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"At present, 89 people have signed up for actor auditions, and most of them are unknown actors."

In the office, Michelle Williams, the casting director, told Murphy, "There are more people who have signed up for auditions for the heroine, more than a hundred people, including some famous stars."

Murphy nodded and asked, "Who is there?"

Before the audition was announced, the crew had revealed the role's salary, and the upper limit would not exceed half a million dollars. Such a salary would hardly attract the famous actress.

They participated in the audition only for other reasons, such as his appeal.

In this regard, Murphy will not be presumptuous, let alone him, any new work by a major Hollywood director will be the focus of media attention. Participating in such a work, the name will be mentioned in countless reports, even before Little actors who don’t have any media attention will also become the target of paparazzi and reporters.

If possible, the crew also wants to choose actors who have already become famous. Their charisma and richer work experience can also avoid a lot of unnecessary troubles in preparation and shooting.

Michelle Williams also understood this, took a look at the names specially marked on the list in his hand, and then said, "There are Blake Lively, Lindsay Lohan, Lupita Nyon O, Alexandra Daddario, Alicia Vikander..."

He suddenly glanced at Gal Gadot, who was sitting across from Murphy, "and Miss Margot Robbie."

Gal Gadot didn't say anything. Murphy lifted his chin, thought for a while, and said, "I agree to their auditions, except for Lindsay Lohan and Lupita Nyong'o."

"Okay." Michelle Williams crossed the two men off the list.

Like the kind of actors who do not meet the requirements at first glance, Murphy will not let the crew waste time on them. Lindsay Lohan is simply synonymous with trouble. There are countless Hollywood drug stars, but there is no such thing as her. There are few restraints. Lupita-Nyong'o is a black man. Murphy is insensitive to the use of the same troublesome black actors as the main role.

He didn't want his crew to have any scandals that discriminated against black actors in the future, and black actors were far from being as tall as they advertised.

In the impression, this Lupita Nyong'o is also very interesting. In the second year of winning the Oscar for supporting actress, before participating in the Oscars ceremony, she claimed to have prepared a pearl dress worth 150,000 US dollars and won countless prizes instantly. As a result of the media attention, this white dress with 6,000 pearls was stolen on the eve of the awards ceremony. The thief took off the two pearls from the dress and used it for identification. It turned out that the pearls were fakes. The angry thief then gave them to TMZ. The website broke the news, saying: "Lupita Nyong'o should be shown to the world."

This was also the biggest joke of the Oscars.

For other major roles, the crew needs older actors. Murphy asked Michelle Williams to Liam Neeson, Kevin Spacey, Christopher Waltz, Gary Oldman, Ralph Fiennes and other actors issued an audition invitation, and the specific candidates depend on the results of the audition.

Since there are so many actors who want to audition for the leading actors and actresses, the crew will first hold two auditions similar to auditions to eliminate those actors who do not meet the requirements.

Michelle Williams quickly left the office. When Murphy and Gal Gadot were left in the office, Gal Gadot suddenly said, "I invited David Robbie and Margot -Robbie comes to the house on weekends."

"Yeah." Murphy nodded. "You can handle these things."

He understood what Gal Gadot meant, and said, "As long as Maggie's audition works well, I will consider it."

Gal Gadot smiled and didn't say much. Margot Robbie and Murphy had a good relationship. It is said that they met a long time ago, and Murphy will definitely give her priority.

Hollywood also talks about relationships. Now that Margot Robbie signs up for an audition, when Murphy heard her name, he was actually considering the feasibility of her role as a heroine.

In this movie, the heroine is completely a vase-like existence. With Margot Robbie's appearance, conditions and acting skills that have been trained over the years, she is more than enough to play this role.

However, in the second part, the heroine will become more important and requires explosive performance. Margot Robbie's acting skills are still relatively young.

But in line with the principle of prioritizing his own people, as long as the effect of Margot Robbie's audition is not too bad, Murphy will use her.

The first audition was handed over to Michelle Williams, and Murphy put more energy on the planning of the entire project.

In the 20th century, Fox succeeded in financing from multiple sources. The film even started pre-sales in the international market under the banner of the masterpiece of "Murphy Stanton". It has to be said that Murphy's sign is quite easy to use today. , Many overseas issuers have gathered in Los Angeles, and the advancement of pre-sale funds is basically not a problem.

With the first batch of funds hitting the accounts of the third-party guarantee company, the preparatory work of the crew is also in full swing.

The base camp of the crew is still on the Venice Warehouse set under Stanton Studios. No matter where the crew uses the venue, they need to pay a certain venue fee. In this regard, Murphy will of course give priority to his own studio. He has always been Taboo things like'fertile water flowing into outsiders' fields.

After the assembly on the warehouse set, Murphy's director team was immediately divided into two parts. A small number of people assisted Michelle Williams in running the cast auditions, while others wrote more specific filming plans.

The most important thing is to write a sub-shot script and draw a sub-shot artwork, and to refine the shooting budget into each shooting scene.

At the same time, the crew is still recruiting behind-the-scenes staff. The departments in charge of Philip Raschel, Helena Espola and David Robbie all need to temporarily increase some staff.

Then, Gal Gadot flew to New York with a team of producers to investigate the location shooting locations and explore the feasibility of shooting on the streets of New York.

Then there are the necessary props production and equipment leasing. Murphy has detailed plans, and it is enough to have the heads of various departments in charge.

As a director, Murphy has enough understanding of the various tasks in the project, but today, he has enough funds and manpower to deploy, and many things will not be as hands-on as when he started. It is more about coordinating the overall situation, and trying its best to reasonably mobilize and allocate the preparatory tasks of various departments.

"In terms of props, the protagonist's Tao has special requirements."

On the second day after moving to the warehouse studio, Murphy deliberately brought in the prop designer Wells Brooks. It was the first time that the other party had cooperated with him. Of course, he had to warn him, "First of all, the protagonist’s outfit is black. Lord, you need to be able to reflect the texture of Kevlar's materials. In this regard, you should communicate more with Jack's styling department."

Wells Brooks nodded straight.

Murphy took a look at him, and he believed in the prop set solemnly recommended by Bill Rossis and CAA. After all, the props that CAA recommended to him is definitely not an ordinary prop artist.

Since the props team that had been working together broke away from the props industry and set up a special effects company, and switched to special effects production, Murphy could only seek a new props group.

"In addition, I need a motorcycle."

Earlier, Murphy had already handed over the concept sketch to the props team. At this time, he emphasized, "This motorcycle needs to have a very strong sense of technology."

Wells Brooks asked tentatively, "Can some science fiction elements be added to it?"

"You can add a little bit appropriately." Murphy raised a finger, "but it can't be divorced from reality. This is a realistic black crime movie, not a science fiction movie!"

"I know how to do it." Wells Brooks said cautiously. "I will design and build a reduced-scale model first."

"Yes." Murphy nodded. "Let's do it."

Since he chose to use this props team, of course he would give them a certain degree of autonomy.

Of course, the premise is that the motorcycle cannot look like a product of the world of science fiction. Realism and avoiding science fiction can be said to be the keynote of this film.

Murphy emphasized this point on the characteristics of the original crew preparatory meeting. The film is a noir crime film based on the real world, with the theme of showing the conflict of ideologies, rather than the popcorn science fiction film with serious homogeneity in Hollywood. .

From computers to appliances to transportation, some of the equipment in the film may be slightly ahead of the current era, but it will definitely not lead too much, and there will not be too much sci-fi sense. All props and background production must be based on The idea of ​​dark realism.

Darkness is Murphy's style. This darkness is not only the tone of the film, but also the theme. Realism is the basic requirement of shooting and production...

For the sake of realism, Murphy also plans to use film to shoot movies, using film to present a realistic texture, and he also asked Gal Gadot to contact the IMAX company, wanting some clips in the film to be shot with IMAX cameras.

At a cost of 150 million U.S. dollars, it is impossible to shoot too many IMAX lenses. In the final cost of Murphy's plan, 30 to 40 minutes of IMAX lenses will be enough.

In terms of displaying panoramic lenses, IMAX technology has unparalleled advantages.

However, such plans still need to be approved by Twentieth Century Fox. Although these plans were submitted to Twentieth Century Fox very early, there has been no specific feedback.

After Murphy called and urged, Twentieth Century Fox sent Carla Faith over, but sending her over was not for friendship, but for sending a message to Murphy.

When he came to Murphy's office in the warehouse studio, Carla Fess was not welcome, and directly proposed the 20th century Fox's vision.

"Can this movie be made into a 3D format?"