions, causing an internal fight and riot. You and your terracotta warriors and horses legion were disturbed, and you led the army to attack forcefully and captured both of them. Got off."

"The other scene is at the end of the movie, with Ben and the Roman legions uniting together to resist the thieves."

"Is there a problem?"

"No problem." Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei looked at each other and nodded together.

The two of them had read the script before coming, and had memorized the few lines. As for guest appearances, they really wouldn't have too many roles.

"Okay, let's go put on makeup!" Sean Levy said with satisfaction.

The title is an exaggeration. In fact, there are no "concubines" in the harem of Qin State, only wives, eighth sons, etc.