Chapter 91 Goblin Slayer begins filming

New Zealand is a great place.

There are natural scenery everywhere, and the four seasons are picturesque.

Lush green forest and white clouds floating in the vast blue sky.

There are also rippling lakes, towering ancient forests, green farmlands, and quiet valleys. These breathtaking scenery are like landscape oil paintings, which make people feel infinite beauty at first sight of this country.

Yes, at first glance.

If you want to consider New Zealand as a tourist destination, it is indeed a very good country. Or, if you want to say, there are not many places in the world that still retain such a large area of beautiful natural scenery as New Zealand.

But living here is not so pleasant, especially for city dwellers who are accustomed to the convenience of modern society.

There is nothing to eat, drink, or play, just scenery. After you finish admiring the scenery, what you will face is the lack of various infrastructure.

Especially now New Zealand is not as famous as it will be in the future, the tourism industry has not been developed at all, and some convenient ancillary facilities are basically non-existent.

Nowadays, when it comes to traveling to Oceania, except for New Zealand locals, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely Australia.

It can be said that these beautiful landscapes became known to the world thanks to Peter Jackson's magnificent "New Zealand Travel Guide" trilogy.

"I wouldn't be surprised if the New Zealanders build a monument to Peter in a few years - A-choo!"

A cool breeze blew by, and Nanaya couldn't help but sneeze.

While Japan has already left winter and is heading towards summer, New Zealand is slowly entering winter.

"Damn the Southern Hemisphere, it's so cold."

Nanaya rubbed his nose, tightened his coat, picked up the microphone and yelled at several crew members: "Each of you, take good care of the people you need to watch over. If any of them catch a cold, I'll skin you alive!"

Several logistics staff members nodded quickly to show that they understood, and then quickly expressed their warmth to the actors they were responsible for.

The current location of "Goblin Slayer" is an ordinary horse farm on the outskirts of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. Nanaya has rented this horse farm as the home of Goblin Slayer's childhood sweetheart, Cow Girl.

Nanaya chose this scene as the first scene for the entire crew to shoot because it was the closest place to the city of Wellington among the several filming locations he had booked, except for the indoor studio in New Zealand.

Luvia laughed and said to Nanaya jokingly, "You seem to be becoming more and more like a director. I remember that you had a pretty good temper when you started filming "Magical Illya"."

Because it was the first scene of the crew, all the main actors were present. Even Luvia, who would not appear in this scene, was on the set to watch others filming.

"Nonsense, this is a 60 million US dollar investment. If something goes wrong, I will have to work hard for at least another ten years to make up for it." Luvia's words made Nanaya curl his lips in disdain.

"Come to think of it, it's a good idea that you picked such a good place. There are similar scenic spots in Northern Europe, but they are definitely not as vast as this one." Luvia sighed as she looked at the scenery in the distance, "Even if the movie doesn't succeed in terms of plot, I think it will definitely sell well as a travel guide."

This horse farm was built on a plain in the suburbs, surrounded by endless grasslands. Not far away from the farm were towering mountains, the tops of which were covered with clearly visible white snow.

As far as scenery is concerned, this place is really impeccable.

"The scenery here is pretty nice, isn't it?" Nanaya was a little proud. He visited several places in New Zealand before choosing this place.

"But don't even think about making a travel film, because someone is already working on it."

Luvia looked at the scenery and said, "Are you talking about The Lord of the Rings? I heard that the director traveled almost all over New Zealand."

Nanaya showed a gloating smile on his face: "Yes, I heard that Peter is going to shoot a scene in the snowy mountains recently. May God bless him."

It was not a good idea to shoot scenes in the snowy mountains at this time close to winter. Unfortunately, the crew of "The Lord of the Rings" had to delay the previous scenes too much due to problems with the shooting progress, so they had to rush to the snowy mountains at this time.

But there is nothing that can be done about it. After all, winter will come in a month, and the mountains will most likely be closed by then.

The snow-capped mountains were a plot that had to appear in the first film, so the "Lord of the Rings" crew had no choice but to go to the snow-capped mountains to film.

Otherwise, by the time summer comes in the southern hemisphere this year, the movie might have been released.

Fortunately, most of the close-up shots can be completed in the studio, and the actual shots on the snowy mountains are all medium and long shots. Although it is a bit painful, it is basically not a big problem.

"Why do you sound so happy?" Luvia rolled her eyes at Nanaya.

Nanaya snorted, "Who told that fat guy Peter to butcher me?"

When Nanaya thought of the cost of cooperation with Weta Workshop, he felt a little pain for Shion Washimine.

Of course, this money was not without reward. In addition to the extras and scenes agreed upon at the beginning, Nanaya also received a lot of additional benefits.

Among them is the motion capture technology that Nanaya values ​​the most. Weta Workshop also agreed to open it to the "Goblin Slayer" crew to help create several special monsters including trolls and the Goblin King.

This special effects sharing model will be very common in the next few years, and the film will distribute the special effects in its own film to various special effects companies in order to achieve the feat of "ten women giving birth to a baby in a month".

For example, the Marvel Cinematic Universe series, because there are 2-3 new works to be released every year, they have become very skilled in the special effects splitting.

Among them, the character creation of the well-known Titan Thanos was completed by the special effects team in Hong Kong.

There are fewer movies these days that subcontract special effects, not because the director insists or for other reasons, but simply because there are too few special effects companies.

After all, directors have high standards for the special effects in their films. When special effects companies on the market are unable to complete them, they can only roll up their sleeves and do it themselves.

Directors like James Cameron, George Lucas and Peter Jackson have no choice but to participate in the development of new special effects themselves.

Of course, these technological developments have also brought them countless benefits. For example, if later filmmakers want to use this technology, they have to pay them.

Nanaya is not a technology fanatic like them. He is a technology user. Since the ready-made technology is already available, he will of course take the initiative to use it.

With the help of Weta Workshop, the biggest shortcoming of the post-production special effects production team of "Goblin Slayer" has been made up.

Therefore, Nanaya started the production of "Goblin Slayer" with confidence.

"All units, prepare!"

Nanaya returned to his director's seat, and after making sure that everyone on the set was ready, he asked the script supervisor to notify them to start filming.

"Goblin Slayer, Scene 1, Act 4." The script supervisor stood in front of the main camera holding a script board, "Now... start!"

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Nanaya and the crew didn't stay at the horse farm for too long. After all, as a supporting character, the role of the cowherd girl's family was basically just a passing scene.

Unlike the original novel, which introduces every character in detail, the movie has limited time, so there must be an absolute gap in the ratio of roles between the protagonist and supporting roles.

In Nanaya's script, the purpose of Cowgirl's existence is just to serve as a tool to introduce the reason why Goblin Slayer hates goblins.

Therefore, Nanaya basically tried to save as much as possible on the role of this busty girl.

After finishing the scenes at the horse farm, Nanaya led the crew to the studio in the town of Bree built by the crew of "The Lord of the Rings".

This town was just a transitional scene for the crew of "The Lord of the Rings".

After all, apart from the four Hobbits being chased by the Ringwraiths at the Prancing Pony and Aragorn's appearance, this place basically has no role to play.

But this is not the case for Nanaya. He plans to use the constructed town in the studio as the border town where the Adventurer's Guild in "Goblin Slayer" is located.

If we use the terminology from the game, this place is the main city of the entire story of "Goblin Slayer". The protagonist starts from here to perform missions and then returns here.

It can be said that this town is a very important setting in the movie, but Nanaya will not use the outdoor setting today. He will use the small indoor studio that has been prepared in advance.

"So that fat guy is still very useful."

Nanaya kept nodding his head. He felt that his idea of borrowing the set of "The Lord of the Rings" was absolutely correct.

"Hey, director." A bearded actor joked, "The fat guy you are talking about is not the director Jackson?"

"No, Xilin, stop talking nonsense."

Nanaya would never admit this.

Uncle Xilin will play the dwarf warlock in the main character team. He is a temporary actor poached by Nanaya from the crew of "The Lord of the Rings".

However, unlike the dwarf uncle in the original book whose body shape is not much different from that of a goblin, the actor in reality is a burly man who is nearly 1.9 meters tall.

Nanaya chose him because his rugged image was very consistent with Westerners' impression of dwarves, especially the red hair which made Nanaya very satisfied.

As for the image of the dwarf warlock with white beard in the "original work", Nanaya directly abandoned it. Anyway, there are no fans of the original work of "Goblin Slayer" in this world, so why should Nanaya sacrifice the sense of intimacy with passers-by for the so-called degree of restoration?

Of course, the setting of the dwarf drinking was still retained, and the person carrying the dwarf's waist was a flagon full of beer.

"Haha, okay. I didn't say anything."

The uncle laughed, he did not expose Nanaya's intention. He picked up the wine jug and prepared to take a sip, but was stopped by Nanaya.

"Wait a minute! The camera hasn't started yet! Go to the guild's studio and wait!"

Nanaya hurriedly stopped this old drunkard who was as good as ZUN.

"Tsk, that's boring."

The "dwarf" uncle put down the wine jug reluctantly.

Nanaya rubbed his temples. He regretted following ZUN's advice to use real wine to increase the realism.