Millennium director

October 8th, Los Angeles, sunny.

Wu Yuan's transoceanic flight was delayed for more than an hour and landed at Los Angeles International Airport.

This time it was no longer John who came to pick him up at the airport, but the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

"Director, the actors are all here. We will take the makeup photos tomorrow and the official shooting will start on the 13th!"

Listening to the progress report reported by the staff, Wu Yuan nodded without any comments.

For him, the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" was just a job to earn extra money, and he also used chickens and eggs to cultivate his own crew.

Thinking of this, Wu Yuan, who was resting in the car with his eyes closed, opened his eyes: "Have all the arrangements been made for the Chinese staff sent a few days ago?"

"The coordination has been arranged, and they are all working as assistants." The staff immediately introduced.

Wu Yuan nodded and said no more.

Jerry finally defended him.

Although Jerry promised Wu Yuan that he could bring people into the crew to study, he had to join the crew after the official filming started, which meant that he could only join the crew with Wu Yuan.

Wu Yuan’s people were not allowed to participate in advance in the crew’s preparatory work, including the creation and arrangement of props and scenes, the preliminary preparation and production of special effects, and the design and customization of costumes.

Because these things involve the entire Hollywood film industry system. Without the various art teams, clothing factories, and industrial prop departments that serve large-scale movies, it would be impossible to do all this well.

Jerry was not afraid that Wu Yuan would send people to learn how to work on-site in Hollywood, how to allocate positions reasonably, and how to run the crew in a more streamlined manner, but he was only allowed to learn these things.

No matter how many things there are, they cannot be taught by paying a little tuition.

Fortunately, Wu Yuan had no intention of learning the Haolaiwu system. These things cannot be learned by more than twenty people.

He really just wants to cultivate an elite crew for himself that can catch up with Hollywood level.

As for domestic film industrialization and systematization, it will take at least ten years to start promoting it. It is impossible to think about flying before you have learned how to walk.

The domestic staff sent to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" crew this time are all young people selected by Wu Yuan from the Beijing Film Studio, Qingying Film Studio, and Xinyang Film Studio.

As private capital enters the film industry, the first to be affected are the major state-owned studios in the country.

Although it will not be as severe as the wave of layoffs in state-owned enterprises in the 1980s and 1990s, it is certain that major state-owned factories will go into decline.

Under such circumstances, if Wu Yuan wanted to recruit a group of people to form his own crew, it would not be too easy!

As a well-known domestic and even international director currently second only to Zhang, Chen and Jiang, Wu Yuan's name is the biggest attraction.

Even though his company "Light and Shadow Times" is just an empty shell for the time being, he easily signed contracts for more than 20 crew members, and they signed them for five years.

Yes, the leather bag company established by Wu Yuan in China has finally begun to become formalized.

This company called "Light and Shadow Era" was first established when "The Night the Comet Came" was released in order to facilitate the establishment of public accounts and separate settlements with China Film.

For a long time after that, the company even borrowed finance from China Film Group and had no permanent employees.

However, in the past few months since Wu Yuan returned to China, he finally built the bones of this company while taking a break.

Not only have qualified financial and cashiers been found, the company now has more than 20 employees.

All the staff members sent to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" crew are employees of Light and Shadow Times, and they will work exclusively for movies produced by Light and Shadow Times in the future.

Of course, for the time being, this company will only participate in Wu Yuan's own film investment work. In fact, they are working for Wu Yuan alone, and their nature is similar to that of Zhang Yimou Studio.

We have to wait until the policy is formalized next year before Light and Shadow Times will be eligible to participate in film production and distribution.

Wu Yuan and the more than 20 employees are not in a hurry. The production of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is not expected to be completed until February or March next year.

Even if Wu Yuan wants to film a new movie next year, it will only be in the second half of the year.

After resting for a night to adjust to the time difference, the next day, Wu Yuan, led by the assistant Jerry assigned him, arrived at the filming location for the final makeup photos of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

As soon as he entered the studio door, Wu Yuan saw Johnny Depp wearing a classic "Jack Sparrow" costume, holding a gun in one hand and a bayonet in the other, grinning broadly.

"Hey, Depp, those four gold teeth of yours are so cool!" Wu Yuan praised without hesitation.

He was really moved by Johnny Depp's professionalism. In order to make the character more suitable for the image of a "pirate", he specially asked a dentist to insert 4 gold teeth for himself, one 14K gold and one 18K gold. One is 22K gold, and the last one is white gold.

This is really four teeth extracted and then put in gold teeth!

With this dedicated attitude alone, Johnny Depp is definitely qualified to become the soul of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series!

Depp naturally knows Wu Yuan.

Although Wu Yuan has been away from the United States for a long time, everyone on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" crew knows the chief director.

Huang Bo has a good saying, when you become famous, you will be surrounded by good people.

Now Wu Yuan is not considered a small director in Hollywood. Although his films have not been released in the United States since "Juno", he has won many awards!

The whole crew is looking forward to the Berlin Best Director and Oscar Best Director nominee to dominate the crew.

"Daniel, you are finally here." Although Depp was a bit introverted and shy, he still took the initiative to step forward and hug Wu Yuan: "If you don't come again, Jerry will be very anxious."

Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, who were also taking makeup photos, also came up to say hello to Wu Yuan.

The Elf Prince is still so handsome, and the British Rose is at her most beautiful age.

Especially KK who was wearing a 17th-century European tunic dress, it was so exciting!

When hugging the other person, Wu Yuan clearly felt the pressure on his chest.

The actors and the director had held many video conferences before to discuss the details of the script.

Therefore, although it was the first time Wu Yuan met them offline, they were not strangers to each other.

"Seeing your looks, I believe our movie will definitely be a hit!" Wu Yuan praised with a smile: "It's like you just stepped out of the script."

"I hope so." Depp shrugged, and Orlando said helplessly: "There has never been a pirate movie that was a hit. I hope we can break this curse."

"Yes!" Wu Yuan nodded firmly.

As a director, he needs to give the actors confidence. How can he give up without a fight?

As a person with future memories, he also knows what kind of results this movie will eventually achieve, so Wu Yuan is really confident at the moment.

His confident look easily infected the actors, and everyone became full of confidence!

The next day, the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean 1" announced in beautiful Los Angeles that they had officially started filming!