director of the millennium

On the other side, Los Angeles, USA.

Wu Yuan was lazily leaning on the sofa in the living room of his mansion in Los Angeles, looking at the ceiling and muttering.

"what"

"In this case, the goal is the 2020 Oscars."

“That means we’re going to compete with Parasite.”

"We need to compete with the Palme d'Or."

The cooperation with Disney has basically been finalized.

Disney provides the money and Wu Yuan provides the effort to jointly create the Bruce Lee biographical film, and Disney will do its best to publicize the film for the 2020 Oscar for Best Picture.

During the negotiation, Wu Yuan didn't actually think too much about it. He just wanted to find a sucker.

However, after everything was negotiated and the dust settled, he had time to look back and think carefully, and then he discovered this tangle.

In the original time and space, the movie that won the 2020 Oscar for Best Picture was the South Korean movie "Parasite", which was all over the domestic Internet at the time.

After all, this is the first time that a Korean film has won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and it is also the first Asian film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Before this, many Hollywood films directed by Asian directors have won this honor. Yes, I am talking about Li An.

But this is the first time that a film produced entirely in Asia and starring an all-Asian cast has received this honor.

Such a breakthrough of 0 would definitely cause a sensation in Asia, and it would be hard for Wu Yuan not to know about it.

Of course, it is understandable that this movie won the Oscar for Best Picture.

After all, "Parasite" can be said to have fully captured the struggles of the bottom class in South Korea, the class confrontation between the poor and the rich, and its satire and criticism of South Korea's social system and current situation.

It is completely understandable that a movie like this, which tells how "bad" Korea is, would be favored by Hollywood.

Not to mention that it was indeed filmed very well. From the artistry to the humanistic care to the interpretation of the language of the camera, the director is top-notch.

It is easy to simply say "bad", but it is difficult to say "bad" well enough, and it is even more difficult to make it reach the level of "art".

So this movie first won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year, and then won next year's Academy Award.

It is definitely a very difficult thing to win one of the three best films in Europe, then win an Oscar, and gain recognition in both Europe and North America. There are only a handful of films that can achieve this level.

But "Parasite" did it.

To compete with a movie like this is undoubtedly very stressful, and even the hope of winning is very slim.

But although Wu Yuan had some complaints, he didn't feel much pressure in his heart.

After all, when it comes to Oscar awards, you can't just look at the surface.

"Parasite" is strong, but it also depends on who it is fighting against.

Again, Hollywood is a world of capital, and the Oscars are firmly controlled by the Academy, and are not really transparent, open, or fair. If Disney is determined to get a Best Picture award for its own film, then even "Parasite" will end up being a futile attempt.

You know, among the major film companies in Hollywood, Disney can be regarded as the number one company.

After all, Disney's Marvel has reaped hundreds of billions of dollars in box office revenue worldwide, and its own animated films are invincible. Sony has to cooperate with it, and Universal has to temporarily avoid it.

It would be fine if there were no good opportunities, but if there were opportunities, it would not be difficult for Disney to publicize an Oscar for itself.

Of course, the premise of all this is that "Bruce Lee" is indeed of good quality and can compete for the best picture. It can be slightly worse than "Parasite", but not too much worse. Only in this way can Disney have the confidence to compete for the award for it.

And all this ultimately depends on Wu Yuan, he has to stand up on his own.

For him, it would be more accurate to say that this kind of pressure is more of a motivation than a pressure.

After resting at home for two days, Wu Yuan, led by a producer sent by Disney, began his casting journey in Hollywood.

In the end, he accepted Disney's opinion and chose Emma Stone to play the heroine in "Bruce Lee".

I don’t know why Disney wanted to insert Emma Stone, and they were determined to use her.

In addition to the heroine, Wu Yuan has many other roles to choose from.

For example, Bruce Lee’s agent in North America was the person from 20th Century Fox who first discovered him.

There are also friends he met while living and working in North America, people in the circle he met when he came into contact with Columbia and Warner, and related actors and actresses in several TV series and movies he participated in, etc.

All in all, there are as many as twenty or thirty European and American actors who have lines in Wu Yuan's script of "Bruce Lee", and 5-6 of them are important supporting roles.

These roles require actors with well-known Hollywood reputations, and several small-scale auditions are required.

Just for the casting, Wu Yuan stayed in North America for a whole month. It was not until the end of March that he had almost finalized the main actors and signed letters of intent with them, confirming that they would join the crew for filming in September this year.

As for why the filming start date was chosen as September, it is of course because Liu Yifei's due date is in July.

It is impossible for Wu Yuan to come to the United States to make a movie when his wife is about to give birth or is in confinement after giving birth. No one with the lowest emotional intelligence would do such a thing.

At the very least, he has to wait until his wife is out of confinement before he can start working.

It’s just right to start filming in September, and it’s also possible to complete the shooting and post-production before the end of the year. After all, this movie doesn’t require any special effects.

After completing the casting, Wu Yuan took the time to visit the headquarters of Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation in Georgia.

Gulfstream is not as famous as Boeing and Airbus, and it doesn't even have much market share in the civil airliner sector.

But Gulfstream is the world's largest manufacturer of business aircraft. More than a quarter of the Fortune 500 companies use Gulfstream business jets, and the vast majority of private aircraft purchased by the world's wealthy are manufactured by Gulfstream.

Perhaps this company is indeed not as professional as Boeing and Airbus in terms of large civil aircraft, but when it comes to serving the wealthy and building luxurious private jets, Gulfstream is the most professional.

Even Wu Yuan, who originally wanted to take a look and understand the details, was completely moved after he arrived at the Gulfstream headquarters, saw the luxury business jets being manufactured, and heard the professional sales staff's various heart-touching sales pitches. He ordered two Gulfstream G450s without thinking.
"One is registered under the name of Light and Shadow Times, and the other is registered under the name of Light and Shadow Quick Broadcast. They are equally benefited!" Wu Yuan couldn't help but mutter when he left the Gulfstream headquarters. (End of this chapter)