Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 374 The decision to drink too much?
Before leaving Hollywood, Lin Daoqiu had to choose the leading actor for "Home Alone".

Because after shooting the exterior scenes of "The Mummy" in Egypt, he will come back to shoot "Home Alone" and then rush to release before Christmas.

It was already the end of July at this time, so Lin Daoqiu had to prepare all the preliminary work for "Home Alone" before he could rush to Egypt.

Mel Gibson has already gone to Egypt to meet up with the crew. At this time, Egypt is still setting up the scene, so Lin Daoqiu doesn't need to rush there yet.

On this day, when Lin Daoqiu and Kars came to see Langmeyer, they told each other about the appointment of the leading actor in "The Mummy".

"Mel Gibson? The actor in "The Mummy"?? You mean the Australian who played the leading role in "Mad Max?"

Langmeyer has some impressions of "Mad Max", but he is limited to knowing this movie.

And he felt that it was a very crazy decision for Lin Daoqiu to use an unknown newcomer in a major production.

"Mel Gibson is only 24 years old, and he is young and handsome. He can continue to act in the "Mummy" series of movies in the future, and his appearance will not change too much."

"My God, he's only 24 years old? If you don't tell me, I really don't know how young he is. This is the most incredible thing I've heard this year."

Lin Daoqiu and Langmeyer explained it again, but after the other party finished listening, they covered their heads with their hands, looking very worried.

He hasn't even met Mel Gibson until now, and he doesn't know whether Lin Daoqiu's choice is right or not.

But in Langmeyer's view, since it is a big-budget film, it should invite some well-known actors in Hollywood to act instead of finding a newcomer from Australia, which sounds unbelievable.

"I think you're a little biased."

Compared with Langmeyer's violent reaction, Lin Daoqiu looked very calm.

"You say I'm biased? Maybe, but only if you dare to do such a thing. If it were another director who spent a big production of 2000 million US dollars to find a newcomer to act, he must have drunk too much." Do something like this."

Up to now, Langmeyer has no way to accept this fact, but this is Lin Daoqiu's choice, and he can only give the other party some advice at most.

But the good news is that "The Mummy" is an action movie, which is the type Lin Daoqiu is best at, not to mention Brigitte Lin as the heroine, which somewhat prevents Langmeyer from being so desperate.

"When the time comes when the film is finished, I bet you'll love this young man from Australia."

Lin Daoqiu looked very confident about this.

Although Langmeyer doesn't know where Lin Daoqiu's confidence comes from, he feels that "Mission Impossible" used a Chinese actress as the leading role at the box office to exceed [-] million yuan. Now it is not considered to use a white male star as the leading role what.

"Okay, let's change the subject, and I'm worried that I'm going to have a heart attack sooner or later."

Langmeyer didn't seem suitable for such an exciting topic, so he planned to chat with Lin Daoqiu about the casting of "Home Alone".

A few days ago, Lin Daoqiu asked Langmeyer to help him recruit actors for this child role.

"Now there are as many as 500 people who have signed up, and the number is still increasing. My people have sorted out all the collected photos. Now you can start to choose the boy you like from it, and then notify them to audition."

If it weren't for Universal's help, it would be basically impossible to find so many male actors in such a short period of time.

However, it is impossible for Lin Daoqiu to meet one by one. He has to choose from the photos sent by the other party when he signed up, and then select some people he thinks are suitable, and then notify the other party to audition, which will be more efficient.

After Langmeyer finished speaking, he asked people to take Lin Daoqiu and Kars downstairs, and put the sent materials in an office.

As soon as they entered that room, Lin Daoqiu and Kars saw several desks piled as high as hills.

"Go to work."

Lin Daoqiu's head started to swell when he looked at the mountains of actor materials, and Kars next to him was not much better.

In this way, the two started the work of casting, from morning to night, they picked out 500 candidates that Lin Daoqiu thought were suitable from among the [-] people.

But when they were about to go out, Langmeyer's secretary told them that they had received [-] applications for roles today. This news scared Lin Daoqiu and Kars to tears.

It took a full three days for Lin Daoqiu and Kars to select a hundred young actors who seemed more suitable from more than 1000 people.

Then they spent another three days interviewing the 100 people before they finally singled out a little boy named Devrey.

After signing the other party with a salary of [-] US dollars, Lin Daoqiu had to rush to Egypt to take charge of the filming of "The Mummy".

As for the preliminary work of "Home Alone", Lin Daoqiu simply left it to Langmeyer to help him.

In fact, there are not too many things to do, just find a suitable house for filming, which is no problem for Universal Pictures.

After finishing these, Lin Daoqiu boarded the plane to Cairo.

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"It's definitely a good place to visit, but it's torture to film here."

Mel Gibson came just over a week earlier than Lin Daoqiu, but he looked tanned and often ran in the desert shirtless.

Before, he thought that the exercise Lin Daoqiu mentioned was just running in the gym or something. He never thought that practicing kung fu would be so painful, and just stretching his muscles would be enough to make him die.

If it weren't for his strong beliefs, Mel Gibson would have already planned to go home.

"We only have two months here at most, and the rest of the scenes will be filmed in Xiangjiang. I don't know if this is good news for you."

Lin Daoqiu had already rushed to Cairo to meet up with the big team, and because they were still setting up the scene, the filming of "The Mummy" had not officially started.

"It's just fantastic and I hope that day comes soon."

After Mel Gibson and Lin Daoqiu stayed together for a long time, he also became more casual when speaking, not as stiff as before.

But don't look at Mel Gibson and Lin Daoqiu chatting so casually, in fact, he still has a very scared person in the crew, and that person is Sammo Hung.

Because Sammo Hung was the one who was in charge of training Mel Gibson, so when he practiced, he didn't show affection at all, and he made Mel Gibson die every day.

However, because of Sammo Hung's urging, Mel Gibson's skills were relatively stiff at the beginning, but later he began to look good. At least he was able to complete the moves smoothly, although it seemed that he was still far from qualified.

(End of this chapter)