After more than an hour, the meeting ended.

Li Yu personally sent Jamie and Ovitz to the door, and watched the two get on the Maybach 62 and leave.

When I returned home, I found that there were still coffee cups left over from two guests on the coffee table in the living room.

His wife, Lin Huijia, sat on the side, holding the script left by Jamie in her hand, and she was fascinated by it.

Li Yu didn't alarm his wife, tiptoed over, picked up the cup and prepared to take it to the kitchen to wash.

At this moment, the wife suddenly raised her head.

"It's okay, you watch first, I'll wash the cup." Li Yu raised the cup in his hand and explained.

"Oh, then there you go."

After speaking, his wife continued to pick up the script in her hand.

Li Yu was stunned for a moment.

I thought that my wife would say, "Let me come", but it turned out to be not what he thought at all.

Just like some time ago, Li Yu and Lin Huijia went to the supermarket to buy vegetables together, and met a Chinese fellow, who said to Lin Huijia with envy:

"Your husband is so famous, it's not easy to accompany you to buy groceries."

Who would have thought that Lin Huijia not only didn't buy it, but also choked the other party on the spot.

"Are you mistaken? It was I who took the time to accompany him to buy groceries today, and he should be happy. ”

Accidentally, Li Yu's true status in the family was exposed.

What about the big director, he doesn't have to be an honest family cook at home.

Just like right now, Li Yu not only has to clean up the cups used by the guests by himself, but after washing the cups, he sees that it is almost dinner time, so he puts on his apron and starts to get busy in the kitchen.

Washing, chopping, cooking, skillful movements.

After a while, the smell of food wafted from the kitchen.

By the time the two sons arrived home on the school bus, Li Yu had already placed the dishes, chopsticks, and plates on the dining table.

The youngest son, Li Chun, smelled the aroma of braised pork and ran to the table to steal it, but was caught by Li Yu.

As a "punishment", Li Yu asked Li Chun to go to the living room to ask Lin Huijia for dinner.

Soon the family was seated at the table.

Li Yu first filled Lin Huijia with a bowl of soup, and at the same time curiously asked his wife's "feelings after reading" the script of "Instant Universe".

In the past, Li Yu would often take the script home, but Lin Huijia was never interested.

Today, however, she watched all afternoon, and even delayed making dinner.

Li Yu didn't have any objections to his wife's not cooking dinner, but she was simply curious about why Lin Huijia suddenly became interested in movie scripts.

Lin Huijia took a sip of soup and replied without raising her head:

"Li Hang will consider which university to apply to in the second half of next year, and I asked him what he thinks, and there are three schools he likes the most: Stanford, MIT, and Harvard."

Among the two sons, the eldest son inherited Lin Huijia's talent as a scholar, and the younger son is more like Li Yu.

Regarding the future academic plans of the two, Li Yu and Lin Huijia have already discussed, but what does this have to do with the script of "Instant Universe".

"I want to see what a talented student who can score on the SAT and is admitted to Harvard early will be like."

The reason for this......

Li Yu put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand and asked curiously:

"So what's the catch?"

Lin Huijia picked up the bowl and replied during the gap between drinking the soup:

"The whole story is full of imagination, but I prefer the multiverse setting in it, every time a person decides, a parallel universe will be generated, so in a person's life, the choice is really important."

Li Yu decided to be "naughty" once.

"Can you help me predict how making and not making this movie will make a difference in my future life?"

Lin Huijia raised her head and glanced at Li Yu.

"You've never had a film with a female perspective before—"

"There are three daughters in "Eating Men and Women"."

"But the main perspective is still focused on the old father, which can also be seen that you are a very patriarchal person."

Li Yu was about to deny it, but Lin Huijia didn't give him any chance to speak.

"I admit that you have a lot of respect for me in your daily life, and you can even say that you love and tolerate me everywhere, but your work will not lie, unless you make a film and prove it to me."

Li Yu was stunned.

went around in a circle, and it turned out to be waiting for him here.

"Okay, I'll listen to you."

As he spoke, the landline phone in the living room rang.

The youngest son Li Chun put down his chopsticks and was about to get up to answer the phone, but was directly pressed back by Lin Huijia's eyes.

The call from this point could only be to find her or Li Yu.

Li Yu got up and came to the living room and picked up the microphone.

Jiang Zhiqiang's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"How did you meet with Ovitz and talk?"

"It's all settled, I'm about to call you after dinner."

"Drama?"

"How so? It should be regarded as a drama film in its bones, but the effect should be more like a commercial film. ”

"Like the Hulk before?"

"It should be the opposite, "The Incredible Hulk" is essentially a commercial film, but I wanted to make it more literary, and as you already know, I was knocked out."

"But don't you also lose the mulberry elm in the east, tell you and me, how about that script?"

"I just got the script, and I only have a rough idea, and it may take a few days to figure it out."

Li Yu replied lightly.

Those who know him well know that a few days in his case is roughly equivalent to ten days and half a month.

Even so, Jiang Zhiqiang on the other end of the phone was still enthusiastic.

"Then tell me about the part where you already have a clue."

"Uh...... The actors have already been decided. ”

"So fast?!"

"Don't worry, because this matter is not decided by me, as soon as the other party came, he told me that they wanted to find these actors."

"So domineering, I don't ask for your opinion at all? Or does the other party think that the actors in the Chinese film industry know better than you? ”

"You may not believe it, Jamie Dutton, who wrote this script, speaks Chinese better than me, and is even more precious to Hong Kong films, of course, they actually respect my opinion, but the way of respect is a little special."

"What do you mean?"

"Jamie Dutton personally admitted that his script is based on the cast of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" The characters are designed, and the plot is a blend of many movie settings, you should be familiar with this, right?"

Jiang Zhiqiang on the other end of the phone was silent.

If you want to say that the plagiarism is the most powerful, it is the Hong Kong films in the 80s and 90s, often when a theme becomes popular, a bunch of similar movies emerge immediately.

is not copying the plot, or copying the cast.

The most outrageous thing is that even the character modeling in the movie can be copied.

Back then, after Lin Qingxia became popular because of her role as Dongfang Undefeated in Xu Ke's "Smiling Proud Jianghu 2", she filmed five or six martial arts dramas, and the modeling in it cannot be said to be exactly the same as Dongfang Undefeated, but it can only be said that there is no difference.

On the phone just now, Li Yu said that Jamie knew Hong Kong films well, and Jiang Zhiqiang didn't believe it yet, but now he believes it.

The original cast of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was used to shoot a new movie, although there is a suspicion of gaining popularity, but countless Hong Kong films have proved that this trick is really useful.

Besides, this movie is also directed by Li Yu.

Rubbing your own heat, can this be called rubbing?

Jiang Zhiqiang's side has even helped Li Yu think about it.

If "Instant Universe" has a good response after it is filmed, it is completely possible to follow Li Yu's previous "father and son trilogy", and form another movie on the basis of the original team, and make it into a trilogy.

That's when you really make the most of it.

Li Yu didn't think that far ahead, but asked Jiang Zhiqiang to help contact Zhou Yunfa and Zhang Ziyi to coordinate the schedule.

Jiang Zhiqiang agreed.

Zhang Ziyi is currently filming "Hero" in Zhang Yimou's crew, in this drama she just plays a maid, and there are not many scenes, and the filming has already been completed.

However, people continued to stay in the crew, and they went to Zhang Yimou all day long, putting on an open-minded and studious appearance, but in fact, the crew knew what they had in mind.

was able to star in Li Yu's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" thanks to Zhang Yimou's recommendation.

At present, although this "Hero" does not play the heroine, Zhang Yimou is actually planning the next film project.

It's still a martial arts movie.

Zhang Ziyi felt that she worked hard, and it shouldn't be a big problem to win the heroine.

During this period, Zhang Ziyi should not take on other plays, so as not to affect Zhang Yimou's perception of her in the next play.

But if Li Yu was looking for Zhang Ziyi to film, the situation would be different.

First of all, Zhang Ziyi must be a hundred willing.

She has always had great ambitions to enter Hollywood, and she played the villain for the first time in "Rush Hour 2" with Cheng Long, and the effect was not bad.

Now that there is an opportunity to continue to participate in filmmaking, such a plan will definitely not be missed.

And Zhang Yimou's side will definitely be very supportive of this matter.

The better Zhang Ziyi develops in Hollywood, the more it shows that he has a good vision.

In addition, Zhang Yimou has a good relationship with Li Huan, and even his filming of "Hero" was influenced by Li Yi's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Of course, that's in a nice direction.

In a bad direction, Zhang Yimou is following Li Yu.

Ordinary directors follow the trend, but for a director of Zhang Yimou's level, he can't say it, but he still minds it in his heart.

Li Yu is willing to find Zhang Ziyi to cooperate for the second time, indicating that he does not care about Zhang Yimou's follow-up.

In this way, Zhang Yimou can feel more comfortable.

And the actor Zhou Runfa is also very pleased.

Of course, this is only for Lee's films.

In fact, after filming "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Zhou Yunfa has not received a new movie for a whole year.

As early as a few years ago, Zhou Yunfa had shifted his career focus to Hollywood, but the real popularity began with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

But Hollywood's interest in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" does not mean that it is interested in Zhou Runfa.

Of course, there are also some small film companies that have approached Zhou Runfa, but they are all low-budget movies with poor scripts.

In line with the principle of preferring shortage to abundance, Zhou Yunfa of course refused them all.

However, Zhou Yunfa must be anxious in his heart.

After all, his old friends are in Hollywood, and now one is more beautiful than the other.

's old partner Wu Yusen, last year, relied on "Mission Impossible 2" with Tom Tom, and won the box office of 200 million US dollars in North America alone, winning the throne of the annual box office.

And the "old rival" Cheng Long also filmed "Rush Hour 2" this year, winning a brilliant box office result of 220 million in North America and 340 million US dollars worldwide.

During the double week, Zhou Xingchi chose to stay on Hong Kong Island and continue to cultivate the Chinese film market, while Cheng Long has already carved out a sky in Hollywood and ranked among the ranks of Hollywood supergiants.

Only Zhou Runfa is stuck in the middle, not up or down, in a dilemma.

At this time, if Li Yu sent an invitation, it would be good news from heaven for Zhou Yunfa.

Although Li Yan had already made it clear on the phone in advance that the invitation to Zhou Yanfa to play a supporting actor this time was only a supporting actor, Jiang Zhiqiang felt that it was not a big problem.

If Zhou Runfa cares about this, it's a big deal that Zhou Runfa will also be promoted as the leading actor when he does publicity in Chinese-speaking areas later.

The heroine Yang Ziqiong is left, and the other party has long been out of the Hong Kong Island film circle, and Li Yu plans to call and invite her in person.

After chatting about the actors, Jiang Zhiqiang then asked Li Yu about another thing.

"The other party snatched "The Incredible Hulk" from you, and then asked you to cooperate with "Instant Universe", this kind of practice of beating a stick and giving a date, you really don't have any mustard in your heart?"

It is also because Jiang Zhiqiang is very familiar with Li Yu, so he dares to ask this.

When answering, Li Yan's tone revealed some helplessness.

"Actually, I was more or less mindful at first, but yesterday I saw the news that Universal announced the acquisition of Marvel within three years, and then I was relieved, this kind of thing is not something I can stop."

"Universal's acquisition of Marvel, so fast?"

Jiang Zhiqiang on the other end of the phone couldn't hide his surprise.

"Yes, I always thought it was just bad luck and was involved in the battle between Ovitz and CAA, but I didn't expect the other party to play such a big game of chess, compared to "Hulk", it is an appetizer at best."

There's a reason why Li said that.

Today, Ovitz and Jamie visited the house together and chatted with Li Yu for nearly two hours, during which they did not mention "The Incredible Hulk", indicating that they did not take the project from Li Yu seriously at all.

Li Yu originally thought that he was already the biggest victim of this incident, but he didn't expect that there would be someone more unlucky than him.

It's not Carl Meyer, Li's ex-agent, the other party is only a victim at best.

It's David Messer, COO of Marvel.

Less than half a day after Universal announced that it had reached a preliminary intention with the Marvel board of directors on the acquisition, the Marvel board of directors disclosed a new personnel change decision.

Announcing the resignation of David Messer as Chief Operating Officer.

According to Messer's previous contract with Marvel, he not only received less than a penny of salary during his tenure at Marvel, but also did not have any compensation for his resignation.

It means that he has been working for Marvel for half a year.

On the day of his departure, Messer scolded Marvel Executive Chairman Palmat and Ovitz through a newspaper interview, saying that he was deceived by the two of them.

However, as for the reasons for leaving the company that everyone really cared about, Messer chose not to talk about it.

The unusual behavior has sparked a lot of speculation.

Until another blockbuster news came out!

(End of chapter)