novelraw Chapter 175
Chapter 175
"CUT!"
As Josie accurately landed on the airbag several meters high from the beam on the roof, Jon Amir, the director of "The Sky Trap", quickly called out.
The staff stepped forward to confirm Josie's physical condition, and the insurance specialist of the third-party completion insurance was watching closely at all times, for fear that the Hollywood star might fall even a hair.
"I still think this should be a coherent shot." Josie climbed out of the airbag and sat in her own chair for the makeup artist to touch up.
The insurance specialist immediately became nervous, staring at Jon Amir, for fear that he would go along with Josie's crazy proposal.
Fortunately, Jon Amir, who was standing next to the machine, also expressed his disapproval: "No, it's too dangerous for your ankles, even if we use Wia, it can't guarantee that you will be as flexible as a professional gymnast flexible."
"Then ask a gymnast to act as a stand-in." Josie said without thinking.
"No way, we can't find a female athlete with your height." Jon Amir still shook his head, "Actually, we thought about this issue before we started filming, but we really couldn't find it."
In general, gymnasts are very petite in size, which makes their center of gravity much lower than normal people, and they are more stable when doing various gymnastic movements.
— in fact, not even male gymnasts are recommended to be taller than five foot five.
Qiao Qian didn't give up, she thought for a while and asked, "Are there any athletes who retired because of their sudden growth? Men are fine too."
"No." Jon Amir answered this question patiently but decisively, "Difficult and long-term gymnastics exercises affect normal growth and development, so those athletes who have practiced since childhood will not grow taller."
At the beginning, the crew was looking for professional gymnasts, but there was really no way to find them. In the end, they decided to find a sports star, but the effect was not very satisfactory.
Josie's physical coordination ability is more beautiful and coordinated than ordinary stunt actors due to her practice of equestrian, ballet, yoga and other sports. Will let the heroine take risks.
Yes, she has very high requirements for herself and the whole movie, and she probably wants to shoot every action scene in person, but the completion insurance commissioner is watching the scene. The Hollywood movie factory has always had a clear division of labor. No one would support her doing that, including director Jon Amir.
"I do all the stunts myself." - This is probably the most popular public lie of Hollywood stars during the promotion period.
During the filming of "007: Tomorrow Never Dies", the British actor Pierce Brosnan who played 007 had a total of four stand-ins, who filmed his stunts in four different places.
Josie has slightly fewer doubles, but there are also two. Among them, Sarah Reid, who is also young and beautiful, used to be a model and actress, but she only played some unknown small roles for many years, and she couldn't get along well in the circle. In his early days, he chose to switch careers as a stuntman.
After shooting this scene, Jon Amir asked Sarah Reid to play again, and performed a few scenes completely according to Josie's performance, mainly shooting the scene of jumping off the crossbeam, which will be recreated as needed in the post-production process Make a clip.
At this time, Josie was in charge of touch-ups and supervision-since she also served as the producer of the film.
Sarah Reed's physical condition is obviously slightly inferior to Josie's, mainly because of her personality and facial lines. However, she can stand out from countless actresses who are also five feet seven. Dazzling.
However, she received more than a dozen NGs in a row in the first scene, and her mentality suddenly collapsed. On the one hand, she was nervous, and on the other hand, she was worried that she might be fired.
"One more time!" Jon Amir yelled through the loudspeaker.
Seeing that the scene would not be completed for a while, Josie greeted the assistant director, changed into a pair of outdoor shoes and walked outside the castle to get some air.
The ancient castle surrounded by mountains and sea has a beautiful scenery, which has a sense of openness and vastness. The external structure made of stone has the imprint of history, and even the mottled walls and damp moss look meaningful and long.
Especially after the crew has been refurbished.
This place looks more like a place of historical interest, rather than the "dilapidated house" that Ernest said he wanted to sell at a discount.
——He is obviously more used to living in a low stone house in the town, and even carefully managed his own garden and creepers.
About 5 minutes later, Josie's assistant, Kelly, found her with the help of others, followed by a bespectacled man with short disheveled hair and a beard. It was Peter Jackson, the director of the Lord of the Rings series.
For most people in Hollywood, it is very stupid for Tianji Films to take over the Lord of the Rings project at a "sky-high price".
First of all, Peter Jackson, the director who is inseparable from this project, is just a director who specializes in making small-scale films, without any experience in directing large-scale projects or even fantasy films.
Secondly, the adaptation of the original Lord of the Rings is too difficult. It is a difficult problem to put the grand world view and language on the big screen, not to mention the sorting out and selection of the story line.
And, due to the consideration of the original scene, once this project starts, it must be shot back-to-back and completed in one go. This means that if the word-of-mouth and box office of the first part are not satisfactory, the subsequent two films will also have to work hard. Scalp screening.
All that said, without God's perspective, it's really not a high-quality project, even if Tolkien's original works have a wide readership.
And precisely because of this, Tianji Films, which took the initiative to come to take over the film, is even more valuable in the eyes of Peter Jackson-although this did not prevent him from contacting other production companies one after another.
This time Peter Jackson found time to find this remote English town from the busy preparatory work of the film in New Zealand. There are actually two reasons.
One was to wring out some more budget from his new boss—no director would think the movie budget was too high—and the other was to persuade the big star to play a role in the Lord of the Rings series.
Before Tianji Films took over the offer, Peter Jackson had passed the script and the invitation to Josie Horton's agent Martha Miller through the normal process, but it was obviously declined.
All right--
To be honest, it doesn't seem like a very good idea to let an A-list star who has swept the world come to the Lord of the Rings crew to play a role that doesn't have many roles and is barely a heroine.
But look at what she looks like now!
With perfect dark hair and deep blue eyes, it would be a shame not to play an elf princess in the movie!
Especially when she looks at the seaside alone, the wind stirs her black hair, she feels young but mysterious, beautiful and alienated, as if she is a small world of her own.
At this time, she looked back at the sound, smiled faintly, and said, "Hi, Mr. Jackson, nice to meet you."
"Hello." Peter Jackson was a little embarrassed, trying to organize his words, "I mean, call me PJ, boss."
Well, Hollywood directors also have their own small circle. After David Fincher, they are more accustomed to calling Josie: "Boss" rather than anything else.
——Maybe it's because calling the surname seems too formal, and calling the first name doesn't seem to be respectful enough?
The sea breeze in October was already chilling, so the group returned to the room immediately and found a quiet room that would not affect the shooting.
Peter Jackson opened his mouth and said, "Boss, I want to add more money."
"How much more?" Josie had already prepared mentally, "Is 5000 million enough?"
"Enough is enough!——I mean, enough for now." Peter Jackson was very surprised, took a peek at Josie's face, and immediately said boldly: "Boss, I chose to play Alvi's daughter-in-law." The actor is pregnant again, can you..."
"Pregnant again?" Josie couldn't help being stunned.
After being rejected by Josie's team, the actor Peter Jackson wanted was Uma Thurman, who became popular in "Pulp Fiction", but she was pregnant at the time and gave birth to the child more than three months ago. Not going to make a movie.
And now, it seems that the second actress who passed Alwyn's audition is also pregnant, which makes Peter Jackson have to find another actor to play the role of Alwyn.
"Yes." Peter Jackson replied with a guilty conscience.
Josie paused, and couldn't help raising her eyebrows slightly, "PJ, are you sure there is nothing wrong with our script? I remember you told me last time that Alison Doody, who was originally scheduled to play Eowyn, was also pregnant. gone."
"In fact—" Peter Jackson spread his hands, "Lucy Lawrence was also pregnant after reading the script."
Lucy Lawrence is a fellow New Zealander of Peter Jackson. Because of the explosive popularity of the TV series "Warrior Princess Xena", she is one of the well-known LGBTis today.
At that time, Peter Jackson was interested in inviting Lucy Lawrence to audition for another major female role.
Josie shook her head and laughed, and said, "Then I don't even want to read the script, after all, I'm still a happy bachelor."
This is already a decline.
Arwen is the elf princess Evening Star in the eyes of book fans, and is the official CP of the Emperor Aragorn. She doesn't appear many times in the original book - Tolkien did not focus on portraying female characters - but in the adaptation of the movie script, She has a slightly more role, but only a limited amount.
Peter Jackson opened his mouth, and before he could speak, she suddenly asked: "How about a direct audition? I remember that most of the roles have not yet been determined. We can cooperate with SKYY to launch a real person who is looking for the world of Middle-earth." Show... no, no, forget it, it would be too entertaining, but it would greatly damage the quality of the Lord of the Rings series."
—Oh my God, you just know.
"Yes, let's forget about the reality show." Peter Jackson breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately persuaded Josie persistently: "You really should take a good look at our script, boss, the scene about Alwen has been revised a lot This time, especially a circus is very important - I heard that you are very good at equestrianism, boss?"
Apparently, he had inquired about Josie clearly and revised the script accordingly.
Josie glanced at Peter Jackson with a half-smile, and said, "PJ, don't forget, if I take this kind of commercial film, my current price is at least 15M+15%, no matter how you look at it, it's not suitable. "
As a producer, she was unwilling to let a star with few roles take away such a large profit; and as a big star, it was obvious that Josie would wait until the Oscars were over or even after "The Trap" was released before Josie could make a better bid.
This seems very contradictory.