Become Famous Another Day

After reading "Escape from the Blind Town", Muken Zorg immediately realized the preciousness of this script.

Sometimes, whether a movie is good or not may not be able to be seen during the trial.

However, for the creators of films, there are almost no controversial things to do if a script is good or not, you can tell at a glance.

If Lu Yanhe had obtained a more artistic and in-depth script, such as "The Big Red Lantern Hanging High", Muken Zorg would definitely not be interested.

Or, if Lu Yanhe takes out a classic thriller like "The Silence of the Lambs", Muken Zorg may not feel it suits him.

However, what Lu Yanhe brought out was "Escape from the Deadly Town", which itself is a very good and attractive thriller story. The kind of spiritual horror story that is hypnotized and controlled as a slave is in line with Muken Zorg's past horror aesthetics.

It can be seen from the movie "Mist" that Muken Zorg actually likes a little supernatural and surreal story in the modern context. Simply put, it is to break the appearance of people's daily life and put the protagonist in an extreme and terrifying environment to create physical and psychological fear.

On this basis, "Escape from the Blind Town" also has a natural and good topic - Black people are slaves.

If the theme of Asian revenge in "Mist" was not at the beginning and slowly reunited in D19 later based on market feedback, then the theme of "Escape from the Deadly Town" is a straightforward and straightforward style that is obvious from the text and has almost no concealment.

Muken Zorg thought to himself that he was not a black man. If he was a black man, this movie would probably have become a thorn in the eyes of some extremists since its inception.

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

Lu Yanhe asked with a smile: "Do you like it?"

"What a joke, this script is so surprising!" Muken said, "How could you write such a story? It's simply-"

It is simply that it is not an art movie, but relying on this topic alone will inevitably become a topical film text, and thus, relying on the huge discussion, it will be recommended to awards awards season.

  It is not only artistic films that have artistic value. There is another dimension in artistic value, called sociality.

"Escape from the Blind Town" entered the awards season with such a completely commercial and sensory thriller style, while making a big hit in the box office, which was due to the social discussion it caused.

The meaning it has is beyond the original meaning of an ordinary thriller.

In the social context where many people say that black people have been equal for many years and why they always regard themselves as discriminated, they have pointed out the hypocrisy of some white groups and the fear that cannot be dispelled in the hearts of black groups.

One day is a slave, and the shadow of generations.

Muken Zorg asked: "Would you really want to leave this script to me?"

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

When Muken heard this, he frowned.

"I don't want to interfere with your creation." Lu Yanhe explained immediately, "I just hope to learn through this project. You know, I have a film company, and there are a few of my own scripts in the future. But I don't understand the shooting environment here. If there is an opportunity to let people from the company really participate in the production of a project, it will be of great significance to us."

Muken Zorg: "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 film "Escape from the Deadly Town"?" asked Muken Zorg.

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"I have put forward the same conditions for movies such as "Red Eye Flight" and "Source Code"," he said. "I don't plan to compete for your dominance over the movie, but I don't want to just provide a script. Muken, I don't plan to be a Hollywood embellishment."

Muken Zorg looked at Lu Yanhe in surprise.

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

In recent years, with the continuous expansion of China's own market, the "exposure to overseas" of Chinese actors has gradually faded.

There are very few popular actors like Lu Yanhe who do the opposite.

However, Muken Zorg just felt that Lu Yanhe just wanted to broaden his acting career.

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

  It’s not just the actor’s ambitions.

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In the sequel to "The Mist" two Oscar-nominated actors, one is named Ryan Waters, who plays the ghost who attacked the ghost squad at the beginning of the film and was finally driven away by Lu Yanhe, the ghost. The other is named Erin Wallace, who plays the captain of the ghost squad.

Ryan Waters is 36 years old this year. The highlight of his acting career is the drama he played by Oti. In addition, he is basically "mediocre", but his acting skills have always been well received and have never lost the chain.

Erin Wallace is now 28 years old. He once played a beautiful girl in an Oscar for Best Picture at the age of 19. He was a role similar to "Lolita". He shocked the film industry at that time and was a popular player for the best supporting actress of that year, but he ended up losing.

In addition to the two of them, there is an athlete who retired from the British diving team three years ago. After retiring, he transformed into an actor, Jason Porter, a well-known but strictly speaking, just a new actor.

In addition, because of the role of Lu Yanhe, Darren Wilson also won the position of a member of the ghost hunting team for another Chinese actress under him, Wang Jiaqi.

These people, together with Lu Yanhe, also formed the main star lineup of the sequel to the "Mist" . Compared with other actors, they are basically not well-known.

The day after Lu Yanhe arrived in the United States, he went to try out the dressing and the style first.

Muken Zorg is here too.

Compared with the first part, the overall look has no change at first glance.

However, many details have been adjusted.

The overall effect should be more ghostly.

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

After seeing this, D19 people had no objection to this.

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

Basically, every time he appears, he will have several blowers, which will create some soft wind to make his clothes feel ethereal and non-substantive.

When the blower is turned on, Lu Yanhe's black robe sways and swings like clouds and fog, and its effect is comparable to the CG special effects made by computers.

This means that a lot of workload will be reduced in the later stage, and it also means that a lot of production costs will be saved for D19.

D19 There is nothing to say.

Lu Yanhe's stylist did not do anything, secondly, respected the shape of the first part, and did not change a lot, thirdly, it was clear that the aesthetics and technology were more advanced, much higher than the stylists in the first part.

Lu Yanhe is also very satisfied with this look.

Muken Zorg said: "Your style now makes you look much more handsome than the first one."

Lu Yanhe: "It has been ten years, and my strength has been restored a lot. It is normal for me to become more handsome, right?"

Muken Zorg: "Normal, I didn't say it well. I mean, I guess your image will attract many female movie fans."

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

Who is an actor has fewer beautiful fans? If there are really few beautiful fans, it is really difficult to become a legend to tell the truth. There is no legendary actor, not a good image. It's cruel, even cruel.

In reality, of course, some actors with poor image have also climbed to the front line or even the top line with their own efforts and acting skills. However, if you take a look, you will find that such actors will never be pushed to the "representative" position by an industry.

You can only say that he is an acting player.

Actors are just a business that relies on their face to make a living.

Lu Yanhe won’t think that he can make a living by relying on his strength just because he won several acting awards. Without his face, he wouldn't even receive the role in the first drama "The Golden Age". Muken Zorge was shocked again when he saw Lu Yanhe not minding that he "relying on his face to make a living".

In the European and American film industry, generally speaking, the better the actor, the more likely he is to avoid being praised for his good looks in the performance field. This is because in the mainstream concepts in Europe and the United States, professionalism is respectable and superficial.

In China, the same view is certainly true in the professional field, but on the one hand, the boundary between actors and artists is far less clear than that in Europe and the United States, which makes this concept less "disciplined" in the influence of actors. On the other hand, many actors in the entertainment industry, not to mention their professional background, even before acting in the first drama, had no performance experience.

Not even saying a lot, it can be said to be a lot. When the entire environment is filled with a group of actors who do not really regard themselves as actors, it is difficult for you to tell these actors what you should respect through the mainstream concept of the environment.

Lu Yanhe is not afraid of being praised for being handsome, not because he is affected by the domestic environment, nor because Lu Yanhe does not agree with these things. He just thinks that people should sometimes be honest with themselves.

Taking your face too seriously is a problem. It is also a problem to prove a certain "professional" and "plasticity" by destroying your face.

Lu Yanhe really never deliberately "destroys his image" to play a role.

Because the actors’ initial accumulation is to attract some people by relying on their faces. This is an unquestionable fact, and it cannot be denied by anyone who wants to deny it.

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Scott Harris, CEO of D19, came to meet Lu Yanhe before the filming started and had a supper together.

Just as the CEO of D19, Scott Harris must show respect for the protagonist of a popular sequel.

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

"Our D19 is an independent film production company, which is incomparable to large studios like Parameter and Midoriya, but we D19 can actually have the ability to do films like "Source Code" and "Buried Live".

Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "Scott, my cooperation with them is based on scripts and has carried out cooperation in multiple dimensions. I am also one of the producers. Before, I also gave you the script of "Buried Live" and you only wanted the script at that time."

Scott Harris laughed and said, "This world is changing at any time, isn't it?"

Lu Yanhe smiled slightly and said nothing if he didn't continue.

Scott Harris: "You are an amazing creator with outstanding talents. This time, we will also use the sequel to "The Mist" to hit you the awards season."

Lu Yanhe: "Thank you."

Scott Harris: "But why have you been reluctant to sign the subsequent contract for the "Mist" series?"

Lu Yanhe: "Scott, our second part has not started filming yet. Isn't it too early to talk about what happened next?"

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

"Take it slow one drama after another." 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 just now.

Lu Yanhe also knew that he wouldn't mind.

It is very normal for a popular actor to be arrogant and arrogant - everyone thinks so. Lu Yanhe gradually felt that sometimes, he would act a little arrogant and cold-blooded, and instead relaxed, saving himself trouble.

"Lu, I'm actually very curious. Why don't you act on the movie "Buried Live" by yourself?" Scott Harris said. "If you starred in this movie yourself, even if you want to be a producer, I would have considered it at that time."

Lu Yanhe: "If I had to act all the scripts I wrote myself, I wouldn't have time to act in "The Mist", which is not a movie I wrote."

Scott Harris: "That's right, are you an assistant who helps you write the script?"

"ah?"

"The number of scripts you have written in recent years has almost achieved the results of seven or eight screenwriters," said Scott Harris.

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

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

Lu Yanhe: "On the one hand, I can write it, and on the other hand, the scripts I wrote have basically not been rewritten or modified in large quantities by the production company."

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

Every success further laid the foundation for the "Lu Yanhe Myth". Every time the "Lu Yanhe Myth" is reinforced, every word he wrote has a little more valuable content.

The production company regards it as a treasure, so how dare you make changes easily?

When it comes to the projects of "Buried Live", "Red-Eye Flight" and "Source Code", Lu Yanhe's ability as a screenwriter has already won the double recognition of box office and awards. He is standing in a relatively strong position to discuss cooperation. If he didn't really have fundamental opinions on the script, he would not have mentioned it easily.

Or, there will be no cooperation at all.

Scott Harris laughed: "That's right, no one dares to change your script now."

Lu Yanhe thought to himself that although Scott Harris said this now, he actually didn't take it seriously.

Stucker Harris has a typical Hollywood arrogance.

His arrogance is not aimed at you, he is aimed at all non-Hollywood filmmakers - you are certainly talented, but whether your set of things work in Hollywood has not been verified yet.

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

The capitalist world is easy to mess around. As long as you do two things, you can walk sideways:

First, you have the value of making money.

Second, you have the ability to avoid being cheated.

Lu Yanhe and Scott Harris had the meal in a silence and teasing manner. They took a photo together. Scott Harris took the initiative to post on his Twitter, completing the "respecting talents" action that the boss of a film company should show.

Lu Yanhe also met the actors of the sequel to "The Mist" with this "endorsement".

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"Lu Yanhe is going to shoot "Misty"." Zhang Yuezhen put down her phone. On the phone was a photo of Lu Yanhe and Scott Harris. She said to Chen Pinhe, "We have to speed up."

Chen Pinhe said: "What's there to be urgent? It's not a race."

Zhang Yuezhen: "Will you still accept being ruined by Lu Yanhe if you have another project like "Doom Day" next time?"

Chen Pinhe: "This matter is over. There is no need for you to always take it out and repeat it, right?"

His brows frowned.

The movie "Doom Day" passed by Chen Pinhe. Zhang Yuezhen said that it was Lu Yanhe who made the mistake. In fact, they all knew that it was Chen Pinhe who was worried that "Doom Day" would be demoted. He was afraid of losing face and gave up voluntarily, so he found an opportunity to operate it for Jiang Jun.

Zhang Yuezhen knew that Chen Pinhe actually minded this matter very much.

She won't mention it.

"I'm not saying anything else, I just don't want us to move too slowly and lose a lot of initiative when we look back." Zhang Yuezhen said, "By the way, Yang Zhoujin asked us to have dinner together tomorrow night. Are you free?"

"Yang Zhoujin? Has he been released by his family again?"

"He has agreed with his old man. If he doesn't continue to make trouble, his old man will give him a chance to compete fairly with Yang Zhouli." Zhang Yuezhen said, "Yang Zhoujin will get a sum of funds to enter the market."

Chen Pinhe showed surprise when he heard this.

Zhang Yuezhen said: "He needs results, we need funds, and we are just getting what we need."

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First update.

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