Chapter 344 Don’t Touch Anything. Filming Together Is Too Complicated.

Paramount executives did not immediately agree to Wu Yuan's suggestion.

After all, "Interstellar" is a big project with an investment of 180 million US dollars. Even if Paramount only paid less than one-third of the money, it would not be so casual to decide the main characters of the film.

He had to exchange opinions with Universal.

However, as a third-party investor and the director of this film, Wu Yuan's opinions are very important. Unless it is really a serious violation of principles, Paramount and Universal should listen to him in the end.

It is worth mentioning that after the meeting, Wu Yuan also talked with screenwriter Jonathan Nolan and learned about his brother Christopher Nolan.

"Inception" directed by Nolan is now in preparation.

The budget of "Inception" is smaller than that of "Interstellar", 160 million US dollars, which is also a science fiction blockbuster.

The filming plan of this film was born during the filming of "Batman Begins 2: The Dark Knight". Nolan also wanted to invite Christian Bale, the Batman who had a pleasant cooperation, to cooperate.

It was just because Christian Bale had to shoot "Terminator 2018" after filming "The Dark Knight". After filming "Terminator 2018" a few months ago, he didn't want to shoot "Inception" anymore, so he suggested Nolan to find someone else to shoot it.

Now Nolan is in contact with Leonardo, and it is estimated that "Inception" and "Interstellar" will be filmed at about the same time, and the final release time is estimated to be around the same time.

This made Wu Yuan feel very interesting, and he asked about the investment situation of "Inception" and whether it was still short of money.

As a result, Jonathan told him that the majority of the investment in this movie had been taken by Warner, and there was no shortage of money at all. Even if there might be a budget overrun during the subsequent filming, Warner could handle it.

This made Wu Yuan say it was a pity. The rumor on the Internet in his dream that "Inception" was short of money during the filming was really a false rumor!

With the excellent results of Nolan's Batman trilogy, how could the six Hollywood studios not dare to invest in his new film? They were all scrambling to give money.

By the way, he also asked Wang Xueqi about the audition for the role of Saito.

Although the role is set as a Japanese chaebol boss, it is still very important for Wang Xueqi to be able to show up in front of the global audience, have a lot of scenes, and not be a special version for China.

Unfortunately, Jonathan is not clear about this matter. After all, he is just Nolan's younger brother and did not participate in the production of Inception.

Wu Yuan had to leave a polite remark: "Let's get to know each other if there is a chance." and ended the conversation.

He really wanted to meet Director Nolan, who is a very good director.

Although his film concept of insisting on using cameras to shoot real scenes and avoiding excessive use of CGI technology and computer imaging technology is somewhat inconsistent with Wu Yuan, a "technical party", his movies are really good!

Anti-physics discussions, exciting action scenes, and impactful emotions are all areas in which Nolan is very good. Fast editing and agile narratives express the surreal world in a hearty way. These are all things that Wu Yuan needs to learn.

Jonathan was also happy to be a bridge and introduce Wu Yuan, a young and promising genius director, to his brother. The two had a good chat and made an appointment to meet more often in the next period of time.

After all, the script of "Interstellar" still needs to be improved by Wu Yuan, the director and screenwriter.

"Huh."

Turning off the shower and wiping the water off his face, Wu Yuan casually picked up a bath towel to wrap his lower body, and then pushed the door and walked out of the bathroom.

Flexing his somewhat stiff neck, he took two steps at a time and lay down on the bed.

"Pah!" A strong slap instantly hit his back.

Liu Yifei, who was leaning against the bedside reading a book, said disdainfully: "You lie down on the bed without drying yourself!"

"Hehe." Wu Yuan, who was thick-skinned and not afraid of being beaten, rolled over and hugged his girlfriend who had also washed and smelled delicious.

"Sissi, is Kingsman almost finished?"

"Everything in the Los Angeles studio has been filmed almost." Liu Yifei nodded: "I don't have many scenes. After the studio scenes are finished, I only need to go to the UK to shoot for three days and Switzerland to shoot for half a month, and then I can finish the filming."

"Brother Cheng Long asked me to ask you if you want to visit the crew. After all, your company is also one of the producers of this movie."

"I won't go." Wu Yuan shook his head: "I have a lot of preparatory meetings to attend, so how can I have time to visit the crew? I guess when I'm done, the Kingsman crew will move to another location."

"Brother Cheng Long can't be idle either. After he finished filming Kingsman, the company also arranged for him to shoot a movie called The Karate Kid."

"After The Karate Kid is finished, I guess Kingsman 2 can also start preparations, and then he will probably make another movie in Hong Kong."

"In the next three to five years, Brother Cheng Long will be very busy."

Wu Yuan smiled gloatingly.

Cheng Long's acting career has been much smoother in this life.

The good box office and high reputation of "Rush Hour 3" made him return to Hollywood like lightning, and then there is the "Kingsman" series, and "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" in between.

His current status and popularity in Hollywood seem to have returned to the peak.

Now that he is getting numerous film appointments in Hollywood, Warner also wants to invite Stallone to come out and collaborate with Cheng Long on a super kung fu blockbuster featuring Cheng Long VS Stallone.

However, Cheng Long will mainly be busy with the movie "Kung Fu Dream" next.

After much deliberation, Wu Yuan still felt that he could not let "Kung Fu Dream" go. Although the film had a mediocre response domestically, its performance in the international market was not so good. It was Cheng Long's single-film box office number one.

With a box office of 359 million U.S. dollars, the cost is at most 50 million U.S. dollars, of which 20 million is still for Cheng Long's salary. This investment is so cost-effective that if you don't make money, you won't make it in vain.

As for Will Smith’s son being too young, that’s not a problem at all.

Who saw "Kung Fu Dreams" as directed at Will Smith's son?

Movie fans, including European and American ones, all came for Cheng Long, and they could just find an American child star of the right age.

Relying on the fame and status of Cheng Long who has now returned to the top, Wu Yuan also relied on connections and played the Chinese culture card to get him to work on this "Kung Fu Dream".

It’s no wonder that he didn’t even watch “The King of Kung Fu,” a Sino-US co-production.

Thinking of "The King of Kung Fu", Wu Yuan glanced at Liu Yifei lying in his arms and said with a smile: "Sissi, the movie "The King of Kung Fu" that invited you to play the heroine will be released in China soon. "

"Speaking of which, Huayi is so enthusiastic about you. I have been begging you to act in this drama."

The preparation and production of "The King of Kung Fu", Huayi's ambitious Sino-US co-production, was a setback in this time and space.

First, the "Double J Plan" failed, with Cheng Long refusing to star, and then the invitation to Liu Yifei, the former mainland box office number one actress, failed again.

But even so, "The King of Kung Fu" still put together a fairly gorgeous lineup.

There is no double J plan, Li Lianjie paired with Chow Yunmao is not bad.

Without Liu Yifei, instead of two Bingbing starring together, the 1+1 effect cannot be underestimated.

However, due to various delays in the preparation stage, the film was finally released six months later than the original time and space, and will be released during this year's Lunar New Year, which is December 28.

However, there was "Mei Lanfang" released on December 4th, followed by "Ip Man" released on December 16th and "If You Are the One" on December 20th.

Released after these three movies, there is a question mark as to whether "Kung Fu King" can get a good box office.

Wu Yuan was not optimistic about this anyway.

This is not an April release without enemies, it is a bloody Lunar New Year release. If you want to make it out of this release, it is not something that a movie with mixed reviews can do.

Huayi is probably going to suffer a big loss this time.

This really means that I didn’t kill Boren, but Boren died because of me.

Both Cheng Long and Liu Yifei did not join the "Kung Fu King" project because of Wu Yuan's influence.

Fortunately for Liu Yifei, if she wants to join "The King of Kung Fu", the price is to join Huayi.

Although Liu Xiaoli later ordered Huayi, ate the sugar coating, and threw the cannonball back, the consequence of the exchange was that she had no filming in the mainland for two years and had to move to Hong Kong to take over the film.

For her, it's hard to say whether there are any benefits to playing "King of Kung Fu", and her role will not have much impact on the movie.

Cheng Long, on the other hand, is indeed one of the backbones of this movie. Without him, the box office of this movie in overseas markets will probably drop by two-thirds.

Our "Dragon Emperor" Jet Li really can't handle the box office in overseas markets.

"I think Sino-US co-productions are unreliable. There are no real good projects that can be co-produced. Hollywood is not willing to give good projects to Chinese companies for cooperation."

Liu Yifei curled her lips and had no regrets about the "Kung Fu King" project. "It's a good thing that Brother Cheng Long didn't act in it. Otherwise, if this movie didn't do well at the box office, the fame he finally gained in Hollywood would be gone." It’s going to be unstable again.”

"Hey." Wu Yuan smiled cheerfully: "Okay, you have been following me for a few years, and your horizons in international movies have gradually increased."

"Don't get involved in co-productions. No matter how fancy the management says, don't act in co-productions. There won't be any good movies."

Thinking of the "international" films that Liu Yifei later acted in, which were collaborations between China and the United States, China and France, China and South Korea, and China and Denmark, it's a terrible word.

Although she probably wouldn't make the same mistakes again in this life, Wu Yuan still warned her a few words of worry.

For someone with such a background as Da Tiantian, the Sino-US co-productions and even Hollywood blockbuster resources they get are all focused on the word "bad"

The co-production aspect is really bad.

"Come on, let's not talk about this." Wu Yuan turned around and pulled the quilt up to cover the two of them.

"Hey, where's the blocking elf I put beside the bed?"

"It's all gone so soon?"

Following Wu Yuan's two confused exclamations, a wonderful sound began to come from the room. (End of chapter)