Original title: Wu Jing Andy Lau talks about "The Wandering Earth 2": 15-meter deep filming is very scary, there will be a third part
There is still more than a week to be the most important Spring Festival stall of the year in the film market. On January 22 this year, seven blockbuster movies will be released at the same time, namely "The Wandering Earth 2" directed by Guo Fan and starring Andy Lau and Wu Jing; "Manjiang Hong" directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Shen Teng and Yi Yangqianxi; "Nameless" directed by Cheng Er and starring Tony Leung and Wang Yibo; "Chinese Table Tennis Jedi Strikes Back" directed by Deng Chao and starring Sun Li; Lei Jiayin and Zhang Xiaofei's "Exchange of Life", as well as two animated films "Deep Sea" and "Bear Haunted, Bear Core".
As of press time, several live-action movies have been launched for publicity, and "China Table Tennis" and "Manjiang Hong" have successively held advanced films, and the reputation is very good, while the other few have not yet seen the film, and the publicity is not idle.
For example, "The Wandering Earth 2" to be said today, with the influence of the previous work, the unique sci-fi theme, and the super large-scale production battle revealed in the early publicity, has always been regarded by the industry as the "seed player" of the Spring Festival box office champion, and there are even rumors that the theater will account for more than 40% of the films given by the theater on the first day of the New Year.
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I have to say that "The Wandering Earth 2" does have a champion phase, on the one hand, the previous work has a high box office, has a good audience base, and the sequel has an innate advantage; On the other hand, audiences still prefer to watch blockbusters when they go to the cinema, and "The Wandering Earth 2" meets the audience's cognition and expectations of blockbusters, so it starts high. However, even if the victory is in hand, the film side still does not slacken in publicity. Director Guo Fan with the starring Andy Lau and Wu Jing began to promote, in addition to shooting magazine covers, the three people also accepted media interviews, revealing a lot of unknown stories during the filming of "The Wandering Earth 2", the interview content is very long, we sorted out the key points.
Andy Lau: Wearing 1,000-degree glasses to act, I am very scared in my heart
Through the movie trailer and Andy Lau's interview, it can be learned that Tu Hengyu, who he played in "The Wandering Earth 2", is an engineer, thin and gray hair, and his eyes show depression and loneliness.
This is because Tu Hengyu lost his family and daughter because of a car accident. However, her daughter's thinking and memories are exported to the computer, and this setting has achieved Tu Hengyu and his daughter's unique way of communication, and there is a new concept called "digital life". In Andy Lau's view, for Tu Hengyu, digital life is hope, and it is also the core meaning of his final connection with his daughter and Tu Hengyu's survival. In Andy Lau's view, compared with love, life is short and small, and if digital life can alleviate the pain of life and death for living people, it may be worth considering.
Director Guo Fan knows that Andy Lau is a giant, during the filming process, Andy Lau brought his own light as soon as he arrived on the set, but limited by the role, Guo Fan must cover Andy Lau's light and turn him into an ordinary person, so in addition to clothing and styling, it is also specially designed for Andy Lau to wear thick myopic glasses, the power is as high as more than 1000 degrees, wearing this glasses, Andy Lau can hardly see clearly, but more realistic, more like an engineer.
In addition, Andy Lau also revealed the shooting process, the heavy spacesuit is very uncomfortable to wear, he has to wear two layers of gloves, his fingers are not flexible, it is very difficult to operate small parts, and he can only practice more. And there are underwater scenes in the movie, the diving suit is 30 pounds heavier than the spacesuit, and the whole person and the scene have to sink ten to fifteen meters underwater, and also simulate shaking, Andy Lau said that he is very afraid of sinking underwater, fortunately, this fear happens to be needed by the plot. It can be seen that Andy Lau filmed "The Wandering Earth 2" really hard.
Wu Jing: The production is a big improvement from the previous one, and there will be a third one
As we all know, Wu Jing is the core of "The Wandering Earth 3", the last box office hit was attributed to Wu Jing, and there was no money before the movie was finished, it was Wu Jing who extended a helping hand and invested in Guo Fan to achieve "The Wandering Earth".
So in the sequel, Wu Jing knows the series very well and has the right to speak, he revealed that this time the shooting is much better than the first one in terms of process, scene and prop details. The realism of the props is very visible to the naked eye. The first part can only be regarded as a handicraft workshop, which was still tinkering before filming, and the aviation suit was also produced with the help of Weta Digital, which cost a lot of money. In the sequel, these have improved, and now it only takes a minute to put on a spacesuit.
In addition, Wu Jing also said in the interview: "Guo Fan said that he would continue to shoot the third part, and I told him that I wanted to challenge how you want me to live, anyway, I don't know, continue to look forward to it." It can be seen that the "Wandering Earth" series has begun to plan the third part, and it is still starring Wu Jing.
Guo Fan: I was so tired that I was hospitalized, and I only slept 4 hours a day for 45 consecutive days
The director is the core of the film, Guo Fan is like a big parent in the process of filming "The Wandering Earth 2", he does everything himself, he drinks 5 large cups of coffee every day, only sleeps for 4 hours, and is even tired to the point of hospitalization.
Moreover, sleeping only 4 hours a day lasted for about 45 days. Because Andy Lau's Tu Hengyu and Wu Jing's Liu Peiqiang have few rival scenes in the movie, the two lead their respective main lines, and the film was filmed for a total of more than 170 days, in order to catch up with the schedule, there were up to four scenes a day, and possibly overseas shooting. In this way, Wu Jing and Andy Lau will be filmed on the same day. Guo Fan can only shoot 8 hours for Wu Jing, 8 hours for Andy Lau, and it takes two or three hours to transition in the middle, so there are four hours left, Guo Fan still has to go to the editing room to see the material shot that day, can only sleep a little, and start a new day.
In addition, Guo Fan also explained why "The Wandering Earth 2" did not continue the story of the previous one, but made a prequel. He said that when he was "The Wandering Earth", he did not dare to challenge how the "Wandering Earth" started, because the difficulty was too high. Guo Fan led the screenwriting team to write a 100-year chronicle of the worldview, and the last one was just a screenshot of the Earth's passage through Jupiter. And only to build the world view, 200,000 words were written, then "The Wandering Earth 2" should also be preparing for subsequent works, giving all the details and settings to the source, consolidating the world view, in order to better go back.
At the production level, Guo Fan used more advanced production technology. Two months before the official start of filming, the production team shot the entire film in a virtual shooting way, turning the script into a complete, visual cartoon, all in accordance with the normal shooting method of framing, setting up the camera, by the staff first simulate the actor to complete the position, dynamic capture, and so on before the official shooting, all the staff and actors need to see this version, so that the efficiency of on-site shooting is very high.
And the final presented feature film, in fact, the proportion of special effects is still not very high, Guo Fan frankly said, still not up to Cameron's "Avatar" level of special effects, so in order to highlight the sense of realism, the film is still more using live-action shooting, using large devices, robotic arms, UI control sources, 3D printing of a large number of simulation props, etc., and even some props require thousands, tens of thousands of parts, the assembly process is a spectacle.
In fact, in my opinion, the significance of the "Wandering Earth" series has gone beyond the movie itself, Guo Fan has a very positive impact on the entire film industry, and is also completing important explorations of sci-fi themes, wishing "The Wandering Earth 2" box office success.