Several military off-road vehicles drove from a distance, bringing white sand all over the sky. After the car stopped, Duke pushed open the car door and a hot air came towards him. The sun in the air was scorching the earth like a fireball. The air was stuffy and the ground was boiling. He stepped on the almost white sand and felt a little hot.≥,

Colonel Daniel Frys got out of the car in front, walked to Duke, stood side by side with him, pointed his right hand towards the distance, and said, "It's here. Using this place as the center point, the radius of thirty-five miles is temporarily included in the crew's shooting."

"There won't be any missiles coming, right?"

The person who spoke was John Schwartzman. He raised his hand to cover the blazing sunlight falling from the sky and said, "The desert is a bit white, and it is a bit different from the Middle East, but the problem is not big. We can adjust it through lighting and lenses."

“It’s here.”

Looking at the endless white desert, Duke made his final decision, "The scenes in the Middle East are filmed here, I believe none of you are willing to go to the Middle East, right?"

Just like my mother mentioned it several times that Duke had no interest in going to Israel, it was just that he would not go to the Middle East.

The scenes in the Middle East can be photographed in the White Sand Missile Range, but the place is close to the white desert, which is somewhat different from the Middle East.

The White Sand Missile Testing Site is located at the junction of New Mexico and Texas. As the name suggests, it is a desert national park with pure whiteness over snow. However, the desert where the missile test site is located is not pure white. According to Colonel Daniel Fries, it is about 50 miles from the real pure white desert.

The shooting of many explosion scenes in the planned metropolis was completed at the White Sand Director's Testing Field. The crew was able to go deep into the military's important locations, which came completely from the support of the Pentagon. In order to create a good and positive image for the US side, the Pentagon not only provides a shooting venue, but also allows the crew to follow the whistling fighter jets to shoot from the air.

Everyone walked along the simple road in the desert for a while. Duke saw a building, which had about dozens of houses, but it was obviously not taken care of for a long time. It seemed a bit dilapidated, and some walls collapsed.

"Colin", Duke pointed there and asked Daniel Frys who was walking next to him, "Where is that?"

"The abandoned old military camp originally wanted to be a target for missiles, but it has never been used."

After guessing what Duke wanted to do, he said, "If the shooting can be used, it will be used well."

"Hannah!"

Hearing that, Duke waved to the back, art director Hanna Serena came over wearing a big mask, pointing to her and said, "Is it easy to use them to shoot?"

After a few minutes of careful observation, Hannah Selena said, "Yes, it should save some workload."

Then, the group returned to the car and went to several other places to check it out. Then they drove out of the Baisha Missile Range.

After leaving New Mexico, Duke did not return to Los Angeles. Instead, accompanied by Colonel Daniel Fries, he took Hannah Serena, John Schwartzman and others to Edwards Air Force Base, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas for field shooting inspections.

In Las Vegas, Duke was received by the City Hall. The mayor of Las Vegas directly stated that if Las Vegas becomes one of the main locations of Transformers, the City Hall will try its best to cooperate with the crew's shooting, and things like closed street shooting are not a problem at all.

With relevant support, Duke also decided to put the final battle scene in Las Vegas, and it seems that it would be a good idea to destroy half of Las Vegas.

Duke returned to Los Angeles and first met with Larry Page and Sher Gaybring of Google. The two parties also officially signed an equity exchange agreement and obtained the shares in Duke. In addition to the shares they had previously obtained from other small shareholders, Google successfully became the largest shareholder of instant sharing, and the shares with voting rights in their hands were close to 50%. When the next shareholders' meeting was held, the beginning of a major change in management.

Of course Duke would not do anything without profit. After signing the share exchange agreement, he firmly became Google's largest shareholder. However, the voting rights of Class A shares are still lower than those added by Larry Page and Sher Gaybring, and the other party will definitely not let him threaten their control over Google.

However, Duke did not intend to interfere with Google. He knew that he was purely an amateur in the IT industry, just like he would not be stupid enough to point fingers in front of Steve Jobs, and would not be bored to interfere with Google's affairs.

The signing of this agreement is a win-win situation for Duke and Google, but it is tantamount to a heavy blow for Donald Trump and the Trump Group behind him.

But Duke didn't take it too seriously. Ivanka Trump is his ex-girlfriend after all.

As for what she and Donald Trump would think, Duke wouldn't care, he still has a lot of work to do.

The design team sent by Hasbro from its headquarters in Rhode Island once again completed the concept design drawings of Autobots and Decepticons according to Duke's requirements. This time it was recognized by Duke. After some modifications, the drawings were sent to Industrial Light and Magic. The Industrial Light and Magic model studio will create Transformers models of different proportions based on the design drawings.

In addition, with the completion of Transformers' appearance design, another special effects group of Industrial Light and Magic has established a special effects studio at Warner Studios to begin modeling for future gi productions.

These work requires a lot of time and do not have to take any tricks. To put it bluntly, gi special effects are piled up with time and money. In fact, there is only one reason for those special effects that seem to be five cents, and there is not enough money spent on special effects production.

According to Duke's requirements, the best special effects that appear in "Transformers" must be today. Not to mention gi generation, but just model production, Optimus Prime's model requires nearly 12,000 parts, which is definitely a time-consuming and labor-intensive project.

This is also related to Duke's other requirement. All the robots in the film will not be thick and bulky. Just like the elite warriors in the human army, both the Decepticon and the Autobots will have a natural and smooth beauty. When deformed on the big screen, every part on the body will move at the same time.

Moreover, this design will continue to the related peripheral toys launched by Hasbro. Hasbro has formulated plans for the most expensive toys. As long as the special parts on Transformers are touched, Optimus Prime and Megatron can automatically transform.

Of course, such toys are definitely expensive.

However, as long as the video is popular enough, a large number of fans will definitely pay for it.

Duke spent the whole August busy. The preparations for movies like "Transformers" are countless times more complicated than those independent films, and they are not at all careless. A small mistake in the early preparations may become a serious problem during filming.

Although Duke doesn't need to do the specific work such as making plans and field notes, and Hanna Selena's assistant team is enough to complete it, Duke still needs to review each studio, even if it is not taken care of by him, Tina Fe, who is the producer manager, has to review it.

"Strictly speaking, you are the person in charge of the crew."

After reviewing a storyboard artwork, Duke looked up and looked at Tina Fey, who was sitting at another table, and said, "How is this job feeling?"

"Fortunately, it's a bit similar to what I did before."

When Charles Rowan was there, he also focused on assisting Duke's work, which was not difficult for Tina Fe. "It was busier than before, and I needed to discuss many venues, props, equipment and financial negotiations in person."

The funds were controlled by a third-party guarantee company. In the past, Duke needed funds, but Charles Rowan asked for them, but now of course it was replaced by Tina Fey.

Third-party guarantees are a universal system in Hollywood. They can effectively curb some other ideas about money that many people in the crew inevitably have. All directors in Hollywood work under this system, and Duke is no exception. In some aspects, Duke is also a supporter of this system. In the past, films invested by the Duke Studio also used third-party guarantees.

Even with his previous collaboration with Tom Cruise and Warner Bros., Duke would not be so idiotic that he handed over the funds directly to the other party or crew to control it.

A mature industry will inevitably have corresponding systems as a guarantee.

"Warner Brothers' second batch of $50 million has arrived."

Tina Fei looked at the report and said, "We need to pay a fee in advance for Industrial Light and Magic and IMA companies."

Duke waved his hand, "This is something you and the financial director should consider, don't tell me."

After "The Dark Knight" created the IMA craze, IMA now has a certain confidence. Duke filmed "Transformers", and the cameras are no longer available for free, and the crew needs to pay related rental fees.

This is a very normal situation. There is no free lunch in the world. Commercial transactions are ultimately commercial transactions.

Moreover, after the ima technology fully demonstrates its advantages, many companies and videos will inevitably follow the trend, and few ima cameras in the world have naturally become a shortage of products.

After relaxing a little, Duke opened the folder again and continued to review the storyboard artwork. Tina Fei on the other side was also concentrating on her work. She just opened a few file bags and looked through it. After she took a file bag, she walked to Duke.

"The first audition results of the three main characters." Tina Fei put the file bag in front of Duke, "This is what Anna just sent." (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!