director of the millennium

In the "Doctor Strange" series, "Wang" is an indispensable character.

In the original comics, Wong is Doctor Strange's assistant, servant, bodyguard and good friend. He is a martial arts master and a master of magical knowledge. He participates in almost all of Doctor Strange's adventures, and the two are the best partners.

In the movie script of "Doctor Strange", he is set to be Doctor Strange's teacher, the librarian of Kamar-Taj who collects a large number of mysterious books.

It is worth mentioning that in the comics, Wang does not know magic, although he knows a lot of magical knowledge. Master Ancient One taught almost all of his magical knowledge to Wang.

But although the king himself cannot use magic, he is able to fight against wizards with ease because he is very familiar with various spells and can fight against wizards through martial arts.

However, there is no such setting in the movie script. Wang is even a battle mage in the movie. He is very good at opening portals and playing with magic whips, but there is nothing special about him in terms of martial arts.

However, it is not easy to find a suitable actor for this "king".

Maybe it’s because of preconceived ideas, Wu Yuan thinks the original actor performed very well. When he thinks of Wang, he will think of the original actor’s face that looks like Ma Dong-seok.

After much thought, Wu Yuan, who originally wanted to find a Chinese actor, couldn't think of an actor more suitable than the original.

Just like Doctor Strange has to be played by Benedict Wong, Wu Yuan thinks that Wang has to be played by Benedict Wong.

Yes, what a coincidence, the actors who play Doctor Strange and Wong are both named Benedict in real life, just with different surnames.

Maybe because they are all British, this name may be very popular in the UK, just like Zhang Wei and Li Qiang.

I can only say that maybe this is fate.

It was because the two people had the same name that Wu Yuan remembered this Benedict Wang.

Without coming up with a better option, Wu Yuan called Marvel and asked them to contact the British-Chinese actor.

It is worth mentioning that he is a pure second-generation Chinese and may not even be able to speak Chinese.

Soon, Marvel gave feedback that Benedict Wong was a minor actor in Hollywood and was not difficult to find. He did not have many film contracts and could only shoot one film or TV work a year on average. His schedule was very loose, so Marvel only spent a few hundred thousand dollars to sign him.

Well, he felt like he had made a killing and called Wu Yuan personally to thank him for choosing him to star in Doctor Strange.

It was also during this phone call that Wu Yuan confirmed that this second-generation Chinese was indeed a thorough British person. His Chinese proficiency was only at the level of "hello" and "thank you" and at most he only knew some common Cantonese because his parents were immigrants from Hong Kong Island.

This is relatively rare in most Chinese families.

After all, second-generation Chinese immigrants, influenced by their parents, should communicate in Chinese at home. It is usually not until the third generation that they stop using Chinese. Even immigrants from Southeast Asia will still use Chinese to communicate after five or six generations.

But Wu Yuan wisely did not have a deeper discussion with Benedict Wong on this topic. He just needed an actor who could play the role well and did not want to explore too much else.

At this point, the important actors of "Doctor Strange" are gathered together.

After the three main actors, Doctor Strange, Ancient One, and Wong, were confirmed, the other roles, including the villain actors, were left to the producers to decide. Then Wu Yuan only had to wait until November to join the crew for filming.

However, before joining the crew to shoot this movie, Wu Yuan first had to complete the release of "Riding the Wind".

Soon, just a few days after Wu Yuan finished the casting of "Doctor Strange", the time came to October 10. As a tribute film, "Riding the Wind" did not hold any special premiere. After all, this is a gift to the motherland, and the creators don't need to steal the show.

On October 10st, Wu Yuan stayed at home obediently and did not go anywhere.

This year, there was a grand military parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the victory in the anti-French war, but it was not held on National Day, but on the anniversary day of September 9.

At that time, Wu Yuan also stayed at home to watch the live broadcast of CCTV. He waited in front of the TV early in the morning, waiting for the military parade to start at 10 o'clock!
As a normal man, it is really hard to resist the charm of the military parade.

Since he became conscious, Wu Yuan has never missed any live broadcast of the military parade and has watched it all.

Every time Wu Yuan sees those heroic and majestic military trains, as well as the country's most important weapons that represent "truth", his blood boils.

Perhaps every man has a military dream in his heart.

In short, Wu Yuan was very satisfied with this year's military parade and even did some very childish and excited things!

However, Liu Yifei was amused several times by Wu Yuan's childish look. Especially when the military formation was coming on TV, Wu Yuan showed an expression more serious than the leader and waved at the TV. Liu Yifei found it so funny.

All I can say is that the saying that a man stays young until he dies is indeed true!

However, Wu Yuan stayed at home on National Day, not to watch the live broadcast, nor did he watch the military parade live.

The main reason is that there is no premiere, and "Riding the Wind" is a tribute film, so Wu Yuan doesn't have to worry about the release of this movie, and he doesn't need to appear on any variety shows or run roadshows to promote the movie.

The only thing he could do was to stay at home and wait for news about the premiere results.

At the same time, in more than 40 cinemas across the country, "Riding the Wind" is ranked first in the list of movies being screened, and has the most screenings of all the movies showing today, accounting for nearly %!

In fact, since it is a celebration of the 9th anniversary of the victory of the anti-French war, it would be most appropriate for this movie to be released on September 3, the same date as the military parade.

But September 9rd is not a legal holiday, and it is not even a weekend. If this movie is scheduled to be released on September 3rd, it will not be convenient for the public to watch it.

Moreover, due to Wu Yuan's tight schedule at the time, he hoped that the release date of "Riding the Wind" could be delayed to avoid the embarrassment of having to be withdrawn from the release schedule at the last minute. Therefore, he finally decided to schedule it for the National Day.

This decision wasn’t actually that correct.

Although, during this National Day holiday, there will certainly be countless civil servants, state-owned enterprise employees, and Wu Yuan's fans who will take advantage of the holiday to go to the cinema with their relatives and friends and choose to watch "Ride the Wind", a special tribute film directed by Wu Yuan.

On the day of its premiere, "Riding the Wind" had over 40 screenings, with an average attendance rate of over %!

However, during this National Day holiday, "Riding the Wind" has a big rival beside it, which was released five days earlier!
The next day, just after midnight, the national ticketing system calculated the first-day box office performance of "Riding the Wind" - 1.86 million!
Successfully broke the first-day box office record of 1.7 million set by "Monster Hunt"!
But unfortunately, it failed to break the first-day box office record of 2.12 million set by "Lost in Hong Kong", which was released five days earlier than "Sisters in the Wind"!

Yes, the biggest rival of "Sisters Who Ride the Wind" at the same time is none other than "Lost in Hong Kong", the sequel to the top comedy IP!

When Wu Yuan received the news about the box office results, he showed an expression of "as expected" and sighed softly.

"Sure enough, Lost in Hong Kong is still amazing." (End of this chapter)