China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 442 Three Years Later and Another Three Years Later

"Director Li, even Hollywood's movie moguls have extended an olive branch to you. I can only say that this is amazing."

The person who said this was Cao Qing, the deputy director of "Operation Nujiang River".

Breaking into Hollywood is not only the dream of all Chinese actors, but also the dream of all Chinese directors.

Such a good opportunity is in front of him. As long as Li Yu agrees, he can go to Hollywood to co-produce with China and the United States and produce some classic works.

Li Yu will become the third director to conquer Hollywood after Li An and Wu Baige.

To be able to obtain this achievement, it is definitely a very high-level achievement.

Even Zhang Yingmou, who is known as the national master, has not achieved this achievement.

The original version of "The Great Wall" was a co-production between the national film master and Hollywood.

Perhaps the national master once thought of using this blockbuster to break into Hollywood and successfully win the Oscar he had always dreamed of.

Unfortunately, reality is cruel.

"The Great Wall" had a terrible reputation in China and had poor box office in the United States, so it was not popular with either side.

At that Oscar awards ceremony, the host spent a minute making fun of the Chinese director's film "The Great Wall," saying that the film had lost more than 8000 million euros.

Cao Qing noticed that Li Yu was frowning and did not answer him, nor was he happy about receiving an olive branch from a Hollywood movie mogul.

"Director Li..."

Cao Qing was a little confused.

Why does Li Yu look unhappy about such a happy event?
"Do you know who's the star of this superhero movie they asked me to make?"

Li Yu's eyes swept across Cao Qing's puzzled face.

Cao Qing shook his head. How would he know this?

"The protagonist of this movie is named Shang-Chi. You can go online to learn more about this character and the comic book based on this character."

Li Yu sneered.

If he made this movie, wouldn't he become a banana man?

In his impression, this movie has not obtained the Dragon Mark in China and cannot be released in the country at all.

This shows how serious the problem of this movie is.

Anyone who wants to direct such a movie can do so. Anyway, Li Yu personally feels physically uncomfortable.

It may also be because he is young and does not have osteoporosis, so his knees are particularly stiff and can hardly bend.

In the next few days, Cao Qing squeezed out time from work to read the original comic of "Shang-Chi".

Even he was angry, and he could understand why Li Yu frowned at that time.

This is how the comics smear the Chinese.

After a series of struggles and twists and turns, Shang-Chi met his father, Mandarin, for the last time in his hometown in Henan Province where he grew up.

The prototype of this Mandarin is the famous Fu Manchu.

Of course, the author who created this character and the company that owns the copyright to this character will not admit this.

The Mandarin, who failed to replenish his life in time, crawled on the ground. The wrinkles on his body made Shang-Chi feel disgusted.

Shang-Chi snatched the test tube from the Mandarin, poured the potion on the ground, and said, "If you really want it that badly, lick the ground like a dog."

Shang-Chi’s story is very simple. His father Huaren is a villain who does all kinds of evil.

He physically killed his Chinese father, and then spiritually recognized a Western father.

Any Chinese person with a knee to weakness would feel physically uncomfortable after reading such a story.

Cao Qing is naturally no exception.

He completely stood on Li Yu's side and persuaded him: "Hollywood is too arrogant, they are attracted by your box office appeal in China.

If they want to use your fame to make their movies sell more in China, I would accept it if it was fair cooperation.

They asked you to film this so-called superhero, which is clearly an insult.

My suggestion is that whoever wants to take this olive branch can take it, but we won’t take it.”

Cao Qing had a hunch that if a Chinese director made this movie, he would definitely apologize to the people of the country. Li Yu glanced at Cao Qing and thought that his senior had a very positive outlook on life.

"I think the same as you. I never wanted to cooperate with the other party from the beginning."

Li Yu replied.

Li Yu didn't want to drag on the matter, so he quickly gave the other party a reply, saying that he had no interest in the other party's co-production project at all.

Li Yu rejected the other party and continued to shoot "Operation Nujiang River" in many locations in Siam with the crew and leading actors.

In the blink of an eye, February 2014 has arrived.

After filming in Siam for several months, Li Yu finally returned to China.

However, Li Yu and the leading actors still cannot sit idle.

Because they also had to shoot on location in Yunnan Province.

The filming locations of this movie are really very realistic. Even the scene where the Ministry of Rites meets with several national leaders was filmed in a real office.

This is the only film to have received this treatment so far.

In March, the domestic part of "Operation Nujiang River" was completed.

After being busy traveling outside for half a year, Li Yu finally returned to the capital.

When Fan Xiaopang received the news that Li Yu had returned to China, he immediately came to the door.

She came to block the door to collect debts.

Last time she wanted to persuade Li Yu to make the science fiction blockbuster he promised her.

As a result, Li Yu and she received the task to shoot "Operation Nujiang River".

She couldn't afford to offend the biggest supporter of "Operation Nujiang River", nor did she dare to offend him, so she waited.

Now that "Operation Nujiang" has been completed, it's finally her turn for a sci-fi blockbuster, right?

Unexpectedly, her request was still rejected by Li Yu.

"Sister Binbin, filming is so tiring. I'm exhausted after filming The Great Wall, Parts 1 and 2, Parasite, and Operation Nujiang.

You're still urging me to make a movie, are you trying to make me die young?"

Li Yu smiled bitterly.

To be honest, making a movie is much more stressful and tiring than making a TV series.

A movie is one and a half to two hours long, and some things that are insignificant in the TV series and the audience won’t care about them at all will be infinitely magnified on the big screen and become shortcomings.

Therefore, every scene and every shot in the movie needs to be carefully designed.

Any slight flaw would require a reshoot.

After shooting several movies in a row, Li Yu felt that his brain was in a tired state.

He really wanted to have a good rest.

Of course, his rest does not mean lying at home and sleeping.

He thought that the next project should be something relaxing and not as tiring as a movie.

Fat Fan was giving Li Yu the middle finger in his heart.

Three years after three years, do you know how she spent these three years?

The pie had been hanging over her head for so many years, but she had never been able to take a bite.

Li Yu took a deep breath and said seriously: "I want to make a movie to relax myself. In the past two years, there has been a very popular TV series abroad called "Game of Thrones".

The first two seasons received an extremely high score of 9.5 on domestic rating websites.

In fact, as an ancient civilization with a history of 5,000 years, our country has a lot of wonderful stories in history that can be put on the screen.”

Li Yu sincerely believes that the wonderful stories of political intrigue in history are much more profound than "Game of Thrones".

In that case, why can’t we create a Chinese version of “Game of Thrones”?

(End of this chapter)