Chapter 58: The Crazy Reporter (Part 16)
Sitting in the business car, Xu Hui set off for Los Angeles Airport.
After tossing for so long, it's time to return home.
"Embroidered Spring Knife 2" is set for May Day, Lu Yang's first film directed independently, no matter how you say it, it will help promote it.
He also holds the post of executive producer.
"Embroidered Spring Knife" is Xu Hui's first work to prove his directorial talent, which is of great significance to Xu Hui.
The hard bar "Red Cliff", which was born in Wu Baige's body, bit a piece of meat, marking the birth of the most appealing commercial director in the mainland!
Of course, this movie was filmed when it was under the banner of Huayi, so most of the copyright is divided into Huayi Brothers, in order to get back the copyright so that it can be serialized, Huiwen World has paid a lot of price, "Lao Paoer" is one of them...
At present, there are a total of five plans, "Shura Battlefield", "The Biography of Ding Xiu", "Zhao Jingzhong", "Japanese Knife Technique", "Detective Record", as long as the reputation is passable, this series will definitely continue!
Serialization is the only way to maximize the value of IP!
And in itself, the story of the Ming Dynasty is very interesting...
To this day, there are still many fans of Xu Hui who strongly call for Xu Hui to appear in "The Biography of Ding Xiu" as an actor...
This is not in Xu Hui's plan for the time being...
When I turned on my phone, it was a message from Al Gough, yesterday, the third episode of "Wasteland" was launched, and the ratings were very stable, maintaining 6.4 million viewers, with a peak of 8 million.
AMC was relieved.
After all, there are really too few good stories.
Xu Hui smiled and put his hand back in his pocket.
That's for sure, the tone has been set, and when the script is perfect, the role played by the TV drama director is actually very small.
In fact, "Wasteland" has a high evaluation in North America, with an IMBD score of 8.7 and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 8.3, leading most American dramas that were launched at the same time.
Of course, the timing was good.
As we all know, most American dramas are broadcast in the autumn, and "Wasteland" chose the spring file, in addition to avoiding a bunch of big American dramas in the autumn file, it also bears the heavy responsibility of helping AMC expand its territory.
Therefore, there are only six episodes in the first season, however, according to AMC sources, the second season of "Wasteland" will definitely be scheduled for the fall, and the series has also been extended to 13 episodes...
It's just that in China, the evaluation of this drama is a bit low.
Most of the audience's reactions are 'the plot is too simple' or 'too bloody', and even the action design is too simple in the eyes of our domestic fans who have been trained in action movies for a long time, and it doesn't feel powerful...
Please, this is an action movie for foreigners, it's too complicated, they accept incompetence!
"Kill Bill", from beginning to end, he slashed with an Oriental knife, and Americans liked it very much...
Uh, insert a sentence, although Fuji Xun has obtained the exclusive right to broadcast, it has not yet started, so what these netizens see should be the legendary pirate...
……
"Hello, Mr. Pacino. ”
"Xu, I've watched your "Wasteland", it's pretty good!"
"Thank you. ”
“… I'm a little worried that Cinema Paradiso can't be a movie of this genre..."
"Don't worry, "Cinema Paradiso" is different from kung fu films, I will use long shots and documentaries to tell a story slowly..."
Hanging up the phone, Xu Hui was a little speechless.
After Mr. Al Pacino watched "The Wasteland", he was a little afraid that Xu Hui would arrange "Paradise Cinema" as "Send You to Heaven", after all, there are too many action scenes in "The Wasteland", and Xu Hui's characteristic is that the editing...
repeatedly assured that he had an overall idea for "Cinema Paradiso", and that he would maintain a restrained attitude to deal with the story, and the old gentleman hung up the phone satisfied.
Tsk, old Hollywood actors are also worried that they will not be able to protect their later season...
Al Pacino's salary is less than $3 million, Matt's cute is a friendship star, and the salary charged is one-tenth of his normal salary, and the salary of several other young actors is not too high, and the cost of the whole "Cinema Paradiso" is less than $30 million, which is not a big investment...
Xu Hui has many admirers in Hollywood, Matt is cute and Brad Pitt publicly declares that they are willing to take over Xu Hui's movies with the salary of their debut.
Of course, only if it is a good work!
"Mr. Xu, you must go through the VIP channel when you get off the plane, those reporters are already crazy, and they have already appeared at the airport eight hours in advance..."
This is a text message from Xu Hui's secretary in China, but unfortunately, Xu Hui is already asleep...
When he found this text message, he was already surrounded by a group of gatherers...
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"Director Xu, "Wasteland" topped the American drama ratings list, does it mean that you will focus on the American market?"
"Director Xu, a few days ago, Blizzard announced that it would make "Warcraft" a movie, or it will cooperate with a Chinese company, does Huiwen have any plans in this regard?"
"Director Xu, according to rumors, the reason why Liu Yifei was able to take over "Wasteland" was because you changed the role to Asian..."
A bunch of long guns and short cannons blocked Xu Hui's face, and the latter's face was a little stiff...
Anyone who has been on a plane for twelve hours and just wakes up is a little angry when a group of people indiscriminately block your path.
What's more, Xu Hui is worth tens of billions, who is polite when he sees him?
It can only be said that Xu Hui's identity as a filmmaker is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people!
"Can you calm down a little bit?"
Finally, under the maintenance of the security personnel at the airport, the reporters let go of the encirclement, Xu Hui carried a shoulder bag and took off the sunglasses on his face: "Come one by one, but only fifteen minutes!"
If you are a member of the media, you can't conflict with journalists.
These uncrowned kings casually guide a few words, and the image of Cannon Hui is over.
In the original time and space, after filming the movie version of "Northern Love", Mr. Chen was hacked into Xiang, isn't it because he doesn't know how to deal with reporters, and he put on a stinky face during the interview...
"First of all, I want to clarify that the drama "Wasteland" is just the first step in our North American strategy, and we will have more movies and TV series to be produced in the future;"
"Secondly, my own roots have always been in China, as you said, the mainland market is so big that it is enough for me to toss, so it is unlikely that I will take on any Hollywood blockbusters, of course, if I am particularly interested in this story, then it doesn't hurt to give it a try;"
"Regarding Warcraft, Huiwen doesn't have much contact at the moment, and I don't have the idea of taking over this story myself. ”
Blizzard did contact Xu Hui and wanted to invite him to direct World of Warcraft.
Xu Hui didn't think about it and refused directly.
Without him, it's too time-consuming.
The theme of "World of Warcraft" is too huge, and there are as many as twenty-five volumes of the official history of Warcraft published by Blizzard alone, not to mention those official...
Xu Hui is not a hardcore Warcraft fan, and he can't live for "The Lord of the Rings" like Peter Jackson all his life!