Chapter 298: Drift Dream

When Emmerich walked out of the office, his steps were no longer as heavy as before, and his face had changed to a look of brightness. Today's various encounters made Emmerich feel like a dream, first an unexpected meeting with Lin Mingyang, and then the other party directly offered a sky-high production budget of 200 million US dollars, which made Emmerich eager to roll up his sleeves and do a big job immediately.

Emmerich, who was in a good mood, even felt a little light when he walked, as if he were stepping on a cloud, and he obviously hadn't recovered from that dreamlike feeling, so much so that he didn't react at the elevator when he met the oncoming MGM president Ex.

Emmerich was still immersed in his own world, but Ex's face was a little unbearable, especially the strange expression on the face of the staff member who accompanied Emmerich.

Ex coughed heavily, and the "dumbfounded" Emmerich finally came back to his senses and found that the main owner who had made an appointment to meet him today was standing in front of him, and he was also a little flustered for a while.

"Mr. Ex... How did you end up here? ”

This reaction surprised Ex, who looked Emmerich up and down with a strange look before smiling wryly and saying, "I'm not here, so where do you think I should be?" ”

Emmerich was stunned when he heard this, he knew that he was excited for a while, and he had obviously misunderstood the other party.

In a hurry, he had no choice but to carry Lin Mingyang, the great god, out, "Mr. just now told me that you are going to deal with a very tricky job, so..." I think I've got to go."

The slowly closing elevator door blocked Emmerich's red face and the cramped expression on his face, Ex only felt a little funny, and at the same time a little curious, what did Lin Mingyang say to this guy to make a big director so out of shape?

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"I gave him $200 million to fulfill his dream of destroying the planet"

In the president's office where the host and guest were translocated, Lin Mingyang lazily gave the answer.

"$200 million?" After experiencing ultra-high-cost blockbusters such as "Avatar" and "Warcraft", Ex is no longer as sensitive to the production budget that should be a sky-high amount of money, of course, for a disaster movie, such a stroke still makes him feel a little amazed in his heart.

Lin Mingyang shrugged, anyway, this time it was Sony that took the lead and spent other people's money, so he naturally wouldn't be soft, not to mention that it was a big fat sheep like Sony Pictures that was slaughtered this time.

"Then Sony has suffered a little bit this time," Ex said with a sigh, but there was a gloating expression on his face.

"The movie I recommend you watch is okay, right?" Lin Mingyang suddenly changed the topic, but fortunately, Ackes had become accustomed to his extremely jumping thinking habits.

He nodded, "It's not as exciting as the first part, but overall it's not bad, the two leading actors of the first part are all here, and the plot is very tight and shocking... In addition, the heroine is also quite good-looking."

Originally, it was Ex who was scheduled to meet Emmerich, but Lin Mingyang improvised that he wanted to meet the director, and in order to find a "reasonable and appropriate" reason to break Acks away, he gave Ex a half-day off, and also gave him a movie ticket for "Speed and Leakage * Point 4".

The movie is indeed very good, but what puzzles Ex is that Lin Mingyang asked him to watch this movie, the purpose is probably not just as simple as "branching" himself.

Then "Speed and Leakage" Lin Mingyang asked thoughtlessly, but Exx felt some different flavors from it. This film continues the Chinese director Lin Yibin of "Speed and Leakage: Tokyo Drift", but the original cast is in the cast, and the characters and plot are perfectly inherited from "Speed and Leakage 2". Skip "Tokyo Drift", this "Speed and Leakage" can be described as an out-and-out orthodox sequel to the series.

In the entire "Speed and Leakage" series of movies, it is beyond reproach that investors want to continue to make money by relying on the inertia of the first episode of the blockbuster, but sequel movies are often difficult to succeed is also a strange circle in the film industry, "Speed and Leakage * 3" is the product of this desire for speed and lack of speed, the sharp reduction in investment, the shortening of the production cycle and the thinness of the script make this film with speed and leakage as the selling point has neither speed nor difficulty in finding leakage. The crudeness of the script has always been the dead end of action movies, and the producers invested a lot of money in the creation of special effects and action scenes, but they refused to bother to conceive the script, so this film did not cause much repercussions when it was released like other sequels.

"Speed and Leakage * Point 4" obviously learned the lessons of the previous episode, although it belongs to the same series, but the plots of the two films are basically incompatible, and even the actors are completely different, the only thing in common is only the director Lin Yibin... Several speculations flashed through Ackes' mind, and finally focused on Lin Yibin's special identity as a Chinese-American director.

"You're interested in Lin Yibin?" After a few inferences, Ex's question already had a somewhat firm tone.

To Aix's surprise, the answer he confidently deduced was actually rejected by Lin Mingyang.

"The director hasn't changed, but why is there such a big difference in the feeling of the two films to the audience?" Lin Mingyang stood up, stretched his waist slightly, and then looked at Ex intently, "This is what I really want to ask you."

Ex wrenched his fingers and analyzed one by one: "The actors are not big enough, and the plot is not enough... The stunts of the flying car drift are indeed fascinating, but the story is set in Japan, which is a bit off the radar of mainstream Hollywood audiences... At least judging by the effect of the launch of the fourth episode, the failure of the third episode is obvious. ”

"What if I wanted to make an action movie about aerobatic drifting of an airplane, similar in style to Speed and Leakage, set in the United States?" After a big detour, Lin Mingyang finally said the true plan in his heart.

This idea was so sudden that Exx didn't know how to answer for a while, but fortunately, Lin Mingyang didn't rush to ask, which gave Exx finally a little time to buffer and think.

"Japan is an island country with many mountain roads and curves, from this point of view, Lin Yibin is not wrong to choose the filming location of "Speed and Leakage * Point 3" in Japan, most of the roads in the United States are straight and smooth, and the choice of filming location will be very difficult"

Instead of rejecting Lin Mingyang's idea, Ex raised questions from the perspective of actual shooting, and he said as he observed Lin Mingyang's reaction. Ex found that Lin Mingyang didn't seem to be a temporary idea, and it was obvious that this idea had been in his head for a while.

"When I went on vacation to Hawaii some time ago, I spent some time on the northern coast of Maui, which has what is considered the most scenic road in the world."

Ex reacted suddenly, "You're talking about the Hana Highway?" ”

Generally speaking, the straightest route between two points should be straight, but roads are rarely straight, and even if they are, some roads are designed to be boring. Because roads often cross mountains and densely populated areas, environmental and cost considerations, engineers around the world struggle to design the most efficient routes. And the work they have put the most painstaking work into is truly extraordinary and commendable.

One of them is the Hana Highway that Aix is talking about, a 52-mile road with about 600 bends and 54 bridges, most of which are one-way streets. The Hana Highway is winding and narrow because of the high cost of tunneling along the coastal road, but the scenery along the road is so beautiful that although it takes four hours to traverse the road, it is almost impossible for travelers to get bored on the road.

Lin Mingyang's idea of filming a flying car drift stunt on the Hana Highway was a bold one, but Ackes had to admit that the idea was tempting, and flying on the beautiful Hawaiian coastal road was much more exciting than taking a detour on a gloomy mountain road in Japan.

"Speaking of famous curved roads, some sections of the road in the United States are actually much more famous than the mountain roads in Japan, in addition to the Hana Highway in Hawaii, Lombard Street in San Francisco, California, and the Caplin Volcano Highway in New Mexico are all good places to photograph curve drifting... The Kaplin Volcano Highway, in particular, is only 2 miles long, but the road is so narrow and winding that if a bus breaks down on the road, the whole traffic will come to a standstill. With the exception of the S-turns, most of the roads are unguardrailed and have a gradient of 6%, all of which are tailored to my ideas."

Lin Mingyang introduced these highways like a few treasures, and even Ax was moved by his shooting concept, and finally he shrugged: "Okay, I admit that your shooting concept is geographically completely in line with the taste of Hollywood audiences, and the ramp drift stunts are dazzling enough, but to achieve success like "Speed and Leakage", we also need big-name actors like Vin Diesel and Paul Walker..."

Speaking of which, Ex glanced at Lin Mingyang intentionally or unintentionally, since the idea of shooting this film according to common sense was put forward by Lin Mingyang, he himself should have a strong ** as the starring role, but Exx found that Lin Mingyang didn't seem to be moved at all this time.

"Maybe I'll play a cameo role in the film, but I've already made other arrangements for the starring role"

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Yesterday was purely an accident, and the frog will prove it with actions today

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