"The clown believes that everyone is evil and there is no trust to exist. He just needs to 'push people lightly'. Everyone will give up justice and become very selfish and ugly, so he betrays others and even kills his comrades himself."

After taking the coffee cup handed over by Scarlett, Duke said in detail, "In the script setting, the clown's weapon of 'pushing it lightly' is a fear in people's hearts. He believes that everyone loves himself and his relatives. As long as you threaten their lives, everyone will give up their original bottom line and become a demon."

Duke finally said, "One of the clown's pursuits is to break through everyone's bottom line."

Scarlett seemed to understand something and asked curiously, "According to your words, the clown is the protagonist of "The Dark Knight".

“The actual situation is almost the same.”

In the movie that was once, Heath Ledger's performance was excellent, but the Joker's setting was the key. It was this character itself that gave Heath Ledger the opportunity to explode in acting.

In "The Dark Knight", Christian Bale's performance cannot be said to be bad, but he was completely suppressed when he encountered such a terrifying character.

To a certain extent, the performance of this film is a bit unbalanced.

However, this is Batman after all. Even if he is dressed in the dark realistic police and gangster film style, it is still an absolute Batman movie. Mr. Bruce Wayne will naturally take away the audience's attention.

With the official launch of "The Dark Knight", a series of preliminary preparations have been launched one after another.

First of all, the initial projected production cost of the film is $150 million. Since Doug Walter chose to support Duke, he definitely had no reservations. Moreover, Duke has never been a bottomless director like James Cameron. Warner Bros. will also make appropriate additional investments based on Duke's subsequent needs.

On the day of the press conference, the $50 million used for the early launch was placed on the account of a third-party insurance company.

Although third-party guarantees will cause some trouble, Duke has been filming and producing under this system for so many years and has long been used to it.

After the funds arrived, Duke first auditioned for two newly added important roles, including Nicholas Cage and Heath Ledger, and participated in the audition between Harvey Dante and the Joker.

After only one round of auditions, Duke finalized Nicholas Cage, a former Oscar winner who has fallen into the king of bad movies. Although he has received too many scripts and projects in recent years, his reputation and acting performance have continued to decline. The Oscar-level actor-level acting skills were still there. As long as his condition can maintain normal standards, it is not difficult to deal with a role like Harvey Dante.

The only thing that made Duke a little worried was Nicholas Cage's old habit. When he was in good condition, his acting skills were almost comparable to Tom Hanks. When he was in poor condition, he was even worse than Orlando Bloom.

Moreover, his condition is always good and bad, and his performance in the same movie can also show the difference between heaven and earth.

But Duke has worked with many actors over the years and can be said to be very experienced. He has certain confidence in himself and Nicholas Cage, who urgently needs self-salvation.

In order to deal with the role of two-faced person, Nicholas Cage also proved his positive attitude after passing the audition. He signed up for a psychology tutoring class and decided to learn personality schizophrenia for his role.

Obviously, Nicholas Cage knew that this collaboration with Duke would be his rare opportunity to turn things around.

Of course, Duke would not deny that being able to select Nicholas Cage from so many actors is because his acting skills and image are quite guaranteed; more importantly, it is because of Sofia Coppola.

This is why human relationships within the rules often play an important role in Hollywood, which is also an important reason why actors and directors from performing families are more likely to make their debut.

Even if this is a business society, no one can deny the role of network of personal connections.

The role of Joker is also competed by many well-known actors.

Robin Williams, Reach Halmy, Paul Bettany and Oscar winner Adrian Brody all participated in the audition and showed goodwill to the crew in public, expressing their interest in playing the "Joker".

Perhaps it was preconceived, or perhaps it was because Heath Ledger's audition was indeed excellent. Duke gave up Adrian Brody, who would rather reduce his salary to $500,000 and still chose Heath Ledger.

This big-nosed Jewish actor has a good acting skills. However, even if he has an Oscar winner, he is actually similar to Heath Ledger and has basically no commercial appeal. Heath Ledger's pay is not high. With similar conditions, Duke can't find any reason to choose Adrian Brody.

But Duke didn't expect that the crew had just signed a formal actor contract with Heath Ledger, and the Australian actor found him specifically and made a request.

"Director Rosenberg..."

Seeing Heath Ledger sitting across the desk with a little shyness, Duke interrupted him, "Duke, just call me Duke."

Heath Ledger was obviously an introvert. He squeezed out a smile and said, "Duke, can I not join the crew first?"

"Why?" Duke couldn't help frowning.

"I think the clown is a very special character."

Speaking of the character to be portrayed in front of the camera, Heath Ledger's shyness disappeared without a trace, "I want to find a quiet, completely undisturbed environment and spend the time studying this character."

Hearing this, Duke couldn't help but look at Heath Ledger seriously. This was a young and handsome male actor, whose bright eyes were blocked by a few strands of drooping blonde hair, but it revealed the kind of fanaticism that the actor met a character he really liked.

Since he planned to use Heath Ledger, Duke has made people understand him, no one would have thought that such a sunny actor had been addicted to drugs for several years.

Many people were once moved by the clown and comforted themselves, thinking that Heath Ledger had to take medicine because he was too immersed in the role of the clown, which led to death from overdose, but the actual situation was not the case at all...

He shook his head in his heart, Duke didn't say much, nodded in agreement with Heath Ledger's request.

Among the information he understands, Heath Ledger is not only introverted, but also quite sensitive, and hates being mentioned by others. Duke is very clear. Even if he wants to remind him indirectly, it is not the time.

After all, the two are just a simple business partnership.

In Hollywood, the relationship between actors and directors and actors is much more complicated than expected.

Many things are never implemented just by saying and doing.

Only those who have a head in their heads will naively believe that if they want to be friends with a well-known actor, the other party will definitely become friends.

Yes, countless Hollywood actors want to work with Duke, but may not necessarily want to be friends with him.

Having said that, with Duke's personality, even if the other party intends to make friends with him, he will look at it several times with a scrutiny.

Just like Nicholas Cage, if it weren't for Sofia Coppola's words, Duke would never take the initiative to pull him.

Heath Ledger was sent away, and Duke left the Duke Studio and went to Warner Studios.

Similar to "Batman: The Moment of War", the shooting of "The Dark Knight" is mainly divided into three parts. The first part is the interior of the studio of Warner Studios, the second part is the renovation of the Hughes Aircraft Factory's hangar studio, and the third part is the shooting of the outdoor scene in Chicago.

At present, the crew's preliminary inspection team also divided Duke into three parts. Anna Prinz was responsible for the scene construction of Warner Studios and Hughes Aircraft Factory. John Schwartzman took people to Chicago to inspect the outdoor shooting area, Prime Minister Duke and Charles Rowan and reviewed various preliminary work.

The preparatory preparation time for this film is 100 days and the shooting time is 3 months. It is the same as the previous two movies. Duke strives to catch up with the start of next summer.

Scene construction cannot be completed in a short period of time. Many different scenes can also be built while shooting. In comparison, the styling of Batman, Joker, Harvey Dante and others must be determined as soon as possible.

Since they will continue to use Gary Oldman, Michael Kane, Lawrence Fishburne and Anne Hathaway, their costume designs are relatively quicker.

The enemy of Joker and Batman is the focus, especially Batman, who will update many of his equipment, and the film's sponsor Lamborghini also needs to design a cool Bat motorcycle based on the Batmobile.

In addition, Batman's suit must be redesigned and manufactured. Duke will limit Bruce Wayne's ability. He is just an ordinary person with wise skills. If he wants to move faster, the suit can only be thinner and simplified.

IMAX also sent two huge IMAX cameras, and a technical team also entered the crew. After John Schwartzman returned from Chicago, he would assist the crew in getting familiar with the equipment.

These imax cameras are several times that of ordinary cameras. How to use these bulky big guys to shoot the impactful lenses in the video is also a problem that Duke needs to consider.

Duke is an absolute novices for IAMX camera technology.

However, he has always been a person who knows how to learn and knows that imax production technology is the future development trend. In addition to busy work, he also frequently asks the technical engineers of imax company.

Throughout July, Duke spent the early preparations for "The Dark Knight", but when the preparations took shape in early August, the summer season in North America had ended, and "Iron Man" became the biggest winner in the North American film market in the summer season of 2006. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!