Chapter 272： Action guidance

"Tiger, is this here?"

After getting off the battery car in the movie theater, Yuan Heping and Yigan Wushi, led by their apprentice Tiger Chen, walked into the huge studio.

This place has been set up to look like a martial arts gymnasium. Although it is a bit nondescript in Yuan Heping's view, it is not easy to think that the other party is just a group of ghosts.

Tiger Chen is different. He has been in the United States for many years, and occasionally deals with Hollywood crews. He is more familiar with this side. Under the introduction of him and an agent, he and the main crew including two directors The members, after a few greetings, can be regarded as acquaintances.

Yuan Heping observed everything carefully, and the crew treated them very kindly and also very politely.

Since the main actors have not yet arrived, everyone sat aside clearly and chatted about their own topics. Looking at this huge studio, Yuan Heping couldn't help but think of the invitation he accepted.

A few months ago, people from the Hong Kong branch of Paramount Pictures, with a few staff members who claimed to be Jenkins Pictures, came to the door and sent him an invitation, hoping that he could become the deputy of the film. Director and action director.

In fact, when he saw the official invitation signed by Ryan Jenkins, he was immediately tempted, especially after he heard that the movie was a big investment with a total investment of more than 300 million US dollars.

Even if this is a trilogy, the average capital for each movie is 100 million U.S. dollars. Such an investment is simply astronomical for a small Hong Kong film.

Hollywood is the center of the world's film industry. How many filmmakers in Hong Kong don't want to go there? Jack Chen and Baige Wu also determined their status in the world film industry after they succeeded there.

Not to mention. As a veteran filmmaker, he couldn't see that Hong Kong films were rapidly declining, and the collapse was only a matter of a few years.

The chain reaction brought by "Jurassic Park" that year was huge, after this year's "Titanic" was released. The audience in Hong Kong fully understands what a real luxury giant production is, and the local movies are full of sorrow.

In fact, Yuan Heping understands that this is a very normal phenomenon. Hong Kong’s investment is very difficult to exceed 10 million yuan. What can be used to counter Hollywood’s super giants in films that have been shoddy made in a few weeks?

However, Hong Kong movies also have their own advantages, especially in action scenes, compared to the martial arts instructors here. The Hollywood action directors are at the kindergarten level.

After a brief consideration, Yuan Heping agreed to the other party’s invitation. Originally, he wanted to open his mouth and ask for a huge reward. Later, he inquired about the other party's situation through Jack Chen and changed his original offer of 2 million US dollars to One million dollars.

Even so, in subsequent negotiations, the other party compressed the price to 500,000 US dollars.

Suddenly. A greeting sounded at the entrance of the studio. Yuan Heping's eyes jumped when he saw the young man walking in the front. The other party was so famous that even people like him who didn't watch Hollywood movies knew him well.

Frankly speaking, Hong Kong movies are in the current dilemma, and the other party can be regarded as one of the culprits. After all, "Jurassic Park" and "Titanic" are both planned and invested by him, to some extent. It was these two films that changed the market and position of Hong Kong films in the Far East.

of course. This can only be thought of, Yuan Heping still remembers. What Jack Chen said when he heard that Ryan Jenkins had invited him.

Ryan Jenkins is not only a Hollywood superstar, nor is he the largest shareholder of Jenkins Pictures. He has an extraordinary position in Hollywood, not only on par with the giants of Hollywood's major film companies, but also has a net worth of more than two billion US dollars. The movies he leads are a guarantee of sales.

If he can join his film project, he can definitely break into Hollywood as soon as possible, and even gain an extraordinary status. The white pigeon who became popular after "Changing Face"? Wu is the best proof.

After Yuan Heping came here, he asked someone to check the relevant information and saw the well-known movie and the huge box office numbers behind. He thoroughly understood why Jack Chen talked about Baige Wu Shi. Envy in his tone.

Being able to stay here to develop and earn foreign devil dollars is much better than nesting in that small place in Hong Kong! This is Yuan Heping's most direct thought.

It's a pity that he didn't know that the young man who was walking over had completely different ideas from him.

"Hello, Mr. Yuan."

Looking at this pimple-faced guy, Ryan shook his hand over his stretched hand and said casually, "I have long heard that Mr. Yuan is a leader in the Hong Kong film industry."

The other party replied a few words in stubborn English. Ryan didn't care, but was attracted by a guy next to him.

Isn't this Keanu? Reeves's good friend from the previous life?

"Hi, Tiger."

"Hello, Mr. Jenkins." Tiger Chen was obviously a little surprised. He didn't expect this famous Hollywood figure to know himself, "I didn't expect..."

"I didn't expect me to know you?" Ryan laughed. "I heard of you a long time ago. You won the National Karate Championship, right?"

Since it was the first time to appear on the crew, Ryan simply greeted the main cast and crew. Most of them were acquaintances, only the director's sister and brother were relatively unfamiliar.

Ah... No, one of them is still Rady Wachowski, and it hasn't become Lana Wachowski.

"Actually, Ryan, at the end of the eighties, our brothers had some similar thoughts, but some very simple thoughts. After the thoughts gradually matured, they discovered that your short novellas are far better than ours. The idea is creative."

After the exchanges between the two sides, Andy Wachowski was obviously feeling a little sitting on one of the chairs.

"In that case, I invite you and La... Rady to direct this movie is simply too correct." Ryan said indifferently.

Ryan not only invited the original director, except for Nicole, even several major actors have followed the original team, such as Keanu Reeves, Lawrence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving and so on.

In the temporarily renovated training ground, they are wearing white training uniforms, accepting the ravages of those martial arts masters. Fortunately, actors with dancing or movement skills can say that those who don't have it can only enjoy the torment.

You know, Ryan has opened a three-month training period for the movie.

In addition, he has contacted major manufacturers such as mobile phones, sunglasses, windbreakers, and computers. If the operation is good, the embedded advertising revenue of this movie can even recover about half of the cost.

This is not the dilemma of the previous life shooting. The craze of "Titanic" has not gone down yet, and his golden sign is now very loud.

After exchanging some opinions about movies with the Wachowski brothers, Ryan walked to the side of the practice field, holding his chest in one hand and his chin in the other, admiring the misery of several actors.

Nicole is slightly better. After all, she has considerable dancing skills, and some movements are not very difficult to do. Ryan has a deep understanding of this aspect. Sometimes the two are too excited, Nicole will use some super difficult movements.

Nicole, who was pressing her legs, suddenly looked over and gave him a concealed look.

Compared to Nicole Kidman, there are a lot of action scenes in the film, Keanu Keyves and Hugo Weiwen, that can only be described as sad reminders. They not only frown, but also make a howl from time to time. , It looks really horrible.

Yuan Heping always stood on the side and didn't mean to end. The main job was basically the tiger? Chen was in charge. Sometimes, he would call his apprentice aside and order something in Cantonese.

Although not intentional, Ryan still keenly captured some of the vocabulary, perhaps because he did not expect that there are people here who can understand the local dialects of Chinese, and the voice of the other party is not too low.

Hearing Yuan Heping’s frequent mention of “keep some”, Ryan could only shook his head. There was nothing wrong with keeping the housekeeping skills, but their ideas were a bit naive. This is Hollywood, and he is best at absorbing and learning other cultures. The world cinema center of strengths.

The enthusiasm of filmmakers and their dependence on technology here are absolutely beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

According to the general practice, Hollywood action directors will not only carefully observe the movements of these martial artists when shooting a movie, but they will also use the camera to take them and go back and analyze it frame by frame. They don’t even need to learn anything advanced. The stuff, the furs analyzed, are enough to deal with Hollywood-style action movies.

Besides, kung fu movies will become the mainstream of Hollywood? It's just a idiotic dream, it will only be popular for a few years at most.

When Hollywood action directors grow up, they will completely turn kung fu-style actions into part of the Hollywood assembly line. These teams from Hong Kong can only go home.

The reason is simple, there is exclusivity everywhere, and the cost of Hollywood assembly line action guidance will be lower.

In fact, when these people set foot on this land, no matter what they do, the future is doomed. The only difference is how many dollars they can make from here.

After all, Chinese Kungfu will still have market value in the next few years.

"Hi, Keanu, your scream is probably over two hundred decibels!"

Walking to the rest area, Ryan laughed at Keanu Reeves, who frowned, "Ryan, I regret now that I promised you to appear in this movie."

"Then you are about to break the contract?" Ryan sat next to Nicole. "Are you ready to break the contract?"

Keanu Reeves waved his hand vigorously in protest.

"I regret it now, Ryan," Nicole said softly suddenly.

"why?"

"I will not only dye my hair black, but also cut it short." Nicole stroked her long hair dyed golden brown, very reluctant. ()