Chapter 918 It’s not that serious, I can set bones, don’t worry!
In the end, the investment share was divided among several film and television companies. Wu Hu's New World Media accounted for 30%, Zhong Film 20%, Columbia 20%, Star Film and Television 10%, and the remaining 20% share was shared by Bonne and Wang brothers, Guangli
, and the four Huaxia families share it equally.
Like Zhongying, Huaxia is also a production and distribution company, but it is more focused on distribution.
In addition, in addition to Wu Hu's 20 million blade fee, he also gets 10% of the box office income. Everyone has no objection to this, because he is worth it.
Moreover, this was still his project, and he could have played it alone without everyone else.
So after the final income came out, Wu Hu would take 10% first, and everyone would share the rest in proportion. No one had any objections to this, because they were all listed companies, and they wanted to take the opportunity to make money from the stock market, rather than just watching.
Box office share.
Only unlisted companies like New World Media would think about box office revenue.
Of course, the investment in the ten small targets is just a base. They all know that if something like Wu Hu does, the possibility of additional investment in the future is very high.
However, just after chatting with them in the morning, several companies transferred funds into the crew's account in the afternoon. Wu Hu didn't need to remind them. They were all very self-conscious.
There is no way, they are all worried that they will be kicked out if they don't pay enough.
Wu Hu's projects have never failed before, so they have full confidence in Wu Hu.
The next day, New World Media announced that they would launch a new project with ten small targets plus investment. The project is headed by Wu Hu and the director is Men Qing, a great director who has worked with Wu Hu many times. Men Qing can be said to be
Currently, he is the director with the weakest talent. Although he has produced many high-grossing movies, everyone always thinks that it is Wu Hu's credit. He has always been Wu Hu's puppet and is only a great director in name.
Even though he has already produced a hit drama like "Nirvana in Fire", this impression has always remained in the hearts of the audience. However, Men Qing is quite calm about this and does not want to rush to prove himself. Anyway, he has meat with Wu Hu.
Just eat it.
Sure enough, when everyone heard that Wu Hu was cooperating with Men Qing again, they immediately felt relieved, because they had never failed since they cooperated. And such a big project is worth looking forward to.
In addition, New World Media also revealed the candidates for several leading roles. The male lead is naturally Wu Hu, the female lead is Yahuazi, and the second female lead is Mina.
As for other characters, they have not been announced yet.
Mina's role is a dream builder, so Wu Hu didn't think there was much of a problem in letting Mina, a girl with a bit of a Western face, play this role.
As for acting, that's not important, she just needs to be beautiful.
For a time, countless actors called Wu Hu, hoping to get a role from him.
After all, Wu Hu and Yahuazi have never failed since they cooperated. Now that the two have joined forces again, the probability of success is very high.
But in fact, at this time, Men Qing had already gone to the Bald Eagle to look for actors from the Bald Eagle. Wu Hu originally wanted to cooperate with the Mediterranean hunk. After all, they are brothers, and the Mediterranean hunk was also willing to play a supporting role for him.
of.
In the Fast and Furious series and the Suicide Squad series, the Mediterranean hunk is willing to play a supporting role.
Wu Hu believed that with his popularity and traffic, the Mediterranean hunk would definitely not be introduced to him as a partner. But he did not expect that this guy has already taken on the role of "The Meg".
And the filming of "The Meg" will start next month.
This is also a co-production between a flower grower and a bald eagle, but they found Warner Bros., and they didn't come to him, nor to Yahuazi.
Wu Hu rejected all these test calls, claiming that the role had basically been finalized, and the background of the story was overseas, so there were really not many supporting roles.
Brother Dawei and Zhao Niefeng also called him and asked him if he needed a villain.
After Wu Hu's previous reminder, Zhao Niefeng no longer insists on being a good or bad guy, and will take on roles when they come up. Now he even asked Wu Hu if he wanted to be a bad guy, and he felt that he could do it.
After receiving a call from these two people, Wu Hu suddenly had an inspiration. He felt that he could arrange a fight scene, arrange them as the villain's dream guards, the kind who can hide from guns, and then have a more exaggerated close-up scene.
Fighting.
"Inception" is a brain-burning suspense game. There are not many fights in it. Even if there are a few, they are solved directly with guns and cannons, or directly use dream shattering to avoid the pursuit of those dream guards.
Originally, he thought that there would be no need for any magical changes and that he could just follow the original plot. After all, this was the successful experience of previous generations, so there was no need to mess around.
You can even find the original actors.
But then I thought about it, the male lead was replaced by him, the female lead and second female lead were also replaced by Yahuazi and Mina, and the villain also had a footbath chicken man, it seemed that there were a lot of Asian faces.
Instead, Menqing was asked to find a villain actor in Hollywood. As for some of the supporting roles, they could also be actors from Hollywood. After all, the backgrounds have been set abroad, and if there are too many Asian faces, it seems
Some of them are unjustifiable.
But Big Wei and Zhao Nifeng gave him some inspiration. There are guardians in the dream, and these guardians can be replaced by action stars like Big Wei and others!
You can play with guns and cannons in dreams, but why not play with cold weapons and close combat?
Any scene of flying into the sky and escaping from the earth is acceptable!
As for whether these fighting scenes will have any impact on the plot, Wu Hu feels that there is no need to worry. These are just things that serve the plot. As long as the logic of why fighting is necessary when there are guns is handled well, it will not make people feel abrupt.
So when chatting with Zhao Niefeng, Wu Hu said: "Wait a minute, I suddenly got some inspiration, I will discuss it with the director first, and I will talk to you later."
Zhao Niefeng listened to the busy signal on the phone with a confused look on his face, a little puzzled.
Wu Hu made a phone call to Men Qing, and then chatted with Men Qing about the inspiration he had just come up with, and discussed whether he could add some fighting scenes.
Isn't it interesting to see David Wei and Zhao Niefeng as villains?
While talking, Wu Hu suddenly said, how about changing the second male lead to a flower grower and letting Zhan Langjing play the role? Wouldn't it be interesting to have the four action superstars perform action scenes on the same stage?
Men Qing was also confused, but after thinking about it, he found it quite interesting. After all, in last year's "Slaying the Wolf 2", Zhang Jin, a thug in a suit, was ruined by Niubi.
The three major action superstars performing action scenes on the same stage can make movie fans excited. If Wu Hu and Zhan Langjing, as well as Zhao Nifeng and Dawei are allowed to perform action scenes... this scene will make people unable to help but think about it.
I'm excited about it, at least I don't have to worry about the domestic box office. With so many action superstars together, those movie fans who like to watch action movies, shouldn't they be so excited?
But the question is, will this take away the spotlight?
After all, the drama "Inception" is about brain-burning suspense, a dream sequence, a game of space and time. With such a novel setting, if their action scenes take away the shine,
Isn’t it worth the loss?
"Boss, what do you think? Don't pick up sesame seeds and lose the watermelon!"
Wu Hu said with a smile: "It's okay, you can shoot it first and see how much can be inserted later. Anyway, as long as the fighting is exciting enough, even if other aspects are not enough, it can attract those action movie fans to enter the cinema, and they will not directly jump into it."
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"Okay!" Men Qing nodded and said, "In this way, the second male lead doesn't need to find an actor here, right?"
Wu Hu responded and said: "You can ask Tom Hardy to see if he is willing to play our third male lead, the one who just collaborated with Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Revenant". His current salary
It’s not expensive, I should be able to get it for five million dollars.”
After chatting with Menqing, Wu Hu went through it again in his mind, imagining replacing the scene in the movie when the dream guardians attacked the dream invaders with the scene of several of them action stars fighting. Wu Hu even
I thought of a lot of funny scenes.
For example, if Zhan Langjing is fighting with Brother Dawei or Zhao Niefeng, and seeing that he can't defeat him, he suddenly pulls out a cannon and directly blows away the defenders, and then says, "What era are we in?"
Are you stupid if you still engage in close combat?"
Zhan Langjing still has some potential as a comedian. He has played a lot of funny bit parts in many movies, which can often make people smile.
After thinking for a while, Wu Hu called back to Venus. He had rejected Venus first and then planned to reject Zhao Nifeng.
But just when he was about to continue to reject Zhao Niefeng, inspiration suddenly came to him.
Thinking of this now, Wu Hu had no choice but to call back and talk to Big Wei.
After hearing Wu Hu's idea, Big Wei said: "Fat Hu, don't change the plot at will because of me! If the box office of future movies does not perform well, I cannot bear the responsibility."
"The plot has not been changed, we just added some fighting details. It will not affect the plot itself, but it will enrich the fun of the movie."
"That's fine! It's just a second-hand role, I don't care."
Although he didn't want to be a villain for Bald Eagle Jiang in Hollywood, he didn't introduce him to Wu Hu as a villain. He was a villain when they first collaborated on "New World".
After contacting Dawei, Wu Hu called Zhao Niefeng and agreed to his request to be a villain. It was indeed just a cameo, because he was a dream guardian.
The story is set overseas, and they are not qualified to be the villains.
However, there is actually no real villain in "Inception". As for the villain, the protagonist and his team are more like villains because their job is to invade other people's dreams and steal other people's secrets.
This is no different from commercial espionage.
In essence, they are actually thieves, but they are just packaged.
After talking to Dawei and Zhao Nifeng on the phone, Wu Hu made another call to Zhan Langjing. Although many people contacted him, Zhan Langjing did not. He was preparing for the release of "Wolf Warrior 2"
What's the matter! It's already late May and it will be released at the end of July. There are only two months left. When the movie is released, he still has to travel around to promote it.
So he felt that he didn't have time, so he decided not to cause trouble to Wu Hu.
"Fat Tiger, you don't want to invite me to star in your new movie, do you?"
Wu Hu smiled and said, "I have this idea. Do you have a schedule? Are you willing to support me and play the second male lead? Then I will have the opportunity to compete with Big Wei and Zhao Nifeng."
Zhan Langjing laughed and scolded, "Do you want me to be beaten to death by them?"
Although they are both action stars and have never really competed against each other, compared to them, Zhan Langjing's physique feels smaller, especially compared to Big Wei.
"It's not that serious, and I can set bones, don't worry!"
"Go away!" Zhan Langjing cursed with a smile, and finally asked: "You know, "Wolf Warrior 2" will be released soon. I won't have time until September. Can you wait?"
"Other actors are still being selected. I still have to hold a few concerts. It is estimated that the filming will not start until August. You can join the crew later, no problem."
Moreover, in October, he will have to spare at least half a month to come back and promote "Operation Mekong", and then he can reshoot the scenes of "Wolf King".
Bringing Wolf Warrior Jing in, firstly, they are brothers, looking for a chance to cooperate, and at the same time make up for his guilt for taking away the little broken ball; secondly, they are preparing to take the opportunity to steal a handful of brother's wool, after all, "Wolf Warrior 2"
As soon as he came out, he became a hot superstar in China.
In another time and space, after "Wolf Warrior 2", Wu Hu naturally knew how popular Wolf Warrior Jing was. Before he was so popular, he was brought into the crew, and looking back, he could definitely borrow some of his influence.
Popularity, coupled with him and Yahuazi...
Wu Hu is sure that as long as "Inception" is not a piece of shit, when the movie comes out next year, it will definitely sweep the box office charts. Maybe it won't be a surprise to sweep the box office of Bald Eagle.
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After all, Bald Eagle Jiang likes this kind of time and space setting, and likes redemption plots. The relationship between the male protagonist and his wife in "Inception" is somewhat redemptive.
Another point is that whether it's Zhan Langjing or Zhao Niefeng, their salaries can be said to be negligible compared to those of Hollywood stars.
Wu Hu had previously offered him RMB 30 million for the salary for "War of the Langjing". The salary for the director, actors, and screenwriter was added to the salary. He also invested some of it himself, and this was calculated separately.
Therefore, if Zhan Lang Jing were to be an actor alone, giving him a salary of 20 million would be considered too high. I guess Zhan Lang Jing would be embarrassed to ask for so much.
After all, Wu Hu gave too much to the movie "Wolf Warrior 2". If New World Media hadn't been the largest investor in the movie, other investors would have had objections.
But this salary, converted into dollars, is less than five hundred dollars!
As for Zhao Niefeng and Da Weifeng, their salary is only around 10 million dollars. If they were replaced by knives, it would actually be less than 2 million dollars.
Compared with those Hollywood stars, they are very cheap.
As for the box office appeal of those Hollywood stars in Bald Eagle, as long as they are not first-line superstars, they actually have little appeal.
In the end, it is up to Wu Hu, an international superstar, to take everyone flying.