【译】【报道】SPN与加拿大横店的经济联姻
讲真，能稳定的在一个长寿剧里当11年主演，绝对在经济上有十二万分的保障了。
我真是取标题小能手（喂）。这篇报道的角度很特别，可以从侧面看出好莱坞是一个多么庞大的经济体，常常被国内粉丝取笑为“小破台/小破剧”“穷酸剧组”的SPN，也是大笔大笔的钱来钱往，常人不可估量。——借地重复：J2很有钱，很多钱，并处在拥有话语权的地位（高层不知说了多少年的“只要他俩点头，SPN就可以继续拍下去”），总在脑补他们多“可怜”“受欺负”“天天被潜”的诸位醒一醒。
零碎信息太多，就没有逐字翻译。
博主对生意毫无天分，如有转述错误，还请指出。
这篇报道侧重于地方经济，采访了SPN许多导演和助理导演，听取他们对这份工作的看法。他们有的声称拿到这份工作犹如中了乐透，有的在这里完成事业上升，用这份工钱买了房子，有的开玩笑说：都说这份工不稳定，但我已经在同一个地方上了11年半的班，在此期间，我那个做电脑硬件销售的兄弟，已经换了五份工作了。
通常一个剧能拍到5季就是巨大成功了。报道对比了同样在大不列颠哥伦比亚省拍摄的几个剧，俱往矣，只有SPN树大根深，在此盘踞了超过十年。
作为加拿大横店霸主，SPN活水长流地地养活一大批人，在该省片场工作的固定班底就有125到150人，还另有50人的团队驻扎在洛杉矶。很多人在2005年就在这里工作了。
“这很不一般，我们这个行业不太存在大伙儿常驻一处的情况，我们更像是吉普赛人或流动马戏团。”
SPN并不是评论家的宠儿，也没有引起绝命毒师、权力的游戏那种声势浩大的轰动。对此，Bob Singer表示OK，但也略感遗憾。
在同行们纷纷离去另找机会的同时，它却为剧组成员提供了就业保障。
据电影协会一项研究表明，到S10为止，SPN已经在大不列颠哥伦比亚省直接支出了5.092亿美元。每1美元的省级税收优惠，都意味着8.36美元的经济产出。
Bob Singer谈到J2，两位主演之间的化学反应是该剧成功的关键：“我也拍过一些我认为拥有几位好演员的剧，可出于种种原因，那种特殊的化学反应却并不存在。而SPN呢，则毫无疑问。拥有这样的主演，是属于我们的惊人幸运。”
制作团队说，两位主演不遗余力促进该剧进入重播系统。许多年轻观众得以在Netflix之类的平台看到这部剧，这再度扩大了观众群体。
然后诸制作团队成员大力夸奖了温哥华在人员、取景等给他们提供的种种便利，表示S14不是问题，继续下去也不是问题，他们会一直努力。
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For TV director John MacCarthy, the series Supernatural is more than just another gig in the province’s booming production sector. It’s the sole gig he says has paid for his house.
MacCarthy has been associated with the Warner Brothers series for a decade, but the show has been around longer than that. Supernatural, about a pair of brothers roaming the United States to fight demons, monsters and other hazards of the paranormal, is now in its 12th season of production in British Columbia.
And there’s no end in sight.
“We’ve all won the lottery with this show,” says MacCarthy, who has worked as a first-assistant director and director on the series.
He’s not alone. Dozens of British Columbians have been along for much of the ride, working behind the scenes on what appears to one of most secure sets in the province. About 125 to 150 people work on the series, about 50 of them in Los Angeles. Many B.C. workers have been on the set since the beginning in 2005, when Paul Martin was prime minister, George Bush was U.S. president and Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith was one of the big films of the year.
The norm in British Columbia’s bustling production sector is to go from gig to gig, TV series to series or film to film. But the Supernatural team have been able to hunker down for more than a decade.
“That is very unusual in this business. We’re not really built to be together this long,” MacCarthy says. “We’re a bit like gypsies or carnies in a lot of ways.”
But he calls Supernatural the best job he’s ever had. “They made me a director. It paid off my house,” MacCarthy says.
Supernatural was created by Eric Kripke, who worked five seasons as a showrunner for his creation, and is now back in British Columbia at the helm of a new series, Timeless.
Supernatural may not a critical darling, one of those shows that causes a chorus of reverential water-cooler discussion. It doesn’t get the attention of Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones or Westworld. But it has hummed along like the 1967 Impala series heroes Sam and Dean Winchester, played by Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, drive across an America created on B.C. locations.
“I think we are certainly below the radar. I think, in some sense, that’s okay,” says executive producer Robert Singer, who signed on from the start, in an interview.
“Expectations, when you are below the radar, are probably a little different than for Westworld. That said, I feel bad that the show hasn’t been recognized more.”
The Canadian series The Beachcombers had a marathon run, lasting 18 years that saw the production of 387 episodes, largely filmed around the Sunshine Coast.
But Supernatural stands out among U.S. series made in B.C. The X-Files is durably associated with Vancouver, but, by comparison, only shot in the province for five seasons, plus a handful of new episodes for a revival earlier in 2016. Smallville, about a young Clark Kent, was also produced in British Columbia and ran 10 seasons. Stargate SG-1 also lasted 10 seasons.
Twelve years on, Supernatural has steamed on through ups and downs in the production sector. MacCarthy notes it provided employment security while peers bailed on British Columbia for opportunities elsewhere.
By season 10, the series was responsible for $509.2-million in direct production spending in British Columbia, according to a study prepared for the Motion Picture Association – Canada and released in May, 2016. For every dollar in provincial tax breaks the series received, production activity generated $8.36 in economic output.
Although largely filmed in the Vancouver region, the series has also shot on Vancouver Island, in the Thompson/Okanagan, Kootenay area and elsewhere – a total of 18 communities.
Assistant director Kevin Parks has been with the series since the beginning. Supernatural’s pilot was shot in Los Angeles, then production was shifted to Vancouver.
He cherishes his job security. “It’s great,” he said in an interview. “I’m more corporate than my brother who is actually in the corporate world. In 11 ½ years, I have been on the same show. My brother, who sells computer hardware, has had five jobs. It’s a nice feeling.”
Singer says no one thought the series would make it beyond five years. “Five years would have been a raging success.”
But he and others say the chemistry between the two leads has been key to its success. “I’ve done shows where I have thought I had a couple of really good actors, but for whatever reason, that special thing wasn’t there. In this case, it’s absolutely there,” Singer says. “We got tremendously lucky with these guys.”
The leads, say members of the production team, have been diligent about promoting the series on a robust convention circuit. And viewers who were too young for the show when it first began are discovering the series on such platforms as Netflix, bolstering the audience.
Executive producer Andrew Dabb, who has been with the show since season four, says Vancouver has been vital. “Vancouver gives us everything we need in terms of locations, in terms of actors, in terms of visuals,” he says.
“We’re not a show that lives in big cities. The parts of Vancouver we’re using are not parts that some other metropolitan-oriented shows are using. Even now, 12 years in, we’re still finding little nooks and crannies and locations that either didn’t exist when we first started, or weren’t available.”
Singer says there have been talks about ending things at 300 episodes, midway through season 14.
“Right now, we’re just putting one foot in front of the other, trying to get the next good script out, so who knows?”
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