The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 425 Finally Finished
At 2008 am on September 9, 14, a wasteland in the suburbs of Los Angeles was scorching hot.

The crew of "Taken 3" is filming, this is the last scene of today, and also the last scene of "Taken 3".

After filming this scene, "Taken 3" was finished.

20 days ago, Brother Hu came to Los Angeles and finished filming his scenes.

As a result, all the scenes of "Taken 2" have been filmed, and "Taken 2" can be regarded as completed.

Today is the wrap-up day for "Taken 3".

"Taken 23" took a total of seven months to film the two film sets.

The main reason is that this year is quite special. Lee Sheng Yew and Cheng Long returned to China during the filming period, which delayed some time. Normally speaking, six months of filming time for the two films should be enough.

After all, it's just a movie with a cost of 5000 million US dollars, and there are not many big scenes.

The actors, field workers, and martial artists in the crew are all very excited about the completion of the filming today.

Everyone has been working for almost seven months straight, and they are really tired, and now many people have reached a breaking point.

If I continue, I'm afraid I will be passive and sabotage.

At this time, Li Shengyao was still strict, and was sitting behind the director's monitor, watching the actors' performance seriously.

Today's scene is a duel between Cheng Long and the final boss. The action directors designed a good fight scene.

The actor who played the villain had some kung fu skills, but he couldn't compare with Cheng Long, and he was still not strong enough to fight.

Many shots still have to be polished repeatedly, even if they are sweating profusely, the two of them still have to perform repeatedly.

Behind Li Shengyao, sat two strangers. These two people were Wen Ziren and Ray Worner.

Compared with a few years ago, Wen Ziren already has some pretty Chinese flavors at this time.

His complexion is darker, his body is stronger, and when he smiles, he always shows his top row of teeth.

It looks sunnier.

At this time, he was wearing a shirt on his upper body, skinny jeans underneath, and a pair of short boots, giving him a bit of western cowboy temperament.

Ray Warner has also changed a lot. He used to be a sloppy Luthor, but now he looks like an elite on Wall Street.

He was dressed in a neat suit and paired with a pair of black leather shoes. He looked like someone who was going to talk about big business.

This time, the two of them came here not to watch Li Shengyao's filming, but to ask Director Li for advice, to see if there is any inspiration.

The "Chain Saw" series is very successful, and it is quickly produced and shown at a rate of one a year, and almost every one can make a lot of money for Lionsgate.

However, Wen Ziren and Lei Werner gradually felt the bottleneck of creation.

After all, each of your films is designed with ingenious killing equipment, no matter how much you play and how cool it is, the audience will sometimes dislike it.

"Chain Saw 3" was still produced by two people.

In "Chain Saw 4", Wen Ziren was promoted to producer.

However, "Chain Saw 4" obviously cannot satisfy Lionsgate. There are two main reasons.

One is that the cost of movies keeps rising, from $120 million at the beginning to more than $1000 million later.

The second is the repetition of the plot. The audience of Beautiful Country has become bored, and the ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB are declining.

So when it came to the production of "Chain Saw 5", Lionsgate gave up these two people.

After all, it is a series of films created by themselves, Wen Ziren and Ray Werner are still reluctant to leave this series of films.

The two of them have recently been thinking about how to come up with a production plan for "Saw 6", which saves money and is interesting enough to bring back this series of movies.

The two of them thought for a long time, but still felt dissatisfied. They rushed over when they saw the newspaper saying that Lee Sheng Yew was filming in Los Angeles.

Wen Ziren also brought two boxes of very high-end cigars.

At this time, I saw that Li Shengyao had such strict requirements, even Cheng Long had to repeat the filming over and over again.

Both of them have some admiration.

They are in Hollywood and know how difficult it is to be on an equal footing with Warner, but Li Shengyao did it.

After another two hours, the actors and field workers didn't have lunch, and everyone strongly demanded to rest after finishing filming.

Finally, Cheng Long and the villain actors met the requirements of Director Li.

Li Shengyao waved to the assistant director, who raised his loudspeaker and said excitedly, ""Taken 3" is finished."

The actors were so excited that they hugged each other and cheered loudly.

They then meet to relax and play next time.

Holding a towel, Cheng Long came to Li Shengyao's side while wiping his sweat, "Director Li, let's go together tonight, I'll take you to play."

Li Shengyao shook his head, "No, you go, I still have something to do."

In addition to editing recently, he also went to find Bieber.

I should have gone to see Bieber a long time ago, but Bieber was writing a new song a few days ago and said that he didn't have time to meet guests.

He could only move back a little.

Cheng Long put down the towel and persuaded: "I've been busy for seven or eight months, let's take a rest."

"It's okay, I'll rest later."

After making these two films later, he can take a good rest for a while, and he is not in a hurry about this.

Hearing this, Cheng Long nodded and left.

At this time, Elizabeth Hurley walked over with her waist twisted.

She was wearing an ordinary long-sleeved shirt with a pair of jeans this year, which looked tightly wrapped, but her figure was so good that she could see the trembling when walking.

"Li, I am very happy to work with you during this time, and I hope to have the opportunity to continue working in the future."

Li Shengyao smiled and reached out to shake Elizabeth's hand.

"You are a very good actor, and I can cooperate with you if you have the opportunity."

He then felt Elizabeth's fingers tap his palm, and she also had deep meaning in her eyes.

It seems that Cheng Long has changed a woman these days.

Li Shengyao's heart moved slightly, then he shook his head, he didn't want to sprint on the same track as Cheng Long.

After the actors left, Wen Ziren winked at Li Shengyao, "Li, that woman is amazing."

Li Shengyao took out his thermos and took a sip of water, "I'm not interested."

"Oh, Chinese culture is too repressive of human nature, Li, you can stand up, we are very familiar in this area, no matter what kind of girl, we can introduce."

"No, I'm a dedicated person, you'd better not mess around, so as not to get sick."

Li Shengyao teased a few words, and then said: "What's the matter?"

Wen Ziren nodded, "Li, Lei and I feel a creative bottleneck. We don't know how to make "Saw 6". I want to come and ask you."

After the amazing start of the "Chain Saw" series, it will indeed be much boring later.

In Li Shengyao's previous life, Lionsgate's approach was to dig deep and expand the world of Chainsaw, especially to walk into Jigsaw's heart and tell the man's mentality and reasons for killing people.

In this way, this movie is not just a simple killing game. Every action of Jigsaw has a convincing reason and a complete world view.

This setting is still good, and the "Chain Saw" series will continue to output later, making money for Lionsgate.

However, Wen Ziren and Ray Werner were obviously already out.

Of course, it cannot be said that no one wants the two, it can only be said that they are no longer suitable for the follow-up story of "Chain Saw".

Li Shengyao is in a good mood today, of course this is not the reason for his free advice.

Wen Ziren and Lei Werner are not his good friends, there is no benefit, and he will not remind them.

"Guys, I haven't watched "Saw" in a long time, and I don't know about this movie, you have the wrong person."

Wen Ziren was a little disappointed when he heard the words, "Li, do you have time to take a look?"

"this one……"

Li Shengyao pretended to be hesitant, with a half-smile.

Wen Ziren and Ray Werner suddenly had the feeling of facing the senior management of Lionsgate Films, and then they realized that Director Li is also a capitalist now.

"Li, maybe we can talk carefully."

"Okay, I'll contact you after I finish editing."

(End of this chapter)