Chapter 1168 (1/2)

To determine the timeline of ”the last samurai”, Li Mu tentatively asked Spielberg, ”Steven, do you know when Tom Cruise's movie will be finished and released?”

Spielberg shook his head and said, ”I'm not sure about the details, but it seems that it was started in the second half of last year. In the first half of this year, it's sure to finish shooting. In addition, in the later period, if it's OK, it should be released at the end of the year.”

Li Mu nodded and asked him, ”if we can make preparations as soon as possible, when can we start it?”? When can it be shown? ”

Spielberg thought for a moment, and said: ”if it's fast, we should be able to start the machine in early March, but in early March, we can only shoot the part in the United States first, and then prepare to shoot in China at the same time. If it's efficient, we should be able to finish shooting before the end of this year, so that it will be released next summer.”

Next summer, at least half a year later than the last warrior

On the surface, Li Mu is silent, but in his heart, he thinks that ”the last samurai” must not be allowed to achieve such good results and influence in accordance with the historical development. However, how to block each other seems to be an unsolved problem.

In any case, Li Mu has no ability to block the release of a Hollywood film on a global scale. Hollywood is originally a free market. If he directly targets a Hollywood film and smashes others' jobs, he will encounter a strong backfire effect. So Li Mu can basically be certain that he wants to turn the last Warrior yellow, which is basically a dream 。

Li Mu turned to think that he could neither catch up with it, release it earlier than it, nor stir it up directly. How could he minimize its influence?

After thinking about it, Li Mu could not think of a good way.

Spielberg left after chatting with Li Mu about many details. Li Mu asked Wang Yuanlang to send him away. He turned on the computer and searched for information about the last warrior on Google.

After entering the English name of ”the last samurai” in Google, Li Mu soon saw a lot of entertainment news. Fortunately, his English level was very good, and these overseas websites had no pressure on him to browse,.

Li Mu carefully looked at every piece of information about ”the last warrior”. He soon found that almost all of these information were entertainment reports, and they were all related to Tom Cruise. Most of them reported that Tom Cruise had taken over the film and so on.

There are no real dry goods in these reports. For the plot of the film, the entertainment reports are also vague. It's just that Tom Cruise has taken on a legendary story of American Civil War officers and Japanese samurai, in which Tom Cruise plays a retired captain in the US Civil War.

In addition, there are some interviews with Edward Zwick, the director of the film, who has been selling during the interview. He just said that he was very obsessed with Japanese culture, so he made such a movie. Besides, he also revealed that Tom Cruise himself was particularly obsessed with Japanese culture, and he carefully prepared the movie for two years.

The reporter also asked Edward Zwick if he could give us a general idea of the plot of the movie. Edward Zwick was very cautious about it. Like Tom Cruise, he only gave a half of the most basic outline of the story. He just said it was a story between the American Civil War soldiers and the Japanese samurai, but he didn't want to tell any specific story It was revealed that the reporter tried to ask more questions, but he turned the topic aside, saying that the film is a collision and combination of western culture and oriental culture, which will definitely make the audience Marvel after its release.

Later, Li Mu found some other news and collected some useful information. For example, the film officially started shooting on October 10, 2002. It is expected that it will be finished in May this year. Moreover, the total investment of the film has reached his mother's 140 million dollars!

Li Mu is shocked. My dear fellow, 140 million dollars is 40 million dollars higher than the budget of his flying tigers. The investment in this movie is so large that there is no hidden support from a Japanese financial group behind it.

Li Mu suddenly felt that ”the last samurai” is likely to be like his ”Flying Tigers”. Super star, Hollywood team, big investment, big scene and big production are full of the flavor of commercial films everywhere, but in the core, it is a kind of sophisticated cultural output.

It is possible that behind the last samurai, there is also a gold Lord like himself, who only wants to export Chinese culture, Chinese spirit and Chinese history, while the other side wants to export Japanese culture and bushido spirit.

The more Li Mu thinks about it, the more likely he thinks his inference is, and the more he thinks about it, the more determined he is to find a way to disturb the film.

Later, Li Mu found some makeup photos intentionally released by the crew. Among them, there were photos of Tom Cruise wearing a 19th-century US military uniform, Watanabe Qian and Hiroshi Shinda wearing a samurai uniform, and Kato Xiaoxue wearing a Japanese traditional costume.

Tom Cruise deserves to be one of the top beauties of Hollywood male movie stars. Wearing the military uniform of two centuries ago, he can also look brave and handsome.However, Li Mu suddenly realized a problem. Leaving aside other subjective factors, Li Mu had to admit that in the movie ”the last samurai”, all the visual presentations about Japan are very exquisite, which can be said to be painstaking. No matter the character modeling, costume props or landscape architecture, they are extremely dedicated to creating a kind of aesthetic visual effect.

So, in Li Mu's impression, Tom Cruise's image in Japanese samurai battle suit and armor is more handsome than his image in military uniform. Why didn't the crew show his set of fixed makeup?

Li Mu thought, and suddenly thought of something!

The last samurai crew is very attentive to the plot of this movie!

In general, 30% or more of the movies will be published, which will attract the attention of users. However, the current plot of the movie is less than 10%. They only published the background of the story and the starting point of the story, and the deeper plot has not been disclosed at all.