How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 222 Arranging Will Smith

Not long after Zhang Nan and Cheng Long got together, they attracted the attention of Will Smith, another protagonist of "Rush Hour 2".

Will Smith and Zhang Nan are old acquaintances, and they dare to slap people at the Oscars, and their skin is African.

So after walking over, don't be courteous, just open the mouth and say: "Zhang, I have an appointment to think about my brother."

When Zhang Nan heard Will Smith's words, he was taken aback for a moment, and then he reacted immediately.

It should be that he introduced Universal's "Bourne Shadow" project to Matt Damon, and Will Smith knew about it.

but……

"Will, are you still missing a film contract?" Zhang Nan looked at Will Smith in confusion.

The name of Two Tom and Will is not just called by Hollywood.

Will Smith smiled wryly when he heard the words, and did not answer Zhang Nan's question directly, but said: "[Wild Wild]'s box office exploded, and the sales of the album will not work. I feel that the previous Yingge The amphibious route is a little bit dead, and I want to specialize in movies."

After hearing Will Smith's answer, Zhang Nan's mind suddenly reacted.

The current situation of Will Smith is indeed a bit bad.

Because the current Will Smith is not the Will Smith who will have many excellent works in the future.

At present, the works that Will Smith can produce are only [Jedi Men], [Independence Day], [Men in Black 1], and [Rush Hour 1] introduced by Zhang Nan.

"Bad Boys" and "Independence Day" are his sole starring roles.

However, the box office of "Bad Boys" is mediocre and its influence is limited; and the box office of "Independence Day" is too explosive, so most of the glory was taken away by director Roland Emmerich.

[Men in Black 1] and [Rush Hour 1] are co-starred by him, Zhang Nan, and Cheng Long. At most, they can only share half of the influence, and it is still difficult to achieve.

Because [Men in Black 1] was mixed with Zhang Nan, and with Zhang Nan's current popularity, most of the influence of [Men in Black 1] was placed on Zhang Nan.

Needless to say [Rush Hour 1], the overall style of the movie is in the shape of a dragon.

So at this time, Will Smith's position in Hollywood is a bit hypocritical.

The reason why he was able to stand side by side with two white superstars like Tom in Hollywood.

Relying on the background of hip-hop, he found a way to increase the number of records with popular movies.

However, with a production cost of 1.8 million US dollars, "Wild Storm" only won a box office of 1.13 million US dollars in North America, and its performance in the global film market was also very poor, only winning a box office of 2.22 million US dollars.

Rao is that the investor of [Wild Storm] is Warner Bros., as a Hollywood giant, it can maximize the profits of a movie.

However, the results of "The Storm" still caused Warner to lose a lot of money on this project.

As a giant, Warner has so many fancy means that it is so miserable. Will Smith is even more uncomfortable relying on the big sales of movies to promote his records.

Introducing film appointments to Will Smith?

Zhang Nan thought about the actions of Will Smith in the original time and space after the failure of "Wild Storm".

Inspirational film [Return to Glory] with Matt Damon and Charlize Theron, biographical film [King Ali], fried rice [Men in Black 2] and [Jedi Men 2], as well as science fiction films [Mechanical Public Enemy], romance film [National Enemy in Love], another biographical film [When Happiness Knocks on the Door], another sci-fi film [I Am Legend]...

From the perspective of Will Smith's entire career, the peak period was "Independence Day", and it has now passed.

Will Smith in the future is working on two biographical commercial films that are more literary and artistic. After settling down, relying on the series of "Men in Black 2" and "Bad Boys 2", he can revive them.

But that's it.

But in general, although Will Smith's peak has passed and has begun to decline, he still has a certain place in the future.

The route of Will Smith in the original space-time is quite good.

And Zhang Nan can't think of any better development route for a while.

So Zhang Nan copied the development route of Will Smith's original space-time and gave suggestions.

"How about this, Will, let's put it aside for commercial films first. I'll find you some projects that are essentially commercial films, but wrapped in a layer of artistic attributes. You should try to participate in it first, settle it, and accumulate some background. Then [Men in Black 2] is almost ready to be brought out, let's work together again."

Zhang Nan spoke out the development route of Will Smith's original time and space in an arranged tone in advance, which seemed particularly organized and reasonable.

In Will Smith's ears, it is very in line with his psychological expectations - can it be unreasonable, it is the path he originally chose.

"Zhang..." After hearing Zhang Nan's arrangement, Will Smith was so excited that he became incoherent.

But after being a little excited for a while, Will Smith suddenly thought of something, and said, "The director of [Men in Black 2], is he still looking for Barry Sonnenfeld?"

From Will Smith's tone, Zhang Nan heard that Will Smith did not want "Men in Black 2" to continue to be directed by Barry Sonnenfeld.

The reason is also very simple.

The "Wild Storm" that led to this situation is the masterpiece of the director Barry Sonnenfeld.

And the future [Men in Black 2] has become the only important project that Will Smith can turn around at this time.

Find Barry Sonnenfeld to direct again. If the ending of "Wild Wild" is repeated, it will be too murderous.

But Zhang Nan heard what Will Smith meant, but he didn't follow Will Smith's thoughts for a while.

Because although Barry Sonnenfeld has produced "Wild Storm", and there are no well-known works in the future except for the "Men in Black" series.

But [Men in Black 1] was also directed by someone else!

The sequel kicked out other directors, which is a bit unreasonable.

And in the future [Men in Black 3], they will do pretty well, with a global box office of 6.24 million US dollars, which is pretty good.

"It's too early to say these, let's see the situation."

Zhang Nan did not give an affirmative answer in the end.

And Will Smith was just asking for help, so it's not easy to force Zhang Nan.

After finishing the cameo, chatting with the two leading actors of [Rush Hour 2] and Chenglong about the schedule, and arranging the future development path for Will Smith, Zhang Nan took the money and started to run away.

And at the same time Zhang Nan was running away from the crew of [Rush Hour 2], someone was also rushing from Kimchi Country towards Hollywood.

He is still the director of CJ Film and Television Company, but he is not accompanied by his son, but a new actress who is currently emerging in Kimchi Country-Jeon Ji-hyun.

(End of this chapter)