Chapter 234: Crafting a Hollywood Script
Lin Yuquan's trip to the United States was very busy, he did not stay in San Francisco for a long time, but returned to Los Angeles the next day, and the film career is what he cares about most compared to games and novels.
"Boss, this is Alex. Kuzman too. "Summit Entertainment's conference room, Chris. Anderson smiled and pointed to a mature young man who was not tall, wore glasses, and had a confident face.
"Oh." A smile appeared on the corner of Lin Yuquan's mouth, and then he shook hands with the mature young man with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Kuzman, I am very happy to cooperate with you this time." ”
"Hehe, in fact, it is my honor to be able to participate in the script creation of your first movie after entering Hollywood, and now the whole United States is very eye-catching for your first Hollywood movie, to be honest, I didn't expect to have the opportunity to co-write the script with you." Alex. Kuzman laughed.
"Why?" Lin Yuquan smiled.
"Because you're a kung fu forest, who doesn't know your amazing all-round talent, and isn't screenwriting exactly what you're good at? Your first three films were all scripts written by yourself. "Alex. Kuzman smiled, but this was also his doubt, in Hollywood, many big-name directors wrote their own scripts, like James . Cameron, George. Lucas, Peter. Jackson is like this, according to Lin Yuquan's situation, he has always been like this, why did he suddenly change?
"Is that what it is? Actually, it's easy to understand, although I can write my own script, but the style doesn't necessarily match Hollywood, after all, this is the first Hollywood movie I made, so I'm going to shoot it in Hollywood, and I need your help in this regard, Mr. Kuzman. Lin Yuquan said in a relaxed tone.
Since he came to Hollywood, of course, he had to do it according to Hollywood, otherwise what was the difference between him making movies in China, and his first step was to start by creating a movie script. Anderson brought in Alex. Kuzman, the other party is a gold medal screenwriter who has risen rapidly in Hollywood in the past two years, and the scripts of "Escape Clone", "The Legend of Zorro", and "Mission Impossible 3" are all from him, and his ability to grasp the plot of Hollywood blockbusters is undoubted.
Alex who was puzzled. Kuzman nodded solemnly: "I will do my best." ”
"Okay, let's start talking about the script, I can't wait to get the script written and start shooting my first Hollywood movie." Lin Yuquan smiled.
"Me too." Alex. Kuzman's eyes met Lin Yuquan's, and he grinned.
The two smiled tacitly, making the atmosphere in the meeting very harmonious, as if friends were chatting and discussing.
"The background of the story I want to start filming this time is to take place in a wild continent full of hundreds of races and fierce beasts, in this wild continent, the strong are respected, in addition to fighting with fierce beasts, the races are constantly fighting, the weak race can only survive by relying on the strong race, the main body of the story focuses on one of the weak races called the ape race, the shape is similar to the orangutan on the earth, but the size is larger, and the arms have terrible power, They are vassal races of the Giants, including the Dogs.
As a vassal race, they need to make offerings to the Giants, do coolies for the construction of the Giants, and play the role of cannon fodder in the event of wars between the Giants and other races, and the entire race can be described as being bullied.
The protagonist Caesar is a young ape in the ape clan, different from other apes, his character is a little rebellious and uninhibited, his mind is full of incredible subversive ideas, unwilling to become a slave under the hands of the giant clan, is the most typical unstable element of the ape clan, and is not liked by the ape elders.
During a hunt, Caesar obtained a magical black iron medal (a technique left by human explorers), and quickly became powerful, and in a war with the Golden Lion Clan, he saved a group of apes that served as cannon fodder with great force, and began to lead them on a path to overthrow the Giants and win freedom"
Under Lin Yuquan's narration, an incomparably spectacular scene appeared vividly in Chris. Anderson and Alex. Kuzman had a mind, and the two listened quietly, their faces full of shock.
"Oh, boss, this story scene is so spectacular, compared to The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia." Chris. Anderson said excitedly.
"Lin, your hand is too big, no director has such a big deal in his first movie after entering Hollywood, this is absolutely unprecedented, and according to your introduction, I guess you will make a series, after all, the ape race and the giant race you talked about are only a very small part of the wild continent." Alex. Kuzman exclaimed.
"Yes, I'm going to make a trilogy like "The Lord of the Rings", it's called "The Wild Story" trilogy, this is the first "The Wild Story: The Rise of the Ape Race"." Lin Yuquan said with a smile.
"Savage: Rise of the Apes", Alex. Kuzman read the name lightly and said with a smile: "Lin, I believe that soon everyone will be shocked by your huge handwriting, and this movie will become another brilliant series in the history of cinema." ”
"Thanks, let's work together, it's not that easy to achieve."
"That's right, let's start with the script first!"
When Lin Yuquan was busy with the script, after two months of release, "Painted Skin" gradually ended its brilliant box office journey.
Following the box office boom in the first three weeks, in the next few weeks, "Painted Skin" still maintains a strong box office trend, in China, "Painted Skin" continued to top the weekly box office list in the fourth and fifth weeks, until the sixth week due to the release of "Miami Storm" starring Gong Li, which slipped to second place, but in the next three weeks it still maintained the top spot of domestic films, and it was not until November 23 that "Ink Attack" was released, as everyone expected, "Painted Skin" easily broke last year's "Red Cliff" Set a box office record for a mainland film and set a new record at 313 million yuan.
In North America and other countries and regions, although the table of "Painted Skin" is not so strong, it has always been at the top of the list before it goes down, including $208 million in North America and $461 million in the final global box office, both breaking the results of last year's "Red Cliff".
The media naturally sang praises to this, coupled with the continuous news of Lin Yuquan's acquisition, which made him always appear in people's sight, here, the United States and China reacted completely differently to the acquisition, and successively acquired Summit Entertainment, Little Bear Press, and Emperor Gate Games, three large companies, which shocked the whole United States, and they were all shocked by Lin Yuquan's strong landing, especially the Little Bear Publishing House turned out to be his joint Stephanie. Mel acquired it together, and as soon as the news came out, Stephanie suddenly fell into the ground. Who is Mel, the author of last year's best-selling novel in North America, everyone has a feeling that Kung Fu Lin, a popular all-around icon, will soon cause a terrible storm in North America.
Across the ocean, the country that doesn't feel it deeply seems to be watching the excitement, especially the media gossip weekly focuses more on Lin Yuquan's wealth. Summit Entertainment $58 million, Little Bear Publishing House $11 million, Emperor Games $33 million, the three acquisitions cost a total of $102 million, such a huge hand, in addition to Lin Yuquan, who else in the domestic entertainment industry.
At the same time as feeling that Lin Yuquan is wealthy, another topic naturally surfaced again, how much wealth does Lin Yuquan have, in the "2006 Forbes China Rich List" released on November 2, Lin Yuquan tied for 97th place with a wealth of 2.4 billion and Zhang Yue, Zhang Dazhong's family and others, but can a rich man with a wealth of 2.4 billion come up with 102 million US dollars for private acquisition? You must know that this is only the acquisition of funds, after the acquisition, the company also needs to operate and develop, and the funds for operation and development can be much more than the acquisition funds, not to mention, to make a movie in Hollywood, the investment will easily require tens of millions of dollars, in addition, Lin Yuquan also has the hottest Shuguang film company in China, the largest video website Shuguang.com, one of the largest brokerage companies Yuquan family and Shuguang cinema line, Shuguang film and television base, these really only add up to 2.4 billion wealth?
Of course, Forbes' response to this is that Lin Yuquan's wealth on the "2006 Forbes China Rich List" released by them is the actual asset figure before the release of "Painted Skin", and now it is naturally more than that, and such a response undoubtedly makes people more curious about Lin Yuquan's existing wealth.
And just when the topic of wealth focusing on Lin Yuquan has not stopped, as the time enters December, another topic has involved him, Wu Yusen's "The Battle of Red Cliffs" is about to be released.
At that time, Lin Yuquan had just become famous with his self-directed and self-starred "Huo Yuanjia", and then impatiently announced the filming of "Red Cliff", almost everyone thought that he was carried away by the results of "Huo Yuanjia", and would eventually be beaten by Wu Yusen and Xie Jin, even his most hardcore fans were just worried.
But gradually, the shape began to change, Lin Yuquan spent 200 million yuan to form a luxurious cast, making "Red Cliff" the most eye-catching film of the year, Xie Jin's "Red Cliff" was stranded again due to lack of investment, and the filming was far away, on the other hand, Wu Yusen was forced by the huge pressure caused by Lin Yuquan, and the "Battle of Red Cliff" that was ready to be filmed this year was ready to start in advance, at this time, Lin Yuquan's limelight completely overwhelmed the two.
When "Red Cliff" was released to create new records for Chinese films, and finally won the global box office of more than 400 million US dollars, the form was completely reversed, and the pressure was all on Wu Yusen, no one was optimistic that Wu Yusen could surpass Lin Yuquan, and even many people were full of drama and abuse, the same red cliff theme, Wu Yusen's "Red Cliff Battle" will inevitably be compared with Lin Yuquan's "Red Cliff", once the effect of "Red Cliff Battle" cannot be compared with "Red Cliff", who will spend money to go into the theater to watch the Red Cliff War again!
Now, the box office battle between the two top directors in the Chinese film industry with the same theme is about to start after a year, and many people are eager to know the result.
"Yuquan, Wu Yusen's "The Battle of Red Cliffs" is about to be released, what do you think of his box office?"
"Oh, a good show is about to be staged, if Director Wu's movie fails at the box office this time, he will be miserable."
"Hmph, it's still better than Brother Yuquan, how can "The Battle of Red Cliffs" be as good as our "Red Cliffs"."
Lin Yuquan didn't take the release of "The Battle of Red Cliffs" to heart, but as he returned to the crew of "The Legend of Deer and Ding" again, the words of friends and crew also made him focus on the upcoming "Battle of Red Cliffs". R1152