Chapter 34: Chow Yun-fat and John Woo
At this time, Chow Yun-fat was pulling John Woo to talk to him about Zhang Yi looking for him to make a movie, and Chow Yun-fat didn't know if John Woo would agree, so he was very worried.
When John Woo heard Chow Yun-fat say that a young man wanted to invest in him to make a movie, he didn't take it seriously, he thought that it was estimated that it was an idle and boring rich kid who came to make a female star under the guise of investing in making movies, he had seen a lot of this kind of thing in the entertainment industry, if it was before, he might have agreed in order to become famous and make money, but now he is no longer the little director who has just entered the entertainment industry, with his current reputation in Hong Kong, there is no shortage of people to invest in him to make movies.
Those rich children invest in making movies and making female stars, there are many such things happening in Hong Kong almost every year, and he has never been interested in this kind of thing, so he rejected Chow Yun-fat without even thinking about it.
When Chow Yun-fat heard that John Woo rejected him, he felt very scared.
He was afraid that John Woo would not make this movie, and Zhang Yi would not invest in this movie, when he was talking to Zhang Yi, he knew from Zhang Yi's tone that Zhang Yi was determined to find John Woo to make this movie, if John Woo didn't make it, then he would be unlucky, so he hurriedly persuaded John Woo: "Director John Woo, listen to me first, this movie is really very good, if you don't make it, you will definitely regret it in the future." ”
John Woo listened to Chow Yun-fat's words and felt very ridiculous, John Woo didn't feel that if he didn't make this movie, he would regret it in the future, so he said sarcastically to Chow Yun-fat: "Don't talk too much, I don't believe that this movie will be any better, the young man you just said is nine times out of ten which rich son, and the filming is just for the convenience of making female stars. girlfriends come to play the heroine in the movie, they invest in making movies, and every time they stuff this woman and that woman into the movie, making a good movie, and being made into a miasma. ”
When Chow Yun-fat heard John Woo's words, he knew that John Woo had misunderstood, so he quickly explained to John Woo: "Director John Woo, you misunderstood, things are not what you think, although that gentleman is young, she is really, sincerely wants to invest in making a movie, and the script of this movie he made is very good, or you should watch it first, and this movie is still a shootout movie, the content is very well conceived, you will definitely like it after watching it." Chow Yun-fat once heard a friend of his say that John Woo has always wanted to make his own shootout movie, but unfortunately now the shootout movie is an unpopular movie in Hong Kong, and the mainstream movie in Hong Kong is comedy, so the current film companies in Hong Kong are scrambling to make comedy movies, and few people are willing to invest in making gunfight movies, so Chow Yun-fat told John Woo that this movie is a shootout movie, hoping that John Woo can agree to read this script after hearing that this movie is a shootout movie, Chow Yun-fat believes that if John Woo reads this script, he will definitely agree to the director of this movie。
Sure enough, as Chow Yun-fat imagined, John Woo was moved after hearing that this movie belonged to the gunfight category, and thought, if you just look at the script of this movie, maybe this movie is good, and it would be a pity if you missed it yourself.
"Well, for the sake of your sincerity, I promise you to read this script, and I hope what you say is true. ”
When Chow Yun-fat heard that Wu Yusheng agreed to read the script, he hurriedly handed over the script given to him by Zhang Yi to Wu Yusen, and Wu Yusen became interested when he saw the four big characters of the hero's true colors written on the cover of the script.
Wu Yusen found a small stool, sat on the stool, and looked at the script of the hero's true colors, he spent an hour after basically reading the script, and after reading it, he slapped his thigh and said loudly, good, good, good, this is a good script, if it is filmed, it will definitely be a box office hit.
When Chow Yun-fat saw John Woo's happy look, he knew that this was done, so he hurriedly said to John Woo: "Director John Woo, have you agreed to direct this movie now?"
"I agreed," John Woo replied to Chow Yun-fat.
"Director John Woo is like this, Mr. Zhang, who invested in making this movie, wants to meet you, I don't know if you have time to meet him. ”
John Woo heard Chow Yun-fat say that the people who invested in this movie wanted to see him, and hurriedly promised that it was okay, and I would have time to meet him now.
After reading this script, John Woo was very curious about which young man could write such a good script, when he first read this script, he originally thought it was written by a famous screenwriter, but after seeing that the signature of this script was a person named Zhang Yi, he thought of the Mr. Zhang that Chow Yun-fat said, so John Woo thought that the person who wrote the script must be this Mr. Zhang, so Wu Yusen also wanted to meet Zhang Yi, so he agreed to Chow Yun-fat's request without hesitation.
"Chow Yun-fat heard that John Woo promised him to meet Zhang Yi, and thought that his task was completed, so the role of Little Brother Ma would be saved, and now Chow Yun-fat is looking forward to this movie, hurry up to start filming, hurry up and release it, so that he can wash himself off, poison has this bad reputation, and he really can't stand the pressure brought to him by this reputation now"
John Woo came with Chow Yun-fat, Chow Yun-fat talked to Zhang Yi about the true colors of heroes in the café in the morning, Zhang Yi was leisurely drinking coffee in it at this time, Zhang Yi saw Chow Yun-fat coming in with a man, and knew that the man must be John Woo.
And Chow Yun-fat also saw Zhang Yi at this time, so he hurriedly took Wu Yusen over, and the two sat directly opposite Zhang Yi, Wu Yusen looked at the young man in front of him, I really couldn't imagine that such a young man could write such a good script, he has been making movies for so many years, he has never seen such a good script, and this script is still a Hong Kong movie, which is a relatively unpopular gunfight script, and there are few screenwriters in Hong Kong now who are willing to write a gunfight script, but he found another way and wrote a gunfight, and he wrote it so well, looking at this movie from his own perspective for many years, if it can be made, it will definitely be a big hit at the box office, and will also refresh the history of Hong Kong film box office.
"I think this should be director John Woo. ”
"Hello, my name is Zhang Yi. Zhang Yi introduced himself to Wu Yusen.
When Wu Yusen saw Zhang Yi introduce himself, he also hurriedly introduced himself to Zhang Yi.
"My name is John Woo, Mr. Zhang, hello"
"Director Wu doesn't know what you think about the script I wrote, do you think it's good? ”
"Mr. Zhang, you are so humble, the script you wrote is very good, I believe that the movie will be better, I really want to make this movie now, I don't know when we can start making this movie. ”