"Hurricane 2"
"Three days?"
Lu Yanhe looked at Chen Ziyan in disbelief, "Let me act for three days, a total of 1.5 million US dollars?"
Chen Ziyan nodded.
"What's going on?"
"The first film of "The Hurricane 2" grossed 210 million in North America and 380 million US dollars worldwide. The second film is about to start filming. One of the characters was temporarily withdrawn because he got the second male lead in Spike Ryan's new film. They thought of you." Chen Ziyan said, "The male lead of "The Hurricane", Derrien Dylan, is also the producer of this film and a key figure. He is also Darren's client, so Darren persuaded him to change the role to an Asian. Anyway, it doesn't matter whether the role is Asian or not, but if it is changed to Asian, you can be invited to participate. I have always asked Darren to help you keep an eye on the big productions in Hollywood."
Darren is Lu Yanhe's agent overseas.
Lu Yanhe hesitated and asked, "But what's the use of me participating in this movie?"
"Darren promised to put you on the list of leading actors."
"I only have three days to shoot."
"Three days of scenes doesn't mean you won't be on screen for more than ten minutes in this movie." Chen Ziyan said, "As long as you are on screen for more than ten minutes, you can become a member of the leading cast, especially since the first movie had a high box office, the second movie will definitely not be bad, which will help you consolidate your impression as a rising star in Hollywood box office."
Chen Ziyan didn't mention characters, film art, etc. to Lu Yanhe at all, because these things don't exist in the movie "Hurricane".
This is a disaster movie, focusing on visual effects.
Chen Ziyan asked Lu Yanhe to act, firstly because the box office of this movie is sure to be good, plus the second part of "The Mist", if Lu Yanhe can achieve box office success in three consecutive Hollywood movies, Lu Yanhe will be on the first echelon of all Hollywood movie castings. Second, this movie can help Lu Yanhe brush his face around the world.
"You mainly used special effects makeup in The Mist, and people's familiarity with your face has been weakened." Chen Ziyan said, "But this role in The Hurricane 2 is a very handsome elite image, which is conducive to your face being familiar to everyone and your screen image. This is not a negative role, and he sacrificed himself to save the protagonist, which is very memorable."
Lu Yanhe understood why Chen Ziyan insisted on letting him take on this movie.
"Three days of shooting, $500,000 a day, although this is still a gap with the Hollywood A-list guest star salary, it is also a symbolic improvement." Chen Ziyan said, "Plus your salary for the second part of The Mist, it will be beneficial for us to negotiate the price when we take on Hollywood movies next time."
Lu Yanhe was convinced.
"Okay." He sighed, "I've been busy as hell this month, and suddenly I have to shoot a movie."
"If you squeeze in time, you can always squeeze it out. The key is whether it is worth squeezing." Chen Ziyan said, "Three days, pay, image, commercial value, global fame, all-round benefits, even if you don't sleep, it's worth acting."
Lu Yanhe shrugged his shoulders, "Okay."
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On July 1, Derien Dylan sent two tweets.
The first tweet: Rumi, you are despised, you fled at the last minute, and left us a mess! I will never work with you again in this life!
The second tweet: Welcome Lu Yanhe, the son of "The Mist", to join our "Hurricane 2" crew, brother, I can't wait to meet you!
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As a first-line male star in Hollywood, Derien Dylan has always been known for keywords such as manliness, sexiness, wildness and handsomeness.
His global fame and influence, with the help of Hollywood's global star-making system, are top-level.
As soon as he sent these two tweets, the whole world was paying attention.
The first part of "Hurricane" itself has achieved great commercial success and has many fans. After Derian Dillon's statement, many people realized that the actor who was originally scheduled to play the role, Rumi Wade, was out, and the Chinese actor Lu Yanhe from "The Mist" took over the role.
Lu Yanhe, who was participating in the closing ceremony of the first Jump Up Film Critics International Film Festival, suddenly felt a commotion in the scene, and then, people's eyes fell on him one after another.
Not long after, Lu Yanhe heard about Derian Dillon's actions from Lin Yu.
He felt a black eye in an instant.
But there were so many people on the scene, and there were cameras, Lu Yanhe had to manage his expression well, and he couldn't be photographed by others.
"..."
After the closing ceremony, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi personally sent these guests to the car and returned to the hotel. Next, whether they planned to continue to travel in China or go back was none of their business.
Anyway, the travel expenses have all been paid, and when they want to go back depends on their visa time and their own arrangements.
This film critics' film festival has still sparked some discussions and reactions in the industry.
In particular, everyone's discussion about these screened films has been reported by many professional and authoritative film media, which has had a considerable influence.
A film festival that truly discusses movies.
This is the impression formed by this film festival.
Chen Siqi also announced the global release plan of the book "Film Festival: Yuming" at the closing ceremony.
Several film critics who are familiar with Lu Yanhe have privately asked about the news of "Hurricane 2" and asked him why he took this movie and whether it was true.
Lu Yanhe could only say: "I am very curious about what the shooting scene of a special effects blockbuster looks like. I have never shot it before and I want to learn."
The film critics were quite receptive to Lu Yanhe's reason for participating.
Many people think that film critics are all advocating art films and belittling commercial films. In fact, this is not the case. Film critics will criticize vulgar art films, and they will praise good and awesome commercial films more fiercely than anyone else. Of course, some early domestic (pseudo) film critics who were specifically designed to highlight their own style do not count.
Professional film critics will seriously evaluate the film based on the production cost, director style, and subject matter.
Unlike unprofessional film critics, they always say "garbage", "no nutrition", "all self-entertainment", and "extremely clichéd". They also criticize in a general way and cannot get to the heart of the matter.
What is a good film review? At least it is inspiring.
Before Lu Yanhe traveled through time, the film review that impressed him the most was a review of Passengers starring Jennifer Lawrence. The article said that if the film starts from the moment Jennifer Lawrence wakes up, the whole film will have a completely different temperament.
In one sentence, Lu Yanhe's contradictory feelings about the film are revealed-
It's good to watch, but it feels long; it's interesting, but there are many boring chapters.
To put it bluntly, the story itself is fine, but the story is problematic.
Lu Yanhe is willing to communicate with those professional film critics because the latter are doing serious research. They not only study artistry, but also storytelling techniques, not only texts, but also the impact of market changes.
So, when everyone learned that the reason why Lu Yanhe took on "Hurricane 2" was to understand the shooting mode of special effects blockbusters, they understood it immediately.
For a filmmaker like Lu Yanhe who has his own system of writing, directing and production company, it is normal for him to want to understand these technical things.
Lu Yanhe also knew that they were willing to accept only this reason.
If Lu Yanhe directly told the truth at this time that he was doing so to further increase his popularity and to facilitate future negotiations on his salary, his image would be greatly damaged.
People still need to pretend, and they can't be too honest.
Not every frank attitude about utilitarian purposes can be praised as "frank".
Especially now -
Drian Dylan's "frankness" has caused some trouble for Lu Yanhe.
Rumi Wade, who stood up "Hurricane 2", responded to Drian unyieldingly:
I have never signed a contract for acting. Instead of saying that I escaped at the last minute, why don't you ask you why you are so stingy?
The implication is that he didn't act because the price of the acting salary was not negotiated.
Soon, Rumi Wade's agent responded to the matter through the Los Angeles Times, with a sarcastic content: "Rumi Wade is not a cheap actor (Cheap Man), he deserves to be rewarded."
This statement seems to make Lu Yanhe become the Cheap Man.
Soon, the American "Variety" magazine released a news: Lu Yanhe once again won a high salary after the sequel of "The Mist" with 6.5 million US dollars + bonus dividends: He has officially signed and will star in "Hurricane 2" at the end of the month, and he can get 1.5 million US dollars in three days of shooting.
This news can be regarded as a strong counterattack against Lu Yanhe's claim of being a Cheap Man.
However, this high salary also made many people in Hollywood look sideways.
Why should such a high salary be paid to such an Asian?
Lu Yanhe got 6.5 million US dollars + dividends in the sequel of "The Mist", which is fine, because he has the halo of starring in the series. But, how can he, an Asian actor who has nothing to do with the first "Hurricane", get 1.5 million US dollars in just three days of shooting?
A lot of controversy.
Drian Dylan said on his Twitter: Lu Yanhe is one of the most popular and top actors in Asia, and he deserves this salary!
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Lu Yanhe once again became a hot search in China because of his high salary.
If Lu Yanhe's high salary for starring in the sequel of "The Mist" makes everyone feel proud, then this time, it still makes many people envious and even jealous.
Three days, 1.5 million US dollars, nearly 10 million RMB.
This money is too easy to make!
A man is innocent but guilty of holding a treasure.
Lu Yanhe and Chen Ziyan both understand this truth.
This is not something that can be explained by reason.
In response, Lu Yanhe can only respond in silence and wait for the heat of this matter to pass naturally.
Chen Ziyan arranged public relations to promote the charity that Lu Yanhe has done in the past few years to alleviate the negative impact of Lu Yanhe's "high salary".
At the same time, Chen Ziyan also arranged another hot search, the salary ranking of Hollywood stars.
She wanted to make everyone realize that compared with the stars on the list, Lu Yanhe is actually far from being ranked.
She also arranged for reports that Lu Yanhe starred in "Late Spring" and "Road to Glory" as friendly appearances.
After several operations, everyone gradually accepted that it was normal for Lu Yanhe to get such a salary in Hollywood.
She would not emphasize at this time that Lu Yanhe deserved this price-
Who in this world does not deserve a good life, a life without worries about food and clothing?
But the reality is that many people have been rolling in the sea of life and death, and in the end, their monthly salary is only 3,500 yuan.
The more this time, the less we can show an attitude of "taking it for granted".
This itself is also an attitude.
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However, when the uproar about the salary passed, everyone's attention returned to the movie "Hurricane 2".
In a sequel to a movie with an investment of over 100 million yuan, Lu Yanhe actually got a starring role in it. Although it seems that there are not many scenes, it only took three days to shoot. But people said clearly that Lu Yanhe is the starring role.
In Hollywood, whether you are the starring role sometimes depends more on the weight of your role in the movie and your personal status, rather than calculating the number of shots.
Compared with the number of roles, what everyone is more concerned about is why Lu Yanhe can go so smoothly overseas?
China and foreign countries are completely two different worlds. You are an Asian actor who has not made much progress in Hollywood. It’s okay that you cooperated with a horror film director in your first movie, but you suddenly got a ride on the A-level production in your second movie?
Is your momentum too good?
The news of Lu Yanhe’s participation not only aroused great attention in China, but also attracted the attention of many Hollywood film companies.
After all, they had handed scripts to Lu Yanhe before, but they were all rejected. In the end, people even thought that Lu Yanhe didn’t want to come to Hollywood to film.
At least a very few people knew the inside story and understood that the reason why Lu Yanhe was able to enter the list of "Hurricane 2" was because of his agent in the United States, Darren, who is also the agent of Dylan Dylan, and someone was behind it.
Those who had Asian characters in the script were reminded of the existence of Lu Yanhe as an actor by this news, and once again sent the script to Darren.
Of course, Lu Yanhe's first Hollywood movie was a huge box office success. The next two movies are both blockbusters with great hope of exceeding 100 million in North American box office. Darren is not in a hurry to accept more roles for Lu Yanhe. After all, his starting point is so high that he doesn't need to accept some movie projects that will make him lose face.
Darren also feels a sense of accomplishment for the cooperation he has facilitated.
This cooperation is not only for Lu Yanhe to reap a lot of dividends, but also for Derrien Dylan.
"Hurricane 2" has Lu Yanhe in the role, and the box office of this movie in China, a big box office warehouse, can be expected.
For this reason, Darren even specifically told Derrien Dylan that Lu Yanhe's box office appeal in Asia should let him take good care of Lu Yanhe on the set, especially let the director shoot well, so that Lu Yanhe's performance in the movie is good enough-
Derrien Dylan's previous understanding of Lu Yanhe was only that he was the villain in the horror movie "The Mist", but in the whole "The Mist", he is the most popular and popular villain among the audience. When he read Lu Yanhe's resume, saw the awards he won at major film festivals, and the performance of his past films around the world, Derien Dylan made a final decision to offer Lu Yanhe a salary of $1.5 million.
First, Derien was grateful to Lu Yanhe for coming to the rescue.
Second, Derien knew that Lu Yanhe was worth the price. If he gave him a lower price, he might not be willing to come.
The current result made Derien very satisfied.
The entire outside world was very optimistic and supportive of Lu Yanhe's joining.
This is the most important thing for the production of a sequel.
Most of the audience of the first episode must be satisfied. That is the basic plate of the sequel.
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