As soon as Mark was working on "Rogue One", several distinguished guests came to the office, the popular director Wen Ziren, who brought the producer of "Fast and Furious 4" bald man Vin Diesel and director Lin Zhibin.

The Fast and Furious franchise has been in its eight years since 2009, during which the three films have different directors and different reviews. The first part of "Fast and Furious" has always been considered the best in the series, and then it is not as good as the other, and it is recognized that one crab is not as good as one, and the last "Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift" has created the worst word-of-mouth so far, when it was rumored that Universal wanted to stop the series.

Director Lin Zhibin, who directed "Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift", mentioned the failure of the previous episode, he said that he was willing to accept criticism, because the production of the previous episode was independent of the first two episodes, the resources available at hand were limited, and the production cost could not be compared with the first two episodes, for him who was making this type of film for the first time, there were also some problems, but he felt that he had fulfilled his responsibility, and after the film was produced, he made many suggestions to the company, and only after the production of the film did he have the opportunity to continue to make a sequel.

At the beginning of the planning of the film, what the producer had to prepare was how to shoot the racing car with a sense of speed and more thrilling, so the crew designed a variety of different drag racing scenes, and tested the feasibility of shooting again and again.

The return of the original cast is the biggest attraction, and for a movie about racing, the title of "Fast and Furious" aptly points out the two major elements of this type of movie: the passion of racing on the road with various brand-name sports cars, and experiencing the ultimate speed of more than 200KM/H.

After the trip to Tokyo in the third episode of the "Fast and Furious" series, the film launched the lineup of the first part, recalling the two stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, and Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster also returned as the heroines.

"Fast and Furious 4" was released in the North North region in April and set a record for the highest box office opening weekend for a new Hollywood film of the year.

According to Universal, the film's total box office revenue over the weekend reached $72.5 million, which not only surpassed any film released since 2009, but also set a record for the highest opening weekend of a new film in April in Hollywood history.

"Fast and Furious 4" continues to be directed by Taiwanese-born Chinese director Lin Zhibin, who directed "Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift", except that the film reinforces the entire cast of 2001's "Fast and Furious 1" starring.

The film tells the story of a former gang leader played by Vin Diesel who reunites with an undercover police detective played by Paul Walker after being released from prison and infiltrates a drug trafficking organization according to the police arrangement.

In addition, "Fast and Furious 4" was released this weekend in 32 film markets outside of North America, and its total overseas box office revenue reached $30.1 million over the weekend.

The impressive box office performance of "Fast and Furious 4" has become one of Hollywood's recent surprises, and the total box office revenue in the North North region this weekend reached $160 million, a 68% jump from the same period last year. As of the end of this week, the 2009 North American box office has grossed $2.57 billion, 14.5 percent more than the same period last year.

This achievement is actually quite showy, and it can be done at any time, but compared with "Iron Man 2", "Transformers 2", "Harry Potter 6" and other strong works that break 100 million in three days and 200 million in a single day, it is not enough to watch.

And because of the losses of 2 and 3, the income of 1 and 4 is only for Universal to make a hard-earned money, barely maintaining an average income and expenditure, but the production cost of the film is rising, coupled with the failure of several blockbusters invested by Universal, and the economic crisis, banks are shrinking their money and refusing to lend, Universal is not sure whether to make a fifth film.

One of the producers, Vin Diesel and Lin Yibin, insisted on making a sequel and wrote the script, but Ron Meyer, the president of Universal, had a headache when he saw the production cost of 150 million, and in a disaster year, the landlord's family had no surplus food!

Meyer saw Diesel and Lin Yibin's confident looks, and made a decision that he regretted, so he said: "If you can bring in funds, I don't mind giving up some of the copyrights!"

Diesel and Lin Yibin believed it and immediately ran around to attract investment, but when investors heard that the racing movie with an investment of hundreds of millions was still made in South America, they all shook their heads.

This Lin Yibin and Wen Ziren have a good personal relationship, and Wen Ziren is like a fish in water in MM, and under his recommendation, they came to Mark, came to the office of the Hollywood God Hand, and sold and peddled this plan to him.

Mark no longer doubts his protagonist's aura, what he wants, someone will always send it automatically, he doesn't slander the "Fast and Furious" series? That's fake, he thinks this is the lifeblood of Universal, whoever touches it will die? Why hurt the harmony of his peers, who knows that Universal will automatically send it to the door, this is disrespectful.

But he doubted the sincerity of the other party, thinking that the other party might be testing him, in Hollywood, as long as Mark fancied the work, it was immediately worth a hundred times and became a hot item, there was already such a precedent, someone sent the work to Mark, when he saw it, he immediately changed hands and spun it out, successfully hyped himself up, and made the difference.

He snorted and said, "I like this project, but what is popular now is fantasy blockbusters and superhero blockbusters, and this racing movie is not favored." ”

Vin Diesel is a person with a unique personality, he is physically strong, whether it is movies or daily life, he is mainly based on vests, which makes people feel handsome, that muscle, that voice, some people say, this unique voice is the world's most magnetic hard-core male smoked voice, just listening to his voice is a pleasure.

He is one of Hollywood's toughest guys, and from the outside, Vin Diesel looks like a heavy locomotive, but in fact he is quite artistically talented, writing and directing himself. Powerful, muscular, and tall, Van Diesel is a cynical and maverick who has two kinds of blood in his veins, one from romantic Italy and the other from ancient and mysterious Africa, which makes him often show a different style on the screen.

Unlike many celebrities who are riddled with scandals and want to know the world, Vin Diesel refuses to reveal his life history to the outside world, and even keeps his real name secret, he only publicly says that his real surname is Vincent.

He has been in a relationship with supermodel Paroma Gimanez for many years, but Vin Diesel has always blocked the news and did not announce the news to the outside world, and their relationship is also very low-key, Paloma is a woman who combines beauty and intelligence, and she was a lawyer before entering the industry as a model.

This top Hollywood action superstar, the producer is a good person, he can naturally see Mark's hesitation, it is not easy to meet a super-rich man like Mark, he knows that he has to waste the hard-won opportunity to hide, he said: "We are not empty-handed people, we have the power of attorney of the global president, if an agreement is reached, we can sign at any time, but we come with a contract, full of sincerity." ”

In fact, he has cooperated with Columbia, when his famous work "Extreme Agent" was a Colombian work, but because of the salary affair broke up, the fiasco of "Extreme Agent 2" in 2005 made the relationship between the two sides more tense, but over the years, Colombia has undergone earth-shaking changes, no one cares about the grievances in previous years, one is a rare action superstar in Hollywood, the other is a giant film company, there is still a lot of room for cooperation.

Mark saw that the other party was coming with dry goods, and he was secretly happy, he didn't want to do it, an eighty-year-old woman, collapsed the child's work, he said: "Actually, I am not optimistic about the prospects of this project, the racing movie, this is the fourth, the market potential should be almost explored, and the last cooperation with Universal was not very pleasant." ”

He was referring to "The Incredible Hulk", a movie with a huge investment that hit the streets, Universal accused Marvel of cutting corners, even "Iron Man" can be made like this, and the more famous "Hulk" is even inferior, (Iron Man can only be regarded as a second-tier person in Marvel superheroes, but with its global box office hit, he has jumped to Marvel's eldest son and shouldered the responsibility of defending world peace).

And Marvel accused Universal of shielding and conniving at Norton, changing the script again and again, and tossing a superhero blockbuster out of the literary atmosphere, is it strange not to pounce?

The bald guy promised: "No, we will use the original team, and delegate power to Lin (Zhibin), and concentrate on making a purely commercial popcorn movie, you can listen to Lin's thoughts? He has a lot of ideas for movies, and he has even conceived the plot of the sixth or seventh part, if the movie is a big hit, we will make it into a series, a global blockbuster racing series of movies." ”

Promoting movies to investors is the only way to impress them, and it is the practice of many film companies to make a series when it sells well, which is safe and secure, and MM, Warner, Disney, and Universal are even more proficient, but this series of IP is not said to be created, often one of more than 100 projects can be selected, and it is a good result.

Mark looked interested and said, "I'm listening!"