In Hollywood, there are many tough guys who are tougher than Shao Yingying, but these famous tough guys are more expensive than Shao Yingying, the key is that the main image that can be accommodated in a movie is really limited, and Shao Yingying has the support of the Chinese market, so in the choice of actors, Shao Yingxing, who currently appears in Hollywood media headlines almost every day, has entered Stallone's field of vision. So, Stallone asked Li Lianjie, who had already confirmed his joining, and the reply he got was that Shao Yingying had made a website, and there seemed to be his worth on the website.......

That's it, Stallone, who has not yet decided whether to use Shao Yingying or not, immediately made a decision after seeing the price on the website, and the website shows that Shao Yingying's salary is less than 2 million US dollars!

For the movie "The Expendables", which invested $82 million, having Shao Yingying join is equivalent to adding another brick to the Chinese market, even if Chinese fans are not very interested in tough guys other than Stallone, Arnold, Jason Statham, and Bruce Willis, they have to watch this movie for Li Lianjie and Shao Yingying, right? In addition, Shao Yingying and Li Lianjie are both actors who have a certain degree of popularity in Hollywood, at least these two appear in the North American or European market, and the audience knows them, of course, there is also Cheng Long who is also well-known, but Cheng Long's style is obviously not suitable for this movie.

Shao Yingying completely let the price on his own website be pitted, his salary of 10 million yuan on Huayi Performing Arts Network to act in a movie, 1.5 million episodes to act in a TV series is definitely the top star in China, which can be converted into US dollars, for Hollywood crews, this is not a problem!

What is the price of the domestic showbiz (just remember)?

In 2014. Deng Chao's movie salary skyrocketed after acting in "The Breakup Master", rising to 300-4 million + The box office is divided into one drama, and the TV series is 500,000 episodes; Wu Qilong's film salary is 80-1 million. TV series pay 70-800,000 per episode; International Chapter 10 million - 12 million + box office stratification; Gong Li 10 million; Shu Qi 8 million; Sun Li 200-3 million, TV series 70-800,000 episodes!

This is still the asking price in the circle in 2014 in history!

Shao Yingying was priced at a salary of 10 million yuan and 1.5 million episodes of TV series by Huayi Performing Arts Network because of the face of his boss.

It's just that this price is still money in Stallone's eyes? Don't talk about Shao Yingying, even if it's the international chapter in 2014, I'm sorry, there aren't many beautiful knives that can be won.

The day after answering the phone. Shao Yingying called Wang Jinghua back, and only said two words: "I'll answer." ”

It's no wonder that others are doing this, Huayi Performing Arts Network is a domestic-oriented website. It's not a big station in the world, and he can't put two price codes, and when he sees the Hollywood crew, he goes over to slaughter it, and when he sees the domestic crew, he pretends to be an uncle and shouts, 'Our boss is busy', right?

What's more, this is not necessarily a dumb loss. Shao Yingying, with "Source Code", has accumulated a good reputation in Hollywood. But you are a Chinese actor who has not carried any awards, and the highest North American box office of the starring movie is only 60 million, plus the media publicity can reach a salary of 300-4 million in Hollywood, which is considered to be the top of the sky, you and the media have a war of words every day, no matter how well-known you are, aren't the results there? "The Expendables" didn't invite you to be the director, what is the use of "Super Body" at the box office? Don't you have to watch the box office of "Source Code"?

The salary of 400,000 US dollars is 24 million in China, who are the people who want this price in China? Fa Ge's salary is 30 million, and Cheng Long's salary is 60 million. These two people look like a big difference, but how many movies can be moved? You, Shao Yingying, even if you've been in Hollywood for a few days. How are these two people compared? If you dare to bid a movie salary of 24 million, it is estimated that you will have to let the domestic media drown with spit immediately. Didn't Cheng Long just need a friendship price of $5 million for you to film?

This is the embarrassment of artists in Hollywood, if you use Hollywood's price code to return to China to film, then you have to be like Cheng Long, with investment into the group to multi-point box office stratification and reduce your own price, otherwise, you will take 60% of a drama with more than 100 million funds, and the crew will not invite anyone else? But once you set the price in China and Hollywood comes again, what will you do? One price at home and one price abroad, as soon as the Hollywood media reported it, the reputation immediately stinked, and don't worry about going abroad.

This is the reason why Shao Yingying wants to take over this play, not only to watch those big names, he is a dumb eater of coptis.

When he met Stallone, Shao Yingying found that Stallone was a person who was not very willing to talk, he spoke straight to the point, and never said useless things. Judging by his appearance, this is the type that likes to keep silent, but if you dare to provoke him, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Sit."

When meeting with Stallone, when a simple word was said by Stallone, Shao Yingying suddenly felt very normal, even if there was no 'please'.

When he entered the office with the translator, Shao Yingying sat opposite Stallone and was unrestrained.

"Shao, do you know, originally we were going to find a Huaxia company to work together on this movie and share the risk, but Huaxia's film company proposed ...... We can't accept the request, they want to add one more Chinese actor in this movie, sorry, I haven't heard the name of that Chinese actor, and ...... I didn't remember the name of the Chinese actor, so we refused. Stallone looked at Shao Yingying very seriously and carefully explained the matter.

This time, Shao Yingying remembered the company Millennium Pictures!

He remembered "Bad Lieutenant", "The Mechanic", "First Blood 4", "White Elephant" and other well-known movies, among them, Stallone starred in "First Blood" episodes 1-3 were all completed by a bunch of joint ventures, and in the fourth part, it was changed to Lionsgate and Millennium Pictures, and when "First Blood 5" arrived, it completely became a product of Millennium Pictures. In other words, this company has given Stallone, who has played a hard-working protagonist in countless inspirational stories in Hollywood, a sense of security, and made the 63-year-old tough guy unwilling to continue to drift.

"Then why are you looking for me?"

Shao Yingying is curious, even though he doesn't know much about Millennium Pictures. For a while, he thought it was a Chinese film company, but he was still curious about this. Stallone should mean that "The Expendables" doesn't need to add other tough guys, then. Isn't his appearance exactly the opposite of what he meant?

"Lee told me a story." Stallone replied: "It turns out that Lee's name in "The Expendables" is kong-kao (the author really can't think of what this thing is made up by foreigners, so he can only get the name in the original text), and then Li is not very satisfied, and he changed it to YIN-YANG, saying that these two words have special meaning for Orientals. ”

"I respected him, so I changed it. Then he told me the meaning of these two words. I don't know why, but after hearing this meaning, I always thought that these were two people, and this was something that was discussed after we rejected the Huaxia joint venture plan and put the film on the agenda. At that time, you happened to be at a press conference, with the Hollywood media...... Fight. ”

"So, all the newspapers in my house are full of your name. Belch. This led me to your movie, unfortunately, I didn't understand your TV series, but I saw a military image. ”

Stallone shrugged: "So, I contacted Lee, and he asked me to go to your website, and I think you, very cheap." ”

Hearing that Tyrone said these words, Shao Yingying didn't feel the slightest insult. Even the phrase 'it's cheap' is quite normal: "We don't have a lot of money, but we want to be more secure." Only then did Yang and Yin split into two people and brothers. Here's my interpretation. ”

There is no compliment, no words such as 'you have good acting skills, I have seen your movies', and no words such as 'you will make a good start for us at the Asian box office', Stallone is calmly telling all the experiences that happened, just like after he broke into Hollywood and was rejected by countless film companies, he still walked away with the script one by one, until one accepted him, which led to today's Stallone and countless inspirational stories.

Shao Yingying didn't play any nonsense, and said honestly: "I also have a movie on the shooting schedule, but I don't know if I can cooperate well with "The Expendables", otherwise, I'm afraid of delaying your shooting." ”

"Oh, I'm the director." Shao Yingying was worried that Stallone would mistake him for playing a big name, and added that he was a director, which meant that he had to keep an eye on the progress of the crew all the time.

Stallone nodded and said: "You don't have many scenes, if you want, we can discuss it, put your scenes at the time you think is appropriate, ten days, you give me ten days, I can finish filming all your scenes, is there a problem?" “

This is Stallone's greatest sincerity, Shao Yingying also felt this sincerity, this is a sincere person who rarely doubts the words of others, and when facing problems, he only solves problems and does not consider whether other people's problems are refusal, pretending, self-worth and other elements.

It is rare for an honest person to climb to such a high position in Hollywood, and Shao Yingying is not willing to miss the opportunity to communicate with so many big names: "No problem, I will try to adjust the time of opening the crew, it's only ten days." "It's a big deal to spend the time filming night scenes of my movie on the scenes of "The Expendables", who of the actors hasn't survived the all-nighters for a few months?

"Is there a problem with the price?" Stallone asked again, "I know this price isn't fair to you, but we really have limited funds." ”

With so many big names making an $82 million movie, it will definitely be overstretched in terms of funds, and there are still a lot of big scenes, so it's no wonder that the money is enough.

"No problem, if the money is really not enough, I can wait for the box office to come out before I get paid." Shao Yingying didn't say, 'I don't need money, can I ask you to go to my movie for a few days', some things can't be opened casually, and the results after opening your mouth are often different from what you expected.

Stallone finally smiled, this was the first time Shao Yingying had seen Stallone smile since he entered the room, just like in the movie, it was like a tough guy pouting the corners of his mouth slightly, the smile was very light, but he looked very satisfied: "Have a drink." ”

Stallone took a bottle of wine from the few drinks on the wine cabinet in the office, poured two glasses and brought it over, as can be seen from the fact that there are no bottles of wine on the wine cabinet, Stallone doesn't seem to be here often.

Bite.

The two of them were touched in one place, and when each of them took a sip of the amber liquid in the wine glass, Stallone said: "I will contact your agent, the specific shooting time and script will be sent to you when the time comes, this drama is not too easy, and I hope you are ready." ”

People who don't have any friendship said this, which is equivalent to sending off guests, Shao Yingying put down the wine glass with interest, stretched out his hand and said: "Happy cooperation." ”

When he shook hands with Stallone, Shao Yingying said the closing words: "Goodbye." ”

After leaving Millennium Pictures, Shao Yingying has been thinking about how to position the role that Stallone arranged for him, and how to find his own shining point in so many big names, because this is a role that was not in the original movie at all, Li Lianjie doesn't have many lines in this play, let alone himself who was suddenly caught in the crew? Shao Yingying didn't have any movie prototypes to rely on this time, and in addition to supervising the filming process of "The Walking Dead", the whole person was thinking about this every day.

After getting the script, Shao Yingying was even more difficult, he just had two sentences and an action scene, and he also became the material for Li Lianjie's few lines, for example, Li Lianjie had a line that should have been 'I want money, I want a lot of money, I want to support my family.' In the new script, it becomes, 'I want money, I want a lot of money, I want to support my family, do you know how many burgers this big guy eats in one meal?'" That 'big guy' is Shao Yingying, and when the time comes, for the sake of the joy of the camera, I'm afraid that there will be a real big guy like Du Fu standing next to him to make a comparison joke.

Most of the rest of the subdivisions are following Li Lianjie to hang around on any occasion, anyway, as long as Li Lianjie is present, he will definitely follow behind the other party.

This is really not a matter of being able to afford or look down on, there are too many big names in the movie, and the roles are too difficult to divide, the most popular Jason Statham must be the leading actor with the most roles in addition to Stallone, Li Lianjie can get the current role under the squeeze of Jason Statham has shown that Stallone attaches great importance to it, Shao Yingying also knows that he is not ranked in the eyes of real commercial movie superstars, and it is not bad to have the current role, not to mention the action scene at the beginning of the movie, also showed the characteristics of the role he played, and you were not invited to play the starring role.

The character played by Shao Yingying is a bit strange if you think about it according to common sense, but in the movie, he will definitely be very handsome, he is a tough guy who wears a body armor and holds a gun or a knife, he believes in his fists very much, and relies on his excellent body to fight the enemy on the battlefield, so he is called 'Yang'. One of the lines of this character was 'Single-handedly looking for me', and the other line was to call Li Lianjie 'brother', and let Li Lianjie stretch out his hand to interrupt.

However, coincidentally, "The Expendables" is better than "Or Become a God?" Or die? "Filming started a few days earlier, and there are not many days when you really need to stay up for filming, and when the 'Yang' written in the script is injured and withdraws from the battlefield, Shao Yingying can retire successfully.

People's circles are not easy to mix. (To be continued......)