Chapter 179: The Hollywood Influence of the Cheng Family Team

November 2, 2005, Los Angeles, sunny.

In an indoor studio of New Line Cinema in Los Angeles, the actors and crew members of "Rush Hour 3" gathered together, as if waiting for someone.

Until the door of the studio was pushed open from the outside, Wu Yuan walked into the studio with Daisy.

"Hey, good morning, everyone!"

"Daniel! You're finally here!"

The producer of "Rush Hour 3", New Line Cinema's deputy director Roald hurriedly came up and gave Wu Yuan a strong hug.

The expressions on the faces of the crew members also relaxed a little, and they immediately started to get busy.

"Roald, I don't have the bad habit of being late." Wu Yuan spread his hands and asked with a relaxed look: "Are you ready?"

"Of course, I'm waiting for you!" Roald affirmed.

For a second-rate Hollywood production company like New Line, a first-tier director like Wu Yuan must be carefully held in the palm of their hands.

What's more, Wu Yuan's identity is not just a director, so Roald has to serve him more carefully.

In Hollywood, where producers are the center and producers have the most say, the crew of "Rush Hour 3" all listen to Wu Yuan, and Wu Yuan, the director, is the most important.

This is a very rare situation.

After a brief greeting with Roald, the main actors also came up to greet Wu Yuan.

Wu Yuan's version of "Rush Hour 3" is very different from the New Line Original version in the choice of actors and roles because the screenwriter completely rewrote the plot.

Not to mention the two leading actors, Cheng Long and Will Smith, there are two other very important supporting roles in "Rush Hour 3".

One is the villain Boss, that is, the Mexican drug lord who planned the kidnapping of the president's daughter. This role is played by Mads Mikkelsen.

When mentioning the name Mads Mikkelsen, many people may be confused and don't know him.

But if you mention Hannibal, you will immediately understand.

Mads Mikkelsen is also a professional villain in Hollywood. He not only plays the cannibal serial killer Hannibal in the TV series "Hannibal".

He also plays evil villains in the movies "Casino Royale" and "Doctor Strange".

It can be said that his face, as long as it becomes gloomy, will immediately give people a gloomy and evil feeling, which is very suitable for this type of role.

In the script of "Rush Hour 3", the villain Boss drug lord is a gentle scum, with a gentle appearance, but in fact he is a twisted and crazy pervert.

If he is not crazy, he would not do such a thing as kidnapping the daughter of the US president.

Of course, he has a group of very capable subordinates, and these subordinates are the main targets of "fighting" with Cheng Long and Will Smith.

In addition to him, another very important role, that is, the target of the whole movie, the president's daughter, is played by Wu Yuan's old friend, the British rose Keira Knightley.

She is of the right age and a big vase actress, which is undoubtedly the most suitable choice.

Keira, who is only 20 years old this year, is not as arrogant as Depp after becoming famous.

Well, the main reason is that she has not been overwhelmed with roles after becoming famous. In addition to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, she has appeared in two movies this year, "Pride and Prejudice" and "Domino".

By the way, in "Pride and Prejudice", Keira is simply beautiful, which once again makes her title of English Rose highly recognized.

Apart from these two movies, Keira has not received any suitable new film contracts. Before the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" starts at the end of next year, she has no filming.

In this case, Wu Yuan contacted her and invited her to play in "Rush Hour 3". Although she only played a supporting role, she was also very happy.

"Director, thank you very much for inviting me to star in this movie." Keira smiled sweetly at Wu Yuan and said shyly: "I will try my best to make this movie well!"

"Well, as long as you maintain your usual level, this movie will not be difficult for you." Wu Yuan nodded with a smile.

Yes, in Rush Hour 3, Kayla's scenes are basically either being kidnapped or running away with Cheng Long and his friends.

This scene is almost exactly the same as her character in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

It's just that in Pirates of the Caribbean, she was always kidnapped and threatened by pirates, but in Rush Hour 3, it was changed to a Mexican drug lord.

This kind of scene is completely familiar to Kayla.

At this time, Cheng Long also led a middle-aged man wearing glasses and a crew cut to Wu Yuan's side.

"Director Wu, let me introduce you. This is Li Zhongzhi, our action director."

"By the way, Allen is here too."

Wu Yuan nodded, shook hands with Li Zhongzhi, and said enthusiastically: "With the Jackie Chan Stunt Team here, I feel relieved."

"I really don't have any experience in shooting fighting scenes. The specific action design depends on you."

Although Cheng Long announced the disbandment of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team after filming "Flying Eagle Project" in Spain in 1992, in fact, this "disbandment" was more of a streamlining of members.

The film industry in Hong Kong Island was going downhill, and other martial arts groups such as the Hong Clan were competing for business. Cheng Long disbanded the original huge Jackie Chan Stunt Team, leaving only an elite Jackie Chan Stunt Team, which was responsible for the movies he shot.

Li Zhongzhi is the current person in charge of the Chengjia Class. He leads more than ten martial arts masters in the Marriage Class and is responsible for all the martial arts guidance and substitute work for Cheng Long's current movies.

Among them, there is a very special member in the family class, Brad Allen.

Allen is the first foreign member of the Family Marriage Class. He has joined the Family Marriage Class since 1997, and is mainly responsible for roles in Cheng Long's movies that require European and American faces to perform martial arts.

He has appeared in movies such as "Glass Bottle", "The Secret Agent" and "Shanghai Knight".

What made Wu Yuan take him seriously was that this Mr. Allen later did quite well in Hollywood, specializing in being an assistant director for various action movies and responsible for action guidance.

He can be said to be the continuation of Cheng Jia Ban, the continuation of Cheng-style comedy kung fu movies in Hollywood.

Why does Wu Yuan say that the "Ace Agent" series has the shadow of Cheng Long's movies, paying homage to and imitating Cheng-style kung fu comedies?

It's because Allen, a martial arts instructor who came from a married family, is the deputy director and martial arts instructor of the "Kings Agent" series.

All the fighting scenes in "Kingsman" were designed by Allen.

Can a foreign martial artist trained in a family class design martial arts moves without the shadow of Cheng Long?

Let's put it this way, in the ten years since Cheng Long entered Hollywood, the most important thing he left behind in Hollywood is not actually the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award.

The most important thing he left behind in Hollywood is the Chinese action movie style.

Since Cheng Long, Hollywood action movies have been divided into two types, non-Cheng Long style and Cheng Long style.

As long as it's Cheng Long's style, you have to hire a professional martial arts instructor from a family class to do martial arts for various Hollywood movies, or even train professional martial arts masters.

The emergence of Cheng Long changed the world of action movies and created an action movie type that was unique to him.

This is not something that Jet Li and other Chinese Kung Fu superstars can compare to.

This is also the reason why Wu Yuan wants to cooperate with Cheng Long and want to help him in Hollywood.

This Chinese actor really has the potential to become a Hollywood star!

"Brother Cheng Long, I will leave all the martial arts instruction to the family class."

Wu Yuan said with great confidence: "I believe that the Marriage Class is definitely the best in the world in terms of martial arts instructors and martial artists."

If nothing else, Cheng Long's group of brothers are indeed great.

If it’s not dangerous, we won’t shoot it. If it’s not dangerous, we won’t shoot it.

Cheng Long was also very proud of this, patting his chest and saying, "That's a must!"

"The martial arts masters in our family class will definitely say nothing!"

"When filming "Plan A", there was a scene where we were doing dangerous actions on a high platform, and we changed three people in a row. The first one was Baoxin, the second one was a senior who has passed away, and the third one was me."

"As soon as we go up, we fall down. In order to make a good movie, we are not afraid of pain or injury at all."

"After the filming of this scene, all three of us were injured and hospitalized!"

"The movies of that era were all about toughness, and they all showed it to the audience. If you say you kick hard, you really kick hard."

"One of the scenes was a simple kick in the face, but because it was a close-up, it had to be real."

"The martial artist in our family class, the first one was kicked to coax him and he fainted, and the next one was kicked to coax him and he fainted again. As a result, seven of them were kicked unconscious in a row."

"As for dedication, if you search the entire Hong Kong Island, all the martial arts classes put together are not as dedicated as our family class."

Speaking of this, Cheng Long suddenly winked at Wu Yuan and smiled, switching to Mandarin and said: "Not to mention these ghost guys, they are weak in fighting, and they also need all kinds of protective measures and borrowing positions. "

"When I bumped into it a little bit, I started calling for insurance compensation."

"It's too pretentious and troublesome, and I don't dare to do it seriously."

“Would this make for a good action movie?”

As he spoke, Cheng Long probably recalled the desperate appearance of Saburo when the family class was first established, and shook his head with emotion, "In the past, when I did a big dangerous move, I might have thought in my heart whether I could go home at night."

"It's different now. The safety measures are very good now. The steel wire is as thick as hanging you, so you don't have to worry about anything happening."

"It's a pity that my old brothers didn't catch up with this good era."

Wu Yuan had never experienced the era of desperate martial arts in Hong Kong, but he still patted Cheng Long on the shoulder with understanding: "Without them, there would be no most famous family class in the world."

"All the hard work is worth it."

"Yes!" Cheng Long nodded fiercely, "It's all worth it!"

Wu Yuan smiled brightly, reached out and clapped, attracting the attention of everyone in the crew.

"Okay, that's it for the chat."

"Everyone, get ready, we are going to start the official shooting!"

"Kayla, Will, you all go change!"

"Guys, get moving!"

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