The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 204 The heroine of "Edge of Tomorrow" (two in one)

USA, Los Angeles.

A tall Asian woman wearing sunglasses walked out of the Warner Bros. headquarters building, followed by a bald white man in his 30s. While walking, he gestured to the woman and said this, with a very excited expression on his face.

The two got into a black car parked at the door. Seeing that the woman was still silent, the man paused for a while, as if he was trying to organize his language to persuade him more effectively.

"bingbing, what we need to do now is to recognize the reality. Warner is really sincere this time. If you take this role, then you will be the first Chinese superhero, and "Super Hero Legion" is a plan according to the plan. For long-term projects, this role rarely appears, and the salary of the bundled series contract is not high, but you can get continuous exposure to the global market. This is equivalent to a long-term meal ticket and a stepping stone. With this stable role, It will be easier for you to find other opportunities.”

The woman took off her sunglasses, revealing a gorgeous face with bright eyes and bright teeth, but there was a little hesitation and trouble in her eyes. If there were Hua Guo people present, they would definitely recognize that she was one of the four great actresses in the Hua Guo entertainment circle... Fifth People's Li Bingbing.

Next to her was her assistant Anderson, who was trying to persuade her to accept a film offer from Warner.

The middle-aged woman in Huaguo sitting in the front passenger seat seemed to have a different opinion with this assistant, she turned her head and said to Li Bingbing: "Bingbing, I just checked the role of Phantom Spirit, if you let me evaluate it, it's really It is an out-and-out 12-line hero, and Phantom is not a member of the Super Hero Legion in the comics at all. It was added after the second restart of the animated version. Do you know how many Super Hero Legion there are in the second restart? Heroes? Twelve!"

She is Wu You, Li Bingbing's agent in China, and has followed Li Bingbing in Hollywood to find career opportunities in the past two years. She is very dissatisfied with the role given by Warner this time, and has never wanted Li Bingbing to take over the film. But Li Bingbing insisted on hearing about Warner's future arrangements for this character, as well as its development in the follow-up live-action film of "Legion of Super Heroes".

Although Li Bingbing didn't say it clearly, Wu You could tell from his expression and mood that this meeting was not optimistic.

The two communicated in Huaguo dialect, so Anderson didn't understand the content, but he could guess from the tone and expression that it would not be a good word. He was interrupted by Li Bingbing when he was about to continue drawing the blueprint.

"Anderson, it's not that I don't speak English. I can understand what the producer is saying. Phantom is simply a character added temporarily for the Huaguo market. Even the director is a little dissatisfied with it, so this role can also be used. It was deleted at any time in the follow-up movies! Not to mention the pitiful scenes, there is no stable exposure and development potential at all! Am I right?" Li Bingbing asked rudely in fluent English .

Anderson retorted: "Doesn't this further demonstrate Warner's sincerity? Since the characters added for the Huaguo market will not be deleted at will? Isn't "Super Hero Legion" just released in Huaguo? I I just read the data, and the Hollywood media are very concerned about the Huaguo box office of this movie. It is predicted that it is likely to surpass the box office of "Young Avengers" and reach more than 3 million US dollars! I have to say that the Huaguo market is really amazing.

This means that you will appear in the sequel of this movie that is creating box office success in China and the world, and as the first Chinese hero and the second Asian hero, your compatriots will be proud of you !You will become the second Hua country actor to succeed in Hollywood after Zhangziyi! "

"Hey." Wu You, the manager in the front row, let out a chuckle, pointing to the billboard outside the car window: "Playing such a leftover role can make the people of China proud, and it can be regarded as a success in Hollywood, so what is he? "

Anderson turned her head to look in the direction she was pointing at. It was a big billboard. On the billboard, a young and handsome East Asian man was wearing fashionable clothes, with a little makeup on his face, and his expression was cool looking through the camera. Looking at each other.

Dior Global Brand Ambassador, Luo Chen.

Wu You took out another magazine from the net pocket in front of the car, pointed the cover at Anderson and Li Bingbing, and asked mockingly, "What are they?"

On the cover, the sun shines gently through the windows of the train, and two yellow faces, a man and a woman, kiss in the halo.

Li Bingbing stared at the picture, and Anderson was embarrassed. Of course, the two knew each other. The cover was the famous scene of "Source Code", which was released not long ago and made hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office in North America. .

Wu You ignored Anderson's low-pitched sophistry, threw the magazine on Li Bingbing's lap, stared at her and said, "Bingbing, you are not young, the golden stage of your acting career can't be wasted at will, if you don't I won’t say anything about this phone call from Dreamworks, but a great opportunity is right in front of you, as long as you try to reach out, I believe you will definitely get it, sunk costs are not costs!”

Li Bingbing turned his head and looked out the car window, looking at the somewhat messy street scene in the east area of ​​Los Angeles and the various faces in a hurry. She had never felt so clearly that she did not belong here, which made her feel both ridiculous and sad. .

She is a person with strong actions. Ever since she determined to create a world in Hollywood, she resolutely terminated the contract and left the domestic film contract when she had no contact with the American agency company. The company UTA signed a contract and became an artist under UTA's gold agent Marty Bauer-Mattie Bauer has Hollywood A+list actors such as Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.

Unexpectedly, what was waiting for her was not the high-quality resources she had imagined—Top Billing (equivalent to the lead actor) did not expect extravagant expectations, and And (equivalent to a special guest star, usually a well-known supporting role) did not expect to be able to achieve it in the short term. , but the role of with (equivalent to an unimportant supporting role) can't even get it, which means it's a little bit better than the dragon set.

Marty Bauer, the gold agent, never cared about Li Bingbing at all. He was so arrogant that he didn't even care about the world's second largest market behind her. He has five or six A-lists and ten B-lists. For a few, actors like Li Bingbing are not ranked at all, they are purely artists entrusted to him by the company.

So in the past two years, Li Bingbing didn't even meet her official agent a few times, and the audition opportunities were all accompanied by her assistant given by UTA.

For the audition invitation given to her by DreamWorks—not a film appointment, of course she was very excited. After all, Chen Jingxing and DreamWorks were already old acquaintances in Hollywood, and even triggered some Hollywood media's "reflection" debate.

Even though it wasn't Chen Jingxing's new film, which made her slightly disappointed, part of the information revealed by DreamWorks - "Edge of Tomorrow" is a science fiction blockbuster, and the content of the investment of at least 3.5 million yuan made her understand that it is definitely A piece of cake that can make domestic actresses steal their heads.

And this is the heroine!Of course, it was just an audition opportunity to be exact, but it was still the heroine!
In contrast, she is still begging Warner's producers for a character who can't even type the subtitles with libingbing in the opening credits. How can there be such absurd things in the world?

But things are so ridiculous, is it because of her unwillingness?Her pity about sunk costs?Or did she not want her Hollywood journey to end in such a ridiculous way?After all, for this dream, she has missed too many domestic film contracts in the past few years, and the past few years have been a stage of rapid growth in the Huaguo film market, with domestic films breaking 10 billion or even 20 billion.

If the entertainment industry does not advance, it will retreat. The years-long vacancy caused her to lose many movie opportunities, and even lost the opportunity to accumulate box office results. The vacancy left by her will naturally be filled by others. If you leave her, you won't turn around.

What's more, there are domestic media that have been reporting "Li Bingbing broke into Hollywood with her strength, full of international style", "Li Bingbing: After so many years in Hollywood, why don't Chinese people think she is an 'international superstar'?", "Li Bing Bing leads Hollywood's top ten soy sauce stars" and so on, such as praise or derogation or ironic public opinion.

Could she be willing to end all this in such a disheartened way?

"Bingbing, this is not the end!
When you were negotiating with Warner Bros., I inquired with the staff of DreamWorks again. This time, among the actresses that DreamWorks sent to audition, you are very advantageous. Zhang Ziyi is pregnant and can’t take the role. You are almost not too strong. Competitors!
If you can win the heroine of "Edge of Tomorrow", you are an absolute winner. Even if you have been away from China for so many years, you can still win a heavyweight role that makes many actresses covetous. No one can laugh at you, no one dares to laugh at you ! Wu You, the manager who has known her for more than ten years, seemed to know what she was thinking, and continued to persuade her.

Maybe Li Bingbing thought it through himself, or maybe it was her agent Wu You's persuasion that touched her, Li Bingbing put on his sunglasses again, turned to Anderson and said, "Anderson, I'm going back to the hotel soon, you're right here Get off." Then he took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket and stuffed them into his hand: "It's enough for you to call a car."

Anderson stood on the side of the street with a messy face and looked at the Maybach leaving, spit: "Bitch!" Then he took out his mobile phone and made a call.

When the bell rang, Li Bingbing looked at the incoming call and smiled softly, then picked up the phone.

In a spacious office with floor-to-ceiling windows in UTA, Marty Bauer, a well-known super agent in the industry, frowned slightly, and said lightly to the other end of the phone: "Lee? I heard Anderson say that you want to reject the role of Phantom?"

"Yes."

Mattie Bauer's face was a little impatient: "You know, this is a role that I fought for you with great difficulty. Marvel has no extra roles for you. It is also very difficult for Warner to agree to be in "Super Heroes Legion." Such a character was added in the sequel, and this character was originally an Indian hero, I made them agree to change it to a Huaguo hero, you should know how difficult it is..."

"I'm going back to China to film soon." Li Bingbing interrupted him lightly.

Marty Bauer was stunned for a moment, and then his face turned serious. Although he didn't really spend any effort for Li Bingbing, he still felt unhappy at this time: "Lee, I must seriously warn you, I don't Likes to crack jokes when talking about work.

If you want to go back to Huaguo to film, it will be the biggest loss in your life. Don’t think what will happen after Huaguo becomes the second largest market. The world’s movie center is still Hollywood. If you want to give up halfway, you can come back later. It won't be easy, and Hollywood won't open its doors again just for anyone. "

"This is not a joke, Mr. Bauer." Li Bingbing looked at the picture of Hu Ge and Wan Qian kissing under the halo on the magazine cover spread out on his lap, and replied with a smile: "Besides, you are wrong, Mr. Bauer." , I am not going to ask you to open the door for me, and what you opened is not a door, not even a window, Hollywood is not that great, if I want to come back, I will open this door myself, no trouble bother."

Mattie Bauer looked at the hung up phone with a strange expression—he hadn't been hung up by anyone for many years, and then shook his head and laughed: "Push the door open? Ha, how do you push it open? It's another delusional Asian girl. "

……

"How is it? Not bad?" Chen Jingxing looked at the screen displayed on the monitor and said to Guo Fan beside him.

Guo Fan nodded with a little sigh: "You still have the right vision. Now I think even if Zhang Ziyi is here, it will not be more suitable than her."

After the male lead of "Edge of Tomorrow" was confirmed to be Wu Jing, the two did not reach a consensus on the choice of the female lead. In fact, the heroine of the movie is quite difficult to perform. The female lead is a stronger fighter than the male lead in the early stage. , and the number of action scenes is second only to the male protagonist. Of course, as a movie heroine, the best effect is "beautiful, strong and miserable". Beauty is also very important, and it is not a real Olympic competition.

Even if you can’t find particularly beautiful actors—after all, there are not many actors with strong professional ability, action scenes, temperament and good looks, and good looks have to be passable. In the final analysis, this is a commercial blockbuster. Women have always been the aesthetic object in literary works. China does not have the corresponding political correctness, and the heroine of an action drama is not good-looking, and the audience will vote with their feet.

In addition to being a beautiful woman, of course it is best to have rich experience in action scenes, and the temperament must be sassy enough, even domineering, not too young, not girly, and the movie must pursue a rationality, a woman The female Goddess of War, a military officer, will have a sense of disobedience in her early 20s, so wouldn't that become an idol drama?
What Guo Fan wants most is Zhang Ziyi. After all, she is Daomadan. She can play both in terms of appeal, popularity and business ability. But she is married to Wang Piku. She is pregnant and will not recover until the end of the year at least.

Although Zhang Ziyi really wanted to take on this scene, Guo Fan really couldn't wait until then. According to the plan, the actors would have to go through a month of training before filming started.

Chen Jingxing recommended Li Bingbing. He felt that Li Bingbing was a good match for the character. His appearance was undeniable, and he had a flamboyant and sassy temperament. He not only took into account the needs of appearance, but also had sufficient professional ability——Li Bing There are still quite a lot of fighting scenes performed by soldiers, and the effects are all good.

　Chapter 201 is still under review, I don’t know when it will be released

　　
　
(End of this chapter)