The era of Hollywood superheroes is coming.

"Iron Man" is the first work to start this era.

Since "Iron Man", Hollywood has fallen deeper and deeper into the road of big IP.

Whether it is the Marvel series or the DC series, the "Transformers" series, the "Fast and Furious" series, the rebooted "Star Trek", "Jurassic World", and various Disney princess films, they are all filmed in one IP until they are old.

In addition, the only movies that can sell well in North America and even around the world are all kinds of anime movies.

Movies such as "Despicable Me", "Super Marines", "Zootopia", "Pet Secrets", "Finding Nemo" and other movies.

At its most exaggerated, among the top ten movies at the North American box office in 2016, 6 were spin-off films of Marvel, DC and "Harry Potter", and 4 were Disney animated films

The original movie can't even break into the top ten, and it has completely become a foil for various big IP movies.

Wu Yuan has no way to reverse this status quo.

It can be said that the further back in the timeline, the fewer original commercial blockbusters with excellent box office performance will be in Hollywood, but occasionally there will be a few small and medium-cost dark horse movies with tens of millions of investment but three or four billion box office.

Therefore, for Wu Yuan, if he wants to shoot his own commercial blockbuster in Hollywood, he has to do it as soon as possible.

Otherwise, after a few years, he will have no choice but to make a superhero movie for Paramount, Disney, Universal and other companies.

Originally, he actually wanted to take advantage of the release of the epoch-making 3D movie "Avatar" to shoot "2012" first, and give the global audience a little shock to the last special effects of the pre-2D movie era.

As a result, the plan has not kept up with the changes.

Compared with the career in North America, the project of "Gravity" in China is obviously more important, and Wu Yuan can only reluctantly give up "2012" and watch Roland Emmerich conceive the movie "2012".

Now, he is not willing to be delayed by the new line, and he went to shoot the "Ace Agent" series.

Although the project "Ace Agent" is also good, the global box office performance of more than 400 million US dollars is still a little unworthy of Wu Yuan.

In the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy, the first part with the worst box office exceeded $700 million worldwide

can help the new line carry "Rush Hour 3", it is already Wu Yuan to give enough face, and let him carry "Ace Agent" together, then the new line's face is too big.

Therefore, after reading the script of "Ace Agent", Wu Yuan bluntly told Elard, the president of the new line, that the script is okay and the crew can start preparations, but he will not be the director of this movie.

Even if Elad said that as long as Wu Yuan was willing to take over, he would be able to start the machine next year or even the year after, but Wu Yuan ignored it.

"Elard, I already have a plan to make a film at Hollywood next year, and I may work with one of the Big Six, and I really don't have time to shoot "Ace Agent"."

"I believe that with Cheng Long's joining, this movie is already half of the success."

"I can recommend you a director, Matthew Vaughn, who made a very good film and is fully qualified to shoot this film."

Matthew Vaughn is the director of the "Ace Agent" series of movies.

In the downturn of spy films, it is really not easy to make a movie that makes the audience remember the name.

Matthew Vaughn did just that, and he made the secret service films, which have always leaned towards heavy darkness, new and interesting.

The most important thing is that his action scenes are very well shot.

Why is Cheng Long famous in Hollywood?

It's because he is very good at fighting, and he not only knows how to fight, but also teaches the foreign actors in the crew how to fight, and there is a whole martial arts class to design excellent fighting scenes.

You must know that in most of Hollywood's action movies, the actors are always fighting in a group fight, just like street gangsters.

The kind of pleasing play in the perception of Chinese people does not exist in Haolaiwu.

But the appearance of Matthew Vaughn broke this stereotype.

There is a 1v100 group fight scene of the male protagonist in the church in "Ace Agent", which is a textbook action group scene.

The rotation of the camera, the smoothness of the movements, the overall control, and the use of various agent weapons are eye-opening.

This group of fighting scenes is done in one go, neither exaggerated nor mediocre, and the audience's adrenaline surges, and after watching it, they will always remember this fight scene and remember the exciting feeling when watching.

What's more, this fight scene also filmed Matthew Vaughn, or the characteristics of the series "Ace Agent".

That is, while punching to the flesh and flowing smoothly, he also achieved a personable manner, in line with the setting of the "gentleman agent" in the movie who is in a custom suit, wearing black-rimmed glasses, and holding a British gentleman's umbrella.

Wu Yuan sincerely felt that even if he was asked to film, he might not be able to shoot this scene well.

Because he doesn't know what the so-called "British gentleman" is like, Cheng Long's Hong Kong Island martial arts team probably can't design this kind of personable and elegant fighting action.

For him and Cheng Long to get together, it may be difficult to shoot the unique style and essence of the series "Ace Agent".

If the "Ace Agent" series wants to be filmed well, Matthew Vaughn, the director, is still indispensable.

Although it is now 6 years earlier, Matthew Vaughn's directing style has basically taken shape now, and "King Haibian" two years later has a distinct personal style.

Looking for him to make this movie is more reliable than Wu Yuan himself.

It's just that Elad doesn't know Matthew Vaughn.

He muttered the unfamiliar name a few times, and asked suspiciously, "Daniel, who is this Matthew Vaughn, I have no memory of him." ”

"A rookie director." Wu Yuan had to patiently introduce: "In August last year, the fantasy adventure movie "Stardust" directed by him was released, and the box office was not bad. ”

"This director is very talented, and his directing style is very suitable for "Ace Agent"."

"We can sign him as the director of the entire Ace Agent franchise, just like I did in Pirates of the Caribbean."

"Stardust?" Erad frowned, "That movie from Paramount?" ”

"I see." He sighed and glanced at Wu Yuan with some pity: "I will go back and consider your suggestion carefully." ”

"Seriously, Daniel, you really can't take on Ace Agent?"

Wu Yuan shook his head firmly.

In the end, Elad still adopted Wu Yuan's suggestion, gave up the idea of insisting on seeking Wu Yuan's direction, and began the preparation of "Ace Agent".

The copyright of this series is shared by Light Times and New Line Pictures, and the two companies will also jointly fund the filming.

The new line is not a top large company with deep pockets, and the light era is also a character that can save money.

The production budget of "Ace Agent 1" was only 80 million US dollars, and the two companies contributed 40 million each.

Well, this production cost is even less worthy of Wu Yuan.

In Hollywood, the production cost of a movie that costs less than 100 million US dollars, are you embarrassed to ask him to direct it?

After completing the long-pending "Ace Agent" project and finally letting it move forward normally, Wu Yuan's official business in the United States this time can be regarded as almost done.

Next, he only needs to wait for the release of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" in May, cooperate with the crew to do some release promotion, and run theater activities, and there is nothing else to do.

However, his trip to the United States is far from over.

Time came to the end of February in a blink of an eye.

After shopping in Los Angeles' Chinatown with Liu Yifei's mother and daughter, watching an interesting lion dance performance, and after an exotic Spring Festival, Liu Yifei's two singles were released and also put on the agenda.

For the sake of his little girlfriend's road to becoming a global star, Wu Yuan can be regarded as heartbroken.

"Call Me Maybe" and "Good Time" are the singles that Liu Yifei will release in North America this time, the MVs of both songs have been filmed, and the sound source has been completed.

Even for the song "Good Time", Wu Yuan also invited Justin Timberlake to sing with Liu Yifei.

Before Justin Bieber became famous, Justin Timberlake was the most well-known Justin in the world.

In 1995, 14-year-old Justin Timberlake joined the boy singing group Superboy and debuted and became a popular singing and dancing idol in North America.

In 2002, Justin went solo and released his first solo album, which won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Album and Best Pop Male Singer.

To put it bluntly, in the past five years, Justin Timberlake has been the hottest male singer in North America.

Just a few days ago, he won the Best Male Pop Singer and Best Dance Music Record awards at the Grammys.

It stands to reason that it is impossible for a top male singer in North America like Justin Timberlake to collaborate on a single with a pure newcomer like Liu Yifei.

set in the film industry, it is almost equivalent to Gong Li acting in a movie with a newcomer male singer who has just crossed the border, or to match him.

But who is called the current Justin Timberlake, who happens to want to develop in the film industry.

He is no longer satisfied with being a singing and dancing singer, but wants to cross over to be a movie actor.

However, he does not have any connections in the film industry, the relationship between singers and actors in North America is clear, and there are almost no crossovers between them, and his road as an actor is extremely difficult.

In this case, Wu Yuan came forward to invite him to collaborate with Liu Yifei on a single, which is obviously a great opportunity for Justin Timberlake to catch up with the film industry.

So he agreed to this single cooperation without saying a word, hoping that Wu Yuan could pull him in the future and take him into the film industry to play.

Wu Yuan was also happy to do so.

Justin Timberlake crossed over to act in a movie, and he did make a little achievement.

He played well in "The Social Network" and "Time Planning Bureau", and "Time Planning Bureau" still played the leading role!

Wu Yuan plans to finish the four movies in his hand by then, and then he will take "Time Planning Bureau", a low-cost and high-reputation movie, out by the way, and the actor will also find Justin Timberlake to play!

Liu Yifei, who knows all this, is moved.

My brother is willing to exchange the leading actor in a movie for her single cooperation, which is really good to her.

(End of chapter)