"Hey, where did the cat come from? It's dangerous here!"

A staff member hurriedly ran over to drive away the matcha. Several cages with black cloth hung there were placed aside, and no one passed by.

Matcha is particularly agile. It avoids the staff and directly crawls under the black curtain.

As a result, before the staff could pay attention, it suddenly rushed out in panic and rushed towards Zhang Chu like a black lightning.

He looked shocked, as if he had encountered something terrible!

Zhang Chu looked confused. He bent down and picked up Matcha, gently stroked its back with his hands, and comforted him and said, "It's okay, I'll tell you not to run around."

Li An said with a lot of laughter and cry: "On our set, you must be optimistic about your cat. One is that because there are too many people and water, there may be a crisis if you don't pay attention. In addition, we have also rented four tigers to shoot in the past few days."

Although most of the time, the tigers in "Pi" are made in CG, they will use real Bengal tigers as prototypes and sometimes actually shoot them.

Look, Matcha almost came into the tiger's mouth, and was indeed scared.

It is said that cats are little tigers, but when you encounter a real tiger, you will be frightened.

What do you know when Matcha runs into the black cloth and sees four huge Bengal tigers.

Anyway, it has never stopped and is completely quiet, and it is stuck in Zhang Chu's arms and refuses to move!

"According to the current progress, when will the shooting be completed?"

"As long as we complete the scenes on the sea, we only need to go to India and Canada to shoot them in real time. It is expected that the scenes in India may take half a month, and Canada will have up to three days. It is estimated that they can be finished in March. If they can't finish filming, David will probably kill me."

Li An smiled self-deprecatingly. The current shooting plan has seriously exceeded the standard, and the more investment it needs!

The cost of $120 million seems to be not enough, and it can climb to 150 million in the later period.

Hollywood movies have a variety of ways to make profits, but the cost of $150 million requires at least $450 million in global box office, which is not a simple number!

Warner Bros. is indeed rich. As a producer, David Nate had to control the cost. If the cost overruns, it is very likely that the movie will be on the annual loss list.

Zhang Chu comforted and said, "Don't consider the box office first. The truth is to make the movie well."

Of course, he also hopes that the higher the box office of the movie, the better, after all, he has a betting agreement of $500 million.

Only after the global box office is $500 million can he get a 1% box office dividend, otherwise it will be only 0.5%!

Li An was a little amused and cried. She was comforted by a young man for so many years in Hollywood.

The importance of "Pi" to Li An is undoubtedly true. He has already missed a commercial movie "Hulk". If "Pi" failed again in the box office, then he probably would not be considered for shooting any commercial movies and would be in the ocean of art films for the rest of his life.

At this time, the Indian teenager Sula Shama, who played Pi, came over. Under the skills of a makeup artist, he looked a little dark, with messy hair, chapped lips, which seemed to be due to lack of water and exposure to the sun.

This boy was found by the crew in India after two months. He has extremely strong acting skills at a young age.

Just like I imagined, Sura has a strong Indian accent, which coincides with the characters in the movie!

"Mr. Zhang, I really like this article you wrote. In fact, our whole family likes it very much. Thank you for writing such an excellent story."

This praise made Zhang Chu feel ashamed. He said modestly: "I feel relieved when I hear you say this. Many Indian readers on the Internet say that this is written out of reality."

"Pi's Fantasy Drift" has sales in India, a populous country that is not as high as the United States. One is because Zhang Chu has never promoted it in the past, and the other is because the literacy rate is too low, so many people don't know how to read it!

If the protagonist of this article was not an Indian, I would probably not have entered that market at all.

Sura Shama looked a little excited. The shooting for many days did not consume his energy. Now he asked curiously: "I heard that you wrote an article about robots to be published on "The New Yorker", which is amazing! I have heard of the name of this magazine in India, but occasionally I only saw the principal reading it. Although I haven't seen this story yet, it must be very exciting."

The actor seems to be a fan of Zhang Chu.

There are many praises online, but there are only a few praises at such close distance.

So Zhang Chu was quite happy, but he was not proud, because he knew that these were actually obtained through the savior system!

One day he wrote the original one himself, and it would not be too late to enjoy the praises from readers.

"Sula, let's take your seat on the boat now. We're going to prepare for filming." Li Yan reminded him. The scene had been rehearsed several times just now, but it was the first time it was actually filming.

Because it is a scene of a storm, every time you start to create a storm, the ship will be wet and the makeup will change.

Although the crew has prepared a lot of boats, it is also a troublesome to replace them. It is best to finish the filming as soon as possible!

Zhang Chu himself came to visit the set, and at this time he tried to reduce his presence and not let himself disturb the crew's shooting.

"Boys Pi" is basically a one-man show by Sula. Li An was not crazy enough to put a real Bengal tiger next to the boy, but instead prepared a blue cloth foam for him to fix it next to him, allowing him to perform without real-life performances.

Don’t laugh at science fiction movies in the future. The actors in fantasy movies have no acting skills. They have to rely on their imagination to make various expressions and actions in front of the green screen, which is also part of their acting skills!

So in the behind-the-scenes footage of many films, performances without special effects in front of the green screen are like performing sketches, bringing people infinite joy.

"Did you come to Los Angeles to visit the set? I heard that the crew of "The Da Vinci Code" is filming in Paris."

Zhang Chu shook his head, stretched and said, "I'm actually here to attend the Golden Globe Awards."

The Golden Globe Awards announced the nomination list a few days ago, but everyone’s focus is on film nominations and celebrities. Almost not many people pay attention to the TV nomination list!

Although "Sherlock" has finished its second season, the first season is now nominated.
Chapter completed!