Chapter 445 [New Direction, Movie Start]
While cutting the steak, Liang Kun told David Geffen a story, but it was not the movie "The Golden Love".
At present, he has no right to select actors in filming, and there is no producer partner who can control it. In the past two years, he wrote "Crazy Asian Rich" and may be a best-selling globally, but if the filming is changed, the producer will find a group of Asian actors he doesn't know, and that's what he'll be drunk.
In parallel worlds, Americans like this movie, but Chinese audiences don’t buy it, and it will probably be embarrassing to make it happen in advance.
The reason for the poor box office in China is very simple, the starring lineup is not good! Although "Crazy Rich" promotes the all-Asian starring lineup, except for Yang Ziqiong, the rest of the Chinese audience do not know any of the rest of the actors. Many people think the protagonist is too ugly after watching the film. Especially the male protagonist, he chose a British Malaysian actor, and he doesn't look like a Chinese.
Liang Kun felt that it would not be of much significance to this film if he didn't call his friends to Hollywood to shoot a movie. If Tang Qi was the heroine and therefore on the cover of Time magazine, it would definitely make her happy than any gift.
Tang Qi also has a red mission to become a superstar. Although she is not very ambitious and only wants to be a superstar in China, she has only completed 70% of the time, and she is not famous enough.
Liang Kun still has to write this movie when he takes time and will make some magic modifications appropriately. This movie is very meaningful. It is really rare for mainstream commercial films with all Asian actors in Hollywood to be seen.
It is difficult for Hollywood Asian actors to make a name for themselves and cannot meet a suitable role in a few years. "Memoirs of Geisha" has a global box office of 162 million, but the investment is as high as 85 million US dollars, and the box office is actually not as good as "Grace Love".
Liang Kun, a film that "fully demonstrates Chinese culture", will not be able to shoot. That is what the sixth generation of directors in China are good at doing. They make Chinese and Chinese people dirty and poor filmed in the movie and go to the film festival to try to sell small-cost art films to make money.
This kind of film has basically no box office and is not good-looking. However, many people say that this is very artistic?
Compared to the way to sell films in film festivals, Liang Kun would rather shoot unrealistic stories of showing off his wealth and let foreign audiences see the movie version of "Meteor Garden". Otherwise, most Westerners would think that the development of China has been in the 1990s.
Liang Kun had a lot of stories in his mind, and he had a good memory, so he opened his mouth and said a paragraph.
The male protagonist and the female protagonist are the perfect loving couple in the eyes of others. The female protagonist uses a diary to record her married life every day. Every wedding anniversary, a "treasure hunting game" full of surprises will be carefully set up to maintain an intimate relationship with her husband, but her life is unstoppable and dull.
On the fifth anniversary of their marriage, the heroine disappeared mysteriously. A diary of the heroine, the clues left at the scene seemed to indicate that this was not an ordinary disappearance case, and there might be a murder that fission in the relationship between husband and wife. The heroine's disappearance was quickly famous throughout the country through the media and speculation, and the male protagonist with misconduct was pushed to the forefront.
Is the hero really the murderer who killed his wife? The plot has repeatedly reversed to people's expectations. In order to retaliate against her cheating husband, his wife carefully planned a fake murder case. Later, in order to return to her husband, the wife did not hesitate to create a real murder case.
Liang Kun tells the story of the famous American best-selling "The Lost Lover". He only mentioned a little introduction. David Geffen thought this story was very interesting.
In addition to "The Golden Love", what Liang Kun wants to write the most is "The Lost Love". This is the third work of American female writer Gillian Flynn. It was published in 2012 and ranked first in the New York Times bestseller list for eight consecutive weeks. Its sales exceeded 2 million copies in one year of publication.
This is a popular best-selling miracle. It is a book in New York, no matter what the identity of a person is. This book has been listed on the "Top Ten Hobby Books" of Oprah magazine in 2012!
It was adapted into a movie in 2014, directed by David Finch, and received great praise after its release. The heroine Pei Chunhua was nominated for Best Actress in the Oscar, while the hero Ben Affleck won the Best Redemption Award for Golden Solid Mai.
Daben won the "Redification Award" added by Jinermei, aiming to encourage those filmmakers who have won Jinermei but have become more and more courageous in their acting career. Many people think that his movie is pretty good. Although he is still facial paralysis as always, the male protagonist seems to be a facial paralysis.
Liang Kun is not confident in directing this movie at his current level, but if he plays the male lead, he is confident that he will be a few streets away from acting.
Geffen asked with a smile: "How did you come up with this kind of story about marriage? It's not your age at all?"
"I have never really robbed the tombs when I wrote a long article. I have this inspiration, probably because I have a rich emotional life, so I think more." Liang Kun explained.
He can only explain this way. If you don’t find it strange if you make more brain-burning movies in the future.
When Geffen thought of the Japanese music queen Ayumi Hamasaki staying at Liang Kun's house on vacation and not going out, his love life seemed to be quite rich. When he thought about Liang Kun's fame in Asia, he guessed that Liang Kun's girlfriend must be more than Ayumi Hamasaki.
"You write this story first. If it really looks like what you said, there are many reversal plots, I guess Steven might want to make a movie." Geffen smiled.
"My movie must be suitable for making movies, and it will be a best-seller." Liang Kun is very confident. The plot is particularly attractive. It is impossible to change to a Chinese author, and the Chinese male protagonist will lose the market.
Later, a Japanese drama "My Horror Wife" with a similar concept to "The Disappearing Lover" also became popular, and the audience liked this plot of reversal and reversal.
They chatted about the music for a while, and Geffen decided to hype it as Liang Kun thought. Three songs and movies were released at the same time. The songwriter and singers were not announced online and in the movie, and only guided the audience to guess. After the movie was released for two to three weeks and the box office exploded, they would use the director's singing to hype each other up with the movie.
To directly say that the theme song was sung by Liang Kun, it might have a negative effect. Many people think that he has done too many things and will doubt the quality of the movie. Moreover, it is difficult for Chinese singers to achieve results, even if they give themselves an English name.
After dinner, the two of them went home. Liang Kun told Ayumi Hamasaki what happened today, and he had a new direction.
The next day, Geffen went to Liang Kun's house again as a guest.
After communicating with the ceremony, Liang Kun was invited twice, and suggested to invite Geffen to Chinese food. The two children from Spieburg had also visited him once before, and all of them admired Liang Kun's cooking skills.
This incident was reported by the media, and it seems that it is better to have a relationship with a friend's house than to have a meal at a restaurant.
Ayumi Hamasaki is no longer surprised to be cheating on Liang Kun. She "practice" for three more days. After the holiday, she called her assistant and bodyguard back to Japan. Because she didn't go out much, the media didn't know that she and Liang Kun had lived together for a while from beginning to end.
Ayumi Hamasaki has many jobs and cannot stay in the United States for a long time. Because her popularity in Japan is unmatched, Ai Hui Company hopes that she will hold more concerts and occasionally release singles even if she doesn't release an album.
In addition, she will promote "Very Perfect" in Japan, which is scheduled to be released in October. "The Eraser in My Brain" will be released in Japan in September, both of which are played by Liang Kun.
On August 5, Liang Kun arrived in the United States for exactly one month. The preliminary work of "Happy Death Day" has been completed and filming is about to start.
Producer Stewart is very efficient. He has acquaintances with many partners, photographers, makeup artists, etc. He has a lot of supporting actors in Hollywood. He doesn't have to choose supporting roles with few roles very carefully. He just needs to be a good age and a bad image.
As for financial meetings and other things, it is easier to do, and there is no need to calculate the low-cost movies. This movie does not invite any popular actors to star in it. The budget is not a rigid requirement of 5 million. If necessary, you can appropriately increase the budget to 6 million. If the movie is filmed smoothly, it is also OK to finish 4 million.
The shooting location is an ordinary university in Los Angeles that is on summer vacation. Students will not start school until September. Before school starts, the crew will not be disturbed by too many bystanders. If it is during school, it will be much more difficult to find a quiet environment to shoot this movie.
On this day, Liang Kun met the main members of the crew. Except for the extras who had only a few shots of pure supporting actors, everyone came to the school to gather.
Everyone greeted Liang Kun warmly, and even those who were shy and didn't like to talk would smile at him.
Although Hollywood has always been a "producer-centered system", Liang Kun is undoubtedly ranked second in the crew, both a director and a screenwriter. No one dares to underestimate him, only people want to get benefits from him.
Liang Kun took a look at some people's tasks. Only looking at orange and red, almost all of them are related to careers. The actors are eager to become famous, and the staff want to do a good job behind the scenes.
There are supporting actresses who even want to have sex with Liang Kun, just to make the supporting role more distinctive. Many people feel that it is an opportunity, even if the movie is a small cost.
This reminds Liang Kun of Zhou Xingchi's movie "The King of Comedy". Like Yin Tianchou, they think they are actors, but they are actually just "deadly supporting roles".
When will they play the protagonist? Maybe in a dream. People who are not from professional backgrounds and have average image travel to Hollywood, which crew will use them?
Most people are not even qualified to join the Actors Union. With the qualification, the membership fee of the Actors Union in Los Angeles, New York and Miami is US$3,000, plus the handling fee of US$58 in the first half of the year, you have to pay US$3,058 for joining the membership.
The income of extras is not high, so why do they want to join the union? Because the union stipulates that when producers hire extras, they must first hire a certain number of union extras before they can hire non-union extras. To put it bluntly, if you want to play a supporting role in Hollywood, you have to compete.
Are there no future for actors who are not from professional backgrounds? Of course, there will be exceptions. When Liang Kun was watching the task, he was attracted by an actress from Australia...
Chapter completed!