Chapter 1095： 1 Bamboo Dingjin Mountain

Dunn established the concept of high-quality American dramas for Starz TV.

In the past few years, with the appearance of high-quality American TV series such as "Band of Brothers", "Six Feet Under", "True Detective", "The Walking Dead", "Vice President" and "Warcraft", Starz TV station has also become famous and has become a popular TV station. The most recognized professional cable TV station in the United States today!

The number of members subscribed in North America has approached 35 million!

Overseas...that is, the subscribers of the European branch, there are also 4 million households.

The total number of global users is nearly 40 million!

And the competitor in this industry, the second is HBO, with only 7 million members in North America!

Counting overseas users in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, the total number is about 10 million.

Differs greatly!

If Starz TV is given some time to develop, after completing the European layout, it can also establish branches in Asia and Latin America, it will become stronger.

Now, the market valuation of the STA TV network has exceeded 13.5 billion US dollars, which is 85 times the transaction price when it was merged with Dunn Pictures four years ago!

The TV station is obviously a traditional industry, but under the operation of Tang En's advanced concept, the market value is growing so fast, just like an Internet technology enterprise!

The difference is that the technology industry relies on concepts and bubbles to drive its market value. Even companies like Amazon have lost money year after year, and their market value is still pushing up.

TV stations rely on real performance!

Summer is here, and the Starz TV network is about to launch a new large-scale, large-scale American drama - "Roma"!

This medieval historical drama will show the legendary Roman Empire on the TV screen.

The American dramas broadcast by Starz TV mainly come from three sources: outsourcing, self-produced by the TV station, and self-produced by the group.

Outsourcing refers to buying some old movies that have good reputation and are loved by the audience from outside producers.

After all, Starz TV does not broadcast commercials, and only broadcasts dry goods 24 hours a day.

It is impossible to just broadcast new movies.

Especially in the early morning, few people watch it, and a lot of old movies are needed to fill the blank time period.

The TV station is self-produced, which refers to its own TV production department under the STA TV network. The representative work is the upcoming big production "Roma".

The group's own production means that it comes from Universal Television, a TV production company under the New Universal Group.

Every U.S. drama produced by Universal Television has to be approved by Dunn.

It seems that every commercial blockbuster in New Universal that costs more than 100 million US dollars must be approved by Dunn before it can be officially approved.

The latest big project is a proposal from Tang En, a TV series about kung fu!

"Kung Fu" is really amazing.

Stupid Americans think that all this is true, that there are really people who can escape from the sky and use a hundred. They even think that every Chinese person knows kung fu. There are not a few people who are attracted to study.

Because that's how it is played in Hollywood movies, whenever there are Chinese people, they must know Chinese Kung Fu.

This is understandable.

This is a necessary stage for the rise of a great power.

In the early years of Hollywood movies, all the big villains were Russians, and everyone was fierce and terrifying. As Russia has become more and more secular in recent years, the villains in Hollywood movies have gradually changed, from Russian agents to terrorists.

It's 2005, and this time period is amazing.

Internet information is not yet popular enough, and the general impression of the United States on China is still vague and unknown, and they even think that there are some kung fu masters with long braids.

For businessmen, this is a business opportunity!

Tang En is going to make a big American drama about Chinese Kung Fu!

This will be one of the topics that the American people are most interested in right now.

It will be a huge profit point.

For the Starz TV network to go global, it must have more diverse themes. This time it is Chinese style, and next time it may be Latin American style, Japanese style or even Indian style.

Originally, Tang En wanted Lao Mouzi to come over to film this American Kung Fu drama, but because of many complicated relationships, Lao Mouzi rejected his good intentions and filmed "The Golden Armor in the City".

Now, it's time to determine the main creators of this kung fu drama.

The script came from the screenwriting department of Dunn Films, and Dunn provided the story idea, and his queen screenwriters Deacon Whistler and Bryce Roach completed the story.

The first version of the script has been finalized.

It is called "One Bamboo Ding Jinshan".

Bamboo is naturally bamboo.

Jinshan refers to San Francisco.

As the name suggests, this is a story about a kung fu master holding a bamboo stick, levelling San Francisco, founding a Chinatown, and winning a land for the Chinese to survive.

The name of the protagonist of the film has not yet been determined, tentatively named X.

The story takes place in 1878.

The gold rush in San Francisco swept the world, and countless people came here to make a living.

Among them, there is a boat of people with braids from the Qing Dynasty.

In those days, racial discrimination was very serious!

At that time, in San Francisco, the top level was the local chaebols, who held a lot of capital and had the power to dominate everything here.

The middle-level are government officials, who receive funding from chaebols to help them maintain law and order and make profits.

The lower class are local workers, who have little power and receive ordinary salaries.

Low-level Chinese laborers, they are the most popular cheap labor in the city.

Those who are treated worse than the Chinese can only be illegal black slaves.

Black people are stupid and inflexible. They won't fight for legal rights. The Chinese are different. There will never be a lack of struggle in a country that has been chaotic for thousands of years.

Then, this group of first batch of Chinese workers to land in North America started a series of power struggles! They will use their own hands to fight for the next land of their own survival in the United States!

The hard-working Chinese landed in San Francisco and became cheap labor, which suddenly made the local laborers lose employment opportunities.

So, they started to fight back, frantically suppressing the Chinese workers. Seeing more and more casualties, the chaebol had no choice but to come forward. In their eyes, it is not the lives of these people that they value, but that they do not want to lose this group of cheap labor. Because of this, the Chinese workers had to report to the group to keep warm, but there were only two ways out: coolies and black/gangsters!

A coolie like a black man?

This is impossible!

Then there is only one choice left - the Chinese must have their own gang! Have your own Chinatown!

This is the history of blood and tears of a yellow race in the United States, and it is an inspirational growth story.

It will be mixed with stories of love, family, friendship, as well as conspiracy, power, beauty, murder, revenge and even abuse.

Of course, the biggest selling point is Chinese Kung Fu!

The protagonist X will be a character like the "Dragon Mother" in "Game of Thrones", fighting all the way, fighting and fighting all the injustices in the world. First, it swept across the halls of Chinatown to integrate the Chinese forces, and then made a concerted effort to safeguard the interests and dignity of the yellow race.

This would be more out of touch with reality.

Because in those days, no matter how strong the Chinese were, it was impossible to fight against the local chaebols, and the laws and guns were in their hands. The Chinese have only two choices - kneel or die.

The establishment of Chinatown is far from that great, just a slum that was assigned to the survival of Chinese workers by the chaebols and the power class.

If it was shot realistically, it would be too cruel.

Not to mention Chinese and yellow races, even white Americans would feel very uncomfortable when they saw it.

The ratings must be miserable.

For the sake of the market, the film must be "cool".

Exaggerate the magical effect of "Kung Fu" to show that the Chinese came to the United States to create the American Dream, and gained recognition and success.

This would also be in line with current mainstream values ​​in the United States.

Of course, after decades of development, Chinatown has grown in strength, the number of Chinese workers has increased, and the strength of Tangkou has become stronger and stronger. After forming a real big force, it will be too powerful.

So powerful that white people can no longer live.

The US Congress, which is so powerful that it calls for "democracy, freedom, and equality", will introduce the "Chinese Exclusion Act" to limit the development of Chinese in the United States and protect the rights and interests of white people.

This part of the content will not appear in the series, at least not in the first season.

"This TV series needs to use a lot of Asian faces, especially Chinese, and the main creative team should be mainly Chinese, including producers and directors."

Universal Television's president Ted Sarandos reported to Dunn for his work, and he made such a reply.

Lao Mouzi has quit, and there are others!

Hollywood has never been short of Chinese!

Ted Sarandos said: "There is a huge risk in using people of color. Fortunately, Starz TV is aimed at the best quality users, who have higher income, higher quality and adaptability. Stronger too. My only concern is... the male lead."

"Um?"

Tang En was slightly startled.

He had already chosen the male lead of this American drama.

No matter who the producer and director of the show will choose in the future, the actor must be Jet Lee!

This is a big production American drama!

Looking at the world, only Asians like Jet Li can handle such profit pressure.

If it is a new person, or a little-known person, it will be too risky.

It can be said that the reason why "One Bamboo Ding Jinshan" was able to pass the budget audit is entirely because of Jet Li!

This is a kung fu superstar!

His appeal in the United States is too strong!

Ted Sarandos said: "Even if it's a big production... but a TV show is just a TV show Jett Lee is a Hollywood star and still very young. I'm afraid he's not willing to come and shoot at this time. A TV series."

"Is this his attitude?" Dunn frowned.

Ted Sarandos nodded, "His agent has been contacted. They didn't even accept our script, so they refused directly, with a firm attitude."

Dunn said displeased: "Ted, I think it's your work mistake! I know about Jet Lee's condition, his last movie suffered a serious box office failure, and he even had to go back to Asia to make one. "Huo Yuanjia"! Although our project is a TV series, we are Hollywood!"

The last film that Jett Lee starred in was "Danny the Wolf". The production cost of the film was 45 million dollars, and the total investment was as high as 70 million dollars, including various expenses such as publicity, taxes, and division of labor.

As a result, the film grossed less than $50 million worldwide.

Lose at least $30 million!

Coupled with the fact that his previous film "Deadly Cradle" failed to meet expectations at the box office, Jett Lee's glory days in Hollywood are over.

Just like John Wu and Jack Chen, they can only return to China to develop.

Is it a shame to shoot a big Hollywood drama?

Al Pacino has just finished filming an American drama for HBO at the level of Al Pacino.

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