director of the millennium

Chapter 119 The cooperation is finalized, "Your Name" starts!
Cheng Long really wanted to have another series of film projects in Hollywood.

In 2002, Cheng Long ranked 16th in the "Hollywood Star Power Ranking" selected by "Hollywood Reporter", a proper superstar.

But look what movies he gets next?
A co-production between the United Kingdom, the United States and Malaysia, he used his own fame to bring Malay girls and Hong Kong people to the "Royal Dragon" and the Hong Kong Island movie "The Dragon Reborn".

Gone.

Not to mention Hollywood's big productions, not even one movie with a cost of more than 5000 million US dollars has been accepted.

Is it because he doesn't want to pick it up?

Although he really wanted to bring more Hong Kong stars into Hollywood after entering Hollywood because of his face in the Hong Kong circle, but he still clearly distinguishes between the primary and secondary.

It's just that there is really no suitable Hollywood movie to find him.

It is really difficult for Asians to receive suitable scripts in Hollywood.

At this stage, in the big-budget movies approved by Hollywood, the leading characters are all white, let alone Asian, and even black people can’t get leading roles. At most, they can play an important supporting role or villain.

Will Smith is the only exception.

In this regard, it is still considered that North America really needs a black superstar to take care of an increasing proportion of black groups.

Asian?

There's really no place for you.

There are also a few Hollywood movies that ask Cheng Long to play the role, but it is still the same old style. I hope he will play a cruel villain from the mysterious China, the kind of character who is strong in martial arts, does all kinds of bad things behind the scenes, and is finally defeated by the righteous protagonist.

Considering that he represents the entire Chinese actor community in Hollywood, Cheng Long really doesn't dare to take on such a role that damages the image of Chinese people.

Compared with director Wu Yuan, Asian actors are more difficult to mix in Hollywood
Now there is an opportunity for a new actor in a series, how could Cheng Long not be willing?
If there is a chance, he doesn't want to act in those bad movies!
He is not old yet and can still work hard!

"Director Wu, whether it's "Rush Hour 3" or the follow-up "Ace Agent" series, I will follow the director's arrangement."

Maybe it was because Wu Yuan misunderstood that he was a drama bully. After all, Chris had fallen out with him. Cheng Long took the initiative to say: "I have always followed the director's will in the crew."

"Chris didn't want to star in Rush Hour 3 because he paid too much for the film, and it wasn't because I pushed him out and played bullying behavior on the set."

He knew that in the eyes of the outside world, the "Rush Hour" series belonged to Cheng Long.

He is the most important character in this series, and anyone else can be replaced, but not him.

This will inevitably cause people to misunderstand, Cheng Long is the one with the most right to speak in the crew, everyone should listen to him, including the director.

but it is not the truth.

Although Cheng Long's private life is a bit messy, and there are various young girls haunting the room every day, but at work, he is still very serious and hardworking, and never exceeds his authority.

An Asian went to Hollywood to work hard. It can't be said that he has been conscientious, but he must not dare to do bullying behavior.

"I've heard about brother Cheng Long's reputation." Wu Yuan looked at Cheng Long with a half-smile, and didn't deny his words.

Cheng Long, besides having a chaotic private life and failing to manage the prince well, is indeed admirable at work, and his personal conduct is also good.

At least Cheng Long's refusal to play an ugly Chinese villain in Hollywood is enough for Wu Yuan to appreciate.

If he hadn't always maintained this bottom line, he wouldn't have been unable to receive big-budget Hollywood blockbusters when he was at his peak due to the huge sales of "Rush Hour 2".

Hollywood is still happy to make commercial blockbusters about heroic white heroes who, after going through hardships, defeat evil Chinese villains.

"I personally also hope that Brother Cheng Long can continue to play the leading role in "Kingsman"."

Wu Yuan shrugged: "I even thought about it, if New Line doesn't plan to cooperate, I can find Universal or Fox to do the "Kingsman" series."

"At that time, I will also recommend you to play the male lead, but the background story will definitely have to be revised."

"Without Detective Li, we can have Agent Chen, can't we?"

When Wu Yuan said this, he had no intention of avoiding Elad, and he specifically used English.

Elad, who was sitting next to Cheng Long, could hear it clearly, and his expression was wonderful.

"No, no, Daniel, since I came to visit you with Jackie, of course I want to cooperate with you."

Elard said nervously: "Cooperating with big companies like Universal and Fox is not a good thing. They not only offer harsh conditions, but also take away most of the profits, so they are not good partners. "

"As for the script idea of ​​"Rush Hour 3" you proposed, after we went back to discuss it, we thought it was great."

"The "Kingsman" series, Jackie has no problem, and our new line has no problem. It is indeed possible to cooperate in depth."

When the topic came to this point, Wu Yuan felt that enough was enough.

He interrupted loudly: "Of course, New Line is definitely the best partner for this project."

"As long as you are willing to cooperate, then we can sit down and talk slowly."

"However, I'm going back to China soon, so let's discuss the details with John."

Wu Yuan continued to serve Cheng Long and Elard a cup of tea, "If "Rush Hour 3" writes the script according to my ideas, I can accept 1000 million US dollars + 5% of the box office share, and take over the directorship of this film .”

"As for the "Kingsman" series, I don't necessarily have time to direct it myself, maybe I need to find a new director at that time."

Wu Yuan joined Xinxian and Cheng Long to make money, not to frame himself.

It's enough to pick up "Rush Hour 3", wrap up the new line, and start the layout of the "Kings Agent" series.

Let him shoot the "Kingsman" series again?
Then when will we have to toss.

Wu Yuan has a clear plan for his Hollywood director career. In addition to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, he also has several movies to be produced before 2010. He really has no time to be responsible for the "Kingsman" series.

Ellard didn't force Wu Yuan to direct the "Kingsman" series himself.

The recent release of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is really too fierce.
All fools know that Wu Yuan's current focus must be on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, and it is impossible to make a new series of movies.

Fortunately, Elard's original plan was to ask Wu Yuan to take over "Rush Hour 3" and help him clean up the ending.

Elad was very lucky that Wu Yuan could agree.

"Then let's settle this first?" Wu Yuan saw that Elard had no objection, so he continued: "I plan to write the script of "Rush Hour 3" by myself."

"There is also the script of "Ace Agent", and I will be responsible for the follow-up."

"I want 3% of the copyright to "Rush Hour 20". After all, I wrote the script."

"The "Kingsman" series, when the time comes, Time Era and New Line will each contribute 50%, and each will have half of the copyright."

"is that OK?"

If you are an ordinary screenwriter and want 20% of the copyright just to write a script, you don't even need to think about it.

But who said that the person who proposed this condition was Wu Yuan.

Considering the "Kingsman" series that will be cooperated in the future, and the importance of "Rush Hour 3" as the prequel of "Kingsman", Elard still agreed to Wu Yuan's request.

Cheng Long can ask for 15% of the box office, but it is acceptable for Wu Yuan to take 20% of the copyright.

The copyright income of the "Rush Hour" series is still quite high, or in other words, the copyright income of movies starring Chinese kung fu superstars is good.

After all, in North America, various kung fu movies and Cheng Long's action movies sell really well in the DVD rental market, bringing tens of millions of dollars in revenue to New Line every year.
"No problem!" Erard nodded in agreement.

"Okay, then I wish us a happy cooperation in advance." Wu Yuan showed a bright smile on his face.

Cheng Long also laughed. His stumbling trip to Hollywood seems to be finally on a broad road.

Regarding the specific cooperation of the "Kingsman Agent" project, John was handed over to negotiate with New Line, and he will also be one of the producers of this series.

Of course, even if everything is settled, this new series will not be launched very early.

Even "Rush Hour 3" is estimated to start filming in the first half of 2004 at the earliest, and strive to be released in the summer of 2004.

"Kingsman" is even missing. The first one will not start filming until 2005 or even 2006.

After finalizing this cooperation, Wu Yuan's work in North America has been dealt with for the time being.

"Pirates of the Caribbean" is still in hot theaters, winning the box office champion for two consecutive weeks, and the total box office has broken 1 million US dollars.

It's a pity that no matter how high the box office of this movie is, Wu Yuan won't get any money. Compared to this, he cares more about his new movie now.

On July 7, Wu Yuan left the United States and flew back to China.

Still no one came to pick him up, so he took a taxi and went back to the courtyard.

But it's different from before.

Going home this time, Wu Yuan saw a Mercedes-Benz C series parked in the courtyard.

This was ordered by someone before he went to the United States. The original imported car is not very expensive, and the license plate has already been installed, so it is just right for transportation.

He didn't even bother to test the car when he just got home. After taking a quick look around, he went back to the house and prepared to take a nap to adjust the jet lag.

However, before going to bed, he edited a text message and sent it to many people, and then turned off the phone and fell asleep.

Magic City, in the small white building of Tangren Film and Television.

Since signing a seven-year, five-film cooperation agreement with Light and Shadow Times, Tangren has breathed a sigh of relief.

The new TV drama project, which was not planned to be promoted for the time being and needs to wait until the capital turnover is opened, has also entered the preparatory stage immediately.

The next TV series Tangren wants to do is "Strange Tales from a New Liaozhai Studio". Liaozhai is currently a rare fantasy IP with public copyright in China, and Cai Yinong has long wanted to get his hands on it.

Before, I was always afraid of insufficient funds, and I didn't have the money to make exquisite magic special effects, so I kept procrastinating from making this TV series.

Now that there is a cooperation agreement in the light age, what are you afraid of?

Just when Cai Yinong was planning to cooperate with Wu Yuan on the script of "Strange Tales from a New Liaozhai Studio", a colleague from Taiwan who she knew when she was in Hong Kong Island approached her.

The other company bought the game copyright of "Legend of Sword and Fairy", but after several years of thinking about it, it failed to make a film, and wanted to transfer it to Tang Ren.

There is no script for the game, so Cai Yinong researched it all night, read thousands of comments from netizens on the forum, and was pleasantly surprised to find that this game has a large number of loyal fans, it is simply a free audience.

For TV dramas, of course, it is best to have a fan base, so that a large number of viewers will watch it when it starts broadcasting. The starting point is higher than other TV dramas, and it is easier to become popular.

She immediately wrote a 5000-word story outline, and decided to shoot "Sword" in less than 3 days.

He even thought of an actor.

Although the company wanted to invite Hong Kong and Taiwan stars such as Lin Xinru, Nicholas Tse, and Gu Juji, she felt that according to the original work, it was best to find two actors who were about 18 years old for the male and female protagonists.

Especially the male lead, she wants to use Hugo from her own company.

Although, when Hu Ge signed a contract with Tangren, he changed into ancient costumes, and the hair accessories in ancient costumes made his face look special and very ugly, so he was pulled into the blacklist of ancient costumes by Li Guoli.

But Cai Yinong feels that Hu Ge is suitable for ancient costumes, but the makeup is not done well.

Obviously, the company's management doesn't think so, and it's almost a quarrel.

After much deliberation, Cai Yinong realized that it was not very good to be arbitrarily determined by himself, but finding foreign aid to support him was different.

Moreover, the adaptation of a game like "Legend of Sword and Fairy" into a TV series requires a lot of special effects, and it is also a big production that consumes a lot of money. It is necessary to find the "big guy" of the Light and Shadow Times to bear the risk together.

So she wanted to talk to Wu Yuan about the TV series and see if she could get support from him. If he supported Hu Ge in playing the male lead, Tangren's management would have nothing to say to refute it.

However, Light and Shadow Era has not yet found a suitable manager, and Wu Yuan is not in China.

Just when Cai Yinong was thinking about whether to make a cross-border call to Wu Yuan to chat about this matter, her cell phone rang first.

Wu Yuan sent a text message.

"Mr. Cai, my new film is currently being cast. If you are willing to participate, at ten o'clock in the morning on August 8st, bring three actors, Hu Ge, Yuan Hong, and Sun Li, to the Light and Shadow Times audition."

What "Legend of Sword and Fairy" and "New Liaozhai" were immediately forgotten by Cai Yinong.

Capital, Shunyi.

For every student, summer vacation is a very pleasant time.

The same goes for Liu Yifei.

Although, after the rehearsal of the drama, she could no longer see Wu Yuan often, which made her feel a little sad in private, but this sadness was soon diluted by the happy vacation.

"Dragon Babu" has not been aired yet, and for the time being, she only has the work "Golden Fan Family", and she can still enjoy a leisurely life.

Lying on the bed with her legs crossed, Liu Yifei concentrated on playing the Snake game that came with her phone.

Whenever the greedy snake she controls eats a candy, she will happily shake her legs up in the air.

"Sissy, don't stay in the room all the time during the holidays!"

"Mom will take you to swim in the afternoon, there is a new swimming pool opened in Tiantongyuan."

"Or we can go to Shichahai for a stroll."

Her mother's yelling came from outside the door, which disrupted Liu Yifei's concentration. With a shake of her hand, the gluttonous snake hit her body, shattered into pieces, and the game was over.

"Mom!" Liu Yifei yelled unhappily, pouted, and was about to refuse when the phone made a "ding dong".

She opened it absently and took a look, and a text message came into her eyes.

"Student Qianqian, my new movie has officially entered the casting stage. I hope you can come to Light and Shadow Times at ten o'clock in the morning on August 8st to audition for the heroine!"

After glancing at the note name of the person who wrote the letter, Liu Yifei clenched her fists excitedly.

"Mom!" This time she shouted with excitement and happiness.

"Director Wu invited me to audition for his new movie!!"

　Still two in one.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)