Millennium director

After walking around the filming area of ​​"Mulan" in Jiaozuo Film and Television Base, Wu Yuan was very satisfied.

As a top commercial film director in Hollywood, Wu Yuan's words are naturally effective. Even if the crew is a group of foreigners, they dare not disobey him, let alone have any opinions on Wu Yuan's decision.

So although the main set designers are blond and blue-eyed foreigners from Hollywood, they have to listen to several consultants and arrange the filming site according to the consultants' requirements.

And these consultants are professional history professors invited by Wu Yuan from domestic universities. Some are responsible for studying architecture, some are responsible for studying costumes, and some are responsible for studying makeup...

Although there are only three or five people in total, they can command hundreds of foreigners to do things.

Under their command, the arrangement of the filming site is quite consistent with the appearance of the classical era in Wu Yuan's impression. As for whether it is really completely consistent with the background, to be honest, Wu Yuan is not sure. After all, he is not a historian and can only trust professionals.

After walking around the scene, he went back to the hotel first.

The next day, the large group that set out a day later met up with Wu Yuan and others at the hotel.

The shooting period at Jiaozuo Film and Television City this time was 15 days. The crew directly booked a whole hotel that was not too big to ensure the best protection of the crew's privacy, and no outsiders would be allowed in.

The main actors all lived on the same floor to ensure that there would be no embarrassing things like the luminous script.

Well, it's not that the actors can't visit each other to discuss life, but to ensure that they will not be photographed by paparazzi who sneak into the hotel.

Of course, because there are no Cheng Long, Gong Li, Huang Xiaoming, Hu Ge, Zhu Yilong and others in the play at Jiaozuo Film and Television City, only the Hua family and a group of relatives from the county town, so the leading actors are relatively free, and they don't even have to report to the shooting site every day.

Although Huang Xiaoming, Hu Ge, Zhu Yilong and others have honestly joined the group, they are very free every day, and Cheng Long and Gong Li, the two big names, have not joined the group yet, and will join the group to shoot when they arrive in Hulunbuir.

The only exception is Zhang Hanyu, because his role is a young general who comes to Huajia to recruit soldiers, and he also plays a role similar to that of Hua Mulan, so some scenes need to be filmed.

After gathering these actors with roles, "Hua Mulan" officially started shooting at the Jiaozuo Film and Television Base at noon on the 6th.

Well, there was no opening ceremony.

Hollywood movies don't use red cloth and incense burners.

As for the opening press conference, it was omitted by Wu Yuan. After all, you can't expect Hollywood reporters to travel to China to attend a new movie's opening press conference during this sensitive period and then fly back.

Compared with the Hollywood movies Wu Yuan has shot before, this time "Hua Mulan" is the most low-key one.

But he believes that the final result of this movie will definitely not be low-key!

"Okay, save one more!"

"Brother Hanyu, smile more relaxedly, you should treat Hua Mulan as a child."

"Great, everyone take a break!"

Wu Yuan looked at the feedback from the monitor with satisfaction, waved his hand, and approved some time for the crew to relax.

There is no way, the Hollywood staff are so spoiled. Not only do they work eight hours a day, but they also have to relax in between.

But he does have something to do at this moment.

Xiao Zhang, the former assistant who has been promoted to the director of Wu Yuan's assistant office, is walking towards him with a nervous look on his face.

"What's wrong? Is there something?" Wu Yuan glanced at him and asked curiously.

"Director Wu, your work email has received an important letter."

Since he learned the lesson of his bad habit of not checking his email, Wu Yuan has handed over his work email to his assistant team.

Because this work email is basically used by overseas people to contact, Wu Yuan has arranged for his assistants to politely refuse any project that invites him to cooperate or direct a movie, and ignore other messy things (referring to the unspoken rules.)

Only important things that must be reviewed by him personally before they can be decided will be reported to him.

As for what is important?

Naturally, it is things such as invitations from the six major Hollywood companies and invitations from major film festivals.

So, when Xiao Zhang mentioned his work email, Wu Yuan's expression immediately changed, "Why, which film festival invited me to participate again?"

The end of the year is approaching, and it is now the award season around the world. Especially in the middle of the year, the epidemic has raged, causing many important film festivals to be postponed to the end of the year, making this year's end even busier.

But Wu Yuan usually doesn't attend these film festivals if he doesn't have any works, even if he is invited, he is invited to present awards or be a judge.

"There is an important invitation from the Tokyo International Film Festival." Xiao Zhang pushed his eyes and said.

"Tokyo International Film Festival?" Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows, "Then I'm not interested either."

"That, Director Wu, is not an invitation to participate, but an invitation to be the chairman of the jury of the main competition unit."

"Oh?" Wu Yuan is a little interested now, "This year's Tokyo International Film Festival has just ended, so I am invited to be the chairman of the jury next year?"

"The invitation is quite early, usually not in February or March every year."

The Tokyo International Film Festival is one of the largest and most watched film festivals in the Japanese-speaking region.

But this film festival has the word "international" in its name after all. It is not a film festival that focuses only on Japanese films. It is mainly committed to discovering excellent Asian and international films, and it is more inclined to Asian films. Many excellent Asian films participate in the selection every year.

The Tokyo International Film Festival is very respectful to Chinese films. It has set up a "Golden Crane Award" for the Chinese Film Week. Although it is not the main competition unit, it is also set up separately for Chinese films. This is the only one of the 14 international A-class film festivals in the world that gives face to Chinese films.

Moreover, Chinese actors and directors are also frequent visitors to the Tokyo International Film Festival. They not only attend, but also frequent visitors to the jury.

Gong Li (2003), Zhang Yimou (2005), Chen Kaige (2013), and Zhang Ziyi (2019) have served as jury chairmen.

There are even more Chinese actors and directors who have served as judges. The list can list 20 to 30 people.

It is reasonable news that Wu Yuan was invited to be the jury chairman of the 2020 Tokyo International Film Festival.

It can be seen that the organizing committee of the Tokyo International Film Festival attaches great importance to it. In the past, they would only start inviting people in February or March, but this year they invited Wu Yuan in November, which shows that they are determined to get him and are ready to work on him for five or six months.

"Tokyo International Film Festival." After hesitating for a few seconds, Wu Yuan did not ask Xiao Zhang to refuse directly, but planned to think about it.

The Japanese market is still very important to him, so he has to give them face. (End of this chapter)