Chapter 879 Hulunbuir

"Brother Cheng Long, it's still the same old topic."

"You have to switch to literary drama to start your second career."

"I can't help you much in this regard."

"Of course, if you just want to invest in movies, you can still cooperate more with Light and Shadow Times. I absolutely support you in this regard."

In the VIP lounge of the equestrian arena, Wu Yuan was chatting with Cheng Long.

Cheng Long's career has indeed been difficult in recent years.

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Although he won the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement and the total global box office of the "Kingsman" series exceeded 1 billion US dollars, the glory can't always last.

In Hollywood, after the "Kingsman" series, Cheng Long tried to shoot a few more movies, but the box office performance was very average, with only 20 to 30 million US dollars in North America and 50 to 60 million US dollars worldwide, not to mention making a lot of money. In addition to copyright operations, the investors just barely recovered their investment.

In the mainland, the Chinese-language films he shot after "The Chinese Zodiac" have not made any breakthroughs. The upper limit of the box office is about 500 million yuan, and it has continued to decline in the past two years.

"Detective Pu Songling", which was released during the Spring Festival in 2019, had a box office of 160 million yuan in the mainland, and the producer's share of the box office was 56.952 million yuan. The investment cost was 350 million yuan, and the mainland box office loss was 290 million yuan, which was a huge loss.

"The Vanguard", which was released during the National Day in 2019, performed better, with a cumulative box office of 294 million yuan, plus a box office of over 300 million yuan in Hong Kong, but it was definitely a loss, and the Douban score was less than 5 points.

"The Mystery of the Dragon Seal", co-produced by China and Russia and co-starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger, had a global box office of less than 10 million US dollars.

To sum it up in one sentence, the era of Cheng Long has passed, and he has also produced many bad movies.

Without Wu Yuan to pull the handle, Cheng Long's acting career has returned to its original track.

There is no way around it. After all, an actor at his level only has so many choices. If Wu Yuan hadn't intervened, the result would have been predetermined.

But Cheng Long still couldn't accept it!

After all, his son is a hopeless case, and there is no successor. He can only work hard on his own. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to release two or three movies a year at the age of 70.

But if you can't beat him, you can't beat him. Time is unforgiving, and no one can escape it.

Now Cheng Long is in urgent need of transformation, or to be more precise, he is in urgent need of Wu Yuan to help him again. After all, Wu Yuan has strong connections in China and Hollywood, and his vision is very sharp. There is no failure in the projects he values.

So when Wu Yuan invited him to star in "Mulan", he agreed without hesitation, and even took the initiative to come to participate in equestrian training.

But Wu Yuan really can't help!

There are really no movies suitable for 66-year-old Cheng Long to act in the market now.

His identity as a martial arts superstar is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It is impossible for people to watch him act in a literary drama, but he can't beat him.

In fact, there is only one way left for Cheng Long, that is to retire decently and enjoy life after success.

After all, the Oscars have given out the Lifetime Achievement Award, which is generally given to veteran film industry professionals whose acting careers have come to an end.

To put it in an unlucky way, many people who received this award were buried a few years later.

The Oscars gave Cheng Long this award, which actually hinted that he could retire decently, that his era had passed, and that there was no place for him in Hollywood.

Unfortunately, Cheng Long still wanted to persist.

In this regard, Wu Yuan could not give him more help except encouragement and a suggestion: "You can shoot the second part of "The Karate Kid" to sell more feelings."

Even in the "Mulan" crew, Cheng Long only played an important but not very dramatic general, which was completely using his fame and status, but he did not actually need to work harder.

Not only him, but also the old batch of Hong Kong male actors who are still active in the film industry, their era has actually passed.

Andy Lau, Louis Koo, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, the two Ka Fai, Lau Ching Wan, and other Hong Kong Island's last sunsets have all come to an end.

It's just because there is no successor, these old movie kings with an average age of 60 have to continue to work with their old bones.

Otherwise, who would the Hong Kong Island film companies invest money in to make movies?

This is also the reason why they can still make movies every year even though their movies are losing more and more money.

If you don't ask them to make movies, you will lose more!

The idiom "drinking poison to quench thirst" is fully reflected in the current Hong Kong Island film industry.

It's a pity that all this has nothing to do with the booming mainland film industry, let alone Wu Yuan.

After bringing a group of actors who have signed intention contracts to the equestrian field, and watching them start to learn horse riding under the guidance of the coach, and staying here for a few days to observe, Wu Yuan took his own private plane and left Beijing after confirming that everything was going well.

In the past two months, domestic air traffic control has been less strict. As long as you are not going abroad, you don’t need to be strictly quarantined when flying around the country. You only need a green code.

And Wu Yuan also embarked on his location scouting trip.

"Mulan" definitely needs many filming locations in China, and one of the most important filming locations is the place where the war in the movie took place, that is, the grassland.

Fortunately, China is a country with most of the world's landforms. On its 9.6 million square kilometers of land, there are all kinds of landforms, including grasslands.

It was only after checking the information that Wu Yuan learned that China is one of the countries with the richest grassland resources in the world, with a total grassland area of ​​nearly 400 million hectares, accounting for 40% of the country's total land area!

If he hadn't seen this information, he would never have imagined that 40% of China's land was grassland. This was completely unfelt in his daily life. He even thought that China only had grasslands in Inner Mongolia.

But in fact, China's grasslands are from the three northeastern provinces to the far Xinjiang!

And there are four major grasslands, namely Hulunbuir Grassland, Xilin Gol Grassland, Yili Grassland, and Nagqu Alpine Grassland!

And Wu Yuan's destination this time is Hulunbuir Grassland, which ranks first among the four grasslands.

Hulunbuir Grassland is one of the three famous grasslands in the world, a world-famous natural pasture, and is known as the best grassland in the world.

More importantly, Hulunbuir Grassland is the birthplace of many ancient civilizations and nomadic peoples. Donghu, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Shiwei, Huihe, Turkic, Khitan, Jurchen, Mongolian and other ethnic groups once lived and multiplied here. It is praised by historians as the "cradle of nomadic peoples in northern China" and occupies a high position in world history.

In other words, most of the nomadic peoples that have appeared in history books started from here.

There is no doubt that this is the most suitable place to shoot "Mulan". It is perfect from both a historical and scenic perspective.

Isn't this much better than the prairie in New Zealand?

Wu Yuan once again didn't understand why Niki Caro left such a suitable filming location unused?

It's hard to understand from all aspects! (End of this chapter)