Chapter 143: The Angry Donnie Yen
Li Mu has also considered this problem, the success of "Avatar" does not only depend on Cameron's influence, in addition to 3D is also a major factor, all the scenes of Avatar are basically made and synthesized by computers, that is, they are made completely out of thin air, unlike most 3D movies are 3D conversion or 3D shooting, and even many movies seven or eight years later are not as good as "Avatar" in ten years.
However, Li Mu only gave up this idea after thinking about it, and now he has not even made a movie and ventured to shoot 3D, there are too many instability factors in it.
And at this time, the 3D screen in the country is limited, and the theater chain will definitely give priority to the supply of "Avatar" at that time, in that case, the gain will outweigh the loss, it is better to grasp the 2D screen, not to mention that there are many 2D movies in memory The box office exceeded one billion, and one even broke the 1.5 billion mark!
"I have enough confidence in my movie, whether it is 3D or whatever, I firmly believe that the final box office champion must be "The Return of the Great Sage"!"
No matter what the reporter says next, Li Mu has the same meaning, in short, you must not be cowardly at this time.
The disturbing press conference lasted until four o'clock in the afternoon, and in order to satisfy this group of reporters, Li Mu worked hard.
Sending away this group of uncles, no one also gave a little gift, supermarket shopping coupons, hotel low-price coupons and so on.
"Oops, I can finally rest assured, I originally came back this time to make more contacts, but I didn't expect to cause so many things, but fortunately it was all done!" Li Mu rubbed his forehead, his tone a little tired.
"What do you still say, if you weren't so impulsive, how could you have this kind of thing, you owe Director Xu a favor again, and there is a CCTV TV series!" Chu Fei was also complaining about his irrationality, and then said curiously, "You just mentioned Wu Jin in front of reporters, why are you very optimistic about him?"
Li Mu sighed: "Wu Jin is a good actor, I liked the "Tai Chi Grandmaster" very much when I was a child, and I can hum a few words of the theme song in it now, "The blood is exhausted, the dust and the earth are turned away, only you can see it", but now the prospects of domestic action movies are not good, except for Cheng Long's kung fu comedy, there are no popular works, and Li Lianjie is also making martial arts films, don't you see that Donnie Yen didn't make action movies except for the sequel to "Ip Man" but went to shoot martial arts, and Wu Jin's appearance is not suitable for shooting martial arts!"
This made Chu Fei even more puzzled, "In this case, you still said in front of reporters that he could take over Cheng Long and Li Lianjie's class, doesn't this push him to the cusp, don't you know how popular Donnie Yen is now, it is said that there are now producers who have offered him a salary of 30 million, which is already a superstar-level price." ”
Li Mu smiled: "I also helped him, and it happened to be this opportunity to increase his popularity." ”
Chu Fei said angrily: "Aren't you doing a disservice, and you are also gaining popularity!"
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That night, before the video of the Feitian Award ceremony came out, Li Mu's interview today was posted on the Internet by reporters, and sure enough, only a few netizens mentioned that there was no follow-up about his withdrawal halfway.
However, the concept of "Spring Festival files" proposed by him has attracted many criticisms, among which the most intense reaction is the directors led by Feng Xiaogang and Jiang Wen.
But it's not surprising that you, a newcomer who has just made a movie, vowed to open a hot schedule, where did you put those big directors who have been famous for a long time.
"Li Mu, he is probably used to filming TV series, he thinks that he can become popular with whatever he shoots, and young people rush in without even understanding the market, and sooner or later they will go out with an injury!"
followed by Jiang Wen, who was filming a movie in eastern Guangdong, "This Li Mu has a sentence that is right, this year's box office champion for the Chinese New Year must be "Let the Bullets Fly". It was rare that Jiang Wen, who had a straight temper and was hot-tempered, did not make trouble, maybe it was Li Mu's words that made him happy.
Of course, "I can beat ten" Donnie Yen is indispensable, when the reporter relayed Li Mu's words to him, he immediately borrowed the reporter's mouth to open fire, "I don't know what gave him confidence, probably the ignorant are fearless, and people like him are just to attract the public's attention and hype!"
"What, Wu Jin? Well, he's a good guy, we worked together very happily in "Slaying the Wolf", and we are all friends in private!" Facing Li Mu mentioned by the reporter that Wu Jin was more likely to succeed Cheng Long and Li Lianjie, Donnie Yen was still very calm.
Although he said that the relationship between the two seemed to be very good, the reporter still complained in his heart, "I'll go, still a young man, you are eleven years older than others!"
But when the reporter left, Donnie Yen ignored the crew's strange eyes and kicked the stool next to him, "Bastard, you actually compared me to that little character, oops......"
As he spoke, he hit the seat next to him and other things everywhere.
After the release of "Ip Man", Donnie Yen's temper also rose sharply along with his fame, no matter which crew he was in, he was the eldest and the second.
When filming "October Siege" before, regardless of the two superstars Liang Jiahui and Liming in the crew, he directly occupied the largest lounge, and sometimes even director Chen Deshen and producer Chen Kexin couldn't move him.
What's more, it is the "small crew" of "Jinyiwei", although Li Rengang is famous, but it is nothing compared to Chen Kexin, as for the heroine Zhao Wei, although she is the "Four Great Flowers", it can be seen from the salary that there is a huge gap between the two, and Donnie Yen is three times as much as hers.
This caused Donnie Yen to become more and more arrogant in the crew, and basically he had to think about changing the script if he wanted to, let alone the people under the crew.
The nearby crew stood there in shock, and they didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of becoming Donnie Yen's punching bag, and after the words of Li Mu's interview before the Feitian Award reached his ears this morning, several unlucky crew members were fired by him for a trivial matter.
Seeing Donnie Yen's state, director Li Rengang is not surprised, in addition to his own temper, when he filmed "Slaying the Wolf" before, all the limelight was stolen by Wu Jin, the villain, and he had to come out to persuade him, and now that the movie has been filmed for more than half of it, he doesn't want anything to happen at this time, "Zidan, if you dissipate your anger, that Li Mu will just let off his mouth, you also said that he was just for hype, you can't be so angry, and when the movie is released, we will humiliate him again." ”
During the filming period, in order to serve Donnie Yen, the "uncle", Li Rengang was also heartbroken, but it was much more tiring than making a movie, who asked him to be specially invited by the producer.