Chapter 286 Something Big Happened

Time flies, and it is the beginning of May.

Wu Yuan, who has been staying in North America and has not returned to China, is naturally waiting for the premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" and the subsequent publicity work.

Not only him, Liu Yifei, who has basically finished the song promotion, and Cheng Long have all come to Los Angeles, also waiting for the premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3".

This time Disney scheduled the premiere on May 20, a full five days earlier than the official release. It obviously shows that Disney is very confident in the third part and wants to use these five days to let the premiere reputation ferment more.

Wu Yuan agrees with this.

Because his revised "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" is indeed much better than the original version.

For fantasy commercial blockbusters like this, the plot has never been the most important point. The audience is all for the picture effect and visual impact.

On the original track, the most serious criticism and complaints about "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" is that the movie is too long, and a large part of the film is literary drama, and the real naval battle is only a small part at the end.

The entire movie, from the early to the middle, is about the protagonists constantly meeting and quarreling, and then switching scenes, from the Caribbean to the end of the world and then to Singapore, where different pirate organizations meet, hold meetings, threaten and clash with each other, and are inexplicably attacked by the British Navy, and then hold meetings again...

Such a large amount of literary drama, although it is to make a complete ending to the entire trilogy, but for the audience, the viewing experience is really not good.

Unlike the first part, Captain Jack had a fight with the British Navy in Port Royal, and then Barbossa drove the Black Pearl to attack Port Royal, and continued to fight, which was very cool.

Commercial blockbusters, either have full special effects shots, or have a tight rhythm, and fight scenes all the way, so as to mobilize the audience's adrenaline and make them feel addicted.

Otherwise, if you want to watch literary drama, various art films and romance films, aren't they much better than you who play commercial films?

Wu Yuan, who learned from this experience, made a lot of changes to "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", introduced Liu Yifei as a female fighter, added two conflict scenes in the early stage, and played a naval battle with the Royal Navy in the middle stage.

Although it only added three conflict scenes with a total of less than ten minutes, the rhythm of the whole movie immediately changed dramatically!

Anyway, Wu Yuan felt that the final effect of the film was not bad, at least better than the original version, and it was a commercial blockbuster on the standard line.

This kind of series has the influence of the previous work as a foundation. As long as it is filmed at a passing level, it is definitely not a problem to get a global box office of 900 million or 1 billion US dollars.

However, before the premiere, something happened that made the whole country of China mourn.

The 512 earthquake still happened inevitably.

The whole of China was paused.

As a Chinese citizen, even though Wu Yuan was in the United States at the moment and his new movie was about to be released, he immediately put down all the work at hand, chartered a private plane, and returned to China with everyone in the team, as well as Liu Yifei and Cheng Long.

"Director Wu, natural disasters are ruthless, but people are kind." On the plane, Cheng Long frowned and said quickly: "I plan to donate 10 million to the disaster area in my personal name to help with earthquake relief."

Liu Yifei was a little at a loss, with some fear and deep worry in her eyes. She reached out and grabbed Wu Yuan's arm tightly, "Brother, let's donate too. I will donate all my film remuneration in the past few years to the disaster area!"

"Four TV series plus two movies can donate 5 million!"

Wu Yuan nodded and said in a heavy tone: "I will also donate 10 million in my personal name and 5 million in the name of the company."

"In fact Donations are secondary. The most important thing now is various relief supplies. "

"Compared to money, food, tents, clothing, and medical supplies are the most urgent things for the victims in the disaster area now."

"Before boarding the plane, I have asked Daisy to contact some food companies and tent companies in the United States to purchase emergency food and tents worth 10 million yuan and send them to the disaster area by air as soon as possible."

"Director Wu, you are still thoughtful." Cheng Long finally reacted and stood up: "Is there a satellite phone on this plane?"

After getting the satellite phone from the crew, Cheng Long immediately started to make frequent calls, speaking Cantonese.

Wu Yuan used his half-baked Cantonese level to understand everything.

Cheng Long is also mobilizing his personal connections to purchase various emergency supplies from Japan and South Korea to aid the disaster area.

China does not need to worry about the various materials in China. The country will naturally withdraw them as soon as possible, but in this emergency, the domestic material resources may not be enough.

At this time, people like Wu Yuan and Cheng Long, who have rich overseas connections, can play a vital role.

A large amount of materials drawn from the United States, Japan, and South Korea were loaded from airports in various countries and flew to the Land of Abundance before Wu Yuan's plane landed.

When the plane landed at Huaxia International Airport, Wu Yuan learned the latest situation as soon as he left the airport.

As soon as the disaster occurred, the entertainment industry responded immediately, and various artists showed their magical powers, contributing money and strength.

500,000, 1 million, 2 million, 3 million, a large number of stars generously donated to the disaster area to the best of their ability.

Charity funds founded by mainland celebrities such as Li Lianjie's One Foundation, Wang Jingwen's Angel Fund, and Li Yuchun's Corn Fund have also made full efforts to mobilize rescue teams to rush to the disaster area.

Some celebrities even stopped all their work, signed up as volunteers, and went to the disaster area to participate in the rescue work.

Cheng Long followed Wu Yuan and calmly listened to Li Xiaoping's report on the current situation in the disaster area. He hurriedly said: "Director Wu, time is tight. I will go to collect supplies first. I will call you later if there is anything."

Wu Yuan also pulled Liu Yifei into the nanny car, and issued one command after another from his mouth.

"Organize all employees of the company to respond to the call for blood donation. As for donations, set up a donation box in the company. Don't give orders to distribute them. Let everyone decide on their own donations."

"All TV drama projects that the company is filming will be stopped immediately. Prayers and silence ceremonies will be held. All artists under the company, regardless of their size, must contribute and donate as much as they can."

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Wu Yuan did not choose to go to the disaster area to participate in the rescue work. It was not because he cherished his life, but because he stayed in the rear to coordinate and play a greater role than being a volunteer in the front.

Since landing in Beijing, Wu Yuan has been constantly communicating with Daisy on the other side of the ocean and the various material providers contacted by Daisy.

In less than 2 days, he raised 150 tons of materials, most of which were emergency food and tents, and chartered several cargo planes directly from North America to fly directly to Jinguan City.

Cheng Long is similar.

After collecting the supplies, the two agreed to fly to Jinguan City together. Although they did not go to the front line in person, they also stayed in Jinguan City and mobilized a large number of manpower to distribute the collected supplies to the severely affected areas.

At the same time, the news of the great natural disaster in China was quickly known to the people around the world, and the mainstream media in the world reported the news as soon as possible.

Some actors and artists who Wu Yuan had worked with in the United States also supported China and Wu Yuan on social software such as Facebook and Twitter.

Depp, Jeffrey, Orlando, Keira and other co-actors in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, Will Smith, Mads Mikkelsen and other actors who had worked with "Rush Hour 3".

Even Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans and other actors who had worked with "Juno" were on North American social platforms, calling on their fans to pay attention to this great natural disaster on the other side of the ocean and calling on fans to donate together.

Wu Yuan, who was still busy coordinating the delivery of relief supplies to the disaster area in Jinguan City, was also quite moved after learning the news.

Regardless of whether these people were trying to please him, a Hollywood director, or really cared about the Chinese people affected by the disaster, they were able to speak for China, pray for the disaster area and raise donations, which was something Wu Yuan would remember.

He had not registered any online social software, but he also registered an account on Facebook and quickly passed the real-name authentication. Then he posted a blog post on Facebook to thank them and called on overseas fans to pay more attention to this major disaster.

A director who is influential all over the world has an extremely large influence.

Under the joint appeal of Wu Yuan's American co-actors, a large number of charitable donations and material donations from North America and even Europe were continuously sent to China.

Even the superiors were shocked by Wu Yuan's overseas influence and specially asked a propaganda leader to call him to thank him.

According to incomplete statistics, the overseas donations signed by Wu Yuan's co-actors and his own fans alone exceeded three million people, with an amount of up to 50 million US dollars, and an average of 15 US dollars per person.

There are also many fans who did not sign their names at all.

These donations from all over the world have strongly supported the post-disaster reconstruction work to be carried out in the future.

Wu Yuan was also pleased to post blogs on Facebook many times to thank these overseas fans and friends for their support, and even called Depp one by one to thank them in person.

"Hey, Daniel, it's nothing." On the phone, Depp's tone was unusually heavy: "This is what I should do. No one can sit back and watch such a disaster happen. Human beings should unite to fight against natural disasters, right?"

"No need to thank me specially."

"But you, now that China has such a big thing, can you still come to the premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3"? "

"If you, Crystal and Jackie all miss this premiere, I think there will be a lot of fans and media disappointed."

It's a bit late today, and there are still two chapters in the early morning.