Play Your Cards

Parameter's executive in charge of "Doomsday" is called Zeby Doyle.

He made an appointment with Lu Yanhe to meet directly at Parameter's company.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Ziyan wanted to let more people know that they were discussing this project with Parameter, so they readily accepted the proposal.

Parameter is indeed a veteran film company.

The entire company building is very impressive, modern, neat and orderly. At the same time, you can also see movie posters everywhere in the building, as well as various trophies placed in decorative cabinets.

This is the heritage of a film company.

Lu Yanhe was still quite emotional.

A company can achieve what Parameter has achieved, working in an industry for hundreds of years and becoming a leader. The accumulation is so deep that no emerging company can replace it.

In China, it is often seen that film companies that were still in the limelight five years ago suddenly disappeared five years later, or were replaced by other box office upstarts in the industry.

However, overseas, in the time and space that Lu Yanhe traveled through, even though A24 and Lionsgate have been in the limelight for many years, and even though there are many new companies such as Apple and Netflix that have just entered the film field but are very powerful, the status of the Big Six is ​​still unbreakable and cannot be shaken.

The so-called company's foundation means that it has a deep foundation in terms of awards, market, and industrial chain, which cannot be affected by the good results of others in one or two years.

Domestic film companies, to be honest, are basically upstarts if they are privately owned. If the two brothers in the same family do not have any problems and do well, they may accumulate for a few more years to form such a situation. Unfortunately, in the era of industry transformation and box office surge, they have problems.

Lu Yanhe's mood at this moment is that Linghe can not be big and strong, but it must be done well and always on the table. As long as it exists for a long enough time, it will always be big and strong. It will accumulate slowly and there is no rush.

Zeby Doyle welcomed Lu Yanhe very warmly.

"I must say that I was pleasantly surprised to learn that you were interested in this project." Zeby Doyle expressed his appreciation and respect for Lu Yanhe in a slightly exaggerated tone and body language. "I must say that your performance in The Mist is completely worthy of an Oscar. Unfortunately, because it is a horror film, it has not been taken seriously."

"Thank you."

"In fact, I am planning to develop a film like The Mist that focuses on real racial discrimination and difficulties, of course, in a non-realistic way." Zeby said, "I recently saw a very good script."

This is off topic.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Ziyan looked at each other.

Chen Ziyan received the signal and spoke.

"Mr. Doyle--"

"Please call me Zeby." Zeby Doyle said.

Chen Ziyan smiled, "Okay, Zeby, you know, we came to Los Angeles this time to contact another movie."

Zeby Doyle was a little surprised, "Oh?"

He was surprised that he had not heard of the news.

"Then, Yan He wanted to work with Lu Nei because he had written a script. He met him and chatted, and happened to learn about this project." Chen Ziyan smiled slightly, "'Doomsday' is a science fiction film that Yan He has never made before."

"Lu Nei has always been a first-class director of science fiction films." Zeby Doyle said, "This time, we found a good story."

"What kind of story does 'Doomsday' tell?" Chen Ziyan asked, "We only know a general theme."

"A scientist receives a letter from himself one year later. If the status quo is not changed as soon as possible, the earth will be destroyed by the attack of alien civilization one year later."

The role of this scientist is an American.

Zeby Doyle said, "In addition to this scientist, there is also an Asian protagonist in the movie. He is the key figure in the alien civilization's attack on the earth. At first, scientists thought that this Asian had colluded with the alien civilization. Later, they found out that this was because the research that this Asian was doing would threaten the alien civilization hundreds of years later. In order to eliminate the threat, the alien civilization would go back a year later and directly destroy the earth. After the two of them learned the truth, they traveled through time and space to save the earth from destruction."

It sounds like... a very conventional science fiction movie, and it sounds like the themes and scenes involved are very grand.

Chen Ziyan asked: "Does anyone have a candidate for this Asian role now?"

Zeby Doyle said: "We have several actors in contact, but we haven't finalized it yet."

Chen Ziyan nodded and said: "We heard that Chen Pinhe has signed a contract with you. If that's the case, we won't waste our time."

Zeby Doyle was stunned for a moment before saying: "Of course not, but we do include Chen Pinhe in the list of actors we are considering. We don't know many Chinese male actors, and there are even fewer who are well-known and influential all over the world. "Doomsday" is a huge production, and we hope to find an actor whose fame and influence can match this movie and can be compared with the male lead Tom Felton."

Tom Filton, a popular actor in Hollywood, once won the best actor in Oscar. Of course, in fact, he is not the kind of actor known for acting skills. It is the result of "the players". He is really very red. The movie starring in the North American box office is not less than 60 million.

When Chen Ziyan and Lu Yanhe heard the name Tom Philton, they were surprised at the same time.

If there are so many people in Hollywood, it is an actor standing on the tip of the pyramid, such as the little Li Zi, A Tange in the other world, and the peak of a sister, that Tom Philton is in the Hollywood in this world. The location is only under this level.

Not TOP in TOP, but also TOP.

From this starring, it can be seen that Parameter attaches great importance to Destruction Day.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Ziyan realized at the moment at this moment.

They missed this person before.

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The right to speak is generally not as big as the director -especially in the field of film.

However, for a few actors, this is not the case.

Tom Philton is one of these people.

In such a movie, there are so many opponents and even the role of "two male lead" with him, do you have no opinion on Tom Field?

Lu Yanhe did not believe it.

With his own person, he plays himself, and attaches great importance to his opponent actors.

Because acting is not a unicorn, it is for each other to achieve each other.

For ordinary actors, the show is performed by themselves. For good actors, the play is given by the other party. The play is reaction, stimulation, and not self -righteous performance.

Later, Zebi Dorer really mentioned the pay.

The idea is that the production cost of this film is very high. There may not be so many spaces in the budget of the film, and the big head is taken away by Tom Filton.

Chen Ziyan said without hesitation: "Zebi, wait for these things to come back to Dalen to talk to you. Yan He's actor business in the United States is responsible for Dalen Wilson. Let's take a closer look at this project "first."

Do not connect.

Today is either come to negotiate, or to "delay time".

Today I will give the film pay to the intention, how to do it later.

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"Do you want to contact Tom Philton?" Daron Wilson was a little puzzled, and did not understand why Lu Yanhe and Chen Ziyan suddenly had such demands.

Lu Yanhe nodded: "We have something to meet him and talk about it."

Darren Wilson said: "If Tom Filton is not filming, if he is not on vacation abroad, he basically stays in his own home, rarely goes out, and it is difficult to see others."

Lu Yanhe asked: "Do you have his mailbox? Or mobile phone?"

"Of course there are." Darren nodded, "Just contact him directly?"

"If you can help me make him out."

"I can only say that I can try it, but he may not come out. His temper is a bit weird, not a guy who is easy to get close." Darren shrugged, "All superstars have their own temper. "" "

Lu Yanhe nodded, "Then you try to help me make an appointment. If you can't make an appointment, give me his mailbox and mobile phone number. I will try it myself."

"Okay." Dalen nodded, and said, "By the way, are you just going to see Parameter, Zibi Dorer?"

"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded, "Your news is really good enough."

"This is Los Angeles. My career is a broker. If such dynamic information cannot be passed on my ears, then this is my job out of duty." Darren said, "You go to see Parameter, why don't you have no no? Tell me in advance ""

"Because we are not talking about participating in this movie." Lu Yanhe said, "Darren, in addition to playing a certain movie, I still have some things to do. These things may be presented. Bypassing you contacting some movie companies, but that's not the same thing. You are my agent, and every contract will not bypass you. You can rest assured. "

Darren asked: "I know, you are still a screenwriter, writing the script-"

"Oh, the acting career I said, including screenwriters, directors, etc." Lu Yanhe said, "I have something to say with you, because I have not known you for a long time. Relationship, so some of my private affairs can't believe you, you can support you, we keep this cooperation now, okay? "

Dalen was silent for a while, nodded, and said, "Since you all said that."

Lu Yanhe: "Maybe what I said just now will make you feel uncomfortable, but I hope you understand that I don't want to offend you intentionally. In fact, I am very satisfied with your cooperation, but I believe The deeper trust between people requires time and running in. "

Darren: "Okay, but in any case, since this is Hollywood, as your agent, if I do n’t know your whereabouts, I still need to hear which movie company and who you are in contact with others. This will make others think that there is a gap in your cooperation with you, which is not a good thing for us. "

"I will communicate with you more in the future."

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After talking to Darren Wilson on the phone, Lu Yanhe thought about it and felt that Darren's dissatisfaction was actually reasonable.

Regardless of whether their cooperation with each other has just started, there is not enough trust.

In the eyes of others, especially in Hollywood, if Darren Wilson does not even know the public whereabouts of his clients in advance, it will indeed make others question his control over his clients.

Although Darren Wilson actually has no control over him. But if everyone forms such an impression, it will indeed be detrimental to Darren Wilson's handling of his work in Hollywood.

Lu Yanhe came back to his senses and sent a message to Chen Ziyan, telling him that he had finished the call and was waiting for Darren's reply.

Chen Ziyan said okay.

She said again: I'm going to meet an agent later.

Lu Yanhe was stunned and asked: Who?

Chen Ziyan: Robin Galbraith of CAA, a very famous agent, I want to talk to her and sign Jiang Jun's overseas agency business to her.

Lu Yanhe was a little surprised and asked: Sign to CAA?

Chen Ziyan: Yes, since your contract has been signed with William Moss, it is most appropriate to let Jiang Jun sign with CAA in this case. Otherwise, your resources and Jiang Jun’s will fight within William Moss.

Lu Yanhe: Will Darren have any objections to this?

After dealing with Darren several times, he felt that Darren was not the kind of person who would think things through and do his own work.

Chen Ziyan: Jiang Jun’s domestic agent is Lu Qingzhen, not me. I am not responsible for Jiang Jun’s business. Darren has no position to have any objections to this matter. Moreover, he should also know that we can’t put all eggs in his basket.

Chen Ziyan said: I also like the Maxine self-made drama by Wang Jiaqi and Chen Pinhe.

Lu Yanhe silently sent a "thumbs-up" emoticon.

Chen Ziyan: We have been in Los Angeles for so many days and have made so many movements. I think Chen Pinhe should have a reaction no matter what. Maybe we will meet him or his wife, Zhang Yuezhen, in Los Angeles in the next two days. You have to be mentally prepared.

Lu Yanhe looked at the message sent by Chen Ziyan and suddenly didn't know how to reply.

Is he mentally prepared?

These two days, when he thought of targeting Chen Pinhe, he was busy with these things like a chicken blood. In fact, he didn't think seriously at all. When this happened, if Chen Pinhe appeared in front of him, what kind of reaction would he have.

No matter how many assumptions there are, it is meaningless.

At this moment, Lu Yanhe found that his heart was empty and he was inexplicably at a loss.

He didn't know why he was at a loss.

However, even with such an unexpected emotion, unlike the past, he didn't doubt whether he was wrong to do this this time.

In this matter, wrong is also right.

Lu Yanhe firmly believes this.

There can be no so-called relief.

There can be no so-called letting go.

Anger.

Remember the most primitive anger.

Just like in "Phoenix Tower", knowing that the ending is death, the sword must be stabbed; just like in "Burning Fire", no matter how complicated the feelings are for the enemy who killed his father, he still has to kill him.

Lu Yanhe didn't expect that at this moment, what emerged in his mind were the emotions of the characters in these two plays.

No play is performed in vain, and no character's emotions will pass through his body without leaving any impact.

-

As a result, there is no news from Tom Felton yet, but there is movement on the script of "Buried Alive".

Before, Lu Yanhe took the script of "Buried Alive" and asked Muken Sorge to help him find a suitable director and producer in Hollywood to see if there is any interest in this project.

He contacted several people before, but none of them were suitable.

Muken suddenly contacted Lu Yanhe and said that a producer of Parameter was very interested in this script.

When he asked who it was, Lu Yanhe was shocked.

How could it be such a coincidence?

It turned out to be Zeby Doyle of Parameter, whom he had just met.

"Zebby?"

Mukken was also surprised.

"Do you know him?"

"I just met him because of another movie project."

"Oh!" Muken said, "That guy is not bad. You contacted him for the movie project "Doomsday", right?"

"Yes."

"This is a big project, but I heard that Tom Felton seems to be ready to leave the project." Muken said, "If you are interested in this project because of Tom, maybe you should go and learn more about it."

"Well, okay." Lu Yanhe said, "But, Zebby knows me, why didn't he mention this script to me?"

"The script you gave me is signed with the three letters LYH. How did he know that the script was written by you?"

Lu Yanhe: "..."

-

Lu Yanhe didn't expect that he would meet Zebby Doyle again so soon.

Zebby Doyle obviously didn't expect it either.

His face was full of incredible smiles.

"It turns out that you wrote the script for "Buried Alive". It's incredible. This is a completely different story from "Love Letter."

Lu Yanhe said with a smile: "As a screenwriter, like as an actor, the themes, themes and characters created are very different."

"I like the story of" Living Buried ", especially the way this story tells." Zebi Doyer said, "This script is a typical story that can be used by small."

"Of course, this is also the place where I wrote this story at the beginning. The main consideration is to use a story that everyone can afford to reduce the difficulty of its shooting, so that the Hollywood film company knows that I am a very well written. The screenwriter of the script ""

Lu Yanhe shrugged, "Who can think of it, in the end you only know Lyh, but you don't know it is me."

Zibi Doyer laughed.

"This is indeed an unexpected surprise."

"But Lu, although" Live Buried "is a good story, but I hope it can make some modifications."

Zibi Dorer said.

Lu Yanhe showed his doubt.

"Revise?"

-

In the autumn of Yuming, most of them are a high, high, high, and clear autumn.

Yuming in autumn is also clear.

For those living in Yuming, this is the most comfortable time for a year.

Li Zhibai wore a very big fisherman's hat -this fisherman's hat almost covered his face.

You only need to bow your head, unless he goes near him, it is basically difficult to recognize him.

He was carrying a plastic bag, a bottle of bubble water in the plastic bag, and a kind of horn bread bought in a convenience store.

After the "Legend of the Sword and Sword" was killed, he was rare to have no job today, and there was another big sun. Therefore, he wanted to go to a nearby park, find a tree, find a grass that can lie down, and let it go. For a few hours.

Lying down is a move that he is best at and like.

When I walked halfway, the phone suddenly rang.

Li Zhibai picked up his mobile phone and saw that when he saw that the call was "Lu Yanhe", he stunned.

"Aren't you in Los Angeles? This point ... When is your side?"

"In the evening." Lu Yanhe said, "Just after dinner, are you free now?"

"It's time, what's wrong?" Li Zhibai asked.

Lu Yanhe said: "I have a movie script here. I originally planned to make an English movie and find an actor in Europe and the United States to perform, which is" Live Buried ". The one I told you before."

"Oh, I know." Li Zhibai asked, "What's wrong?"

"Parameter fancy this script. To be precise, this script creativity is fancy, but they want to use the Dongfeng of" Mist "to make this movie a movie starring Chinese, to create a Chinese descent buried alive buried people live alive alive The theme, the background is racial discrimination, and it is still a horrible and thriller style. "Lu Yanhe said.

Li Zhi Baiyi, asked, "Aren't you going to find me?"

"They wanted to let me play at the beginning." Lu Yanhe said, "But all my schedule next year has been arranged. Of course, the main reason is a more realistic consideration. This movie is not suitable for me. Now in the Hollywood market, but I have my own reasons, so that Parameter can make this movie. "Lu Yanhe said," The specific reasons are complicated, mainly to achieve a condition for the Parameter. "

"Ah?" Li Zhibai puzzled, and said, "It's okay to play, but can people see me? I have no popularity overseas."

"This movie itself is a low -cost movie." Lu Yanhe said sorry, "So, I will call you this call, I must tell you clearly. I don’t want to look back on some media reports. The reason why this movie is not acting is because it is a small -cost movie, so I will be looking for you.

"Okay, tell me so much to do, you need me to help you perform this movie, I can play for granted, so much words."

"Well, believe me, I won't pit you either." Lu Yanhe said, "Although this is a small cost movie, the final box office performance is definitely good, and this is also a unicorn. Great.

"The script of your screenwriter also uses these."

Li Zhibai laughed.

"Do you know what Lin Suyang said to me? As long as you are writing the script you write, don't ask, just agree." Li Zhibai said, "It's good, so the next job is there again."

Lu Yanhe: "Sorry, this time it was because of some of my own things, only to find you to play this movie."

"Don't mother -in -law." Li Zhibai said with a pleasure.

Lu Yanhe laughed.

-

Why does Lu Yanhe himself not perform?

Aside from the schedule, in fact, this movie is mainly considered, which is a very typical "small cost" dark horse.

However, the upper limit of this dark horse's box office is not high enough. To some extent, a movie that finished with one person from beginning to end is a box office score of hundreds of millions of dollars.

If Lu Yanhe does not play the global box office of "Mist", "Living Buried" for Lu Yanhe, it will be a good choice for the first gun in Hollywood.

However, Lu Yanhe played in "The Mist", and the subsequent ones were big productions such as "Hurricane 2" and "Godless". At least in the field of commercial films, Lu Yanhe's positioning is a blockbuster.

His role in "Buried" will affect the market's positioning of him.

And Li Zhibai has never made a movie in Hollywood. This movie is a very suitable stepping stone for him.

-

Almost the next day, "Variety" magazine reported this matter.

Parameter and Chinese actor and screenwriter Lu Yanhe (who starred in "The Mist", "Love Letter", "Friends", etc., and wrote "Squid Game" and "Rouge Button", etc.) are negotiating a cooperation. The former has taken a fancy to a movie script created by the latter and is negotiating the specific details of the cooperation. It is reported that this script is a very innovative and bold work.

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"We have spread the news to "Variety" in advance. It is estimated that other film companies will come to you soon." Chen Ziyan said, "If Parameter really wants to get this script, it will definitely increase the bargaining chips further."

"Then you say, when is it better for us to reveal our true purpose?" Lu Yanhe asked.

Chen Ziyan said: "Darren has already made the first round of offers before Variety reported it, which is the 10 million US dollars we negotiated at the beginning. I guess Zebby Joyer is now scolding us in the office for asking too much. Let him scold for a while. With Buried, he will definitely negotiate with us rationally and calmly."

Lu Yanhe: "Okay, but why is there no news from Tom Felton? Whether he is willing to meet with me or not, isn't it something that can be decided soon? Why is he dragging his feet and not giving us any news?"

Chen Ziyan: "I don't know the news for the time being. Darren has called him twice, but he didn't answer. You said before that Muken told you that Tom might withdraw from the Doomsday project. Maybe he has some things to deal with."

"If Tom wants to withdraw from the Doomsday project, then the project will be very uncertain and may not be able to start." Lu Yanhe said.

For such a large investment movie, if Tom really leaves and Parameter can't find a replacement actor, the most common way to deal with it is to shelve it.

There are several movie projects shelved every day in Hollywood due to changes in the leading actors.

The bigger the movie, the more so.

After all, small-budget movies can take risks and try and fail, but big movies cannot.

After all, the failure of "Doomsday" can get Zeby Doyle kicked out by Parameter. (End of this chapter)