Chapter 994 Hurricane Rescue

Los Angeles, Malibu Daenerys Studios.

Jet Li and his agent Jeremy rushed to the office building of the Studio City Administrative District. During this time, two other Hollywood filmmakers, Doug Liman and Tony Gilroy, who have been closely connected, have arrived. , waiting in the lounge outside Simon's office.

It's Thursday afternoon, July 25th.

Several people will have 30 minutes to meet with Simon Westeros at the next 5 o'clock.

5 o'clock in the afternoon is already off-duty time, but Simon Westeros can arrange his work at this time, and other people naturally have no opinion.

Seeing that Jet Li arrived, several people greeted them warmly. Seeing that there were still a few minutes before the meeting time, they discussed a project that was being negotiated recently. The idea proposed by a young tycoon has been finalized in advance. The English name is simply called "Taken".

If it is translated into the name that Simon remembers later, it can be said to be famous, "Hurricane Rescue".

Simon was very dissatisfied with the several ideas provided by the New World Pictures team around Jet Li some time ago, so he again decided to do it himself. However, of course, now he has no time to write the script himself, and still only provides a general idea, which happens to be In those days, Disney, which is controlled by Vivendi, announced several blockbusters of its own. Among them, "The Fifth Element" cooperated with Luc Besson, which reminded Simon of Liam Neeson, who once starred in the blockbuster Lu. C. Besson wrote the action film Hurricane Rescue.

Luc Besson, known as the French 'Spielberg', has two classic tendencies in his personal works. The films he directed are quite thoughtful, such as "Blue Sea and Blue Sky", "The Fifth Element", "This Killer Is Not Too Much" "Cold" and so on, and the screenwriting works are often Luc Besson-style assembly lines, such as "Taxi Express", "Fast Express" and "Hurricane Rescue".

Of course, occasionally the two aspects will overlap, and there are cases of success and failure, such as "Super Body" and "Anna".

Among them, "Hurricane Rescue" is definitely the most successful series on the fat pine assembly line. If you think of it, you can take it as you like. After all, it is an assembly line. If you change it a little, it will not violate the harmony at all on Jet Li.

Speaking of which, Luc Besson and Jett Lee have collaborated on that "Kiss of the Dragon". It's just that the commercial performance of this film is very general, so it is not in Simon's consideration.

In the lounge, several people who arrived in advance communicated. Danny Morris, the president of New World Pictures, arrived at the time. Girl A also came to notify that everyone came to Simon's office together.

Returning from Ukraine on Tuesday, Simon immediately plunged into what the Westeros system could never do if it wanted to.

Just finished a conference call with AOL on the findings of AOL's $3 billion corporate bond discovery the other day.

The financing was very smooth.

The 10-year and 20-year corporate bonds of $3 billion are divided equally. Although the interest rate is lower than the average level of the industry in the same period, relying on the hot development momentum of AOL and the credibility of the entire Westeros system, it has been recently rejected. Investors around the world subscribed. Moreover, in the whole process, AOL only paid 1.3% of the financing amount, which is equivalent to the commission cost of 39 million US dollars, which is also far below the industry standard.

This is the result of the major investment bank underwriters scrambling to give the best deals in order to secure the big client of the Westeros system.

After all, in addition to several block bond issuances and Verizon IPO operations that have been finalized in the second half of the year, there are numerous small-scale financing operations throughout the Westeros system. Such a large potential client, whether it is Wall Street in the United States or the City of London, no investment bank will try its best to win over.

In the final analysis, the current wave of new technology is too hot.

Some time ago, the market value of Igreat exceeded 400 billion and became the first company with a market value of 400 billion US dollars. At the same time, everyone found that the Nasdaq market not only showed no signs of peaking, but was still rising strongly. It seems that There is a momentum that directly creates one or even several trillion-dollar market cap giants.

Now that history has changed so badly, even Simon is completely incapable of judging how high the Nasdaq will ultimately go.

Seeing Jett Lee entering the door, Simon also got up, shook hands with everyone one by one, and sat down in the reception area.

The three main creators of the new version of "Hurricane Rescue" that Simon personally finalized, in addition to Jet Li, the other two Doug Liman and Tony Gilroy are also familiar to Hollywood fans in the original time and space. "The main creator of the series, one is the director of the first movie, and also directed "Mrs. Smith", and the other is the screenwriter of the entire series of "Bourne Bourne".

However, the three of them now can only be regarded as budding figures in Hollywood, so they can be screwed together by Simon.

Simon provided the ideas and instructed the three to participate in the scriptwriting together. Of course, Tony Gilroy was the main actor, Doug Liman was the default director, and Jett Lee was the actor and action director.

Now that the main creator has been changed, the plot is naturally impossible to follow the original version. In fact, the changes are very large.

And, inevitably, to make up for Jett Lee's Asian popularity deficit, the story naturally shifted into a fraternity movie mode, similar to Beverly Detective, Lethal Weapon, and Jack Cheng Hok Rush Hour with Reece Tucker.

Even the three initially discussed a three-protagonist mode.

The reception area, straight to the point without too much nonsense.

Simon said to the three people on the couch next to him: "

I've seen the script outline and some drafts, and your three protagonist idea is very good, because there are three types of people involved, and the baggage about race is also wonderful, but if we take this story frame, we will only end up with another three people. The group's "Rush Hour", I don't know if the audience will buy it, I definitely won't, and this also deviates from the core of my creativity. I need an R-rated action movie that is clean and tidy to the end, and the three main characters will definitely slow down the pace of the story. In fact, even if it is a dual male lead, I need to focus on Jett's kung fu. For the next full script creation, I want you to follow what I just said, any questions? "

After Simon finished speaking, the three of Jet Li looked at each other and nodded slightly.

Speaking of which, if the three male protagonists of black, white and yellow are adopted, Jett Lee's role will definitely be compressed. However, Jett Lee did not object during the script discussion. After all, for his Hollywood debut, He does not have sufficient confidence, so it is inevitable to seek stability.

Simon roughly understood what Jett Lee was thinking, but he disagreed. Seeing the three of them nodded, he said, "Then, let's brainstorm, and you can also talk about your own ideas."

The story line of the black characters was deleted, and everyone discussed it, and the new script framework was quickly formed.

Zhao Qiang, who immigrated to the United States in the early years, married and had children, opened a Chinese restaurant by the way, welcomed his sister Zhao Min, who came to the United States to study and pursue another American dream. As a result, the girl was trafficked and trafficked shortly after arriving in the United States. Zhao Qiang, who has been practicing Chinese Kung Fu since childhood, is obviously in a state of rampage, chasing him all the way from the United States to France, killing the Quartet.

In addition, Zhao Min was abducted and trafficked because Jack, a white American best friend of Zhao Qiang, took the girl to a nightclub. Out of guilt, Jack followed Zhao Qiang all the way to find Zhao Min, and then was stunned by Zhao Qiang's violent behavior.

The story has a happy ending.

There is also a hint of a possible sequel.

Regarding Zhao Qiang's happy family of three, if the film is successful and a sequel is developed, Zhao Qiang's daughter can be kidnapped again.

All right.

Capitalists are just so clueless.

Half an hour is not too long. Simon directly fixed the frame of the story. Jet Li and the three discussed the action style and shooting techniques respectively. The 30 minutes passed quickly.

Leaving Simon's office and parting with Danny Morris, Doug Liman spoke first and invited the other two to attend a party in the circle tonight. They have gotten to know each other very well recently, and several others agreed, except You can move on to the script, and presumably understand that this is Doug Liman wanting to introduce some people into the project.

It is also interesting to say that the three main creators, Tony Gilroy is a client of CAA, Jet Li is signed under WMA, and Doug Liman belongs to ICM.

Noticing this, it's sometimes tempting to wonder if this is someone's way of balancing.

Simon has always paid great attention to the balance between the three major Hollywood brokerage companies, including the second-tier brokerage companies. This project, like Doug Liman, has only completed one "Full Time Prodigal Son", but the filmmaker is actually a kung fu movie fan just like Quentin, who likes Hong Kong movies very much.

Tony Gilroy, Simon prepping for the Bourne Age series.

Doug Liman invited the other two to bring in friends from his circle to join "Hurricane Rescue". After all, Simon Westeros personally provided creative projects, even if it was just a supporting role, it was enough to be a Hollywood star who was eager to become a star Head off. Doug Liman wanted to recommend his friend Jon Favreau or Sam Rockwell as the male lead this time.

It's just the names of these two people, put it later, expand it, it is a large number. For example, Robert Downey Jr., who was still addicted to drugs at this time, is also under the ICM banner and has become familiar with people like Jon Favreau. Downey, as a famous second-generation star in Hollywood, and Judy, who is also a second-generation star Foster and others can be called best friends, Jodie Foster is surrounded by best friends like Mel Gibson, and then Gibson was banned, Jodie Foster has been trying his best to help each other, and Downey can't extricate himself from drug addiction At the same time, it was these friends who forcibly sent each other to a drug rehab center.

Hollywood is a circle.

Of course, for the project "Hurricane Rescue", both CAA and WMA are also closely watching.

Simon doesn't care much about the operation of these private contacts in Hollywood. He just needs to get the right actors, send the "Hurricane Rescue" team away, and continue to work until seven o'clock before returning home from get off work.

Janet has been a little depressed recently.

It's just that his man ran out and fooled around for more than a week. Another Jennifer also accompanied the Raybold family to Atlanta to watch the Olympics, and only came back this afternoon.

Fortunately, finally come back.

Otherwise, she would simply leave the family's little annoying people and run away from home. It's a terrible thing in the world to look after children.

When Simon returned home, he saw the female assistant who had returned directly to home life, and Janet, who was finally relaxed on the sofa beside the glass curtain wall watching the sunset, greeted Jennifer who was holding little Snow, and came to the curtain wall, Janet. Te immediately looked like he was about to hug.

Simon stretched out his hand to pick up the woman, but Janetla fell on the sofa, with a soft woman and a soft cry, kissed Janet's lips, and said, "Okay, Janet is not back. ?"

Janet stuck her head out, bit Simon's lips and rubbed her teeth a few times, then put her arms around Simon's body, preventing him from getting up,

Feeling the man's heavy oppression, he hummed comfortably and said, "Dad wants me to have two more children, but I don't want them. Children are really scary."

Simon wanted to turn his body sideways to prevent all the total amount from falling on Janet and was stopped by the woman, so he had to keep his posture and said with a smile: "Then don't give birth, don't listen to the old man."

Janet ahh, opened her eyes and stared at Simon again, and said, "However, I know that Janet actually wants a child. She only has little Nick."

"Did you remember something wrong?"

"Um?"

"uh-huh?"

"Well, what is it, Searle is so smart, of course I was born."

"Okay," Janet shook her head successfully and continued, "I mean, we'll go to Australia for a vacation in a few days, you and Janet, you can try to have another one."

"Actually, I also feel that having more children is very troublesome."

Janet pouted with disdain: "You didn't care, what's the trouble?"

Women complain for a reason.

In fact, with so many servants at home, if Janet didn't want to get tired, she didn't have to do anything in the past few days. Although the woman complained, but in fact, the female assistant was not there, and she was very dedicated to the children, otherwise she would not be so rude.

It's Simon.

This is the standard hands-off shopkeeper.

Completely unable to refute, Simon just smiled.

Janet glanced at him and said, "Actually, I know you just lied."

"Um?"

"You also want more children." Janet said, adding: "You don't need to raise them anyway."

"I am wronged."

"A guy who advocates the genetic instinct theory, how can he not want his genes to spread to the greatest extent," Janet said, holding Simon's face, and looking at each other: "Am I right, little bastard?"

Simon gestured and opened his mouth to bite Janet's little hand. Janet was not afraid and hugged Simon's head firmly to prevent him from changing the subject.

This question, of course, cannot be answered at all.

After a short stalemate, Janet suddenly smiled evilly: "Little bastard, if you want, you can do it."