Once Li Chencan decides something, he will go all out to do it. Today Li Chencan came to Central South Province, because the next movie will be shot here. The filming here will be in Zhangjiajie, and some scenes will also be shot in Tianfu Province. The entire crew conducted a lot of inspections here. Li Chencan wanted to capture the most beautiful scenes in the movie, so he would carefully consider many places. Soon, everything for the movie was ready. Actor Li Chencan had been found a long time ago, including hundreds of actors of all sizes needed for the movie. The ones needed were under the guidance of several martial arts instructors. Carry out martial arts training, train many things needed for the movie, and even prepare the moves well. All these preparations are necessary. The movie props and the like were also prepared after more than a month. In fact, because the time was too tight, a lot of money was spent on these places. These were extra money But Li Chencan didn't care about this either. , he wants to make "The Swordsman" a real martial arts movie, and it will also be a very well-made movie. No matter where it is, it will make people feel impeccable, very sophisticated and perfect martial arts movie. In addition, the costumes, props and scenes for the movie have all been negotiated and purchased. ¡These things cost a lot of money, but Li Chencan didn¡¯t hesitate anyway. After this series of preparations and calculations, as well as many previous experiences in filming movies, Li Chencan and others have calculated the approximate investment for "The Swordsman". The investment for this movie may be 500 million yuan, 1 About 100 million US dollars. Such a high investment is top-notch among all recent martial arts movies. Such a high investment has definitely made it a blockbuster. There are actually not many martial arts films with such high investment, let alone the years when martial arts have declined. It is true that martial arts movies have declined in the past two years. China has been talking about reviving new martial arts movies. However, this slogan has been shouted for several years, but without much success. Although there are many new martial arts films, most of them have little influence and do not have high box office revenue. Therefore, the so-called new martial arts revival in China has always been just a slogan in many places For such a high-investment martial arts film, basically all companies are afraid that such investment will destroy the box office, which is a big problem. ¡°But Li Chencan still has to invest such a high investment. He feels that such a movie wants to perform well at the box office. There should be no problem. Soon, the movie officially started filming on December 21st. The film's launch conference started today. There were also a lot of people at today's launch conference. These people were not invited by Li Chencan and the others. . But they took the initiative to apply The reason for this is very simple. After all, Li Chencan returned to China after such a long time, and this is also a Chinese-language film that was filmed more than two years ago. Naturally, everyone is. Coming in droves. So many long guns and short cannons all gathered in front of Li Chencan and the others. Li Chencan is behind them. There is also a movie poster that was shot after the makeup was set. This movie poster is a step up from the previous comic 3D version. There are many actors who are very different in costumes and fashion films. Some may perform quite well in costume films, but their effects in fashion films will drop a lot. Some may have poor looks in fashion films. Not bad, but their performance in costume films is very average The actors Li Chencan selected all belong to the type who look pretty good in costumes, so they look very beautiful on the posters now. This poster is four to five meters high and two to three meters wide. It is such a huge poster. The shape follows the first version of the 3D poster, which is the one with a person holding a long sword diagonally towards the screen. This poster also looks pretty. Li Chencan's version of "The Swordsman" will eventually be released in both 3D and 2D versions. In fact, Li Chencan doesn't really like 3D movies under the current circumstances. He still feels that the current 3D version of the movie is not mature enough. It will take a long time for technological development to mature. But even so, most of the fight scenes in the movie will basically be shot with IMAX 3D cameras, so that the resulting images will have a sense of impact. The investment of 500 million is mainly invested in various props and scenes and the human resources expenses for the shooting. The reporters¡¯ microphones were all pointed at Li Chencan. Facing all the criticism, Li Chencan sat in the middle of the main creative staff and began to answer reporters' questions. "Director Li, the investment in "The Swordsman" is so high, it can be said to be the highest-invested martial arts movie in the past five years. What do you think about this movie??What kind of expectations do you have? Do you hope to use this movie to carry the banner of the revival of new martial arts movies? "The reporters' questions were somewhat straight-forward at the beginning. Li Chencan smiled and said: "My expectations for this movie are indeed very high. I hope that "Swordsman" will become a movie that can awaken everyone. I have a movie about martial arts in my heart, so in order to achieve this goal, I have made a lot of efforts, invested a lot, invested so much money in order to create the texture of the movie" "This is a kind of movie. What kind of texture is it? What does it look like specifically? Are you talking about the action scenes in the movie? " Li Chencan shook his head and said: "No, in fact, if you have watched "The Dark Knight", you should know that I tried to create a texture in the movie This texture will come from many places. Performance. In the movie "The Swordsman", texture will be reflected in many places in the picture, action and connotation. I believe that after you see the specific content of the movie, you will be able to know what I mean by texture. " "Your movie should be relatively unique. So what is the main uniqueness of "The Swordsman" that you are about to shoot now? " Li Chencan said: "The uniqueness of the movie is mainly the core of the movie, the scenes shown in the movie, and the feeling of the movie The main thing is the feeling, well, I will wait until everyone sees the movie to tell. I believe In the movie, many questions will be answered. " "Why does the movie use such new actors? Not looking for veteran actors? " Li Chencan said: "This is to make the movie younger, and the most important thing is that such actors are more in line with my imagination of the movie characters. I wrote the movie myself, and I drew every scene script. came out, so I had my own impression of every character in the movie, and I found the actor who I felt best suited my impression of the character. " "This is your first movie after returning to China, and it's also the first Chinese-language movie you haven't made in a long time. What expectations do you have for the box office and reputation of this movie? " Li Chencan pondered for a moment and then said: "My expectation is that the movie can make back its money My most important expectation when shooting this movie is that I just hope that the movie can capture the martial arts in my mind and create a martial arts scene. It feels like a martial arts, which is my biggest expectation. ¡± ¡After this press conference, the news about the filming of "The Swordsman" is also flying all over the sky. Many people are constantly releasing news and things about "The Swordsman" at this moment. ? ? Everyone also After hearing that Li Chencan said that he wanted to shoot the martial arts in his mind, he became even more excited about "The Swordsman". After all, Li Chencan's ability to shoot movies has been fully demonstrated in "The Dark Knight", so, In the following time, everyone's expectations for "The Swordsman" reached their highest level. After the launch conference, the filming of "The Swordsman" began. The first filming was in the Huashan School. The surrounding scenes have been set up, and the current shooting is also carried out under the current conditions. ¡°Ouch! " In the monitor, Li Chencan saw the female lead Chen Fanxin falling, and Li Chencan asked someone to go over and take a look. " The intensity of filming these days is a bit too high Of course, this is also the consistent style of Li Chencan's movies. He is very familiar with the filming process. It's so strict that most people can't handle it. Li Chencan has very high requirements for every actor, especially the male and female protagonists. He doesn't just require the male and female actors to improve their movements. Things also require the acting skills of the male and female protagonists, and their performances are also strictly required by Li Chencan. It is under such circumstances that the filming progress of "The Swordsman" has been very slow, and the filming has reached the current level. The filming progress is still stuck at the same place and has not advanced too far. But Li Chencan is not in a hurry. Anyway, the film's budget is there. If it is not enough, he will increase it. He now has the transferred 500 million US dollars as a base, which is two dollars. With 1.5 billion yuan, it is very easy to make this movie with so much money. The outside world has also been paying attention to the news of "The Swordsman" and is paying attention to many things that will happen in this movie. They want to see it. Here are some stills from the filming process of this movie. What you are seeing now is the plot synopsis: During the Ming Dynasty, the secret book of the Forbidden Palace "Sunflower Collection" was mysteriously stolen. The eunuch of Jinyiwei suspected that it was Lin Zhennan from Fujian. In order to prevent the news of the lost treasure from spreading, Zuo Lengchan, a martial arts figure, was bribed.After checking the truth, he sent Jinyi Guard Gu Jinfu to lead a group out of Beijing to attack Lin Mansion This story is indeed the 1990 version of "Swordsman", but Li Chencan added a lot of things in the middle. Everyone is eager to know more about the plot of the movie.