What can Cheng Long say? Helping Shao Yingying make the last film in the "Source Code" series is the simplest, most direct, and most effective way for him to turn around his image, and what could be more exciting for the nation than Shao Yingying against the Hollywood media? If you enter this camp at this time, then "Shinjuku Incident" will be a thing of the past. From 2009 to 2010, Cheng Long's own image fell to a low point, almost everything was like Cheng Long, and he hardly heard any good news. Another moment when Cheng Long's own image was low was to promote the movie in South Korea and shouted the slogan of "being half Korean" to pull the box office, and there were also many boycotts at that time.

What is the image of Cheng Long that everyone saw in the media after these two incidents? It is the busy figure who keeps running to the public welfare! Donating money, protecting ancient buildings, and donating antiques are obviously the confrontation between an old man and public opinion for the sake of feathers. He's not the angry boy who could choke at the media when he was young, isn't that all he can do?

But to go back, no matter what Cheng Long is going to the front line of public welfare, there are still many people in this society who are helped by him, at least the money donated and the charity fund called for do make many people feel love and warmth, which is mixed with a little content to change their own image, is it really a big deal?

"Brother Cheng Long, sometimes the words of these media people ......" Shao Yingying also wanted to persuade Cheng Long, when he thought of Cheng Long's age, he laughed himself, Cheng Long didn't need to be persuaded by anyone, but like many old people in high positions, when he was old, he took the word name more seriously. Others, as the hormones subsided and the desires disappeared, became very light: "Brother Cheng Long." Can I officially invite you to join the crew of our new film to play a role? If you can, it's a good idea to help us as a martial arts instructor. ”

Cheng Long raised his head and looked at Shao Yingying's face with an embarrassed expression, he was Cheng Long, Cheng Long! When did you ever think about asking a junior to help? From the beginning of Liu Jialing's nude-photo turmoil, he is the eldest brother who led the whole Xiangjiang artists to march on the front line, and now he is ......

"Xiao Shao. What I can do, I will do. After saying this, Cheng Long didn't talk about the salary at all. Now the salary is no longer important, the important thing is the friendship.

"Xiao Shao, there are some things that I think need to talk to you about." When Cheng Long finished saying this. He explained: "Just now you said that you were going to invite some big names in Hollywood, right? ”

Shao Yingying nodded and said, "That's right." What's wrong? ”

Cheng Long smiled and said, "Don't touch the nails." ”

"Big brother, what do you mean?"

Cheng Long let go of his emotional fluctuations and brought to the point: "In terms of current results, I should be better than you in Hollywood, right?" But have you ever seen me work with a Hollywood A-list brand? ”

Shao Yingying carefully recalled Cheng Long's movies, he really didn't seem to find that Cheng Long's movies had Hollywood first-line names, which was definitely not too expensive, with Cheng Long's ability to gather shooting funds. Not to mention, it's always okay to find a top Hollywood name to collaborate with him on a play, right? Even Spielberg once said that he was a fan of Cheng Long. Is it hard to find a big name?

It's really hard!

"It's not that I can't afford to invite it, it's that people don't come." Cheng Long said earnestly: "If you are the protagonist of this drama with you, a yellow-skinned Chinese artist, and want to use money to let those Hollywood first-line artists be green leaves for you, unless there is a special reason, it is simply impossible." I mean, you have a good relationship with some of the big names in Hollywood, and it's not included that you let the big names in Hollywood play a supporting role in your movie. ”

Cheng Long pointed to his head and said, "Although they preach that the United States is a liberal country all day long, some things have been ingrained. ”

What he means is that if Shao Yingying wants to invite first-line stars of the level of Matt Damon, Tom Tom, Pete, and Robert Downey Jr. to attract attention, it is impossible to attract attention, don't look at John Woo when he changes his face, he can invite Nicolas Cage, it is because John Woo is the director, he is not the star; Don't go to watch Tom go to the island country to play "The Last Samurai", people are playing the male lead. Even if you have a friendship and can make people show their faces simply, but in Hollywood, if you want to let a first-line movie star play a supporting role for a Chinese person with a friendship, I'm sorry, you miscalculated.

Shao Yingying can invite Scarlett and Morgan Freeman and even Megan, who finished filming "Transformers", the main reason is that when he invited, these people were not top stars except Morgan, even if Morgan Freeman is a top star or a gold medal supporting actor, when Green Leaf is his job, he naturally doesn't care who is the protagonist.

Not to mention the above male stars with box office appeal, even Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie and other actresses will never give you the Chinese female number one, when looking at the cast, even if the film investment is large enough, these people will not participate in such a movie. It is said that the drama "Super Body" is looking for Angelina Jolie in history, but don't people still refuse?

Tick, tick, tick.

Shao Yingying's kung fu phone talking to Cheng Long rang, and he picked up the phone and just heard bad news, Harry Sloan said on the phone: "Shao, Scarlett Johansson turned down our invitation to a new film and joined "Iron Man 2"! ”

This news caught Shao Yingying off guard!!

He originally thought that he had MGM's territory, and he could finally stabilize the situation, even if Hollywood actors didn't look at him Shao Yingying, they had to look at MGM's brand to give some face, but what was the result? Scarlett Johansson would rather go to "Iron Man 2" to play the spy Black Widow than continue to stay in his crew, even if it is also a big production, in choosing to partner with Robert Downey Jr. or with Shao Yingying, the Chinese have no advantage at all, and people will get Scarlett Johansson away with their fingers, and you can't keep it with a thousand words.

"Scarlett Johansson resigned." When Shao Yingying put down the phone, he said this to Cheng Long.

Cheng Long nodded and said, "Expected." ”

"Big brother. I'm going to go to the company in the United States right away, and the role may have to be reshuffled, if you look at it according to the current situation. Most of the people I want to invite should not be able to be in place. ”

This situation is too strict, and it is said that in the Hollywood-style capital game market, he never imagined that he would not be able to invite first-line stars as the leading actor, and he would not give money.

"There's no need to be in such a hurry." Cheng Long helped Shao Yingying stabilize his mind and said: "If you want to take countermeasures, you don't necessarily have to go back to Hollywood, now we don't have many ways to deal with it, and there are not many candidates who can choose to enter the camp, and at this time, I'm afraid you don't want to choose the second line of Hollywood to join your own play." Then, what we can choose is the person who is well-known enough but was once a superstar in this circle and is now forgotten, or is about to become a superstar and wants others to push him. ”

"Or you can change the field. Haven't you ever been in the small screen circle? You must know that there are many people in the small screen circle of the United States who want to step into the big screen, and even the top stars of the small screen can reduce their salaries for stepping into the big screen. ”

Shao Yingying responded: "I understand what you mean, you want the new movie to invite big names on the Hollywood screen without being able to invite big names on the Hollywood screen." Serve as a springboard for those small screen stars who can pull the box office. In this way, they can ignore the question of who plays the male lead, after all, they have something to ask. ”

"That's right." Cheng Long continued: "This is a strategy, we can not only ensure enough popularity at the North American box office, but also take advantage of the popularity of American dramas around the world to attract the attention of others. It's just that there are some risks to be taken here, after all, not every American drama actor can achieve the effect on the small screen on the big screen, and it needs to be carefully screened, and the best thing is to do some market research before inviting now. ”

In the process of Cheng Long's speech. Shao Yingying remembered several popular muscular men in "Spartacus", the first season of the TV series. Many popular muscular men have become well-known stars in Hollywood and North America, and this is not only the leading actor, such as Manu Bennett who plays Kress, you pull him out to play the special forces in the movie, and that muscle alone can attract some attention; Another example is Andrew Lincoln, the male number one in "The Walking Dead", you must have no problem asking him to play a father who must participate in the killing in order to save his cancer son in the movie, at least Andrew's father image in the American drama is enough to be accepted by everyone, and when the movie is released, it happens that the second season of "The Walking Dead" has already started.

After a conversation, Shao Yingying only had to invite the most important supporting role, as long as he could be moved, then the movie would be full of attraction on the big screen and the small screen, so Shao Yingying flew back to the United States.

Shao Yingying, who had just returned to MGM, received an offer from Cheng Long to participate in a new movie, Cheng Long only needed a performance fee of 5 million US dollars, with Cheng Long's level, he already expressed his attitude at this price, people are not here to make money, it is completely to ask you to help reverse the image, otherwise how could they open such a low price and not even mention the box office stratification?

Shao Yingying was not ambiguous, and the first thing he did when he returned to Hollywood was to announce that Cheng Long would join "Or Become a God?" Or die? The crew, still facing the media, said: "Inviting Brother Cheng Long to join is the result of my many beggings in private, Brother Cheng Long is willing to appear in this movie and play a supporting role, all to help, his salary is very low, so low that there are more than so few films in China, I must thank Brother Cheng Long for helping us get through the difficulties when we are in trouble." "What is a difficulty? Of course, it is a gamble in the face of the entire Hollywood media, which is the key to helping Cheng Long turn around his image.

With this key point, Cheng Long also made a high-profile statement when he was interviewed by the media in China: "In Hollywood, you have to help your own people, if we don't help each other, then, who else can we count on?" After all, the entertainment industry is a place that can only accommodate one highlight news point, as long as the latest news point is enough, then the previous things will be selectively forgotten by others.

At this moment, the second week box office of "Superbody" in North America has all come out, and the North American box office result of $37 million announced that "Superbody" surpassed the record of "Source Code" in only two weeks, and the European side is also a success! (To be continued......)