"Xylon, it's really hard to choose, I think both of them are perfect for the role!" After sending off Li An Jiaxin, Michael Bay looked at Lin Mu in distress, he really didn't want to make a choice now, because choosing one would mean losing the other. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I wonder who you really have your eye on?" Judging from Michael Bay's reaction just now, he obviously admires Ang Lee Jiaxin, and Lin Mu suddenly wanted to know who could make Michael Bay so "reluctant", so that he was undecided between Ang Lee and the actor.

"Liv Taylor." Michael Bay replied:

"Is that her?" Lin Mu was also stunned, the Liv Taylor who played the elf princess in the "Lord of the Rings" series, thinking of her jet-black and moving hair and jewel-like blue eyes, Lin Mu regretted why he didn't think of her before. It has to be said that Liv Taylor is indeed a suitable candidate, but Lin Mu has decided to leave this opportunity to Li An Jiaxin.

"Do you know this actress?"

"She auditioned for 'This Killer Is Not Too Cold,' but at the time Luc Besson and I both thought she wasn't a good fit, she was only 16 years old and she was already 1.73 in size." As early as 3 years ago, Lin Mu began to pay attention to Liv Taylor, "I heard that she just starred in Bertolucci's "Stealing Incense", anyway, many fashion magazines have liked to use her as a cover recently, and it is difficult to know her. ”

"So you remember that." Michael Bay smiled, "Liv Taylor is still haunted by your decision back then!" Then again, what do you think of her? ”

"If it weren't for Li An Jiaxin, I think she would be the most suitable person!" Lin Mu said regretfully.

"Do you think that's a little too cruel for Liv Taylor?" Michael Bay kindly reminded Lin Mu that if you count this time, Lin Mu has rejected Liv Taylor twice in a row, which is a very devastating thing for a young actor like Liv Taylor.

"Mielke, you know between the two of them, we have to make a choice!" Lin Mu himself was also helpless.

"I mean, is it possible that both actors stay?" Michael Bay came up with a new idea.

"There's only one heroine in this movie." Lin Mu didn't understand what Michael Bay meant.

"I mean it's better to give Liv Taylor a supporting role than an outright rejection!" Michael Bay looked at Lin Mu with an inquiring look, and even though he was the director, the question of the actors had to go through the producer in the end.

"For example?" Lin Mu felt that Michael Bay's opinion was not without value.

"The princess of the elves, in the script she and . The dragon girl is a competitor, isn't this exactly the same as the situation of the two actors now? ”

"You actually want to use her for a sequel?" Forest. Lin Mu had already guessed Michael Bay's thoughts, and there was only one scene of the elf princess appearing in the script, and he didn't believe that this was the reason why Michael Bay was afraid of breaking Liv Taylor's confidence and tried to keep her. If that's not the case, then Michael Bay's intentions are obvious.

"Xylon, it's really stressful to work with you, and it seems like I'm hiding any of my thoughts. Your eyes though. Michael Bay looked helpless.

"But it's not that I'm trying to guess what you're thinking, it's just because. I actually think the same thing as you! Lin Mu made a very playful expression at Michael Bay. I agree with you, and I believe in your confidence in this film, but Michael, if we want to make a sequel, we have to get the things in front of us right! ”

The heroine of the film "Warcraft: Phantom of the Dragon" was finally finalized as . Lee Ann Jiaxin, while Liv Taylor only got a supporting role. The action director of the film, Lin Mu still found Yuan Heping, the Chinese and Western combination of Brad Pitt and Ang Lee Jiaxin, and the on-screen confrontation between the two kings of kung fu of Cheng Long and Ang Lee, all made Yuan Heping feel the weight of this film and Lin Mu's trust, and he did not refuse Lin Mu's invitation.

In order to match the two large. For the first time in the same film, the producers brought together Hollywood and Chinese film masters. The producer of the film is Lin Mu himself, one of the directors Michael Bay has just directed the popular "Brave Island", the cinematographer is Oscar winner Bao Dexi, plus martial arts instructor Yuan Heping, the team behind the film "Warcraft: Phantom of the Dragon" is not inferior to the actors in front of the stage.

"Mr. Xylon, may I talk to you?" Although Lin Mu has been careful to avoid possible contact with Liv Taylor, he was stopped by Liv Taylor after the film's launch conference.

"Of course!" In front of Liv Taylor, Lin Mu naturally had no reason to refuse, especially when Liv Taylor stared at him with her purple grape-like eyes, innocence was like a halo on an angel's head, enveloping her whole being. Even Lin Mu had to admit that Liv Taylor was as beautiful as an elf who had fallen into the world.

"I think you've rejected me twice, you should give me a reason, right?" Although Liv Taylor accepted the supporting role arranged for her by Michael Bay, she was still a little resentful in her heart, she felt that she was no worse than Ann Lee, but Lin Mu just refused to give her the opportunity.

"Mr. Michael Bay hadn't even made a film before he made 'Death Island', so who can tell him why he couldn't be a good director at that time?" Lin Mu still found an excuse in his hurry.

"You seem to be dodging my question?" Liv Taylor was very dissatisfied with Lin Mu's "casual" answer.

"Do you really want to hear the truth?" Lin Mu put away the casualness just now, and he asked very seriously.

Liv Taylor nodded, and in her eyes, Lin Mu saw a very familiar stubbornness.

"If you had to make a choice before the two characters of an elf princess and the dragon lady in this film now, provided that both characters are the protagonists, I would like to know your choice!"

"Mr. Xylon, I don't understand what you mean." Liv Taylor found this assumption strange for Lin Mu.

"Only if you learn to play a supporting role well, then you can play the leading role well!" Lin Mu dropped such a sentence meaningfully, but the hint in it was for Liv Taylor to experience it herself. Lin Mu is not ready to tell Liv Taylor that the film will have a sequel now, because even he himself does not know if there will be a sequel to this film.

The promotion of the film "Warcraft: Phantom of the Dragon" in North America and Europe is not based on Cheng Long and Ang Lee, but on how much the film adapted from the game will cost and what kind of special effects will be applied, even in the promotional poster, it is mainly based on stills of Brad Pitt and Ang Lee Jiaxin. Although American blockbusters have been repeating the same routine: ordinary people in special functional robes become heroes, the end of the earth is always easy, and the savior is getting younger and younger, all due to Americans' insecurity and fragile tolerance for God to favor them too much, but advanced technology can always make audiences in other countries forgive the pale and blunt nature of the story. This time, the film "Warcraft: Phantom of the Dragon" continues the propaganda method of this technical film in Europe and the United States.

But the film's pre-promotion in Asia is a big change in style, handsome guys and beauties are no longer the protagonists of the promotional posters, Cheng Long and Ang Lee, two Chinese kung fu superstars, appear in the most conspicuous position of these posters, Wang vs. Wang, this is the pinnacle of kung fu movies.

In the film, the panda Ah Qi played by Cheng Long and the monkey Wukong played by Ang Lee Lianjie are very good friends, but because of the emotional entanglement of the dragon girl, they choose to duel in a bamboo forest. Lin Mu put Cheng Long and Ang Lee Lianjie's on-screen showdown ten years in advance. Ten years later, both have said goodbye to their most glorious moments. One is dedicated to Buddha and enthusiastic about charity; One was busy taking in apprentices. And now, both of them are still in their prime, and the best part is that they can see Cheng Long reinterpret drunken boxing again, and Li Anlian Jiejie is sharp and violent.

Lin Mu believes that the most critical factor in the film's ultimate success is how to strike a balance between computer special effects and live-action combat, which requires him to have a familiar understanding and in-depth research on the history of kung fu films in Hong Kong. Interesting parodies and homages can be found everywhere in the internal gears of the film's overall structure, and Lin Mu wants kung fu fans to find some traces of the past in this film.

Lin Mu's idea gave Yuan Heping a big problem, which required him to find a lot of classic martial arts memories in the action design of the film, but Yuan Heping did not object, he knew that this was Lin Mu's way of paying tribute to Hong Kong/Hong Kong kung fu movies.

The film's location is in Canada and the southern part of China, and the main scene of the film: the valley where the dragons live is set up in the Zhuhai Sea in southern Fujian, and the Elven Tree of Life, Lin Mu and Michael Bay decide to place it in a valley in the Great Lakes region of Canada. During the whole filming process, he stayed in the crew for less than a quarter of Michael Bay's, but many important issues in the filming must be approved by him.

It takes a long time to set up the location of the film, especially those scenes in mainland China, which require a lot of manpower and material resources to build. This time, Lin Mu still got in touch with the local government/government through the Chinese/Chinese embassy, and after sending representatives to discuss, the crew's plan to build the location was supported by the local government/government.

The news that Paramount is preparing to invest in the construction of a location in southern Fujian in China spreads far and wide, and in Los Angeles, a mysterious guest finds Lin Mu. The man was holding a letter of introduction issued by the Chinese/Chinese embassy in the United States, and such an official background made Lin Mu a little difficult to refuse.

"Hello Mr. Lin, contemptible Han Sanping!" The middle-aged man politely handed Lin Mu a business card, which was impressively printed with the words of the director of the Beijing Film Studio. Lin Mu was stunned, he didn't expect to receive the future CEO of China Film Group in his office, the Chinese/Chinese producer who launched "Wuji", "Casting Names", "Red Cliff", and "Mei Lanfang" in later generations, led the operation of a series of high-cost and high-recovery commercial films launched by the China Film team, making Chinese/Chinese films begin to enter a mature blockbuster era.

"It turned out to be a peer!" Lin Mu smiled, at this time, Han Sanping obviously looked like a somewhat conservative Chinese/national official, and he obviously did not have the atmosphere and courage that he had since been in charge of Zhongying.

"Compared to Mr. Lin, our movies are just small fights!" This time he went to the United States to inspect the developed film industry in Hollywood, and Han Sanping realized that there is not only a gap between Chinese/Chinese films and Hollywood, but also two different levels of concepts. In China, movies are still just a kind of mass entertainment, while in Hollywood, movies have formed a complete and developed industry. and Paramount spent hundreds of millions of dollars on making a film like Paramount, and his domestic productions are not worth mentioning at all.

"Backed by the world's oldest local culture and sitting on the world's most potential film market, are Chinese/Chinese filmmakers as humble as you?" Lin Mu asked his assistant to make a cup of tea for Han Sanping, "If Chinese/Chinese films don't work hard to improve themselves, then the gap is still a gap." ”

Han Sanping was stunned, he didn't expect Lin Mu to say such a thing, especially the sentence "the gap is still the gap", which made him feel a lot of emotion. Han Sanping didn't think that Lin Mu was satirizing Chinese/Chinese movies, but felt that Lin Mu's words had a faint expectation, and even some spurs. "This is what Mr. Lin really thinks about Chinese/Chinese films?"

"If the market of mainland China can be as open as Hong Kong, I don't need to say this to you, with the absolute advantage of Hollywood's mature technology and operation, the Chinese film industry will be completely controlled. I think neither the Chinese government/government nor the Chinese/Chinese film industry want to see such a result! Lin Mu seemed to mean something.

"This is also a way to do it, putting aside political issues, China's film industry started late, and compared with Hollywood, which has accumulated after more than 90 years of development, it is naturally dwarfed. I think if the two sides switch perspectives, the United States probably doesn't want China to control Hollywood! Han Sanping did not deny Lin Mu's statement, but he also conveyed a message to Lin Mu vaguely that this pattern of interests in the mainland film market could not be shaken for a long time. (To be continued.) )