Millennium director

Beijing.

After Liu Yifei spoke, Wu Yuan really rested at home for a while and took care of his body.

Some things really can't be rushed, just like you have to eat one bite at a time even if you are hungry.

Sometimes it is better to relax and work harder than to rush.

After half a month of rest, Wu Yuan's mental outlook was obviously much better than before when he was busy. Although he didn't look rosy, his spirit and energy had returned to normal.

It was not until then that he began to focus on the preparations for "Riding the Wind".

However, he didn't do any heavy work right away. He just thought about the arrangement of actors for this movie during his rest time.

At his level, there is no need for auditions to select actors, unless he plans to audition newcomers.

As a tribute film, "Riding the Wind" must not use new actors.

First of all, the safest way is to use the original actors, that is, Wu Jing and Wu Sanshi as the leading actors.

Wu Jing is okay, he is not young now, and he looks mature, or to put it nicely, he has a sense of vicissitudes, so it is no problem for him to play a middle-aged man with a son of 17 or 18 years old.

In addition, he has a strong military atmosphere, even if he is a few years earlier, he is fully qualified to be the male lead of "Riding the Wind".

But Wu Sanshi is not.

He is less than 15 years old this year, still a half-grown boy, and this age is the time when boys grow taller, so he can't play a rebellious teenager of 17 or 18 years old, he looks too immature.

But it is not easy to find an actor of the right age in the entertainment industry, who has both youthful spirit and a relatively "regular" appearance.

In terms of age, it is best to find a male actor born after 1995.

But at this stage, there are not many male actors born after 1995 who have emerged in the entertainment industry, and it is still dominated by male actors born between 1985 and 1990. Male actors born after 1995 are basically child stars, such as Wu Sanshi.

Wu Yuan wanted Liu Haoran for a male actor who was just 17 or 18 years old and had already gained some fame in the industry.

Born in 1997, he was selected by Chen Sicheng when he was still in the first year of high school last year. He got the opportunity to star in the movie "Beijing Love Story" and started his acting career.

In February this year, "Beijing Love Story" was released and became a small hit. He also successfully entered the entertainment industry with his role in the movie.

It's just that Liu Haoran's appearance is a bit too pure, at least his image is very pure now, which really doesn't match the young soldier who has experienced war.

After thinking about it, Wu Yuan felt that he really had to do a wave of auditions this time.

He really didn't want to find an actor whose actual age was quite different from the age of the character.

Otherwise, Cao Jun would be quite suitable for this role.

That's Cao Jun who played Chenxiang in "Baolian Lantern".

He has regular facial features and a more orthodox Asian face shape. He looks very heroic when he grows up. In addition, he likes to exercise, and his muscles are very obvious. His baby face also makes his age very deceptive. Even though he is 26 years old now, he looks no different from a boy around 18 years old.

But Cao Jun has passed the age of "youthful spirit", and his youthfulness has been dedicated to the TV series "Baolian Lantern".

Even now, he can no longer find the feeling when he played Chenxiang.

It's a pity.

"We can only have a large-scale audition, and do it during the summer vacation." Wu Yuan thought so.

In July and August, the entire audition will select a young actor, and the filming will start around October, and it will be completed before February next year. In this way, the movie will be released in October next year, and it can even be said that there is plenty of time.

The only one who is relatively busy is Wu Yuan. He has to improve the script, be responsible for directing, and then have to watch the post-editing.

After thinking about it, the two male protagonists of "Riding the Wind" were arranged and decided.

As for the female protagonist, it was naturally Liu Yifei. This time she had to play a pregnant woman, and a pregnant village girl, which was a big breakthrough in her image.

There was no need to worry that she was too beautiful and not suitable for such a village woman role.

Zhang Tianai was also very beautiful, but the pregnant woman she played in "Riding the Wind" was also very impressive and not too out of place.

There was no reason why Zhang Tianai could do it but Liu Yifei couldn't.

Another half a month later.

Wu Yuan, who had completely recovered, was thinking about going to the crew of "The Great Wall" to visit the class. On the one hand, he wanted to see the situation of director Zhang Yimou. After all, it was the first time for him to make such a special effects blockbuster, and he probably needed help.

On the other hand, Wu Yuan also planned to go and see the male protagonist of his new film, Wu Jing.

Since it was decided to use Wu Jing, Guangying Times contacted him as soon as possible.

Wu Jing doesn't have many film contracts in the industry. Although he has been in the Hong Kong industry for a few years and has starred in several Hong Kong movies, his acting range is still quite narrow.

In Hong Kong, he can only play supporting roles in some action movies, and in the mainland, he has to serve in the military all year round. There are only these two options.

But there are not many film and television dramas of this type, so Wu Jing doesn't have so many film contracts that he can schedule them until next year. As soon as Light and Shadow Times came to him, he immediately took on the movie "Riding the Wind".

What a joke, it's Wu Yuan's movie, and it's a movie about war that Wu Jing likes very much.

This is double the happiness!

Wu Jing agreed straightforwardly, and Wu Yuan was naturally very satisfied. When he had time, he came to the crew of "The Great Wall" to check the situation.

The main shooting location of "The Great Wall" was in Huairou Film and Television Base in Beijing, where a studio covering thousands of square meters was rented. In addition, it was also filmed in Hengdian and Xiangshan.

Because this is a special effects movie, and the "Great Wall" has been transformed into a war fortress with various machines and classical war weapons, there is no need to shoot on the real Great Wall, eliminating the trouble of borrowing the Great Wall from the official department.

But because of this, the crew really built a section of the Great Wall in the studio to shoot the climax of the Great Wall battle in the film.

When Wu Yuan arrived at the set, he saw a bunch of actors wearing armor with Song and Ming styles, flying in the sky with wires.

Against the backdrop of the green screen, this scene is not passionate at all, and even a little funny, but this is the way most special effects movies are shot.

Zhang Yimou was not comfortable with this kind of "very fake" movie for the first time.

He had shot war blockbusters before, and "Hero" could be considered a war blockbuster.

The shooting of "Hero" was completely real, and although there were some wire-hanging parts, most of the plots were shot in real scenes.

But "The Great Wall" was shot half-real and half-fake almost from beginning to end, which made him a little uncomfortable.

Wu Yuan's arrival was not specially notified, and he just watched the shooting outside the studio. It was not until the break in the middle of the shooting that he came to the monitor and asked with a smile: "Director Zhang, how is it, are you used to shooting this kind of special effects movie?" (End of this chapter)