Chapter 1166 It's Time to Officially Start

Leonardo and Tom Hanks cut off most of their salary by coincidence, which made Spielberg suddenly think of a Chinese movie star Li Lianjie.

Li Lianjie was originally one of the most expensive movie stars in Hong Kong movies and was an absolute box office guarantee. However, when he came to Hollywood to develop, he failed several auditions. In the end, Richard Donner, the director of "Lethal Weapon 4", found him. Wanted to invite him to play one of the villains.

At the beginning, Richard Donner offered a salary of 1 million US dollars, which was far lower than Li Lianjie's worth in Asia, but Li Lianjie readily agreed to break through the barriers between Hong Kong films and Hollywood films.

However, Richard Donner later repented and changed his words to $700,000. Li Lianjie agreed, but Richard Donner did not accept it as soon as it was good, but made a final offer of $500,000. When everyone thought that Richard Downer was too much, and Li Lianjie would never agree to him, Li Lianjie agreed.

In the end, Li Lianjie participated in the film for $500,000, and the $500,000 even included a considerable part of his legal fees in the United States, which was 108,000 miles worse than his salary in Hong Kong, but Li Lianjie Not for how much money a movie makes, but in order to really break down the barriers of Hollywood, he sacrificed a considerable part of his salary, but his goal was also achieved through this sacrifice of salary.

Once, Richard Donner's shameless behavior comparable to Harvey Weinstein was cast aside in Hollywood, but this also reflects the difficulty and danger of non-Hollywood actors who want to enter the Hollywood circle. .

However, Spielberg did not expect that this situation would soon change.

Even though Hollywood has not yet seen a large amount of capital from China, it has to be said that Hollywood's top-tier actors are already willing to reduce their worth and pay in order to develop and break through higher-level barriers like Li Lianjie.

It seems that Li Muzhen has become the upper-level boss that the entire Hollywood is chasing after. In front of Li Mu, the entire Hollywood has become the bottom.

There is a huge gap between these two levels, so that these two top Hollywood actors have to get through this level of relationship at all costs. If Li Mu is given a little more time, Li Mu will probably turn the entire Hollywood into his own queen. garden……

Since Hollywood itself is the playground of world capital, Spielberg did not regard Li Mu as an invader of Hollywood, but in his heart, Li Mu became his biggest opportunity.

Before Li Mu appeared, the major Hollywood companies and the major capital behind the scenes had already made the competition fierce. At this time, no matter who wanted to snatch any piece of cake from the competitors, they would be attacked by countless people.

It's even harder to shuffle.

In this case, there is only one possibility to shuffle the cards: powerful external force interference!

Li Mu is the most powerful external force in Hollywood right now!

Spielberg is well aware of Li Mu's influence. If nothing else, as long as he goes back and joins forces with Muye Imaging to push the Muying ticketing system to the whole of North America, Hollywood's cinema channel will be blocked by the Muying ticketing system. Firmly control, if Li Mu combines the influence of YY, it will be a big killer in the film market, not to mention, Li Mu not only has resources, but also money!

What is Hollywood playing? Isn't it just money and resources? Li Mu has a net worth of tens of billions of dollars on the bright side. This is not counting the market value of Taobao, Alipay and Taobao Logistics. Spielberg firmly believes that Li Mu can become the world's richest man in a few years. In front of the world's richest man, Instead of resisting, Hollywood will take the initiative to take off their clothes and climb onto each other's bed!

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It was only the next day that Li Mu heard the exciting news from Spielberg.

What excites him the most is not that the two of them cut their salaries and saved him at least $30 million in budget, but that these two actors, whom he likes very much, decided to participate in "Flying Tigers"!

At Li Mu's stage, tens of millions of dollars really doesn't matter. Even if the two of them directly quote themselves at the market price, as long as they are willing to act, then he will not be stingy with the funds. What he is most worried about is if these two Anyone who is unwilling to appear or has conflicting schedules.

Because in Li Mu's mind, he couldn't find any more suitable actors for the two roles in "Flying Tigers" than these two.

Li Mu has seen all the films played by Tom Hanks, and what he is most convinced of this old man is that what he plays is what he does. It is not inappropriate to say that he is the best actor in the United States, such as "Captain Sully". The prototype of the movie, that is, Captain Sullenberger who created the miracle of the Hudson River, named Tom Hanks to play him, and Li Mu had also seen that movie, and it felt like watching a movie. Like a documentary.

Apart from him, Li Mu really couldn't find a second suitable candidate. At first glance, it seemed that the bald Bruce Willis' image and temperament matched Chennault's, but Li Mu always felt in his heart that Bruce Willis was the Uncle, he is not suitable for roles that are too deep. He is suitable for action films and pure commercial films. Compared with Tom Hanks, the Oscar double actor, his acting skills are not in the same dimension at all.

Moreover, the male No. 3, that is, the role of the young American pilot, there is no one more suitable than Leonardo. At present, Leonardo's appearance is not off the assembly line, and he is born with the temperament of a rebellious youth. This point It has been fully reflected in "The Game of Cats and Mouse". He came to play this role, not only in perfect temperament, good acting skills, but also in online appearance. He is definitely the best candidate, there is no one.

Well now, the two best actors in Li Mu's mind are already in place.

Not only the two of them, but also Anne Hathaway has long been in place, and a total of five key protagonists have been confirmed for three.

In the script of "Flying Tigers", there are also two leading actors with many roles, one is the role of the Chinese ace pilot, and the other is the role of a local rural girl in the southwest. As for the latter, Li Mu is very inclined to continue to let Du Wei play the role. It's not that he intends to take care of Du Wei in his heart, but Du Wei's acting skills are indeed very good, much better than those sent by those academies.

Many academic actors have poor acting skills that make it difficult to look directly at them, but many non-academic actors are able to perform their acting skills without showing any traces, and she is not only good-looking, but also has that kind of tender temperament, It's really suitable to play a most beautiful village girl or something.

And Li Mu can be sure that Du Wei will never refuse his invitation. In this way, four of the five key protagonists have been identified.

As for the role of Huaxia's ace pilot, Li Mu was really in a dilemma all of a sudden.

Although Zhang Kexuan's acting skills are not bad, he is only good enough to act in idol dramas, but he can't handle such a big production at all.

In fact, there are many good actors in China, but all Li Mu can think of are older ones, such as Li Xuejian, Bao Guoan, Tang Guoqiang, Chen Zhiming, Ge You and Fan Wei, etc., but they are all too old , if there are other older characters in the play, you can invite these old actors in, but for such an important role as the second male lead, forget it.

In Li Mu's mind, he searched for Chinese actors who are under the age of 30 and who have good acting skills. After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't think of a suitable one.

This is not to blame for Li Mu. In this era, domestic films are already on the decline. Occasionally, a few films that perform well are almost all supported by the old actors. There are not many young actors who are really outstanding, and their acting skills are good. not much more.

Li Mu is also very clear in his heart that if he wants to find the most suitable actor for this role, he should find it from the Hong Kong film industry, because among the younger generation of actors, the current acting skills and professionalism of young Hong Kong actors are indeed much higher than those in China. Even if Mr. Guanxi is brought over, regardless of his acting skills and appearance, he can hold it.

However, Li Mu really doesn't want to use Hong Kong actors in such a movie. It's not that he discriminates or treats Hong Kong actors differently, but he feels that such a movie with an international orientation must control the language types to At least, since it is a story of Chinese and Americans fighting side by side, the core languages ​​can only be Mandarin and English, and the Japanese invaders use a small amount of Japanese, which is just right. This is the best result.

Therefore, all Chinese actors must use mainland actors who speak standard Mandarin, because real good movies cannot be post-recorded, and must be strictly recorded at the same time.

Moreover, Li Mu has an indescribable obsession in his heart. For such a film that depicts the hard struggle of the Chinese people, he subconsciously hopes that all Chinese actors are mainland actors. Only in this way can it be purer.

However, this generation of young Chinese actors is really unsatisfactory, Li Mu racked his brains, but couldn't think of a few who really have acting skills.

Huang Bo's acting skills are good, but he is really sorry for his appearance. If he is to play this role, the audience will definitely think that the beautiful little American nurse played by Anne Hathaway must be a blind woman;

Deng Chao's acting skills are also reasonable, but in his last life, Li Mu watched him act in too many bad movies, and he was overly entertained, so he was really reluctant to give him such an important role;

Who should I use?

Li Mu thought hard and had no results, but soon, he decided to put this issue aside first, and then asked Wang Yuenlang to go to the hotel to bring Spielberg to his house, and was going to talk to him about the establishment of the group and the start-up. Since Four of the five core actors have been in place, and it's time to officially launch!

As for who will play the second male lead, Li Mu suddenly thought of a solution. After the production team, main lineup, investment scale, and outline of the story of "Flying Tigers" are announced, it will definitely be popular all over the world, especially China. It has brought great repercussions in the United States, and the people with the greatest repercussions must be the Chinese people. At that time, taking advantage of the blockbuster news of "Flying Tigers", we will directly come to a national casting!