<h1>The three main actors of "Global Storm", Gerald Butler, Jim Sturges and Abby Cornish, are guests of Time.com, from the film itself to the love of music, from the perception of "disaster" to the experience of shooting on set, they share many interesting details behind the film. </h1>
(This article is from the first station of film and television life Time Network)
Time Network Los Angeles News When it comes to the stout Scottish actor Gerald Butler, the deepest impression in the audience's mind is probably the muscular Spartan king Leonida in "300 Warriors". In recent years, with the frequent release of blockbusters such as "God War: Eye of Power", "The Fall of London", "The Fall of Olympus" and other blockbusters in Chinese mainland, gerald, who is about to be 48 years old, is also slowly on the road to becoming a new generation of action movie superstars in the hearts of Chinese fans.
In "Global Storm," a new film that just landed in Chinese mainland theaters yesterday, Gerald plays a scientist with a heart for space, trying to expose a government conspiracy while also dealing with his relationship with his brother and daughter. In an interview with Time.com before the film's release, Gerald talked about the director Dean Devlin, whom he admired so much, and that it was particularly painful to hang Wea in a spacesuit all over the time, and that the source of the disaster film masterpiece "Global Storm" turned out to be an unintentional remark from the director's younger daughter.
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Mtime: Speaking of director Dean Devlin, what was the first thing that came to your mind?
Gerald Butler: Dean Devlin is the character I play, and he's Jack Lawson, very smart, tech-savvy, tech fan, passionate. I enjoyed listening to him tell stories, talk about technology, talk about ideas, he was really passionate. I'm one of those people too, so we're like two kids together. When I think of him, the first thing that comes to mind is his series of excellent works. All of a sudden, I was working with him, not only as a screenwriter, but also as a director.
I really can't believe it, you see, I'm actually working with Dean. He's like my idol, and now we're actually working together. We became very good friends and I admired his approach. The whole movie was actually inspired by a sentence from his daughter, who said: Dad, can we make a machine to stop global warming? It was a very interesting idea, so he thought of "global storms" and scientists, and his younger brother was a politician and his older brother was a scientist.
Spartan King Leonida in 300
Mtime: Most of your scenes are in space, which scene was the most difficult for you to shoot? After all, you've also shot a lot of action special effects blockbusters.
Gerald: It was really painful to shoot for a few days because there were a lot of weas hanging. Hanging Weiya is actually not so hard, depending on what kind of drama you are acting. But if you're pretending to be weightless, and you're wearing a spacesuit, you're still in an exploding space station.
They'll hang you upside down with Via, and you'll do all sorts of weird moves over and over again, and you'll have to look relaxed and relaxed. The days of these shoots were painful, and one of the spacesuit weighed 70 pounds. I wore it for five weeks, five weeks of WIA drama and spacesuit scene, and I really couldn't shoot it at the end.
Mtime: What do you think is the biggest surprise that this film has brought to the audience?
Stills from Global Storm
Gerald: I think the film is not only about surprising the audience, but it's also very impressive. It's a very exciting and interesting story, shocking, scary, very immersive, but ultimately makes you think. How far is this story from reality?
But you don't have to worry, you can still sit comfortably in the cinema, see heroism, see solutions, see everyone unite and meet challenges. I think what amazes the audience most is how real it all is, although the story is set twenty years later, but if someone tells you that the climate will be completely out of control in twenty years, you may think it is ridiculous, but in fact there was a similar disaster two weeks ago.
Jim Sturges is still full of babyface in Global Storm
In "Global Storm", in addition to the absolute male protagonist Gerald Butler, Jim Sturges, who plays his younger brother Max, should not be underestimated. The handsome guy who is nearly 40 years old has an ageless baby face, and in "Another Boyn's Girl", "One Day" and "Cloud Atlas", he plays with various goddesses including Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Pei Doona, all of whom have a good performance, and who is cp is not in conflict.
Before starring in the film, Jim, born in London, England, was a young man who loved music and was a member of the band "Saint Faith", constantly participating in small roles in some TV series as his financial source. But later, after discovering that his passion for acting surpassed that of music, Jim transformed into an actor with the music "Across the Universe". In an interview with the time network reporter, he still has the same original intention, and he still thinks about going to New Orleans to play a rap battle!
Abby played the secret agent who protected the president in Global Storm
Come to think of it, "Global Storm" is actually a bunch of foreigners playing the role of Americans - as mentioned earlier, Gerald is from Scotland, Jim is English, and Abby Cornish, who plays the girlfriend of "brother" Max, is from New South Wales, Australia. Abby, who began modeling at the age of 13, is probably born with a god to eat, and when she first debuted, she was once called "Little Nicole Kidman". And Abby, the "little sweet bud" in "Pretty Girl Task Force", makes people remember this sexy blonde chick. Abby shared with reporters the experience of participating in the disaster blockbuster, and what she cares about most in her heart is her own two dogs!
Mtime: It's Dean Devlin's directorial debut, but he's also had experience working on all kinds of disaster special effects blockbusters, and I'd like to ask you what you think about that kind of film.
Abby Cornish: Let's give the microphone to Jim Sturges!
Jim in "One Day" is amazingly handsome
Jim Sturgis: I think Dean is definitely a good candidate for a disaster blockbuster. It's an area he's familiar with, and he's brilliantly presented the story on the big screen. Through this film, he mentions some very real problems, and at the same time gives the film a strong entertainment and conveys some very important messages. I think he's done a great job, after all, he's played a big role (producer) in blockbusters like Independence Day, and you can work with him with confidence.
Abby: I feel the same way, the film is very attractive from the beginning, the story takes place in a global change... Range, @#¥% (can't say anymore)... This section can be cut into funny tidbits, you will do the tidbits, right? It's a story that takes place on a global scale, even touching outer space, and it feels very modern. The story is set in the future, I like technology, and I am half a technical house, so it feels very cool to be able to participate in such a film involving various advanced technologies.
Mtime: There's a scene in the trailer about driving away from disaster, where Abby is driving, but in real life, who of you drives more reliably?
Jim: In real life, I would be willing to let Abby drive me, but I would be scared to death.
Abby is sexy and beautiful in "Pretty Girls" team
Abby: Aha, that's true. But if the kids were in the car, I would drive with care. I'm talking about children who are my two dogs, and when the dogs are in the car, I'll be very careful and instantly switch to the least attentive driver in history. But if it's our little Jimmy in the car, hahahahaha, that's it.
Mtime: In addition to acting, both of you have your own music careers, have you considered working together on film soundtracks?
Jim: I'd love to have a couple of rap battles in New Orleans.
Abby: Yeah, we also hang out with Win (Butler) from The Arcade Fire, and one night I saw Andy Garcia and a Cuban band playing tambourine.
Jim: That's right, Andy is very good at percussion.
Mtime: You guys should form a Global Storm band.
Jim: Yeah.
Abby: We still have time.
From left are directors Dean Devlin, Abby, Gerald, Jim and Teresa Bateman, who plays Gerald's daughter
"Global Storm" Time Network Exclusive Film Review:
Disaster movies play a new trick
The sci-fi disaster movie "Global Storm" adds a little originality to the kind of characters and plot content that makes people feel familiar and clichéd, creating a mainstream action-adventure movie that is friendly to the audience, so that people don't have to use any brains when watching, pure entertainment is enough. The film's special effects production level is passed, but because the director is a screenwriter, the storyline is more controlled.
Disaster movies can't be seen by everyone, from "Tornado" to "The Day After Tomorrow" to "2012", the earth has suffered many heavy blows. Disaster films start from the environment, obviously with the theme of promoting environmental protection, and wanton destruction of the environment will only lead to self-inflicted consequences. "2012" directly cleaned the entire earth, and this later disaster film could not be started. "Global Storm" finally found a new entry point, that is, human beings invented satellites to control the weather, but such high-tech was used by bad guys with ghost fetuses, thus launching a "defense war on the earth" in the earth and space.
The wisest part of "Global Storm" is to add elements of political thrillers, the conspiracy of the top management of the US government involves the lives of hundreds of millions of people, such a setting is rare in disaster films, and who is behind the scenes has become a suspense, attracting the audience to follow the protagonist all the way to reveal.
The film focuses on Jack Lawson (Gerald Butler), a passionate, intelligent, but stubborn scientist. After several natural disasters hit Earth hard, Jack organized a small team of members from 18 countries to create a series of satellites that could control the environment, popularly known as the Dutch Boy, which prevented extreme weather from occurring.
For disobeying the organization's arrangement, Jack was expelled from the project. A few years later, his younger brother Max (Jim Sturges), who works for the U.S. Department of Defense, returns Jack to the project because a series of "accidents" in different parts of the world have led to extraordinary weather conditions and disasters on Earth. When Jack is sent back to the International Climate Space Station (ICSS), where the Dutch Boy is located, he discovers that the system he invented did not go wrong, but was used as a weapon, and disguised the series of malicious actions as a malfunction.
Who is behind the scenes, and who is it good to destroy the planet? Carefully analyzed, such a black hand behind the scenes is obviously a high-level level of the US government, and it is difficult for ordinary people and business groups to touch such aerospace technology, and there is no need to do things that destroy the world.
The film is Dean Devlin's directorial debut, and in the 1990s, Dean worked as a screenwriter on four films with German-born director Roland Emmerich – Reinventing The Warrior, Cosmic Soldier, Independence Day, and Godzilla. Whether audiences love or hate them, these films have left a strong mark on the global box office charts and the spirit of the pop culture era. The commercial success of "Global Storm" is not as high as the above films, but it is self-contained, becoming a forgettable entertainment consumption work on the big screen today, and it is also the epitome of our era of anxiety.
Wu Yanzu starred as a staff member in the Hong Kong office in "Global Storm"
The cast of casts from different countries in Global Storm makes the film's diversity both grounded and real, with Alexandra Maria Lana (Romania), Akhno De Bozi (Mexico), Amor Wacod (Egypt) and Adepero Oudouye (Nigeria) all members of the International Climate Space Station, while Wu Yanzu, as the overseer of the "Dutch Boys" project in Hong Kong, has a small but important role.
If solving the central mystery of the film (who exactly weaponized the Dutch boy", why?) It's not that hard, but Global Storm has the advantage of at least confronting society's growing concerns about the relationship between humans and the environment. It is worth noting that the interpretation of brotherhood and father-daughter relationship, the film is both unique and interesting, subverting people's expectations of traditional relationships in movies. In the film, the older brother is the irresponsible one, and he has slowly learned to trust his younger brother and work with his younger brother to better find his own value.
There are many scenes in the film that destroy the world
As an entertainment blockbuster, "Global Storm" will give people a movie experience that forgets their troubles. If Dean could put his design of the Destruction of Earth scene beyond the technical execution aspect (the film's special effects are OK, nothing groundbreaking, but still some impressive shots), he can still show that he is still a talented screenwriter in terms of fascinating structure and plot.
Time.com reporter interviewed Gerald Butler on set:
Gerald Butler
It was sunny in Los Angeles, and Gerald Butler was upset, but it had little to do with the weather. The day reporters met Butler was Oct. 5, a week and a half before his motorcycle accident. A week and a half later, a car made a u-turn that caused Butler's motorcycle to rush off the road, causing him to fracture five fractures in his right foot and tear the meniscus. But on the afternoon of Oct. 5, the 47-year-old actor was beset by the pressure of other things.
Butler had a good friend who had just had colon cancer surgery on the first day, so when he was interviewed by the Time Network reporter at the Beverly Hills Hotel Suite, he was a little out of shape and had been busy checking his mobile phone information, and the reporter understood this and thought that this proved that Butler was a person who cared about his friends. When he finally received news from a friend that he was recovering well and could walk on the ground, Butler put down his phone with peace of mind and conducted the following interview with reporters about his new movie "Global Storm".
The film, the directorial debut of Dean Devlin, one of the writers of Independence Day and Godzilla, takes place in the future, where environmental degradation has led to the intensification of natural disasters, so countries around the world have worked together to create a powerful network of meteorological satellites that can control the weather. But a sudden failure of the satellite network began to attack the earth, destroying everything in the meteorological catastrophe that swept the world. With the development of events, the conspiracy and man-made disaster behind the catastrophe also began to surface, making the protagonist's salvation journey face a more severe test.
Butler plays the male protagonist Jack Lawson, the creator of the satellite defense system, who was expelled from the project for disobeying the organization's arrangements. When someone began tampering with the system, unleashing natural disasters and threatening the safety of the planet, Lawson was called back to take on the high-risk job and sent to repair the system in outer space to stop the disaster.
Butler fell wherever he went
Yes, for Butler, special effects-based disaster films like Global Storm are already his best plays.
When asked how much the visual effects in the film affected his performance and the portrayal of Jack Lawson, Butler looked back on his previous role experiences and compared them. "Sometimes visual effects can add to your acting skills or take you in the right direction," Butlerton continued.
"But when I made 300 Warriors [directed by Zach Schneider], I was very eager to know exactly what kind of world I was in and what was in front of my eyes. But sometimes we see nothing but a green screen, which is frustrating.
In Global Storm, Dean did a great job of this and was very helpful, he showed us what the scene looked like before we went to the set, and then did a lot of set construction, and then the film just used CGI technology to expand it even bigger. What Dean shows us immediately makes you understand what this movie is going to present, and makes you feel like, 'These look really cool, and I'm really in this world,' which is much more helpful than simply explaining it to you, and won't let your performance go astray. ”
Who remembers that "Phantom of the Opera"? ”
"I've made a lot of films that have only one green screen and the rest are all done by CGI, and to be honest, when I see the world that was made up of special effects, I wasn't very satisfied." Butler shrugged and continued, "But with these measures like Dean's, I can really feel the whole story and believe what's going on inside."
After reading the script again, I have basically figured out the details inside, and I have some formed frameworks in my head. Also, Dean was really the best collaborator, he brought me into the play in the best way possible, and he allowed me to do extra performances outside of the script.
In the beginning, before we set up this crew, only Skydance and he and I worked on the script. I really admired The Dead Dean, he was simply the most talented, intelligent, and admirable person in the world, and he made me have the desire to play the role of Lawson on the first day. And he also told the other production company directly about my financial value, he said, 'Maybe whoever can do this play, but their cost is higher, but the return on revenue is only a little bit.' Butler laughed and said, "This move was so surprising to me that I will never forget it." ”
That's true, especially after the success of 300 Warriors, Butler's name was linked to films with conservative budgets, such as Law-Abiding Citizen (directed by F. Gary Gray). He also acted in romance or comedies, such as The Bounty Hunter, The Ugly Facts, Notes: I Love You, and more. In recent years, Butler's most impressive feature has been his "Fall" series of films, which feature terrorist attacks, use CGI to create a disaster scene, and then rely on him to save the world.
Stills from The Fall of London
In 2013, The Fall of Olympus grossed $99 million in North America and $71 million in the rest of the world. The film's sequel, The Fall of London, was released in 2016, which dropped to $63 million in the United States but rose to $143 million internationally (including $52 million in China). This achievement will inevitably lead the producers to continue to launch the third part of the series, Angels Fall, which has been launched in the middle of this year and is expected to be released in 2018.
Back to Global Storm, the film gave Butler and Dean Devlin the opportunity to work together and allowed him to actually "experience" a natural disaster. "It's a little strange to say, but it's as if I'm really seeing every picture of floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, like I've been through the process for 1,000 hours, and I'm still fascinated by it." For me, the scariest thing inside is the tsunami because it can sweep everything away. Hurricanes can also wreak terrible havoc, but they don't take away too many lives, and tsunamis can really kill thousands of people at once. ”
However, Butler said he was more touched by the brotherhood in the film than the natural disaster. In Global Storm, the relationship between the older brother Jack and the younger brother Max is not that of the older brother taking care of the younger brother as in the tradition, but rather the relationship between the two of them is reversed. "It touched me a lot — Jack always thought his brother did everything he did, always expecting him to help him clean up the mess." Butler said, "It was this that made Jack always hot-headed and arrogant, and finally Max said, 'No, I'm not going to do this this time, be mature.'" This is also one of the themes of the film. ”
Toward the end, the reporter asked Butler if the storyline also reminded him of the "struggle" between him and his brother in his life, and Butler replied: "One thing, there are some problems between me and my brother (brother), but in general we are still very close. We were doing different things, and he didn't want to do what I was doing at all. He was proud of me, but as soon as he mentioned what I had done, he felt like he had seen a ghost. Of course, I don't want to do what he does at all, so the two of us are two very different kinds of people. ”
Barrett smiled happily, "But I have two friends who are very similar to me, and they make me remember who I am, what kind of person I want to be, and I am the same for them." And sometimes the two of them help me with my plays, because our jobs are the same, one of them is an actor and the other is a director. We work in the same profession, so we can understand each other. For example, in this movie, they gave me a lot of references to shape my role. ”
It seems that friends play a vital role in Butler's life, both in inspiring his art and feelings in his heart.
Time.com reporter interviews Jim Sturges on set:
Jim Sturges looked dumbfounded
Jim Sturgis, who played the male lead in the 2007 love song and dance film "Across the Universe", has since contributed better acting skills in the crime thriller "Blackjack", Peter Weir's "The Way Back", "One Day" with Anne Hathaway in 2011, and the 2012 science fiction masterpiece "Cloud Atlas". This brilliant British actor played one of the male protagonists in "Global Storm", Max Lawson, the younger brother of Butler's Jack Lawson, and the two of them want to repair meteorological satellites together to prevent the disaster from destroying humanity.
Also at the Beverly Hills Hotel, time-based reporters also interviewed Jim Sturges about his relationship with Global Storm.
Mtime: When you get a project like this, how much detail do you need to know in advance about the special effects and the final effect of the film to guide your work on the acting side?
Jim Sturgis: In production meetings and rehearsals before filming, they usually have a whole wall of that big "mood board" with notes written on it that makes it very clear what the film hopes to achieve visually, and it gives you a strong inspiration about where you're going. Dean had sent me a bunch of pictures early on showing what those storms looked like and what he envisioned in the movie.
Later, when I got to the set, I was amazed to see the scale of the construction, and the set was more impactful than anything else. Usually people will be part of the simulated scene, most of the part is replaced by green screen, but Dean built a set far larger than that. When we shot the SCENE on the NASA space station in New Orleans, it was really shot on a huge shelf, and it was really exciting, and the moment you knew you were making a blockbuster.
Mtime: You have a lot of rivalry with Abby Cornish in the film, and the two of you have a romantic relationship in it, but it seems that before shooting such a plot, you only had one or two days to brew such a relationship, in order to ensure that the chemistry in between will succeed, how do you do it?
Jim Sturges: You have to make sure you're in a fun environment, especially when you're in a relationship where the characters in the story have backstories that you haven't actually experienced, and you try to focus on the storyline and get as much more information about the characters as possible. Then two people have to get along well and create a pleasant atmosphere together, if you treat it negatively it is not good, your job is to make the relationship look like the real thing, so it is important to maintain positive energy on the set.
Mtime: I think one of the things that's really interesting about Global Storm is human conceit. Humans built an astonishing technological system that could control the weather, but they did the wrong thing afterwards. Sometimes the human mind is always a little radical, so how do you think about the behavior of human beings after making a great invention without thinking about the negative effects that the invention may have on humanity years later?
Natural disasters caused by humans
Jim Sturgis: It's interesting, it's human nature, we're created, and through years of learning, we learn to invent, to think about the environment in which we live. We don't have wings or giant teeth, so as human beings we are more about inventing tools and thinking with our brains. The boundaries of the universe are endless, but I felt scared when I first started reading geography to understand this fact.
While science is always improving, I don't know how humans will learn to manipulate the weather, or how long it will be before we master the technology. Still, when someone writes this idea into a movie script, it's scary, and you think, "Oh my God, is this going to happen?" "But I think it's more important to be able to solve the basic problems as much as possible, that we are the only species with autonomous consciousness, the only creatures that can imagine the future and look back at history."
So we have a choice, an extremely critical choice. We can use our incredible inventive power to create a world that lives in harmony with nature and relies only on solar and wind energy, and I believe that if it succeeds, it will be an amazing progress. If there is more money to invest, it is not hopeless, and the more people discuss it, the more likely it is to succeed.
Jim and Andy Garcia were in the taxi
Mtime: I know it's strange that Butler has one in the film, which is physically more difficult. I know you don't have such a strange scene in it, but I still want to ask where is the hardest part of the whole process for you?
Jim Sturgis: There are some scenes in the film where I want to talk about large sections of dialogue, which are very technical scientific terms, which you would not talk about in ordinary life, not the kind of dialogue that is very ordinary, which is very challenging for me. There's also a scene in a taxi that tells the story of us being stuck in a car for days.
Jim's costume in Cloud Atlas is changeable (the latter one is)
At this time, we have to give full play to our imagination, because there is actually no storm or anything like that outside, and this scene seems to be the most interesting part of the script, but it is also a part that is difficult to shoot as a whole. We were actually surrounded by a green screen, pushed forward by two people, and you could still see them in the window. The rest of the scenes are very simple, because most of them take place in the White House or at home or on the street. Compared to my play, Butler's role is indeed more special.
Mtime: The relationship between Max and Jack gives the film some different feelings, and I know you actually have a brother, so does that relationship in it cause you to remember brotherhood in real life?
Jim Sturgis: The relationship between me and my brother (brother) is completely different from the relationship between the two people in the film, my brother is a gentle and kind-hearted person, the more calm and considerate one between the two of us. I'm more like the kid who always loves to find things, we always fight when we were kids, and these memories will always grow up with you, which I later saw in my friends' children. In Global Storm, I was drawn to the relationship between two people, both of whom were initially obsessed with their own struggles with each other.
I don't know if you know about the Gallagher brothers in Oasis, they probably have a struggle that all the British know, so for me and Butler, we both used these two people as references. One is more rational, one is more emotional; one is more extroverted, one is more cautious and careful, this is the template of the two characters in the film.
Oasis Band
The two of us were a completely different pair of brothers from ordinary people, and Butler was a more casual person inside, who was addicted to alcohol because he could not stand the death of our parents, and during this time as a younger brother, I could only take on the responsibility of taking care of him.
Mtime: Do you have a good relationship with the commercial fate of a movie?
Jim Sturgis: There are some films that you make that you know very well that it's not going to have a large audience, whether it's its subject matter, the size of the scenes and the budget, and not all films have the potential to attract audiences like Global Storm. But I don't have a very clear set of rules for how I choose a script, usually just a special reason for me to make a choice, and that reason is different every time.
Mtime: Wanting the work to be seen by more people is a legitimate desire for any actor, so wouldn't it be hard for you to accept that if the situation doesn't turn out to be what you want?
Jim Sturgis: I've made a lot of films that don't get a big audience, and there are some of them that you really want to be seen, and almost everybody has a lot of confidence in those films, but in the end they don't get what they want. I think I'm just used to believing that anything is possible, but not everything is as good as you think. I'm pretty bland about this kind of thing, really, and accumulating experience is more important to me. As for whether it sells after the auction, it is not within your control at all, I see it very lightly.
The Other Pauline Girl
I don't care too much about it or worry about it, but of course you want your proud work to have a chance to be seen by more people. It's a big thing for me to be able to star in Global Storm this time, everyone on the crew is trying very hard to present this work to a wider audience, and there's something interesting in this film that's about a story that involves people all over the world, and a lot of people are involved, which is cool.
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