Days as a Spiritual Mentor in American Comics-Chapter 4615 - 3694: Movie Plan (10)

Shiller flipped through the script sent by the director several times, always feeling that something was off.

The school doctor he was playing was named Elderidge Buslatvoro Terence Barton. From such a long name, it's clear that this couldn't possibly be a minor character. Moreover, "Elderidge" in English means "King of the Forest." Shiller didn't believe that the writer and director weren't playing some sort of word game with this name.

It's not that Shiller didn't want to play the villain. In fact, theoretically, villains are easier to portray. After all, you just put on a stone-cold face with no expression from start to finish, mutter a few ominous words after being defeated by the protagonist, and then smoothly exit the stage. Being scolded a bit online wouldn't harm him, at worst, he'd just stop browsing short videos.

What worried him more was if the director set up a double twist—turning from a good guy to a bad guy and then back to a good guy. Shiller wasn't a professional actor; letting him play such a complex character, his acting skills would definitely be criticized!

But as the saying goes, you're here anyway. The audition has already been filmed, so it's too late to change his mind. Besides, almost everyone related to magic on Earth was here, even the Supreme Magician himself was on set. They had never acted before, yet weren't they all gathered here, nervously memorizing lines together? Shiller really had no reason not to act.

With a mindset of taking one step at a time, Shiller first memorized the initial scene.

Actually, movies are normally not filmed in the order of the storyline. Sometimes the ending is shot first, then the beginning, and finally the middle, with everything pieced together in editing.

But this film was different. For one thing, most of the main characters were children. If you let them act the ending first and then the beginning, they'd be confused about the story and unable to immerse themselves. Additionally, since most people weren't professional actors, they couldn't just jump into a scene and act immediately. To enhance everyone's immersion, they could only shoot in sequence.

Another factor was the seasons. Because of the presence of magic, the filming process would surely be fast. If they finished the climax in autumn, they couldn't wait until next autumn to shoot scenes occurring in the same timeline; that would drag things out too long. It's better to start in the autumn and finish in the next summer, matching the sequence of the seasons in the storyline with the sequence of the American school year.

By the third day, the second floor and the auditorium of the castle were already constructed. The crew held the official start-of-filming ceremony on the lawn in front of the castle.

Due to the widespread online video of Wanda's attack and the magicians building the castle, the start-of-filming ceremony drew a lot of attention. Many uninvited media outlets also came spontaneously to film, making the scene grand and lively, with almost everyone receiving interviews.

"Yes, I play the school doctor in this show. The name is not yet revealed, but it's a decent role with lots of interaction with the little protagonists, quite interesting. You can definitely look forward to it," Shiller said, pretending to make some polite small talk.

The media didn't pay much attention to him because they knew him as just an ordinary person. Since the movie's theme was magic, they figured the magicians were the main focus, and ordinary people were probably just playing minor roles.

All the reporters swarmed to interview Strange. Strange hadn't specifically publicized his identity as the Supreme Magician, but because journalists and local residents had been sneaking around the set recently, they heard the magicians and little wizards calling Strange "Supreme Magician," sparking curiosity about this identity. They finally got a chance to interview him and were practically shoving microphones in his face.

To prevent little wizards from spoiling the plot, under the producer's guidance, Shiller rushed to take them to the filming base before the reporters could corner them. Wanda was still in the hospital and hadn't returned, so taking care of the kids was mostly up to Shiller and the Hippo Goddess.

Like a sheepdog, he herded the kids into the filming base. The little wizards giggled and weren't afraid of Shiller at all. Even the benevolent Hippo Goddess held more authority than he did, with one shout making all the little wizards scurry into the lounge to do their homework. frёeweɓηovel.coɱ

After filming began, there should be a familiarization and harmonization process among the actors, typically achieved through a team-building event to eliminate the strangeness between them. But this time it was a gathering of familiar faces, so they skipped that step, and immediately started filming after the morning ceremony.

The set had long been prepared. The magicians used magic to bring over a train, but not an ordinary train; it was a special train from the aerial transport system—the kind that can fly in the sky. It hadn't even started running after being built at the factory before it was moved here for use as a prop in the first scene.

The little wizards went to film by the train, and the principals and professors weren't idle either, rehearsing positions for the sorting ceremony in the auditorium.

Shiller was a bit astonished when he walked into the auditorium. It was very different from the hollow auditorium constructed by the magicians, featuring deep red brocade carpets with mysterious magical patterns visible everywhere, and vibrant drapes in the representative colors of the four houses hanging on the gray stone walls.

The auditorium and the dining hall of the Magic Castle were separate, with the auditorium only used for ceremonies and major events, so there were no tables, only chairs. The layout was a bit like a church, with all chairs facing the podium, arranged in eight columns from left to right, two for each house.