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Chapter 125 If you have the ability, give her your seat [Subscribe]

Another new day.

It was already past 3 p.m. when Li Wenyu, Li Jiaxin and Pang Bing arrived at a large hotel in Hong Kong Island. They arrived in Shenzhen yesterday.

Brother Xiao Ma ran home at the speed of light to avoid the fight.

Lao Li, Pang Bing and Axin wore hats and masks to enjoy the night view of Shenzhen. It was inconvenient to go shopping as they were easily recognized.

But the two girls had a lot of fun driving around, taking pictures of interesting things, and buying some street snacks and souvenirs.

I didn't get back to the hotel until late at night, so naturally I got up late.

At this time, Xiao Yang had already arrived with the behind-the-scenes team of [Extreme Escape].

For his first time as a director, Xiao Yang specially asked a senior, Lao Cheng, who was a graduate of the directing department of Beijing Film Academy a few years ago, for help.

Xiao Yang, who had received the news and arrived at the first floor lobby to pick up Lao Li, greeted him simply and politely, saying with a smile, "Senior Brother, Brother Rong and Brother Sanmao are here."

"They said our crew has started work. If there's anything we can do with them, just let me know."

"Just as enthusiastic as last time with the Extreme Professional Crew."

Li Wenyu was speechless.

Li Jiaxin laughed and said, "Brother Rong is normal. When did this big brother become so generous? He did it last time and he did it again this time. Ah Yu, he won't want to wait for your script, right?"

When Xiao Yang heard the script about squatting, he laughed like a 100-pound child.

Apart from this, he couldn't think of why Hong Yubao was so enthusiastic.

On the contrary, it is normal for Zhang Guorong to do this.

Li Wenyu also smiled and said, "Let's go and take a look."

After a while, the two sides met in a hotel room, and Li Jiaxin helped to make tea and serve water.

A tired Zhang Guorong smiled and thanked Ah Xin, then got straight to the point. "Ah Yu, I heard you're acquiring exclusive online streaming rights for some old movies?"

"Very few of the films I've made are in my own hands. Most of them belong to other companies. However, for those films like Tsuen Wan by the Sea, Shark Beach, and The Sound Mixer where I hold a large percentage of the copyright, I will definitely give them to you."

"For the Chinese Ghost Story series, I can talk to Director Xu and Cinema City for you and try to get it for you at the lowest price possible."

After thanking him, Hong Yubao also spoke up, "Mr. Li, I used to run companies like D&B and Baohe, and then I helped Golden Harvest make movies."

"I own the copyrights for movies like Fortune Train, Thunderbolt Loudspeaker, Eastern Condors, and Marked Cannabis. I can sell them to you, Mr. Li, for 10 or Hong Kong dollars per copy for years of exclusive online streaming rights."

"If the copyright of the Five Lucky Stars series belongs to Golden Harvest, I can also help Mr. Li negotiate."

"Last time I helped out in Extreme Occupation, whether it was the fight scene with Xiao Gao's appearance or the exciting fight scene at the end where A Biao and his five companions counterattacked a large group of dragon and tiger martial artists, it really brought a lot of new ideas to the table."

"I want to learn more when I'm older."

Old Li has asked Quan Zhixian, Dong Li and others to contact different companies to discuss the exclusive online broadcasting rights.

Of course, he also contacted Zhang Bozhi and asked Zhang Min to inquire about the online copyright of old movies related to Wang Jing.

As soon as the news spread.

After he arrived in Hong Kong Island, Zhang Guorong came to help him as soon as possible. He is such a tough person.

Hong Yubao...

Li Wenyu smiled and shared a glass of red wine with the two of them. He asked curiously, "Brother Rong, if you have time recently, are you interested in filming a kung fu movie?"

"I have an idea for a kung fu movie similar to the ones that rocked the world, like those by Jackie Chan and Jet Li. It's a new style, and I just need to practice moves like Gao Yuanyuan and Jeon Ji-hyun."

"But this film is experimental, so it's hard to say whether it will be a success. It might even flop at the box office and critically. I'd like to invite you to be the director."

After saying this, before the two of them could be shocked, he looked at Lao Hong again and said, "Brother Sanmao can guest star as a martial arts director. This kind of new style of action means being the first to try it will earn the most profit."

“Once you understand the routine, you can come up with any creative idea and organize your own event.”

"Even if you agree to give it a try, Brother Rong, I'll only be a martial arts director and will try to make the storyboard as detailed as possible."

He had thought about the action route more than once.

Have you ever thought about helping Gao Yuanyuan start a female-themed film after she becomes an extreme professional, such as a Chinese version of "Taken" with a female protagonist?
Hurricane Rescue is about a retired expert who saves a naive girl and breaks through the society.

It would also be okay to modify the current master and have him save the naive and innocent sister who depended on each other for survival after the death of both parents.

It's not impossible to help Xiao Gao localize the female lead version of "John Wick" in Chinese. If we make the first part that way, Li Wenyu doesn't mind making a cameo appearance as Xiao Gao's dead ex-boyfriend.

And I think about it so much.

I met Hong Yubao again today!
Old movies like The Millionaire's Train, Thunderbolt Loudspeaker, Eastern Condors, and The Wrong Kind of Ginseng are not expensive at HK$10 per movie to buy the exclusive online broadcasting rights for years.

This kind of film costs 2000 yuan per decade, and he can buy the copyright for films with million yuan.

Lao Hong is full of sincerity.

What he is saying now is that he wants Zhang Guorong to direct an action blockbuster?
This is the beekeeper who plans to translate [Guo Da Statham] into Chinese.

A blockbuster film about a retired old man who kills his way through a gang and an assassin group at the Intercontinental Hotel in John Wick is even more outrageous than John Wick in John Wick.

The box office of this movie was average, with a global revenue of over 1 million US dollars, and its reputation in mainland China was also average, just passing level.

But that was the post-Wolf Warrior 2 era, and countless people mocked Wolf Warrior for being too unscientific, saying that one person was worth an entire division, which caused irony and rejection across the entire network.

What about the beekeeper? One person is worth many Wolf Warriors.

Kill through the Black Palace!

All the elite troops that Lao Mi could mobilize were defeated by the protagonist alone, and he finally escaped.

Moreover, the protagonist is so arrogant and domineering that countless FBI and retired elites have carefully built a security fortress, fearing that the protagonist will suddenly attack.

The beekeeper walked directly into the FBI group in public with empty hands and said, "Here I come!"

Easily defeat all enemies.

This movie would definitely be a hit more than 20 years later, from the John Wick series, the Taken series, to Wolf Warrior, SPL, etc.

I have basically completed the path I can take.

After watching the movie repeatedly, I found that the action routines were not really breaking new ground.

It's a thrilling film with pure sports photography, dynamic shots, and sharp editing, showing Jason Statham mowing the field alone.

But just from the perspective of watching the movie, it was really awesome.

The plot is about retired Lao Guo, no, Statham is a beekeeper who rents a house in the suburbs from a retired old lady. The old lady is scammed online and commits suicide after all her money is swindled away.

In order to avenge his landlord or to clean up the cyber fraud group, a cancerous group in the world, retired Statham fights his way through the United States from being a small brother of the cyber fraud.

It’s so cool.

Whether it is physical combat or gun battles, if it were brought out in 2003 or 04, it would still be considered a Xiaokai action genre.

At least The Beekeeper is much more fun to watch than John Wick: Chapter 6.

It's a bit too nonsensical for John Wick to destroy the world for a dog.

Beekeepers are set up to maintain the healthy operation of the country, similar to the existence of antivirus programs under the Internet order.

The cyber fraud gang has caused countless elderly people to go bankrupt and lose everything, leading to suicide?

Does this group have many umbrellas?
Beekeepers are the last knife to maintain justice in the world, cutting out the cancer for the officialdom. Even if your umbrella is the head of the CIA, it is useless. She killed her son in front of the Lord of the Green Palace!
If this movie is well made, it will be more exciting than John Wick in this era.

If Time Media wants to become a large group, a big capital, and a leader in the entertainment industry, it really can't just rely on two or three directors to slowly put together stories.

Li Wenyu hired Shang Jing and other famous American screenwriters and producers to shoot different sitcoms.

It also allows Ning Hao and Xiao Yang to display their talents.

New film? Before her death, Zhang Guorong dreamed of fulfilling her dream of becoming a director, making up for her regret of never having done so.

Because of illness, I was unable to realize my dream.

Even now, Li Wenyu has heard that he wants to form a team and become a director.

Release this action movie, it’s a good way to test the waters!!
By getting Hong Yubao involved, he was able to thoroughly understand the style of the new-style action and gunfights, so that after filming The Beekeeper, Hong Yubao could also follow suit.

This was his response to Lao Hong's willingness to sell him the copyrights of many old movies for HK$30,000 to HK$50,000 per film.

After he finished speaking, he waited for Zhang Guorong to think for a few minutes and then smiled, "Brother Rong, what do you think?"

Zhang Guorong took a sip of her red wine and exclaimed, "Why would you give me such a big movie to practice on? I might as well just shoot some random shots."

"A new action movie, featuring a male star like Ah Long or Ah Jie? That's a big deal. I guess your company has similar ideas for their new film, Extreme Escape."

"Who are you going to cast as the male lead in a movie like this?"

Li Wenyu glanced at Hong Yubao, who was also lost in thought, and shook his head, "Actually, Sanmao would be fine, but he's a bit short."

"If you are short, your aura will be weak."

"The male lead doesn't have to be super proficient in martial arts routines, as long as he's willing to endure hardships. I'll handle the new-style action design. I've cultivated that skill when shooting extreme professional sports photography. Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu are more masculine, but Lu Shuming would also be fine."

"I'm planning to set this script as a South Korean story. The villain is the son of a South Korean general. He breaks into the villa and kills all the guards along the way. The hero single-handedly conquers the peninsula."

If we bring out the original story of the beekeeper now, it will definitely not pass review in the United States.

There is no problem if the Chinese version is modified into South Korean.

Online fraud gangs have countless umbrellas of protection.

Then the elderly protagonist overturned the peninsula alone.

This matter can be handled by Samsung's Lee Jae-yong. If it can advertise for Samsung, Lee Jae-yong will definitely agree.

Hong Yubao is older, but he has a good aura, so he can try to play the male lead. The problem is that he is a bit short.

When Huang Xiaoming takes photos of you, he can stand on bricks, boxes, and mobile scooters.

But there are a lot of action scenes where the punches hit the flesh and the Peninsula is overthrown with fists!
The scene where the hero kills his opponent with his bare hands is 10 to 20 times more likely to happen with a gun.

Being too short will make you lack aura.

Otherwise, he wanted to use Stephen Chow to play the male lead by making up and looking old. Once the Beekeeper created a new action genre and started a series, the fast editing of sports photography would intensify the violent aesthetics of actual combat.

One man killed his way across the peninsula and escaped, which clearly marks the beginning of the second part.

The sports photography here is not handheld photography, but a stabilizer and track lens to capture the rapid movement of the protagonist, and then rely on sharp editing to make it stand out, with more emphasis on design and editing.

Zhou Xingchi's appearance in Kung Fu shows that he is a retired old man who only needs a little makeup. He is good at Kung Fu and has great popularity, but he is too thin and his height is not outstanding.

The Jiang brothers are mainly tall. Jiang Wu has also gained weight in the extreme profession. No, he has become much stronger.

Jiang Wen has a strong aura, but Jiang Wen has snatched the second male lead role from Jiang Wu once, so as the older brother, it is very likely that he will not snatch the opportunity from his younger brother again.

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On October 10, the Extreme Escape crew officially started work.

At around nine o'clock in the morning, Li Jiaxin was in the guest room's living room, flipping through a new script with a group of people. This was the script for "The Beekeeper" that Li Wenyu had worked on in the past two days.

At this stage, The Beekeeper only has text scripts, male lead scripts and female lead scripts.

The color comic storyboards haven't been uploaded yet.

In addition to Zhang Guorong, Hong Yubao, Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu, there were also Gao Yuanyuan and Quan Zhixian in the living room.

Pang Bing is not here. She is catching up on her sleep in another guest room.

The Beekeeper has a female protagonist, and in the original version she was a black woman from the US FBI.

The mother committed suicide after being defrauded of all her property by an online fraud group, including more than 200 million US dollars in charity funds managed by the heroine's mother.

The core reason why the heroine's mother and the hero's landlord committed suicide was that charity funds were defrauded.

She can't pay back this debt!

Other debts can be defaulted, but this is a charitable fund.

As an official FBI agent, the heroine did not step up efforts to track down the telecom fraud group to avenge her mother. Instead, when the hero went to fight back against the telecom fraud group, she led a team to hunt down the criminal male protagonist.

To be honest, the female lead's character is terrible.

The acting of the black female actors is also very poor.

The Beekeeper is a super exciting popcorn action blockbuster, but its poor reputation is definitely closely related to the heroine's fatal acting skills and personality.

Li Wenyu has 100 points of talent in both scriptwriting and writing, so it is naturally optimized.

The optimized heroine image given to Gao Yuanyuan is a South Korean prosecutor. After discovering her mother's death, she vigorously investigated the matter, but was deceived and suppressed by her boss's boss.

When she found out that the male protagonist was helping her to take revenge, she tried her best to let the male protagonist go in the name of "hunt" to help him kill the virus more easily.

The killings caused a huge loss to the super fraud group that was covered by layers of protection umbrellas, and prevented more elderly victims like her mother from appearing.

This kind of character optimization and dialogue upgrades, etc., are all trivial matters.

This movie is just a popcorn movie!

From the story rhythm to the layout, etc., it is as cool and white as The Shallows, and the only thing it relies on is the new-style action-packed roadkill market and box office.

After Jiang Wen finished reading the male lead's script, he poured tea and walked over to Li Wenyu. "Director Li, the new film is really simple. No wonder you don't want to direct it anymore."

"But sometimes the simpler the plot, the easier it is to become a hit. It still depends on the action, like Jackie Chan's Police Story and Rumble in the Bronx."

"It's all just a simple police-catching-thief story. The idea of ​​beekeepers helping the country maintain its health is actually quite novel and interesting."

Li Wenyu laughed, "Director Jiang, are you still going to act?"

Jiang Wu, who was flipping through the script, stood up all of a sudden and said, "Boss, if you steal my role again, I will really turn against you."

In order to play the villain in Extreme Job, he worked out so hard that his arms were strong enough to run a horse. Now he is the real leading man, the male protagonist.

Is this Zhang Guorong's first time directing? No problem, acting is the key to success.

Jiang Wen raised his hand directly, "Not really, not really. I definitely won't grab it, but Brother Rong is directing for the first time, so if you want me to make a cameo appearance, feel free to call me."

"If this movie is shot in South Korea, it will have to hire a lot of South Korean actors, right?"

Li Wenyu looked at Quan Zhixian, who nodded repeatedly. "I'll contact Princess Lin right away. Shiguang's production has a very positive core theme of punishing evil and promoting good. Samsung will definitely be willing to invest."

"And I can help Yuanyuan with dubbing!"

When she looked at Xiao Gao with a sweet smile, Gao Yuanyuan gave her a speechless look and said, "If you have the guts, give your seat to her!"
As for what position? Quan Zhixian would definitely understand.

(End of this chapter)