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Chapter 725 "Terminator" Filming Starts

The first season of "Star Academy" came to an end, leaving endless topics.

Lin Xiao didn't care about him.

Strictly speaking, "Terminator" is Lin Xiao's first blockbuster film!
Yes, the previous "Once Upon a Time" and "Dark War", both in terms of cost and scene, seem to be unable to compare with "Terminator".

"Terminator" is a science fiction film, but it is more about gun battles, car chases and other scenes.

And unlike "Dark War", there are very few battle scenes. On the contrary, "Terminator" is a movie, full of popcorn from beginning to end.

On the contrary, there are not so many literary dramas.

Therefore, it is naturally more difficult to shoot, especially for Lin Xiao, this is a huge challenge.

The mechanical skeleton and model aurora special effects of "Terminator" have been prepared and can be put into use.

And the investment budget of "Terminator" will exceed 1 million US dollars!
This can be regarded as the first major production of Lin Xiao's live-action movie with a cost of more than 1 million US dollars.

In fact, the star's salary is not too much. Kelly Logan received a friendly price of 1200 million US dollars plus 1% of the North American box office.

The other thing is that Lin Xiao's own director's salary is high, such as Xu Jin and Wu Fa and other protagonists, in fact, the total salary is not enough.

The biggest cost of "Terminator" is spent on special effects.

With such a large production, a grand new film launch conference is naturally indispensable.

And after the news that Lin Xiao was going to make a sci-fi film and invested more than 1 million US dollars, the outside of the Four Seasons Hotel was already full of media reporters.

The invited media can enter the press conference venue, but other tabloid and small media reporters can only wait outside.

The press conference process is very simple, it is to introduce the investment of "Terminator", and then the film's star lineup and leading actors will appear.

Then the focus is on the reporter's interview and questioning session.

"Director Lin, why did you choose to make such a robot-themed sci-fi film? Is it related to the two robot-related films "Robot Love" and "Time and Space" at the beginning of the year?"

"Actually, the idea was conceived a long time ago, but the source of inspiration did come from the film "Robot Love"." Lin Xiao talked eloquently.

"However, "Robot Love" has been complained by many people as a romance film disguised as a sci-fi film. Since "Terminator" is inspired by "Robot Love", does it have a similar theme?"

""Terminator" is a hardcore sci-fi film, and the theme is not love. Of course, there will definitely be no lack of love elements in the film."

"Can you tell me a little bit about the plot of The Terminator?"

"Of course there is no problem. "Terminator" tells the story of the future world after the nuclear war. Robots rebelled against humans and tried to rule the earth. Humans counterattacked. Among humans, there is a genius scientist who is researching a comprehensive method for robots. For this reason, the robot leader sent the Terminator robot T800 back to the past, trying to kill the scientist's mother, so as to prevent the emergence of human genius scientists."

"Humanity also sent elites back in time to protect the scientist's mother."

Lin Xiao's straightforwardness stunned all the media reporters, and this time Lin Xiao actually gave the outline of the plot directly.

Sure enough, "Terminator" is indeed different from "Robot Love", but it is somewhat like a combined version of "Robot Love" and "Time and Space".

In fact, the reason why there are no good sci-fi movies in Huaguo is not because the people of Huaguo lack brains, but because of various reasons.

The first reason is the rate of return on investment. The Huaguo film industry is not short of funds, but the premise is that there must be a return, at least with a high probability of return.

Otherwise, the investment is large and the risk is greater. Who would be willing to spend money to try?

The second is some sensitive background elements, which need to be resolved.

Of course, the most important thing is the question of money!

It's like "Space-Time Warfare" because it was reluctant to spend money, and the filming turned out to be miserable.

Although "Robot Love" has a sci-fi brand, in fact, it is at best a romance film with the future world as the background board.

Not to mention special effects, because the cost is there, and you expect to spend tens of millions to create dazzling special effects, and you think too much.

But "Terminator" is different. When the "Terminator" T800 robot model was unveiled, everyone couldn't help but shine.

Unlike the robot in "Robot Love", which is actually a real person, but some shots of robots were taken as metaphors, the robot model T800 is really full of technology.

The grades were immediately separated.

It is also a robot, but "Robot Love" rarely shows the robot in detail, and most of the time, it is just a flash.

And "Terminator" is different. In the follow-up plot, the outer skin of T800 is smashed, revealing the metal inner skeleton inside, and the hero and heroine are also hunted down.

This is not something that can be done with makeup alone.

However, the war between humans and robots in "Robot Love" actually seems a bit of a joke, and there is no big scene at all.

But "Terminator" runs through the whole film from beginning to end, gun battles, car chases, hand-to-hand combat, etc. This is an action science fiction film, not a love science fiction film.

Of course, it's not that no one has questioned why the two male protagonists are unknown in such a big production?
Xu Jin and Wu Fa weren't exactly right angles before.

In this regard, under Lin Xiao's gesture, Xu Jin took off his coat. After several months of fitness, Xu Jin's figure made many girls swallow their saliva.

Especially his expressionless face, coupled with his various bodybuilding moves, is simply not too lethal to women.

"Xu Jin, this is your first starring role, and you have never played a leading role before, are you sure you can play this role well?"

"Actually, I played the role of the robot leader in "Love of Robots" before. Although I am a villain, they are all robots. Director Lin found me because of my performance in "Love of Robots". Appropriate. I am also very confident that I can play the role of a ruthless killer robot."

Of course, Kelly Logan is also the one who has been interviewed the most. After all, she is the biggest name in the whole film.

"Well, I admit that the reason why I took this film has a lot to do with Lin, because he is a genius, and this is his first big production. I always think that successful people are always successful, so why? Why don't you agree?"

"Director Lin, the investment in "Terminator" exceeds 1 million US dollars, so how much do you think the final box office of "Terminator" will be?"

(End of this chapter)