director of the millennium

Chapter 115 What a rush hour, it's clearly a prequel to Kingsman!
Why is Will Smith willing to join "Rush Hour 2000" for a salary of 3 million US dollars without any box office split?

This is too outrageous, right?
Wu Yuan could not believe it, and even thought that the old man Elad was lying to him.

Will Smith is a super-A-level actor in Hollywood, and he is the top black actor, not one of them.

With movies such as "Independence Day", "Men in Black Series" and "King Ali", he is now the world's highest-grossing black actor, and he has also been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor.

When his "Machina Enemy" is released next year, it will take another $3.2 million at the box office.

It can be said that the current influence and fame of Will Smith are much higher than that of Chris Tucker who played "Rush Hour".

Chris Tucker is nothing without "Rush Hour", and Will Smith is still a super-A actor without the "Men in Black" series.

Why can he offer a lower salary than Chris Tucker?

Elard also knew that this was a bit outrageous. He smiled sarcastically and took the initiative to explain: "Actually, we were also very surprised. In fact, we didn't plan to ask Will Smith to play the role at the beginning."

"It was him who took the initiative to contact us when he heard that "Rush Hour" might have to change actors."

"Will said that he is a fan of Jackie and likes Jackie's action movies very much. He wants to work with Jackie once. He can accept not to share the box office split."

"That's what led to this collaboration."

And this thing?
Will Smith is actually a fan of Cheng Long?

Wu Yuan was surprised, no matter in his dream or in this life, he had never heard of such a gossip!
This is a bit interesting ha.

1000 million US dollars + 5% box office split, judging from the box office of the original version of "Rush Hour 3", Wu Yuan can get more than 2000 million US dollars, which is not a small amount of money.

And if he is asked to shoot "Rush Hour 3", the script must be changed.

The original script was a piece of shit!

Wu Yuan has an idea, he can change the script in the direction of "Kingsman", or make it a prequel of "Kingsman"!

It just so happens that the lead actor is going to be changed.

Then the opening can be set as Inspector Li and Carter were performing a mission, Inspector Li failed to save their companions, and Carter died.

Detective Li was also in a daze because of the blow of this incident, and got drunk all day long, unable to get out of the shadow of his partner's sacrifice.

At this time, a mysterious agent named "Will" approached Detective Li and forced him to the secret intelligence agency "Ace Secret Service".

Then Detective Li changed from an Interpol police officer to a secret agent, and started the second exciting period of his life.

During the days when he was working as a partner with Will, this black agent, who looked cold on the outside but was actually very passionate on the inside, gradually allowed Detective Li to step out of the shadow of his companion's sacrifice.

In the end, the two teamed up to smash a conspiracy to assassinate the President of the United States, and worked together to save the life of the President and complete the mission of the agents.

Well, as for the specific conspiracy, who the villainous boss is, and how to set it up, you can talk to the screenwriter slowly, or Wu Yuan can incorporate some of the plots of future generations of action movies into it.

Anyway, most Hollywood commercial action movies follow this routine. After fighting all the way, the protagonist group finally defeats the boss and saves the crisis.

After 20 years, this kind of script will have a mature framework and routine. You only need to add various commercial elements, adjust the atmosphere with funny plots, pay attention to the rhythm of the film, and it will be a passable popcorn movie.

The most important thing is that changing "Rush Hour 3" in this way makes this series deviate from the original main line, which is the case-solving story of Detective Li and Carter.

But it also started another series, the "Kingsman" series!
Next, Wu Yuan can continue to use Jackie and directly and seamlessly connect to the plot of "Kingsman: The Secret Service", letting Jackie replace Harry Hart in the original film, who is the mentor of the male protagonist.

The two teamed up again to start the story of "Kings Agent".

Well, the planning is very good, but the "Rush Hour" series is a new line of movies, how will Wu Yuan let the character of Inspector Li join his own "Kingsman" universe?
After thinking about it, Wu Yuan no longer directly rejected Elard's invitation, but chatted with him about the future development of the new line.

"Ellard, New Line's "Lord of the Rings" series, the last one will be released this year, right?"

"'Rush Hour 3' should be the last one in this series, right?"

"I know that you still have the series "The God of Reaper" in your hands, but for Nuo Da's new line, "The God of Death" alone is not enough."

"Do you have any plans for a new series of movies?"

Elard was asked, New Line really has no new film series plans at hand, next year there will be only one "Blade Warrior 3", which is also the last film in the series.
"Daniel, what do you mean?" Elad asked hesitantly.

"I mean, I don't want to take over a series that someone else made, but I would love to start a new one."

Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows, "But this new series must be jointly created by Light Era and New Line!"

Large-scale production series like "Rush Hour" and "Ace Agent" with an investment of tens of millions and nearly [-] million US dollars are not projects that Light Era can do alone now.

But it's no problem to pull a new line and do it together.

New Line is not the Big Six, they are also an independent film company, but the development of independent film companies is relatively good, and they also need to expand their financial resources.

It is a beneficial thing for both parties to cooperate with New Line.

As expected, Elad showed a curious expression, pulled Wu Yuan to the corner of the banquet hall, and said solemnly: "Tell me in detail."

Wu Yuan didn't have anything to hide, since he wanted to cooperate, he had to discuss it clearly, and it didn't matter that it was the premiere luncheon of "Pirates of the Caribbean", anyway, other people were also discussing various deals.

"The way I see it, Rush Hour 3 could be a prequel to another new franchise..."

Wu Yuan gave Elard a general idea of ​​his own ideas, as well as the conception of "Rush Hour 3" and "Kingsman Agent" series.

"Ellard, "Rush Hour 3" is filmed according to the script I said, and I can accept $1000 million + 5% of the box office share."

"I believe that if I make it according to my idea, the box office of this movie will definitely not be bad, at least it will be 2-3 million US dollars."

"Then we will start the preparatory work for "Ace Agent". New Line and Guangshi each bear 50% of the production cost."

"For the new series, except for Jackie, other actors can use newcomers, which can reduce a lot of shooting costs, and the pressure to pay back will be much lower, and I am very optimistic about this new series."

"If Jackie still wants to raise the price, I'll convince him, but he really can't be convinced. At worst, the new series will have new actors. Anyway, "Rush Hour 3" has already thrown out the Kingsman agency."

"The prequel role of this movie already exists. Even if we can't reach an agreement with Jackie in the end and we change people to start a new series, we can also use "Rush Hour 3" as a pre-heating promotion."

"I believe this new series will be more successful than Rush Hour!"

(End of this chapter)