Zhang Yuanjun flew to the United States today, and Eddie kept urging him to pass.

At last year's wedding, Eddie told Zhang Yuanjun the idea of a killer action movie, with a small cost, Zhang Yuanjun didn't think much about it at the time and agreed to star.

Eddie really went back to work as a script code crew for his boss.

Yesterday, Eddie called Zhang Yuanjun and talked about this movie again, Zhang Yuanjun said that the script was ready to be sent to him first, Eddie said that the script was ready, and asked him to come to the United States to discuss the details, Zhang Yuanjun asked casually: "What name do you plan to give this film?" ”

"Our writers named it John Wick," Eddie said.

Zhang Yuanjun's brain suddenly crashed at that time, and then decisively agreed to Eddie's invitation and chose to fly to the United States to discuss the details with the crew.

Fortunately, Zhang Yuanjun is not too nervous about other work in China, except for preparing "Hypnosis Master", and he can push it back.

Although his wife was puzzled by his temporary change of itinerary, she learned that she was going to talk about the film appointment, so she didn't care too much, packed his luggage for him, told him to be careful outside, and turned his head to continue the preparations for his new film.

After landing in Los Angeles, Zhang Yuanjun didn't even go to the hotel, and went directly to the car with his luggage to find Eddie.

"Eddie, I can't wait to see the killer story you have in store for me." As soon as he saw Eddie, Zhang Yuanjun was very excited.

"Zhang, this is our screenwriter Derek Kolsta, a professional action movie screenwriter."

Derek is a fat white man with glasses, and as Eddie introduced, he specializes in action movies.

Zhang Yuanjun has an impression of this cute white fat man, in addition to writing "Fast Pursuit", "Little People" is also from him.

It seems that this Derek has a strong sense of cost control, and knows that he is not famous, so he picks small costs.

Derek shook hands with Zhang Yuanjun and said, "Zhang, I like your performance." Zhang Laosan still has a certain reputation in Hollywood, "especially "The Man From Nowhere" (English translation of "Lone Agent"), I like your skills. "There are still a large number of Hong Kong Island movie fans in Hollywood, especially Hong Kong Island action movies, and it is not surprising that a professional action screenwriter like Derek has seen "Lone Agent".

Zhang Yuanjun said politely: "I'm not a professional action actor, you should take a look at my performance in literary drama." ”

"Of course, I've seen both "Detachment" and "She". I heard that you have won three of the best film awards in China, Zhang, an excellent actor like you should come to Hollywood to fulfill your ambitions. ”

Zhang Yuanjun shook his wit: "I haven't left Hollywood, I have always been a member of the trade union." ”

After gossiping, everyone began to talk about the script written by Derek, in fact, Derek and Eddie didn't think about making a killer series, and the original story didn't go that far for the time being, but for the operability of the killer world, Derek still arranged a force called "The table" to control everything.

If the first part sells well, he can continue to shoot down, and he will follow "The table" to improve the whole killer world, and John Wick is not dead anyway; If the first part hits the streets, the current story is also complete, and it can be said that John Wick is living a happy retirement life with his newly adopted dog, which can be regarded as an explanation.

As an authentic Oriental, Zhang Yuanjun has no opinion on the killer story in the script, and his opinion mainly focuses on the values behind the movie: it doesn't matter if a person dies a thousand or ten thousand, and a pet can't die.

His family also has pets, but neither he nor Liu Yifei have raised their pets to the point where they are really family members like in the West.

Under the political correctness of animal protection in the West, pets are sometimes more valued than people, and "Fast Pursuit" reacts like this.

The same is true for "Silver Guardian 3" later, the universe is in crisis, fighting life and death, or saving the lives of animals.

"Give me back my dog's life" is a kind of ridicule, but it is not a mockery of this kind of life-saving values.

However, actually looking at the script of "Fast Pursuit", Zhang Yuanjun, as a screenwriter, really wants to complain, and Derek's writing is really bad!

This script makes no one think that the film will sell for money.

The plot can be described as sparse, Derek just deleted and deleted the protagonist's lines, and John Wick didn't say a few words from beginning to end, which was killing.

The bluntness of the turn can be described as forcible.

This is the problem of playing too much with small costs - everything is to save money, and even in order to match the acting skills of low-cost third-rate actors, the plot design is as brainless and direct as possible.

But there is no way, the audience is now eager to see a pure action movie, and this film is a fire.

Zhang Yuanjun is the boss, and this story is also prepared for him, but it doesn't mean that he can get the script and lie still.

He also needs to show his qualities as an actor, he needs to use his performance and physical fitness to tell the crew that he can do the role and win the trust of the crew.

In other words, the boss has to try out too!

Eddie was ready, there was a professional physical fitness and movement coach waiting for him, and Zhang Yuanjun followed out.

1 hour and 20 minutes later, Zhang Yuanjun came back, and several coaches also gave their own evaluation results of Zhang Yuanjun: physical fitness passed, and the movements were average.

The final recommendation is that you must have at least one month of training before shooting.

Although Zhang Yuanjun maintains fitness all year round, he is not a professional action actor after all, and he has just gotten off the plane, so some test items really can't be done.

"We can't hold you to Johnson's standards," Eddie said with a smile as he looked at the report, "but you're much better than Keanu Reeves." ”

Zhang Yuanjun felt insulted and shouted, "Come on! ”

Everyone laughed.

Keanu is almost 50, but the consensus in the circle on him is: there is no acting skills.

His acting skills are really bad, which many of his fans admit.

And Keanu's limbs are admittedly stiff and unable to move, as he did when he was younger.

So how did he get to the front line?

The answer is that when he is young, he doesn't need good acting skills to become a line.

Hey, why is this comment so familiar?

When he was young, Keanu Reeves became popular all over the United States with a handsome face in "Life and Death", and then he met the "Matrix" series and became popular all over the world!

Then there is the handsome and miserable "Constantine".

His own wooden character is very close to the character traits.

After "Konstantin", he was not good, and now he is basically out of breath.

The more I think about it, the more I feel like I'm talking about my wife!

Zhang Yuanjun told Eddie about his schedule this year, and only one "Hypnosis Master" has been confirmed, which will start shooting in June and is expected to be filmed for 2 months.

Eddie got Zhang Yuanjun's schedule and said that he would coordinate the filming of "Fast Pursuit", and specially informed the boss that he must set aside at least a month to receive action and firearms training from the crew.

Zhang Yuanjun agreed.

In the end, Zhang Yuanjun, who had not yet fallen into jet lag, fell asleep, and Eddie said goodbye. (End of chapter)