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Two unknown British filmmakers have captured the imagination of Hollywood with a trailer filmed in Derbyshire for their action war epic The Lost Emperor.
兩位名不見經(jīng)傳的英國電影制片人，在德比郡為中國史詩戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)動(dòng)作片《英雄帝國》拍了一支預(yù)告片，希望能夠成功吸引來好萊塢的注意。
It has all the ingredients of a movie blockbuster: sword-wielding warriors in period costume set against an Ancient China landscape, complete with stunning sunsets, rolling fields and snowcapped mountains. Except this isn't China at all... it's the Peak District, in Derbyshire.
5分鐘的預(yù)告片中包含了所有巨制大片的元素：身著年代服裝揮動(dòng)刀劍的戰(zhàn)士，背景是中國古代的山水風(fēng)景，還有絢麗的落日、起伏的稻田和白雪皚皚的山頂。不過這完全不是中國，這是德比郡的山峰區(qū)（Peak District）。
John Watts and Thomas Wood had a shoestring budget of £20,000 and needed to call on Chinese waiters in their home town of Sheffield to bulk out the cast in battle scenes.
約翰·瓦特和托馬斯·伍德僅有2萬英鎊不到的預(yù)算，為了湊齊戰(zhàn)斗場(chǎng)面所需的大批群眾演員，甚至需要打電話到他們家鄉(xiāng)謝菲爾德，找那里中國餐館的服務(wù)員來參演。
After the trailer drew 80,000 YouTube views in two weeks, however, the pair are in talks about turning their script into an £8million production.
預(yù)告片上傳到Y(jié)ouTube兩周之內(nèi)，點(diǎn)擊率直竄到8萬，于是兩人考慮用這個(gè)劇本制成一部約800萬英鎊的電影。
‘Instead of spending our meagre budget trying to make a cheap film, we boiled the script down to just five minutes and made the best trailer we could,’ said Mr Watts, 32.
“與其將我們僅有的預(yù)算制成一部廉價(jià)電影，我們寧愿將劇本濃縮到5分鐘，盡力制成最好的預(yù)告片。”32歲的瓦特這樣說道。
The ever-changing English climate worked in the pair’s favour on the three-day shoot, with bright sunshine, rain and fog.
英格蘭天氣的變化莫測(cè)，但在他們拍攝的三天里卻十分配合，出過太陽、下過雨，也起過霧。
‘It helped give the trailer an epic look, like we’d been filming over several months,’ said Mr Watts.
“這使得預(yù)告片有了史詩一般的效果，就好像我們已經(jīng)拍了好幾個(gè)月。” 瓦特說。
But if the US-backed production goes ahead, its directors will leave the picturesque landscape of the peaks behind to shoot it in China.
不過如果好萊塢方面能支持拍攝，導(dǎo)演們就會(huì)離開這個(gè)風(fēng)景如畫的山區(qū)，而轉(zhuǎn)到中國拍攝。
