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Chapter 335 Script Seminar
🕑 Added 2025-05-17 15:15:16 +0000 UTCA few days later, Nanaya received a call from Jackson.
On the phone, Peter briefly talked about the choice of Orlando Bloom, who would audition for Lancelot.
But at the same time, Peter also briefly mentioned the Elf Prince's request. He hoped that Lancelot's facial features could be increased.
This problem was not difficult for Nanaya. After all, as long as he didn't show up in front of Artoria, Lancelot's identity would not be exposed, and it would not have any impact on the plot.
If Orlando participates, it would be a waste if his handsome face is not shown.
So Nanaya immediately said that as long as Orlando could pass the audition, he could arrange more scenes for Lancelot to appear in the film.
After receiving Nanaya's affirmative answer, Fat Peter immediately expressed his gratitude and even said that Nanaya must visit his home when he goes to New Zealand in the future.
It’s just that Nanaya doesn’t have the time in the United States to go on vacation to New Zealand now. He is still looking for suitable actors for FZ.
At the beginning of January, Nanaya had negotiated with an acrobatic troupe, and they would perform the Hundred Faces Team in FZ.
Of course, these people are just serving as background, but some of the personalities that serve as appearances still have some shots, such as Hassan of the Cursed Arm, who was shot into a sieve by the King of Heroes after only doing some gymnastics when he appeared, and Hassan of the Hundred Faces, the female personality with a single ponytail that is the signature feature of the Hundred Faces.
The former Nanaya has invited several famous action actors, because this actor will not only play Hassan of the Cursed Arm in FZ, but also play Curse Wrist in the HF TV series.
Therefore, Nanaya needs to audition separately, because this character will wear a mask throughout the whole process, which makes Nanaya have certain requirements on the actor's acting skills.
Because the audience can't see the actor's face, it will make them focus more on other parts of the actor.
If it is an action scene, it is fine, but if it is a literary drama, the audience will pay special attention to evaluating the other party's acting skills.
This feeling is especially obvious when the actor's eyes are covered, because the audience cannot communicate with the actor mentally.
This is also why in superhero movies, masked heroes always tear their masks for various reasons, or at least show their eyes.
However, characters like Superman or Captain America, whose faces are shown or whose eyes are not covered, are often spared.
The search for the actor for Hassan of the Cursed Arm was still ongoing, but for the actor for Hassan of the Hundred Faces, Nanaya didn't think much about it and directly invited Gal Gadot.
Nanaya is still very impressed by Gal Gadot’s previous image with a single ponytail, and the goddess’s beauty is at its peak.
This future Wonder Woman is still working in the TV drama circle. After receiving the audition notice from the Fate crew, she immediately agreed to the invitation.
This means that the only Western actor Nanaya needs to look for is Caster Gilles de Ray.
Nanaya felt that this actor was not easy to find. Considering that Marshal Gilles might also appear in the future, he wanted to choose an actor who was both crazy and calm.
There aren't many actors who can do this, but without exception they are all talented actors and not cheap.
Nanaya was a little hesitant as to whether it was worth making such a fuss for a supporting role.
Nanaya thought about it and came up with a solution that was not a solution. He sent out audition invitations to all the actors who had played the Joker in his memory, wanting to ask them if they were interested.
Although each generation of the Joker is said to be the best Joker when it is announced, it has even become a meme.
But no matter what, every generation of the Joker can portray the character's madness very well and gain recognition from the audience.
In Japan, Nanaya also asked Washimine Entertainment to conduct large-scale auditions for Matou Kariya, Tōsaka Tokiomi, and the young Kotomine Kirei.
Matou Zouken and Amemura Ryunosuke Nanaya took a two-pronged approach and conducted large-scale auditions in Europe and the United States and Japan respectively.
Although Zouken is a white man in the setting, based on his appearance as Master Yoda when he appeared in the FZ and HF lines, Nanaya thinks that no one will care whether his actor is Japanese or European or American.
As for Ryunosuke Amemura, there is no need to set a specific race for this character.
After all, unlike the background of the original work, the Fuyuki City in Nanaya's setting is an international metropolis. In this case, there is no need to worry about the race of a tool character like Ryunosuke Amemura.
Apart from the actors, other parts of the FZ and HF projects are also proceeding in an orderly manner.
Compared with the FSN movie, Nanaya’s team this time is very different.
First of all, the film's action director became a huge team, and the chief action director also changed.
Because now is the critical period for Tsuburaya's recovery, Lao Li simply cannot spare the time to make a movie for Nanaya.
Moreover, Nanaya and Shion didn't want to distract Lao Li when Tsuburaya was just starting to pick up, so Lao Li was unfortunately absent from this series of shoots.
However, Lao Li still recommended his father Li Tongchen as the action director of FZ and HF.
Although Nanaya had some complaints about the lifestyle of this old man who was as old as his teacher but could still sleep with several women at night.
But anyway, there is already a Teddy dog in the crew, so adding one more human-shaped self-propelled old cannon won’t be a big problem.
Of course, the reason why Nanaya can be so tolerant of Master Li is that although the old man has an immoral private life, his action directing skills are still good.
Although the style is somewhat inclined towards old-time Hong Kong films, it also has its own understanding of short shot editing.
In fact, a big reason why Master Li was ostracized by his peers back then was that he proposed using short-shot editing to highlight the intensity of the fight, rather than using fixed angles and letting the martial arts actors just fight back in front of the camera.
It’s a pity that this lens processing method is too time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly.
Moreover, in the view of the martial arts directors at the time, such an approach could not reflect the actors' martial arts skills at all.
Therefore, everyone in the circle at that time regarded Master Li, who proposed this idea, as a heretic.
Finally, Master Li, unable to make it, had to leave Hong Kong and come to Japan.
From a historical perspective, Master Li's ideas were undoubtedly correct, but his actions were indeed too radical at that time.
Being half a step ahead is a genius, being one step ahead is a madman.
So Li Tongchen, who was called a "madman", became a loser.
But this time the old man seemed to have found the feeling again. He was ready to do something big and let those old colleagues who looked down on him know how powerful he, Master Li, is.
"Kiryu boy, this time we must do it well, do it hard, and do it hard. We must make them (old enemies) speechless!"
When meeting Nanaya, Master Li patted Nanaya's shoulder and laughed.
Nanaya bared his teeth (it hurt because he was slapped), and thought to himself: [Is this the old version of "Thirty Years of Change"? But why is this statement so strange? ]
In addition to changes in action direction, there have also been major changes in the script team.
Nanaya wrote and shot all the movies he made before, so he already had impressions of many parts in his mind and wrote the scripts very briefly.
But this time, with the addition of four seasons, in order to ensure the continuity of the shots, he needed a more detailed script than before.
So Nanaya launched an entire script team to arrange the scripts of FZ and HF in more detail.
Currently, Gen Urobuchi and Shiki have come to Hollywood from Japan and became members of the script team under the appointment of Nanaya.
To this end, Nanaya also took two days off to attend a seminar for the project script group.
The meeting was of a very high standard. In addition to Nanaya, the producer and first director, there were also Shiki, the second director of the project, Old Gen, the second in command of the script team, and Li Tongchen, the action director.
In addition, Nanaya trouble Washimine and several screenwriters hired by Marvel who are active in Hollywood also participated in it.
Of course, these screenwriters have no say in meetings of this level. All they have to do is record the tasks assigned in the meeting and complete them.
Although the story takes place in Fuyuki City this time, and the main plot and framework of the film have not changed much from Nanaya's previous life's FZ and HF.
But compared to the overall sunny UBW, both HF and FZ have more intense dark style elements.
Without the sunshine of "Companions of Justice" that Shirou longed for in UBW, all that FZ and HF had was cruel reality and cold-blooded killing.
Therefore, the naive plot in UBW where Shirou persuades Shinji to mend his ways does not exist.
Any naive idea would be corrupted by these two brutal wars and eventually become one of the causes of the tragedy.
This change in style is so huge that Nanaya doesn't know if he can handle it.
Nanaya is still concerned about whether mainstream audiences in North America can adapt to this style.
You have to know that no matter how dark a Hollywood movie is, it will follow the Hollywood Basic Law. Although FSN is a bit against the rules, it doesn't go too far.
However, although Urobuchi's script, which is full of despair, will definitely attract a group of die-hard fans who particularly like darkness, depth and cruelty, Nanaya is not sure whether it can gain the recognition of the majority of people.
This is also the main reason why Nanaya invited these veteran Hollywood screenwriters. They need to make reasonable suggestions on the story so that the story of FZ can be naturally accepted by North American audiences, or in other words, it should be more Western in aesthetics.
As for the HF of the TV series, forget about it. Anyway, North American TV drama audiences enjoyed watching "The Song of Killing and Fuck" so much, so a story like HF with a worm in the apple won't be a big problem.
Nanaya looked at the people in the conference room, and finally set his sights on Urobuchi, and said, "Urobuchi, film production, novel writing, and Galgame production are two completely different concepts. I won't expect you to adapt to the change immediately, but I hope you can think more when writing the script, and don't bring your previous bad habits over. We are producing a Holy Grail War with a global concept."
Old Gen nodded. He had already taken out the script outlines of HF and FZ during this period, but this could only be said to be a general plan of the direction of a story. However, there were many ways to present the story.
But even so, Old Gen was still a little unwilling, and he asked in a tentative tone: "Can you try to maintain the characteristics and core of the original (novel)?"
"Hehe."
This is Nanaya’s answer.
