On July 28, China's first deep-sea monster blockbuster "Megalodon 2: Abyss" held the "Beijing·World Premiere" at the National Stadium. Producer Ying Xujun, President of Chinese Films, director Ben Whateley, producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Bella Avery, and the film's leading actors Wu Jing, Cai Shuya, actors Dai Lele, Bai On that day, Su, Xiong Jinyi, and art consultant Yu Baimei all appeared together, sharing interesting shooting stories and cooperation feelings together. The film will be released worldwide on August 4.
"Megalodon 2: Abyss" main creative scene group photo
It is worth mentioning that the Chinese premiere of "Megalodon" in 2018 was held at the National Aquatics Center "Water Cube" just across the road from the venue. Five years later, the world premiere of the sequel is still held in the Olympic Park, which obviously has the meaning of paying tribute and continuing to write a legend. As a co-production film, except for Shanghai Chinese Film Co., Ltd. and Warner Bros. Pictures, the producers and joint producers of "The Meg 2" are all Chinese film companies. Control" is well-deserved.
The premiere of "The Meg 2: The Abyss" was held at the China National Stadium
"Megalodon 2: Abyss" continues the story line of the previous work. After the death of female scientist Zhang Suyin (played by Li Bingbing) in 2021, her younger brother Zhang Jiuming (played by Wu Jing) makes an appearance this time. Sen Statham) and the two heroes join forces, not only to comfort and cultivate Zhang Suyin's orphan Mei Ying (Cai Shuya), but also to face a greedy and vicious enemy. When they dived into the abyss of 7,000 meters under the sea again to carry out the exploration mission, they encountered the attack of the megalodon sharks, the overlord of the ocean, and they will hunt and kill the fierce and dangerous ancient monsters frantically...
Jason Statham as Jonas
Due to the impact of the current Foreign Actors Guild strike, lead actor Jason Statham was unable to attend. At the scene in Beijing, Wu Jing took the stage holding a poster stand of Jason Statham and imitating the tone of his partner in the play to say hello to the audience. Unexpectedly, he was laughed at by his wife Xie Nan, the special host of the premiere , "Your oboe performance is full of Beijing flavor."
"The Megalodon 2: The Abyss" "Beijing·World Premiere" scene
When asked about the original intention of filming "Megalodon 2", Wu Jing said frankly that he wanted to appear in a world that children like. At the premiere, Xie Nan revealed more details behind the scenes. She admitted that her two sons thought Ultraman was very special, and often said to Wu Jing, "Dad, when will you be able to fight a monster?" She also said that after watching the scene of Wu Jing fighting monsters in the deep sea in "Megalodon 2", "His position in his son's heart is estimated to be able to compete with Ultraman."
Hearing this, Wu Jing looked happy. He said that there are many reasons for participating in this performance. "My wife said that the films I have participated in in recent years have died every time. This time, can I be a hero who defeats monsters and fulfill my son's wish. Yu Baimei said that the global audience has been there for too long. I haven’t seen Chinese faces anymore. Director Guo Fan said that he wanted to make Chinese monster films for a long time, and asked me to go to the set to exchange and learn more. My good friend Zhang Yi also gave me a lot of encouragement.”
Yu Baimei said, ""Wolf Warrior" gave China a military action movie, and "The Wandering Earth" opened a new era of domestic sci-fi blockbusters. This time we can cooperate with the "Transformers" team to make monster movies, which will expand the domestic genre in the future. The film helps."
Wu Jing as Zhang Jiuming
Many of the Chinese lines in the movie are Wu Jing's "on-the-spot" on the set. Talking about the experience of working with Wu Jing, Director Ben Whateley said, "Wu Jing has too many ideas every day, all to make this film better and better. What I have to do is to keep up with the rhythm of his creativity for the film. "Producer Bella Avery also shared the feeling of cooperating with Wu Jing, "'Jiu Ming', a character name closely related to ocean exploration and Chinese culture, is the idea of Wu Jing and Yu Baimei. He uses 1000% every day The hard work is actively involved in shooting, so that this film will become better and better, and strive for perfection."
In the post-screening session, director Chen Kaige bluntly said that he came for Wu Jing, "The whole film is thrilling and exciting, and I can imagine that the shooting process is very complicated and not easy." Actor Zhang Yi was very excited when he made his speech, "Only in the world can Beijing hold such a The only premiere was brought home by Brother Jing. As an audience, as a brother, I am extremely proud, extremely proud."
Director Guo Fan said that watching "Megalodon 2" is a learning journey, and he looks forward to making his own monster movie in the future, "For example, combining it with "Shan Hai Jing" may create our own monster movie. Monster movies." When interacting with Wu Jing on the same side, Guo Fan also introduced that Wu Jing would often send himself some small videos on the set, "It's all about the particularly interesting settings for on-site shooting, and some industrialized processes."
"The Megalodon 2: The Abyss" "Beijing·World Premiere" scene
Director Chen Sicheng mentioned that he had seen Wu Jing on the road show alone before, and he wanted to go up and help promote this "film whose first producer is a Chinese film company and mainly produced in our country." When it comes to film production, Chen Sicheng shouted to Wu Jing on the spot, "Don't just send the behind-the-scenes video to Guo Fan, send it to me too."
Director Xu Zheng said that he has never watched "The Megalodon", this time watching "The Megalodon 2" is indeed aimed at Wu Jing. "I didn't expect Brother Jing to reduce the action scenes this time, let alone his English speaking in the film so international. I have been thinking that as a filmmaker, Wu Jing participated in the production of such an international film , there must be his multi-dimensional thinking. Not only as a leading role, but also to explore more things."