China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 130 Interest Exchange
In the morning of the next day, Li Mu accompanied the Paris municipal officials, Tom Hanks, Liu Yifei and others to observe the explosion effect on the spot, and the experiment was carried out indoors.

The pyrotechnic special effects team of the crew moved out the air cannons that had already been used for coating and did N times of experiments, which finally dispelled the doubts of the Parisian side and the actors, and the crew finally got the permission to actually shoot the explosion scene on the streets of Paris.

In the afternoon, Disney, Sony, Paramount, Warner and other company executives, as well as Cheng Long, Yang Shoucheng, Song Dai, Liu Siying and others arrived in Paris one after another. Only after the afternoon drama can I spare time.

The shooting time approved by the Paris side was limited, and it was impossible for Li Mu to leave the crew behind to entertain them first. As a result, after checking into the hotel, these people all expressed their desire to come to watch the crew filming.

So in the afternoon, many old men and foreigners suddenly appeared on the studio in the streets of Paris, as well as Cheng Long, Yang Shucheng and others who were very familiar to the crew, and the crew talked a lot about it.

The production team of "Inception" is a large group. The cast and crew alone has a scale of thousands of people. Everyone has their own sources of news, and everyone is passing on the news they have heard.

In the end, the news from various sources was compiled, and finally the ordinary staff of the crew knew the general situation of the matter.

It turned out that those foreigners standing outside the studio were none other than vice presidents from companies such as Disney, Sony, Paramount, and Warner. Everyone came to see Director Li Mu, because Director Li Mu wrote two very Awesome script, I heard that the Academy Award has been booked in advance!

In addition, Director Li Mu holds a bunch of copyrights of extremely best-selling novels. I heard that the six major Hollywood film companies are all begging Director Li Mu to sell these copyrights to them.

As for why Cheng Long, Yang Shoucheng, Song Dai and others came all the way to the set?

Isn't it because of the next movie directed by Li Mu? !I heard that the next movie will be starring Cheng Long, Yang Ziqiong, and Liu Yifei, and the production budget will be at least 6 million!

Cheng Long and others wanted to discuss cooperation details with Director Li Mu and Hollywood, and of course they had to fly all the way to France.

Awesome!
All the cast and crew were very excited. It turned out that I was working for such an awesome crew, and I was working for such an awesome director!
I felt a little proud in my heart.

On the set, Hong Jinbao commanded the stunt personnel of Hongjiaban with a serious face.

"After a while, everyone will listen to my password, and I will shout, everyone must act together. There are dozens of explosive points arranged before and after this scene. We only have one chance. Once we fail, we will have to re-arrange for most of the day. , this is Paris, not as long as we want to shoot, if someone loses the chain, don't blame me for turning my face!"

The explosion scenes in this scene are all done by air cannons. The safety is indeed guaranteed, but the explosive power is definitely not enough. It is obviously impossible to expect the air cannons to overturn all the tables, chairs and benches around the hero and heroine and the cars farther away. Reality, so the steel wire came in handy.

After a while, the members of Hong Jinbao's Hongjiaban were responsible for pulling the steel wire.

After the work was arranged, Hong Jinbao went to greet Yang Shoucheng, Cheng Long and others. After a brief exchange of words, Hong Jinbao immediately returned to the set to continue working.

When everything was ready, as Li Mu yelled the phrase "action!", the filming officially started.

Tom Hanks and Liu Yifei were sitting in a cafe on the streets of Paris discussing dreams. When Liu Yifei finally said the phrase "Are we dreaming?", everything around him began to explode one after another, and debris flew everywhere.When the explosion approached the two protagonists step by step, everything around them, including tables, chairs, benches, cars, booths, etc., was overturned by the shock wave.

"If this is a dream, why are you covering it?"

When Liu Yifei uttered the last line, Li Mu yelled Ka, and the hearts of everyone in the crew rose to their throats.

This scene is different from other scenes. Other scenes can only be filmed once for a second time. If this scene is not good, it will take more than half a day to re-arrange the bombing point, let alone apply for a shooting permit from Paris again. up.

"Okay, this one is over!"

The crew immediately cheered, and many people let out a long breath.

In fact, this scene is not big if you only look at the scale of the explosion. Many Parisians in the periphery looked at it with great interest, and the expressions on their faces were more fun and fresh. Almost no one felt the scene was shocking.

But in the eyes of these vice president-level executives from Hollywood, it's completely different.

These people more or less understand movies, and everyone can roughly see the final effect of the movie when they look at the explosion spots and camera positions on the scene.

In addition, almost all of them have read the novel "Inception". Comparing the plot in the novel with the shooting effect in reality, several people's evaluation of the movie "Inception" has instantly increased by several levels.

"Maybe this will really be a very shocking movie!"

The four vice presidents came to the above conclusions in unison.

At the end of the filming, Tom Hanks introduced four vice presidents to Li Mu. Cheng Long didn't need to introduce them. The four vice presidents all knew Cheng Long and showed great respect.

It was the first time for Li Mu and Mr. Song Dai, the chairman of Xiangjiang Yindu Organization, to meet, but both of them had an inexplicable feeling of intimacy.Song Dong was born in Xiying, and Li Mu talked about Xiying as his mother's family all day long. It was just a scene, but he didn't expect that after talking about it for a long time, he actually believed it.

After the meeting, the group went directly to the hotel conference room by car. As Li Mu's girlfriend and one of the heroines of "The Doomsday Collapse", Liu Yifei was naturally there. Besides, Li Mu also ordered Liu Siying to call Chen Zhixi.

The first meeting of several parties lasted about two hours, and they also reached a preliminary consensus on cooperation.Several parties from Hollywood promised to fully assist in the distribution and awarding of the two films. At the same time, Li Mu also promised that several parties would accept investment from several companies for their own series of films.

Li Mu even announced that he could transfer the film and television copyrights of "Divergent" and "Maze Runner", but as for which company to authorize the copyright to, it depends on which one can give more chips.

At the final stage of the negotiation, the vice president from Disney smiled and suggested that Li Mu release the comic version of "Pacific Rim" and said that he was very optimistic about this story, while Li Mu expressed his gratitude to the other party for the reminder and said that he would seriously consider the other party suggestion.

……

That night, when Cheng Long and Yang Shoucheng mentioned Li Mu, they couldn't help feeling a lot of emotion.

I remember the first time the two talked about Li Mu, it was the time when Yang Shoucheng flew to Xijing to talk about "Hurricane Rescue". It was August 04, and it has been less than 8 years.

At that time, Yang Shoucheng laughed that Cheng Long thought highly of Li Mu when he compared Li Mu with himself. Unexpectedly, in less than 4 years, Li Mu had developed to the level he is today.

Disney, Sony, Paramount, and Warner—these are all one of the six big Hollywood companies. The vice presidents of these four companies flew to France to meet Li Mu, and they were respectful and polite throughout the meeting. , when Li Mu was filming, all of them stood outside the set and waited. How long did it take Cheng Long to get to where he is today?

Cheng Long couldn't help but sighed to Yang Shoucheng:

"Hollywood looks down on us very much. Me, Cheng Jiaban, including Li Lianlian, which one of us was not looked down upon when we entered Hollywood? Which one was not bullied? What did we do at the time? We deliberately slapped the ground and did not put the cushion on purpose. , the knees are bleeding, but no, we have to fall again, can you do it?"

"If you can't do it, you have to admire us. What kind of stunts do you use to jump off the building? No stunts, just start the machine, jump, and go to the hospital. If you can't do it, we can, so you have to admire us. But it still makes Hollywood filmmakers admire us, Hollywood bosses won’t admire you because of these things, they only admire money, and they admire whoever’s movie can sell well.”

"When your movie data was running out, the Hollywood boss knelt down and begged you to make a movie, and your data was slightly worse-wow, who are you? I don't know you! It's so realistic."

"Li Mu is great because he can make a lot of money, a lot of money. Hollywood discriminates against us very much, but they don't discriminate against money, and no one discriminates against money."

Yang Shoucheng said: "It has been many years since I have seen such a powerful young man."

……

That night, the young lady worked extra hard, somehow Li Mu thought of "Lust, Caution" directed by Li An. I know the taste, and I became very active when I was with Liang Runsheng for the second time, and Liang Runsheng even teased: "You seem to be a little reactive today."

Tonight's young lady has a sense of taste and taste, and has become very active.

"No—why did I bring that wretched guy, Liang Runsheng?"

Li Mu thought it was a little funny, so he chatted with the young lady about the plot of "Lust, Caution" while doing it, but unexpectedly, the young lady's face blushed a lot immediately.

Li Mu thought that he had done a great job by showing his might, but he didn't know that the young lady actually thought of the fact that he was invited by director Li An to film "Lust, Caution".

It is said that Zhang Ziyi, Xu Xiyuan, and Zhou Xun all recommended themselves to play Wang Guizhi at that time, but they were all rejected by Li Min, because in Li Min's mind at that time, the best candidates for Wang Guizhi were Shu Qi and Liu Yifei.

The agent also strongly suggested that Liu Yifei take over the film, after all, the director Li An's name is too famous.

Liu Yifei and Li An met three times in total, but after learning that the film would have a lot of passionate scenes, Liu Yifei still couldn't convince herself, and finally rejected director Li An's invitation when they met for the third time.

"If the heroine of "Lust, Caution" was me, would you still want me?" Liu Yifei couldn't help asking.

"No."

Li Mu said decisively.

　Thanks to "Fairy Sister Liu Qianqian" for rewarding Tianxian.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)