Chapter 488 How to Reconstruct Batman
"That's not a good choice, is it? Barry."
"It's really not a good choice, but the director is Little Gilbert. Nothing is impossible for him." The reporter named Barry said.
The colleague nodded, yes, who told him to call him Little Gilbert.
If it were any other director, the voice of doubt would only be louder. But as long as little Gilbert takes action, everyone has a blind confidence that he will succeed.
There have been many successful superhero movies in Hollywood recently, but they all basically come from Marvel. The success of DC's superhero movies seems to go back to Tim Burton's version of "Batman" in 1989.
That is also recognized as the best "Batman" movie in history. Can Gilbert Jr. surpass it? I'm afraid it's a big question mark.
As the official media outlet for Gilbert Jr., reporters from the Los Angeles Business Journal were the first to be called.
"Director Gilbert, what prompted you to take over the "Batman" project? You know, this series has been a complete failure since 1997."
Gilbert Jr. explained: "I don't think Batman has completely failed. Maybe because of his poor performance in the past, Batman has temporarily withdrawn from the eyes of movie fans.
But now David and I, and Jonathan, have come up with some great stories. I believe this story is touching enough to evoke the Batman in people. "
The second reporter called was Barry, who asked: "Director Gilbert, can you tell us how the new "Batman" story was created?"
Gilbert Jr. responded: "We watched all the Batman movies before we started working on it.
Including Joe Schumacher's version of "Batman" in 1997, Tim Burton's version of "Batman" in 1989, and even Adam West's version of "Batman" in 1966.
Some of these versions of Batman were good, some were terrible, but one thing they all had in common was that they were too caricatured.
So we tried our best to avoid this during the creative process, that is, the birth process of "Batman" cannot be divorced from the real context, so we are determined to tell a story about Batman's origin. "
Gilbert Jr. here did not use me to attribute the credit for the entire project to himself. Although he came up with the story outline, it was David S. Goyer and Jonathan Nolan who completed the script.
The third reporter came from the "Hollywood Reporter": "Director Gilbert, can we know how you plan to tell the story of Batman this time?"
"We all know that Batman is Bruce Wayne, but Batman is rarely Bruce Wayne.
So at the beginning of the creation, I told David and Jonathan that the Batman in the comics looked like a god. But we knew he was not a god, so we decided to give him more of a human identity.
As a human being, he will be afraid, confused, and confused.
Because of these emotional factors, Bruce Wayne was forced to embark on the process of transformation into a superhero.
When I was first writing the script, I told David Jonathan that I wanted to make a superhero movie that I wanted to see when I was twelve years old.
At the script creation level, three comics were drawn from "Batman: Year One", "Batman: The Long Halloween", and "Batman: Themanwofalls" to complete the current script. "
The last question, a reporter from the New York Post asked: "Director Gilbert Jr., Gotham is a fictional city? How would you show Gotham City?"
"An exaggerated version of New York, a depressing and breathless international metropolis. In order to capture the essence of the city, the film was shot in real locations as much as possible."
The location for the film has been selected, and New York is only a small part. In fact, the main part of the film was shot in Chicago. At the same time, it will also incorporate the styles of some international cities such as Hong Kong Island, Paris, and London.
Little Gilbert hopes that all movie fans around the world can find the shadow of their country's representative cities in the movie.
Of course, as a real-shooting fanatic, Gilbert Jr. has not given up on using miniature models and CGI to make films. For example, the city train scene had to be produced with CGI.
Shortly after the press conference ended, major news media and websites updated relevant content of the press conference. The media supporting Gilbert Jr. generally expressed their expectations, but most of them chose to wait and see.
The Hollywood Reporter said: "While we know that director Gilbert Jr. never misses a beat, the Batman movie may be the surprise of his directorial career."
The New York Post said: "Compared with DC, which has not produced a movie in seven years, it would be better for Gilbert Jr. to take over Marvel movies, which are more likely to succeed."
The Washington Post was even more exaggerated: "No one is always successful. Little Gilbert has been successful for so many years, and finally failed as expected."
Even before preparations for the film began, a shadow of distrust was cast over it. It seemed that as long as Gilbert Jr. started filming, "Batman" would definitely fail.
In contrast, fans of Little Gilbert are full of confidence.
On social networking sites, after little Gilbert posted a few design drafts, fans soon left messages.
Jack Zhao left a message: "If anyone can save the "Batman" movie, it must be little Gilbert."
Zoe also left a message: "I'm really looking forward to Little Gilbert's version of the Batman movie, I can't wait."
Alex, a New York street boy who has come to Los Angeles to pursue his dream and was almost tricked into moving to the San Fernando Valley next door, also said: "The new "Batman" movie must be very epic." However, after the press conference, the new "Batman" movie The Batman" project fell into silence, as if this press conference had never been held.
Little Gilbert continued his leisurely vacation back to Stardew Valley Farm in Topeka, Kansas. By the way, the team members were also gathered here to discuss their views on the project.
"Annie, how are your two boys?" Taking the grilled lamb chops handed over by Charlize Theron, little Gilbert took a bite and chatted with his assistant director.
Anne Burton said with a headache: "She's not very obedient. She's very naughty in school. I heard from Paul that she even got into a fight with her friends two days ago."
Little Gilbert smiled and said: "Children at this age are really annoying to dogs. It will be fine when they grow up. I believe the two boys will gradually mature."
Art director Serena Haifey came over with two glasses of wine and joked: "Annie, I envy you. You have two children. It's great."
Anne Burton rolled her eyes at Serena and said, "I want a child so much, why don't I see you give birth to one?"
"No, no, no, no," Serena refused: "I still want to enjoy a wonderful single life, isn't it good for handsome guys?"
Serena Hafey's life is relatively dissolute. She often sleeps with more than two handsome guys and enjoys it endlessly.
As a core member of Little Gilbert's team, it's not easy for her to sleep with several handsome guys. As long as the handsome guys are given a chance to play a small role, they will all flock to it.
Little Gilbert never interferes with the personal lives of team members. In North America, this is considered a taboo for interfering with freedom.
However, most of the team, such as action director Luca Farias, will play some extramarital affairs and the like, but not as much as Serena.
Little Gilbert smiled and said: "Selena, your work will be harder next. I hope the people in the location team will contact the Chicago city government to see how strong their discounts are.
At the same time, go to Iceland and choose a suitable location. "
Serena had already seen the project plan, and she asked curiously: "Isn't it in the Himalayas in the script? Why not shoot there?"
Based on Director Gilbert Jr.'s relationship with the ancient Eastern country, it would be easy to obtain a filming permit.
However, little Gilbert said: "This is unrealistic. The altitude there is too high, with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters, which is even higher than the Denver Plateau.
Iceland is good and has preferential policies. "
There has been a serious exodus of Hollywood crews in recent years, and filming is rarely limited to the surrounding areas of Los Angeles. This is actually inseparable from the globalization of Hollywood. After all, monotonous Los Angeles cannot represent the whole world.
Due to economic reasons, major cities in North America have extended an olive branch to Hollywood crews and have relatively preferential policies.
The same is true in other parts of the world. In order to attract the "Harry Potter" crew to return to the UK for filming, the UK has given the greatest discounts. Even the spokesperson of the British Prime Minister has publicly invited the crew to return for filming.
The reason is very simple. Everyone has seen the effect of "The Lord of the Rings". It is simply a huge series of commercials, setting off a wave of Chinese tourism.
Relying on tourism income, it has created a lot of foreign exchange and also enhanced its international reputation and image.
You know, many Westerners didn’t even know where China was before.
This is the role of a popular movie in driving local economic development, and its role is immeasurable.
So Gilbert Jr. felt that with his reputation and the reputation of the "Batman" movie, no one would say no.
In the kitchen, little Gilbert chatted with production designer Nathan Crowley about the Batmobile.
"When Warner executives asked me if Batman could have a car that was wilder than before, do you know what was a sentence in my script?"
"What?" Nathan was curious.
"What I wrote in the script was, is this car available in black?" Little Gilbert smiled, then grabbed a ball of dough from the fermented dough in the kitchen and shaped it into a shape.
Nathan looked at the abstract shape of the dough and said he was a little confused. What is this?
Gilbert Jr. explained: “This is what I imagined the Batmobile to look like. I think it has the agility of a sports car and the flamboyance of a tank.
In this regard, you need to cooperate with Lamborghini to design. I needed to make a real, running, filming-ready Batmobile. "
Nathan pouted, feeling embarrassed because the shape of the dough was very abstract. However, he still accepted this difficult task and planned to discuss it with Lamborghini when he returned.
In fact, little Gilbert had approached Lamborghini before and asked them to help him design a car that had the attributes of a Hummer and a sports car.
Little Gilbert was not satisfied with the several versions of the design drafts that Lamborghini came up with, so he had to start over again.
The version of the Batmobile in the previous life was very cool, but little Gilbert still wanted to see what kind of monster Nathan and Lamborghini could come up with.
(End of chapter)