Spielberg decided to set off for China on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month of the Chinese calendar, and he came with him, in addition to more than 20 American Flying Tigers and their relatives, there were also film crews that followed the shooting record throughout the whole process, and there were two teams of randomly filmed film crews, one team was sent by Li Mu and Liu Xin, and the other team was found by Spielberg through a relationship.

According to Spielberg, the film team he hired was a well-known documentary team with close ties to Hollywood, and HBO had a very close cooperation with them, and the team that filmed "Band of Brothers" provided great help.

Spielberg invited them over for two purposes, one is to have an extra documentary perspective, which can make this great meeting more perfect; and the other is that HBO likes to do big themes very much, and is also very good at big themes, "Flying Tigers" is made for two hours, it is a movie, and if it is made for 20 hours, it is a TV series, HBO is best at using the battle to create a TV series, if they are interested in "Flying Tigers", they can sell the copyright to them, or directly cooperate with them to make a TV series together.

Li Mu naturally has no opinion on this, in the IP era, the derivative direction of an IP is naturally as much as possible, one is published on the Internet first, and then published after the quality and popularity reach the standard, and then there is sound, and then comics, animation, and then changed into online dramas, Internet universities, satellite TV dramas, cinema movies, and even changed into terminal games, web games, mobile games and even console games......

In short, as long as the story is good and popular, its development must be diversified, and the more diversified a story develops, the more audiences it will have, and no one has limited "Flying Tigers" to be only a movie, of course, it can also be made into a TV series, if it is a domestic film and television company that wants to buy "Flying Tigers" 's TV series copyright, no matter how much money is taken out, Li Mu will not agree, even if he kneels to call his father, he will not agree, if it is HBO, Li Mu can not pay a penny of copyright fees, as long as you HBO give me the greatness and fearlessness of the Chinese military and civilians when they resisted Japan, and give me the true restoration of the crimes of the Japanese invaders back then, I can paste your money.

Li Mu has never made "Flying Tigers" not to make money, but for the country, for the nation, for history, no matter how much money is spent for these three things, Li Mu will not hesitate.

Because considering that the plane arrived in Spring City on the 14th day of the first lunar month, just in time for the Lantern Festival, Li Mu arranged for these American Flying Tigers to spend a holiday with the old Chinese Flying Tigers first, and then asked volunteers to arrange for them to go to the old site of the former Flying Tigers base, as well as some places with common memories to see, give them a few days to reunite and find past memories, and officially hold a press conference on the 18th day of the first month.

At this press conference, Li Mu not only wanted to announce other characters of "Flying Tigers" to the society together with Spielberg, but also announced the situation of the Veterans Immortal Charity Foundation, as well as the public welfare action of "looking for surviving Flying Tigers" that the foundation is currently fully operating.

Li Mu asked people to coordinate an Air China 747 passenger plane to go to the United States five days in advance to do the painting, after which until the charter mission of the old Flying Tigers, this aircraft will not take on other flight missions, Boeing 747 is the largest civil airliner at the moment, it is not a simple project to change the paint for such a four-engine large aircraft, it is time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly, but in order to achieve the expected effect, Li Mu does not care about this investment at all.

Fortunately, the leaders of Air China have learned the clear positioning of the Veterans Immortal Charity Foundation and the details of this activity to find the surviving Flying Tigers, and it is rare that they are also very supportive of this public welfare activity, and Air China is willing to undertake this charter flight for free, and hopes to be able to permanently retain the special livery of the 747 after the charter flight.

Li Mu is very happy with Air China's attitude, he cares not about saving money on charter flights, but about Air China's positive and cooperative attitude, which proves that the charity project of Veterans Do Not Die has great attraction and appeal to the whole society, and I believe that when he launches this charity project, it will definitely be recognized and supported by the whole society, and the more recognition and support, the more comprehensive the help that can be provided to veterans in the future.

With Wei Lan's account to Li Mu, let the Veterans Immortality Foundation continue to protect the current existing veterans until they die, in more than ten or twenty years, it needs at least hundreds of millions of yuan of funds to support, it seems that the funding gap is very large, but once this charity project becomes a phenomenal existence in society, with the population base of Huaxia, this funding gap is easy to fill in a short time.

In the next few years, the foundation can help the veterans of the Anti-Japanese War in Taiwan on the premise of covering all veterans in the mainland, and if there is still spare strength, it can also help the veterans of other countries who have resisted the Japanese invasion in Southeast Asia, and can even help the old Red Army of the Soviet Union who participated in the northeast attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army.

Li Mu, a nationalist, helped the anti-Japanese veterans of other countries, not simply to help them, but to use practical actions to create a justice alliance composed of anti-Japanese veterans as the core, always reminding the world of Japan's war atrocities, as long as he is able, he can fund groups around the world that have resisted the Japanese invaders, or have been hurt by the Japanese invaders.

Even if it was the American veterans who participated in the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and other wars, even the Soviet Red Army that fought the Japanese in Northeast China, and even the Liberation Army established under the organization of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea before the division of North and South Korea He wants to unite all those who can be united, in order to remind all the countries, nations and peoples that have suffered war and aggression, and hope that they will always remember that period of history, so that their children and grandchildren and their people will never forget all the hardships that the country called Japan has brought to the people of the world.

If you want to achieve this goal, the key lies in the energy that the Veterans Immortal Foundation can gather in society, and the domestic propaganda is only a part, and in the future, he must push this charitable organization to every corner of the world.

At this time, the people still don't know the existence of the Veterans Immortal Charity Foundation, and there are two big things they are more concerned about now, one is that there are so many criticisms of Li Mu on the Internet, why didn't he come out to give everyone an explanation, whether he is weak or has really broken away from the grassroots masses, and the other is when the Chinese actors of "Flying Tigers" will be announced.

Many media reporters are also waiting for an official clear statement on these two things, during this time, many media proposed to interview Li Mu, but without exception they were all politely refused, even Li Mu's central mother wanted to interview Li Mu, Li Mu also declined on the grounds that there was no time.

Before the press conference began, Li Mu was not ready to be interviewed by any media, and all misunderstandings, speculations and attacks were irrelevant to him, because he knew that everything would be completely announced to the public on the day of the press conference. All the rumors will be self-defeating in the press conference, before that, all explanations are in vain, meaningless, his time is precious, how can he have the energy to fight with every rumor maker one by one, this kind of attack can only be eliminated at one time, and all the enemies must be completed in one battle.

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On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Los Angeles time, a specially painted Boeing 747 at Los Angeles International Airport took off from the Boeing Airport in Seattle and landed at Los Angeles International Airport after several hours of flight.

After the Air China 747 completed the new livery at the Boeing assembly plant, it took off directly to Los Angeles, and immediately taxied into the large parking garage reserved at the airport after landing at Los Angeles Airport, so the entire appearance time was calculated from the time it descended to an altitude of 500 meters, and it took only ten minutes to land, thrust reverser and deceleration, and taxiing into storage.

Los Angeles International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, there are countless passenger planes taking off and landing here every day, and there are countless 747 models, and the livery of airlines from all over the world has them, generally except for flight enthusiasts, very few people can distinguish the difference between these aircraft, it stands to reason that Air China's veteran plane has only been exposed for more than ten minutes in many aircraft, which should not attract much attention, but its unique livery still makes many witnesses look sideways.

This specially painted 747 is indeed quite eye-catching, it is the largest civil airliner, and the front half of the nose is a double-layer design, much higher than the fuselage, and on the tall nose, a huge shark mouth shape is printed, although the shark is a cartoon shape, but it looks particularly majestic and domineering.

The vast majority of modern civil aviation livery is very orthodox, only a very small number of special opportunities to use cartoon paint, for example, some Japanese airliners will use cartoon characters as the theme of painting, the United States FedEx panda plane uses the giant panda as a livery, but the use of shark as a livery, it seems that in the field of civil aviation has never been seen.

In addition to the eye-catching shark mouth shape, there is also eye-catching text spraying on the fuselage, which reads "Veterans Do Not Die --- American Flying Tiger Special Plane" in Chinese and English, but because the plane has not stopped moving, most of the witnesses did not read the words on the fuselage clearly, but only saw the shark in the nose clearly, even if a few saw the text, they did not figure out the information.

There are also some witnesses who took pictures of this 747, but fortunately this is not the era of smartphones, even if it is now a relatively high-end camera phone, the maximum number of pixels is only 300,000, and the mobile phone Internet is still very unpopular, so there is no image circulating on the Internet.

It is about to cross the ocean and hemisphere to achieve a great reunion that will forever be recorded in history!