Wang Yang did not take advantage of the film reviews of Jeffrey Westerhoff and others, for him, this war of words ended here, and the world will naturally know who wins and who loses in the future.

Compared to last year, when he was a popular candidate for various awards such as Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Screenplay, this year's awards season is "alone", which means that he does not need to participate in any promotional canvassing activities such as film press conferences and press conferences, and can enjoy the holiday at leisure.

Of course, since the release of "The Devil Wears Prada", before the Christmas holiday, Wang Yang has not been lazy, and has followed up a lot of work every day.

Not to mention the occasional decision-making advice provided to Flame Films, "Prison Break", one of the several film and television works he is personally responsible for, will return to the air on January 12 after the winter break, the production preparations for the second season of "Prison Break: Escape" continue, and the script is still being written and finalized; In December, he completed the audition and joined the crew.

The first season is $60,000 per person per episode, which is the unified salary of the five leading actors, 300,000 per episode compared to 4.8 million per episode premiere copyright fee, Flame Family Entertainment is really a treasure for fortune! But $60,000 per person per episode is already the most first-class price for newcomers and new dramas in the industry, and it is impossible for Flame to break the industry rules and have to give 100,000 per episode, and Jim Parsons and others are also very satisfied and excited about this film contract.

The 04 edition of The Big Bang Theory will add a colleague character to a talented Chinese-American mathematician at Caltech named Freddie Lee.

In fact, "Freddie" is a name for Wang Yang, because strictly speaking, his middle name is Fly, and he doesn't know what his parents think, which means that Fly seems to be very cool, and the first and second names are even more "youthful and flying", but Fly also has the meaning of flies and flying insects. Wang Yang didn't hate this moth, but few people called him that way since he was a child, and his family had always been Yang and Young, and only a few old friends mutated into Freddie, who used to be fun and affectionate.

In any case, Freddie Lee entered the world of "The Big Bang Theory", and it is too difficult to find a good and suitable Chinese actor, after the "Big Bang Theory" team auditioned, Wang Yang finally fell in love with Cen Yongkang (Harry-Shum-Jr.), who had played a small supporting role in "Dance Out of My Life".

Cen Yongkang was born in Costa Rica on April 28, 1982, and his family moved to San Francisco when he was 5 or 6 years old to grow up, he was tall and strong at 184CM, and began to learn dance in a dance company in high school, including break dance, mechanical dance, electric current dance, lock dance, etc., dance skills are very amazing, compared to Wang Yang's level of being limited to playing prestige in bars and nightclubs, little Harry is a professional player.

At the 2002 BET Awards (Black-Entertainment-Television-Aards), an award for African-American and minority American artists, Shum started his career as the only male dancer in his ic-VIE session, and later got the opportunity to be one of the backup dancers of Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, and others in "Dance Out of My Life", followed by "The Big Bang Theory."

Little Harry is not so "handsome and chic" but has a good on-screen charm, suitable for the image of a leftover male scientist who can't find a girlfriend, and has the shy and shy temperament of a geek, with a pure accent and a good understanding of the characters in the script, Wang Yang is very relieved to hand over Freddy Lee to him.

As for Penny's actor, Wang Yang previously asked Carré Cuoco's agent about her schedule and audition possibilities, but he didn't expect that a lot of things would change just by asking. Although the role of "Brigitte Hennessy" was loved by the audience, brought Carré plenty of popularity, and she won the Teen Choice Award, Carré Cuoco's agent has long been dissatisfied with the ratings of "Eight Routines for Dating My Daughter", believing that it is a waste of her talent and time.

In 2004, the TV movie "Big Boss Girls" starring Carré Cuco and Megan Fox, two new stars, will be broadcast on ABC, which will naturally directly affect the future of the two on the screen, but in terms of the screen that can be touched, there is also a reason not to shoot the third season of "Eight Rules for Dating My Daughter" for ABC?

You think you're Jennifer Aniston? Originally, "Eight Rules for Dating My Daughter" had a serious decline in ratings, which made people disheartened, and the passing of "Friends" next year brought the opportunity for the sitcom "The Great Voyage", and "The Big Bang Theory" is about to debut, which made the new Annie Sweeney and other senior executives of the ABC Entertainment Department ambitious and ambitious, and they dared to create "Lost", which is known as "the most expensive TV series in history", and they are afraid that there will be no good sitcom?

So during this winter break, ABC announced that it would no longer produce the third season of "Eight Rules" because of unsatisfactory results.

Carré Cuoko lost her most important job all of a sudden, which is a bit of a big game! The agent didn't expect ABC to suddenly become strong from cowardly, and if he couldn't find a new film, he would really shoot himself in the foot. But if it weren't for Wonder Young's audition inquiry, he wouldn't have adopted this strange strategy, and the best outcome now is naturally to join "The Big Bang Theory" as the heroine.

Now that Carré Cuco has become a free man, Penny's choice has an answer. Wang Yang was a little speechless about becoming the "culprit", but Carré Cuoko's acting skills were guaranteed, and the way of acting, temperament and appearance, and chemistry with Jim Parsons and others were completely OK, so he happily gave Carré Cuco confidence and invited her to audition for Penny, but she had to wait for a while, save some face for ABC, and was not in a hurry to start the film anyway.

With Wonder Young's optimism and commitment, Carré Cuoko's agent breathed a sigh of relief, and then became excited to star in "The Big Bang Theory...... Who said 18-year-old Carré Cuco can't be the next Jennifer Aniston!

In addition to the work of "Prison Break: Escape" and "The Big Bang Theory", Wang Yang's energy is still mainly invested in the preparation of "Firefly", selecting actors for important roles, and participating in the design and preparation of various crew departments such as directing art, props, costumes, and special effects.

In the joyful holiday atmosphere, the New Year's bell is getting closer and closer, and the last weekend of 03 years on the 26th-28th has become history, and in the total box office of 200 million, "The Lord of the Rings 3" and "TDP" continue to rank first and second in the first and second place to collect money;

This sci-fi action film with a production cost of 60 million made co-investors Paramount and DreamWorks suffer nightmares, starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman innocently became "poison", with only 13.46 million openings, and the freshness of the two film reviews on Rotten Tomatoes was 27% and 13%, but John Woo was not magical Yang this time, nor was it Wen Ziren, and the audience's liking was only 52%, boring, bloated, sleepy, noisy and stupid, boring chase, rotten, rotten, rotten, rotten...... Needless to say, the 57-year-old John Woo has been in Hong Kong for many years, "The True Colors of Heroes" and "Bloody Heroes" are all classics in film history; after coming to Hollywood to develop, "Broken Arrow" with John Travolta and Kristen Slater, "Changing Face" with Travolta and Nicolas Cage was a great success and had countless fans, and "Disc in Disc 2" in 2000 It was also the global box office champion of the year, which also made him a first-line director in Hollywood, and left his name and footprints on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 21, 2002.

Duel between two heroes, bloody shootouts, sunglasses trench coat, pigeon church...... With Zhang Che as his teacher, the blue is better than the blue, and the "king of gunfights" John Woo has raised violence to the realm of aesthetics, making audiences all over the world crazy, and making gunfight action movie directors all over the world scramble to learn.

A film critic once joked with Quentin Tatino: "John Woo will explode, set fires, and act in shootouts." Quentin Taontino replied: "Yes, Michelangelo is just painting the wall." Samuel L. Jackson once said in gunplay training in the supposedly real "Counter-Terrorism SWAT Team": "They're just rolling in John Wu's movies, not in real combat!"

These all illustrate John Woo's status from the side, but since June 14, 2002, John Woo seems to have been given some terrible head, and he has really and constantly encountered Waterloo.

"Mission: Impossible 2" is also the global box office champion of the year, and Fantastic Yang is only the fourth, twice in 2000 "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" and 2002 "District 9".

But "Wind Whisperer" made John Woo usher in a big nightmare for MGM when he was proud of the spring breeze, and then in April this year, "Bulletproof Monk" supervised by him only received 37.71 million global box office, compared to the production cost of 52 million, the producer Lakeshore Entertainment and the distributor MGM lost a lot of pain, in addition to the problem of the film itself, at that time, the shadow of the US-Iraq war shrouded the world, who would watch an action movie?

And now that "Memory Rift is doing it again," Paramount and DreamWorks executives are starting to ask themselves, "How can I still trust John Wu?"

The two major productions directed in a row have received the worst fruits, and all the aura has been lost, and there is nothing left, and John Woo will never be able to make a good movie again!

In Mark Slunter's words, "No one in Hollywood will use him anymore, he's just old, and more importantly, he's not lucky." "The old fool has no aura, and he doesn't have any luck, and he gets the label "inauspicious" that he is most afraid of getting in the industry, speaking of which John Woo is 100% of the office building rules, the annual champion, and the Avenue of Stars...... End. And Wang Yang has seen John Woo's return to the Chinese-speaking circle in his mind "Red Cliff", and it continues to be not good.

Why? Shootout action movies have reached their peak, tired of it, and want to transform? But after suffering a fiasco, shouldn't you look for a suitable opportunity and try your best to prove that you are not old? What is more suitable for John Woo than a cool, tense and exciting gunfight action movie?

Wang Yang couldn't understand why this master of violent aesthetics had to force himself to make unfamiliar science fiction and historical films at such a critical juncture of life and death? Isn't the lesson of the war film of "The Wind Whisperer" still obvious? Or is no one providing such an opportunity for a film appointment?

Like many directors, Wang Yang admires and loves John Woo's style very much, "The True Color of Heroes" and "Changing Face" are among his favorite action movies...... In any case, he didn't think that John Woo was too old to move, he just wanted to believe in this old guy who had no aura and no luck once! With a film contract that is most suitable for the "King of Guns".

It's not the American version of "Infernal Affairs", John Woo is not this kind of story style, "Infernal Affairs" doesn't need cool shootouts, the struggle of human nature is the soul! If they are put together, it may be a happy marriage, but it is a bit "ruined" for both parties.

"Hi, John!" The bright and elegant study, although it is not a Christmas holiday for non-office, but this is not the Chinese New Year after all, after watching the unstoppable failure of "Memory Rift", Wang Yang mustered up his energy, and called Wu Yusen with a little excitement. His early knowledge brought good preparations, and this film was one of the key plans of the Flame Group in 2005, and even if John Woo did not direct, there would be someone else in the director's chair.

"You invited me to direct a new movie?" John Woo, who was in Los Angeles at the moment, was very surprised, he and Wang Yang had known each other for a long time, and their friendship was extensive, and Ang Lee, who was like a rat on the street a while ago, got the microphone of the director of "Brokeback Mountain", and he secretly joked to himself, if "Memory Rift" failed again, maybe the 34-year-old Magic Yang would ask him to make a movie. I didn't expect self-deprecation to become a reality!

He suddenly didn't know what to say, and it was a ...... that someone would look at "Memory Rift" when it was squashed by a crane and smile at him to make a movie" Director John Wu has launched the landmark latest thriller "Paycheck", which is probably the stupidest film of 2003. The stupid story, the stupid details, and the acting are pretty weak! And surprisingly, the duel between the good guys and the bad guys is disorganized, the camera sequence is chaotic, it's dull, and there's no trace of John Wu's previous excellence. It's too bad! It just makes a whole bunch of painful mockery. ——. Wolski, BOX website.

"Yes!How about it?" Wang Yang leaned back in his chair, looked at the film review on the computer screen, shrugged his shoulders, and said seriously: "John, what's the problem? I know that the situation of "Memory Rift" is a bit bad now, and we Chinese directors have recently been hit four times by the film critics. He chuckled and continued, "But you know I don't agree that you were eliminated, you just made the wrong choice. I don't care about "The Wind Whisperer", I don't care about "Memory Rift", I don't believe you're old, so I wanted to invite you to direct a pure gunfight action movie. ”

Pure gunfight action movie?John Woo's heart jumped suddenly, and his breath was short: "Oh!" After "Mission Impossible 2" won the global annual championship, he was tired of losing his enthusiasm for action movies, and said to himself, "You can't play with two guns for a lifetime, you have to make some movies with more connotation, just like literary films and song and dance films", after "Wind Whisperer", he knew his thoughts: "I want to prove that I am not old!"

In the end, he got "Memory Rift", which combines sci-fi, suspense, thriller, and action elements, and he thought he could do it, but it fell back again! Now he really longs for another chance, a chance to be ashamed!

It's just that the agent has warned him many times: "John, don't mess up, you mess up and you will be eliminated." "It's not the first day he made a movie and the first day he came to Hollywood, he knows this, he's already a little disheartened, it's too tiring to toss around like an ant in the past few years, is he really old?

Now Wang Yang ...... I don't believe you're old, gunfight action movie! Wu Yusen was so excited that he was speechless for a few seconds, and when he heard Wang Yang say "How is it?" over there, he smiled in surprise: "Oh, I'm interested, what kind of movie is that?"

"Well, the idea was to adapt a comic. Wang Yang tapped the keyboard a few times, but his brows furrowed, was Wu Yusen excited or hesitant? If he didn't have the enthusiasm to direct, naturally there would be no great drop in the level of aura, even if he was equipped with the right equipment, he couldn't shoot well, enthusiasm is the life of a director.

Looking at the screen, Wang Yangxian continued: "This is a new comic released by Top-Co-Productions in December this year, Mark Miller's "Wanted" ("League of Assassins"), presumably the protagonist Wesley Gibson is a loser, and almost everyone in life bullies him. Suddenly, one day, a hot beauty killer Fox came running and said that his father was a killer and still dead, and Wesley was going to be the new killer......"

Flame Films has negotiated with Top-Co-Productions and Mark Miller about adapting the film, and although they have not signed a contract yet, they have a good conversation, and Mark Miller is very flattered. Wang Yang knew that he must win the "Wanted", even if others raised the price to eight figures, there was only one word: "Follow." "But the "Wanted" that has just been released has not attracted anyone's attention at all.

After giving John Woo a rough overview of the story and worldview of "Wanted", Wang Yang smiled and said into the phone: "John, I don't know what you think, but I think you should go back to gunfight action movies at present, don't you want to tell others that you are not old, and you don't want to surpass yourself? I still remember a line from "The True Color of Heroes". ”

He paused, and gradually read aloud in impure Cantonese: "I have waited for this opportunity for three years, I want to fight for a breath, not to prove that I am more powerful than others, I just want to prove that what I have lost, I must get it back!"

John Woo's breathing was rapid again.

(To be continued)