Is it reasonable for me to build a space elevator when filming The Wandering Earth?

Liu Lang's two sci-fi short films, coupled with the entry into the Douyin platform, as well as the title of double winner of the Starlight Award and Hugo Award, have made him the hottest person on the Internet in Dragon Country in the past month.

Lin Hao, who is far away in Hengdian, knows this, of course.

Although he has to rotate through several crews every day and has to work 12-16 hours a day, he has never thought of taking the initiative to ask Liu Lang for help.

He is a person with strong self-esteem, although he jokingly agreed with Liu Lang before graduation that 'Gou Fugui should not forget each other', but it was not until Liu Lang took the initiative to speak that he was sure that Liu Lang had not forgotten him.

At the invitation of Liu Lang, Lin Hao bought a plane ticket overnight and flew to Hainan Island to meet him.

When Lin Hao saw the super-large photography base by the harbor, which covered an area of dozens of square kilometers, he was shocked.

"Brother Lang, are you really coming?!"

The news on the Internet about Liu Lang going to shoot "The Wandering Earth" was boiling, and when he was almost not optimistic about him, Lin Hao, who could be said to blindly believe in Liu Lang, couldn't help but drum in his heart.

After graduating from the directing department, he naturally knows how difficult it is to shoot an industrial science fiction film.

From the perspective of the world film industry, this is almost all exclusive genre films of Hollywood.

"Of course it's true, otherwise do you think I'm going to be like Bi Fei, get some funds, smash a few traffic actors, and make a sci-fi romance film?"

But at present, Liu Lang has won the Starlight Award and the Hugo Award, and has become the real 'first person in science fiction in the Dragon Kingdom', so it is naturally impossible to do such a stupid thing that destroys his future.

"I really need your help when I call you here, the crew of "The Wandering Earth" has just begun to be formed, and you will be my assistant director.

Hearing this, Lin Hao was stunned, and then hurriedly excused himself.

"Brother Lang, if it were other crews, I would have been fooled as an assistant director, but I can't fool you.

I don't know anything about the shooting of hardcore sci-fi films.

During this time in Hengdian, I was busy with the scheduling of extras, the management of movie props, and the handling of explosion scenes and war scenes in those crews.

At most, I can only be considered a logistics manager.,I can't count on the specific shooting.。。 "

I know my own affairs, if I make an anti-Japanese drama, an abusive soap opera or something, Lin Hao doesn't mind giving full play to his directing skills.

But "The Wandering Earth" is extremely important to Liu Lang, and Lin Hao doesn't want to mess up his buddy's work.

"You, the assistant director, are responsible for the logistics and scheduling of the crew, including the management of extras, the preparation of equipment and props, and a series of logistics matters within the crew.

Such a crew 'big housekeeper', I don't feel at ease when I hand it over to others. "

Liu Lang is from the bottom of his heart, in fact, Lin Hao is also a 'second generation' in the film and television industry.

However, he is not the 'second generation of stars' and 'second generation guides' that everyone knows.

Rather, many of the relatives in the family are engaged in the film and television industry.

Uncle Lin Hao is the casting director next to a big director in Hengdian, and several aunts have contracted nearly half of the crew in Hengdian to work for lunch and work, and there are two uncles, one is responsible for the supply of costumes for the crew, and the other is responsible for the supply of shooting props for the major crews.

From airplanes, artillery, tanks, and vehicles in war dramas, to all kinds of knives, guns, sticks, weapons, etc. in costume dramas, as long as the money is in place, you can be as realistic as you want.

In a sense, Lin Hao's engagement in the film and television industry can be regarded as a family relationship.

"Ha, Brother Lang, you said it earlier, I'm a professional!

During this time, I can toss the logistics in the crew. Hearing

that Liu Lang was the assistant director in charge of logistics, Lin Hao immediately regained his self-confidence.

After this period of rotation in Hengdian's large and small crews, coupled with the 'secrets of the film and television industry' passed on by relatives, Lin Hao can be said to be familiar with the logistics of the crew.

"Then I happen to be free, I'll take you to see the props factory of our "The Wandering Earth" crew. "

After a period of waiting, the Security Bureau has already completed the construction of the props factory supporting the filming base requested by Liu Lang, and it has been able to be delivered.

Liu Lang said as he took Lin Hao to the edge of the "Wandering Earth" filming base with an area of dozens of square kilometers.

'Prop factory?

' Lin Hao didn't react for a while, and when he saw the rows of brand-new and tall factory buildings standing in the fence of the shooting base, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

"No, Brother Lang, are you serious

?!These factories are really used to make movie props?!"

Lin Hao thought of his second uncle, who single-handedly supplied almost half of the film and television props of Hengdian's crew, all kinds of aircraft, artillery, tanks, knives, guns, sticks, rifles, artillery, everything.

Even so, there are less than 30 people under the second uncle, which can only be called a small workshop.

And these 'prop factories' in front of Lin Hao now, each of which is twenty or thirty meters high, covers an area of thousands of square meters, and there are as many as twenty.

"Don't make a fuss, industrial science fiction films, the pursuit is realism, how can you miss movie props?

Liu Lang explained to Lin Hao.

"The equipment and materials for the plant are ready.

Now there is an urgent need for a reliable prop master to handle them.

"Brother Lang, what are you going to make?

My second uncle has a way, but his master has no culture, and they can't make too complex props. "

Hearing 'no culture', Liu Lang's eyes lit up.

"Haozi, please be sure to contact your second uncle for me, tell him that money is not a problem, and let him find a group of reliable masters to come over and help me operate the raw materials for the production of movie props. The

movie props that Liu Lang wants to build are the [Space Elevator] that he has been thinking about for a long time.

The best location for the space elevator should be located in the equatorial region of Gabon, Africa, as in the previous "The Wandering Earth" movie.

But in the real world, of course, Liu Lang can't copy the situation in the movie, that area is not the sphere of influence of the Dragon Kingdom.

In addition, it is such a sensitive project as [Space Elevator], Liu Lang thought about it, so he could only settle for the next best thing and chose the Hainan Island area at the southern tip of the Dragon Kingdom.

It is obviously unrealistic to want to build a behemoth version of the space elevator with 9 cars and 216 cables of varying thickness, as in the movie.

Not only could the geographical conditions not support it, but Liu Lang did not have so much money to spend on it.

If it is only for the live shooting of the movie, a single car and four cables are enough.

Such a miniaturized space elevator is also within Liu Lang's tolerance.

After planning, the most important thing is to make the core material for building a space elevator: carbon nanotubes that are long enough.