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With the script in place, Lyman called Johnson and asked him to help release the news and start the preliminary role screening.

As for actors, Yuan Shikong's main creative appeal was too low, he hadn't even considered it.

Before a movie has a reputation, or if there is no gimmick to get the audience into the theater, it is easy to start badly and then hit the street.

At this time, based on investment to select some popular and powerful actors, their own traffic and fan appeal are the most common and practical ways for movies to open the market.

"The Ninth District" is the same.

If it can arouse the audience's enthusiasm for watching the movie from the publicity, it can guarantee the premiere box office for the subsequent screening.

In other words, the quality of the film can of course retain the audience, but that is after the screening. You can't boast yourself in publicity.

Blow, you have to go through procedures, and you have to pay attention to a basic law.

It is difficult to stand up in the Internet age by biting your head. Audiences have channels to speak out, and there are also scoring systems such as IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, and Yahoo. It is impossible to blow without cooperating with the audience.

After the audition invitation was sent out, the first round was only to exclude those who did not meet the basic role requirements.

For example, the age range of male lead colleagues is over 30 years old and under 45 years old. Those who fail to meet this standard are naturally eliminated.

Of course, Johnson's audition for the role is all supporting roles, and Lyman already has a clearer selection of personnel for the lead role.

But before that, he first went to the digital field to provide some concept images from the movie to the project team prepared by Scott Rose.

The image creation of a prawn is the fusion of the structure of shrimp + beetle, and the idea of ​​walking upright + big eyes + ugly.

With these more specific requirements, the digital domain only took a few days to design the image characteristics of the prawn, an alien group, and start modeling.

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February 13.

Firefly Building.

Early in the morning, the company's audition room was crowded with actors who came to cast.

When Edward Norton got out of the car, he saw people coming in and out. He went upstairs. There were more people coming and going. From time to time, he saw people with cursive expressions. He probably lost the election.

But it didn't matter to him, he followed Lehman's work assistant Mays along the corridor, all the way to Lehman's office.

Maes knocked on the door, and when he got a response, he turned and said in a low voice, "Mr. Norton, you can go in. Mr. Broker, please wait in the outside reception room first."

Edward was not surprised when he saw this.

After entering, I saw Lehmann sitting on the office chair with a suitable smile on his face. As he walked in and came to Lehman, he said hello first.

He still wants to work with Director Lehman very much. He has the strength, has made achievements, and listened to friends in the circle. He didn't lose his temper very much on the set. It was perfect.

Lehman heard the movement and saw that the first male lead he had chosen for "District Nine" came, and he smiled and greeted, "Edward, don't mind if I call you that. Sit down first."

Real-life meeting, temperament and image, is undoubtedly suitable for Lyman's Wiggs.

He really appreciates this one.

First-class education, first-class character, first-class talent, and low-key, except for the pride of some creators.

In his previous life, there was a lot of trouble about him. That was the actor who played the Hulk in the second Marvel movie "Invincible Hulk" directed by Louis-Letterier. There were some work frictions in the senior management and they withdrew from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Until the film was released for several years, both sides were still a little bit worried.

This is quite clear. Before the shooting of "Invincible Hulk", Marvel sought out Edward Norton in order to promote its own brand, and invited him to play Bruce Banner. Edward agreed, but he had one requirement that he must participate in it. Modify the script.

To be a digression, Edward Norton graduated from Yale University and has provided creative direction for several films he debuted with. Temporary changes are also frequent. He also directed a screen debut, but he just threw himself.

Marvel clearly understood the other side and nodded in agreement.

During the filming, the two parties originally cooperated very happily, but after the finalization, Marvel deleted most of the content modified by Edward in the post-editing of the film.

Everyone knows later that when the movie was released, the two sides had already had trouble with this matter, not to mention that the movie was still on the street, so the cooperation ended here, until the reunion project started to join the Hulk, but Edward refused. , Because he has always been dissatisfied with Marvel's behavior of deleting and modifying the scene without notifying him, and he thinks he just wants a better script.

For this reason, Kevin Fitch, who rarely commented on actors, couldn't help saying that Norton did not have team spirit. It can be seen how stiff the two sides are.

From the perspective of Lehman, this is a normal conflict of creative ideas, the same as the quarrel between Li Press and Kevin Fitch.

How can I say, Edward is not suitable for popcorn movies, and he rarely takes such scenes himself.

why?

It is prone to conflicts on the set, and the temper is still stubborn.

So Lehman didn't consider him to play the Hulk at all, even if he was suitable, but he was not as good-tempered as Mark, adapting to the Marvel ecology, and the Mark was low paid, easy to control costs, and more advantages.

But if it's "The Ninth District", he is very reliable.

This performance in "Red Dragon" and "Fight Club" is very suitable for Viggs, especially involving a huge mentality change. The normal Viggs in the early stage and the deformed Viggs are two faces. Especially after experiencing cruel experiments on prawns.It's a dime.

Lehman knew that Edward was capable of such an emotionally divisive role. He greeted him for a while, and said naturally: "Well, now let’s get to the point. We all know that the purpose of this meeting is to determine the starring role of my new work."

Lehman smiled and said, "You have read part of the script, what do you think?"

Hearing this question, Edward blurted out, "The script has a great idea. It incorporates "The Metamorphosis" into a science fiction theme. It is a novel and dramatic concept. Therefore, I like this character very much. Is there anything I need to do?"

This is affirmative.

In the past two years, this is the best script or the best project he has encountered.

In other words, Edward’s career as an actor is really divorced from the public. The "Fight Club" that made him famous is itself a B-rated film, and it has lost the box office. The year before last, he wore a mask and conquered the audience with his voice and body. Losses, the rest are independent films that are more literary and artistic, such as "After Sunset" and "The Veil".

In other words, his coffee position does not match the market performance, although he doesn't care much about the salary.

But he also admitted that if the box office has been bad, the less likely it is for good projects to come to him. The management is superstitious and likes chasing winners, right?

Therefore, a few days ago, he received an invitation from Lehman's new work and attached part of the script, and his heart immediately became urgent.

He himself is a filmmaker who writes, directs and acts as a whole, so he can better see the prospects of the project—it has the potential to sell at a glance.

I read the script several times over and over, and Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" was picked up and re-read several times. The more I understand, the more I feel that Lehmann is indeed one of the directors he most wants to work with.

For this reason, before coming, he was angry with his agent. To help him strive for the role of Viggers, Firefly can agree to any request, and there is no problem with a salary cut.

Well, among the new generation of male actors, when it comes to challenging roles, one of Hollywood's actor choices is Edward Norton, so he is already a first-line actor, although he is not so popular and not expensive, but the audience sees The fate has always been good...

"Ha, don’t get excited, I just want to talk to you. If it’s a performance, then I recognize your acting skills, so I didn’t plan to choose Viggers through auditions. For this role, the pre and post performances are very wide, too. The one in the whole work that needs the most brilliance. I want to know what do you think of this character?"

"He was first a human being, and then he became a very valuable experimental subject in the eyes of some people. He was a breakthrough in stealing prawn technology. He can also look at many things from the standpoint of a prawn. The tension of drama portrays humans and aliens. Shrimp two standpoints are constantly pulling witness symbols..."