In short, the project of "Emiya Family's Meal" was decided.
In this project, apart from a cameo appearance as Shinji Matou, Nanaya will not personally participate in the production.
When it comes to shooting this kind of healing film, Ori is much more skilled than Nanaya.
This junior brother didn't shoot so many seasons of "The Solitary Gourmet" for nothing.
As for Nanaya, it's okay to let him do the planning, but forget about asking him to shoot scenes.
A director's filming style is closely related to the works he has directed in the past.
If you look back at Nanaya's past works, you will find that this guy's taste has become so heavy.
Even the following film, "Puella Magi Madoka Magica," which tells the story of teenage friendship, is essentially a heavy-taste movie.
Of course, although "Emiya Meal" has been approved as a project, it still takes some time from project approval to actual operation.
Although the actors have agreed, if they want to actually make it happen, they still have to get through the actors' agents.
However, if both the actors and producers are willing to cooperate, the problem will not be too big.
The negotiations with the agent are more about the specific details of the filming.
Nanaya assigned all these trivial tasks to Ori.
"If this project is successful, you will have the ability to stand on your own."
Nanaya said earnestly: "Then I will be able to hand over the Second Lord Case Files to you with confidence."
But what Nanaya got was a look of contempt from Ori: "How many times have you said this, senior? Have you heard the story of the boy who cried wolf?"
Ori stared at Nanaya with suspicion: "Senior...you don't think I'm just a useful tool, do you?"
"... Stop imagining and get back to work! Otherwise, I'll make you feel the pain in your anus!"
Nanaya said this angrily, and then drove Ori out.
"Ah... I guessed it right after all."
"Nonsense!"
After instructing Ori to continue negotiating with these agents, Nanaya turned his attention back to the post-production of FZ.
The number of shots that required special effects in the lower part of FZ far exceeded that in the upper part of FZ, so after completing the shooting, Nanaya simply divided the special effects group into groups.
A small number of them focused on polishing the special effects shots of Iskandar's King's Army.
The image completion rate of this part of the shot is already 70%, so it doesn't require too much manpower.
Another group of people are responsible for handling some relatively scattered special effects shots, such as the special effects of servants appearing or disappearing interspersed in literary dramas.
The last group of people focused on producing several major battle effects in the movie, and this group has the largest number of members.
Nanaya, together with Shiki Matsuno, began to edit the film multiple times.
Because Kiritsugu's extra story was deleted, the content of the second half of FZ is actually a little more concise than the TV version of FZ in the previous life.
But as Nanaya intentionally extended the battle part, the crew shot nearly 500 hours of video footage in total.
The primary goal of Nanaya and Shiki was to cut out a nearly five-hour first draft, which in itself was a very tedious task.
In the editing concept of the second half of FZ, Nanaya adheres to the same editing concept as the first half, that is, the colorful "black".
Except for the group of the Great Emperor and Waver, the atmosphere of other groups is definitely dark, and even the gags that often appear in American movies are rare.
Another thing is to adjust the time ratio of some plots to avoid excessive procrastination.
All the works in the Fate series in the previous life had more or less rhythm problems without exception.
One of the reasons for this is certainly because the animation series wants to save money, so they have to compromise on funding.
As far as the final effect is concerned, there are still many regrets.
Therefore, it is necessary to modify the rhythm of the plot.
The second half of FZ will inevitably exceed two and a half hours or even approach three hours in length.
With such a long duration, how to prevent the audience from feeling bored is a real test of the director's skills.
If there are too many literary scenes, the audience will feel drowsy.
If there were too much action, it would be like Michael Bay's later Transformers films.
Although the fight is very lively, it will cause visual fatigue to the audience, and they may even feel exhausted after watching the movie, instead of enjoying a hearty audio-visual feast.
Meanwhile, the North American theatrical tour of the first part of FZ continues.
Although the film has won four consecutive championships in the North American market, the hottest stage of commercial films has obviously passed.
The trend of the Holy Grail War cooling down is inevitable, and coupled with the extremely fierce competition in this year's summer season, it is obviously unrealistic to want to always stay on the throne of king.
After entering May, those once familiar movies in Nanaya's memory began to be released one after another.
On the first weekend of May, the third film in the Spider-Man series, the most successful superhero movie in North American film history so far, was released.
Although the quality of Spider-Man 3 is not satisfactory, the biggest problem is that too many characters lead to scattered clues and extremely unbalanced plot control.
In this movie, Peter Parker not only has to face three powerful enemies, the Green Goblin, Sandman and Venom, but also has to deal with emotional problems, career problems and psychological problems.
The end result is a hodgepodge that touches on a little bit of everything, but none of it fully satisfies the audience.
In fact, the same mistake was also made in "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" later on, and the result was just as bad.
I clearly wanted to learn from Teacher Xu to play [I Want It All], but my performance was not even as good as Uncle Tat's African Chicken.
With such a performance, Spider-Man 3 naturally received a lot of negative reviews. The reputation of the film among critics, entertainment media and audiences was very bad.
Of course, people may criticize it, but the audience base and IP popularity during the summer season are there.
After entering the new millennium, it has become very normal to see movies with bad reputation but high box office in the North American summer season.
After all, this is the time of the year when movie fans are most willing to spend money. Even if the word of mouth is not good, as long as it is popular, it can still get extremely high commercial value.
So even though its reputation was bad to a certain extent, Spider-Man 3 was still not slow in earning box office revenue amid all the negative reviews.
In the first three days of the weekend alone, the film grossed more than 151 million U.S. dollars from North America.
Although Spider-Man 3 failed to set a new box office record with the $159 million box office of FZ as an example, this result cannot be said to be a failed movie.
Naturally, under the strong impact of "Spider-Man 3", FZ inevitably lost its throne as the champion of the box office chart.
Although audiences said Spider-Man 3 was terrible.
"I might as well watch FZ again than watch this movie!"
Although the above comment went viral online, FZ only earned $15.21 million in the three days of the weekend when Spider-Man 3 was released.
However, this number successfully pushed the North American box office performance of FZ Part 1 over the 350 million US dollar mark.
The film's overseas box office has also exceeded the $400 million mark, and the global box office is heading towards $800 million.
Although it is difficult to surpass Nanaya's highest personal box office record of UBW's 1.1 billion box office, FZ has established Nanaya's position as a top commercial film director.
Corresponding to this is the film's extremely high reputation.
FZ has many characters but they are not too complicated, and the plot progresses layer by layer without being confusing.
Especially against the backdrop of the hodgepodge movie "Spider-Man 3", FZ looks even more exciting.
Not only has the approval rating from theater audiences remained at an extremely high level, but the IMDB rating has also remained at 9.1 points.
The Fate series was once a miracle in the ACG industry.
Whether in terms of popularity or money-making ability, it is the pinnacle of the industry. It is no exaggeration to say that it is the most successful commercial IP in the two-dimensional world.
Although Fate is definitely not the most profitable one, the influence of the Type-Moon world in the circle far exceeds that of other IPs.
Take FGO, a pay-to-win mobile game, for example. Since its launch on July 30, 2015, it has maintained extremely high popularity and traffic.
You should know that generally speaking, the popularity of a pay-to-win mobile game will start to decline three years after its release.
But FGO still has extremely high popularity in its fourth year, which is something that many new games cannot achieve.
With every event or new chapter, there is still endless discussion about the new content.
But no matter how brilliantly this series achieves, in Nanaya's opinion, Fate and even Type-Moon have a big regret.
Although it has achieved the best in its circle, it has lost the opportunity to break out of it.
Type-Moon's profound and vast setting is addictive, but this also invisibly increases the cost of entry for newcomers.
Newcomers can easily be scared away by FGO's complex settings.
No matter how successful FGO is, it is difficult for it to influence people outside the circle. It can only be regarded as a self-entertainment for the fans within the circle.
This is the biggest difference between Fate and those national anime. Even people who have never been exposed to anime should know a blue fat man who is afraid of mice, or the electric rat that never scores a goal.
How long can an IP survive only by relying on people in the circle?
It is difficult for Nanaya to answer this question, but I believe it will not last too long.
The enthusiasm of fans will eventually run out, and by then even the most popular IP will be relegated to the cold palace.
If you want to keep this IP alive, new fans must join in.
Just when Nanaya was busy with the post-production of the second part of FZ, Shion, who had disappeared for several weeks, appeared in the FZ crew again.
But this time, she wasn't the only one around her.
"Why are you here too?"
Nanaya looked at the two maids standing next to Shion and his face fell.
"Long time no see, Kiryu."
Sera greeted Nanaya calmly, "Leysritt and I will be your bodyguards. Please give us your guidance."
"W————hat??!!"