Chapter 276: A Reluctant Compromise
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Hong Kong is a British colony, and a Hong Kong person can actually wield banknotes to dominate the situation in the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong people will naturally have a sense of pride and pride. Just like in the early 80s, the battle between Bao Yugang and the British-funded commercial firm Jardine Matheson & Co. caused a sensation in Hong Kong.
Gu Chen knew this truth very well, so he just smiled, and didn't plan to say more about it, so as to save others from thinking that he was showing off.
After ordering, the two chatted again, and it wasn't until they had already started serving the food that Gu Chen got to the point: "The main reason for asking Bao Lao today is to ask Bao Lao if he has ever thought about selling the shares of Standard Chartered Bank in his hand, and if so, I am willing to buy it at a high price." β
Bao Yugang said with a smile: "Actually, I guessed that Mr. Bowers, the president of Standard Chartered Bank, suddenly called me a short time ago and asked me not to sell the shares in my hand, I was still strange at the time, and then I called Qiu Depu, only to know that you had acquired the shares of Standard Chartered Bank in his hands a month ago." If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Holmes's stake is also your target. β
"The day before yesterday, Mr. Holmes had sold me 9% of his shares in Standard Chartered." Since Zeng Nanxing still needed to stay in the UK, Gu Chen instructed John? Barroman sent someone else to Australia to talk to Robert? Humes negotiated, at first Robert? Humes was not very willing to sell his stake in Standard Chartered, but he later agreed to the purchase price, which can be said to be extremely favorable.
Bao Yugang was stunned when he heard this, he also called Robert after calling Qiu Depua? Homs called, and the result he learned was that Gu Chen did not send someone to find him, but he didn't expect it to change greatly in just a few days: "I didn't expect Gu Sheng's movements to be so fast, it seems that this time Standard Chartered is in a catastrophe." β
When he left Tan Jiaxuan's restaurant, 14.5% of the Standard Chartered shares in Bao Yugang's hands had been officially assigned to Gu Chen's name. So far. Gu Chen has a total of friends from Bao Yugang, Qiu Depua and Robert? Humes acquired a 37% stake in Standard Chartered, surpassing Standard Chartered Group to become the largest shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank.
Not only that, but in the past month, John? Baroman has already smuggled 15% of Standard Chartered shares from the stock market, bringing the total stake to 52%. Completed the holding of Standard Chartered Bank. After leaving Tam Ka Hin, he immediately instructed Tsang Nam Sing, who was in the United Kingdom, to formally implement the acquisition of Standard Chartered Bank.
Gu Chen originally wanted to return to Tang Dynasty Holdings, and before the completion of the Tang Dynasty International Center, Tang Dynasty Holdings would become his fixed office location, but he received a call from Zou Wenhuai on the way, asking him if he had time. He asked him to sit down. How could he not know what the so-called sitting and sitting means, it is nothing more than talking about the cooperation between the two sides in the movie, it just so happens that he was planning to find a time to talk about this matter in the next few days, after all, this is the condition that he personally promised Zou Wenhuai when the two theaters merged, he didn't want people to say that he didn't believe it.
When he came to the meeting place, Zou Wenhuai had already arrived first. Compared with the slightly tense atmosphere during the last negotiation, Zou Wenhuai was obviously much more polite to him this time, and immediately got up to greet him as soon as he saw him: "This trip to the UK by Gu Sheng has really boosted the morale of Hong Kong people, and I am very happy." β
"Hehe, Mr. Zou is serious." After Gu Chen and Zou Wenhuai shook hands, they sat down in the seat opposite, and then saw that he took a copy of Wen JiΓ n from Ouyang Lan's hand and put it in front of Zou Wenhuai: "I know Mr. Zou's intention to find me today. In fact, I also want to talk to Mr. Zou about the cooperation between Golden Harvest and Tang Dynasty this year, this is a script I just wrote a few days ago, Mr. Zou might as well take a look at it first. β
Both sides are understanding people, and Zou Wenhuai was not embarrassed to be called out of his mind, but smiled: "Gu Sheng is really a trustworthy person." Then he picked up the script and read it:
Outside of humanity, there is a dark and unknown underground world where two hostile races are active: taking the dead qi of heaven and earth, being born of bad luck, immortal and immortal. The immortal zombies and the savage werewolves have been fighting since ancient times for the right to survive and dominate the underworld. To humans, they are nothing more than ghost legends in the streets. But in fact, the fierce confrontation between the two sides has never stopped, and they have been fighting each other all their lives, and defeating each other has gradually become the meaning of their existence.
After countless years of fighting, the zombies finally gained dominance of the underworld, with a strong and formal organization, while the werewolves were a group of thugs roaming the streets and alleys, although they were fierce and strong, but lacked organization and scale, which put them at a disadvantage in the battle against the zombies.
The zombie clan and the werewolf clan each have their own arsenal, in order to strengthen their own strength, and at the same time for the enemy's weakness, developed a large number of high-tech weapons, such as daylight bullets, mercury missiles, thunder darts, kobelco swords, etc., they are always looking for opportunities to kill each other in the dark night, watching the two dark forces are tense, and the big war is about to ......
Late on a thunderstormy autumn night, the zombie warrior "Blood Moon" Shangguan Wrist Moon was chasing and killing werewolves, and in the process of pursuit, Shangguan Wrist Moon was now a werewolf race ready to kidnap the human doctor Su Changfeng. Shangguan Zhiyue realized that the werewolf clan might be plotting a huge conspiracy, so he decided to investigate secretly, not wanting to fall into the werewolf's ambush, and was seriously injured, but fortunately was rescued by Su Changfeng.
After the injury improved slightly, Shangguan Zhangyue took Su Changfeng into the territory of the zombie clan, but unexpectedly, the other zombies saw that Su Changfeng had been bitten by a werewolf and wanted to kill Su Changfeng. After some fighting, Su Changfeng, who had finally escaped from the territory of the zombie clan, was unfortunately captured by the werewolf before he had time to be happy, and the werewolf took him to the werewolf night purgatory, and from the mouth of the night purgatory, he knew the reason why the werewolf wanted to arrest him.
It turns out that he is a direct descendant of the first person created by the creator Nuwa, and he is also the only pure-blooded human in the world that has not been polluted, and his blood can fuse the genes of werewolves and zombies, and with this mixed bloodline, he can have a powerful power.
It is precisely because he knows this secret that the werewolf leads the night purgatory to do everything possible to get him, wanting to inject his blood and the blood of the zombie clan elder into his body to gain great power.
Shangguan Zhiyue was very sympathetic to Su Changfeng's plight and wanted to help his life-saving benefactor, but unconsciously the magical seeds of love sprouted in the hearts of the two.
However, the two feuding races behind them did not erase the hatred accumulated over the years because of the love of the two young people.
Finally, the zombie clan's operation to annihilate the werewolves has completed the final preparations. And the werewolf is also fully prepared for his revenge. So, on a darker night and more stormy night, the Armageddon between the zombies and the werewolves began......
Just like "Blade", Gu Chen replaced the vampires in "Tales of the Night" with zombies, and reset the background of the story, compared to the zombies in traditional Eastern mythology, the werewolves of another race in the play will be more Western cultural characteristics, from a certain Cheng DΓΉ, this play is the product of the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures, and he can't predict what the final box office will be, but he is still very satisfied with his adaptation.
Zou Wenhuai spent more than half an hour reading the script, and nodded secretly, this script is very good in terms of story background setting and plot, and more importantly, he has seen that this drama will not only have a lot of action scenes, but also add a lot of special effects shots.
In other words, this will be a big-scale movie, and more directly, it will be released in Europe and the United States. In the eyes of all insiders, today's Tang Dynasty movies have become a cash cow, not to mention other movies, "Blade" alone has swept the film markets in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and most countries in Southeast Asia, and has won a box office of 4ooo million US dollars in Asia alone, of which the Japanese market accounts for the majority. In the North American market, although the film has not yet been spoken, it has already received a box office of 780,000 in the first three weeks, and it is certain that it will exceed 9ooo by the time of the next talk. The final global box office will be at least $170 million.
With such a huge box office income, which boss of a film company in Hong Kong would not be moved when he saw it? He Zou Wenhuai naturally won't leave, and he is even more excited, because he has the opportunity to cooperate with Gu Chen, and now Gu Chen has come up with this script called "Legend of the Night", which is definitely in his arms.
At this time, Gu Chen spoke: "I am personally very satisfied with this script, the special effects are not used as much as "Blade", more on the makeup effect, so the investment is relatively low, about 5ooo million Hong Kong dollars, I hope to use the original cast of "Blade Warrior", the male protagonist is also played by Donnie Yen, and the heroine is decided by Mr. Zou." β
Hearing this, Zou Wenhuai immediately frowned slightly, he has no opinion on the use of the production team of "Blade Warrior", Wu Yusen and Yuan Heping's abilities have been fully reflected in "Blade Warrior", and "Legend of the Night" and "Blade Warrior" can be said to be two extremely similar movies, and it is more guaranteed to continue to be jointly directed by Wu Yusen and Yuan Heping, but he has different ideas about the choice of the male lead.
According to his thoughts, Cheng Long is undoubtedly the best candidate for the leading actor in this film, he originally thought that Gu Chen would give him the right to decide the male protagonist, and he would retain the right to decide the heroine, but he didn't expect the result to be completely opposite.
This is the first cooperation between the two theaters after the merger, and he doesn't want to be unhappy because of the choice of the actor. In addition, the dominance of cooperation is on the side of the Tang Dynasty, although Jiahe is not completely without the right to speak, but the difference between the master and the slave of the two sides is obvious.