Shen Zhenghui's request to Ning Huan is to adapt the script of "Hurricane Rescue" into a Hong Kong localized story, and he said the same to Mr. Xiang and Jack Cheng. Because he basically didn't have the heart to tailor the script for Jack. In his previous life, he had read countless online novels, and there was such an idea in one online novel, using Schwarzenegger to star in the Hollywood version of "Hurricane Rescue", and using Jack Cheng to star in the Chinese version of "Hurricane Rescue", Shen Zhenghui directly copied this idea, but he gave the task to Ning Huan.

But for Ning Huan, it seems that the task of directly plagiarizing and transforming has become some kind of insult to his talent. Of course, he himself is also listed in the list of screenwriters of "Hurricane Rescue", copying himself is actually not copying, and it is the same for the online literature industry to repeat production in large quantities, not to mention the level of force, in essence, it is the same thing.

But Ning Huan made a mistake, he didn't want to simply plagiarize the script of "Hurricane Rescue", nor did he want to simply sinicize the story. When it comes to Chinese scripts, whether it is "Six Groups of Serious Cases", "Young Bao Qingtian", or Liu Tianwang's "I Know a Woman's Heart", the feeling of watching these films is chilling. Fundamentally speaking, it is not that the Chinese do not know how to create zào, nor do they lack authors who create zào, but the whole mechanism is not to reward innovative writers. After all, the contradiction of the whole society is fundamentally the contradiction between the backward productive forces and the growing material and cultural needs, so it is reduced to the last word, regardless of the quality, the output is the last word, after all, the audience and readers do not have such a high level of appreciation.

Ning Huan was purely suffering from egg pain this time, if he worked in this circle for two more years, it is estimated that he would not be so resistant to copying and plagiarism, and even felt impatient to do it himself, and it was possible to outsource this work. If Shen Zhenghui hadn't suddenly had a special experience with movies, he might have lost his interest in creating. At least now he doesn't write his own scripts, and the scripts of his first few works are all typed out word by word, although he just found a Japanese screenwriter to do a Japanese treatment.

Shen Zhenghui thinks more about the scenes and effects of this work that he did with Jack, as long as the plot is qualified, because in essence. That's how action movies are enough. But Ning Huan gave him a surprise.

To be honest, the "New Police Story" that Jack Cheng is preparing is a kind of story of egg pain, pretending, and masochism, which seems particularly fake because of excessive force. The aging Jack Cheng is trying to be a foil, and when he begins to admit his weakness and powerlessness, his own charm plummets.

Ning Huan obviously referred to this movie, but he gave another way of expressing it. Heroes don't need to be saved by others, although they are down, but it is because the rhythm of their lives is different from the rhythm they are used to. They are at a loss for what to do, but when the challenges they are accustomed to come, they are brave enough to be ready to meet them.

Ning Huan wrote such a script, he grew up watching Jack Cheng's movies, and like Shen Zhenghui, he scoffed at the movies made by Jack Cheng when he was old. This action star old age represents the tragedy of a qiē action star old age. So, at least it seems that this script has put a lot of effort into making it.

The story starts in the same way as "Hurricane Rescue", Jack Cheng is a veteran Hong Kong police officer. Because he missed in a hostage rescue incident, he had to bear the blame for his boss. Retire dishonorably. After retirement, living in poverty, relying on the help of friends to live on the rooftop, his wife remarried a wealthy businessman, because he was away from home on a long-term mission, and his relationship with his daughter was not close. The beginning is exactly the same as "Hurricane Rescue".

But the rest of the story is much more localized. Her daughter is at a rebellious age, and her best friend likes to deal with teenagers like Ah Fei and encourages her to travel to Southeast Asia together during the summer vacation. As a result, Jack's boyfriend became a friend of his daughter's boyfriend who was a member of a human trafficking criminal organization in Hong Kong, which specializes in trafficking young women from Hong Kong and Southeast Asia to various triads. Then, as soon as they landed in the Philippines. was captured by the local underworld, and Jack Cheng had to travel from Hong Kong to the Philippines to rescue his daughter in a very short time.

In terms of synopsis, it is exactly the same as "Hurricane Rescue", but Ning Huan's efforts in the script are to make the whole story seem to be not copied from the European background of "Hurricane Rescue". From the modus operandi of Hong Kong crime syndicates to the modus operandi of gangs in the Philippines. Jack's encounter in the Philippines and so on, you can find that even if the outline is the same, this is completely different stories from "Hurricane Rescue".

The most laughable thing is that Ning Huan hacked the Philippines after the script, after Jack Cheng rescued his daughter, he himself was in trouble and had to entrust a tour group to bring his daughter back, and he himself had to avoid being wanted by the Philippine government. As a result, the tour group was hijacked by a fired Philippine police officer on the last day of the trip, and then the Philippine police staged a scene of incompetence, and Jack Cheng finally had to stand up and rescue his daughter from the bus, and then he was arrested on the spot, and finally the Chinese embassy came forward to fish.

Unlike the public security environment, gangsters and law enforcers in "Hurricane Rescue", Ning Huan's script blackened the entire country of the Philippines, and the gangsters are more effective than the police and the government. In this script, he also blackened Hong Kong again, and the taste of mocking Hong Kong was revealed under the eyes of Shen Zhenghui's future people. The power of the central government appeared at the beginning, and then echoed at the end, speaking of which, Ning Huan is simply a red screenwriter with good roots!

In the script, Ning Huan's arrangement of Jack Cheng is no longer a juggling humorous kung fu, nor is it a fatal action, but a conciseness with a certain crazy feeling. For this reason, he deliberately arranged a clip of the exchange between the Hong Kong police and the mainland armed police at the beginning of the movie, the Hong Kong police were stunned by the simple and rude handling of the mainland armed police, and the behavior of washing the ground with mortars made the Hong Kong Flying Tigers look grassy. It was here that the tone was set for the action scenes of the whole film, and he was not afraid of death, regardless of the beauty of the action, Jack Cheng was already in his fifties. This kind of table xiàn also conforms to his body lì.

After Shen Zhenghui read the script, he went through the entire movie scene in his mind, which seemed to be the sequelae of the last time, and now it is very easy for him to generate movie images in his mind, as if there are countless templates directly for his reference. Every scene comes to life, when the whole movie is filmed in my head. Shen Zhenghui himself also feels that Jack's identity as a father makes his appearance in the movie very reasonable. Comparatively speaking, "New Police Story" is too rough, how is his age positioned? looks old, was about to collapse at the beginning, and the setting was too deliberate and a little perfunctory, and it was completely like relying on Daniel Wu's face to brush the box office.

According to the scenes conceived by Shen Zhenghui in accordance with Ning Huan's construction and with reference to the action design of "Hurricane Rescue", Shen Zhenghui was suddenly full of confidence in the scenes of the whole movie. In terms of throwing away the action of juggling. This should be able to be a transformation for Jack Cheng, allowing him to find another way out of the fight.

Ning Huan playfully named this script "New Police Story", which made Jack Cheng and Yang Shoucheng both surprised and a little laughing and crying when they saw it, but when Jack Cheng read the whole script carefully, he seemed to be a little touched in his heart.

Due to the deliberate avoidance of punches and kicks in this movie, and even if there are, he tries to be as concise and crisp as possible, which seems to inadvertently offend Jack Cheng, as he asks himself that punches and kicks are his signature. Although he felt that the structure and rhythm of the whole story were very good, he couldn't help but make his own request.

"There seems to be a little bit of action in there." He said euphemistically. This is still due to the fact that Shen Zhenghui is young and vigorous, and he has just won the box office success in Hollywood, compared to his usual style, he is already quite polite. "There are too many gunfight scenes, isn't this style wrong?"

Mr. Xiang and Mr. Yang on the side did not speak, and the focus of these two people was not here. They are looking at the characters in the script, wondering which of their actors can match.

"IMHO. Eldest brother. Shen Zhenghui said, of course, when this sentence was spoken, Xiang Sheng and Yang Shoucheng both pricked up their ears, with slightly worried expressions, for fear that the young director's outspokenness would anger Jack Cheng.

"The way you used to move is all too familiar to the audience." Shen Zhenghui thought for a while and said, "Don't talk about others, just say that I, I almost grew up watching your movies, but in my impression, the deep impression of you is still in old films, such as jumping from such a high building in "Who Am I", do you think you can still repeat the big scenes and bravery of the past?" ”

The eldest brother's face was wiped off immediately, he really didn't like others to say that he was old, even if it was an insinuation.

"So we had to have new ideas in action design," Shen Zhenghui continued, completely ignoring Jack's face, "Before "The Matrix" came out, no one thought that it would be possible to make action movies in this way, although the plot of "Hero" directed by mainland Zhang is very ordinary, but it is quite creative in action, in our opinion, if we repeat what the audience is already familiar with before, it will not work, there must be something new." If it is a repetition of a single style, the box office of the whole film will not be good. This time, our film was released all over the world, so it had to be of interest to audiences all over the world. ”

"Isn't this also a repetition of the style of "Hurricane Rescue"?" Jack asked rhetorically.

"This style is very marketable," Shen Zhenghui replied, "Liansenim is an agent, so he uses the way of an agent to deal with problems, and ordinary people will think that although he doesn't understand it very well, he seems to be very powerful." Big brother, you play a policeman in this movie, you should deal with the problem according to the style of the police, the policeman generally doesn't pistol or doesn't hold a gun, and he thinks he can kill a bad guy with his bare hands, which is too unreal. ”

"The police are here to uphold justice, not to kill people indiscriminately." Jack Cheng defended, "Moreover, in this script, the country, the Philippines, is it really good to write their police so incompetent and so bad?" I should usually design a good cop in their country to help me, for example, a female character, otherwise, what if it is released at the box office in their country? ”

"We can blur the country," Mr. Shen said, "but your idea is not feasible," Mr. Shen said, "and you can see that this is the framework of 'Hurricane Rescue.'" So we have to follow that framework, and to be honest, we've put a lot of effort into the whole story, Filipino," he paused, "and it really sucks." "In another six or seven years, you'll have a real experience. Shen Zhenghui doesn't need to say this.

The eldest brother gradually entered another state. He made a number of comments on the script, which were not intended to show his correctness, but presumably to show his identity and right to speak. His aura as a superstar over the years led him to subconsciously try to seize control of the project. Many top actors have this tendency, such as Zhou Xingxing, he himself has a very strong control over the movie, so he finally became a director, and each of his works has his own unique style, but in Shen Zhenghui's opinion, this style finally came to an abrupt end when "Journey to the West". Because he himself did not appear in this movie, and the style of classmate Wen, who is very good at pretending, does not match nonsensical comedy at all, of course, this is just Shen Zhenghui's personal opinion.

In Jack Cheng's movie, action design Jack Cheng has his own right to speak, and in this film, Shen Zhenghui put forward his own requirements for action design, which made Jack Cheng feel offended, although he calmed down and felt that Shen Zhenghui was right, but the eldest brother couldn't erase this face for a while. couldn't swallow this breath, so in the end, even Yang Shoucheng heard it. The eldest brother's building yì has a gambling element in it.

Yang Shoucheng hurriedly interjected while Shen Zhenghui was still in a mood and patiently answered Jack Cheng's question, "Mr. Shen," he said, "We have to take this script back to study, and we won't discuss it the next time we meet." He gave Jack a wink as he spoke. Jack immediately descended the donkey's tunnel. "Yes, I also have a lot of ideas about this script, I want to go back and sort it out, and we will have a good exchange next time."

Mr. Xiang sat there. With a slight mocking smile, he glanced at Shen Zhenghui, Shen Zhenghui's expression was calm, but Mr. Xiang still sensed that Shen Zhenghui might still be a little impatient.

So Mr. Xiang said, "If Jack finds it difficult to play this role, we can change someone!" His words sounded like a joke, "I think Wu Zhenyu and Yin Tianzhao are good, of course, their international appeal is far less than Jack, we still hope to cooperate with Jack." ”

When these words came out, Jack Cheng's face stiffened a little, and he looked directly at Shen Zhenghui, "Mr. Shen, what do you think?" ”

"Working with Big Brother as a preference, of course." Shen Zhenghui replied, but his expression was obviously to say that if it really didn't work, it was not unacceptable to replace him.

The eldest brother was a little annoyed, but Yang Shoucheng on the side pulled his sleeve, "This kind of big business should give some time to think about it, don't you, you have to let Jack read the script a few more times!" He rounded up.

"Director Shen is also very short of time!" Mr. Xiang said, "How is Mr. Shen's schedule arranged?" ”

"I'm going to go back to Japan first," Shen Zhenghui said, "There is still some time, of course, the sooner this is decided, the better, the crew is also very time-consuming, and the actors and so on." He continued, "There are several projects in Hong Kong, and I hope this matter will be settled sooner rather than later." ”

"Okay," replied Yang Shoucheng, "we'll give you an answer as much as we can." He nodded.

In the car that left, the eldest brother was still a little indignant, "How old is this Director Shen?" "He wasn't born when I made the movie, and now he even dictates the action design," he lowered his tone, "If this film is really filmed, he won't be riding on top of me." ”

"Alright, Jack." Yang Shoucheng persuaded and explained, "People have good grades and are confident." If you don't act, which actor in Hong Kong doesn't want to appear in his movie? Xiang Jia said that ill-intentioned, he begged you to star before, and now he deliberately said this, what do you think he wants to do? ”

"Which actor in Hong Kong can have my box office appeal?" The eldest brother said confidently, "It's definitely not possible to find someone else at the box office." ”

"The cost can still be earned," Yang Shoucheng said, "just make less money, after all, Japan is his big box office, and many of his movies have grossed tens of billions of yen." ”

This made the eldest brother a little speechless, "Then who will he find?" ”

"Jack, you can't think like this," Yang Shoucheng said, "This project will definitely make money, and Xiang Jia wants to exclude us at this time because he wants to monopolize the investment quota, and if you don't act, you can't give up this investment quota." ”

The eldest brother's face is not so thick, and he still has some concerns, "What if he doesn't shoot?" ”

"So you have to hold back," he said, "after all, not everyone can make a $400 million movie at the box office, and you're not too small, and you have to think about the next generation." Yang Shoucheng was a little serious, "This Shen Zhenghui obviously has a long professional life, maybe he will be in Hollywood in the future, even in China, he is also a top figure, why should you get along with him?" If you cooperate with him, if you talk about it, others will only say that you are promoting your juniors, and you also have to accumulate some contacts for Xiaofang! ”

These words went to Jack's heart, he muttered for a long time, took the script and said, "Send me home first, I'll go back and discuss it with my wife." ”

On the other side, Mr. Xiang was explaining, "If I squeeze Jack Cheng like this, he will definitely give in." After speaking, he was a little anxious, "When will the filming start?" Does the filmmaker Mr. Shen have a plan? ”

Of course, there is a plan, Ning Huan provided a list of actors for reference when writing the script, of course, if it weren't for the two people who knew each other very well, the screenwriter would have completely overstepped the norm.

So Shen Zhenghui responded with a smile, "I've thought about it a long time ago." (To be continued......)