Rebirth In Hollywood

The Golden Gate Bridge, one of the most famous bridges in the world and one of America's iconic buildings, a symbol of San Francisco, ranks alongside the White House and Manhattan as the building that Hollywood movies would most like to destroy.

In the Golden Gate Bay not far from the Golden Gate Bridge, there is another well-known existence in San Francisco. Maybe few people will know the name of its original Pelican Island, but when it comes to Alcatraz Island, I am afraid that there are all over the world. heard.

"X-Men 3" chose the most important drama in these two places.

Today's Alcatraz Island has long since become a leisure area in San Francisco. Tourists who visit here have become an important source of income for the island, and the film or TV crew shooting here is another source of income.

After going to the island, Ryan chose a high platform where he could see the panorama of the shooting site, and quietly observed the filming of the crew.

Now filming is the scene of the battle at the end. Fire and explosions appear from time to time. Although the momentum is very strong, the scale is actually limited. Actors dressed in X-Men uniforms, extras dressed as American soldiers and the Brotherhood of Mutants are in chaos. A bunch, other than enough chaos, actually doesn't have much ornamental at all.

The pictures without post-processing are really terrible. After seeing that the shooting was suspended, Ryan looked back at the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge shrouded in fog is indeed a very strange landscape.

"Aren't you going to go down and have a look?"

Charlize's crisp voice came from behind. When Ryan looked back, she nodded to the bodyguards guarding the periphery and walked to the slightly higher platform, "Oh, the scenery is really good."

She also saw the orange Golden Gate Bridge hidden in the thick fog.

"Don't you have to shoot today?"

Ryan looked at her. Charlize is wearing straight-leg pants, a tight T-shirt, and a pair of sunglasses, which is obviously not the appearance of filming.

South African Diamond came over and held his hand, and said with a smile, "My scenes are all in the afternoon, and now I mainly shoot Magneto vs. the X-Men."

Although the movie is set at night, such scenes are often shot during the day. Then replace the background.

Filming quickly resumed. Ryan did not intend to approach, but just held Charlize and observed the situation of the crew from a distance.

This will be the last of the first X-Men trilogy. Ryan and Marvel had long since reached an agreement. After the film was released,

The series will be temporarily archived and restarted in the next three to five years. Hugh Jackman, Harry Berry, Ian McLean, including Charlize, have long had a different status and reputation in Hollywood, especially Hugh Jackman's salary, which is directly approaching 20 million dollar mark. The pay for all the crew members almost overwhelmed the surprise budget.

Even if it was repeatedly compressed during negotiations, the remuneration of actors and directors still accounted for 60% of the crew's expenses, which pushed the production cost of "X-Men: The Last Stand" to a terrifying figure of $200 million.

From this aspect, replace these actors and start a group of youth idols. It's a wiser choice to photograph their young muddleheads.

And Ryan and the surprise aspect. It has been prepared that the cost cannot be recovered by relying on the box office. After all, there are still 45 million US dollars of publicity expenses here, and the film's global box office highest is 500 million US dollars. Profits can only be achieved by relying on various copyrights and peripheral products.

Then there is the director, because he has already signed a high-priced breach of contract, Brian Singer can only complete this series with all his strength, in order to carry out his favorite "Superman" series.

That's right, Warners has restarted the "Superman" series in addition to "Wonder Woman", which is casting an actor, and the director of "Superman Returns" is set to Brian Singer, but these will have to wait until he completes "X-Wars". Police: The Last Stand is after.

"There's been too much work this year."

This is already the third film Charlize has made in a year. Looking at the fire on the set, she shook Ryan's hand and said, "After Jean Grey's play is over, I'm going to take a long vacation."

"Have you decided where to go?" Ryan reached out and smoothed her long hair that had been blown away by the sea breeze. Charlize simply rolled up her blonde hair and tied it into a ponytail, "Not yet..."

Her eyes hidden under the sunglasses glanced at Ryan, "Why don't we go to Africa together?"

"Your hometown?" Ryan took off the sunglasses that covered his pretty face and kissed Charlize on the forehead. "As long as it's not the Middle East, it can be anywhere."

"Let's choose a place in North America." Charlize suddenly thought of the terrorist threat. Although there are no signs of danger so far, it is best to be careful about some things, "Let me think about it again, this movie is short-term. It's impossible to finish filming, and you can't just stay by my side."

Ryan could hear the little complaint in her tone, so he could only hold her shoulders, "If you want, we can go to Lanai for vacation together..."

"never mind."

Before he could finish, Charlize shook his head, "I don't want to cause trouble."

Even if they met in public, they ignored each other, it would only be more embarrassing in private, and maybe there would be conflicts, so it's better to continue like this.

With a sigh, Ryan saw that the crew seemed to have entered a long rest state, and walked over with Charlize in his arms.

Most of the actors were acquaintances. After they saw Ryan, they came over to say hello, and Ryan responded one by one. In addition to his limited enemies, he was also famous for his good popularity in Hollywood.

"Ryan..."

When he walked to the main camera position, Brian Singer in the director's chair quickly stood up and shook hands with him, and said sincerely, "I'm so sorry, Ryan."

"It's okay." Ryan shook his hand. "We can continue to work together after you finish the Superman series."

The other party is a smart person and knows the need to have a good relationship with Ryan. Although he rejected the surprise plan for "Golden Wolf", Ryan knows that "Superman" is almost an incomprehensible existence, and the other party is destined to rely on "x". The "Men" series has been eaten for a lifetime, and after the failure of "Superman Returns", he will naturally return to the Marvel banner.

After a few words with Brian Singer, Ryan left voluntarily. He came here mainly to visit Charlize, and other people were in charge of it, so he didn't need to intervene directly.

But those actors didn't think so. Except for the previous acquaintances, when Ryan and Charlize were sitting in the rest area, the new X-Men came to say hello.

For example, Catherine Isabelle, this little naughty has a very embarrassing position in the latter two films, and her development in recent years has not been very smooth. In the latest version of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", her performance was met with audiences and film critics. unanimous criticism.

"Ryan, I auditioned for Wonder Woman."

After greeting her to leave, he vaguely mentioned something, and Ryan shook his head and said nothing.

If it's James Cameron, maybe he'll call Warners, and she'll let it go. It's a weird thing for a surprise boss to interfere in the casting of a superhero movie.

However, Ryan also saw someone who was very interested. The actor who played the Phantom Cat was very familiar.

"Do you know her?" Charlize handed an ice cream and asked Ryan who was sitting next to her curiously, "She is from Canada, just like Kate."

"It should be the first time I've seen you." Ryan unpacked the ice cream, "I just feel a little familiar."

"Beautiful women are familiar to men." Charlize pouted and smiled.

Shaking his head, if Ryan didn't pick her up, given the current social environment, teenage pregnancy is not a very suitable subject, and he doesn't plan to make that movie.

After all, it is too sensitive.

After a few minutes of chatting with Charlize, someone else came over. Kevin Feige was wearing jeans and a baseball cap, and he didn't look like the CEO of Marvel Studios.

After he sat down, he naturally talked to Ryan about Marvel's future filming plans.

"Ghost Rider's script is being written." After taking the soda from Charlize, Kevin Feige said thank you and continued to say to Ryan, "Nicholas Cage has agreed to play the male lead, and he is now We'll have to wait until next year to shoot Touchstone's National Treasure."

"Don't worry." Ryan shoved the ice cream to Charlize, ""X-Men" took up too much of our funds, and a lot of overseas shares and copyright income of "Captain America" ​​have not been received, we have enough preparations time."

"Stan is still leading people to write the scripts for "Hulk" and "Iron Man." Speaking of which, Kevin Feige shook his head with a smile. "He wants Edward Norton to play Bruce Banner."

"Edward Norton?" Ryan frowned. After thinking about it, he said, "The Hulk is an important character in our entire series. With Edward Norton's character, is he likely to play this role for a long time?"

"I don't think he's the right person either."

"Well, I'll talk to Stan about it."

Waving to John behind him, Ryan motioned for him to write down this matter, and continued, "Kevin, choose a suitable person from second-tier or third-tier actors, and sign a long-term contract."

For a superhero movie, changing actors also means taking unnecessary risks, and unless it's like the "X-Men" series, it's not good for the big plan.

After staying in Alcatraz for nearly a day, Ryan just watched the filming quietly most of the time. When the Charlize scene was over, he was ready to leave the island and return to San Francisco together.

Before he could get on the boat, someone hurried to the island, or someone who came to look for him, a director who recommended himself! ()