Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 173 Hurricane Rescue
"By the way, I heard that you asked Liam Neeson to directly sign a three-play contract?" Davis asked curiously.

"That's right." Chen Hao nodded, otherwise why would he film "Taken"?

Now Chen Hao's first choice is a series of movies with low cost and high box office, and he also agreed to Xiaohu as one of the leading actors. Considering Xiaohu's age, Chen Hao thought of this series of action movies.

In addition to the problem of continued success in the series, the soaring salary of the actors is also a big problem.

Now Chen Hao signed Liam Neeson with only 180 million US dollars, because Liam Neeson has also starred in "Star Wars Episodes", "Gangs of New York", "True Love Actually" and so on since "Schindler's List". Film.

But he is not a starring role, and he hasn't had many outstanding performances in recent years. At this time, his career as an actor has fallen into a trough, and his salary has dropped a lot. In addition, he was invited by the male lead again, so he agreed.

It's just that after the success of "Taken" in the previous life, I don't know if it's true, or because of the salary increase, Liam Neeson responded that he didn't want to take on the sequel.

In the end, the film studio could only offer a salary of 1200 million US dollars before he agreed to act, and this figure was 6 times that of the first film, which also made him successfully entered the ten million salary club.

What's even more exaggerated is that in the third part of the series, Liam Neeson was directly promoted to the 2000 million salary club, a salary club with great symbolic significance in North America.

Although it may not be as worthy of the name as the 90 million salary club in the 2000s, being able to get a salary of 2000 million US dollars has undoubtedly proved its status and appeal!
But these are unavoidable, and the series of movies will face this problem, just like Downey and Black Widow in the Avengers, the highest film salaries are as high as 7500 million and 5000 million US dollars respectively, and the final result can only be written to death by the screenwriter .

"Are you going to make "Taken" a series?" Davis asked.

He is really amazed by Chen Hao's brain now, not only has he become a well-known screenwriter and director at a young age, he is also surprisingly courageous.

When filming "Chain Saw", Davis knew that Chen Hao had found an assistant director and asked him to write the script for the sequel, that is, before the movie was successful, he thought about making a sequel.

I really don't know whether to say that he is skilled and bold, or that he is blindly confident.

However, as a result, the box office of "Chain Saw" exploded. With a cost of 120 million US dollars, the box office in North America alone was as high as 5500 million US dollars, and the return on investment ratio was 45.83 times, which can be called terrifying.

Davis also saw that Chen Hao was bound to win "Chain Saw" and it was impossible to let it out, so he didn't raise the issue of copyright.

It's just that he still feels a little inappropriate for him to hand over the sequel of "Chain Saw" to the same young Chinese director Wen Ziren, but this is Chen Hao's own series, so he can't say much.

But now that they are filming the second film, they have signed contracts for three films just before the filming started, which is obviously aimed at the series.

If it was someone else, Davis might still feel that he was prepared, but after getting along for such a long time, he knew that Chen Hao definitely had a target in mind, and this series was decided.

Although he found it unbelievable, he did see the radiance of confidence in Chen Hao's eyes.

Therefore, Davis felt that this guy, Chen Hao, either suffered from a setback in Waterloo, or continued to advance by leaps and bounds to become a well-known director!
Therefore, until Chen Hao fails, Davis is willing to be bound with Chen Hao forever!
"If the box office is good, it will naturally be made into a series. I also learned from you Hollywood!" Chen Hao nodded.

Davis smiled when he heard the words, "As long as you can make money, you can make 100 films."

Columbia accounted for the majority of the investment in "Taken", and the box office success naturally made the most money for Colombia, not to mention that other distribution channels were also covered by Columbia.

Colombia will definitely take more than 90% of all the benefits obtained by a "Taken".

"Also, you want to invite Emperor Gong to participate, has she agreed?" Davis asked.

"Just received the news, she agreed." Chen Hao said happily after hearing the words.

For the role of Xiaohu's mother, Chen Hao thought for a long time, and considering the popularity and age, he finally sent an invitation to Emperor Gong.

After thinking about it again and again, Emperor Gong took over the role.

Undoubtedly, the 90s was a high-production period for Gong Huang. He collaborated with Guoshi, Chen Kai and others in many films, which made him famous internationally, especially in Europe.

In 2000, she was the first Chinese to serve as the chairman of the Berlin International Film Festival. This year, she served as the chairman of the Venice International Film Festival.

It is no exaggeration to call him Emperor Gong for his prestige in Europe!
This time Gong Huang agreed to star in Chen Hao's "Hurricane Rescue". I don't know if he has the idea of ​​testing the waters of commercial films, or plans to enter North America, maybe both.

Although Chen Hao is considered a fledgling, but besides Li Yin, the only Chinese director who can enjoy himself in North America is Chen Hao.

As for Wu Baige, now the mud bodhisattva can't protect himself when crossing the river. A "Wind Talker" has made many Hollywood companies take a cautious attitude towards him.

Although it is not that there are no films to shoot, there is probably no hope for large-scale productions, and Wu Baige himself may not like low-cost B-level films.

Therefore, when Wu Baige's next Hollywood movie will come out, I really dare not say.

When Davis heard that Gong Huang agreed to join, he nodded happily. Obviously, Davis felt that Gong Huang's participation would be of great benefit to the film's box office.

In addition, Chen Hao also invited Downey and Captain America to play two guest roles, and they readily agreed.

At the same time, for the role of the singer in the film, Davis invited Britney Spears, the most popular American idol singer!
"Is the crew ready?" Chen Hao asked.

"Yes, everything is ready, just waiting to start up." Davis nodded upon hearing this.

"Then take me to the shooting location tomorrow to have a look. If there are no problems, we will start the machine as soon as possible." Chen Hao said.

"No problem!" Davis replied.

After Davis left, Xiaohu said, "When did you invite Emperor Gong? Why didn't I know?"

"Apart from yourself, do you know any actor?" Chen Hao laughed when he heard this.

"Uh... I'm just too excited." Hearing this, Xiaohu jumped into Chen Hao's arms and said coquettishly, "Besides, he has been by your side all the time, only thinking about you."

Hearing this, Chen Hao rolled his eyes at the little fox in his arms, "Let's prepare well recently, the filming will start soon."

"Don't worry, I've been ready for a long time!" Xiaohu stood up and saluted after hearing the words.

Chen Hao's eyes just looked at Xiaohu's chest. Well, although he is not as good as the future generations, he has grown up a lot since before he awakened!
(End of this chapter)