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Chapter 354 Desert Scenery
🕑 Added 2025-06-06 14:59:30 +0000 UTCAlthough the intention to cooperate with Lin Baoxin was confirmed during the communication with the old man, Nanaya, as a capitalist, would
Although the intention to cooperate with Lin Baoxin was confirmed during the communication with the old man, Nanaya, as a capitalist, would definitely not be polite when it comes to taking advantage of others.
When giving instructions to Washimine's people, Nanaya directly and clearly told them to kill as many people as they wanted and not to consider his face. Anyway, he, Nanaya Kiryu, no longer had much face in Lin Bao's eyes.
It's not like I'm going to be involved myself, so no matter how much we talk, the negotiations won't break down. Isn't it just a matter of taking our time?
Anyway, the person who came to ask for help was Lin Bao, so Nanaya had the upper hand.
After returning to North America, Nanaya did not sit idle.
According to the current shooting schedule, FZ and HF will officially start large-scale shooting in June, and Nanaya still has a lot of things to do before that.
For example, finalize the character design draft, and then let the props team start preparing special props and costumes.
This will be a very troublesome and tedious task, but it is unavoidable as long as the CG cost does not decrease.
Sometimes Nanaya really wanted to put a gun to Cameron's truck driver's head and ask him to finish "Avatar" as soon as possible.
But it's obvious that this kind of thing is impossible, so Nanaya still has to follow the steps to solve the current problem.
Then there is the matter of attracting investment, which also requires us to be ahead of the curve.
Although the projects of FZ and HF have not been publicly launched so far, everyone is not stupid. They all watched Nanaya recruiting actors all over the world, and Lily Wettin began to frequently miss idol activities to attend action training classes.
Smart people in the circle immediately came to the conclusion that a new Fate project was about to be launched.
As a result, countless film investors and advertisers came to the door, hoping to invest in Fate's new project.
After all, UBW is about to be released, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that Washimine is keeping it a secret at the moment in order to wait for the news to be announced after UBW.
If we wait until that time, there will definitely be a lot of people scrambling for it, so these well-informed people hope to get a piece of the pie while the news is still circulating in a small circle.
You have to know that all those who invested in Fate at the beginning made a lot of money, so of course others would be jealous of this situation.
Nanaya and Washimine will definitely welcome these people. The production costs of the two major projects, FZ and HF, will reach at least 200 million US dollars.
The amount of money is quite huge. Although Washimine is not unable to take it out, it is still good to have someone to share the risk.
Anyway, those investors only want a small share of the box office, but the profits surrounding projects like Fate are the real big deal.
However, Nanaya does not need to receive these small investors, as they are not the tycoons from the Middle East who threw 50 million US dollars in his face. The small fry who only invest a few hundred thousand US dollars at most can be received by Washimine's people.
However, there are some investors that Nanaya still needs to meet, and that is the advertisers who hope to provide commercial sponsorship for Fate.
Although Nanaya' movie won't cause car advertisers to fight over it like Transformers did.
But he still has a lot of things that can be used for commercial cooperation, such as Kiritsugu's cigarettes and weapons, Saber's motorcycles and other modern vehicles, Director Ken's hotel building sign, the red wine of the King's Banquet, etc.
These are all very good spots for product placement, and many manufacturers will be interested in these spots.
For the advertising sponsors who came, Nanaya asked the crew's investment promotion team to provide a rough list of embedded advertisements for those people to choose from.
Even Sony and Sega came to join in the fun and wanted to get a spot in the product placement for the game console in the movie, but unfortunately they were rejected by Nanaya.
Are you kidding?!
This quota was released for Washimine to produce and sell its own products. How could it be taken away by you?
In addition to these things, there are also some advertisements that seem to be inadvertently inserted between movie shots, such as Coca-Cola, Lawson convenience store, Apple computers and so on.
Although FZ will not be a movie that can set a record for the scale of product placement like the Transformers series, the scale of the advertisements in it is certainly not small.
After all, the story of Fate is about ancient heroes living in modern society, and it is normal for these brands to appear in the movie.
From one perspective, that in itself is a pretty cool thing.
For example, the same Coca-Cola that Iskandar drank, the convenience store where Artoria bought things, the same file that Uryu Ryunosuke used when dissecting corpses...
Ahem, this doesn’t count.
As long as advertisers don't make some particularly awkward requests for product placement, Nanaya believes that with his ability, people won't feel that the movie will be an advertisement.
And if all the costs of brand-assisted promotion are taken into account, the film can save nearly $30 million in costs just for product placement.
The biggest one among them is Rolls-Royce, which is responsible for most of the vehicles of the protagonists in the movie. Both Iris's car and Saber's motorcycle will be designed and made by them specially for them.
Originally, the prototype of the motorcycle used by Saber in FZ should be the V-MAX produced by Yamaha.
But the problem is that although the Yamaha brand was indeed a major motorcycle manufacturer in Japan in the 1990s, the motorcycles they produced can also be regarded as the memory of a generation of Japanese people.
But this manufacturer had already been defeated in the Japanese motorcycle war, and was beaten so badly by Honda that even its mother didn't recognize it.
Nanaya certainly couldn't give such an important advertising space to a loser, since he wasn't a die-hard fan of Yamaha motorcycles anyway.
So after some bidding, the spot was finally taken by Rolls-Royce.
As for Honda, which is also a competitor, they booked the relatively ordinary car advertising space in the movie.
By the way, the sunscreen commercial that Nanaya had been obsessed with was finally filmed and sold, and L'Oreal got the spot for this men's sunscreen.
As for why Nanaya decided to get this advertisement done in advance, it was because he would be using a lot of sunscreen next time.
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In the barren desert, several off-road vehicles drove in from a distance, raising a cloud of white sand.
After stopping in a relatively wide area, Nanaya, wearing sunglasses, opened the car door and got out.
Then, he was choked by the dust that had not yet dispersed.
"Ahem! This place is really too hot."
Facing the oncoming heat, Nanaya kept wiping the sweat with a towel.
The sun hanging high in the sky was scorching the earth. The sultry air and the scalding ground made Nanaya think of the legendary Eight Trigrams Furnace of Laozi.
"It's really terrible. I'm wearing thick-soled shoes but my feet are still hot."
Nanaya stepped on the almost white sand, and he felt that there was no place on his body that was not hot.
"But this is a good place, isn't it?"
Shiki jumped out of another car, and then he was exposed to the sun like Nanaya.
"It's hot! It's hot!"
Shiki Matsuno made strange noises continuously, as if he was a person stepping on a red-hot iron plate.
Nanaya ignored this funny guy and turned to look at the military advisor who accompanied him to survey the terrain.
"Is this the place?"
"Yes."
The major named Roberts walked up to Nanaya and pointed to the vast desert around him and explained, "This is it. If you are satisfied, the area within a radius of 60 kilometers can be used as the site for your crew."
“It probably won’t take that much.”
Nanaya carefully observed the surrounding environment, then turned to Shonan Rantaro and asked: "Shonan, what do you think?"
"The sand is a little whitish, but that can be fixed with some light~?? So, there's absolutely no problem~??"
"That's it." Facing this desert, Nanaya made the final decision, "All the plots related to the desert and the Middle East will be done here, and let the scene team build a few scenes."
Nanaya brought people here today to select the location. Nanaya will shoot all the scenes of the Emperor's King's Army and his memories with Hassan and others here.
Although these shots can be solved with green screen, Nanaya still hopes to use real scenes to shoot some panoramic shots.
This is related to Nanaya's shooting style. Although he does not reject and even likes the convenience brought by computer special effects, Nanaya still prefers real-life shooting for all panoramic shots and large-scale scenes.
Because this will increase the thickness of the shot and make the audience feel a more real texture.
Of course, pursuing texture is one thing, and courting death is another.
Although Nanaya wants to shoot real scenes, he will not really go to the Middle East to shoot. After all, it is really chaotic there now.
He has not yet reached the point where he would risk his life for the pursuit of art.
So Nanaya approached the military and asked them to provide an uninhabited desert for filming the corresponding scenes.
Because of the cooperative relationship with Nanaya's crew on FZ, the military immediately agreed to Nanaya's request and brought him here.
This is a missile test site located at the junction of New Mexico and Texas. There is no human habitation within dozens of kilometers, making it very suitable for filming.
"Will there be missiles fired here while we're filming?"
Shiki Matsuno said with some fear.
"Of course... not."
Roberts deliberately scared this guy: "Everything has been communicated, and this kind of problem will not occur during the filming."
Nanaya nodded: "That's good. We may have a lot of people coming here to film. If there are missiles, it's estimated that more than just one or two people will die."
In Nanaya's expectation, this scene would be the location of the king's army, and a lot of extras would be used.
Although accidental deaths among Hollywood extras have never been uncommon, it would be truly ridiculous if a large number of them were killed by military missiles.
