Rebirth of the Great Heavenly King

A lot of money has been spent on "Saving Private Ryan" so far, at least 300 million have been spent on it...

Of course, this also includes the project funds for building real-life scenes in China, as well as the prepaid wages of many cast and crew members, but this figure has indeed more than doubled the investment in "Infernal Affairs".

This kind of investment really makes Sun Yunzhang and others feel a little scared - "Infernal Affairs" has an investment of more than 100 million, and now this "Saving Private Ryan"...

Although they have all built up their confidence in Li Chencan, the speed of spending money is really terrifying.

Today, the filming progress is still on Obaha Beach.

The tide is slowly rising.

Up to now, "Saving Private Ryan" has been filmed here for eleven days, and the assault battle on the beach has finally been filmed. What we are currently filming are some scenes after the Chinese team broke into the German position.

Obach Beach was an important part of the Normandy landings. World War II was a huge meat grinder, and Obach Beach was one of them.

Shooting here, Li Chencan indeed has a kind of respect for the martyrs.

Not only the Chinese Army, but also the Allied forces who shed countless blood in Normandy...

No matter how many people have a favorable impression of Germany, history remains that China and they have not peed into the same pot and are not on the same front, so it is a matter of life and death.

Li Chencan is seriously lacking in sleep these days. The many things brought about by the crew filming abroad are really driving him crazy... His whole body is not feeling well.

Li Chencan's temper is also easy to control. He has been making movies in this world for so long. But he has never been as grumpy as in "Saving Private Ryan". It feels like just a spark can arouse his raging rage.

This is not a problem with his personality, it's just that he lacks sleep these days. There are so many things that are bothering him, which really makes Li Chencan physically and mentally exhausted and makes him feel uncomfortable.

Fortunately, the crew is gradually getting back on track, and many filmings are going more smoothly.

"Okay, let's go!"

The section just filmed is a battle between the Chinese Communist Party and the German army in the trench.

Li Chencan also has particularly high requirements for details in these places.

During World War II, the most recognized armies with the last fighting strength were the Chinese Army and the German Army. It was more difficult to restore this kind of battle, so it became more difficult to keep improving these shots. But Li Chencan still insisted on his own

Persevere...even if it's a little troublesome.

Li Chencan took a look at the real-time playback on the monitor - modern monitors have virtual photography functions, which not only have playback, but can also roughly add some effects so that the director can see what it will look like after post-production.

There won't actually be much post-production for the opening scene of "Saving Private Ryan". After all, what Li Chencan wants to create here is mainly to create a real feeling. It may even be made into a documentary... Of course, it won't be as documentary-like as the original version, with imax3d and handheld

The shaking camera lens...this will make people faint.

In order to create these scenes, not only the scene, but also the military uniforms worn by everyone, including the group actors wearing German military uniforms opposite.

In order to film this scene, Li Chencan and the others prepared more than 3,000 sets of Chinese and German military uniforms, and they also had to be specially processed so that they did not look brand new, but had been worn and rolled on the battlefield... This is just

Details. Creating details requires a lot of energy, and it is this investment of energy that makes Li Chencan what he is now.

...In short, "Saving Private Ryan" is a huge pit.

Lu Weidong and the others were actually quite tortured...

The torture of filming "Saving Private Ryan" was much more than that of "The Departed"... The torture of "Saving Private Ryan" was rolling in the mud everywhere. When filming started, Li Chencan shouted to start filming, and immediately

I felt a hail of bullets and bullets all around me, shrapnel passing through, and explosions coming from all around...

In addition, there are always people around you who fall according to the script... Therefore, the fear of actually being on the battlefield will make it difficult for people to perform at their best, and it will take a lot of time to overcome it.

However, Lu Weidong did not complain. On the contrary, he was even quite happy - this shows that Li Chencan was working hard on making this movie. Since he worked hard, he achieved what he wanted.

Lu Weidong believes that mainly because Li Chencan is attentive, this movie will definitely be successful under his hands, and the shock this movie will bring will definitely be very strong.

Therefore, no matter how difficult the scene was, he persisted. From Li Chencan's point of view, after all, he is an actor who has worked with him several times. Lu Weidong makes people feel very reassured in many places, and there is no need to deliberately ask him to do too much.

If there are more, he will be able to know what should be done.

At night, in the playback room, Li Chencan looked at the scenes he had taken during the day over and over again. Anyway, he would write down the ones he felt were inappropriate, and wait until tomorrow or when to make another shot or something... Then it would always happen.

There is a solution.

Li Chencan is doing such work.

After his work in the playback room was almost completed, he began to discuss some of the details of today's movie with Hou Qing, who managed some of the film's funds and coordination.

"A total of 124 extras returned to China by plane today." Hou Qing said to Li Chencan, "They should be able to arrive tomorrow morning."

Li Chencan nodded.

After entering the trenches and other battles after filming, there will be no need for five or six hundred extras, and Li Chencan will try to reduce the number of these people... Those who return to China will go back in batches according to arrangements

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Although I bought a unified large-volume discounted ticket, the round-trip travel expenses for each group performer were at least about 10,000... Therefore, the travel expenses for these guys alone were several million, not to mention other

All kinds of things... No wonder "Saving Private Ryan" cost so much money... A lot of things really don't make sense.

"We overspent again today." Hou Qing began to read to Li Chencan the places where he overspent today. Li Chencan was confused. If "Saving Private Ryan" continues to overspend like this, the situation will still be very bad...

"We have to speed up the filming schedule starting tomorrow." Li Chencan looked at the dark sky outside the window and felt a little depressed: "If we continue to toss around in Europe like this, I guess this little bit of money will be eaten up soon.

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After the movie was shot in Europe for twenty days, there were less than sixty actors left, and the scenes here were finally as efficient as possible, sometimes even exceeding the schedule in the shooting plan.

After all, everyone has some shooting experience and is completely familiar with the shooting of this movie. It is natural that the shooting progress will increase.

Finally, on May 19th, the European filming of "Saving Private Ryan" was finally completed!

The crew of "Saving Private Ryan" has also begun to return to China. During the filming in Europe, many people have lost a lot of weight. Li Chencan's figure is almost the same as before, but his eye circles have become very dark. Fortunately,

He doesn't need to participate in any activities, otherwise Li Chencan's current situation... it would really be a taboo for a star.

Li Chencan and Hou Qing are checking the total cost of "Saving Private Ryan" in Europe...

As a result, this number really shocked Li Chencan.

The scenery set up in Europe, the tax management of the local governments in Europe, the remuneration of the cast and crew, the cost of various equipment, and the various things consumed, including film and the like, including the crew's food, drink, and shit...

…All told, the one trip to Europe alone cost RMB 237 million!

Seeing this number, Li Chencan felt like his eyes were going dark.

"I'm going!"

Li Chencan cursed secretly in his heart without saying it out loud, and then he began to calculate the number.

237 million yuan, which is about 40 million more than what he set...

At the beginning, their plan was that the total cost of filming "Saving Private Ryan" would be about 400 million, Europe would be about 180 million, and China would be about 220 million (the remuneration would be based on the cast and crew's work in the two places)

Calculated by cost sharing)... But judging from the current situation, the cost of filming in Europe has seriously exceeded the standard.

But the entire investment in "Saving Private Ryan" is a whole. The shooting cost is about 400 million, the post-editing and production, review and management, etc. cost 100 million, which adds up to 500 million...the remaining 400 million investment costs

It's just for publicity...but at the current rate of spending, the money for publicity will definitely not be enough.

But in this era, if there is not enough money for publicity, it will really cost lives...

Therefore, Li Chencan is really sinking into thinking now...

The next thing to do is to reduce expenditures - open source cannot be opened, and it is basically impossible to have product placement in a movie like this during World War II.

But reducing expenditure... can only be achieved in some minor aspects. If you want to reduce expenditure in large areas, you have to give up the quality of the movie...

"Forget it, the remaining funds will be advanced from my studio first... I will send all the details of the financial report to several investors, and I will also urge them for the second phase of investment as soon as possible.

..." Li Chencan said to Hou Qing: "You should do a good job in coordinating the crew and do this well. I will worry about the money myself..."

Hou Qing could only nod. Li Chencan, despite his young age, was quite strong most of the time. He was also a person who said exactly what he said, and everyone was willing to listen to him. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature for more novels.

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