Chapter 598: Pursuing the Victory
Regarding whether Lu Yanhe will take on independent films in the future, his overseas agent Darren Wilson seriously advised Lu Yanhe not to act as much as possible.
Unless it's a book that's good enough to win awards, don't act in it.
"Acting in a movie is not charity. It's not like they come to you with a pretty good script, and you just think, act in it and do a favor, and that's it." Darren Wilson said, "Independent movies in this world There are many actors, but no one can replicate your current achievements. Protect your current achievements and don’t let obvious failures appear on your resume.”
Chen Ziyan and Darren Wilson have the same attitude.
"As I said before, we can consider famous directors and good scripts. It's not that small-cost independent films cannot be made, but the requirements must be strict." Chen Ziyan said, "If you think these independent film scripts are good, you want to help them There are many other ways to help.”
Lu Yanhe quickly raised his hands to stop them.
"Wait a minute, I'm confused. I never said I wanted to help these independent films in this way. Why did you and Darren both assume that I would act in these films? Of course my standards for accepting roles are also very high. Yes, I don’t accept all the roles, and it doesn’t mean that if the script is slightly better, I will definitely do it.”
"There is no way, to a certain extent, it is a common problem for all actors to want to star in artistic films with artistic quality and profound connotations." Chen Ziyan said, "An actor like you who can so clearly understand the meaning of business and success, There are only a handful of things that are most difficult for a person to balance between his actual pursuit of interests and his spiritual pursuit.”
Lu Yanhe: "Well, I won't act in so many independent films. You have made it clear to me before. Look, I have won several film awards in the past few years. As you said, In fact, the box office success of "The Mist" helped my career more than "Path of Glory," which won me the Best Actor."
"That's mainly because when you win the Best Actor award in China, you have already reached the top of the domestic entertainment industry and there is not much room for you to continue to rise." Chen Ziyan said, "If you win the Best Actor Award Best Actor at the Western Film Festival, that’s still different.”
"Well, especially in the past year, when I was doing "The Birth of an Actor", "Love Letters", and Jump Up Theater, I knew very well that I really needed to be successful in a real sense in order for everyone to be willing to believe in me. "Let's do these things together," Lu Yanhe said, "They didn't come to try these new things with me because I won the Best Actor and Best Screenplay awards."
The box office success of "The Mist" actually means something very important for Lu Yanhe in the eyes of overseas filmmakers: Lu Yanhe is not only successful in China and Asia, he can also be successful in Europe, America, and the world.
Believing that a person can achieve such an achievement and that the person has achieved such an achievement on a factual level are two different concepts.
Especially——
Although Lu Yanhe was not the leading male protagonist at the beginning of the project "The Mist". In fact, the protagonist group consisted of three other people. However, in the subsequent announcements and the focus of the audience after the movie was released, Lu Yanhe became the biggest actor in the movie "The Mist". star.
This concept is probably similar to what Daniel Radcliffe is to Harry Potter and Meryl Streep is to "The Devil Wears Prada". A real big star in a movie used to be called The person who is the "pillar".
Therefore, Lu Yanhe can become a real movie star who wins both awards and box office.
This makes Lu Yanhe, in the greatest sense, the intersection of actors' lists that all parties want to work with.
Whatever you want, you will get whatever you want. There will never be a situation where what the director wants is not satisfied by the film company, and what the film company wants is not met by the director.
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Also because of Lu Yanhe's current situation, many people don't quite understand Lu Yanhe's next choice.
Among them is Muken Sorge.
"I heard that you are going to make a Malaysian movie and a Chinese TV series later, and you are not the first protagonist yet." Muchen Sorge expressed great doubts on the phone, ""The Mist" has just been released. You have achieved good box office results, shouldn’t you pursue your success at this time and either take on an award-winning literary film or take on the starring role in a blockbuster film?”
Lu Yanhe smiled and explained to Mu Ken.
"These two projects have been in contact and negotiated for a long time. Besides, am I also waiting to shoot the second part of "The Mist"?" Lu Yanhe said, "With the results of the first part, the results of the second part The box office performance shouldn’t be bad, right? I trust you very much.”
Muken: "I heard in Hollywood that you have rejected many scripts recently. Some people even asked me if you would like to act in a movie in Hollywood. Some people are already thinking about you starring in "The Mist". Is it because my wife is Chinese that you agreed? Many great actors are really unwilling to come to Hollywood to act in movies, and everyone is beginning to wonder if you are one of them."
"Of course I am willing to act, but I have to get a good script and role." Lu Yanhe said, "The roles and scripts that come to me now are too ordinary, or they are similar to those in "The Mist" The role is either a typical stereotyped Asian character. I have no interest in playing a labeled Asian character in a Hollywood movie. They can play such a role with any Asian face, so why bother asking me? Going?"
Muken: "I will help you explain your attitude to those in Hollywood. No matter what, you have to let everyone know that you are not opposed to acting in movies in Hollywood. Don't let them have the wrong impression."
"Okay, I get it. Actually, I won't. I already have an agent who specializes in handling my overseas management affairs, Darren Wilson of Williams Agency. He is helping me connect with various companies and directors. If I If you have no interest in acting in Hollywood, why bother finding an overseas agent?”
"That's okay." Mu Ken nodded.
"Muken, how is the script for the sequel to "The Mist" going?"
"Still thinking." Muken said, "I have found two other screenwriters in Hollywood to work with me on the direction of the sequel. Do you have any ideas?"
"I don't have any idea for a sequel to "The Mist", but I have a script in hand. It's an English script that I've written a long time ago, called "Buried Alive." I wanted to cooperate with D19 before, but we couldn't reach an agreement," Lu Yanhe said, " I thought maybe you could help me recommend a suitable producer and director to run this project.”
"Oh, you wrote a script and are looking for a director? Why didn't you consider me?" Mu Ken asked directly.
"This script is quite special. The whole story takes place in a narrow coffin, and only one actor appears in the whole scene." Lu Yanhe said, "The cost was very small. I wrote this before filming "The Mist", At that time, I wanted to use this script to knock on the door of Hollywood. It was experimental and not suitable for you to direct now.”
As soon as Lu Yanhe finished speaking, Mu Ken understood.
This kind of film is shot by one person and one person in a coffin. No matter how brilliant the script is, it is destined to be a small film.
For a director who has already made hundreds of millions of dollars in box office, he is not suitable to make such a low-cost movie again.
His personal remuneration alone cannot be covered by this low-cost budget.
Now Muken Sorge's director's salary for a movie starts at at least five million, not counting later dividends and bonuses.
Muken said: "You send me the script and I will read it for you."
Lu Yanhe said yes.
He added: "I talked with D19 at that time. They wanted to keep the film rights in their hands, but I didn't want to, so we didn't negotiate. Now I think about it, I want to make this film myself, and then I can make it again." Go find the publishing company.”
"Okay." Muken said, "It seems that the production cost of this film is really low?"
"Well, it is estimated to be between two hundred and three million U.S. dollars." Lu Yanhe said, "If an actor with no reputation at all is used, the cost will be lower, but I still hope to find an actor with a certain reputation. Well done, starring.”
"Of course, one person can act from beginning to end, which is too demanding for an actor." Muken said, "You have to hold an audition, right?"
"Yeah." Lu Yanhe said, "But before that, I have to register a film company in Hollywood."
After talking to Mu Ken, Lu Yanhe hung up the phone.
Regarding the script "Buried Alive", the original intention of writing this script was because it was easy to shoot, low-cost, and could be used as a stepping stone to break into Hollywood.
Unexpectedly, the unexpected box office hit of "The Mist" helped him skip this step.
But Lu Yanhe felt that it would be a pity not to film it after everything was written.
It's just that this script is really no longer suitable as a key project.
Therefore, it is better to regard it as a practice work for Linghe.
After Chen Ziyan heard about Lu Yanhe's plan, she nodded and said, "That's good. However, if you want to register a film production company in the United States, then Wan Qingqing's one person will definitely not be enough. She is there There is a small office and a few people are employed. However, the contract was not signed with us in Linghe, and they are not counted as our people in Linghe. Moreover, those who want to register a film production company must be more professional. Staff, we can’t just have a small office like that.”
Lu Yanhe said: "Sister Ziyan, at present we are only using "Buried Alive" to practice. There is no need to recruit all the people in the company so quickly. What if "Buried Alive" is finished and there are no follow-up projects to follow? The burden is quite big.”
Chen Ziyan: "What do you mean?"
"Let's see if Director Mu Ken can recommend me a more reliable producer or director. If there is such a person, after we register a film company, it is mainly to facilitate the handling of the copyright of "Buried Alive". It’s convenient to sign a cooperation agreement with them,” Lu Yanhe said, “Leave all the specific shooting to them. Look, Wan Qingqing or Song Jiang can just focus on financial matters. If they don't have enough experience, we may have to find someone from China to look at it together. Hollywood has much more experience in making movies than we do. There are too many. The crew took the money, but in the end, maybe only one third was used to make the movie, and the rest was swallowed up.”
Chen Ziyan nodded: "Yes, we are not familiar with this in the United States, and it is easy to be fooled."
"Well, so we use this small project to practice. First, it gives Wan Qingqing and Song Jiang the opportunity to get familiar with the operation of the crew. Second, it also gives us an opportunity to get familiar with Hollywood. We can bear the risks and costs of this project. It is better than falling down a bigger stumble in the future." Lu Yanhe said.
Chen Ziyan nodded.
Lu Yanhe: "In addition, I will also ask Yuming's alumni circle to see if there are any people working in the film and television industry in Hollywood. At this time, we should stick together for warmth. There are more or less some places that can point out the way and let us take fewer detours."
Chen Ziyan: "You really have to make good use of this resource. Your alumni circle is basically elite talents from all walks of life. If you can use it, it will really be a great help."
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In the evening, Lu Yanhe opened a live broadcast for the first time in a long time, and live broadcast his reaction to watching the second play of the Jump Up Theater "Whirlpool".
This is also to promote the Jump Up Theater.
"Whirlpool" is adapted from a short story by Liu Jiazhen, starring Huai Qian, who has excellent acting skills but has never been very famous.
He and Lu Yanhe met because Yongshan Hesan deliberately made trouble.
As an actor of the younger generation who has very good acting skills but is not well-known to the public because he has always starred in low-cost art films, that incident was the first time Huai Qian was widely known. It was also because of that incident that he met Lu Yanhe and thus had this cooperation.
There are two plays adapted from Liu Jiazhen's short stories, one is "Silent Stairs", which is played by Lu Yanhe. The other "Whirlpool" was discussed at the time. The male protagonist of this story must be young and have very good acting skills. The salary cannot be too high, so as not to exceed the budget. After calculating and calculating, a list of actors was drawn. Among the few people, everyone saw Huai Qian and felt that this name was familiar. After checking, they invited him.
Huai Qian also replied in less than a day after receiving the invitation that he was willing to act.
Suspense crime stories have always been popular themes in film and television.
However, there are not many good stories. Such stories are often in the hands of a very small number of top suspense and mystery novelists. For writers like Liu Jiazhen, who are currently in great demand, his novels are the object of competition among major film and television companies. Huaiqian is difficult to get in touch with -
He is neither a male actor who is waiting to be popular with a big company, nor does he follow his agent. There is no strong company to help him get resources. He basically hangs around in art films. He is very famous in small circles and not familiar to the public.
In this case, he is equivalent to not being able to get the leading role of mainstream projects, and there is no need to play supporting roles - after all, in any mainstream project, important roles within the sixth place are basically what companies exchange resources for.
Huaiqian's agency did not come to the table and could not help him exchange resources. Even if he was the title of the royal male lead of art films, he could only play a small supporting role outside the sixth place.
Even if he wanted to play this kind of role, his agent would not let him take it.
Moreover, once he really played it, the little reputation he had earned in the art film circle would be lost.
The opportunity to star in "Whirlpool" this time is the best resource that Huai Qian has received in recent years.
With the current attention of the Jump Up Theater, Huai Qian has also entered everyone's field of vision.
Just like the two girls who played "Girl's Adventure" last week, they were immediately included in the list of backup actors by major film and television companies.
During the two hours that Lu Yanhe watched "Whirlpool", except for a few commercial breaks in the middle to go to the bathroom and check his phone, he was concentrating on watching TV at other times.
In the middle, he sighed no less than three times, "Huai Qian played this part so well."
Jump Up Theater naturally would not miss this point and immediately bought hot searches for related entries for this play.
In fact, Lu Yanhe is not exaggerating. Huai Qian did show good acting skills in "Whirlpool".
The two emotional outbursts in it are very emotional.
One of the five-second face-changing clips also became popular on the Internet.
The ratings of "Whirlpool" are 0.78%.
Compared with "Girl's Adventure", it has increased by 0.1%.
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Huai Qian's Weibo gained 110,000 followers overnight.
Someone x-on:the official Weibo of "The Birth of the Actor", saying that Huai Qian deserves to be on the next season of the show.
The official Weibo of "The Birth of the Actor" also responded immediately: Huai Qian is already a very famous young actor in our domestic art film circle. If he is willing to come to our show, we are of course very welcome.
The next day, Huai Qian's agent told him that since the broadcast of "The Whirlpool", he has received two scripts, both of which are main roles in the sixth series, and both are projects rated A by the platform.
The agent was very excited.
I have been with Huai Qian for so long, and I have never encountered such a time.
Huai Qian was also relieved.
As an actor whose acting skills have always been praised, Huai Qian has always been a little conceited.
He obviously has such good acting skills and a good image, but he always lacks a little atmosphere and is not very famous.
Is he really not destined to become popular?
Sometimes, he has such thoughts.
Fortunately, at such a time, a work like "Whirlpool" appeared.
The agent said again: "Jumping Theater sent us another script."
"Huh?"
“But this time it’s not a suspense crime type script, it’s a love story.” The agent said, “Would you like to take a look?”
Huai Qian nodded and said, “Of course.”
“But compared to the pay for the two plays just now, the pay offered by the Jumping Theater has hardly increased at all, and the difference is a bit big.” The agent said.
Huai Qian said, “I’ve become a little famous now thanks to “Whirlpool”, and I have to repay them anyway.”
“That’s right.” The agent nodded.
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Recommended old book “I Became the Heroine of Scandal Overnight”