After the great success of "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", the cooperation between Cheng Long and TiMi also came to an end.

In the past two years, he has collaborated with Emperor on "Shinjuku Incident"...

"Shinjuku Incident" banned in the mainland...

So he cooperated with Poly Bona in "Big Soldier and Little General", and cooperated with Shangying in "Xinhai Revolution"...

Then it was deeply bound to Qi Jianhong!

In 08, the two worked together to open a company, and finally had Sparkle Roll Jackie Chan International Cinema.

Since 12 years, Sparkle Roll has also shifted its investment focus to the field of film and television, and exclusively owns the Chenglong brand.

It stands to reason that this "Chinese Yankee" should be handed over to Sparkle Roll...

Although Cheng Long's international appeal has decreased a lot now - at its peak, "Flying Dragon Regeneration" was taken away by Columbia's Samsung Pictures $50 million copyright fee just after filming...

But with his fame, selling for more than 10 million dollars shouldn't be a big problem...

- "Zodiac" overseas box office exceeded 50 million US dollars!

Cheng Long himself explained: "I watched "The Grandmaster", and I feel that you have a lot of ideas about kung fu movies..."

Shen Xudong shook his head: "It's impossible to use ideas on you... Your action scenes are fixed..."

Cheng Long was distressed: "I want to change!" ”

"There's no reason to change... Your kung fu comedy is unique in the world..."

"But I can't keep fighting, can I?"

"The background of the book "The Chinese Yankee" is a bunch of historical entanglements between Britain and Northern Ireland, and few people are interested..."

The biggest attraction of "The Chinese Yankee", also known as "British Showdown", is actually a person fighting against the entire system - the story of an old man played by Cheng Long who was killed in an attack caused by his only daughter being involved in a political game, and took extreme actions to threaten government officials who might know the truth of the incident after begging for help, and finally stabbed the enemy...

Similar movies "Die Hard", "First Blood", "Law-abiding Citizen"...

The problem is that "The Chinese Yankee" is set in Britain – the contradictions between Britain and Northern Ireland from the perspective of a low-level immigrant, an outsider.

United Kingdom... It's not the center of the world for a long time, and you'll have to take the time to explain the big picture.

Here's the problem, Britain isn't the center of the world anymore, and when you know that, it's even more boring...

It's like the Iron Lady... At first glance, the name sounds so awesome, but after a little understanding, it feels... That's it...

This is also the reason why this movie is obviously well-made, but the global box office is still not very good...

Anyway, Shen Xudong is not interested!

Seeing that Shen Xudong was not interested, Cheng Long changed the topic and chatted about Zhang Yi: "I especially wanted to cooperate with director Zhang Yi before..."

"Hard, isn't it?"

"Well, it's a little hard... There is no suitable script..."

is also a top movie character, and the style of the work has its own style, without excellent creativity, without compromise from one party, it is really difficult to integrate. And if you focus on one side, the other side will become an ornament and lose its value.

Regarding the cooperation between the two, Cheng Long's intention to cooperate is very high, and every time he talks about it, he is elated. However, Zhang Yi is relatively low-key and calm in a certain aspect, just an official cliché with the meaning of "waiting for the opportunity in the brew".

Only... It's a bit of a feeling of hot face sticking to someone's cold ass!

In fact, Cheng Long is the most suitable actor for "Detective Chinatown", provided that he is twenty years younger...

Back then, Brother Chenglong was really obsessed with transformation in order to transform, and Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, Yang Dechang, and other masters who started with literary films, were all looked for by him.

But no one answered...

Shen Xudong thought for a while: "Why don't I write a script?" ”

"You write... What type? ”

Shen Xudong did not answer directly, but said: "I took a plane to pass by the Great Wall some time ago, and when I looked down from the air, I really think this is a very remarkable human miracle... Later, I looked through the information of the Great Wall, purely from a military point of view, the Great Wall was a decisive fortification for the agrarian people against the tribal nomads, and the ancient Romans also built the Great Wall, Hadrian's Wall..."A Song of Ice and Fire" The night watchman guards the Great Wall..."

"The Great Wall?"

"Yes, I want to make a monster movie about fighting monsters on the Great Wall... Invest at least $100 million, referring to Hollywood A-grade productions..."

"A hundred million dollars..."

"Well, when I finish filming Detective Chinatown, I'll go to Warner and Legends..."

"They invest together?"

"Of course, the cost of 100 million US dollars must be issued globally, and the domestic market alone cannot recover the cost!"

Cheng Long probably understood: "When I finish "Zodiac", I will set aside time..."

"There's no hurry, it won't start until 2013 at the earliest..."

……

The core of the story and creativity of "The Great Wall" are not bad.

It's just too Hollywood templated - it's the same as "Star Trek 3"...

Even if you cut off the bells and whistles of the women's drama and the crane army, you will get a passing score at most!

Why?

Because... Not cool enough!

The most important thing about popcorn chips is cool!

It's best to be cool layer by layer, "The Great Wall" is just the opposite, except that the monster siege in the first act is a bit interesting, and the rest is too perfunctory.

It's really not as good as the Total War: Medieval Warhammer series, especially the CG of Aurora Celestial...

Shen Xudong's "The Great Wall" directly overturned the dynasty, starting with the annihilation of the entire army of a dragon expedition of Aurora, and then Miaoying was ordered to stick to the Great Wall in danger!

The male protagonist went south to look for reinforcements, and after a few fights, he conquered the prince of the Southern Xinjiang Dynasty who knew the south, and finally, like "The Lord of the Rings", led the reinforcements to arrive and repelled the enemy army...

The plot refers to Yu Qianshou BJ, and the wonderful shadow is Yu Qian who is gender reversed...

Well, this drama is for Jing Tian!

By the way, the Five Shadow Army was changed to the Jade Yong Dragon Guard in Aurora, and the Pegasus Knight - the inexplicable Yangge team was very unpleasant to watch!

In fact, looking at the setting of the Aurora Dynasty, you know that they watched Zhang Yi's "The Great Wall" with certainty, and of course they must have referred to other things. In addition, when "The Great Wall" was released... A group of people in the Warhammer Sticker Bar are shouting, "Ahhhh ”

Many people say, 'The Great Wall can just make up an alternate dynasty and then emphasize that it is a magical world.' , can't change it, Zhang Yi has to fly to the United States several times in order to delete the bed scene...

During the interview with "The Great Wall", Pedro Pascal said that he had read the script written by Zhang Yi's team and said that he was shocked, but the version he filmed later made him a little unbearable...

In addition, the plot of "The Great Wall" is not to serve the audience or the movie, but to serve the heroine.

Lao Mouzi is indeed not easy, the original "Great Wall", there are too many things to consider, the behind-the-scenes financiers of Da Tiantian, Lu Han, Wang Junkai, Lin Gengxin, Zheng Kai, Peng Yuyan, etc., Hollywood bigwigs and overseas capital...

How much money has been spent by the above groups, how many relationships have been used, and how to insert characters into this drama...

How many forces does Zhang Yi need to balance...

Tut-tut, if this is filmed, it will probably look good!

……

After talking about "The Great Wall", Shen Xudong asked about "Zodiac", and Cheng Long was quite satisfied with "Zodiac".

By the way, "Zodiac" was originally "Eagle Project 3"...

Therefore, Cheng Long, who has not been a director for many years, personally went into battle as a director!

Asian Flying Eagles!

The first part is "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother", probably when filming the first part, I didn't think of using the name of "Flying Eagle Project", I don't know if it was the reason for joining Alan Tam, named "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" The flying eagle played by Cheng Long also stole God's arms for his ex-girlfriend in the first part.

In the second part, it was directly renamed "Flying Eagle Project"...

In the original time and space, the release of "Flying Eagle Project" in the United States was earlier than "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother", so the distribution convenience changed the latter to "Flying Eagle Plan II", and when it came to "Zodiac", because Cheng Long was no longer in Golden Harvest, of course, the copyright name of the Flying Eagle Project could not be used, so it was renamed "Zodiac"...

As long as we know that these trilogies are in the same series, and in addition to the fact that these trilogies are all treasure hunting adventure themes, they all have shots of Brother Cheng Long eating chewing gum in a fancy way!

Of course, Shen Xudong acquired Golden Harvest, Cheng Long re-cooperated with Golden Harvest, and "Zodiac" was renamed "Flying Eagle Project: Zodiac"...

Therefore, "Zodiac" Golden Harvest also invests...

TiMi took over the mainland distribution.

Shen Xudong's idea is to launch the National Day file next year...

Cheng Long is not very satisfied, he wants the New Year stalls even more.

(End of chapter)