Six Hundred and Thirteen - I'm Threatening You

Overall, the character or persona of Wayne's version of "The Flash" is closer to the characters in the comics.

In his mind, the first time he got to know The Flash was from a movie that disappeared because of his appearance. That was the 1990 movie directed by Robert Inskopf. In his previous life, he had seen it on TV when he was a child, and he didn't have much of an impression, but he still vaguely remembered a scene where the Flash was being chased by a missile launched by an enemy.

Coming to the latter point, countless people born in the 1980s and 1990s on the other side of the Pacific are familiar with the cartoon series "Superman" broadcast by TV stations. He still remembers that there is a scene in which the Flash and Superman are racing. This It is also the image that remains fresh in many people’s minds.

All the information about The Flash that follows comes from some comics he accidentally read when he was a child in this life.

Wayne remembers very clearly that in the "Justice League" he watched, the character of Barry Allen, the Flash, was very different from the character in the comics. It was even possible to say that he was completely two people.

The Flash in the memory movie is lively, active, timid, socially awkward, weird, and even a little neurotic. In the DC comics that are most familiar to the audience, the Flash has a sunny, calm, gentle, considerate, high emotional intelligence, and very responsible character.

It is precisely the character setting of The Flash in the comics that is more in line with Wayne's version of the script, a confident, steady and knowledgeable field investigator.

The story of the movie was set by him to be quite simple. The main line is to introduce the birth of Barry Allen, the Flash. In fact, it is more similar to the memory of Marvel's first movie "Iron Man". When Barry Allen was a teenager, his mother died in a bizarre and horrific accident, and his father was wrongly accused of being the murderer. Then he was adopted by his father's best friend, a police detective.

When the child grew up, he became a CSI witness analyst. At the same time, he could also use his career to continue to pursue the truth about his mother's death.

In the process, he tracked down various urban legends and unknown advanced technologies. Then in an accident, Barry Allen was struck by mysterious lightning and began to notice changes in his body, thus becoming the well-known Flash.

The story is not complicated, and even many DC fans can roughly guess it. However, in this movie, Wayne arranged a lot of references to the plot of Superman in the subsequent movie in the form of dialogue lines. And these things will not appear obtrusive only if they are arranged in The Flash, because this character is always linked to time travel and will be more convincing to movie fans.

In addition to using some techniques to hint at the plot of Superman in the film, he will also add an easter egg of an important superhero at the end of the film. If nothing unexpected happens, his next DC movie will feature this easter egg character.

Therefore, Wayne would rather regard this "Flash" as the "Hulk" in Marvel's mind. Making money is not the most important thing for this film. What is more important is to be a lubricant. It introduces two more important superheroes in the future and increases the audience's expectations for those two more important superheroes, and even their expectations for "Justice League".

For this film, the manifestation of Barry Allen's superpowers in The Flash is what makes him find it even more difficult to make a choice, and it is also the main reason why the script will be constantly revised.

Due to the popularity of The Flash, his superpowers can be said to be well known. For example, the super speed in anime. The upper limit of its speed in comics has always been unknown. It can run up to a thousand times the speed of light, and usually it will Below the speed of sound to avoid causing damage to the surrounding environment.

For example, a man-made tornado can run anywhere at high speeds. For example, virtualization can control the body at the atomic level, and achieve the effect of traveling through solids by vibrating the constituent particles of the body. Later in the comic, it can even take other people to travel through solids.

For example, the famous self-healing factor, because his body structure and metabolism are different from ordinary people, the wound healing speed is much faster than that of ordinary people. There is also the more famous time travel, running at full speed beyond the speed of light to travel through time and space, and so on.

It seems like this guy, Barry Allen, has superpowers that are too powerful? And not only is it powerful, the effects brought by superpowers are simply unbelievable.

Compared to the Flash in the comics, he still remembers the complaints made by countless viewers about the movie version, that is, the Flash in the movie has too weak super powers and is simply inconsistent with the well-known comics.

And in the movie, his ability is not only weak but also very single. He is very fast. Even when he saves a hostage, he just drags him away from the place. When dealing with the enemy, he does not kill anyone. In fact, everyone knows that as long as he has a speed exceeding lightning, any enemy should be killed instantly in front of Barry Allen.

But not only was he injured by the soldier's laser gun, but the speed shown later was only to move quickly to induce electric current, charging the mother box and activating Superman.

In terms of performance in the movie, everything seemed too weak, but this was exactly what Wayne wanted, so he hesitated until the end, and after careful consideration, he still directly chose to weaken the Flash’s superpowers in the movie. The reason for balancing the combat power with other characters also takes into account many factors such as shooting difficulty and production cost.

"cut!"

On the set of "The Flash", this was the fourth time Wayne called it quits. Each time he would tell James Franco that he could perform better, but it seemed that every time it didn't meet his standards, and he didn't. Tell me what you want the male protagonist to do.

"Okay, this opening scene has passed." When everyone subconsciously reset and adjusted the position of the personnel and the status of the machine, Wayne's voice called "pass" was heard in the set. "Everyone takes a break. That's all the plans for the morning. We will continue shooting in the afternoon."

Three cameras were filming at the same time, one was always filming James Franco kneeling on the ground, one was always filming the panorama, and the other was constantly capturing the expressions and performances of several supporting actors.

After carefully watching the results of the shooting, Wayne finally nodded and directly announced the break. Because for publicity purposes, after the crew officially started shooting, Warner Bros. also organized a small media conference at the venue. In the open space in front of the sound stage at Warner Bros. Studios.

Since the main actors in the crew all wore makeup, the only people on the crew who really needed to be interviewed by the media were Wayne and Charles Rowan. This directly made Wayne the focus of many media sieges.

Charles Rowan briefly introduced the shooting plan and the estimated completion time of the film, and then announced the entry into the reporter's question session.

As if there was a tacit understanding, the Los Angeles Times reporter was the first to be called. The middle-aged woman asked Wayne, who was sitting in the front, loudly: "Director Greenberg, can you talk about it?" Why did you choose Barry Allen instead of Clark Kent, who many fans are most looking forward to?"

"Don't people have high expectations for The Flash? Hey, man, I don't think so."

He shrugged at the Los Angeles Times reporter and joked with a smile on his face before continuing into the microphone:

"In fact, the entire DC movie series has a strict planning and shooting sequence. Warner Bros. and DC Comics conducted a lot of market research and collected a lot of audience opinions before finally completing the sequence of the entire big plan. So, I am just a Director, you must continue filming according to the planned plan. Of course, the popularity of Barry Allen of The Flash is not low, right?"

"Wayne, there's news..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a reporter from "The New Yorker" stood up impatiently and asked: "There has always been news that the entire DC series plan was designed and planned by you. Can you please disclose it? Which film after The Flash will you continue to make?"

"Friend, I'm sorry."

Wayne shook his head at the questioning reporter and spread his hands. "You are right. I have participated in the entire DC movie series plan, but everything related to it is still confidential. Warner Bros. and I have signed a strict confidentiality agreement, so I can't answer your question, okay. Well, let’s focus on this “The Flash,” okay?”

When the open-air press conference began, countless reporters threw questions in front of Wayne. The overall atmosphere was quite harmonious, and everyone was asking questions related to the film.

However, there will always be surprises, and there will always be people who want more exciting news. Just twenty minutes after the press conference started, a reporter wearing a "Chicago Sun" work ID stood up and suddenly asked:

"Director Greenberg, can you talk about the incident where the leading actor on the show was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department twice in a row some time ago? What do you think of this matter?"

"Hey, wasn't I clear enough?" Charles Rowan frowned. Before Wayne could speak to the microphone, he looked directly at the reporter who asked the question and said, "Please ask about topics related to the movie, otherwise Green Director Berg will not answer, thank you."

Obviously, his warning was not heeded by reporters. The reporter from the Chicago Sun-Times did not even look at him. He still stared at Wayne who was sitting in the front and asked loudly: "Director Greenberg, I I think the things related to the male protagonist James Franco in the crew can also be regarded as related to the "Flash" movie. Can you talk about your views on the innocent people who were harmed by him..."

"F**k!"

Charles Rowan cursed in a low voice, stood up and waved his hand, signaling for security personnel to come in and help take the unruly reporter away.

"It's okay, Charles."

Wayne patted his arm to stop him from calling the security personnel. Then he suddenly smiled and turned his head to look at the reporter who was still staring at him.

According to normal rules, this kind of press conference is similar to the launch press conference. No matter how close it is to Warner Bros., Laidu media will not deliberately seek trouble. Hello, me, hello, everyone, is the main theme of this press conference. .

Obviously, Warner Bros. is promoting the film in advance, letting fans who are looking forward to the film know through the media that the filming of the film has officially begun, and the countdown has begun until they see the film on the big screen.

And these reporters also obtained all kinds of information about the films that they were interested in from the crew. After the continuous success of the DC film series in the past few years, especially the super hit of "Batman: The Dark Knight", It ranks first on the box office list in film history, and any information related to it will not be ignored by movie fans.

There is a tacit understanding between both parties, which is the main theme of a normal press conference. However, a sudden accident made the atmosphere at the press conference awkward for a while.

The reporters sitting at the scene saw that Wayne seemed to be interested in answering this question head-on. They all forgot about the resentment they had just felt towards his colleagues at the Chicago Sun-Times. They all opened their eyes and prepared their recording equipment, waiting for something more attractive. Eyeball news appears.

"First of all, because I went to the East some time ago to work on the premiere of the film "The Dark Knight" there, I only heard about what happened after the fact and did not understand the whole process. ."

After careful consideration, Wayne faced the sound of kacha kacha and said into the microphone in front of him: "I always feel that no one can guarantee that he will not make similar ridiculous mistakes. At least James Franco has been punished. Punishment, apology for the bastard thing he had done, and making amends, he was already trying to do everything he could.

As for the innocent people you mentioned who were harmed, they all chose to forgive James Franco afterwards. I believe that this incident has taught him enough lessons, so let me talk about this matter. My opinion is that everything is over, it’s over, is over, okay? "

"Director Greenberg, can this be understood as, are you supporting James Franco?" The reporter obviously wanted to get a more explosive answer, so the moment he finished his answer, he immediately asked again.

Not only the reporter from the "Chicago Sun", but in fact most of the reporters at the scene also hoped that Wayne would fall into this simple and mindless trap.

James Franco is the leading actor in the crew. If Wayne does not support him, it will inevitably cause rifts in the cooperation between the two parties in the subsequent filming work. But if you choose to support him in the media, it means supporting a criminal who breaks into other people's bedrooms, robs, steals, and threatens others. Then the entertainment news in the next few days will be hyped.

"Well, look, I don't want you to misinterpret my answer."

Wayne's eyes gradually became sharp and the smile on his face slowly disappeared. He looked at the reporter who asked the question and said seriously: "I'm not reminding you, but threatening you. Do you understand? How should I answer?" , you’d better report it however you want, otherwise, there will be a large number of top lawyers in North America waiting for you.”

"Mr. Greenberg, a free press..."

"Shit." Charles Rowan didn't expect it to turn out like this. He swore again and spoke into the microphone in front of him, interrupting the reporter's last struggle. He said loudly: "Let's change the question. Next question." !”

The media conference finally returned to its original atmosphere, but Wayne did not show a smile after that. After the conference ended hastily, he had no intention of accepting photos from the media and turned around and walked directly into the studio.