Chapter 213

Langley was not surprised to see Paul Walker, but how the two actors who should have been working hard on the set appeared in telliuride.

"Good evening." Langley took Paul's right hand and tilted his head, with a look of exploration between his eyebrows. "So, since then, you've been preparing for the movie?" Langley was talking about the last meeting in Welton canyon.

Paul's smile bloomed brightly, revealing his white teeth. "No, it's just a hobby. But if it's helpful to make a movie, it's great. "

"Paul, do you know each other?" Originally fan was standing in front of him, but now he got out of the way. He patted Paul on the shoulder, looked back and forth between lanli and Andy, and finally fell on lanli. He was direct and frank, with a hint of condescending look and examination. That kind of big star's posture was revealed inadvertently.

Paul, by contrast, looks more like a surfer in the wrong place.

"I met by accident when I was climbing unarmed in Europe before. He is a very good climber. I watched him climb to a height of 50 meters from the ground without any help of any equipment. God, that's amazing. " Paul's eyebrows were full of smiles, and he marveled and introduced to fan. Then he turned his head again and looked at Lan Li, "but I didn't expect that it was such an occasion to meet again, so you are the actor that everyone said?"

Blue Li showed a shallow smile, chuckled and said, "although I don't know whether those rumors are good or bad, but I think, yes, I am the actor."

This joking reply made everyone laugh. "I can't see that you are still a good rock climber. You don't look like a good athlete at all." Fan took the initiative to talk again, with a bright smile on his face, white teeth with a prominent bald head, and strong muscles that can't be ignored by his sight. Besides being full of ruffian flavor, he also has a kind of silly simple and honest, which is the characteristic of fan different from other action actors, and has won him a lot of audience.

However, there was always a lingering examination in his eyes. The sense of superiority in my heart was revealed inadvertently.

Lan Li's eyes flashed slightly, and a touch of banter passed lightly. In Hollywood's vanity fair, it's normal to trample on high and low, basic to feel good about yourself, and daily to intrigue. It's not aimed at anyone, it's just a habit in the bones; But compared with the British aristocracy, it's like a children's house game.

"You don't look like an actor either," he said with a slight shrug A word immediately made the atmosphere condense. Lan Li could even see clearly that the smile on fan's face was stiff, frozen and cracked, just like the mask on his cheek. Such a scene, how interesting.

For half a second, the embarrassment and tension spread, and then Langley said, "you look more like a wrestler or a boxer. You know, Muhammad Ali. "

The atmosphere suddenly melted like ice and snow, and fan's eyebrows could feel his joy and cheerfulness. He was hailed as the greatest boxer in history. This praise naturally made him happy, with some shyness in his smile. "This is not the first time I have heard it."

"Are we going to continue to stand here, or is the position here reserved for us?" Neil H. morritz, who had been standing beside but was silent, another big bald man, grasped the right time, like a hot knife cutting into the butter, and let everyone sit down.

Neil's vision is meaningful to the blue on the body pause, originally thought it was just one of the many auditions, but did not expect to bring a surprise.

In the short fight just now, Lan Li's words always maintained a mild and modest tone, and at the same time, he had a little light humor. The calm tone could not detect the slightest abnormality. Let alone irony, he didn't even have the feeling of ridicule. Even so, Neil, the old fox, was not so easy to fool. He could smell the faint smell of gunpowder in the air. In the blink of an eye, fan had lost the upper hand.

This calm, this bearing, this tenacity, this is enough to let Neil shine in front of his eyes. There are a lot of people who can suppress fan in the face-to-face battle of momentum, but the other party is just a 20-year-old pink new actor, which is too rare; It's also worth looking forward to the wisdom revealed by every move.

What's more surprising is that from the brief conversation between lanli and Paul just now, we can know that lanli is still a good rock climber, which means that his motor nerves are good. Even shooting plays should not have too much problems. Anyway, the "speed and passion" series is not a fight oriented work like "spy films", but drag racing and explosion.

In this way, Langley has the characteristics of courage and resourcefulness, which can become the last link of the iron triangle they expected, and create a wonderful "villain" role, even more suitable than Donne Johnson.

If Neil didn't know that the temporary change of roles was a last resort, it was absolutely an emergency. He would almost have thought that all this was arranged in advance by Langley.

"Speed and passion 5" crew does not want to replace dawn Johnson, but just want to give dawn a warning.

At the negotiation stage, dawn asked for $3.5 million, which is unacceptable. For the cast, they have a budget of 125 million US dollars. Neil wants to keep the budget of the actors below 30 million. Of course, the real budget can be raised to 40 million. In other words, they can't afford the 3.5 million, but the question is, is it worth it?

Fan Shen is also an actor and producer, with a division of 15 million yuan; Paul's pay was $8 million, and neither of them took part in the box office bonus. As a result, they were the leading characters from the beginning of the series. After the big exchange of blood in the third film, the box office suffered a disastrous defeat. Universal Pictures spent a lot of money to bring them back, which led to the success of the fourth film, There is no problem at all. It can even be said that it is of high quality and low price.

But what about dawn? He is only the first time to play in this series of works, and as the third leading role, he is not as heavy as fan and Paul. What's more important is that the asking price of Donne's leading role in a film is about 400 yuan, but now it costs 3.5 million to play the third leading role, which is like a lion's mouth.

Donne is clear about the weakness of "speed and passion 5" - although action actors are not worth money, there is a gap of young action actors in Hollywood, and there is almost no choice to compete with fan. Dawn is not the only choice, but the best one. That's why dawn is so bold.

After several negotiations, dawn has no intention of compromise, even the crew has started early shooting, but he still refuses to enter the crew. The subtext is: I can afford it, you can't afford it. Dawn is now sitting in Diaoyutai, waiting for the crew to stretch themselves, and then bow to compromise.

The so-called early shooting is actually because "speed and passion 5" intends to complete the drag racing scene with real shooting as much as possible. They need to investigate the situation of the scene, and professional doubles will test it first to find the most suitable shooting scheme. However, for the fluency of the formal shooting, the actors will also join the crew to ensure the smooth progress of all links.

It's hard to find someone with the same size and weight as Donne, even with a double. Dawn was absent from the early shooting, which really laid a lot of mines for the crew.

More importantly, after the beginning of the early shooting, the crew began to spend money like running water. They asked for money to rent the venue, equipment and staff, and they were burning money almost every day. If dawn delays for a day, the crew loses a day. The crew really can't wait.

Every Hollywood project is a game. In the game of competing for interests, there are always people who want to give in, or they will break up. Under the fury, Neil suspended the advance shooting of the crew, and brought the two leading actors to trilliureid, ostensibly to participate in the film festival, but actually to find the right actors——

This is an open and equal stage. Any new actor can have a direct dialogue with the famous directors and producers. All performance opportunities are fully open. In addition, it's not far from Los Angeles by car, so countless actors gather in telliuride, not to mention the famous agents. At this point in time, he's looking for actors better than Los Angeles.

However, Neil knows from the bottom of his heart that it's almost impossible to find a replacement actor for dawn. Unless the role setting is changed, it also means that the script needs to be revised - the screenwriter has to charge for rewriting and adjusting the script, and the setting data of the early shooting also needs to be adjusted. The workload is not to mention the cost.

So, this trip, Neil is to show dawn their tough stance: no one is irreplaceable, even dawn. Today, however, after meeting Langley, Neil came up with an idea: how much work does it take to completely change Hobbes' role from style to setting to actors?

However, it's just a face-to-face interview. Today's audition has just begun.

Neil immediately suppressed this idea for a while, motioned everyone to take a seat, and looked at Lan Li covertly. He stopped for a moment, but it was just this short moment that Lan Li's vision was lifted up, and ran Li's face-to-face confrontation was a surprise to Neil.

Then he saw a smile from lanli, as if he didn't notice his gaze. He just looked at Neil and nodded politely.

Neil's smile rose and nodded in response. Today's audition is more and more interesting.