Chapter 115 What Is Rush Hour? It's Obviously the Prequel to Kingsman

Chapter 115 What is Rush Hour? It's obviously the prequel to Kingsman!

Why would Will Smith be willing to join Rush Hour 3 for a salary of $20 million and no box office share?

Isn't this too outrageous?

Wu Yuan couldn't believe it and even thought that the old man Elad was lying to him.

Will Smith is a serious super A-level actor in Hollywood, the top black actor, no one else.

With movies such as "Independence Day", "Men in Black Series" and "Ali", he is now the world's most popular black actor and has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor.

When his "I, Robot" is released next year, it will take in another $320 million at the box office.

It can be said that Will Smith's influence and fame are much higher than Chris Tucker in "Rush Hour".

Chris Tucker is nothing without "Rush Hour", and Will Smith is still a super A actor without the "Men in Black" series.

Why can he offer a lower salary than Chris Tucker?

Ellard also knew that this was a bit outrageous. He smiled awkwardly and took the initiative to explain: "In fact, we were also surprised. In fact, we didn't plan to ask Will Smith to play the role at the beginning."

"When he heard that Rush Hour might change actors, he took the initiative to contact us."

"Will said that he was a fan of Jackie and liked Jackie's action movies very much. He wanted to work with Jackie once, and he could accept not sharing the box office revenue.

"This led to this cooperation. ”

Is there such a thing?

Will Smith is actually a fan of Cheng Long?

Wu Yuan was so surprised. Whether in his dream or in this life, he had never heard of such gossip!

This is a bit interesting.

Ten million US dollars + 5% box office share. Judging from the box office of the original "Rush Hour 3", Wu Yuan can get more than 20 million US dollars, which is not a small amount of money.

And if he is asked to shoot "Rush Hour 3", the script must be changed.

The original script is a pile of shit!

Wu Yuan has an idea to change the script in the direction of "Kingsman", or to make it a prequel to "Kingsman"!

It just so happens that a different lead actor is needed.

Then the beginning can be set as Inspector Li and Carter on a mission. , Inspector Li failed to save his partner, Carter died.

Inspector Li was also hit by this incident, and he was confused and drunk all day, unable to get out of the shadow of his partner's sacrifice.

At this time, a mysterious agent named "Will" found Inspector Li and forced him to the secret intelligence agency "Ace Agent Bureau".

Then Inspector Li changed from an Interpol to a secret agent, starting the second exciting life of his life.

And during the days of partnering with Will, this black agent who looked indifferent on the outside but was actually very enthusiastic in his heart also made Inspector Li gradually get out of the shadow of his partner's sacrifice.

In the end, the two joined forces to uncover a conspiracy to assassinate the President of the United States, and worked together to save the President's life, and it was perfect. It became the mission of the agent.

Well, as for the specific conspiracy, who is the villain boss, and how to set it, we can talk to the screenwriter slowly, or Wu Yuan can integrate some of the plots of this kind of action movies in the future.

Anyway, most Hollywood commercial action movies are of this routine. The protagonists fight all the way and finally defeat the boss and save the crisis.

After 20 years, this kind of script has a mature framework and routine. You only need to add various commercial elements, funny plots to adjust the atmosphere, and pay attention to the rhythm of the film. It will be a qualified popcorn movie.

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The most important thing is that although the change of "Rush Hour 3" has made this series deviate from the original main line, that is, Inspector Lee and Carter's A crime-solving story.

But it also opened up another series, the Kingsman series!

Next, Wu Yuan can continue to use Jackie and seamlessly connect to the plot of Kingsman: The Secret Service, letting Jackie replace Harry Hart in the original film, who is the mentor of the male protagonist.

The two of them formed a partnership again and started the story of Kingsman.

Well, the plan is beautiful, but the Rush Hour series is a New Line movie. How can Wu Yuan let the character of Inspector Li join his own Kingsman universe?

After thinking about it, Wu Yuan no longer directly rejected Elad's invitation, but talked to him about the future development of New Line.

"Elad, the last movie of New Line's Lord of the Rings series will be released this year, right?"

"Rush Hour 3 should also be the last movie of this series, right?"

"I know you still have the Final Destination series, but New Line is so big, and it's not enough to rely on just one Final Destination."

"Do you have any plans for a new series of movies? "

Ellard was stunned by the question. New Line really has no new series of movies on hand. There will be only one "Blade 3" next year, which is also the last one in the series.

"Daniel, what do you mean?" Elad asked hesitantly.

"I mean, I don't want to take over a series created by others, but I am willing to start a new series."

Wu Yuan raised his eyebrows, "But this new series must be created by Light Era and New Line together!"

Big-budget series like "Rush Hour" and "Kingsman" with an investment of tens of millions or nearly 100 million US dollars are not projects that Time can do alone now.

But it is no problem to bring in New Line to do it together.

New Line is not one of the six majors. They are also an independent film company, just one of the better-developed independent film companies. They also need to expand their own financial resources.

Cooperation with New Line is a beneficial thing for both parties.

Elad really showed a curious expression, pulled Wu Yuan to the corner of the banquet hall, and said solemnly: "Tell me in detail."

Wu Yuan had nothing to hide. Since he wanted to cooperate, he had to talk it out clearly. He didn't care that it was the premiere lunch of "Pirates of the Caribbean" now. Anyway, other people were also discussing various deals.

"I think so. "Rush Hour 3" can be a prequel to another new series of movies..."

Wu Yuan told Elad about his ideas and his ideas for "Rush Hour 3" and "Kingsman" series.

"Ellard, if Rush Hour 3 is made according to my script, I can accept $10 million + 5% of the box office share."

"I believe that if it is made according to my idea, the box office of this movie will definitely not be bad, at least $200-300 million."

"Then we will start the preparations for Kingsman, and New Line and Light Time will each bear 50% of the production costs."

"In the new series, except for Jackie, other actors can be newcomers, which can reduce a lot of shooting costs, and the pressure to recoup the cost will be much lower. I am very optimistic about this new series."

"If Jackie wants to raise the price, I will persuade him. If he can't convince him, the worst case scenario is that all the actors in the new series will be replaced by new actors. Anyway, the Kingsman Agency has been thrown out in Rush Hour 3."

"This movie has already served as a prequel. Even if we can't reach an agreement with Jackie in the end, we can replace the actors and start a new series, and we can also use Rush Hour 3 to promote it."

"I believe this new series will be more successful than Rush Hour!"