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"Director Lyman's another new work, the World War II movie "Furious" has been confirmed..."

"According to our reporter's interview..."

These are the keynotes set by the on-site reporter Joe Deng from the entertainment section of the Los Angeles Daily for the interview propaganda that he will write back.

The weather was a bit sweltering, and he stood in the crowd, struggling to do his duty.

You have to ask what responsibilities are, well, he just accepted the red envelope and wanted to get the money with peace of mind.

"Director Lehman, can the new film reveal any specific details? For example, the selection of actors, preparations for production, etc."

Another news media worker asked, and the question asked was pretty good.

Everyone stunned their ears and wanted to hear the answer from the interviewee.

Surrounded by the crowd, Lyman still maintained a very calm expression in the face of everyone’s gaze, and continued to use the most perfunctory sentence to answer: "Well, to be more specific, it is to describe the Allied tank troops during World War II. As for the story, as to what kind of effect it can present, or which actor to invite, you have to wait for the film to be released and go to the cinema to watch it yourself."

This is Los Angeles, and the pre-publicity activities of the film are being held at the scene.

According to Paramount Pictures, while Lehman still has some heat, it is the kingly way to find some media to pre-heat the new film.

Of course, the second half sentence is the result that Lehman can think of.

This press conference, in Lehman's view, is exactly that.

Is it all for publicity?Lehman did not support, but did not oppose.

Since they joined this project, the publicity work of Paramount Pictures has stepped into the front, which is particularly urgent.

A few days ago, there were many tabloids and magazines, and some topics related to the movie "Furious" began to appear one after another.

For a while, it was said that so-and-so big-name actor was suspected of joining the crew, and then he vowed to say who and so and who intended to appear.

In short, there are too many fake and fake things, who can tell?

No, Paramount Pictures also specially opened a new film conference to clarify these gossips.

And Lehman, who has been planning the entire promotion campaign, can say anything other than sighing "The city will play"?

It is interesting to publish fake news by myself and clarify the facts by myself. It seems that this movie has a lot of media attention.

However, people in all parts of North America still love this set.

Once such a perfect combination of punches was made, it really made a little storm.

In addition to the news that related netizens have begun to spontaneously spread the preparation of new films on the Internet, many people who are concerned about entertainment and movies can also learn some information about movies from channels such as newspapers and magazines.

In this way, the pre-publicity purpose expected by Paramount Pictures has been achieved, and it has not failed them the time, energy, and cost of this.

Anyway, I can leave a little basic impression, knowing that there is such a movie, it is always good.

As for the role of the actor, Lehman himself is not sure, so how can I say anything about it?

The reporters at the scene reluctantly accepted what they thought were perfunctory, and they were ready to go back to write a publicity draft.

The information available is limited, and there is nothing controversial or topical content to write, it depends on how they edit it.

After receiving the red envelopes, it is no good not to do things, they also have their own persistence.

Although it is said that there is no insistence on doing entertainment, but as long as people don't think like this, what can they do?

After a long sigh of relief, after finally dealing with these troubles, Lyman returned to the back lounge.

I heard Ryan jokingly saying: "Lyman, how does it feel to be so focused on multimedia? Anything you want to say?"

He clutched his right hand, pretending to be an interview reporter.

Ryman was also very cooperative, and replied very helplessly: "Tired, even more tired than when I was on the shooting schedule. I felt that I was going to be dying. The questions I asked were all sorts of noisy. It feels uncomfortable to be like a swarm of bees around you."

"Haha..." Ryan Le broke.Gloating is talking about people like him.

"Is there any water? I want ice."

I just talked for more than an hour and my voice dries up.

"No, here you are." Ryan took a bottle of mineral water, threw it up slightly, and threw it over.

Lyman caught it easily, unscrewed the cap, took a sip, and felt a little better.

"Are all the materials ready?" Sitting comfortably on the sofa, Lehman remembered what his main job was today.

The first, of course, is the promotion of the film; the second is the initial screening of the characters.

In fact, as early as after signing the co-production agreement, Lehman wrote a casting list for "Furious" and asked Europa Films and Paramount Pictures to help, and let them draw a suitable one first. The candidate information for the record.

"Furious" is different from "Buried Alive" and "Three Fools Haunted Bollywood" in that the qualifications for the cast are more stringent.

The difficulty of casting is also greater, and it is mainly a group show, with many photogenic roles.

His casting list set out some basic standards for roles, including the tank quintet, the protagonist group in the group play.

For example, the military officer "sergeant" needs appearance: tall and strong, familiar with firearms, priority is given to actors who have played military roles before...

Although the criteria for some subsequent role selections are different, the phrase "experienced first" is also repeatedly mentioned.

This is sent to the casting table, and then let those who are more qualified to organize career information.

Then, Lyman looked at the list of personnel again, filtered out some people who did not meet his wishes, and finally submitted the remaining list of actors to Europa Pictures or Paramount Pictures, either.Let them organize and agree on a time and place before auditioning.

This is the whole process, which is relatively simple.

"The documents are ready," Ryan said, taking out a large stack of documents from the briefcase on the sofa next to him.

"So much?" Lyman was a little surprised.It is estimated that there are hundreds of personnel options for that thickness.

"A total of 327 actor-related information." Ryan smiled: "This is the information covering all suitable roles in France, North America and some European countries. What do you think?"

"Want to be so exaggerated!"

Although Lehman said so, he honestly took the document and looked through it.

He can actually understand the meaning of these two companies. After all, the casting rights are in Lehman's hands. Paramount Pictures deliberately wanted to get involved, but Europa Pictures rejected it.

Just like Luc Besson's thinking that he can put himself in his position, in his opinion, giving a director a certain amount of creative freedom is definitely beneficial to project shooting.

Of course, this is what Lehman can't go over, and he can handle the related matters of shooting well.

The ability of a person can still be used as a reference condition.

At least, during the filming of "Three Fools in Bollywood", there were no set accidents.

Lehman flipped through the information slowly, marking it with a pen from time to time.

In "Furious", there are more than ten main characters. In addition to the drivers of the Allied tank "Furious" team, there are also German generals, allied generals, and German citizens...

These roles have their own roles, which is of course very important.

As for the composition of the military personnel at war between the two sides in the film, there is no need to worry about the choice of actors.

As the background board of the battlefield, you don’t need any superb acting skills, and you don’t have to worry about age. Young and middle-aged people are fine.

You don’t even need to think about being tall, short, fat and thin, right? It’s hard to even take a face-up photo. Who cares.

Therefore, in this casting, it is mainly for those who have lines and positive roles.

Among them, the tank quintet is the most difficult to choose; there are many requirements in terms of the appearance of the character itself, let alone the kind of military temperament that Lehman pursues, and there are many aspects of literary and drama, and acting skills are also required. It's good enough, plus, there are a series of problems such as salary budget, schedule and so on.

In addition, it is to drive a tank. It is better to know a little bit; if you don't understand, you won't be eliminated immediately, but at least you must be familiar with firearms. Once you touch the gun and aim, you will feel like a veteran.Of course, leaving aside "Norman", one of the protagonists, his character is set as a recruit. These are not necessary, but slowly he requires all of them.In short, it is not easy to choose.

Of course, these are all he voluntarily asked to bear.Tired and bitter, Lehman didn't want any weird actors in his crew.

The lines are unclear and the acting is awkward to death. Such people must not appear in his movies.

He had done it, and God couldn't control it!

Thinking of this, Lehman suddenly got motivation, and even the hands and feet of looking through the actor's information became neat.

No, the body is not strong enough, it looks like a tall and thin bamboo pole, pass; the eyes are too small, the temperament is suitable for acting honest people, not suitable for tough soldiers on the battlefield; the shooting experience is sufficient, and the actor's resume has the image of a soldier , I’m a bit older and can’t play the leading role, but it’s the role of an Allied commander and general, quite suitable...

Lehman kept annotating his own opinions, eliminated some people, and initially selected a group of people.

Next, with regard to specific roles, you still have to wait until the two parties have met, auditioned, and talked about treatment before the final candidate can be determined.

Everything before this was just to better arrange the audition work.

Lehman successively determined dozens of actor's information, eliminated one by one, and suddenly saw an interesting one.

"Heath Ledger, 185cm, born in 1979."

I haven't seen you for half a year, what is the old man doing? Lehman thought to himself.