The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 421 The Story of the Beautiful Country
The plot of "Taken 2" is mainly in Istanbul, and the villains are still Albanians.

The plot of "Taken 3" mainly takes place in the beautiful country, and the real villain is the current husband of the actor's ex-wife.

In Li Shengyao's previous life, the setting of "Taken 3" was that the hero and his ex-wife got closer and closer, and the daughter also hoped that they could be together again.

As the current husband, Brother Cuckold was naturally very angry.

In addition, his business was on the verge of bankruptcy, and he was pursued by the Da Mao Gang for debts, so he secretly killed his wife and blamed it on the Da Mao Gang.

Let the hero fight with the Da Mao gang, while he himself reaps the benefits.

Compared with the first and second plots, "Taken 3" seems to be more complicated, with more plots and more depth.

But such an arrangement is actually not pleasing.

"Taken 12" has already determined the style of the series, which is to simply and directly rescue the daughter or ex-wife.

The highlight is that the male protagonist kills all the way, simple and neat.

And the third part is arranged like this, the male protagonist played around with the green hat at the beginning, although he killed the green hat in the end, but it was not good.

Reflected in the box office, "Taken 2" has a global box office of 3 million US dollars, while "Taken [-]" has a global box office of [-] million US dollars.

North America is only [-] million.

Li Shengyao also felt that the script setting of "Taken 3" was not good enough and not cool enough.

The green hat brother is too jumpy in it, the first part and the second part have no foreshadowing, but in the third part, the green hat brother is about to be green, and then he becomes more powerful, playing with the big hairy gang and the male protagonist.

This is obviously unreasonable, and his transformation is very abrupt.

In addition, the Da Mao gang is so arrogant in the beautiful country, it is also fake.

Beautiful Country has always been very vigilant towards Da Mao, how could Da Mao's gang be allowed to be so flamboyant and sabotage in Beautiful Country?
When he was writing the script, he made changes, mainly in two points.

The first is that the green hat brother can't jump like that, he is also a victim.

The second is that the Da Mao Gang was changed into the Nanmei drug lord, and this Nanmei drug lord is also the final boss.

The plot connects to the second part, the hero and his ex-wife are getting closer and closer, the green hat brother feels green on the top of his head, and the business failure makes the relationship with his wife even more tense.

At this moment, his company's delivery truck was used by drug lords to transport a large amount of drugs.

However, in an accident, the truck was driven to another warehouse by the driver. The drug lord didn't receive the drugs, and he was furious, feeling that he had cut his beard off.

They seized Brother Cuckold's wife and stepdaughter and threatened Brother Cuckold to hand over the drugs in the truck, or they would tear up the ticket.

When the male protagonist heard about this incident, he naturally wanted to save his ex-wife and daughter, so a chase and fight started beside Los Angeles.

After Li Shengyao made such changes, the plot style is similar to the previous two. He believes that it is more reasonable and more enjoyable than "Taken 3" in his previous life.

On the seventh day of Toby Emmerich's visit to Istanbul, Li Shengyao and the others completed all the plots in Istanbul, and then they bid farewell to the local chicken actors, the main actors, the filming team, and the martial artists from the family class rushed to the beautiful country.

At this time, the general election in the beautiful country has reached the stage of full swing, and O'Hai and McCain are touring everywhere.

The entire beautiful country looked very crazy, and there were supporters of the two everywhere on the streets of Los Angeles.

But on the whole, the people of the beautiful country have no special emotions towards foreigners.

Lee Sung Yew and the others were not targeted, they quickly organized to continue filming the plot of "Taken 2".

They are all simple dramas. Except for the part where Brother Hu appears, the filming of other plots will be finished soon, which means that "Taken 2" is almost finished.

Lee Sung Yew then announced that the filming of "Taken 3" has officially started.

The others had known his plan for a long time, and signed the contract as well, but no one was surprised, and the big guy continued to work.

And Li Shengyao arranged for his assistant to recruit actors in advance in Los Angeles. Except for Brother Cuckold, the other actors were only confirmed in the past two months.

So in Los Angeles in June, under the scorching sun, the crew of "Taken 3" was seriously filming.

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Time flies, time flies, June has passed in the blink of an eye, and July hastened to come.

It's raining in Los Angeles today. Like China, the rain here is very violent in summer, as if God kicked over the tub.

Unable to shoot outdoor scenes, the crew of "Taken 3" switched to indoor scenes.

And Cheng Long, the leading actor, has already returned to China because he is busy with domestic affairs.

Lee Sing Yew can only shoot scenes without a male lead, such as Cuckold Brother, or scenes with the male lead's ex-wife and daughter.

It is not easy for the actors to get into the state of shooting in this way, and the set is also troublesome. In fact, the efficiency will be slower.

But there is no way, one is that it is raining, and the other is that the actor is not there.

If the crew does not have a holiday, they can only make do with filming other people's scenes.

Li Shengyao was not in a good mood, and Cheng Long had returned to China these days.

And next month, when the Olympic Games begin, he and Cheng Long will inevitably return to China.

In this case, there is less time left for shooting.

He realized that he couldn't finish the shooting before September, and now he can only postpone it for half a month, trying to finish the shooting in mid-September.

Not only will the completion time be pushed back, but the shooting cost will also be higher.

But such a thing, of course, there is no need to reveal it.

At this moment, although he was not in a very good mood, he still had a smile on his face. He was giving a lecture to Elizabeth Hurley and the actor who played Brother Cuckold.

This scene is a scene where the green hat brother and his wife are arguing.

The plot is very simple, and if the actors perform normally, they should be able to complete it well.

It happened that it was raining outside at this time, which could be regarded as enhancing the atmosphere, so Li Shengyao planned to add the sound of rain into it.

He walked five times in a row, and after the two actors confirmed their understanding, he sat aside and watched the rehearsal of the two actors.

Amanda sat next to Li Shengyao, watching quietly.

She was a little absent-minded.

The hottest young actress in Hollywood these days is Gossip Girl star Blake Lively.

Because of the popularity of the first season of "Gossip Girl", Lively even started his own series of movies. "Summer of Jeans", which must have lost money, is about to make a second movie.

Amanda was better developed than Lively at first, but now she overtakes Lively in the corner.

And another new actor, Kristen Stewart, is also very popular. Kristen starred in "Twilight". The original novel of this movie is very popular in the beautiful country.

Many entertainment media now have Christine and Lively juxtaposed together.

And Amanda wasn't one of them, much to her dismay.

What worries her even more is that many entertainment media are now looking down on "Taken 23". They feel that McCain's words have aroused the awakening of many people in the beautiful country.

They will no longer allow Lee Shengyao, a Chinese director, to reap the box office in the beautiful country.

In these two films, the role of the daughter played by Amanda is very important. She is no longer like the first film, a rescued character, a useless vase.

The hero's daughter in "Taken 23" is courageous and resourceful, displaying the same traits as her father.

As long as the movie becomes popular, this role is easy to explode.

Amanda is still thinking about the "Taken 23" fire, and she took this role a step further.

Unexpectedly, McCain often criticizes these two films, which attracts the approval of many netizens.

"Clap clap clap!"

There was a burst of applause, and Amanda looked up, and found that it was Elizabeth Hurley and they rehearsed well. Li Shengyao applauded, and then announced that the official shooting would start later.

Director Li smiled and was very calm.

Even though Cheng Long, the biggest name in the crew, wasn't here, the others didn't mess up and listened carefully to Director Li's arrangements.

The vast majority of people are still very confident about the current shooting.

They thought it was a good movie.

Amanda let out a long breath, temporarily shielded her worries, and watched Elizabeth Hurley and the others play seriously.

When it was almost time to get off work, the rain stopped, and Elizabeth Hurley and the others met Lee Seung Yew's request and successfully completed this scene.

"Very well, that's it for today, get off work."

This time many people applauded.

Amanda did not leave with the actor's bus, but waited for Li Shengyao to pack up, and left with Li Shengyao.

Sitting in the back of the bus, looking at the night view of Los Angeles outside the window, Amanda's previous worries couldn't help jumping out again, "Lee, I'm very afraid that McCain's words will affect our movie."

Li Shengyao nodded, "It's normal, but you don't have to worry, McCain's words won't affect the movie's box office."

"Are you sure?"

"Of course, those who yell and scold on the Internet are always a minority. They are not the main moviegoers in real life. They live in the countryside, live in the countryside, and usually don't watch movies at all. They will not affect our box office."

McCain's supporters are mainly rednecks, and this group does mainly live in small places.

But whether they will affect the box office, Li Shengyao is not sure about this.

Of course, there was no need to say something depressing, even though he was in a bad mood, Li Shengyao still comforted Amanda.

He spoke confidently, his tone was firm, and his volume was average, but people nearby should be able to hear him.

He not only told Amanda, but also told other people.

Don't worry about the box office, we will be popular.

Amanda's worry eased a little after hearing this, "Li, I believe in you."

"Very well, that's enough."

At this moment, Li Shengyao's cell phone vibrated, and someone sent him a message.

He picked it up and saw that it was Lively who asked him if he had time tonight, and if he wanted to discuss together.

Li Shengyao was a little surprised. Lively is very popular now, and he seems to have a boyfriend. He is the male lead of "Gossip Girl" and asked him to have a friendly match.

He hesitated for a moment, then replied a text message, telling Lively the number of his room.

Amanda's home is in Los Angeles, and now she doesn't need to live in the crew's hotel.

Don't worry about Amanda disturbing them.

Thinking of Lively with a hot body, Director Li's mood improved a lot. He planned to have a good time tonight and vent all the negative emotions that had accumulated in his heart before.

(End of this chapter)