Since everyone can accept "Braveheart", Wang Xiaohu also has to toss it seriously, otherwise I'm sorry for the queen's kindness, right?

After the banquet, Wang Xiaohu immediately called Spielberg and asked him to put down "Schindler's List", which was still in the preparation stage, and take over the filming task of the director of "Braveheart". 【】

"Steven, I know it's going to upset you if you interrupt Schindler's List, but in the preparation you might as well try other films, like Braveheart, which I just said, which is also an epic hero film that can generate revenue for the company, but also win a trophy or something, and maybe even be rewarded by the Queen of England."

Wang Xiaohu has not been able to spare enough time to direct "Braveheart" in the past six months, and he has chosen among many directors of Concordia International, and finally decided to let Spielberg complete this difficult task.

At the beginning, Spielberg said that he also had no time, and he wanted to make a movie that could win awards wholeheartedly, but when he had no choice, Wang Xiaohu began to pour him confused soup, and he won awards and queen's awards and other things.

Don't really say it, don't look at Lao Pi who doesn't care about other things, but he is very interested in winning awards, commendations and the like, to put it bluntly, since following Wang Xiaohu in the Concord and the International Mix, several movies he shot have won envious box office results, but he has no real reputation.

Wang Xiaohu said the benefits, and the old skin took the bait directly.

"What are the requirements for the boss, the script, and the actors?" Lao Pi came to the spiritual head, and the positive surname was unprecedentedly inflated.

"The script will be mailed to you tomorrow, and there is only one hard surname requirement for the actors, the male lead actor will find Mel Gibson, and you can choose the other supporting roles and actresses." Wang Xiaohu said.

In his previous life, "Braveheart" was Mel Gibson who was both director and starring, and won several little golden figures, Wang Xiaohu didn't let him be the director, so he had to be the starring role, right?

"Mel Gibson?" Lao Pi repeated the name: "Very strange guy, is he registered with the actors' union?" ”

"That should be your scope of work, I'm only responsible for investment, script, haha." Wang Xiaohu was the shopkeeper and threw it directly to Lao Pi to deal with it with full authority.

"God, you know I'm the worst at casting actors!" Lao Pi cried out bitterly on the phone: "Okay, for the sake of the benefits you promised, I will be embarrassed again!" ”

"fake, can Lao Tzu still raise a group of people who eat white food?" Wang Xiaohu said: "You must be cheering in your heart, because you can justifiably travel to Scotland at public expense, good guys, I heard that the scenery there is very beautiful, and the Scottish bagpipes are intoxicating."

"Thank you boss for the travel opportunity!" The old skin will be accepted when he sees it.

"By the way, this film may need some war scenes, and I will shoot a few action directors to go over and shoot with you." Wang Xiaohu thought for a while and added: "Yuan Heping, who has participated in "Myth" and "Mulan", you should have heard his name, right?" ”

"Of course!" Lao Pi exclaimed excitedly: "It's great to have him to help, I can reduce a lot of headaches." ”

Don't look at Lao Pi's talented, there are only two things in the circle: one is the selection of actors, and the other is the action scenes. When cooperating with Lucas in the filming of "Raiders of the Lost Ark", whenever he encountered action scenes, he would directly pick on the laziness and leave it to Lucas and the martial arts instructors sent from Hong Kong to deal with it.

Solve the most troublesome thing of Lao Pi, and then the work will be much simpler.

Early the next morning, Wang Xiaohu asked people to send the script to the United States, in fact, the script has been told in enough detail, whether it is the plot or the war scenes, the work left for Spielberg is to combine the costumes, props, architectural styles, customs and customs of medieval Scotland and England, as well as weapons related to war and the like.

Making a war epic is the most tiring, anyway, Wang Xiaohu has tried it several times and doesn't want to toss anymore.

In mid-August, "Ip Man 2" ended the first round of screenings for a month, and when the curtain ended, the box office in Hong Kong reached 2,200 Hong Kong dollars, and the cumulative global box office reached 56 million US dollars, which is a lot of money.

Wang Xiaohu took the time to take the elite of Hong Kong Wing Chun Gate and also arrived in Foshan, Guangdong Province, to start the cultural exchange work between Hong Kong and mainland Wing Chun Gate.

The mainland Wing Chun Gate is naturally in favor of both hands, who doesn't want to be the next Shaolin Temple? Don't look at the Xingyi Gate, Bagua, Tai Chi, Baji, Poke Foot and other sects began to set up schools with the help of political axes, but the work efficiency and investment funds in the mainland are still limited after all, and many martial arts culture promotion has to be completed by individual sects.

The Wing Chun Gate in the mainland will inevitably take Wang Xiaohu's fast train directly and merge into the global Wing Chun promotion organization, and select a group of young backbones to teach in several Wing Chun schools in Asia.

The reason why it was a trial run was because the backbone of the mainland Wing Chun Gate was at a serious level in Wang Xiaohu, Bruce Lee, Huang Chunliang and others, and it may have something to do with the peaceful environment in the country and the lack of more actual combat experience.

"Uncle Shi, select a few elites from overseas Wing Chun Gate to help out, these few have only learned the practice method, and the experience of playing is too sparse." Wang Xiaohu whispered to Huang Chunliang.

Huang Chunliang nodded and sighed, and said with some emotion: "When Wing Chun was transmitted from Foshan to Hong Kong, I didn't expect that as the birthplace, there were very few Yongchun masters here. ”

"That's pretty good!" Bruce Lee interjected and said: "Other boxing styles have even been forced to disappear, only Xingyi, Tai Chi, Bagua, and Baji are left with a good heritage, hey, if you want to see the Chinese in the mainland in the MMA event, the task is too arduous, Xiaohu, aren't you torturous?" ”

"The more arduous it is, the more it reflects your superhuman qualities." Wang Xiaohu smiled heartlessly.

The three of them stayed in Foshan for a few days, on the one hand, to go through the relevant promotion procedures, on the other hand, to promote a few talented players by the way, no way, in the eyes of the three of them such practical masters, Foshan's elites are like kindergarten children, vulnerable!

After returning to Hong Kong, I happened to encounter the release of "Kung Fu Emperor Fang Shiyu" starring Jet Li, and there was no change in the script of this movie, but the cast has been slightly adjusted, for example, Lei Laohu is played by Wu Mengda, this guy played a very good supporting role in "Hong Xiguan", and he continued to be a golden supporting role.

In the original version, Lei Laohu's daughter Lei Tingting starred Li Jiaxin, but after investigation, it was found that Li Jiaxin was only 13 years old, a standard little girl, so after director Yuan Kui's suggestion, Maggie Cheung, the runner-up of Miss Hong Kong this year, was to be played.

Dolgon let Yu Rongguang play it.

In addition, Li Xiaohuan's role is also a newcomer, and Hu Huizhong, who was poached by Wang Xiaohu shortly after his debut, is the main pillar.

It can be said that in addition to Jet Li's starring roles in "Shaolin Temple" and "North and South Shaolin", Yu Rongguang is quite experienced in performing in "Mulan" and "Kapok Robe", both Maggie Cheung and Hu Huizhong are newcomers, and Yuan Kui is also a director for the first time.

The rookie director and a group of rookie actors, although there were some doubts outside, but with Wang Xiaohu as the producer and producer, and the publicity work was done in place, the attendance rate of New Century Studios reached more than 85%.

After the movie was broadcast, although Miao Cuihua played by Xiao Fangfang stole a lot of limelight from Jet Li, Jet Li's version portrayed the smart and naughty Fang Shiyu with clear love and hatred quite successfully, and the mother and son played by Xiao Fangfang and Jet Li continued to bring joy to the audience.

However, what really makes everyone into the play is the martial arts scene, Jet Li and Hu Huizhong are competing on the heads of the lively crowd, showing their chic posture from high to high, while the fight between Yu Rongguang and Jet Li in the low mezzanine in the prison is flickering but winning with dexterity; Coupled with the attack of Li and Yu on the long stick against the short stick in the dyeing workshop, this ingenious contrast between high and low, short and long is really dazzling and breathtaking!

"Hu, how do you feel?" Yuan Kui, who is a director for the first time, is more nervous than the actors, and asks Wang Xiaohu from time to time about the lens and editing.

"Yes, in the last fight, the incoming, medium and fast-editing short shots are very well inlaid, and the large scenes are evenly distributed in normal fights, and the 10-second confrontation is interspersed with dialogue, which divides the fight scene into two parts of tension before and after."

Wang Xiaohu commented on the role of action director, overall, the results of Yuan Kui and Yuan De brothers joining forces are still very gratifying, at least they fully absorbed the experience they learned when filming "Hong Xiguan", maintained their style of "dense rhythm, fast to the end", and the whole set of action plot editing also maintained "pendulum layout and interspersed with elements outside the fight".

Wang Xiaohu can't mention the slightest problem, if he really wants to give some opinions, it is that Hu Huizhong's pretense is too young, but as long as he doesn't say the original, the audience will also think that Lei Laohu has taken a little daughter-in-law, which is still very popular in feudal society.

After the movie was played, the audience in the theater began to applaud, Wang Xiaohu patted Yuan Kui's shoulder and said: "Take everyone up to thank you, from today onwards, there will be another action director in the Hong Kong film industry, congratulations to the two of you." ”

"There's one more action star." Yuan De smiled and hugged Jet Li and said.

Jet Li smiled and didn't speak.

Wang Xiaohu looked at Maggie Cheung and Hu Huizhong behind him, and said in his heart, not only is there one more action director and action star, but they are clearly two action stars, Hu Huizhong is the overlord tweed in Hong Kong films, and Maggie Cheung is at the level of a movie queen, hehe, there will be a good life in the future.

Starting from tonight, the pattern of Hong Kong kung fu films will change, and Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, and Yuan Biao will usher in Jet Li, Yuan Kui, and Yuan De's new opponents.

Adventurous and desperate, chic and elegant, two different styles of kung fu films have begun to carve up the cake of the Hong Kong film industry, I believe that in a few days, Donnie Yen, as Wang Xiaohu's successor, will also join the competition.

(To be continued)