Seeing Zhang Hailin, Sun Peng couldn't help but think of the "Big Three" proposal from back then.
The collaboration between Steve Lucas, Michael Pitt and Lao Bai once caused an uproar in the entertainment industry, and movie fans were even more excited, calling it an unreplicable collaboration between the three giants. In the words of some people
, "Tomorrow's War" has been famous since the day it was born, even if it spent 100 million US dollars in publicity and distribution funds.
In China, filmmakers know this better.
So at the Magnolia Awards ceremony, when the two Chinese film giants Liang Ren and Zhang Hailin met Sun Peng, they jokingly proposed a proposal to form the Chinese Big Three.
Of course, Sun Peng refused without much thought.
Although Zhang Hailin is at that level in terms of strength and reputation, and the ratio of remuneration to dividends is also very low, which is not on the same level as Lucas, for Sun Peng, Liang Ren is not a good choice for cooperation.
Even now, Liang Ren is still China's most famous movie star in the world, but there is no doubt that in the past few years... to be precise, after "The Truman Show", Lao Liang has been declining! And in
With Sun Peng's unwavering support, Lin Lin is now barely able to keep pace with him.
Of course, if Liang Ren was younger, Sun Peng wouldn't mind working together a few more times, but Liang Ren, who is now fifty years old...
To put it bluntly, the potential has been exhausted.
Under such circumstances, how could Sun Peng continue to give him top scripts?
From the investment in a movie, Liang Ren alone will take away at least 100 million plus ten points of dividends. Even for a production with huge investment, it will only account for less than half. Sun Peng has no interest in helping.
Liang Ren makes money. So even if the agent who met Liang Ren last time said to get together later, it was just to be polite...
However, Sun Peng still respected Director Zhang in front of him.
Because he is similar to Liang Ren back then. He is a central figure in Chinese movies... to be more precise, he is a Chinese costume blockbuster that broke out of the country and became famous in the world!
The investment in three films in a row exceeded 500 million Chinese dollars, and the global box office exceeded 700 million US dollars. He was definitely a leading director in that era!
The term "China's number one director" was established at that time.
It's a pity that Sun Peng is really loveless in costume blockbusters and so on!
Chinese costume films have already reached their peak, but now they have just fallen off the altar. Sun Peng has no confidence in taking them back to the top. And despite the fact that he also filmed a "Hero", but since Sun Peng
From Peng's perspective, "Hero" is positioned as a martial arts movie, but it just draws on the experience of China's costume blockbusters in this world.
So when Sun Peng saw Director Zhang at Peter's house, he was just surprised and had no other thoughts.
only……
After finally meeting Sun Peng once, Zhang Hailin obviously has no intention of letting him go easily. You are China's number one director... Although it has been declining in recent years, Lao Zhang's face and influence are still there, otherwise he wouldn't be
He was invited by Peter to attend this dinner. But even so, it was extremely difficult for him to meet Sun Peng once. Not only was it difficult for Sun Ya, but he, a great director, also wanted to save face!
When I saw Sun Peng just now, if there weren't too many people around, Lao Zhang would have wanted to go up and say hello.
After chatting with Lao Zhang for a while, Sun Peng understood that this guy still wanted to do a collaboration between the three giants. Especially this time when he came to the United States and saw the sensation caused by laobai's arrival in Los Angeles, and next summer vacation
Zhang Hailin was naturally more enthusiastic after meeting Sun Peng due to the popularity of "Tomorrow's War" which had just been released.
"Director Zhang, I really didn't mean to shirk it."
Being a little impatient by what this guy said, Sun Peng frowned and made it clear: "First of all, I'm really not very good at costume films, so I'm not sure about writing a script for you. I can only write what I write and what others will film;
Secondly, my current salary for each script is at least 100 million plus ten points of dividends. If the investment is not high, the price will increase... If you think it is acceptable, then just contact my agent."
There is no problem with Zhang Hailin's level, but Sun Peng is really not interested in the type he is good at.
So let’s just say it directly and let Lao Zhang give up. After all, this guy also needs to get dividends when making movies, and after the box office of a movie is released, the producer can only get 30% to 40%.
, if the two of them directly share 20% or more of the box office dividends, and the film is still about a subject that has declined, wouldn't it be better for the film company to simply do charity?
But what Sun Peng didn't expect was that after hearing what he said, Zhang Hailin raised his eyebrows and suddenly said: "I didn't say you must make a costume film! For example, I am very interested in the science fiction film you are mainly making now.
Give it a try!”
"Science fiction? Try it?"
After listening to Zhang Hailin's words, Sun Peng was stunned for a moment, then he couldn't help laughing: "Director Zhang, can we stop joking? Haha..."
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Sun Peng felt that Zhang Hailin was joking with him... Of course, even if it was serious, he would definitely treat it as a joke and would never agree.
If he refuses this kind of thing, he will become more familiar with it.
At Michael Pitt's party alone, there were several stars who invited him to collaborate, and they were all first-tier directors or actors in Hollywood. There were more ordinary second-tier and third-tier actors and directors, who didn't even dare to
Just speak directly.
After all, they are all in the industry, and they all know the price of laobai, which is definitely not affordable for ordinary people.
That is to say, only top-tier directors or stars in Hollywood have this qualification. For them, even if they are not like Michael Pitt, they are basically starring in A-level large-scale productions, and there are always similar opportunities. If you add laobai
The script is basically a done deal.
It's a pity that Sun Peng has already passed the stage of looking for opportunities.
In fact, in his earliest cooperation with major film companies, Sun Peng was not too weak, otherwise he would not have been so unhappy with film industry giants like Benma. After all, his identity as an online writer, and the things he wrote
World-class English songs have given him full confidence. Now, after he has become recognized as the world's number one screenwriter, the choice of who he wants to collaborate with depends not only on profit considerations, but also on feelings and preferences.
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So he was laughing and joking, and Sun Peng didn't agree to anyone's invitation.
What's funny?
Now he has begun to focus on China. Hollywood is just hanging on to those giants so that he can barely have allies. In a few years, the distribution channels of Chinese giants will become more complete, even if they are still far from Hollywood.
At some point, Sun Peng will terminate these cooperations.
And when that time comes, it's unclear whether the script in his head will still be useful.
The party lasted for more than three hours, and it was almost midnight. When Sun Peng was quite exhausted, Liu Chang suddenly rescued Sun Peng from being surrounded by others on the pretext that he had an important phone call.
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"There is really an important call, Xiaoya called."
After listening to Liu Chang's words, Sun Peng quickly took the phone: "Sister, it's morning in the capital right now? It's so early...do you have anything to do with me?"
"Yes, and it's a good thing!"
Sun Ya's voice was very excited on the phone and she said loudly: "There is news from the Magic City. They will fully cooperate to build a super theme park in the suburbs..."