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The Pentagon's generosity is enough to save the crew a lot of money, especially several large outdoor explosion scenes. The White Sand Missile Range located in New Mexico is simply the most suitable place. The crew can explode and destroy it at will without worrying about any environmentalists coming to the door.

To this end, under the coordination of the Pentagon liaison officer Lt. Col. Renho, Duke led photography director John Schwartzman, art director Hannah Selena, deputy director Zach Schneider, blaster Jos William, and several leaders of the Industrial Light and Magic Special Effects Group to conduct field inspections at Edward Air Base and the White Sand Missile Range to discuss how to take pictures at that time.

During the entire preliminary preparation time, Duke was not much more busy than shooting. After returning to Burbank from New Mexico, Zach Schneider led a photography team to film landmark buildings or scenic spots around the world, including Cairo, Sydney, the Middle East, Paris and Mount Kilimanjaro, to make computer CG synthesis shooting materials for the special effects group.

The negotiations for the main actors have also made progress. After the tug-of-war negotiations, Will Smith signed Daming on a $250,000 actor contract. In addition, Jeff Gorumbus, Bill Pullman, Naomi Watts and Halle Berry also won the actor contracts one after another, and the main cast was basically determined.

Duke also took time to watch Scarlett Johnson's audition. The little guy's acting skills were much worse than Kelsten Dunst's performance in "Night Visit to Vampire", but it was enough to deal with the president's daughter in "Independence Day". Although other young actors left the relationship such as the deputy director, after Duke explained, those people chose to give in.

After the audition ended, Sophia was ordered to inform Scarlett Johnson and her mother in time. Duke returned to the office and discussed the shooting at the White Sands Director's Range with the two producers and John Schwartzman. At the end of the discussion, the door was knocked from outside, and Sophia Coppola walked in first.

"Can I come in?" Scarlett Johnson's little head emerged from the door.

"You haven't gone back to class?"

Turning his head, Duke looked over there and frowned and asked, "Or did you skip class?"

"I'll audition today."

The little guy walked in straight, carrying a large paper bag in his hand, "I took a day off."

"Hi, John. Hi, Charles. Hi, Robin."

She looked familiar, and as she walked over to say hello to the people sitting, she took out the ice cream from the paper bag and stuffed it into their hands.

"Does Ska treat him?"

Here, Charles Rowan is the oldest and prefers children. When Duke was busy some time ago, he asked Sophia to temporarily take Scarlett to the studio to wait for him to get off work, and he also knows the main members of these crew members.

"You have helped me so much." Scarlett finally walked to Duke and said to the people behind him very seriously, "I always have to thank you. This is the ice cream I bought with the money I earned."

"This is yours." She handed over a box of ice cream.

"Thanks."

After taking the ice cream, Duke looked at her. This girl was smart and clever. If she wasn't a bit chatty, she would be more likable.

The work has come to an end for the time being. Except for Sofia, the other three people quickly left Duke's office. Although they were not interested in cream food, Duke opened the box of ice cream and took a few bites under Scarlett's flashing eyes.

"It tastes good. Ska, where is your mother?"

The little girl only stayed in Santa Monika for four days, and her mother soon returned to Los Angeles from New York.

"It seems like I'm talking to someone about my actor contract." Scarlett Johnson was not polite, putting down the paper bag, taking out his box of ice cream, sitting on the chair in front of Duke's desk, and then digging a very large spoonful, stuffing it into his mouth, muttering, "Can't you pay me a little more?"

"Wait for you to become Kelsten Dunst," Duke put down the ice cream, "I will pay you $2 million."

"Dunst?" Scarlett shook his mouth covered with white cream. "A few months ago, I attended an audition in New York. It was a French director crew and I met a girl with much better acting than Dunst."

"Then you have to work hard," Duke replied casually, "or you will be pulled far away."

The phone in the office suddenly rang, Sophia answered a few words, hung up and looked at Duke, "I'm in trouble again."

"What trouble?"

The pre-preparation of the movie was originally used to solve various troubles, and Duke didn't care. "Is it more difficult than the Pentagon?"

"It's true." Sophia frowned, "In the script setting, does Captain Steve Taylor's girlfriend have a dog? Just now, the animal protection organization found the crew and sent someone to the crew to protect the rights of animal actors during filming."

“What?”

Duke simply stood up and walked back and forth behind the desk twice, "notifying the two screenwriters to delete all the scenes of using animals on a large scale."

For the crew, the animal protector organization is definitely more troublesome than the Pentagon. These guys who love animals more than humans will stare at the animal actors in the crew once they enter the crew. If they feel a little wronged, they will make a noise. If the work time is over for one minute, then wait for protests and surrounded.

As for whether the actors in the crew are safe and have they been abused? Even if someone breaks his legs in front of them, these so-called caring people will not take a look at each other.

This is not an animal video, pets are optional, Duke is too lazy to deal with those people, so he simply deletes all the scenes about animals.

"Ska, you follow Sophia for the time being."

I was about to go to the studio next to see the progress of the model team's work. Before leaving, Duke told me, "Don't run around."

"Can I go visit with you?" the little girl stood up and looked at him eagerly, "I promise not to say anything and do nothing."

"Can't!"

Duke left the office without looking back.

Scarlett Johnson sat back on the chair and looked at the figure who opened the door in anger, as if he wanted to throw the ice cream in his hand over, but in the end he didn't implement it. When the door slammed and closed, he just made a face to face there.

"Is he always so fierce to people?" Scarlett asked Sophia next to him. "That time on the party terrace, I felt that he was a very kind and easy-to-get-to-get-all person."

"Dear, people always have two sides." Sophia pointed at her, "Just like you, sometimes you are cute, sometimes you are simply..."

"It's very noisy and annoying?" Scarlett knew it a little bit.

"At that time, you met Duke, who had just finished his vacation and was still relaxing." Sophia didn't answer her words, obviously knowing that the child was in trouble. "So, he could joke with you, and even if he was interested, he would play games with you. But now, the directors in his work are all devils from hell, especially a director who was carrying the pressure of hundreds of millions of dollars on his shoulders."

A director without pressure does not exist, and a total investment of more than 100 million US dollars seems to be just a number, but when he becomes the crucial winner of investment, and success or failure will determine his future, it is impossible to relieve the pressure.

Duke's biggest progress is that after experiencing two relatively high investment productions, he gradually got used to working and living under pressure. As long as he had the right way to relax and vent his stress, he would not suffer from insomnia as frequently as before.

"Hi, Stan."

Walking into the studio on the side, Duke directly found Stan Winston, the person in charge, and said, "How is the model progressing?"

"The alien model has just been set up." Stan Winston temporarily put down his work and walked towards the depths of the studio with Duke. "The sample will take ten days to complete at the fastest time, and the alien spacecraft will progress slightly faster."

"Here." He made a gesture to Duke.

The two of them first walked up the temporary laying steps, then came to a glass door, and after the automatic door opened, they walked in directly.

This place has been arranged as an underground test site in Zone 51. The most eye-catching one is a "alien spacecraft" built on the platform in front of it. It is based on blue. Although it is far from being completed, it can be seen with a realistic effect. If thrown into the desert of New Mexico, it will definitely be mistaken for a real UFO.

After watching the 51th District under construction, Duke and Stan Winston went to another factory shed, where several major projects were underway.

The Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Washington Monument, the Statue of Liberty and other iconic architectural models in the United States are being built bit by bit from the hands of props in the factory shed. The largest and most eye-catching one is the famous white building - the White House!

Nearly twenty props, according to Duke's request and reduced proportions, have been busy building a presidential palace of more than 70 feet long. They not only refer to the data and pictures provided by the Pentagon and the White House Hollywood Liaison Office, but are also copying the lawn in front of the White House, striving to achieve the most realistic effect.

Of course, this expensive White House model has only one function in Duke's hands - it is bombed into the sky and turned into pieces!

All the explosion scenes in the film will be shot in real scenes, but real scenes cannot really blow up the White House or rebuild one. A model that reduces the scale is the most suitable way, and the shooting effect is also more realistic than film and computer special effects.

When he was about to get off work, Duke left the studio and returned to the adjacent Independence Day studio.

"Mr. Rosenberg."

As soon as he entered the studio, Duke saw a young clerk coming over, "A Miss Charlize Theron, who was attending the audition, has been waiting for you in the reception room after completing the audition. She said she was your friend."
Chapter completed!