Don defined the concept of high-quality American drama for Starz TV.

In the past few years, with the emergence of high-quality American dramas such as "Band of Brothers", "Six Feet Under", "True Detective", "The Walking Dead", "Vice President", "Warcraft" and other high-quality American dramas, Starz TV has also become famous and has become the most recognized professional cable TV station in the United States!

The number of subscribed members in North America has approached 35 million!

Overseas...... That is, the subscribers of the European branch, which also have 4 million households.

The total number of users worldwide is nearly 40 million!

And the competitor in this industry, the second place is HBO, with only 7 million members in North America!

Counting overseas users in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, the total number is about 10 million.

The gap is huge!

If Starz TV is given some more time to develop, after completing the layout in Europe, it will also be able to establish branches in Asia and Latin America, and it will become even stronger.

The STA network is now valued at more than $13.5 billion, the same price it paid when it merged with Down Pictures four years ago...... 85 times!

TV stations are obviously a traditional industry, but under the operation of Tangen's advanced concepts, the market value has grown so fast, just like an Internet technology company!

The difference is that the technology industry relies on concepts and bubbles to push the market value, and even companies like Amazon have been losing money year after year, and the market value is still rising.

The TV station relies on real performance!

Summer is here, and Starz TV Network is about to launch a new big-production, large-scale American drama - "Roma"!

This medieval historical drama will show the legendary Roman Empire on the TV screen.

The sources of American dramas broadcast by Starz TV station are mainly in three directions: outsourcing, self-production by the TV station, and self-production by the group.

Outsourcing refers to buying some old films with a good reputation and being loved by the audience from outside producers.

After all, Starz TV does not broadcast commercials, and only broadcasts pure dry goods 24 hours a day.

It's impossible to just show new films.

Especially in the early morning stage, no one watches it, and a large number of old movies are needed to fill the blank time period.

The TV station is self-produced, which refers to the TV production department of the STA TV network, and the representative work is the upcoming big production "Roma".

The group's self-produced refers to the TV production company from the New Global Group, Global TV.

The output of every big-budget American drama on Universal Television must be approved by Donn.

It's like every commercial blockbuster that costs more than $100 million from New Universal, and it can only be officially approved by Don En.

The latest big project is a proposal from Donn, a TV series about kung fu!

"Kung Fu" is really amazing.

Stupid Americans, think that all this is true, there are really people who can go to heaven and earth, with a hundred. Even they will think that every Chinese knows kung fu. There are not a few people who come to study.

Because that's how Hollywood movies are played, whenever there are Chinese, there will inevitably be Chinese kung fu.

There's nothing wrong with that.

This is a necessary stage in the rise of great powers.

In the early years of Hollywood movies, all the villains were Russian, and each of them was fierce and terrifying. As Russia has become more and more secular in recent years, the villains in Hollywood movies have gradually changed, from Russian agents to terrorists.

It's 2005 and it's a fantastic time period.

Internet information is not widespread enough, and the general impression of China in the United States is still at a loss, and even thinks that there are some kung fu masters with long braids.

This is a business opportunity for businessmen!

Don wants to make an American drama about a big production of Chinese kung fu!

This will be one of the most interesting topics for the American people at the moment.

It's going to be a huge money-making point.

If the Starz TV network wants to go global, it must have more diverse themes. This time it is Chinese, and next time it may be Latin American, Japanese or even Indian.

Originally, Tang En wanted Lao Mouzi to come over to take over the filming of this kung fu American drama, but because of many complicated relationships, Lao Mouzi rejected his kindness and filmed "The City is Full of Golden Armor".

Now, it's time to determine the main creators of this kung fu American drama.

The script came from the screenwriting department of Down Pictures, with Donn providing the story ideas and his royal screenwriters Deacon Whistler and Bryce Roach finishing the story.

The first version of the script has been finalized.

It's called "A Bamboo Dingjin Mountain".

Bamboo, naturally, is bamboo.

Jinshan refers to San Francisco.

As the name suggests, this is the story of a kung fu master who swept San Francisco with a bamboo stick and founded Chinatown, fighting for a land for the Chinese to survive.

The name of the protagonist of the film has not yet been determined, and it is tentatively named X.

The story takes place in 1878.

San Francisco's gold rush swept the world, and countless people came here to make a living.

Among them, there is a boatload of pigtailed people from the Qing Dynasty.

In those days, racial discrimination was very serious!

At that time, in San Francisco, the top class was the local chaebols, who held a lot of capital in their hands and had the power to dominate everything here.

At the middle level are government officials who receive funding from the chaebols to help them maintain law and order and make profits.

At the bottom were local workers, who had little power and were paid ordinary salaries.

The low-level Chinese laborers, who are the most popular cheap labor in the city.

Those who are worse than the treatment of the Chinese can only be illegal black slaves.

The black man is stupid and does not fight for legal rights, and a person is tall and well-behaved like a kitten. The Chinese, on the other hand, will never lack struggle in a land that has been war-torn for thousands of years.

Then, this group of Chinese laborers, who were the first to land in North America, began a series of power struggles! They wanted to use their own hands to fight for the next land of their own survival in the United States!

Industrious Chinese landed in San Francisco and became cheap laborers, which suddenly deprived the local labor force of employment opportunities.

So, they began to fight back and frantically suppressed the Chinese workers. Seeing that there were more and more casualties, the chaebol had no choice but to come forward. In their eyes, it is not the lives of this group of people that are valued, but they do not want to lose this group of cheap labor. Because of this, Chinese workers have to sign up for a group to keep warm, but there are only two ways out: coolies and gangs!

Coolies like black people?

That's impossible!

Then there is only one choice left - the Chinese must have their own gangs!

This is a history of blood and tears of the struggle of the yellow race in the United States, and it is an inspirational story of growth.

It will be mixed with love, family affection, friendship, as well as stories of intrigue, power, beauty, murder, revenge and even abuse.

Of course, the biggest selling point is Chinese Kung Fu!

The protagonist X will be a "dragon mother"-like character in "Game of Thrones", fighting all the way, killing and killing, and fighting against all the injustices in the world. First, they swept through the halls of Chinatown, integrated the power of the Chinese people, and then united with the outside world to protect the interests and dignity of the yellow race.

This would be more detached from reality.

Because in those days, no matter how strong the Chinese were, it was impossible to fight against the local chaebols, and the law and guns were in the hands of others. The Chinese have only two options – kneel or die.

The establishment of Chinatown was also far from great, just a slum allocated to the survival of Chinese workers by the chaebols and the power class.

If it is realistically shot, it will be too cruel.

Not to mention Chinese and yellow people, even white Americans are very uncomfortable when they see it.

The ratings must have been miserable.

For the sake of the market, it is necessary to shoot "cool".

Exaggerate the magical effect of "Kung Fu" to show that Chinese people come to the United States to create the American Dream and gain recognition and success.

This will also be in line with the mainstream values of the United States today.

Of course, after decades of development, Chinatown's strength has grown, the number of Chinese workers has increased, and the strength of Tangkou has become stronger and stronger, and it will be too powerful after forming a real big force.

It's so bad that white people can't live anymore.

The U.S. Congress, which calls for "democracy, freedom, and equality," will introduce the "Chinese Exclusion Act" to restrict the development of Chinese in the United States and protect the rights and interests of white people.

This part of the content will not appear in the episodes, at least not in the first season.

"This TV series needs to use a large number of Asian faces, especially Chinese, and the main creative team must also be Chinese-American, including producers and directors. ”

Ted Sarandos, the president of Universal Television, reported back to Donn, and he replied like this.

Lao Mouzi quit, and there are others!

There has never been a shortage of Chinese Americans in Hollywood!

Ted Sarandos said, "There are huge risks associated with the use of people of color. Fortunately, Starz TV is aimed at the best group of high-quality users, who have higher incomes, higher quality, and more adaptability. My only concern is...... Male lead. ”

"Huh?"

Tang En was slightly stunned.

He has long been hand-picked by the actor of this American drama.

No matter who the producers and directors of the show will choose in the future, the actor must be Jett Lee!

This is a big-budget American drama!

Looking at the world, only Asians like Jett Lee can withstand such profit pressure.

It's too risky to change to a new person, or a little-known person.

It can be said that the reason why "One Bamboo Deposit Mountain" was able to pass the budget review is entirely because of Jett Lee!

This is a kung fu superstar!

His appeal in the United States is too strong!

Ted Sarandos said: "Even if it's a big production...... But TV series are just TV series. Jett Lee is a Hollywood star and still very young. I'm afraid he is not willing to come to shoot a TV series at this time. ”

"Is this his attitude?" Donn frowned.

Ted Sarandos nodded, "His agent has been contacted. They didn't even accept our script, they just rejected it, and their attitude was very firm. ”

Don said unhappily: "Ted, I think this is your work mistake! Jett Lee's situation I know that his last film suffered a serious box office failure, and he can only go back to Asia to make a "Huo Yuanjia"! Although our project is a TV series, we are Hollywood!"

Jett Lee's last starring movie was "Danny Wolf Dog", which cost 45 million to produce, with a total investment of up to $70 million including various expenses such as publicity, taxes, and division of labor.

As a result, the film grossed less than $50 million worldwide.

At least $30 million in losses!

Coupled with the fact that the box office of a movie "Deadly Cradle" starring him did not meet expectations, Jett Lee's era of glory in Hollywood has passed.

Just like John Wu and Jack Chen, they can only return to China to develop.

Is it a shame to make a big-budget Hollywood American drama?

At Al Pacino's level, he has just finished filming an HBO American drama.

。 Nine Heavenly God Emperors