Li Lianjie would ask for such a high price, Lin Xiaozhi couldn't figure out what he thought.

Media Asia wants to invest 50 million to shoot a standard blockbuster, if it is rumored that Lu Dao will not know how many actors will sharpen their heads and want to squeeze into the crew, and even lower their prices. For example, in his "Resident Evil", Lin Xiaozhi invited dozens of first- and second-tier stars to make cameos, and only then did he pay less than 20 million in salary, because many people, including Liu Dehua, tacitly wanted to appear in that kind of big production with their own salaries.

Although the investment in "Black Man" is not as good as "Resident Evil", looking at Hong Kong, the so-called Oriental Hollywood, which has an annual investment of more than 20 million movies, is an out-and-out big production. Li Lianjie did the opposite, Rao is Lin Xiaozhi consciously figured out human nature, which will also be confused.

These doubts turned around in his mind, and Lin Xiaozhi pondered for a moment before he spoke: "...... I know Donnie Yen's skills, Debao asked him to make a movie a few years ago. However, although his fights are tough, he is not as dexterous as Li Lianjie, and his acting skills and popularity are not enough. The actor of "Black Man" asked him to play it, but the movie has to take a lot of risks"

Although the salary of three million is a little higher, Lin Xiaozhi thought about it for a while and felt that if he could overwhelm about two million, he would still be able to accept it.

Regarding the role of the male protagonist of "Black Hero", he is more inclined to choose Li Lianjie than Donnie Yen. In terms of getting up, he has never seen Donnie Yen fight against Li Lianjie, and there is no way to compare this. However, Li Lianjie's martial arts routine is to perform martial arts, which is dexterous, gorgeous and more performative, which is very suitable for filming. Donnie Yen's routine is the path of taekwondo and free fighting, Lin Xiaozhi has seen several movies he shot in the first two years, which are far less pleasing to the eye than they seem in later generations, but more similar to the blunt fighting routines in foreigner movies.

Although Yuan Kui had privately chatted with him about his personal impressions before, he, a first-class martial arts instructor in Hong Kong, believes that Donnie Yen's skills are not much worse than Cheng Long in addition to experience, and among Hong Kong male artists, except for Zhou Bili, who won the light and intermediate free fighting world championships, can win him steadily, there are really few dragon and tiger martial artists who can beat him. However, movies are different from real fighting matches, and it is also important to pursue reality while being gorgeous, which is undoubtedly much better than Donnie Yen.

"There's no way around it, Applejack's agent is getting too much to pay. If you continue to choose him as the male lead, there will be no more budget to choose supporting roles"

Li Lianjie is the best candidate for the leading actor in "Black Man", and Xu Ke also knows this, but Li Lianjie's salary is too high and will undoubtedly affect the choice of other roles in "Black Man". Donnie Yen's salary at this time is more than 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, if he is chosen as the male lead, the crew will have a more adequate budget to invite Yu Rongguang, Liu Jiahui, Ji Chunhua, Du Yuming, Zhang Yaoyang, He Jiaju and others to make a luxury supporting team. Although Lin Xiaozhi agreed to invest 50 million yuan for the crew, it doesn't mean that he can spend it indiscriminately, Xu Ke also found the comic version of "Black Man" to study it in order to study the script before, and after getting Lin Xiaozhi's promise to provide special effects support for this movie, with his excellent temperament, he is naturally more willing to spend money to get better results.

"You mean, the salary of three million is not what Li Lianjie wants, but his agent?" Xu Ke's words made Lin Xiaozhi's heart move, and he felt that Li Lianjie could not offer such a high price, and when he heard Xu Ke say everything, he was also surprised and asked.

Seeing Xu Ke nodded, he smiled and said: "I see, although I haven't dealt with Li Lianjie, but I also think it is impossible for him to ask for such a high salary, if it is the price that his agent wants, Xu Sheng, why don't you talk to him directly, a movie with an investment of 50 million, if Li Lianjie participates, it will also improve his acting career." I don't think it's possible for him himself not to understand this......"

Brokers ask for too high prices, which is really a lot of things in Hong Kong. For example, he once thought about inviting Zhou Yanfa to participate in the Red Alert, but he was asked for a sky-high salary of 7 million by Fa Ge's wife and agent, making it clear that he wanted to treat him as Kai Zizai, and it was obviously impossible to spend so much money, and finally Lin Xiaozhi chose Liu Dehua instead of Zhou Yanfa. He is not very familiar with Li Lianjie's agent, but he is also interested in this agent who dares to ask him for a sky-high contract, and after a pause, he continued: "If Xu Sheng's side is not convenient for you, let me contact you."

"This"

However, to his surprise, Xu Ke not only did not readily agree, but frowned slightly to show some hesitation. After a moment of hesitation, he spoke: "Lin Sheng, I don't think Ajie is likely to participate in this movie, so it's better to finalize the role of Donnie Yen."

"What do you mean?" Even the most unresponsive person can sense that something is wrong at this moment. Lin Xiaozhi's eyes narrowed, his head turned and began to analyze the meaning of Xu Ke's words, but he didn't forget to ask, "Does Xu Sheng know what to say, I know that you have a good personal relationship with Li Lianjie?" ”

These words made Xu Ke even more silent, and he replied after a while: "Lin Sheng, I won't hide it from you." In fact, Applejack himself is more fond of starring in "Black Man", but his agent is more opposed to Applejack taking over this play, so he offered such a sky-high price. ”

"Oh......"

Lin Xiaozhi frowned, he is not a stupid person, Xu Ke's words have been said in vain, if he still can't hear anything, he has lived in vain for decades.

Li Lianjie's agent didn't want him to take over the drama of Huanya, and he could even call the shots for Li Lianjie, and at the same time, a wave of anger came out of his heart, and he was also interested in this person, and asked quietly: "Xu Sheng, is it convenient to tell me, who is Li Sheng's agent?" ”

Xu Ke hesitated, looking like he wasn't going to say anything. It's just that he quickly thought of his identity, and he expected to know that he would know the truth as soon as he inquired about it, and he couldn't hide it. Only then did he nod and spit out a person's name: "David Luo"

"It turned out to be him" As soon as he heard this name, Lin Xiaozhi suddenly realized why someone would not buy it from Huanya.

Hong Kong, known as the Hollywood of the East, has an extremely developed film and television entertainment industry, and has entered a period of rapid development since the end of World War II. Luo Wei, the former chief director of Golden Harvest, is one of them, and David Luo is his son.

The unique geographical location and the background of the times, resulting in a chaotic relationship between all walks of life and the underworld in Hong Kong, Luo Wei rumored that he worshiped 14K a certain hall for Yu's father, his father's younger brother Ma Zai hundreds, I heard that many people were dug up by him later to change careers as dragon and tiger martial artists, and they made great contributions to the Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest back then.

However, although he is known as the former chief director of Golden Harvest, Luo Wei's ability to make movies is not as accurate as his own vision of seeing people, this gentleman's reputation in the early years of the industry is not good, according to legend, every time he sees a creative work shot by others released, he buys tickets to watch three or five shows in a row, and after memorizing all the plots, he shoots movies with a similar script, which can be called the originator of Hong Kong's follower films, and has caused criticism from the industry. If it weren't for the fact that he had discovered Bruce Lee and Cheng Long, two Hong Kong kung fu superstars, it would have been impossible to leave his name on the list of well-known Hong Kong directors.

However, this person's temper is very arrogant, not to mention petty, but also harsh to people, because of arrogance, he turned against Bruce Lee who he discovered; Because of his stinginess and harshness, Cheng Long, who was popular with one hand, finally abandoned him. I heard that when Cheng Long thought he was harsh and unwilling to make films for his private film company, he also coerced him to kneel and beat him, and finally forced him to make a few more movies. Later, after Cheng Long became famous, he was openly exposed in a media interview, and under the accusation of public opinion, he was forced to reduce his filming after the mid-eighties and gradually semi-withdrew from the film industry.

There is a saying that 'Lao Tzu is a hero, Lao Tzu is a reactionary bastard, and his father Luo Wei's character is like this, how good can the son he taught.' Although Lin Xiaozhi has not been in contact with David Luo, but the successor father Luo Wei is also mixed in the film industry, and he is also a celebrity concerned by the paparazzi with his gambling and lustful temperament, I heard that the second generation of the star also has an unclear relationship with the underworld like his father, and a few years ago he had a conflict with a rich businessman in Macau for a female star, and it didn't take long for the rich businessman to break a leg and flee back to Macau in embarrassment by a group of thugs, because I heard that he was also interrogated by the police. It's still spread in the circle.

Although Lin Xiaozhi didn't know how David Luo became Li Lianjie's agent, but after sending Xu Ke away, he immediately asked people to make a noise, and soon a steady stream of news was sent to him, and then he understood why David Luo would prevent Li Lianjie from taking over the drama of Huanya.

The movie "Chinese Hero" directed and acted by RU in the year hit the street at the box office, and he was almost disabled because of filming, and Li Lianjie, who was devastated, once had the idea of leaving the showbiz, and after returning to the mainland to marry his sister, he soon went to the United States. It wasn't until Luo Wei found him in 89 and asked him to star in "Dragon in the World" that he returned to filming and got acquainted with Li Zhi and Luo Wei's son David Luo, and the three soon became friends, and David Luo also signed a ten-year contract with Li Lianjie during this period and became his agent.

Not to mention the relationship between Luo Wei and Golden Harvest, just the fact that one of the investors in David Luo's brokerage company is Liu Lianghua, the major shareholder of Golden Harvest, made Lin Xiaozhi understand that Golden Harvest must be making small moves behind it.