Chapter 1881

Paul Walker has officially announced that after shooting "speed and passion 7", he will leave the cast and end his career as Brian O'Connor.

Originally, this matter should be kept secret, but the development of the matter has not been able to conceal the success after all.

After the traffic accident, during Paul's convalescence, the crew had to consider all kinds of possibilities, because there were many variables in Paul's illness, which forced the screenwriters to consider other different endings for the film, including Paul's regret that he could not escape the sickle of death, Designing a perfect ending for Bryan O'Connor has become a big problem for writers.

Later, Paul survived and recovered smoothly, and the crew returned to the track, ready to complete the follow-up shooting according to the original idea; But I didn't expect that Paul decided to leave after careful consideration. Even if Universal Pictures tried to persuade him for many times, he couldn't change his mind, which made the writers have to re adopt the ending that had been frozen before: to say goodbye to Brian O'Connor in the movie ending.

The revision of the script naturally caused a lot of speculation within the crew.

The speculation is going to be more and more outrageous. In order to avoid the internal strife of the crew and the confusion of the team, Paul has to take the initiative to clarify the misunderstanding. In the future, long Qumai will tell the staff to avoid the disturbance and confusion.

As a result, things have evolved from a confidential state to a semi open state; What's more, after negotiation, Paul and universal pictures have reached a consensus that they should just go all out and announce to the public, take the initiative to explain instead of passively waiting for the news to come out, so as to nip all the bad things that may happen in the follow-up shooting of the crew in advance.

The semi open state becomes the fully open state.

Although Paul and universal pictures have tried their best to explain all the twists and turns, just as Paul expected, he has lived as Brian O'Connor for 13 years. He is closely related to the crew, and there is no way to immediately pull apart the twists and turns in his life, which leads to an inevitable position problem; What's more, in the past two years, in order to control power, diesel has made a mess inside the cast, and everyone can feel the crisis

After Paul leaves, will the crew be in the control of diesel?

That's the problem. Diesel is neither Langley nor Paul. He is definitely not a broad-minded shopkeeper. On the contrary, he needs to emphasize his sense of existence all the time. Furthermore, he needs to really feel his control, which also means that the crew can't be calm.

Some people like diesel, and naturally they like it; But there are many more people who don't like Paul, some people reject diesel, some people want to be alone, some people support Donne Johnson or Michelle Rodriguez or tyris Gibson and so on. So, what will happen now?

Since the success of "speed and passion 4", the crew has always maintained the balance of "diesel vs Paul". Even Langley and even dawn have not been able to break this situation. The reputation balance between diesel and Paul has become the focus of the crew's balance, but now the balance has been broken, No one can predict what will happen next——

Will diesel wash the crew? Will diesel get rid of dissidents? Will diesel be in charge? What's more, will diesel, who is now constantly increasing his role, turn the film into his own one-man show? So, where will the other characters and stories go? Where is the future of the movie series? Without the constraints, will diesel not be able to let go? Will the cast usher in a comprehensive reshuffle?

One question mark after another began to surface, but no one could explain, and even his cronies could not predict what to do next.

Everything is unknown.

But it is clear that these concerns have proved unnecessary. Ordinary staff have not been able to see the high level of strategic planning at the management level. Obviously, the power struggle is not a "black or white" mathematical problem. After the balance of "Paul vs. Diesel" is broken, there may be many variables in the change of power structure.

For example, the entire cast was completely shuffled, and power was completely redistributed. Even diesel became the target of being weakened.

It is said that this is a chess game played by Langley and Paul; But others say it's a tacit move by Universal Pictures - things are far from as simple as they seem.

Obviously, Universal Pictures has realized that the diesel family may be the only one, which will also change the overall power pattern of the "speed and passion" crew. So, what does it mean“ Pirates of the Caribbean series is the best portrayal.

Because of the absolute strength of Johnny Depp, especially after Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom quit the project one after another, Johnny's film salary is snowballing up, and even needs to occupy 50% or more of the cost budget of the crew.

Under such circumstances, Disney's balance of payments is becoming more and more difficult. The fourth series in 2011 is far below the expected effect, so that the fifth series is always in the difficult labor stage. But the real difficulty is Disney, not Johnny, because Johnny has been in an invincible position with the recognition of Captain Jack Sparrow. Only Disney will be stuck in the dilemma of choice.

Does the whole process sound familiar“ Speed and passion "is what it is now.

Paul's departure - corresponding to the withdrawal of Keira and Orlando, the rise of diesel - corresponding to Johnny's leading role, the next things are predictable, diesel can completely rely on his fame and recognition of the role of Dominic Toledo to complete the control of the crew; What's more, dessel is more ambitious than Johnny. Johnny just asks for the pay, but dessel also asks for the control of the crew. He hopes to follow in the footsteps of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.

Obviously, Universal Pictures doesn't want to be stuck with Disney.

For professionals, they can see a series of strategies of lanli at the beginning of the year, forcing universal pictures to make a choice; But further, the internal high-level people can also see that Universal Pictures acquiesced in this incident. With the promotion of lanli, it successfully completed the reshuffle and redistributed all the power of the whole series of projects.

The game between power and interest is far from simple.

Finally, the "speed and passion" crew completed the shuffle.

At present, there are still not many changes in the crew who are preparing to shoot the seventh film. They must work hard to complete the remake work, otherwise they may not be able to catch up with the release schedule next year, which is the top priority; But the high-level of the crew can already feel the frequent dispatch of power.

According to the rumor, the eighth part of the series has been officially approved. Dawn Johnson, Jason stanson, Michelle Rodriguez and tyris Gibson will join van diesel as co producers; Not surprisingly, they will all be eligible for box office dividends. Jason and tyris are 1.5%, Michelle is 2%, and dawn and diesel are 3%.

Relatively speaking, there has been a slight decrease in the number of paid movies. Only diesel still maintains the level of 10 million, which shows his special character - after all, he is still the elder and the absolute protagonist; But it's worth noting that actors such as Luda Chris, Luke Evans and Elsa Pataky, who have appeared in previous works, will all raise their pay figures.

It also means that the main actors are getting more attention. If diesel wants to protest, he has to face the anger of the whole crew, even the anger of the major Hollywood agents.

That's not all.

Because the seventh film is still in the process of making up, Universal Pictures has not rashly started to make plans for the next one, and at present everything is still in the stage of discussion; But it's certain that universal pictures is thinking about inviting big name actors to play big name villains in the eighth film, which is the consistent practice of learning from the "007" series.

No matter whether this plan can be carried out or not, Universal Pictures' plan to further weaken the influence of the diesel crew is a matter of certainty.

After a reshuffle, the cast has now taken on a different look:

Donne Johnson has been able to face up to diesel. He also has Jason's support. In addition, weak actors such as Luke Evans and Elsa Pataki are also closer to them; Michelle, as the representative of actresses, is of her own style. The relationship between her and diesel seems close, but actually opposite, because they are fighting for more weight.

Most importantly, tyris Gibson is also a producer, which is a betrayal to diesel——

Tyris has always been the most unswerving supporter of diesel, but diesel did not applaud for the promotion of tyris. On the contrary, he thinks that tyris is dividing up his own interests and weakening his own power. Such betrayal makes a quarrel break out between diesel and tyris. Tyris not only failed to become an ally of diesel, but also was isolated.

Now, diesel is in trouble.

Originally, diesel thought that this was his own battlefield, he still occupied the initiative, especially Paul's departure, is worthy of applause and celebration. But before there was time to cheer, things had changed.

In the twinkling of an eye, diesel has already stood in the abyss, his situation is becoming more and more difficult, more and more dangerous, but he still does not know what happened.