Become Famous Another Day

Chapter 598: Pursue the victory

Regarding whether Lu Yanhe will take on independent films in the future, his overseas agent Darren Wilson seriously advised Lu Yanhe not to act as much as possible.

Unless it's a book that's good enough to win awards, don't act in it.

"Acting in a movie is not charity. It's not like they come to you with a pretty good script, and you just think, act in it and do a favor, and that's it." Darren Wilson said, "Independent movies in this world There are many actors, but no one can replicate your current achievements. Protect your current achievements and don’t let obvious failures appear on your resume.”

Chen Ziyan and Darren Wilson have the same attitude.

"As I said before, we can consider famous directors and good scripts. It's not that small-cost independent films cannot be made, but the requirements must be strict." Chen Ziyan said, "If you think these independent film scripts are good, you want to help them There are many other ways to help.”

Lu Yanhe quickly raised his hands to stop them.

"Wait a minute, I'm confused. I never said I wanted to help these independent films in this way. Why do you and Darren both assume that I will act in these films? Of course my standards for accepting roles are also very high. Yes, I don’t accept all roles, and it doesn’t mean that if the script is slightly better, I will definitely act.”

"There is no way, to a certain extent, it is a common problem for all actors to want to star in artistic films with artistic quality and profound connotations." Chen Ziyan said, "An actor like you who can so clearly understand the meaning of business and success, There are only a handful of things that are most difficult for a person to balance between his actual pursuit of interests and his spiritual pursuit.”

Lu Yanhe: "Well, I won't act in so many independent films. You have made it clear to me before. Look, I have won several film awards in the past few years. As you said, In fact, the box office success of "The Mist" helped my career more than "Path of Glory," which won me the Best Actor."

"That's mainly because when you win the Best Actor award in China, you have already reached the top of the domestic entertainment industry and there is not much room for you to continue to rise." Chen Ziyan said, "If you win the Best Actor Award Best Actor at the Western Film Festival, that’s still different.”

"Well, especially in the past year, when I was doing "The Birth of an Actor", "Love Letters", and Jump Up Theater, I knew very well that I really needed to be successful in a real sense in order for everyone to be willing to believe in me. "Let's do these things together," Lu Yanhe said, "They didn't come to try these new things with me because I won the Best Actor and Best Screenplay awards."

The box office success of "The Mist" actually means something very important for Lu Yanhe in the eyes of overseas filmmakers: Lu Yanhe is not only successful in China and Asia, he can also be successful in Europe, America, and the world.

Believing that a person can achieve such an achievement and that the person has achieved such an achievement on a factual level are two different concepts.

Especially—

Although Lu Yanhe was not the leading male protagonist at the beginning of the project "The Mist", and the protagonists were actually three other people, but in the subsequent announcements and the focus of the audience after the movie was released, Lu Yanhe became the biggest star of the movie "The Mist" star.

This concept is probably similar to what Daniel Radcliffe is to Harry Potter and Meryl Streep is to "The Devil Wears Prada". A real big star in a movie used to be called The person who is the "pillar".

Therefore, Lu Yanhe can become a real movie star who wins both awards and box office.

This makes Lu Yanhe, in the greatest sense, the intersection of actors' lists that all parties want to work with.

Whatever you want, you will get whatever you want. There will never be a situation where what the director wants is not satisfied by the film company, and what the film company wants is not met by the director.

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Also because of Lu Yanhe's current situation, many people don't quite understand Lu Yanhe's next choice.

Among them is Muken Sorge.

"I heard that you are going to make a Malaysian movie and a Chinese TV series later, and you are not the first protagonist yet." Muchen Sorge expressed great doubts on the phone, ""The Mist" has just been released. You have achieved good box office results, shouldn’t you pursue your success at this time and either take on an award-winning literary film or take on the starring role in a blockbuster film?”

Lu Yanhe smiled and explained to Mu Ken.

"These two projects have been in contact and negotiated for a long time. Besides, am I also waiting to shoot the second part of "The Mist"?" Lu Yanhe said, "With the results of the first part, the results of the second part The box office performance shouldn’t be bad, right? I trust you very much.”

Muken: "I heard in Hollywood that you have rejected many scripts recently. Some people even asked me if you would like to act in a movie in Hollywood. Some people are already thinking about you starring in "The Mist". Is it because my wife is Chinese that you agreed? Many great actors are really unwilling to come to Hollywood to act in movies, and everyone is beginning to wonder if you are one of them."

"Of course I am willing to act, but I have to get a good script and role." Lu Yanhe said, "The roles and scripts that come to me now are too ordinary, or they are similar to those in "The Mist" The role is either a typical stereotyped Asian character. I have no interest in playing a labeled Asian character in a Hollywood movie. They can play such a role with any Asian face, so why bother asking me? Going?"

Muken: "I will help you explain your attitude to those in Hollywood. No matter what, you have to let everyone know that you are not opposed to acting in movies in Hollywood. Don't let them get the wrong impression."

"Okay, I get it. Actually, I won't. I already have an agent who specializes in handling my overseas agents, Darren Wilson of Williams Agency. He is helping me connect with various companies and directors. If I If you have no interest in acting in Hollywood, why bother finding an overseas agent?”

"That's okay." Mu Ken nodded.

"Muken, how is the script for the sequel to "The Mist" going?"

"Still thinking." Muken said, "I have found two other screenwriters in Hollywood to work with me on the direction of the sequel. Do you have any ideas?"

"I don't have any idea for a sequel to "The Mist", but I have a script in hand. It's an English script that I've written a long time ago, called "Buried Alive." I wanted to cooperate with D19 before, but we couldn't reach an agreement," Lu Yanhe said, " I thought maybe you could help me recommend a suitable producer and director to run this project.”

"Oh, you wrote a script and are looking for a director? Why didn't you consider me?" Mu Ken asked directly.

"This script is quite special. The whole story takes place in a narrow coffin, and only one actor appears in the whole scene." Lu Yanhe said, "The cost was very small. I wrote this before filming "The Fog". At that time, I wanted to use this script to knock on the door of Hollywood. It was experimental and not suitable for you to direct now.”

As soon as Lu Yanhe finished speaking, Mu Ken understood.

This kind of film is shot by one person and one person in a coffin. No matter how brilliant the script is, it is destined to be a small film.

For a director who has already made hundreds of millions of dollars in box office, he is not suitable to make such a low-cost movie again.

His personal remuneration alone cannot be covered by this low-cost budget.

Now Muken Sorge's director's salary for a movie starts at at least five million, not counting later dividends and bonuses.

Muken said: "You send me the script and I will read it for you."

Lu Yanhe said yes.

He added: "I talked with D19 at that time. They wanted to keep the film rights in their hands, but I didn't want to, so we didn't negotiate. Now I think about it, I want to make this film myself, and then I can make it again." Go find the publishing company.”

"Okay." Muken said, "It seems that the production cost of this film is really low?"

"Well, it is estimated to be between two hundred and three million U.S. dollars." Lu Yanhe said, "If an actor with no reputation at all is used, the cost will be lower, but I still hope to find an actor with a certain reputation. Well done, starring.”

"Of course, one person can act from beginning to end, which is too demanding for an actor." Muken said, "You have to hold an audition, right?"

"Yeah." Lu Yanhe said, "But before that, I have to register a film company in Hollywood."

After talking to Mu Ken, Lu Yanhe hung up the phone.

Regarding the script "Buried Alive", the original intention of writing this script was because it was easy to shoot and low-cost, and could be used as a stepping stone to break into Hollywood.

Unexpectedly, the unexpected box office hit of "The Mist" helped him skip this step.

But Lu Yanhe felt that it would be a pity not to film it after everything was written.

It's just that this script is really no longer suitable as a key project.

Therefore, it is better to regard it as a practice work for Linghe.

After Chen Ziyan heard about Lu Yanhe's plan, she nodded and said, "That's good. However, if you want to register a film production company in the United States, then Wan Qingqing's one person will definitely not be enough. She is there There is a small office and a few people are employed. However, the contract was not signed with us in Linghe, and they are not counted as our people in Linghe. Moreover, those who want to register a film production company must be more professional. Staff, we can’t just have a small office like that.”

Lu Yanhe said: "Sister Ziyan, at present we are only using "Buried Alive" to practice, and there is no need to recruit all the people in the company so quickly. What if "Buried Alive" is finished and there are no follow-up projects to follow? The burden is quite big." Chen Ziyan: "What do you mean?"

"Let's see if Director Mu Ken can recommend me a more reliable producer or director. If there is such a person, after we register a film company, it is mainly to facilitate the handling of the copyright of "Buried Alive". It’s convenient to sign a cooperation agreement with them,” Lu Yanhe said, “Leave all the specific shooting to them. Look, Wan Qingqing or Song Jiang can just focus on financial matters. If they don't have enough experience, we may have to find someone from China to look at it together. Hollywood has much more experience in making movies than we do. There are too many. The crew took the money, but in the end, maybe only one third was used to make the movie, and the rest was swallowed up.”

Chen Ziyan nodded: "Yes, we are not familiar with this in the United States, so we can easily be fooled."

"Well, so I use this small project to practice. Firstly, it gives Wan Qingqing and Song Jiang a chance to familiarize themselves with the operation of the crew. Secondly, it also gives us a chance to familiarize ourselves with Hollywood. We suffered a loss on this project and left. We can bear the detours, risks and costs ourselves, which is better than suffering a bigger setback in the future," Lu Yanhe said.

Chen Ziyan nodded.

Lu Yanhe: "In addition, I also asked among Yuming's alumni circles if anyone is engaged in the film and television industry in Hollywood. At this time, you still have to hug those who should be hugged for warmth. There are more or less people who can give you some advice. place, let us take less detours.”

Chen Ziyan: "You really need to make good use of this resource. Your alumni circle is basically composed of elite talents from all walks of life. If you can use it, it will really be a big help."

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In the evening, Lu Yanhe held a live broadcast for the first time in a long time, live broadcasting his reaction to watching Jump Theater's second play "Whirlpool" in real time.

This is also to promote Jump Up Theater.

"Whirlpool" is adapted from Liu Jiazhen's short story, starring Huaiqian, who has excellent acting skills but has never been very famous.

He and Lu Yanhe had met before because Yongshan Hesan deliberately caused trouble.

As an actor of the younger generation who has very good acting skills but is not known to the public because he has been starring in low-budget art films, that incident was the first time Huaiqian was recognized on a large scale. It was also because of that incident that he met Lu Yanhe, which led to this cooperation.

There are two plays adapted from Liu Jiazhen's short stories, one is "The Silent Staircase", played by Lu Yanhe. Another "Whirlpool" was discussed at the time. The male protagonist of this story should be young and have very good acting skills. The salary should not be too high to avoid exceeding the budget. After much calculation, a list of actors was drawn up. Among the few people, everyone looked at Huaiqian and felt that the name looked familiar. After checking again, they extended an invitation to him.

Huaiqian also replied that he was willing to perform in less than a day after receiving the invitation.

Suspense crime stories have always been a popular subject in film and television.

However, there are not many good stories. Such stories are often in the hands of a very small number of top suspense writers. For writers like Liu Jiazhen who are currently in demand, his novels are the targets of competition for major film and television companies. Huaiqian is difficult to reach—

He is not an actor who is on the verge of breaking out after being backed by a big company. He also works with his agent. He does not have a strong company to help him obtain resources. He basically works in art films and movies. He is well-known in a small circle and is not popular. Well known to the public.

In this case, he is unable to win the leading role in a mainstream project, and there is no need to play a supporting role - after all, in mainstream projects, important roles within the sixth series are basically used by various companies to replace resources.

Huaiqian's agency didn't come to the table and couldn't help him replace resources. Even if he was known as the leading actor in literary films, he could only play a small supporting role beyond the sixth level.

If he wanted to play this kind of role, his agent wouldn't let him take it.

Moreover, once he actually acted, the little reputation he had gained in the literary film circle would be lost.

This opportunity to star in "Whirlpool" is considered to be the best resource Huaiqian has received from all aspects in recent years.

With the current attention of Jump Up Theater, Huaiqian has also entered everyone's field of vision.

Just like the two girls who starred in "Girls' Adventures" last week, they were immediately included in the backup cast lists of major film and television companies.

During the two hours that Lu Yanhe watched "Whirlpool", except for a few commercial breaks when he went to the bathroom and checked his cell phone, Lu Yanhe was engrossed in watching TV the rest of the time.

In the middle, he lamented no less than three times, "The acting in Huaiqian is so good."

Of course, Jump Up Theater would not let this go, and immediately bought related hot searches for this drama.

In fact, Lu Yanhe is not exaggerating. Huaiqian indeed showed good acting skills in "Whirlpool".

There are two scenes with explosive emotions, which are very emotionally arresting.

One of the five-second face-changing clips also became popular online.

"Whirlpool"'s ratings were 0.78%.

Compared with "Girls' Adventures", it increased by 0.1%.

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Huaiqian's Weibo account gained 110,000 followers overnight.

Someone @"The Birth of an Actor" official Weibo said that Huaiqian deserves to be on the next season of the show.

The official WeChat account of "The Birth of an Actor" also immediately replied: Huaiqian is already a very famous young actor in our domestic literary and artistic film circles. If he is willing to come and play on our show, of course we are very welcome.

The next day, Huaiqian's agent told him that since the broadcast of "Whirlpool", he had received two scripts, both of which were main characters in the sixth series, and both were projects rated A by the platform.

The agent was excited.

After taking Huaiqian for so long, I have never encountered such a time.

Huaiqian also breathed a sigh of relief.

As an actor whose acting skills have always been praised, Huaiqian has always been a bit conceited.

He obviously has such good acting skills and his image is not bad, but he still lacks a bit of atmosphere and his reputation is very small.

Is it true that he has no destiny to become popular?

Sometimes, he had such thoughts.

Fortunately, at such a time, a work like "Whirlpool" appeared.

The agent added: "Jump Up Theater has sent us another script."

"Um?"

"But this time it's not a suspense crime script, it's a love story." The agent said, "Would you like to read it?"

Huaiqian nodded and said, "Of course."

"But compared with the remuneration offered by the two dramas just now, the remuneration offered to us by Jump Up Theater has hardly increased, and the difference is a bit big." The agent said.

Huaiqian said: "I have become famous thanks to "Whirlpool", and I have to repay others no matter what."

"Yes." The agent nodded.

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Recommended old book "I Became a Scandalous Heroine Overnight"

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