Become famous another day.

After reading Get Out, Muken Sorge immediately realized the value of the script.

Sometimes, you can’t tell whether a movie is good or not even during the preview.

However, for filmmakers, whether a script is good or not is rarely a controversial issue and one can tell at a glance.

If Lu Yanhe had come up with a more artistic and profound script, such as "Raise the Red Lantern", Muken Sorge would definitely not be interested.

In other words, even if Lu Yanhe took out a classic thriller like "The Silence of the Lambs", Muken Sorge might not think it was suitable for him.

However, what Lu Yanhe brought out was "Get Out", which is itself a very good and attractive horror story. The kind of mental horror story of being controlled by hypnosis and enslaved is in line with Muken Sorge's past horror aesthetics.

From the movie "The Mist", we can see that Muken Sorge actually likes some supernatural and surreal stories in a modern background. In simple terms, it is to break the appearance of people's daily life and put the protagonist in an extreme and terrifying environment to produce physical and psychological fear.

On this basis, "Get Out" has another natural good topic - black slavery.

If the theme of Asian revenge in The Mist was not there at the beginning but was gradually gathered by D19 based on market feedback, then the theme of Get Out is so straightforward that it is obvious from the text with almost no disguise.

Muken Sorge thought that it was because he himself was not black. If he was black, this film would have become a thorn in the eyes of some extremists from the very beginning of the project.

He said to Lu Yanhe: "Did you write this script specifically for me?"

Lu Yanhe smiled and asked, "Do you like it?"

"What a joke, this script is so shocking!" Muken said, "How could you write such a story? This is simply-"

It is simply that it is clearly not an art film, but relying solely on this theme, it is bound to become a topical film text, and thus rely on the huge level of discussion to ensure its entry into the awards season.

It is not only art films that have artistic value. There is another dimension of artistic value called sociality.

The reason why "Get Out", with its completely commercial, sensory thriller style, not only became a box office hit, but also made it into the awards season was because of the great social discussion it sparked.

It has a meaning that goes beyond what an ordinary thriller would have.

In a social context where many people are saying that black people have been equal for many years, why do they always regard themselves as discriminated against? This article points out the hypocrisy of some white groups and the unremovable fear in the hearts of the black group.

Once a slave, a shadow for generations.

Muken Sorge asked, "Are you really willing to let me shoot this script?"

"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded, "However, I hope my film company can participate in the production of the film."

When Muken heard this, he immediately frowned.

"I don't want to interfere with your creation." Lu Yanhe explained immediately, "I just hope to learn something through this project. You know, I have a film company, and I want to shoot a few of my own scripts in the future, but I don't know the shooting environment here. If there is an opportunity for people in the company to truly participate in the production of a project, it will be very meaningful to us."

Muken Sorge: "I like this script very much, but if I want to make this movie with you, I need to discuss it with my producer."

"No problem." Lu Yanhe nodded, "I understand."

“Lu, is this a prerequisite for me to shoot Get Out?” Muken Sorge asked.

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"I have made the same offer for movies like Red Eye and Source Code," he said. "I am not trying to compete for your dominance over the movies, but I also don't want to simply provide a script, Muken. I am not just going to be a Hollywood embellishment."

Muken Sorge looked at Lu Yanhe with some surprise.

Over the years, because his wife is Hua Ruzhen, he is one of the European and American directors who has the most contact with Chinese actors.

In recent years, as China's own market continues to expand, Chinese actors' "going overseas fever" has gradually subsided.

There are very few popular actors like Lu Yanhe who go against the trend.

However, Muken Sorge just thought that Lu Yanhe just wanted to expand his acting career.

He had never thought that Lu Yanhe had such great ambitions for Hollywood.

It's not just an actor's ambition.
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The sequel to "The Mist" stars two actors who have been nominated for Oscars. One is Ryan Waters, who plays the ghost that attacks the ghost-hunting team in the opening of the film and is finally seriously injured and driven away by Lu Yanhe's ghost. The other is Erin Wallace, who plays the captain of the ghost-hunting team.

Ryan Waters is 36 years old this year. The highlight of his entire acting career was the movie he took on Otti. Apart from that, his performances were basically "mediocre". However, his acting skills have always been well received and he has never let down.

Erin Wallace is now 28 years old. When she was 19 years old, she played a teenage girl in an Oscar-winning film. Her role was similar to "Lolita". She shocked the film industry at the time and was a hot candidate for the Best Supporting Actress that year, but she lost in the end.

In addition to these two, there is an athlete in the Ghost Hunting Team who retired from the British diving team three years ago. After retiring, he transformed into an actor, Jason Porter, a well-known person, but strictly speaking, he has just started acting.

In addition, because of Lu Yanhe's starring role, Darren Wilson also secured a position as a member of the ghost hunting team for another Chinese actress under his command, Wang Jiaqi.

These people, together with Lu Yanhe, also make up the main star lineup of the sequel to "The Mist". In comparison, the other actors are basically not well-known.

The day after Lu Yanhe arrived in the United States, he went to try on clothes and styles.

Muken Sorge was also here.

At first glance, the overall shape seems to have not changed much compared to the first part.

However, many details have been adjusted.

The overall effect should be more ghostly.

If you compare this look with the one in the first film, the difference in effect is like the same set of clothes, one is a buyer's show and the other is a seller's show.

After seeing this, the people from D19 had no objection.

You know, in the movie, his image itself has a lot of special effects.

Basically, every time he appears, there are several blowers that create some soft breeze to make his clothes look flowing and intangible.

When the blower was turned on, Lu Yanhe's black robe swayed like clouds and mist, and the effect was comparable to CG special effects produced by computers.

This means that a lot of work will be reduced in the later stage, which also means that D19 will save a lot of production costs.

D19 has nothing to say.

Lu Yanhe's stylist firstly did not mess around, secondly he respected the styling of the first film and did not make major changes, and thirdly it is clear that his aesthetics and skills were more advanced, much better than the stylist of the first film.

Lu Yanhe was also very satisfied with this look.

Muken Sorge said: "You look much more handsome now than in the first film."

Lu Yanhe: "Ten years have passed. My strength has recovered a lot. It's normal that I look more handsome, right?"

Muken Sorge: "It's normal. I didn't say it's bad. What I meant is that I think your image will attract a lot of female fans."

"I'm looking forward to it." Lu Yanhe nodded.

As an actor, who doesn't have a few fans who like him/her looks? If you really don't have a few fans, to be honest, it's really hard to become a legend. There is no legendary actor who doesn't have a good image. It's cruel, even brutal.

In reality, of course, there are some actors with bad images who have climbed to the first-line or even super-first-line positions through their own efforts and acting skills. However, if you take stock, you will find that such actors will never be pushed to the position of "representatives" by an industry.

You can only say that he is a talented actor.

Being an actor is a job that relies on one's looks to make a living.

Lu Yanhe doesn't think he can make a living just because he has won a few acting awards. Without his face, he couldn't even get a role in his first play, "The Golden Age". Seeing that Lu Yanhe didn't mind "making a living by his face", Muken Sorge was shocked again.

In the European and American film industry, generally speaking, the better the image of an actor, the more reluctant they are to be praised for their good looks in the professional field of acting. This is because in the mainstream concept of Europe and the United States, professionalism is respectable, and appearance is superficial.

In China, the professional field also has this view, but on the one hand, the boundary between actors and artists is far less clear than in Europe and the United States, which makes this concept less "disciplined" for actors. On the other hand, many actors in the entertainment industry, let alone those who have professional training, have no acting experience before their first play.

I wouldn't even say a lot, I would say a lot. When the whole environment is filled with actors who don't really see themselves as actors, it's hard to tell these actors what they should be in awe of through the mainstream concept of the environment.

Lu Yanhe doesn't mind being praised for his handsomeness. It's not because he is influenced by the domestic environment, nor is it because Lu Yanhe doesn't agree with these things. He just thinks that people should be honest with themselves sometimes.

Taking your face too seriously is a problem. Trying to destroy your face to prove some kind of "professionalism" and "plasticity" is also a problem.

Lu Yanhe has never deliberately "destroyed his image" to play a role.

Because the initial accumulation of an actor is to attract people with his face. This is an indisputable fact, and it cannot be denied by anyone who wants to.
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D19 CEO Scott Harris came to meet Lu Yanhe and had dinner together before the filming began.

It's just that as the CEO of D19, Scott Harris must show respect to the protagonist of a hit sequel.

However, this time, in addition to talking with Lu Yanhe about "The Mist", Scott Harris also talked with Lu Yanhe about several other Hollywood projects.

"We are an independent film production company, D19. We can't compare with big studios like Parameter and Midoriya. However, we are capable of making films like Source Code and Buried."

Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "Scott, my cooperation with them is based on the script and has expanded into multiple dimensions. I am also one of the producers. I gave you the script of Buried Alive before, but you only wanted the script at that time."

Scott Harris laughed and said, "The world is changing all the time, isn't it?"

Lu Yanhe smiled slightly and didn't say anything else about this.

Scott Harris: "You are an amazing creator with outstanding talent, and this time, we will also use the sequel to "The Mist" to impact the awards season for you."

Lu Yanhe: "Thank you."

Scott Harris: "But why have you been reluctant to sign a follow-up contract for The Mist series?"

Lu Yanhe: "Scott, we haven't started filming the second part yet. Isn't it too early to talk about the rest of the story now?"

Scott Harris: "You are a popular star in Hollywood now. I can't feel at ease unless I sign your contract."

"Just take your time and do one play at a time." Lu Yanhe said, "You know I'm really busy, right?"

Scott Harris nodded.

"I know."

He smiled, as if he didn't mind Lu Yanhe's rejection at all.

Lu Yanhe also knew that he wouldn't mind.

It was normal for a popular actor to be a little arrogant and flamboyant - everyone thought so. Lu Yanhe also gradually felt that sometimes, being a little arrogant and cold-blooded would make things easier and save him trouble.

"Lu, I'm actually curious, why didn't you act in the movie Buried yourself?" Scott Harris said, "If you were the lead actor in this movie, I would have considered it even if you wanted to be the producer."

Lu Yanhe: "If I have to act in all the scripts I wrote, I won't have time to act in a movie like The Mist that I didn't write."

Scott Harris: "That's right. Do you have an assistant to help you write the script?"

"what?"

"The number of scripts you've written in the past few years is almost enough to be the work of seven or eight screenwriters," said Scott Harris.

Lu Yanhe shook his head. "I don't have an assistant. I wrote all of it by myself."

"This is incredible. How can you create so many scripts?"

Lu Yanhe: "On the one hand, I can write. On the other hand, the scripts I wrote have basically never been asked to be rewritten or significantly revised by the production company."

To put it bluntly, the acceptance rate is extremely high.

Every success further establishes the "Lu Yanhe myth". Every time the "Lu Yanhe myth" is strengthened, every word he writes becomes more valuable.

The production company regards it as a treasure and would never dare to change it easily.

By the time of projects such as Buried, Red Eye and Source Code, Lu Yanhe's ability as a screenwriter had already been recognized by both box office and awards. He was also in a relatively strong position to discuss cooperation. If others did not have fundamental opinions on the script, they would not easily raise them.

Or, they won't cooperate at all.

Scott Harris laughed: "That's right. No one would dare to change your script easily now."

Lu Yanhe thought, although Scott Harris said this now, he probably didn't take it too seriously.

Steck Harris has the typical Hollywood arrogance.

His arrogance is not directed at you, but at all non-Hollywood filmmakers - you are certainly talented, but it has not yet been proven whether your approach will work in Hollywood.

Lu Yanhe thought, once the box office results and return rates of several "Source Code" movies come out, the smile on your face will be much more sincere.

It is easy to get along in the capitalist world. As long as you do two things, you can get by:
First, you have the value of making money.

Second, you have the ability to avoid being cheated.

Lu Yanhe and Scott Harris chatted and laughed while eating the meal, and took a photo together. Scott Harris took the initiative to post it on his Twitter, completing the action of "respecting talent" that a film company CEO should show.

With this "endorsement", Lu Yanhe also met the actors of the sequel of "The Mist" for the first time.
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"Lu Yanhe has gone to shoot The Mist." Zhang Yuezhen put down her phone, which showed a photo of Lu Yanhe and Scott Harris, and said to Chen Pinhe, "We have to speed up, too."

Chen Pinhe said: "Why rush? This is not a race."

Zhang Yuezhen: "Next time you have a project like "Doomsday", will you accept Lu Yanhe's scheme to ruin it?"

Chen Pinhe: "This matter has already passed. There is no need for you to keep bringing it up again and again, right?"

His brows furrowed.

The movie "Doomsday" missed Chen Pinhe's chance. Zhang Yuezhen said that it was Lu Yanhe who ruined the movie. In fact, they all knew that it was Chen Pinhe himself who was worried that "Doomsday" would be downgraded and he was afraid of losing face, so he gave up the movie voluntarily, which allowed Lu Yanhe to find the opportunity and pass it on to Jiang Jun.

Zhang Yuezhen knew that Chen Pinhe was actually very concerned about this matter.

She didn't mention it anymore.

"I don't mean anything else. I just don't want us to be too slow and lose the initiative later." Zhang Yuezhen said, "By the way, Yang Zhoujin asked us to have dinner together tomorrow night. Are you free?"

"Yang Zhoujin? Was he released by his family again?"

"He has reached an agreement with his father. If he doesn't continue to make trouble, his father will give him a fair chance to compete with Yang Zhouli." Zhang Yuezhen said, "Yang Zhoujin will get a sum of money to enter the market."

Chen Pinhe was surprised when he heard this.

Zhang Yuezhen said: "He needs results, and we need funds, so we both get what we need."
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First update.

Recommend the new Xianxia book "The Demon-catching Sword". (End of this chapter)