Chapter 349: Go to Hong Kong Island to Make some Crime Movies

Mads Mikkelsen and Anne Hathaway did not disappoint Wu Yuan's expectations, and his vision was still good.

Although the two had only read the script once, they had already grasped the essence of the characters. It can't be said that they were fluent in their answers, but Wu Yuan was still quite satisfied.

He even felt that he had made a profit.

Because their pay was cheap!

According to the contract negotiated between their agents and Paramount, Anne Hathaway's pay was a bit more expensive, at $5 million, while Mads Mikkelsen's was cheaper, at only $3 million.

The combined pay of the two was less than half of Leo's, and the main point was cheap and affordable.

The director Wu Yuan had the highest pay in the entire crew.

Although Guangshidai participated in the investment, Wu Yuan did not work for the crew for free. His director fee was as high as $20 million plus 5% of the box office.

In other words, Guangshidai invested 48 million, and Wu Yuan got back 20 million right after, which was very comfortable.

It's not that Paramount and Universal are throwing money around. Whenever they want to hire a top commercial film director in the industry, they have to spend this money, regardless of whether the other party participates in the investment.

This is the standard price for most Hollywood first-line directors. Whether it is Spielberg or Cameron, the director's fee for making a movie is about this level.

It is lower than the 20 million US dollars + 5%-10% box office share of the top male actors, but not much lower.

Because there are many first-line male actors, but the top first-line commercial film directors can be counted on one hand.

Even Nolan has to wait until "Inception" becomes popular again before he can enjoy this treatment.

From another perspective, Guangshidai participated in the investment, which is equivalent to Wu Yuan paying his own director's fee and giving the crew an extra 28 million US dollars. From this point of view, Paramount and Universal have made money again.

It can only be said that this is Qin Shihuang touching the wire - he won!

Whether it is Universal, Paramount or Wu Yuan, they all won, a win-win situation!

"Take the script back and read it more when you have time."

"All the schedules after July next year are cleared, and the filming is expected to take four months."

"We will also go to Iceland to shoot, and there will be northern lights to see."

Towards evening, Wu Yuan sent off the two actors who came to visit him with a smile, and both parties were very satisfied with the meeting.

The two got the roles, and Wu Yuan determined the suitable actors, and it was another win-win situation.

Night.

Wu Yuan lay alone in the empty master bedroom, thinking about one thing.

After more than a month in the United States, he basically negotiated with the main creative team on the details of the script of "Interstellar", as well as the various props and spacecraft styles that would appear in the movie.

Next, the team only needs to find a professional movie prop production company to make these models or one-to-one restored space capsules, and basically there is nothing else to do.

The producer has already done the location scouting for Wu Yuan. This movie does not need many scenes, just a cornfield and a single-family house next to it, and then shoot the planet with a special time flow rate in Iceland, and the extraterrestrial space station.

Most of the other important plots, or the plots that shocked the audience, need to be completed through special effects, such as the black hole horizon, the space environment, and the high-dimensional world that the protagonist Cooper came into contact with.

These are things that the special effects team needs to perfect and produce. Wu Yuan can't really help the special effects artist except for the final decision.

In other words, Wu Yuan doesn't need to stay in the United States in person and watch the crew do the preliminary preparations.

He can also handle some of the following things through video conferences.

Since his girlfriend followed the "Kingsman" crew to shoot in the UK and Switzerland, Wu Yuan felt a little boring staying in Los Angeles alone.

He wanted to return to China.

As the end of the year is approaching, many activities in China have invited him to attend.

Although most of them were rejected by him, he still wants to attend more important awards such as the Golden Horse Awards and the Golden Image Awards.

For example, this year's Tokyo Film Festival was held at the end of October. Originally, "Gravity" was selected as the closing film of the film festival, but because Wu Yuan was in the United States, he was unable to attend.

The final closing film was changed to "Wall-E", which made "Red Cliff", which was also selected as the opening film, shine brightly and added fuel to the subsequent box office of "Red Cliff" in Japan.

It's okay if he doesn't go to the Tokyo Film Festival, but he really has to go to the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Golden Horse Awards this year.

In the past few years, because Wu Yuan didn't appear in Chinese films, he always refused to attend these two awards.

But this year he won the Golden Bear Award for "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die". Although this movie is expected to be released in early December, it is a work in the domestic entertainment industry after all.

If he doesn't participate in the Golden Horse and Golden Image Awards this year, he will be accused of "disunity with comrades". At present, this pot is still quite big, and Wu Yuan doesn't want to bear it.

So this year he plans to go to the Golden Horse and Golden Image Awards.

The Golden Horse is okay. "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die" was nominated for six awards. Wu Yuan estimates that he can at least get two or three back.

The Golden Image Awards are really too stingy, and there is no tolerance to become bigger and stronger.

Because "A Man Called Li Wen Decides to Die" is not a Hong Kong film and does not meet the nomination requirements for the Academy Awards, the film was only nominated for one Asian award, the Best Asian Film Award.

And the Academy Awards will not be held until early April next year. If Wu Yuan is really filming "Goblin" with Liu Yifei, he will have to take leave to attend, which is very troublesome.

But who can blame the current national policy for uniting the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong? As a well-known mainland director, he has to follow the baton of the country.

However, there is a Hong Kong director who Wu Yuan admires very much who will also attend the Academy Awards this year.

Director Benny Chan, who has worked with Cheng Long many times.

Benny Chan was an assistant director of Du Qifeng, and later made his own movies. He directed "The Sky of Mong Kok", "The Storm Riders", and Cheng Long's "Who Am I", "New Police Story" and "Baby Project".

This year, he directed and produced the police and gangster action movie "Keep Talking" starring Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Liu Ye and Barbie Hsu.

Benny Chan was also nominated for the Best Director at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards.

In Hong Kong, there are many directors who can shoot police and gangster action movies. For example, Wu Baige also made his films based on this theme. There are countless directors such as Du Qifeng, Ringo Lam, Andrew Lau, Dante Lam, Mak Siu Fai, Stanley Tong, etc.

But among these directors, there are not many who have "artistic ethics".

Dante Lam is one, Mak Siu Fai is one, and Benny Chan is one.

In fact, the era of light and shadow has been envious of Hong Kong and South Korea's police and gangster movies, gangster movies, and crime movies for a long time.

Wu Yuan also has several excellent Korean and Hong Kong crime movie scripts in later generations, but because none of his directors are good at this field, he has never started the project to shoot.

This time, Wu Yuan plans to go to Hong Kong to look for a few good police and gangster film and crime film directors to shoot some movies of this type to cooperate with the company's next stage of the Korean market offensive.

And if it is made into a co-production between the mainland and Hong Kong, maybe it can be edited and released in the mainland!

Movies like "Mean Street", "Bad Guys", "New World", "Insider", "Tazza" and so on can all be made into Hong Kong movies!

It has to be said that the social conflicts and the background of the social groups in Korea and Hong Kong are too similar. It would be a waste if we don't use them!