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Chapter 590 Black Widow Crossfire Imitation Master and Lao Mozi

Cao Xuan stayed in the United States for about a week, mainly doing various makeup trials on Hawkeye and finalizing some script details.

The shooting of "Hawkeye" is actually quite urgent. This is a new movie that is not planned. According to the original plan, they will shoot "The Avengers" early next year.

Now that "Eagle Eye" has been inserted, the plan has changed, so we have to finish filming in February next year, and then start filming "The Avengers".

The director of "Eagle Eye" has been decided, that is, Jon Favreau, the director of the first two "Iron Man" films, is also the actor who plays Iron Man's fat bodyguard Harpy in the movie.

After directing "Iron Man 2", he had creative differences with Marvel and announced that he would no longer direct "Iron Man 3", but he still participated as an actor.

At the same time, he has a close relationship with Marvel. He has served as the producer of "Iron Man 3" and "Avengers 2" and other stars.

Originally, Jon Favreau no longer planned to direct Marvel movies, but this time he changed his mind because of "Hawkeye".

The main reason is that the plot of "Hawkeye" is more independent than that of "Iron Man 2", and there are not many other superheroes joining. Except for a few people from S.H.I.E.L.D., the main battles are mainly Hawkeye and Black Widow.

The previous "Iron Man 2" inserted a lot of S.H.I.E.L.D. plots to pave the way for "The Avengers" because it was filmed and modified, which greatly reduced the independence of the film itself.

Jon Favreau resigned angrily because of this. If "Hawkeye" can maintain its creative independence, he can still trust Marvel.

Of course, the main reason is that he is a fan of Cao Xuan.

That's right, this new commercial star director who is famous in Hollywood for the "Iron Man" series, especially likes Cao Xuan's movies. He has watched almost every movie of Cao Xuan.

As early as when he was filming "Iron Man", he wanted to invite Cao Xuan, but there was no suitable role.

Now that I learned that Marvel and Cao Xuan collaborated on "Eagle Eye", after inquiring clearly, I took the initiative to take over the director.

In addition, the cast of the "Eagle Eye" crew is still good.

Black Widow Scarlett Johansson, this drama is a serious heroine + second episode.

She had an emotional scene with Hawkeye in the movie. One of them was a childhood shadow, unwilling to open her heart, and the other was cold-faced and arrogant, and she liked it in her heart, but she didn't talk about it.

The relationship line is very ambiguous, but it has never been made clear, at least the first part of "The Avengers" was not made clear, but the CP line is obvious.

How will the follow-up develop, Marvel has not yet determined, whether to let the two go together completely, or let Hawkeye give up on marrying a wife and having children, and the two become platonic confidants.

After strengthening, the strength of Hawkeye has soared. Even if Cao Xuan doesn't play, Marvel can't give up this role.

Since there is a female Hulk, a female Iron Man, a female Thor, and the second generation of Captain America, there can also be a female Hawkeye or the second generation of Hawkeye.

This new Hawkeye is a daughter in the original manga, but it can also be changed to a younger sister. Considering that Hawkeye is set to become an orphan, if it doesn’t work, take an apprentice.

In any case, in Marvel's vision, the emotional line between Hawkeye and Black Widow is likely to become one of the important main lines of Marvel's previous stages.

In addition, there are three important characters in the "Eagle Eye" movie, the second male Barney and the big villain Egghead or Dr. Crazy, crossfire with the thugs under the big villain.

In the original comics, Barney is Hawkeye's brother. They learned skills together in the early years. In the comics, there is also a brotherly battle.

The setting of the movie is an orphan who met in a circus when he was young. The two brothers had a good relationship when they were young, and they did secretly learn skills from "Swordsman" and "Jieshe". I set up a flower shelf.

After becoming an adult, Hawkeye left with his master Jieshe, honing his skills while robbing the rich and helping the poor.

And Barney also left the circus, relying on the skills he learned secretly, he was better than ordinary people, and joined a gang.

This gang is controlled by the villain of the "Eagle Eye" movie, and the two sides clashed.

Barney's setting is very simple, similar to Bucky, the good brother of the US team, who helps the gangster to be abusive, wakes up, and the prodigal son turns back.

But even though they are all from the old Ba's family, he is much more miserable than Bucky. He has no skills. He was directly killed by the big villain in the movie. The main credit is to stimulate the outbreak of Hawkeye's small universe.

Cao Xuan wants his own artist to fight for the role, but Marvel prefers European and American actors.

The director and producers preferred to call a British newcomer, Andrew Garfield, to play the role.

Well, that's The Amazing Spider-Man!
But now this one has not yet appeared, and the first starring movie "The Social Network" has not yet been released, and Marvel only learned about this young actor through other channels.

In the movie, Barney is set as a frivolous, lively, carefree character who is happy all day long, in contrast to the cold and restrained Hawkeye. They think this newcomer is quite suitable.

As for the big villain Egghead, Marvel hasn’t fully confirmed yet. Cao Xuan also recommended Lao Bai and Uncle Fried Chicken from Breaking Bad.

This egg head is a mad scientist. In the comics, he is the deadly enemy of Ant-Man and Hawkeye, making all kinds of troubles.

The villain [ghost] in "Ant-Man 2" is Dantou's daughter, but Dantou is only set as a colleague of Ant-Man's father-in-law.

"Eagle Eye" took him out as a villain, and even integrated it into the Rubik's Cube to join the main plot.

Egghead was originally a government scientist who also worked in S.H.I.E.L.D. He was especially fond of the construction of some super weapons. He was later fired for some reason, but he still did not give up his research. In order to raise funds, he set up a criminal gang to make money.

When he was in S.H.I.E.L.D., Dantou accidentally came into contact with the Cosmic Rubik's Cube inside S.H.I.E.L.D., which is the space gem, thinking that this thing is very good for his research.

The latter paid a lot of money to invite two villains [Crossfire] and [Master of Imitation], intending to rob the research of the Rubik's Cube in the universe.

The first operation failed, and S.H.I.E.L.D. aroused vigilance and sent Black Widow and Hawkeye to investigate. In the end, the two sides met, which was the main storyline of the first part of "Hawkeye".

Egghead itself has no combat effectiveness, but he has researched a laser weapon, which is very powerful, and finally even used it to threaten the US government and S.H.I.E.L.D.

As for the two villains Crossfire and Imitation Master, the former is purely for money, while the latter is acquainted with Dantou, and was also a SHIELD agent before. This time I also have the meaning of learning about the new ace of SHIELD, Hawkeye.

Crossfire is different from Captain America's crossbones. This one is for long-distance combat, that is, playing with guns.

A master of imitation can imitate and copy other people's fighting abilities, no matter how complicated and delicate the opponent's fighting movements are, he can perfectly copy them.

But it is worth mentioning that this guy can copy fighting skills, but not superpowers, and the setting is more biased towards top physical masters.

One long-range, one melee, obviously a villain specially set for Hawkeye.

In the movie, Hawkeye will fight crossfire sniper rifles with bows and arrows, and then close combat with the imitation master peak, which perfectly reflects the strength of Hawkeye.

These two villains are wearing equipment, the former wears a headgear and eyepatch, and the latter hardly shows his face. Cao Xuan doesn't know who Marvel plans to invite.

However, Cao Xuan still recommended a few Chinese actors to Marvel, especially the imitation master. This role is strong in acting, and many Chinese action actors are quite suitable.

If you feel that both the hero and the villain are Chinese, it seems repetitive, you can set the master of imitation as Japanese, Cao Xuan still likes to fight Japanese villains.

Although Cao Xuan is a shareholder of Marvel, he also has certain rights to the "Eagle Eye" movie in the contract, but Cao Xuan only has the right to suggest the casting.

To be honest, Cao Xuan played the role of Hawkeye, and Fan Xiaopang planned to play the role of Deputy Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Hill, both in "Hawkeye" and "The Avengers".

The hottest actors and actresses in China currently have roles, and there are enough chips to please the mainland and Asian markets, so Marvel is not very interested in other Chinese actors.

No way, who made Cao Xuan too hot.

To some extent, it can be regarded as blocking the way of other Chinese or Asian actors, that is to say, he is powerful, not just an artist, otherwise he would have become the target of public criticism, and he would be blacked out by groups.

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In mid-September, Cao Xuan returned to China, and this year's summer vacation was officially announced to be over.

The performance of the two films controlled by Fanxing is not bad. "No Man's Land" has a box office of 1.78 million, which is considered to have reached the expected goal.

As I said before, this movie didn't expect to be a big hit, so it's not bad if it can make money.

In addition, the word-of-mouth is good, and we can operate the Duan Long and Huang Bochong awards.

Cao Xuan has already achieved the Chinese Grand Slam, and he is not very enthusiastic about the domestic film awards.

So when he retired from the "second line", the contacts and various public relations resources surrounding him over the years automatically fell into the hands of the stars.

Especially male artists are the most popular.

At present, besides Cao Xuan, among the stars, only Huang Bo, Duan Long and Jiao Enjun are the most qualified male actors in film.

Although Hu Ge's development is also good, but his qualifications in the film industry are still relatively low, his professional level is slightly inferior, and he is from an ancient puppet background, so he is naturally discriminated against by the outside world and the audience.

In order to win the honor of actor, I am afraid it will take a few years to completely transform into a powerful faction.

However, during the period, you can also work hard on TV and movies [Best Actor], which can not only enrich your resume, but also transform as soon as possible.

As for Huang, Duan, and Jiao, Huang Bo has already won the Golden Rooster Best Actor, so there is no need to think about the Golden Statue. If you want to win the Golden Horse, it depends on your luck. Baihua and Huabiao have the best hopes.

Although Jiao Enjun became the most famous after starring in "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff", he is not recognized for his acting skills. If he wants to win the award, he has to pick some good works.

Only Duan Long performed well in "No Man's Land" this time, and was highly praised in the industry. You can try the Golden Horse, Golden Rooster, and Hundred Flowers in the past two years.

If "No Man's Land" has successfully completed its mission, the other "People on the Journey" can be called a surprise. In the end, the box office thrilled to break through [-] million, which can be called this year's dark horse in the summer.

This is also related to the theme of this year's summer file. The styles of several popular movies such as "No Man's Land", "Three Kingdoms·Guandu" and "Tangshan Earthquake" are not very easy.

So many movie fans hope to find a comedy movie to relieve boredom.

There are also a lot of themes for summer comedy this year, and it can even be called a gathering.

Zeng Zhiwei and Chen Sicheng's "Seven Little Arhats", Ren Xianqi's plus S "Dragon and Phoenix Shop", Da Tiantian's first hit "My Beautiful Boss", Huang Xiaoming and Zhou Coffee's "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance: The Four Talents" ".

Further on, there are Xu Zheng and Happy Family's "Playing and Traveling", Sun Honglei and Zhiling's sister "Decisive Battle in Shama Town", and Cheng Long's "Kung Fu Dream".

There are many movies, but there are very few that can be played.

In this batch of movies, only "Kung Fu Dream" and "The Battle of Shama Town" scored more than 6 points on Mtime.com.

And "People on the Journey" has a score of 7.8 on Mtime.com, not to mention these comedy movies, even in this year's summer, they are ranked among "Tangshan Earthquake", "No Man's Land" and "Ocean Paradise" later.

Of course, a good reputation does not mean a high box office.

But don't forget, "People on the Journey" is produced by Fanxing, so you don't have to worry about promotion and filming. Once word of mouth comes, it will immediately become a dark horse.

In the end, the nearly 3 million box office of the two films did not make Fan Xing busy this summer, and even made a small fortune.

However, Feng Pants' "Tangshan Earthquake" is the most popular in this year's summer file.

With a box office of 7.1 million, it broke the record of "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" and became the new No. [-] box office in the history of mainland Chinese films.

Thanks to the "Avatar" breaking 10 billion at the beginning of the year, otherwise Feng's trousers might go straight to heaven.

Just in time for Fanxing not to plan much for the summer vacation this year, it can be regarded as Huayi's copy, the stock price soared, and the Wang family brothers smiled.

At the "Tangshan Earthquake" celebration party, President Xiao Wang even shouted the slogan "Let Huayi become the second star", which was interpreted by the media as a declaration of war against Cao Xuan.

Thanks to his rationality, he did not shout the slogan "Beyond the Stars", otherwise it would not be a declaration of war, but a laughing stock.

After all, the current size of the two parties is not at the same level at all. Even if Fanxing's development stops, Huayi will have to struggle for several years, and it may not be possible to catch up.

However, he didn't yell, but the Wang family brothers probably didn't have similar thoughts in their hearts.

Many people have forgotten that Fanxing is actually Huayi's younger generation, but in the past few years, Fanxing has been overwhelmed and suffered a lot.

The Wang brothers have been holding their breath. They had no chance earlier, but this time "Tangshan Earthquake" can be regarded as a shot in the arm for them.

Coupled with the fact that Huayi has raised a lot of funds since it went public last year, the two brothers really wanted to give Cao Xuan a break.

However, Cao Xuan didn't take the Wang brothers seriously. To be honest, Huayi was still supported by Feng Pants.

In the past two years of Feng Pants' peak period, he may have developed well, but pointing at a Feng Pants and wanting to fight Fanxing is simply a dream of spring and autumn.

What's more, he Huayi has a great leader, Fanxing also has no shortage, and even has a new leader to join him.

As soon as Cao Xuan came back this time, Li Xuejian called him and told him to go home, and then gave him a big surprise.

Lao Mouzi can't stand Boss Zhang anymore, he wants to come to Fanxing!
In "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", which was just released this month, many people have the impression that the little yellow duck Zhou Dongyu is rising, but in fact Cao Xuan's master Li Xuejian also played a role in it.

There are only so many top actors in the mainland, and everyone is basically in the same circle.

But even so, there are not many actors who can act in the films of the three major mainland directors, Lao Mouzi, Chen Dadao, and Feng Pants.

Li Xuejian was one of them, and Lao Mouzi cooperated the most.

Lao Mouzi's movies "Shake Ah Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge", "Speak Well", "Happy Time" and "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" all participated in it, and he is also the actor who has cooperated with Lao Mouzi the most in his career.

For example, actors such as Uncle Ge, Li Baotian, Zhao Binshan, Ni Dahong, and Sun Honglei all performed three times.

Being able to cooperate so many times is due to Lao Mouzi's appreciation of Li Xuejian's acting skills on the one hand, and the two have a good personal relationship.

So this time Lao Mouzi also specifically asked Li Xuejian to act as an intermediary, not only believing in Li Xuejian's character, but also because he is Cao Xuan's master, and his words have weight.

"I'm afraid I can't explain clearly on the phone, so I specially called you here. You are also aware of Director Zhang's strength and influence. It will definitely be good for Fanxing. You have to consider this matter carefully. Whether you succeed or not, you have to answer carefully... ..."

Li Xuejian speaks earnestly and earnestly. In fact, he doesn't like to meddle in such nosy matters, and rarely participates in the right and wrong in the circle.

This time he was willing to help make connections, on the one hand because of the many years of friendship with Lao Mouzi, and on the other hand because he saw that this matter was interested in Cao Xuan.

He can ignore other people's affairs, but he and Cao Xuan get along like father-in-law. For such a good thing, he must help his apprentice's house.

Cao Xuan did not let go hastily, but instead asked about the situation: "Master, did Director Zhang tell you about the situation, I have to find out."

"Tell me something."

Asked by others, Li Xuejian might take care of his old friend anyway, but in the face of his own apprentice, he must be facing Cao Xuan.

As long as Cao Daguan doesn't put Lao Mouzi to death, Lao Li will just turn a blind eye...

Li Xuejian organized a speech and said eloquently: "Actually, when he was filming "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" in Hubei Province, he often chatted with me, and I didn't realize it at the time..."

It turned out that these old Mouzi and Boss Zhang often got angry and quarreled over creative matters. This situation reached its peak after the hastily filmed "Three Shots Surprise" after the Olympics.

Lao Mouzi did not elaborate on the specific situation, but he must have been forced to make a lot of compromises, and finally made a bad film that he later admitted was the work he was most dissatisfied with.

Also because of this movie, the gap between Lao Mouzi and Boss Zhang has deepened.

When filming "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", I often came to chat with Li Xuejian, and vomited bitterness from time to time.

It's just that his meaning was very vague, or that he hadn't made up his mind yet, and Li Xuejian didn't notice it, so he took it as a small talk, but at that time he was indeed caught with some information from Fan Xing.

Compared with other companies, Fanxing's creation is far from being arbitrary, and there are many internal checkpoints for review and supervision.

However, the advantage of Fanxing is that it will not easily interfere with the correct creation of the director. As long as you can convince the producer or related people, or give a sufficient reason, Fanxing will not force changes.

It will not overly pursue the commercial attributes of the film. In most cases, the quality of the film is given priority, and the review and supervision has an extremely standard and mature system and process.

This is actually very tempting to Lao Mouzi. He is not afraid of inspection and supervision, but he has to follow the rules.

The new picture seems to let Lao Mouzi let go, intervene in many key issues, and even sacrifice the quality of the movie, which is extremely unbearable for Lao Mouzi.

More importantly, Boss Cao is generous.

Among the many directors who worked with Cao Xuan and Fanxing, almost none of them got into trouble because of money.

The reason why Lao Mouzi broke up with Boss Zhang of New Screen is because the latter is often not lenient to Lao Mouzi financially.

Although Lao Mouzi pursues film art, he also wants to earn money to support his family, especially since he has many children in his family, so he naturally hopes to earn more.

In addition, Boss Zhang has a big mouth, and he has been bombarded by many people over the years, including some bigwigs.

He made enemies everywhere by himself, and he had a good time talking about it, but he also made Lao Mouzi suffer, and the latter must have no energy in his heart.

In contrast, although Boss Cao sometimes acts domineeringly, he has a good relationship with all parties and is very popular.

Not to mention the difference in strength between Fanxing and the new picture, one aircraft carrier and the other can only be regarded as speedboats, and the engine is still his old trick.

Old Freak Xu, Ning Hao and the others leaned against the big tree, like ducks in water, and lived a relaxed and happy life.

Lao Mouzi is not a masochist, if he can eat big fish and meat every day, who the hell will eat chaff and swallow vegetables.

Therefore, after communicating with Li Xuejian, Lao Mouzi was already tempted, but he hadn't made a complete decision at that time.

Until the filming of "Thirteen Beauties of Jinling", Boss Zhang interfered again in the new scene, and Lao Mouzi was very conflicted by various related behaviors.

Therefore, Lao Mouzi finally couldn't bear it anymore, and secretly contacted Li Xuejian, intending to join Fanxing's command.

"Xuanzi, what do you think?"

After Li Xuejian finished speaking, he took a sip of water, curious about his apprentice's attitude, Cao Xuan didn't hide it from him.

"Director Zhang wants to come to Fanxing, of course I welcome it."

In Cao Xuan's heart, Lao Mouzi has always been a top-ranked director in China, but his shortcomings are obvious, but they can be made up for.

To be honest, Cao Xuan missed Lao Mouzi for not a day or two.

Director Chen didn't like him, he didn't like Feng's trousers, and the Wang brothers also took a close look at them. These top mainland directors belonged to Lao Mouzi, who was in his favor and had a chance to poach them.

It is not in vain that his previous efforts in the Beijing Olympics and "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" seem to have left a good impression on Lao Mouzi.

Coupled with Fanxing's advantages, Lao Mouzi immediately thought of Fanxing when he wanted to leave.

However, the matter of signing Lao Mouzi has to be done steadily.

On the one hand, the cooperation between the other party and the new screen "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" has not yet ended, and Lao Mouzi can leave just by saying it.

On the other hand, if he remembers correctly, Boss Zhang has played a lot of dirty tricks, and Cao Xuan has to see if he can clean it up in private.

Even if it can't be cleaned up, let the thunder blow up a little bit, so that it won't cause too much negative disturbance.

Don't sign Lao Mouzi at that time, and the public opinion will blow up, and he has to avoid the limelight for two years. Then he, Mr. Cao, will suffer a loss.

Moreover, Boss Zhang is a bastard at best, and a mad dog at worst.

I really dug out Lao Mouzi, this guy might get mad and spit out everything. Although Cao Xuan is not afraid, he is still a trouble after all.

The most important thing is that Cao Xuan didn't want to turn this matter into a situation where Fanxing bullied others, poached people's pillars, and caused everyone in the company to be at risk, which would be bad for Fanxing and his reputation.

Cao Xuan thought about finding a chance to meet with Lao Mouzi, and see how he could calm down and quit Fanxing...

(End of this chapter)