Chapter 090: Asian, Li Xiang's Layout
Ludy slowly opened the script of "Law-abiding Citizen" and began to read it slowly.
Through reading, he learned that the synopsis of the story goes like this:
Clyde Lee is an Asian-American R&D worker living in a small town in Philadelphia, and he has a beautiful wife and lovely daughter, and he lives a happy life.
But all this was destroyed by a sudden disaster.
One night, two thugs broke into his home, killing both his wife and daughter.
However, despite the conclusive evidence, due to the pedantry of the judicial process and the depravity of Assistant Executive Nick Rhys, the first offender, Clarence Dobby, was finally sentenced to only 10 years in prison for lack of evidence.
I thought everything would be silent, but 10 years later, the unfinished turmoil reappeared.
Filled with great hatred, Clyde begins to plot revenge, first by killing his former accomplice Ami, and then by quickly finding the evil and shameless Dobby, and brutally torturing and killing him.
Clyde's hatred is cathartic, but his revenge doesn't stop there. He was not just targeting those two thugs, but the entire rotten and depraved justice system......
Li Xiang made some changes to the script, the biggest of which was to change the male lead to an Asian American, which Li Xiang felt would make the whole movie more shocking and contrasting.
As we all know, in the United States, the social status of Asians is lower than that of blacks, but the Asian group of middle-class Americans in the United States is significantly larger than the black group, why is this?
The status of an ethnic group in the United States is determined more by the elite of the ethnic group than by the overall average income of the ethnic group, and at the same time, the status of an ethnic group in the United States is determined by its media control, and the Asian ethnic group is the weakest in these two aspects.
This is also a test that Li Xiang did in order to enter the North American market, there is really no challenge in China, with the escort of optical fiber and Wanda, as long as Li Xiang does not suddenly lose his memory, then there will be basically no problems.
China has its own culture and splendid civilization, so why can't I export it to other countries?
Li Xiang doesn't want to be just a rat carrying a gun, being able to go out and let foreigners accept and like our culture is what Li wants to do.
And all this is not an overnight thing, Li Xiang also understands the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, the first thing to do is to make our people the leading actors in Hollywood movies.
When North American audiences gradually get used to the existence of Chinese male protagonists, they will slowly integrate our mythology, Xianxia, martial arts and other cultural cores into the movie, so that they will be much more acceptable.
Li Xiang's ultimate goal is to lay a big territory for China Entertainment through his own efforts.
Thousands of high-rise buildings rise from the ground, and the topic has to return to "Law-abiding Citizen", and Li Xiang also chose Yu Rongguang after careful consideration.
Uncle Guang is familiar in front of the North American audience with the "Hurricane Rescue" series, and it is very suitable for him to star in "Law-abiding Citizen".
Secondly, this is a medium-budget movie, and after the investment is apportioned, there is not much pressure on the girl and Feixiang, to put it simply, Li Xiang can afford to lose.
But just because he thinks so doesn't mean Jason thinks so too.
It's not that Jason opposes Lee Xiang to use Asian actors in his script, he doesn't care about this, if he were so demanding, there would be no "Double Treasure Fighting Demons" and "The Undead", you must know that there are basically no famous actors in the last two movies, Yu Rongguang has the "Hurricane Rescue" series as a foundation.
What he is worried about is whether he can control this type of movie, which is also directly related to his long-term living in a strong family, which leads to a somewhat cowardly character, that is, no accurate idea.
"This script is very good, but it's a bit bloody, I guess it's best to be R-rated!" Lu Di is an old filmmaker, and the script is indeed very exciting, but the rating will definitely not be high.
"I'm not asking you this, I'm afraid that this investment will be bigger than my previous ones, I'm worried..."
"Jason, I ask you! How much money did you have before filming Double Treasure Fighting Demons?" Ludy interrupted Jason and asked.
"$2,000, it seems, maybe not that much, why do you ask this?" Jason couldn't remember how much money he had at the time.
"And what is your net worth now?" Ludy still didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.
"I have 30% of the shares of Sister Studio, and I have a net worth of nearly 2 million!" Jason calculated carefully, and it seemed that he was now a millionaire.
"From 2,000 to 2,000,000,000, you only took less than two years, what are you afraid of? Even if you lose this time, what does it matter? You are only 25 years old, and you can afford to lose at all! Son, do you know what I mean?" Lu Di said his thoughts, afraid of a yarn, don't be cowardly!
"Dad, you have so much faith in me?" Truth be told, Jason was touched.
"You think too much, relatively speaking, I'm more optimistic about Xingke, his script is very new every time!" Ludy poured cold water on Jason very inappropriately.
"This is my poisonous Ludy's father, this investment is not small, do you want to join in it?" Fortunately, Jason didn't shed tears, he knew his father's routine too well.
"8 million, I don't have any more, take it from you, use it for you, and shoot it well!" Lu Di took out the proceeds of the two movies, which shows that his poisonous tongue is poisonous tongue, and the strong fatherly love in his heart is still inadvertently revealed.
"Dad, you really are..." Jason's eyes were red.
"Isn't it very moving?" Ludy was not good at showing affection in front of his son, so he was ready to send a big hair with a hippie smile.
"You really are... It's shameless, this time you can invest about 5 million at most, Xingke said that he has already made more than half of the investment. "You must know that there is no shortage of investors in good film projects, and this is Jason's relenting mouth for the sake of investors being his father.
"Stinky boy, what are you dragging?" Ludy said with a snort.
"Dad, I'll reveal another news to you, Xingke will come to the United States to make a blockbuster next summer, and the budget is tentatively set at 80 million US dollars, if you are interested, you can also discuss with Xingke and participate in it!"
"80 million, that's not a small amount, what is he going to shoot?" asked Ludy, raising an eyebrow.
"It's one of the bunch of novel copyrights he asked me to buy before, called... By the way, it's called The Hunger Games!"
"The Hunger Games on the best-selling list?" said Ludy looked a little excited.
"If nothing else, it should be that novel!" Jason didn't care about the novel, so he naturally didn't know how popular the novel was.