Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 254 Chen Long's Visit
Jennifer Aniston and the other six stayed in Moon Bay for a few days. In mid-September, the first season of "Friends" was about to be released, and they needed to return to New York to prepare for publicity. If the TV series had good ratings, they would continue to shoot the second season.

After seeing off a few people, Link continued to vacation in the villa with Jennifer Lopez and the newly arrived Brooke Shields.

During his vacation, Link was not obsessed with playing ball every day. In fact, he spent most of his time in his room in the villa reading books, writing scripts, and handling work in the company.

During this period, he read more than 2 books, finished drawing the director's script for the new movie "The Sixth Sense", adapted three new scripts, including "The English Patient", "Cat and Mouse Game" and "A Beautiful Mind", and also completed the scripts for "Final Destination 3" and "Paranormal Activity ".

Among them, "The English Patient", "Catch Me If You Can" and "A Beautiful Mind" are published novels, and the copyright is owned by Columbia Pictures. After seeing them, Link wants to adapt them as a future film project for the two companies to cooperate on.

In addition, after confirming that he would direct "Batman 3", he also received a script from Warner Bros. Pictures.

This script is a work in progress.

The outline was developed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

The original director was Tim Burton, and this version of the script was written in the style of director Tim Burton, and the screenwriters were Lee Batchelor and Janet Scott Batchelor.

This version tells the story of two villains appearing in Gotham City. One is "Two-Face" who hates Batman because half of his face is disfigured, and the other is Edward Nagma, a scientist from Batman's company. After developing a device that can collect human brain waves, he applied to Bruce Wayne for a research project, but was rejected by Bruce Wayne because he needed to use living people for experiments.

The employee turned evil and became the 'Riddler', and began to take revenge on Batman.

At the same time, Batman is also caught up in an emotional entanglement with psychiatrist Dr. Chase.

In order to retaliate against Batman, Two-Face and Riddler teamed up to kidnap Dr. Chase and Batman's assistant Robin, forcing Batman to come out to rescue them.

At the last moment, Batman killed Two-Face and the Riddler and successfully rescued Dr. Chase and Robin.

Since the script was not yet completed, Link needed to modify and improve it according to his own requirements. After writing the script, he would submit it to Warner Pictures for review. After the review was passed, he would start making the budget. After the project budget was completed, Warner Pictures allocated funds, and Link would form a crew to prepare for filming.

So the script is the foundation.

In terms of film quality, the first three versions of Batman are slightly worse than the three versions directed by Christopher Nolan, and their box office reputation is also average.

Link also considered scrapping the script and going straight to shooting The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises.

However, Warner Bros. Pictures did not accept this proposal. What they needed was a sequel that continued the plot of the first two films, not a prequel, nor a reboot to shoot other content. Therefore, the plan to completely abandon the first two films and use a new script was not feasible.

Link was also worried that the plot of "Batman" would move too fast. Without the foreshadowing of the first three films, the film went straight to Nolan's Batman trilogy, which the audience would not be able to accept.

After careful consideration, he chose to accept the script and planned to modify it based on it and shoot it according to his own ideas.

With his current skills, as long as he works harder, it won't be difficult for him to make a Batman 3 that surpasses the original.

Boom boom boom!
While he was concentrating on revising the script, Jennifer Lopez knocked on the door and said with a smile, "Boss, there are guests coming. Do you want to see them now?"

"who is it?"

"They are two Chinese people."

"Okay, I remember now."

Chen Long called yesterday and said he would come over to visit and asked him to watch "Rumble in the Bronx".

Link put down his pen and went downstairs. When passing by the open-air swimming pool in front of the villa, he saw Brooke Shields swimming in the pool. The clear water reflected her fair and rosy skin. Her long golden brown curly hair curled up like seaweed, and she had a thin waist, long legs and a plump butt. Her figure was sexier than a mermaid.

"Hey, honey, wanna come down for a swim?"

Brooke Shields swam to the shallow water, brushed her wet long hair back, revealing her delicate face.

"I have something else to do. I'll be back later."

Link kissed her cold red lips on the shore and went to the reception room to entertain director Chen Long and Tang Jili.

When the two saw him come in, they quickly put down their teacups and stood up to greet him.

"You're welcome. Please take a seat."

Link waved his hand and asked about the situation of "Rumble in the Bronx". "Rumble in the Bronx" was completed in July and was scheduled to be released in Hong Kong Island and Asia during the Spring Festival.

When the film will be released in North America depends on the arrangements of Guess Pictures, and the key is Link's intention.

So director Stanley Tong and Chen Long brought the semi-finished video here, hoping that he could give some suggestions to ensure that the film would be released smoothly in North America.

Link took the videotape to the home theater for screening.

The film is unedited and has some extra footage.

Lin Ke watched it twice and made some suggestions for revision from the perspective of the North American market. He suggested making some adjustments in the shots and dialogue translation, with fewer emotional scenes and the heroine's roles and more action scenes for Chen Long.

American audiences like to watch Chinese Kung Fu, but don’t like to watch two Chinese people fall in love on the screen, so a weak emotional drama won’t have much impact.

He didn't say much about other issues.

He only watched the movie twice and could find very few problems. If he were an editor, he would watch it hundreds of times and maybe he could edit the movie more beautifully, but this is not cost-effective.

Director Tang Jili nodded while taking notes. "Director Tang, I only watched it twice, so I don't know enough about the movie as a whole, so maybe what I said is not accurate. The specific editing should be decided by the production department. This movie is good, and the box office should not be bad."

Link said.

"Mr. Lin, I feel relieved when you say that. You have a keen eye and the box office of any movie you choose has never been bad."

Chen Long smiled and supported him.

"It's not that exaggerated. I just read a lot of information and understand the market better than ordinary filmmakers."

"Mr. Lin, you are so modest."

Link smiled and remembered that there were some fighting scenes in "Batman 3" that required martial arts instructors. He took the initiative to bring up the matter and asked the two to recommend a few capable martial arts instructors, preferably versatile ones who were not only good at Chinese Kung Fu, but also understood fighting, boxing, etc.

Director Chen Long and Tang recommended the Yuan Clan.

The Yuen Clan is the most experienced martial arts instructor team in Hong Kong Island. They have served as martial arts instructors for films including Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, Drunken Master, Huo Yuanjia, Once Upon a Time in China, and Tai Chi Master.

Link thanked the two.

After talking about work, the butler Walu came in and reported that dinner was ready.

Link invited the two to dinner, and Brooke Shields and Jennifer Lopez also attended in their best attire.

A woman wearing a red evening dress, with blonde hair and fair skin, delicate features and dignified temperament, like a saint lady in an oil painting.

A girl wearing a long white dress, with wheat-colored skin like a satin halo, long black curly hair draped over her shoulders, tall and toned figure, with a bit of wild sexiness.

Both of them wore high-end custom-made dresses, which were very suitable for their figures and temperaments.

When Chen Long saw the two beauties coming, his eyes widened like bells and he could hardly move away.

He suddenly realized that the blonde beauty looked familiar. After thinking for a moment, he turned his head excitedly and said to Director Stanley Tong, "It's Brooke Shields, the eighth wonder of the world. She's here too."

"Do not talk."

Director Tang tugged at his clothes under the table.

Chen Long came to his senses and found that he had lost his composure. He couldn't help but touch his nose.
Link smiled nonchalantly and introduced the two to each other, still saying that they were friends when introducing Brooke Shields and Jennifer Lopez.

When Chen Long heard that it was really Brooke Shields, he was so envious that he kept swallowing his saliva.

He also loves to pick up girls, but he has never picked up a foreign girl. The main reason is that foreign girls are too tall and have too big frames. Standing next to them, he will look short, which is psychologically unacceptable.

But Link is different.

Link has a tall and slender figure, with broad shoulders and a thick back, and bulging muscles. Even Brooke Shields, who is 180 cm tall, does not stand out too much next to her.

Chen Long began to envy Link's figure and muscles again.

At the same time, he remembered the task assigned by his godfather, which was to introduce some beautiful girls to Link. However, since Link already had big beauties like Brooke Shields and that very sexy Latin beauty, he might find it difficult to be interested in those little beauties in Hong Kong Island.

Chen Long and Director Tang rested in the villa for one night and said goodbye and left the next day.

"This place is so beautiful. When I have money in the future, I will buy a house here."

Chen Long stood on the yacht and said enviously as he looked at the beach estate getting farther and farther away.

"Why buy it? Such a big house, the property tax alone is hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, including the villa beach maintenance fees, servants' wages, yacht and car wear and tear, etc., it will cost millions of dollars a year, tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, can you afford it?"

Director Tang Jili shook his head.

Chen Long frowned and his face fell.

He is a top star in Hong Kong Island. His salary for each movie is now five to six million, and ten million when things are good. He makes a maximum of three movies a year and earns less than twenty million.

Not to mention whether he can afford such a big house, even if he can, he will have to spend half of his income on property taxes and villa maintenance fees every year.

This is an exaggeration.

"Don't envy Link. Just work hard on your movies and make more money. Then you can buy a small place here in the future. A small place is also pretty good."

Director Tang Jili comforted.

Chen Long shook his head and said if he was going to buy something, he should buy a big one. A small one was not even a holiday estate.

In fact, he envied Link's ability to pick up girls more than the big villa. It is difficult for ordinary men to meet a beauty like Brooke Shields.

Link not only kept Brooke Shields at home, but also hugged her left and right.

Chen Long was extremely envious when he thought of the tall and plump foreign girl like Brooke Shields and the hot Latin American beauty, all of whom were held in Link's arms. He took a deep breath of the sea breeze and made up his mind to work hard in Hollywood, build a career, make more money and pick up more girls.

(End of this chapter)