Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 208 The Fatal Nemesis of Acrophobia
The crew of "King of Spy Wars" held a filming discussion meeting.

"Lin Yuan, I know you have considered it carefully, but do you really not want to wait for Meng Tao to come back before completing the filming of this scene?" Director Cohen said.

"Time waits for no one, and we need the cooperation of the airport. If we miss this deadline, it may be delayed for another month or two. We will not be able to catch up with next year's schedule," said Lin Yuan.

"Does it have to be in May? Wouldn't it be nice to release it later, during the Christmas season?" said director Cohen.

"There's no other way. This is the only way to win." Lin Yuan insisted.

He did not tell Director Cohen the specific reason.

Lin Yuan knew very well in his heart that no matter how hard he tried, it was almost impossible for "Lord of the Rings" to defeat "The Lord of the Rings: Rise of the King" alone.

Because the box office ceiling of spy war themes is originally lower than that of epic fantasy movies, not to mention that "The King of Spy War" is a new movie that was built from scratch.

So the only way to win is to let "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" hit the release date of "The Lord of the Rings 2".

"Pirates of the Caribbean 2" needs to beat "The Lord of the Rings 3" at the box office while lowering the performance of "The Lord of the Rings 3" by about $1 million.

Only in this way can "The King of Spy Wars" have a chance of winning.

2003 was a year of overall expansion in the film market, with the exception of the brilliant success of "The Lord of the Rings 11.46" which grossed $3 billion.

Pixar's "Finding Nemo" also took in $9.4 million at the global box office, ranking second.

"The Matrix 2" also ranked third with a score of 7.45 million US dollars.

This series of amazing achievements was something the film industry could not have imagined just two years ago.

At that time, the late director Sommers only expected his "The Mummy Returns 2" to reach $6 million, which would be enough to secure the annual box office championship.

In just two years, the film market has expanded rapidly, driving all filmmakers crazy.

The competition for prime movie schedules has become more intense, so the scheduled schedules must not be modified to avoid many unexpected variables.

Seeing that Lin Yuan insisted on filming according to the plan, Director Cohen could only say, "Since you insist, let's confirm those few details."

"Okay." Lin Yuan nodded.

Lin Yuan began to confirm the shooting details with Director Cohen one by one.

This task was originally undertaken by Meng Tao, but now Lin Yuan has to take it upon himself.

Simply put, the main selling point of the action scenes in the movie "The King of Spy" is - high altitude.

The reason for this design is that it is not appropriate for Lin Yuan to show overly strong fighting skills in this play, otherwise all the villains can be easily beaten to pieces, and there will be no point in watching it.

Therefore, Tyson can also exchange a few moves with Lin Yuan in this film.

Since there aren't many tricks in the fighting scenes, they have to make up for it in other areas.

Therefore, Lin Yuan designed various high-altitude action scenes in "The King of Spy Wars".

It is simply a challenge that will catch the eye of people with acrophobia. Climbing the Dubai Tower, high-altitude jumping outside the Dubai Tower, climbing onto airplanes with bare hands, skydiving from ultra-high altitudes... these projects are all designed based on this idea.

Therefore, the selling point of the action scenes in "The King of Spy Wars" is very clear and unified.

The following action scene mainly consists of two parts. After combining them together, the system gave it a challenging rating of B.

The first part was that Lin Yuan jumped onto the wing of a transport plane that was about to take off and tried to get into the cabin.

But as the plane accelerated down the runway for takeoff, he lost his balance and fell, grabbing the plane's cabin door but remaining suspended in mid-air.

It was not until Depp opened the cabin door that Lin Yuan was able to successfully enter.

This scene was originally performed by Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible 5". Lin Yuan took it directly and made some slight changes.

The biggest difference is that when Tom Cruise filmed this scene, he chose to use an A400M transport aircraft, while Lin Yuan chose a C17. The A400M is a turboprop aircraft, while the C17 is a turbojet aircraft.

Using a jet engine would require Lin Yuan to face stronger airflow impacts when climbing onto the plane with his bare hands.

But the good thing is that this scene will become more exciting.

Another reason why Lin Yuan chose to use the C17 is that this aircraft has a higher ceiling and can fly to higher altitudes.

The A400M has a ceiling of 11000 meters, while the C17 can reach 13700 meters.

It’s already 11000 meters, is there still a need for another 2700 meters?
This brings us to the second part of the plot:

After entering the cabin and defeating the guards, Lin Yuan obtained top-secret information.

However, the aircraft was locked by the defense radar and the surface-to-air missile had been launched.

So Lin Yuan had to put on protective clothing and jump from a height of more than 13500 meters.

The moment he jumped out of the plane, an anti-aircraft missile hit the plane and the huge explosion blew him away.

Skydiving at this altitude is already an extreme sport.

But Lin Yuan was still increasing the difficulty. In order to match the plot of the plane exploding, he had to roll in the air in an abnormal posture and then adjust his posture.

The excitement of this scene does not end there. In the dark night sky, Lin Yuan needs to pass through the cumulonimbus clouds when he falls.

This is absolutely crazy!
But when thinking about showing such scenes on the big screen, Lin Yuan believes that the audience will also go crazy.

These two action scenes are the two most exciting remaining scenes in "The King of Spy Wars".

In order to complete these two scenes well, Lin Yuan had conducted dozens of skydiving training sessions in the previous few months.

It starts at the regular altitude of 3000 meters and gradually increases to 5000 meters.

As the altitude continues to increase, the danger also increases.

Low pressure, low oxygen and low temperature are the three most deadly threats to skydiving.

We all learned in middle school geography that at the same location, the average temperature will drop by 1000 degrees Celsius for every 6 meters increase in altitude.

That is to say, if the temperature near the ground is 15 degrees, then at an altitude of 13000 meters, the temperature will drop sharply to more than 50 degrees below zero (not an absolutely linear drop).

In such extreme temperatures, the human body will be frozen in just a few minutes and the brain will lose consciousness, making it impossible to complete operations such as opening a parachute.

Low air pressure and low oxygen are also deadly threats, so I won’t go into details here.

Therefore, after exceeding 5000 meters, you must rely on professional equipment such as oxygen masks, pressure-resistant and thermal insulation clothing.

But even with professional equipment, skydiving above 10000 meters is still very dangerous.

Skydiving at an altitude of 10,000 meters is known as HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) in the industry.

During the entire process, you need to free fall to 1500 meters before you can open the parachute.

And in the more than 8,000 meters above, Lin Yuan didn't know where he would be blown to by the winds from different layers.

Sometimes you might land outside the landing area and have to roll and crawl to a hard landing.

What's more, Lin Yuan was not skydiving in the clear daytime, but was passing through cumulonimbus clouds in the dark night sky with his physical body.

This really made Director Cohen sweat.

(End of this chapter)