Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

People in the industry are always paying attention to new films about Pacific Ocean.

Film companies want to know the details of the project, and if they can get involved in investment, they will try their best to participate in the investment.

If not, it will be judged based on some circumstances of the project whether to avoid being released temporarily and avoid being released on the same schedule.

For other workers in the circle, this is a great opportunity.

Now, who doesn’t know that Pacific Ocean is very powerful, and the movies it has invested in and filmed in the past few years are basically hits.

There are also some films that have made it to Europe and the United States.

In the past few years when Hong Kong and Taiwan movies have declined, most people in the entertainment industry are thinking about their future.

Some people have noticed the mainland market and are already planning to develop in the mainland.

Some people choose to retire.

Among them, there are also many ambitious people who have set their sights on Europe and the United States.

In recent years, as Chen Qiming and Jackie Chan have shone in Europe and the United States, Lai Ming and Andy Lau have also achieved a certain degree of fame in Europe and the United States.

This makes more people consider going to Europe and the United States as a good choice.

Whether they are in front of the stage or behind the scenes, there are people who have taken advantage of the path opened by Chen Qiming and Jackie Chan to enter Hollywood.

Of course, there are also people who have no clue how to break into Hollywood.

As a result, Pacific movies successfully entered their sights.

Movies about the Pacific can make people famous.

This is the consensus of most people in the circle.

This can be seen from the fact that Lai Lai and Andy Lau have gained a lot of status in Hollywood because of the filming of the movie Pacific.

Especially Andy Lau, the Lonely Agent series has made him famous in Europe and the United States. At present, the European and American movies have reached about three million US dollars per movie.

Not to mention becoming a superstar, but he also managed to gain a foothold.

Having learned from this experience, the drama in the Pacific has naturally become popular.

Even if everyone knows that they will definitely not be able to win the leading role, it will be a very lucky thing if they can get the supporting role.

Zou Zhaolong had established a foothold in Hollywood because of his role as Chen Qiming in "Anaconda".

After that, he played supporting roles in several European and American movies.

Therefore, when some information about Pacific's new drama was exposed, many people in the industry couldn't sit still.

The news pictures from Oriental Daily are very eye-catching, allowing everyone to clearly see the huge ship.

An ancient warship with a clear flag.

People in the industry are not fools, and they can easily guess that the drama "Pacific" is a costume drama from the Ming Dynasty.

And since it is a costume drama and the warships are still from the Ming Dynasty, it is obvious that Chinese actors are indispensable.

Many actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan guessed this, and then began to use various methods to get a role from Pacific, that is, Chen Qiming.

Starting from the afternoon when the news broke, a large number of calls were made to the Pacific side.

Some managers even called Chen Qiming, hoping to win roles for their own artists.

For example, Ge Fuhong, Chen Qiming's former agent.

She called Chen Qiming personally and wanted to give Takeshi Kaneshiro a role.

Takeshi Kaneshiro has done very well in the past two years.

After leaving the music scene, he first developed in Hong Kong for a period of time and filmed several movies.

Then he moved to Japan and became involved in the fashion industry.

Because of his good looks, he is very famous in Japan.

It's just that, although he is doing well.

He was even the second best among the four idol kings of the year.

But now among all the stars in Hong Kong and Taiwan, they are actually only second-rate.

There is no way, with the emergence of Chen Qiming, Hong Kong and Taiwan celebrities are now more awesome than before.

Now, obviously only Chen Qiming and Jackie Chan can be called superstars.

Both are famous internationally, one is a kung fu superstar and the other is a world pop superstar.

Below them, Jet Li, Andy Lau, Stephen Chow and Chow Yun-fat are on another level.

These people are all the leading box office figures in the Chinese film industry.

Then, there are Tony Leung, Ekin Cheng, Takeshi Kaneshiro and others.

Compared with others, Takeshi Kaneshiro has certain advantages.

Because he has successfully made a name for himself in Japan.

However, there is one thing about him that deserves criticism.

That means he can't afford the box office.

how to say!

Takeshi Kaneshiro is a typical future top traffic type.

The popularity is so high that there will be a large number of fans chasing after you when traveling.

But the result is that the movies he starred in, if he played the leading role, either failed to meet expectations at the box office, or made a small profit but received a bad reputation.

His phenomenon is typical of people who are popular but have no box office.

Similar to him are Wu Qilong and some popular TV drama actors.

This kind of actor is very strange. If he plays a supporting role in a certain movie, you will feel that he is very outstanding.

But if you let him play the leading role, you will find that he is playing some kind of chicken bar stuff. I think you might as well watch an educational film.

The reasons for this phenomenon.

Chen Qiming has studied it, and it is actually nothing more than acting.

When the above-mentioned actors play supporting roles, the focus of the camera is not on them, and because they are popular and have outstanding images, they only need to act as flower vases.

A vase! There are not many dramas, but they often attract attention.

But let them play the leading role, and the situation will be different.

A good movie, no matter what type of movie it is, may not have the best acting in the whole movie.

But he can't be the worst either.

Even if his acting skills are average, relying on the excellence of others can still improve the quality of the entire drama.

But if the lead actor stretches her hips too much, the whole drama will be skipped.

If your acting doesn't look like it, and it's not up to the mark, no matter how good the script is, it will be in vain.

Some people here may say that Takeshi Kaneshiro's acting skills are very good, and he has also won the Best Actor.

Chen Qiming has something to say about this.

As a former classmate, Chen Qiming knew him very well.

Does Takeshi Kaneshiro have acting skills?
Yes, but not much.

Especially at this stage, he definitely cannot afford the title of Best Actor.

Look at the dramas he acted in, "Chinese Dragon", "The King of Adventures", and the two-part drama "The Storm" with Chen Qiming.

In these scenes, he performed brilliantly.

But if you study carefully, you will find that he is actually a vase here.

Just look cool for the sake of looking cool.

Of course, Takeshi Kaneshiro also has other dramas, such as "Fallen Angel" and "Chungking Express."

In these two dramas, his performance looked very good, and he was even nominated and won awards for them.

But seriously, is he really good at acting in these two movies?

Let's put it this way, as someone who has filmed with Wong Kar-Wai.

Although there is a gap between Chen Qiming and him, he hates Wong Kar-wai.

But he had to admit that Wong Kar-wai's lens control was definitely top-notch in the Chinese-speaking region and even in the world.

Even if an actor with poor acting skills is in his hands, he can make you look like a movie king.

But does that make him really the best actor?

No, that's because Wong Kar-Wai's camera is awesome, not the actor's awesomeness.

Among those who have the same judgment, Chen Qiming thinks that there is Tony Leung Chiu-wai.

In the memory of later generations, Tony Leung was praised as being so awesome. But in Chen Qiming's view, he was actually completely deified.

Looking at all of Tony Leung's movies, you will find that his characters are exactly the same pattern.

In other words, he deserves to be the best actor in Infernal Affairs in Future Memory.

As for the other characters, they are basically all melancholy men.

Let’s talk about the real pinnacle of Hong Kong and Taiwan acting skills.

If Chen Qiming doesn't accept anyone, he will accept Tony Leung Ka Fai.

This person is truly at the pinnacle of his acting skills. He plays exactly what he plays without any inconsistency. The upright villain is more artificial than less.

Closer to home.

Faced with a call from Ge Fuhong, his former agent.

If it were another drama, he would have given Takeshi Kaneshiro an important role because of his past relationship.

But this time, Chen Qiming didn't.

He chose to refuse.

Because he already had plans and arrangements for his role in the play "Zheng He's Voyages to the West".

The plot of the play "Zheng He's Voyages to the West" is actually very simple.

It mainly tells the story of Zheng He, played by Chen Qiming, who led a fleet from the Ming Dynasty and passed through East Asia and even East Africa and experienced a series of fantasy and adventure stories.

Since Chen Qiming decided that the main market for this drama is Europe and the United States.

Then it is naturally impossible for him to make this drama into a historical drama.

The main theme of this drama is adventure, the experience of a fleet encountering wind and waves, giant sea beasts, and fantastic species at sea. It is action, it is the battle between the fleet and local foreign indigenous people, it is fantasy. In order to increase the attraction, there will be a lot of fantasy in the movie. s things.

For example, the ghost ships carrying people wandering on the sea specialize in preying on human souls.

For example, indigenous mages can summon sea beasts to fight for them.

Another example is the immortal pirate group, which cannot be killed no matter how hard they are killed. They must find their cursed gold coins.

Well, Chen Qiming admitted that he mixed a lot of "Pirates of the Caribbean" things into it.

But at the same time, he also added a lot of things with Chinese cultural heritage into it.

For example, the imperial edict from the Ming Emperor has the power of heaven to defeat all demons and monsters, and even gods would shun them.

Take Zheng He for example. The Thirty-Six Strategies of Military Strategies in his hands can display magical abilities that are difficult for ordinary people to match.

Anyway, anyway, this is a magical Zheng He's voyages to the West.

Apart from the story, Chen Qiming also worked hard on the selection of actors for this drama.

First of all, in addition to Zheng He, the protagonist also has his lieutenants and a military commander.

In addition, you will definitely encounter one or two at sea, let’s not mention it for now.

The role of deputy is very important.

In history, Zheng He's deputy Wang Jinghong served as Zheng He's deputy in the West for several times and was his best partner.

During his seventh voyage to the West, Zheng He died of illness halfway. In the end, Wang Jinghong led the fleet back and brought them home completely.

This character will almost be an important role in the entire series of stories, very important.

Therefore, his selection is very important.

This actor must have enough acting skills to be able to compete with Chen Qiming, the winner of two Golden Horse Awards and one Academy Award.

And it has to be cheap enough.

Again, Chen Qiming hopes that this drama can become a series.

Since it is a series, we need to consider whether the subsequent actors will ask for a salary increase because they become popular.

And after it becomes popular, will the price rise to sky-high prices?

There are not many actors in Hong Kong who have acting skills, are cheap, and are not worried about being so popular that the crew cannot afford the salary.

Tony Leung should be considered one.

And because Chen Qiming admired his acting skills very much and wanted to cooperate with him, Chen Qiming invited Tony Leung Ka Fai for this role as early as the project planning.

The other party also wants to cooperate with Chen Qiming. He has already turned down most of his film contracts for next year and is concentrating on studying this role.

As for the role of the military commander, it is obvious that he wants to kill people with his hands.

Originally, Chen Qiming preferred to give this role to Chou Zhaolong.

After all, Zou Zhaolong had worked with him before, and the action scenes were very online, so Chen Qiming wanted him to play this role.

But what Chen Qiming didn't expect was that Zou Zhaolong thought he was not suitable for this role.

In terms of role positioning, this character is a master of swordsmanship, a bit like Guan Gong. Zou Zhaolong felt that his image did not fit the role positioning.

Also, he's not very good at wielding a sword.

So, he turned down the role.

In response, Chen Qiming couldn't help but give him a thumbs up.

When everyone wants to join his cast of Chen Qiming, there are really not many people like Zou Zhaolong who prioritize the suitability of the role.

Therefore, with a wave of his hand, he was given an important villain role in the first part of Zheng He's Voyage to the West.

This guy likes villains anyway, so let’s be a villain for him and let him beat him up.

Of course, although Zou Zhaolong rejected military commander Wu Xuan, he also recommended someone for Chen Qiming.

Yu Rongguang.

He was the one who mocked Jet Li for spending a few hundred dollars a month.

The original "Letter to Dad" was full of villains.

While Yu Rongguang serves as the main villain, there are also guest appearances by Zou Zhaolong and Lu Huiguang.

Zou Zhaolong met Yu Rongguang in this drama.

He believes that Yu Rongguang is more suitable for the role of Wu Xuan than him.

For this reason, Chen Qiming made a special appointment with Yu Huiguang and had a brief chat with him.

Not to mention, this guy is really suitable for this role.

She has thick eyebrows and big eyes, which makes her suitable for playing rougher roles.

At the same time, he was born as a martial artist in Peking Opera. Not only was he good at opera, he was also good at playing with weapons.

If he is allowed to play the role, he will add some beard and look like an old and rough military commander.

……

Influenced by the Oriental Daily News, there are various speculations about Pacific's new drama.

Today some people report that this is a historical drama, and tomorrow they will say that it is a time-travel drama.

Don’t think that the term time travel is unique to the 21st century.

In fact, seriously speaking, this term has already been around since the early 90s, and there have been many movies in this area.

For example, Tony Leung and Cheung Weijian filmed "The Real Little Treasure: The Pursuit of Seduction" in 1993, Wong Jing's "Super School Overlord", and Yuen Biao and Yuen Wah's "Frozen Man".

These are all movies about traveling through time and space that have been around for a long time.

However, that was several years ago.

This is recently, with the novel "Looking for Qin", this word has become popular again, and the story is reversed from before. The story starts from modern times to ancient times.

Because of this, after seeing the ship, and some people mistakenly thought that this drama was the one that Chen Qiming mentioned before that he was cooperating with Warner.

So some people speculate that this will be a drama about ancient people traveling through modern times on boats.

After all, if this were not the case, how could Warner cooperate with Pacific.

The purpose of both parties is definitely for the global market.

But the historical drama of the Ming Dynasty obviously does not attract foreigners.

If you want to attract foreigners to the cinema, you must have foreigners and the story must take place in a foreign country.

Just like Jackie Chan's "Rush Hour" and Andy Lau's "One Man".

Well, most people didn't expect that Zheng He had a lot of interactions with foreigners during his voyages to the West, and that he could have a chaotic war between China and the West.

This is no way.

During this period, most people actually didn’t think about filming such a social scene between the two parties.

After all, this kind of play is either a huge investment or a big scene, and most people can't afford it.

(End of this chapter)