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Chapter 373 The Crew of "League of Thieves"

How big is Cheng Yu'an's filming of "Alliance of Thieves"?

The launch conference was held at the Hong Kong Island International Convention and Exhibition Center. Dozens of media came to the scene, and the Weibo exclusive webcast.

Each of the ten leading actors will have at least two personal posters lined up at the press conference.

"Gentlemen and ladies, welcome to the launch conference of "All Thieves". Now let us welcome our leading actors with the warmest applause."

"Pepsi (Pepsi), Wanqian."

For this name, Pepsi spent 1700 million, otherwise Wan Qian's character would be called Fanta.

"Johnny, Wang Kai."

"Julie, Lu Jingshan."

"Andrew, Huang Bo."

"Chen, Ren Dahua."

The host paused and said, "The above five are the members of the Hong Kong island thieves gang in our "Alliance of Thieves". Next, we invite our Chinatown thieves gang."

"Zhang Ailun (played by Kim Soo-hyun in the original version), Yang Yang."

"Gum, Chewing Gum (played by Kim Hae-sook in the original version), (big) Zheng Shuang."

"Anycall, Yang Mi!"

Although Xing Xing Xing will cancel the brand name Anycall starting this year, they still paid more than 3000 million for the role of Yang Mi.

"Mike (played by Lee Jung-jae in the original version), Brother Hu!"

The cheers at the scene were like a tsunami.

The host also knew about Brother Hu's popularity, so he specially reserved five or six seconds for the fans to scream, and then introduced the finale two:
"Finally, let us give the warmest applause to welcome the actor of Macau Park in "The Thieves", Brother Jackie Chan and our director Cheng Yu'an!!!"

The two came out at the same time.

The atmosphere of the entire press conference reached its peak.

Of course it's because of Jackie Chan, otherwise it's because of Cheng Yu'an.

The first question is to go to Jackie Chan: "Brother is filming "Zodiac", why did you take this film?"

"Cheng Dao has always been a very good director in my heart. I have always wanted to cooperate with him. I didn't have the fate before. Now I have such an opportunity. No matter how busy I am, I can't miss it."

"Brother never played a villain, why did he play a thief this time?"

"The villain can't be understood in this way." Jackie Chan said, "Macao Park's role can't be defined simply as a good guy or a bad guy. He is a character who wanders on the fringes. Such a character is very charming. I believe the audience will know it when they watch it. "

"Brother Hu, you played Thief Mike in "Crazy Stone" before, and this time you play Thief Mike again, do you have any special feelings?"

Brother Hu looked at Cheng Yu'an, and replied: "I asked the director to change the name. I asked if it would be okay to call someone else, but Director Cheng disagreed. He said it was Mike, which was fun. If you want to talk about your impressions, I think it's amazing. I played Thief Mike five or six years ago, and I played Thief Mike five or six years later, it feels like a kind of fate."

"Here I want to say something." Cheng Yu'an interrupted, "I didn't think so much when I wrote the script. The name Mike is the most common, so I used it here. I didn't want Brother Hu to act at the time. In the end, I decided to choose it. Brother Hu, this may really be a wonderful fate."

The press conference continued to move forward, and finally Cheng Yu'an led the crew to burn incense and worship God, and each sent a red envelope for the start, took a group photo, and announced that "Alliance of Thieves" was officially launched.

The shooting of "The Thieves" is not difficult, but the scheduling is difficult. The 10 leading actors are all different, and the action scenes are also full. This is a test of the professionalism of the crew.

Cheng Yu'an's crew are all old people who have followed along the way, so there is no need to worry about professional issues.

"Come on, let's try it twice first. Lao Qi, how is the drone?"

"No problem, tuned five times."

"Okay, Yang Mi, put on your wire clothes, let's walk first."

"Every department is ready, 3, 2, 1, start."

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"Our station reported that director Cheng Yu'an's new work "The Thieves" was officially launched on Hong Kong Island during the day. The film is a treasure-hunting adventure that is rare among domestic films. The station learned from the film producer Chen Zhixi that this shooting is a A new attempt by the director himself."

Chen Zhixi: "He himself wants to try this theme. He has filmed science fiction, action, suspense, and romance. He is very interested in treasure hunting adventures, especially this kind of group portraits, which test the scheduling. He is very willing to try. Of course we support him .”

"Venice? "The Hunt" has been sent to Venice, and we are still waiting for the announcement from the film festival."

"For this year's Cannes Film Festival, the Chinese Legion only participated in three films, and none of them were shortlisted for the main competition. Can you share your opinion?"

"Hello!Tree" and "The Piano of Steel" were shortlisted for Un Certain Regard, and Chen Kexin's "Martial Arts" was shortlisted for Midnight Screening.

In contrast, Long-distance is even more famous. A focus unit is for the film festival to support newcomers and explore alternative aesthetics and niche styles.

The Midnight Screening Unit is to show some genre films that make the audience happy. This year, there are only two films in the Midnight Screening Unit, and 22 films participated in the Uncertainty Screening Unit.

Chen Zhixi's answer was extremely official: "Cannes is where all filmmakers want to go, and being shortlisted is already very good."

"Berlin and Cannes have always invited Director Cheng to participate, but Director Cheng seems to seldom appear at these two film festivals. Can you tell us why?"

"Actually, there is no reason. Director Cheng also wants to go to Berlin and Cannes, but there has been no suitable works to bring there. Coupled with the conflict of time, it has not been possible for so many years. I believe that there will be opportunities in the future, and I will go arrive."

""Martial Arts" is ashamed to take it to Cannes." The opening of Cannes is naturally the object of attention of filmmakers all over the world, and the crew has been discussing it for the past few days.

"This old boy is taking us mainland investors as fools, it's really not a joke." On Hong Kong Island, he scolded the director of Hong Kong Island.

But the Hong Kong Island staff in the crew heard it as if they didn't hear it.

Chen Kexin has gone too far.

The staff on Hong Kong Island wanted to defend him for not knowing how to open his mouth.

A straw hat costs US$6000, the only one in the world, and the hat is equipped with a safe to lock it.

You tell me how to explain it?No more faces.

A money is not like this, Director Chen.

After two days of trial shooting, Cheng Yu'an felt that "Alliance of Thieves" was almost ready for real shooting.

Then a good news was sent back from France, the "hello!"Mr. Tree" won the best film award in a certain attention unit-although it is a double yolk egg tied together-but it is also a hard-won victory!
Although the actor did not win the performance award, Wang Baoqiang won unanimous praise from the Cannes judges and audience.

It's a pity that "The Piano of Steel" didn't win an award, but the copyright was sold for seven or seven eighty-eight, and at least the cost was recovered.

The two films will be released this year, and they don't expect much box office. They can't always be commercial films, they have to be literary films, and they can support even if they don't earn box office.

(End of this chapter)