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Chapter 352 The Spirited Young Man Comes Uninvited
🕑 Added 2025-06-04 15:31:42 +0000 UTCNanaya would not do things that have low cost-effectiveness and are thankless. He always likes to do things with the highest cost-effectiveness at the most appropriate price.
Of course, it would be even better if you could get some bargains.
After discovering that Weta Workshop's 3D effects could not achieve the effect he wanted, Nanaya directly changed his strategy.
Since the full-screen IMAX picture's off-screen effect is not obvious, we will try to make it as obvious as possible.
Nanaya called in the technicians from Weta Studio and shared his ideas. After confirming that it was feasible, he consulted the technical consultant from IMAX and finally determined how to handle the 3D effects of FZ.
The ordinary 3D version of Nanaya was simply abandoned, as its popularity and effects could not meet the standards anyway.
In addition, his FZ production was originally intended to explore the way for "Avatar", and the revenue from the 3D version was not originally within his consideration.
In contrast, the IMAX version of FZ will be made into a 3D version, and most of the shots, including daily shots, will adopt the current normal 1:2.39 frame.
For relatively important action scenes and special scenes, Nanaya will use special frame-breaking effects to increase the 3D effect in the picture.
This special "leap screen" effect, which Nanaya learned from the "Harry Potter" extension movie "Fantastic Beasts", will extend some of the content in the IMAX 3D version beyond the screen border.
Nanaya will use this pseudo-3D to enhance the true 3D effect in film production, allowing the audience to feel as if the characters in the movie are breaking through the "frame" and appearing before their eyes.
For example, the servants' weapons, the emperor's speeding chariot, the tentacles summoned by the marshal, etc. Nanaya will select scenes from them for production.
However, this greatly increased Nanaya's workload. After all, this part of the shots was much more difficult to produce than directly processing IMAX images, so Nanaya had to be more thorough in the early preparations.
"Who told me that I was born to work hard?"
Nanaya made a self-deprecating remark, and then he began the pre-production planning of the film's special effects in New Zealand.
In order to allow the special effects team to have a general impression in the early stages to avoid deviations at the end.
Nanaya gathered the Washimine special effects team, the game technology research and development department, Weta Workshop and IMAX personnel in New Zealand and launched a detailed communication.
The screen technology required by Nanaya relies heavily on CG production, which is why in the "Fantastic Beasts" series that used this technology in the previous life, these scenes are basically focused on the fantastic beasts.
This is not only a market choice, but also a need for special effects production. What could be more suitable for this processing method than these pure CG creatures?
Fortunately, with the development of the film industry, today's CG technology and motion capture technology are not only much more mature, but also much cheaper than at the beginning of the century.
Based on the current price, Nanaya feels that if he shoots "Goblin Slayer" again, he can save at least $10 million in post-production costs.
But even so, in the pre-Avatar era, computer CG was far from being cheap.
Today's directors will still subconsciously choose props over pure CG between CG and props.
Therefore, FZ’s biggest budget enemy is still the post-production costs, and CG is the biggest part.
The only thing that comforted Nanaya was that the cost of the 3D special effects would not be included in the film production, but would be separately accounted for by Weta Workshop and Washimine's game technology research and development department.
This also allows Nanaya to splurge on 3D. As for whether Washimine's game technology research and development department will be forced to grow potatoes in the second half of the year because of him, it has nothing to do with him.
That's something that Satoru should worry about, not him, Nanaya Kiryu.
After completing the assignments and requirements, Nanaya decided to let FZ's special effects team first produce a set of special effects shots to test the effects.
The shot that Nanaya chose was the one where the winged blade insects launched an attack, because this scene not only used the insects flying out of the "frame" to verify Nanaya's idea of jumping on the screen, but the insects' wings fluttering at high speed were also very suitable for testing the 3D effect.
This lens is perfect for experimenting.
Of course, there is no Matou Kariya in these shots, after all, the actor for Nanaya has not been found yet.
But on the contrary, Nanaya found actors for Tousaka Tokiomi and Kotomine Risei.
I don’t know if this is the world playing a joke on Nanaya, but neither of these two actors are Japanese.
The actor who played Tohsaka Tokiomi was named Alan Rickman.
Many people may be unfamiliar with the name alone, but I believe almost everyone knows the role he played, that is Professor Severus Snape.
Although Mr. Rickman is already 60 years old, the Professor Snape he plays always looks around 40 years old. Coupled with the aristocratic temperament displayed in his every move, it is natural for him to play Tohsaka Tokiomi.
Anyway, according to the setting, Tokiomi also has Nordic ancestry, so it's not surprising that he looks like a European or American.
Besides, Snape, played by Alan Rickman, lost to skyfall as a childhood sweetheart in Harry Potter, so it would be nice to have him win against his childhood sweetheart Kariya as skyfall in FZ.
It’s a pity that the actor for Kariya had to be a Japanese actor, otherwise Nanaya really planned to use the actor for James Potter.
Although the final endings of both the professor and Tokiomi were not good, it was a small matter. After all, if you want to get something, you have to pay the corresponding price.
Nanaya believed that Professor Snape's spirit in heaven would understand.
Wait, it seems that Rowling hasn’t finished writing "Deathly Hallows" yet?
Nanaya thought it was better not to take such trivial matters too seriously.
As for the other actor who plays Kotomine Risei, he is a very familiar figure to everyone, the energetic young man who always comes uninvited.
Yes, the actor who plays Kotomine Risei is the famous Mr. Tsui, nicknamed "Thunder Leopard Aobai" by people in the world.
When Nanaya heard that the crew had found this person, his entire jaw was dislocated with fright.
I gave you the power to choose actors, and you found me a Lion King?!
After careful questioning, Nanaya finally figured out what was going on.
It turned out that Teacher Tsui happened to be traveling in Japan in March, and came to visit his Japanese actor friends to reminisce about the past.
It just so happened that Mr. Tsui's friend was going to audition for Kotomine Risei, and Mr. Tsui thought it was interesting so he went along.
As a result, I was chosen by the casting team at that time at first sight.
According to Nanaya's requirements, Kotomine Risei is supposed to be a strong old man.
This requirement put the casting team in a very difficult position. After all, a normal person's physical condition would begin to decline after the age of 40. So where could they find an old man with muscles all over his body?
Although this problem can be solved by having young people put on makeup, this places extremely high demands on young actors, and the casting team searched for a long time but could not find a suitable actor.
Just when the people in the casting team were worrying so much that their hair was turning white, Mr. Tsui with a big beard appeared in their sight.
At that moment, when the casting team saw the bearded man, it was as if they had seen a stunning beauty, and they immediately asked the bald bearded man to audition.
Although the casting team reported this process with great excitement, Nanaya felt that these grown men had drunk too much horse urine and were working while drunk.
"Director Kiryu, you don't know, that bearded guy has a really solid physique."
[Nonsense, how could I not know? It’s not like I haven’t seen the teacher perform high-difficulty aerial acrobatics before.]
When Nanaya heard the report from these people, he was really shocked.
What made Nanaya even more speechless was that Teacher Tsui actually agreed to the audition.
It is said that he originally thought that he would not pass since he was not Japanese, so he took the audition for fun, wanting to see the difference between the auditions in Japan and those in Hong Kong.
Perhaps because of their preconceived notions, the reviewers in the casting team were very satisfied with Mr. Tsui's performance.
As for nationality and language, which Mr. Tsui originally thought was the biggest problem, it turned out to be the least problematic in the Fate crew.
As a large international crew, all kinds of languages are spoken here. In order to ensure that the actors can communicate normally, Nanaya has equipped the crew with a large number of translators.
Besides, the chief action director in the crew originally made Hong Kong films, so there won’t be any problem in communicating directly when the time comes.
Anyway, the final result was that after several rounds of auditions, Mr. Tsui was only one step away from becoming the actor of Kotomine Risei - Nanaya nodded.
Nanaya originally thought that these people were really ridiculous, but when he saw the final makeup photos sent by the casting team, Nanaya found that he really couldn't refuse.
The other person's muscular body made Nanaya feel his strength. He had to say that from the perspective of a strong elderly person, Teacher Tsui was indeed very suitable, although Teacher Tsui was in his forties and could not be considered an old man.
The only thing that made Nanaya feel awkward was that he felt that if Mr. Tsui really played the role of Kotomine Risei,
When Director Ken went to ask for the Command Seal, Kotomine Risei was just about to yell "I want them all" and then press Holmes to death in the wheelchair.
So, the reason why a strong old man loses to a disabled person in a wheelchair is because of the saying “Sir, times have changed”, right?
It is always true that no matter how good your martial arts skills are, you are still afraid of a kitchen knife.
In short, before Nanaya returned to North America, basically most of the actors in FZ had been confirmed.
Before leaving New Zealand, Nanaya received a call from Mr. Ryutani Nobuyuki.
Because of Shion's incident, Nanaya simply forgot the agreement with the old man and fled to North America.
So the old man didn't wait for Nanaya and called him directly.
The moment Nanaya received the call from the old man, he broke out in a sweat because he really forgot the agreement he had made with Master Nobuyuki.
Fortunately, the old man thought that Nanaya was busy preparing for a new movie, so he didn't pursue the matter further.
"It's like this, Kiryu-kun." The old man said with a smile, "We Linbao are planning to start our own "Kara no Kyoukai" series."
"Of course, the copyright belongs to you in the first place." Nanaya replied, "But if you want me to be the producer, I have to wait until June. I don't have much time before then."
"The producer doesn't need to do that." Nounari replied, "Kiritsugu said he doesn't want to see you for a while."
"What does this have to do with Kiritsugu...Uncle?" Nanaya almost forgot to add the title at the end of Kiritsugu's name.
"Because he is the director of the new "Hollow"."
Nounari replied in a matter-of-fact tone.
