Chapter 196: The strong dragon does not suppress the head snake of the ground, and goes around and around to return to the roots

said before that around 1980, Golden Harvest wanted to send Cheng Long to Hollywood, but he didn't understand the market and didn't adapt to the soil, which led to the movie "Killer Trench" going high and low, and the long-term screening only got a box office of 8 million, only a slight splash.

Although they later spent a lot of money, investing 18 million to smash out "Cannonball Speed", the box office results of 72 million seem to be infinite, but Uncle Long is a dead runner in it, and he can't get any credit.

Later, because of the box office fire, it was mentioned that the sequel "Cannonball Speed 2" was made by the third male film, which was another big fight, with an investment of 20 million, and only received 28 million at the box office.

They don't believe in evil and continue to make a "Weilong Detective", even if they take the route of selling meat in the European and American versions, they only gain a box office of 980,000, so the situation of three consecutive career blows has been formed.

To be reasonable, in the entertainment industry, if an actor plays the leading role in a triple pounce, then no investor will use him.

But this is a pot to open up the market, and Uncle Long himself is still very popular in Xiangjiang.

In addition, in the same year that "Weilong Detective" hit the street, four movies, "Lucky Star", "Summer Lucky Star", "Police Story" and "Dragon's Heart", were born, making Uncle Long the first guy in the history of Xiangjiang film to win the top four of the annual box office list alone.

While writing legends, they no longer bother with Hollywood.

turned to re-root in Xiangjiang and continued to do the work of the desperate Saburo.

But people, you have to think about it a little, right?

In the territory of Xiangjiang, it was praised by the audience as 'Double Monday', which is already touching the ceiling of the market.

After all, Uncle Long just won the top four records of the annual box office list on his front foot, and two years after his back foot, he was broken by Fa Ge, who made eleven movies a year, six of which entered the top ten at the box office, and won the box office runner-up with "Prison Storm".

Then, there is the star master's four consecutive box office championships, and the miracle of creating the top five box office rankings in 92 years.

In this case, even if the three of them have a winner or loser, the audience will not lift one of them to the altar, and after Fa Ge finished filming "Peace Hotel", he also had the heart to go to Hollywood to develop, so Uncle Long, who once again touched the box office ceiling of Xiangjiang with "Red Fan Zone", also picked up the ambition he dropped ten years ago and wanted to come to Hollywood to give it a try.

And he learned his lesson and shot again......

Naturally, it is impossible to follow the old path of your own failure!

Even the high-spirited Xu Wenqiang knew to ask Wu Baige for help, and asked the other party to find a good book for himself, that Uncle Long, who had fallen on the problem of no way, was aiming at his eldest brother, of course!

Many people say that Yuan Baye and Uncle Long have a holiday, just because after "Drunken Fist" and "Serpentine Trickster", the two are no longer cooperating.

And in various public occasions in the future, Yuan Baye said that the kung fu emperor Li Lianjie, who had dealings with him, was better than Uncle Long, of course, the special venue of IKEA City was counted.

After all, in the case of using weapons to fight, the purple sweet potato essence came, so he had to kneel down for Uncle Long.

It is precisely because of this kind of non-cooperation and belittlement that people feel that they have long since died of old age.

But in fact, the two of them did not cooperate back then, purely because Uncle Long's artist contract was signed in the company of his stepfather Luo Wei, and Uncle Long's stepfather Luo Wei was the firefighter who filmed "Tangshan Senior Brother" with Li Xiaolong, the director of "Jingwumen", and the only guy who provoked Li Xiaolong directly on the set.

When filming "Jingwumen", Luo Wei and Li Xiaolong were one person and one Taishi chair, face-to-face madness, and in the end, it was even more staged a full martial arts, Li Xiaolong drew his knife and almost cut Luo Wei!

After parting ways with Li Xiaolong, Luo Wei, who continued to make kung fu films, found Uncle Long, who was ready to change careers to become a chef, but unfortunately, "New Jingwumen", "Shaolin Muren Alley", and "Sword Flower Fireworks and Rain Jiangnan" swooped three times in a row, until Yuan Baye and his father lent Uncle Long out of Luo Wei's hands and opened the road of kung fu comedy, Uncle Long finally became popular.

As soon as Uncle Long became popular, Luo Wei, who felt that nonsense was evil, asked Uncle Long back, and with the constraints of the contract, Yuan Baye had no choice but to watch Uncle Long live a life of tens of thousands of yuan per play again.

That's right, the bright face is a righteous son, but the treatment is similar to 9527 on Huataishi's mansion.

Due to the low salary, it didn't take long for Uncle Long to be taken over by Golden Harvest, and Yuan Baye, who lost Uncle Long, also found a replacement with his boss Siyuan Pictures - Chinese American Li Yuanba.

I don't know if it is the head of the eighteen heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the reincarnation of the golden-winged Dapeng eagle, the second Yuwen Chengdu in the world, the third Pei Yuanqing in the world with three hammers, and Li Yuanba, who killed an army of 1.2 million, is too heavy to bear.

After being called the 'new generation of dragons' with the popularity of "Dragon Ninja", this guy said that he was the best man in the world, and said to the producer who wanted to bid to dig up his own treasure island

"If you can get my boss Wu Siyuan, I will make a film for you."

Hearing this promise, Yuan Baye's boss Wu Siyuan was directly seriously injured by the underworld on Treasure Island, and in a hurry, Yuan Baye and Wu Siyuan issued a banning order, and the second-generation Uncle Long who was finally found was blocked by himself.

Even if he apologizes, he will ignore it, after all, this act of hiring a murderer to beat the boss is more brain-dead than Goebel.

After that, Yuan Baye became a martial arts instructor with peace of mind, and cooperated with Jiahe for a long time, and Uncle Long won more than 30 million box office "Double Dragon Club" in 92 years, which was his martial arts finger and picked up kung fu comedy again.

The conflicts between the two of them were all caused by Luo Wei, and with Luo Wei's decline, the two had no other scruples.

Especially after learning that his eldest brother Yuan Baye was 'unexpectedly' hired by Hollywood to be an action director, this guy who wanted to break into Hollywood again naturally aimed at Roland, who specially invited the eldest brother to Hollywood.

To put it mildly, even if Golden Harvest has maintained a good cooperative relationship with New Line before, in front of Roland, Warner's subsidiary New Line, that is a younger brother! Being able to climb the relationship with Roland is equivalent to being able to get six levels of distribution resources!

Although they didn't know the twists and turns in "The Seven Deadly Sins" and "The Shawshank Redemption" a few months ago, it didn't matter, they just needed to know that when Roland released the movie, he could find a bunch of guys they couldn't climb to endorse it!

They just need to understand that the benefits from selling "Red Fan District" to Roland will definitely crush the new line, and that's enough!

But the problem is that when they are stalling for time, they visit Los Angeles and want to meet Roland......

Roland, the little sheep, has been fooled away by the truck driver......

I can't get in touch!

It's annoying!

You know, in order to seize this opportunity, Uncle Long went to find his godfather, that is, He Guanchang, the founder of Golden Harvest, if it weren't for the old man who always hoped that Uncle Long could go out like Li Xiaolong, then "Red Fan District" would have been sold a long time ago!

What will you wait until now?

"What now? We can't just sit here all the time, can we? After making a few phone calls and confirming that Roland's mobile phone had been turned off, Uncle Long leaned back and fell on the sofa.

At this moment, he is helpless and just like Son Masayoshi who wants to do good deeds.

I can't send anything to my door, is there any reason for this?

"Why don't we go straight to Sony?" Seeing this, Anglee, who was sitting on the sidelines, suggested.

He could understand Uncle Long's mood at the moment.

Three years ago, when "The Wedding Banquet" sought a distribution company, he hit a wall one after another and was even more desperate than the current Uncle Long.

"Go to Sony? Will this work? Uncle Long, who wanted to seize the opportunity to show his talents, was a little hesitant, "After all, the new line is a subsidiary of Warner, if we get in touch with Roland, then even if the new line has an idea, they can't move Roland, and if we contact Sony directly and are rejected, then it will not be easy to go back to find the new line." ”

"The new line will feel that we are treating him as a spare tire, and since we don't value them, they won't value us."

"I'm different from you, you've always worked with Sony."

Hearing Uncle Long say this, Anglee shut up directly, because what the other party said was right.

In addition to the first "Pusher", the next "Wedding Banquet" and "Eating Men and Women" were all bought by Roland at a fixed price, and then directly thrown to Sony for release.

Not only that, but "Sense and Sensibility", which has an investment of up to 16 million, is also a Sony project.

In other words, just by virtue of the label 'Roland likes his work', he has been able to obtain a high degree of creative freedom from the project; in the eyes of most people, Anglee, who has already won the best foreign language film for "The Wedding Banquet", is Roland's person, as long as he does not burn money indiscriminately, any production director who is eyed by the group, it is a blind eye.

After all, on Sony's territory, no one would be at odds with Roland.

"Then why don't you call Sony and ask about the situation?"

Although Uncle Long couldn't go straight to Sony because of the relationship between all parties, Yuan Baye understood that just waiting here was not a thing!

"You make a phone call, pretend to ask about the box office of 'Sense and Sensibility,' and tell them by the way that you want to thank Roland, but his phone can't get through, and ask Sony if he knows where the other man has gone."

That's right!

It works!

Uncle Long, who reacted, rekindled hope, and anglee, who helped Roland find Yuan Baye, did not hesitate, and directly dialed Sony's phone, but when he said a few words politely and went straight to the point, Sony's answer to him made his face dark.

"Miss Evelyn, you mean, Roland Allen was still on the phone with you this morning?"

"Oh, I see, after he handed over everything to you, he flew to Mexico with director James Cameron and officially settled in the new project crew invested by Fox?"

"But the flight from Los Angeles to Mexico seems to be just over three hours, right?"

"They should be here by now!"

"Huh? You don't know the specifics? ”

"So, is there any other way to reach him?"

"Yes, yes, yes, I have something to find him."

"It's in a hurry."

"It's a movie thing."

"Uh...... You misunderstood, it's not the issue of the release of "Sense and Sensibility", but ......"

"Yes, it's just looking for someone."

"What? You say I can call Kate directly if I'm just looking for someone? ”

“kate? Which Kate? ”

"Kate Winslet ?!!!"

"Didn't she just go to the premiere of Sense and Sensibility with me?"

“what? You say she was caught by director James Cameron? …… Oh no! You say she's on the shortlist and waiting for Roland and James to make a decision? So, people should also be in Mexico? ”

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That's right, when the truck driver tells Roland that you should start with a relationship, it means that he has already chosen the actress, or rather, the final list is in his hands.

In fact, after finalizing Roland's participation in this movie, the truck driver arbitrarily proposed to modify the script, and set the age of the male and female protagonists at seventeen years old, and when screening, it was even simpler, can't it be finished directly according to Roland's age?

The first thing that came into his eyes was Elisa Dushku, who had a collaboration in "True Lies", that is, Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter in the movie, and let the governor's son and daughter fall in love, what an exciting thing;

secondly, Claire Dennis, who won the 52nd Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series with "My So-Called Life", but she has taken the lead in cooperating with Xiao Lizi in "Romeo and Juliet", but I don't know if Roland will mind;

Moreover, it is Rose Byrne, a guy with the same name as the heroine of "Titanic" Rose, she is also a child star, she starred in "Dallas Doll" at the age of twelve, and the most impressive is the heroine of "Latent" in Wen Ziren's horror universe, and the first lover of Professor X in "X-Men Apocalypse";

Of course, Christina Richie, the heroine of "Ghost Pony Elf" invested and produced by Amperin Entertainment last year, is also within the scope of the trucker's confirmation, and Kelly Russell, who debuted with Disney's "Mickey Mouse Club", and Gabriel Anwar, who played the heroine who was attracted by Al Pacino's dancing in "Smell the Woman", are also on the list.

The way for a truck driver to find someone is very simple, and that is to go up according to Roland's age.

And the standard, there are only three......

Young, meeting the age requirements of a seventeen-year-old girl;

Beautiful, it must make the audience exclaim at a glance, so various global beauty rankings have become a real help for truck drivers to flip through and find;

And while satisfying these two points, it must also be what Roland likes.

After all, it's not him acting, it's Roland acting.

If Roland stares at the heroine and doesn't move, then don't shoot this romance movie, just pack it up and go home to wash and sleep!

Although Fox is willing to spend money on Roland's sake, truck drivers will not relax their standards and lower their requirements because the money comes too easily; With the admission ticket to New York, Fox really doesn't care about the profit or loss of the whole movie, but if it is really a loss, it will be Roland and his job, so ......

In the words of a truck driver, that's –

"This time, you can choose the heroine yourself, but my personal suggestion is to choose one you like, and then really fall in love."

"You have half a year to prepare, and during this time, I keep your mobile phone, of course, if your assistants and bodyguards have to look for you, then I can't help it, after all, I can't leave them in Los Angeles."

"But ......"

"I hope you remember ......"

"It's not that we don't want to lose, it's that we can't lose......"

"For them, our influence in front of the people is the most valuable thing......

"Their acceptance of you does not mean that you are safe, and before you officially transform, your fans are the foundation that will make you stand firm......"

"Our goal is not to surpass Jurassic Park......"

"It's about creating a ...... of love of the century that will move the world."

“haveto……”