Leonardo and Tom Hanks coincidentally cut off most of their salaries, which made Spielberg suddenly think of a Chinese movie star - Li Lianjie.

Li Lianjie was originally one of the most expensive movie stars in Hong Kong movies and was an absolute box office guarantee, but when he came to Hollywood to develop, he failed several auditions, and finally Richard Donner, the director of "Lethal Weapon 4", approached him and wanted to invite him to play one of the villains.

At the beginning, Richard Donner's salary was $1 million, which was much lower than Li Lianjie's worth in Asia, but Li Lianjie readily agreed in order to break through the barrier between Hong Kong films and Hollywood films.

But Richard Donner then repented and changed his words to $700,000, Li Lianjie still agreed, but Richard Donner did not accept it when he saw it, but made a final offer of $500,000 inch by inch, everyone thought that Richard Donner was extremely excessive, and Li Lianjie would definitely not agree to him, Li Lianjie still agreed.

In the end, Li Lianjie participated in this movie for $500,000, and the $500,000 even included a considerable part of his lawyer's fees in the United States, which was 108,000 miles worse than his salary in Hong Kong, but Li Lianjie did not make money for a movie, but in order to really break the barriers of Hollywood, he sacrificed a considerable part of his salary, but his goal was also achieved through this act of sacrificing salary.

In the past, Richard Donner's shameless behavior comparable to Harvey Weinstein was spurned throughout Hollywood, but this also reflected the difficulties and dangers of non-Hollywood actors who want to enter the Hollywood circle.

However, Spielberg did not expect that this situation would soon change.

Even though Hollywood has not seen a large amount of capital from China now, it has to be said that Hollywood's super-first-line actors are willing to reduce their salaries for the sake of development and breaking through higher-level barriers, just like Li Lianjie.

It seems that Li Mu has really become the upper-class boss that the whole Hollywood is chasing, and in front of Li Mu, the whole Hollywood has become the bottom.

The gap between these two levels is huge, so much so that these two Hollywood super-first-line actors have to get through this layer of relationship at any cost, if Li Mu is given a little more time, Li Mu is afraid that the whole Hollywood will become his own backyard......

Because Hollywood itself is the playground of world capital, Spielberg did not regard Li Mu as an intruder in Hollywood, but in his heart, Li Mu became his biggest opportunity.

Before Li Mu appeared, the major Hollywood companies and the major capitals behind the scenes had already made the competition white-hot, at this time, no matter who wanted to snatch any piece of cake in the mouth of the competitor, he would be attacked by countless people, and it would be even more difficult to shuffle the cards.

But in this case, there is only one possibility to shuffle the cards: strong external interference!

Li Mu is the most powerful external force in Hollywood at present!

Spielberg knows Li Mu's influence, not to mention anything else, as long as he goes back and joins forces with Makino Imaging to promote the Muying ticketing system to the whole of North America, Hollywood's cinema channels will be firmly controlled by the Muying ticketing system, if Li Mu combines YY's influence, it will be a big killer in the film market, not to mention, Li Mu not only has resources, but also money!

What is Hollywood playing? Isn't it money and resources? Li Mu has a net worth of tens of billions of dollars on the bright side, and this is not counting the market value of Taobao, Alipay, and Taobao logistics, Spielberg firmly believes that Li Mu will become the richest man in the world in a few years, and in front of the world's richest man, Hollywood will not only not resist, but will take the initiative to strip off his clothes and climb into the other party's bed!

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Li Mu learned the good news from Spielberg the next day.

What excites him the most is not that these two people have lowered their salaries and saved themselves at least $30 million in budget, but that these two actors he likes very much have decided to participate in "Flying Tigers"!

At this stage of Li Mu, tens of millions of dollars is really nothing, even if these two people directly quote themselves according to the market price, as long as they are willing to act, then they will not be stingy with funds, what he is most worried about is in case any of these two people are unwilling to act or there is a conflict in the schedule.

Because in Li Mu's mind, he couldn't find an actor who was more suitable for the two roles in "Flying Tigers" than these two.

Li Mu has watched all the movies played by Tom Hanks, and what he is most convinced of this old man is what he plays, and there is nothing inappropriate to say that he is the best actor in the United States, such as the prototype of the movie "Captain Sully", that is, Captain Sullenberg, who created the miracle of the Hudson River, named Tom Hanks to play himself, and Li Mu has also seen that movie, and it feels like watching a documentary.

In addition to him, Li Mu really can't find a second suitable candidate, at first glance, it seems that the image and temperament of the bald Bruce Willis are quite compatible with Chennault, but Li Mu has always felt in his heart that Bruce Willis, the uncle, is not suitable for playing too in-depth roles, he is suitable for acting in action movies and pure commercial films, and his acting skills are not in the same dimension at all compared with Tom Hanks, the double Oscar winner.

Moreover, the male No. 3, that is, the role of a young American pilot, is indeed no one more suitable than Leonardo, the current Leonardo's appearance has not yet been offline, and he is born with a rebellious young temperament, which has been vividly reflected in "Cat and Mouse Game", he came to play this role, not only has a perfect temperament, good acting skills, but also looks online, he is definitely the best candidate, there is no one.

Now it's okay, these two best actors in Li Mu's mind are in place.

Not only the two of them, but even Anne Hathaway has already been in place, and a total of five key leading actors have been confirmed for three.

In the script of "Flying Tigers", there are two leading actors with a lot of scenes, one is the role of a Chinese ace pilot, and the other is the role of a local rural girl in the southwest, as for the latter, Li Mu is very inclined to continue to let Du Wei play, this is not that he intends to take care of Du Wei in his heart, but Du Wei's acting skills are indeed very good, much better than those sent out by the academy.

Many academic actors have clumsy acting skills that make it difficult to look at them directly, but many non-academic actors can do their acting skills without revealing traces, and she is not only good-looking, but also has that kind of tender temperament, which is so suitable to play the most beautiful village girl or something.

And Li Mu can be sure that Du Wei will never refuse his invitation, so four of the five key leading actors have been determined.

As for the role of Huaxia ace pilot, Li Mu really fell into a difficult situation all of a sudden.

Although Zhang Kexuan's acting skills are okay, they are only okay, acting in idol dramas is okay, but he can't control this kind of big production at all.

In fact, there are many good actors in Huaxia, but Li Mucan think of older actors, such as Li Xuejian, Bao Guoan, Tang Guoqiang, Chen Zhiming, Ge You and Fan Wei, etc., but they are all too old.

Li Mu searched in his mind for an actor in Huaxia who is currently under the age of thirty and has OK acting skills, and after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't think of a suitable one.

This is not to blame Li Mu, in this era, domestic movies are already very weak, and occasionally a few films that perform well are almost all supported by those old actors, and there are few young actors who really come out, and there are not many good acting skills.

Li Mu also knows very well in his heart that if he wants to find the most suitable actor for this role, he should find it from the Hong Kong film industry, because among the younger generation of actors, the current acting skills and professionalism of young Hong Kong actors are indeed much higher than those in China.

However, Li Mu really does not want to use Hong Kong actors in such a movie, not that he has any discrimination and differential treatment of Hong Kong actors, but he feels that such an international film must control the language to a minimum, since it is a story of Chinese people and Americans fighting side by side, then the core language can only have Chinese Mandarin and English, and the Japanese invaders use a small amount of just right Japanese, which is the best result.

Therefore, all Chinese actors must use mainland actors who speak standard Mandarin, because really good movies can't be post-recorded, and they must be strictly recorded at the same time.

Moreover, Li Mu has an indescribable obsession in his heart, such a movie depicting the Chinese people's arduous war of resistance, he subconsciously hopes that all Chinese actors are all mainland actors, only in this way can they be more pure.

However, the young Chinese actors of this generation are really not angry, and Li Mu racked his brains, but he couldn't think of a few people who really had acting skills.

Huang Bo's acting skills are good, but his appearance is really sorry, if he wants to play this role, the audience will definitely think that the beautiful little nurse in the United States played by Anne Hathaway must be a blind girl;

Deng Chao's acting skills are also reasonable, but in his previous life, Li Mu watched him act in too many bad movies, and the transition was entertained, so he was really unwilling to give him such an important role;

Who should I use?

Li Mu pondered and meditated to no avail, but soon, he decided to put this problem aside, and then asked Wang Yuanlang to go to the hotel to take Spielberg to his home, ready to talk to him about the establishment of the group, since the five core actors have been put in place for four, it is time to officially start!

As for who will play the second male lead, Li Mu suddenly thought of a solution - after the production team, main lineup, investment scale, and story synopsis of "Flying Tigers" are announced, it will definitely bring great repercussions all over the world, especially in China and the United States, and the biggest repercussions must be the Chinese people.