After all the auditions in the afternoon, Xiao Yao, Mu Ying and Zhao Rui said goodbye to Kate McCann and Zhou Jingyi. Although Zhou Jingyi has confirmed that she will appear in this movie, she does not live with Xiao Yao and them, and Mu Ying wants to send Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui back to the apartment, so they naturally want to separate.

"Lao Mu, did you have a premeditated plan?" On the way back to the apartment, Xiao Yao couldn't help but ask Mu Yingdao.

It can be seen from Xiao Yao's lack of opposition to Mu Yingla's advertising placement and sponsorship that this film is a purely commercial film. Xiao Yao planned to release the film globally at the early stage of preparation, and naturally took into account market factors. Filming a film in the United States, filming in the United States, and using American crews is a manifestation of this consideration, and another more important manifestation is in the selection of film actors.

In the selection of actors for the movie, Xiao Yao wants to fully reflect internationalization. This kind of internationalization is not only about foreigners in the supporting roles, but also in the main characters. The protagonist of this movie is a seven-person parkour team, and the Chinese male characters of Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, and Xu Fei are the three protagonists with the heaviest roles in the movie, which has long been determined.

Generally speaking, movies with Chinese characters as the protagonists, especially commercial films, are not particularly easy to sell in European and American countries, but because the three of them are the founding team of parkour, they all have different status in the hearts of parkour enthusiasts around the world, and the target audience of this movie is also mainly parkour enthusiasts, so the settings of these three characters are excluded by Xiao Yao from this international consideration.

The starring seven-person team, in addition to Xiao Yao's roles and the three of them, there are still four roles left. These four characters, Xiao Yao, when they wrote the script, were set as four young people of different skin colors. In addition, parkour is not a sport exclusive to boys, and girls can also play it, so one of the remaining four characters is a girl.

Four young people of different skin colors, white, black, yellow Asian, and Latino in the Americas. In the early stage of writing the script, Mu Ying suggested that the female characters should be set as Asian-yellow people, saying that in addition to the three of them, the female characters are the most attractive, and it should be the most appropriate to set this character as Asian, because after all, they are all Chinese. This reason sounded very reasonable at the time, and Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui and others did not object at that time, so it was decided. Thinking about it now, maybe Mu Ying already had the purpose of helping Zhou Jingyi fight for the role at that time.

"It's really not," Mu Ying knew what Xiao Yao meant, and explained with a smile, "When I first set up the character, although I already knew Jin, she hadn't found out about us preparing the movie and writing the script together, I just thought that this female character should be an Asian face." We are all Chinese, and the male characters in the movie have you, so the female characters with the heaviest roles have to be Chinese!"

"If you only say the latter sentence, I may still believe you," Xiao Yao pouted, "but you deliberately emphasized that when you set the role, Jin hadn't found out that we were preparing a movie and writing a script together, so I wouldn't believe it." Maybe she didn't know about the movie we were working on together at that time, but you must have planned to bring her to act, maybe you deliberately let her find out that we were discussing the script on video!"

"You~" Mu Ying glanced at Xiao Yao in surprise, and then smiled, "Okay! Even if it is, what? I'm her acting teacher, what's wrong with me helping my students fight for a role in my own play? Is there anything wrong? If there is a mistake, it's also your fault, because you asked me to be her acting teacher!"

"This~" Xiao Yao was speechless, leaned on the back of the chair and waved his hand weakly, "Yes, you're right, don't say it!"

Mu Ying did not leave immediately after sending Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui back to the apartment, but followed Xiao Yao into his apartment room, and watched the audition videos of several actors in the afternoon repeatedly, discussing their performances. By the time they had almost finished talking, it was time for dinner.

At dinner, Xu Fei and Chen Xiaoting also got up and came to Xiao Yao's room. Instead of going out for dinner, everyone ordered takeout.

These people are all investors, and after having dinner together, Mu Ying gave them a detailed introduction to the preparation of the crew. The formation of the crew has been completed, some of the actors and all the behind-the-scenes staff have been determined, contracts have also been signed, and all the filming locations have been contacted, just waiting for the actors to be selected for the last few roles to start filming.

After introducing the crew, Mu Ying discussed the filming plan of the movie with everyone again, and stayed until almost late at night before leaving.

According to the previous plan, Xiao Yao was going to let Mu Ying conduct the primary selection of the casting audition, and then make a decision with Mu Ying after he came, but due to the release of "Walli" and Zhao Rui's graduation show, Xiao Yao and his party came to the United States later than Xiao Yao expected.

There aren't many roles that don't have a confirmed actor, and there aren't many actors who need to audition. The next morning, Xiao Yao, Mu Ying, and Kate McCann auditioned for all the candidates for roles that had not yet been decided.

McCann was just a representative sent by the Screen Actors Guild to oversee the audition process and ensure the actors' legitimate rights. When all the actors who made it to the shortlist were all eligible on the surface, she had little influence and no say in the final result. Xiao Yao and Mu Ying spent another afternoon discussing all the actors for the second audition, and finally selected the cast list for all the roles.

After the list of all the actors was determined, Mu Ying asked the assistant director of the crew to notify the newly confirmed actors to come over and sign contracts with the crew, and then waited for the movie to start filming.

Before the official start of the movie, Mu Ying also gathered all the behind-the-scenes staff and main actors of the crew to meet with each other, so that everyone could get acquainted with each other first.

Xiao Yao is well-known in the United States, and most of the behind-the-scenes staff and actors of the crew know Xiao Yao as such a person. Although Xiao Yao is very young and directs a live-action feature film for the first time, everyone has heard a lot of Xiao Yao's various deeds and has a great curiosity about this "Chinese genius", but there is no contempt for it, and it is basically more pleasant to meet and chat.

In a more pleasant atmosphere, the film was officially launched.

Xiao Yao's inspiration for this parkour movie came from the French movie "Corporate Warrior" in his previous life, and the setting of the seven-person parkour team came from that movie. However, Xiao Yao not only added female characters to the protagonist team, but the main story of the movie is not that story.

In the previous life, the main plot of "Corporate Warrior" was that the parkour team went to the rich man's house to steal in order to save a child with heart disease. With such a movie promoting "violating the crime", Xiao Yao is worried that it is likely to fail the trial in Huaxia. Although Xiao Yao's film is aimed at the international market, he doesn't want this movie to be released in China, so in addition to borrowing some character settings and action scenes, this movie actually tells a completely different story.

In the opening part of the movie, this movie is more similar to the previous "Corporate Warrior", basically showing the skills of the seven-person parkour team first. In the early morning, seven people gathered together to discuss, select the target building, climb from the outside of the building to the roof of the building with bare hands to watch the sunrise at dawn, and then the residents called the police, the police surrounded them, and the seven people scattered and fled.

However, because the main plot is not to help children with heart disease raise surgery fees in the way of theft, there are no two children who sneak out of the house and excitedly watch them climb the stairs with their bare hands, so as not to be suspected of "teaching bad children".

After the opening scene of climbing the building and the chase scene, the movie still introduces the seven people in the team in the way of a police chief, and in this way, each member of the team has a separate display.

The plot shown separately is not the same as the "Corporate Warrior" in the previous life. The identity, occupation, family environment, skills and presentation methods of each character in the movie are not the same as the "Corporate Warrior" in the previous life, but under the guidance of Xiao Yao, Zhao Rui, Xu Fei and others were reconstructed according to their own characteristics.

The only thing that Xiao Yao retains is that there is also a police detective in the police station who knows a member of the team privately and has a relatively close relationship, which also lays a foreshadowing for the later plot.

The real dramatic conflict of the film is not a heart kid who accidentally falls off a tree to imitate the main characters, but the three members of the seven-person parkour team who accidentally witness a murder during a "wall-to-cornice" event.

At that time, the seven people were playing parkour on the roof of a building, and Xu Fei's character accidentally saw that in the window of a nearby building, several people seemed to be arguing about something. Curious, Xu Fei jumped directly onto the balcony railing outside the window, and then the characters played by Xiao Yao and Zhao Rui discovered Xu Fei's abnormality and jumped over.

Because the movements of the three were relatively light, and the windows were closed, the three did not attract the attention of the few people who were arguing in the house, and the three did not climb onto the balcony, but grabbed the iron railing of the balcony and quietly observed through the window.

In the room, two men were beating up another man, and another man was sitting next to him watching. When the three of them saw that the beaten man had a blue nose and swollen face, bleeding from his mouth and nose, and discussed whether to call the police, the man sitting next to him took out a pistol and shot the beaten man directly in the head.

Xiao Yao and the other three characters were startled, and when they were about to escape to call the police, the man with the gun who killed people occasionally looked back at the window and happened to see the three of them. The three people in the room and the three people outside were facing each other, and they all saw their faces clearly, and the man with the gun immediately pointed his gun at the three people outside the window.

When the parkour trio outside the house saw it, they immediately let go and landed on the balcony of the lower floor, and then quickly escaped.

The three of them are parkour masters, and through a window, they successfully escaped the pursuit of the three murderers in the house and went to the police station to report the crime.

However, due to the previous series of actions of "disturbing the people" and "molesting the police", the seven members of this team are all unpopular characters in the police station, so naturally they are not convincing. Not only did the three fail to report to the police, but they were almost arrested by the police on charges of causing trouble at the police station.

After the three of them left the police station, they were found by four other members of the team. The three of them told the other four members what they had seen, and after some discussion, they finally decided to go privately to the police detective who grew up in their community and had a close relationship with the character played by Xiao Yao.

At the detective's home, they recognized the killer from a magazine, and it turned out that the person was actually a well-known entrepreneur. The entrepreneur is a celebrity in the city and has a good reputation. The detective followed the seven people to the scene of the crime suspiciously, but found that there was no murder scene at the scene. Under investigation, the detective found that the owner of the so-called "crime scene" was just a construction worker who had no fixed occupation and was a casual worker.

After this investigation, the detective naturally couldn't believe the testimony of the three people, but persuaded the seven people to work seriously and stop playing those parkour that "disturbed the people".

The police reported the case to no avail, and the seven people had no choice but to go home separately. Unexpectedly, the entrepreneur had great powers, and he actually found out the identities of the three people, and secretly sent someone to ambush the three on their way home.

After escaping the capture of the minions sent by the entrepreneur with their superb parkour skills, the three gathered the other four and decided to launch a counterattack with the strength of seven people.

The entrepreneur was a builder, and the owner of the house who was killed was a builder, and the intersection is more obvious. Through the private investigation of the seven people, it was found that the last job of the construction worker happened to be on the construction site of the entrepreneur, and it was probably the construction worker who got the handle of the entrepreneur. Judging from the scene when the entrepreneur killed the person, it is likely that the murderer has not yet found that handle.

Seven people relied on parkour's climbing skills to climb the wall and window to enter the victim's home, and after rummaging, they found a video footage from the ceiling that was difficult to reach.

The content of the video is some violations on the construction site, shoddy, doping impurities into materials, bribing quality inspectors, etc. It is likely that the builder accidentally discovered and recorded it to blackmail the builder, which led to the killing.

Getting this video can only prove that the builder's project quality is defective, and it is likely that the fine is a thing, and the builder is only some property damage. Since the builder's body was not found, and there was no direct evidence of the builder's murder, the murder may not have been opened, and the danger to the three members could not be removed.

Later, seven people set up a bureau and took the initiative to get in touch with the entrepreneur, claiming that the evidence was in their own hands, and luring the entrepreneur out to negotiate. Of course, entrepreneurs who have already killed people will not obediently obey, and secretly arrange people at the meeting place, ready to kill people. However, through clever planning and superb parkour skills, the seven people who had been prepared for a long time not only managed to escape from the pursuit of the entrepreneur, but also photographed evidence of their attempt to kill people, and successfully brought down the black businessman.

Since the black businessman's construction project is in the community where the seven people are located, their behavior is also a potential big threat to the people of the community, so after the truth is revealed, the people in the community have also changed their views on the behavior of the seven people, and in the end, it is also a happy ending.

The plot of the movie is not particularly outstanding, but the highlight of this action movie is not in the plot, but in the action scenes. In terms of literature and drama, as long as the story is told clearly and there are no obvious logical loopholes, the main focus of this movie is to shoot the action scenes in it well.

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