Movie Queen Development Plan

A week after the meeting with Nanaya and Shion, Washimine officially announced that the Fate movie would be released during the summer of 2005.

This news did not mention which week of the summer season the film would be released, nor did it mention that the film would be divided into two parts.

This was a little trick played by Nanaya. If it was announced at the beginning that the movie would be divided into two parts, it is very likely that many fans would be discouraged from watching the movie.

The current influence of Fate is not as great as IPs like "The Lord of the Rings" or "Harry Potter" which have huge fan bases.

It is not possible to achieve that even if fans know there will be a sequel, they will be very happy to pay to go to the cinema.

This piece of news caused quite a stir in Hollywood. After all, it was a big-budget movie, so it was impossible to say that no one paid attention to it.

As for whether any movies will be affected and their release dates will be changed, Nanaya can't care less.

Even if it needs to be changed, it will probably have to wait until they announce the exact release date.

After dealing with these external chores of the film project, he has turned his attention back to the filmmaking itself.

He now needs to finish filming Illya's content as soon as possible, because the little loli's physical development is faster than he thought.

In less than a month, she has grown 4cm taller and her cup size has also increased from flat to A.

So Nanaya immediately brought the actors who had already gathered in Japan to Kobe City for filming.

For this reason, Nanaya once again boarded the chartered green train, but this time there were more people than the last time he returned home.

Just as Nanaya was leaving Tokyo on the Shinkansen, "Remaining Pain", which was released in March this year, was finally taken off the shelves in Japan after more than half a year of screening.

This urban fantasy film eventually grossed 14.3 billion yen in Japan.

From the perspective of investment and return, the movie "Remaining Pain" is undoubtedly a success.

This two-part film, with production costs and publicity costs included, did not reach 1 billion yen per film, but it brought Lin Bao a profit of more than 8 billion yen (Lin Bao has its own cinema chain, and the cinema chain's share is much lower).

This does not include movie peripherals and overseas box office.

Eastern urban horror stories have little market in Europe and the United States; however, in Asia, due to cultural similarities, they are still quite popular.

Although the final box office of "Remaining Pain" cannot be fully counted because it has not yet been withdrawn from the theaters in many countries, Nanaya believes that it should not be a problem for the film to exceed 20 billion yen.

But that's about it.

It certainly can't compare to "Goblin Slayer" which grossed $600 million worldwide, but it was still considered a very successful commercial film in Asia in 2003.

The only thing that makes Nanaya a little regretful is that he probably won't be able to become the champion of Japan's box office chart this year.

If his memory is correct, the box office champion in Japan in 2003 should be "Search Line 2: Rainbow Bridge" which earned 17.55 billion yen.

The annual champion of imported films was "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", which grossed 17.3 billion yen.

If Nanaya's memory is correct, "The Great Search Line 2" should be the last live-action movie in Japanese film history to break the 10 billion annual box office record.

For the annual championship movies that followed, all live-action movies failed to break 10 billion. On the contrary, there were several animated films that broke 10 billion at the box office, and even a few that broke 20 billion.

On the contrary, many Hollywood live-action movies have frequently exceeded the 10 billion yen mark in Japan.

All I can say is that the decline of Japanese live-action films is an indisputable fact.

"Maybe it won't be like this this time." Nanaya thought as he looked at the movie newspaper in his hand.

"Although I don't have the intention to save Japanese live-action movies, if my movie is successful, it will probably be regarded as a miracle of Japanese live-action movies, right?"

"What miracle?"

Lily, who had just finished putting on makeup, saw Nanaya sitting there muttering to himself, so she came over curiously.

Nanaya shook his head and put the newspaper away. "Nothing. I just said that unless a miracle happens, from the perspective of the box office curve, "Remaining Pain" probably won't be able to beat "The Great Leap Forward 2"."

"That's all?"

"Yes, that's it."

Nanaya patted Lily on the back and said, "Hurry up and get back to your camera position. Perform well for me later. If you make any mistakes, I won't forgive you."

"Tsk, you're using the director's authority to scare people again."

Lily pouted and muttered.

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Nanaya patted the little girl's head in warning, but he was careful not to mess up Lily's hairstyle.

After arriving in Kobe, the crew only rested for one day before starting filming.

The first scene is the battle between Shirou, Rin and Illya.

In addition to considering Illya's interests, Nanaya also hoped that through this scene, Sugiyama and others would slowly get into their roles.

This scene, which is located in the early stage of the script, requires relatively low acting skills.

However, the strength displayed by Hercules, Artoria and Heroic Spirit Emiya is a crucial foreshadowing for the subsequent plot.

There is no need to mention Hercules. As a stepping stone to the final boss, his strength will indirectly reflect the invincibility of Gilgamesh.

As for Artoria, played by Lily, she needs to show the image of a strong and unyielding female knight in this battle.

She has the strongest job, Saber, but despite her powerful abilities, she is unable to fully demonstrate her strength due to the burden of a half-baked Master.

This kind of frustration and helplessness is the feeling that Nanaya needs to show to the audience. Only in this way will the powerful Saber in the later part of the movie be loved by people.

Without Fate's preparation for Saber's image, Nanaya could only use this relatively simple method of first suppressing and then praising to shape the character.

After all, it is a commercial film, and Nanaya cannot make the character settings too complicated. The audience goes to the cinema to relax, not to play psychological games with the director.

As for Red A, Nanaya needs to shape his character in this scene - cold-blooded, ruthless, and willing to do anything to achieve victory.

In order to deal with the powerful enemy Hercules, he didn't mind dragging Saber, who was half a comrade, into it. It would be better to kill two birds with one stone.

In Nanaya's plan, the opening of the UBW movie will start directly from Shirou Emiya, instead of starting from the prologue from Rin's perspective like the game.

The protagonist of UBW is undoubtedly Shirou Emiya, so other characters must not be allowed to overshadow the narrative.

Nanaya roughly estimated the content of the prologue. According to his narrative habits and rhythm, it would take about 20 minutes to finish.

This is too long. If we compress the content and squeeze it into 15 minutes, it would be better to start directly with Shirou Emiya and then break up the content of the prologue and tell it in the first act.

This narrative mode is more suitable for Nanaya and also allows him to be more fluent in editing.

However, if this arrangement is made, Red A's role will be greatly compressed.

He only appears twice in the entire opening of Act I, once in the battle with Lancer and the other time in the battle with Hercules.

So in Nanaya's plan, the first battle is mainly to show the image and fighting style of Red A, while the second battle will focus more on Red A's personality characteristics.

In the entire UBW line, the ideological conflict between Shirou and Red A is the biggest contradiction in the whole story.

Therefore, in the early stage of the script, Nanaya needed to shape Red A into a character that was completely opposite to the protagonist Shirou.

Shirou is a good guy, so Red A must be selfish; Shirou cares about everyone, so Red A only considers everything from his own perspective.

This is also the reason why, after Saber was taken away by Medea, Shirou still chose to fight and help Tohsaka Rin.

Red A's performance was completely the opposite. After confirming that Caster's group had a huge advantage, he directly turned against them and stood on the side of the winner.

From an outsider's perspective, it is not surprising that Red A made such a choice, because his previous actions showed that he was such a person.

Only in this way can the audience be greatly shocked when it is revealed that the Heroic Spirit Emiya is the future Shirou Emiya.

This will also become what the audience is most concerned about in the second half of the movie.

Why did Shirou, a good man, eventually become the cold-blooded and heartless Red A?

The main difficulty in shooting this battle was the handling of the action scenes; on the contrary, the performance requirements for the actors were not very high.

As long as the actors act cool and bring out the style that belongs to each character, there will basically be no problem.

A week later, the crew finished filming the first battle scene with Hercules.

Illya and Mark Ruffalo became the first main actors to leave the crew.

In order to see them off, Nanaya specially booked a izakaya in Kobe City and held a farewell party for the two.

"Mark, you did a great job!"

Nanaya picked up a glass of Calpis and clinked it with the orange juice in Mark Ruffalo's hand.

One of these two people has high-intensity work tomorrow, and the other has just recovered from a serious illness. Neither of them is suitable for drinking, so they can only use drinks to show their appreciation.

"Thank you, Director Kiryu."

Although Mark had a weird expression, it could be seen that he was very happy at the moment.

"I want to thank you too, you've made my job a lot easier."

Nanaya drank the drink in his cup in one gulp.

"I hope we will have the opportunity to work together again in the future, and I also hope your movie will be a big hit."

Mark also drank the juice in his glass.

"I hope so."

There was also a hint of longing on Nanaya's face.

"I will."

Mark took the initiative to extend his fist to Nanaya, and the two men bumped fists together.

"It's a pleasure to work with you."*2

The two men smiled at each other, and established their friendship.