Hong Kong Entertainment: Kung Fu Superstar 1981

Chapter 236 Zhang Yang’s new series
The next day, early in the morning.

When Zhang Yang woke up from the room, Manyu was gone.

On the table, there was only a note written by her.

"Don't wait for me, I will catch up with you."

Zhang Yang scratched his head, his thoughts in his heart were a little messy for a while.

With a soft sigh, he folded the notes and put them in the drawer of the bedside table.

Regarding emotional matters, he really didn't know how to face them now, nor did he plan to face them.

There are so many things he wants to do, and at least right now, he has little interest.

……

When we arrived at Yingyang Company, it was already past ten in the morning.

The company's internal post-editing team, under the guidance of Wu Yusen, has begun editing the negatives of "Angel Action". As for Chen Jiashang, he has already led Zou Long and his old team to start editing "The Ultimate Fighter 2" of shooting.

Back in the office, Zhang Yang first sorted out the script of "Fighter 2" as a whole, planning to let Chen Jia take charge of the sequel after the filming of "The Ultimate Fighter 2" was completed.

As for promoting himself, he naturally has to start thinking about a new script.

After filming the two "Raid" films, the foundation of DeYoung Cinema has been completely stabilized, and YingYang Company's goal for the next film is also very clear, which is to target North America, Europe, and East Asia, the three YingYang Entertainments have not yet been able to reach. Mainly in areas of radiation.

As for the local box office in Hong Kong Island, Zhang Yang no longer has to worry about it. With his star power, as long as the quality of the film is excellent, even if it does not have a large degree of local adaptability like series such as "Five Lucky Stars" and "The Best Partner" Improvements can also create high box office.

As for which film to choose?
In fact, Zhang Yang already had an answer to this matter.

For everyone who understands the evolution process of kung fu action movies, they have this very clear line in their hearts.

This line has evolved from the earliest and strict kung fu movies of the early Republic of China, to the kung fu comedies of the era of Hong Jin Bo and Jackie Chan, and then to the kung fu movies of the early 2000s like "The Fuse" and "The Ultimate Fighter" that focused on ring kung fu.

Two thousand years later, Hong Kong cinema declined, and a large number of Hong Kong martial artists represented by Yuan Heping went overseas. Faced with the general lack of Kung Fu foundation among foreign actors, these martial artists could only choose to cooperate with editors. It pioneered action movies such as "Mission: Impossible" that use fast editing to express the tension of the action.

At this stage, although the actors' kung fu abilities were not taken seriously, its fast editing rhythm gave birth to the most powerful combinations of this era, namely action movies such as "The Raid".

The actors are strong, the editing is fast-paced, and the plot is simple and direct.

This type of action movie is like a fist that gathers all its strength into one point. It relies on this one punch to be invincible. It completely opens the door to a new world of kung fu action movies and has also become a template for countless people to imitate. .

In fact, it was not the "Raid" series of movies that pioneered this model that brought the advantages of this type of action movie to the extreme, but another movie. Similarly, this movie is what Zhang Yang wants to do next. A series that was shot and intended to be used to open up overseas markets...

"John Wick"!
This series of movies starring Keanu Reeves was just a small-budget film that the management did not pay much attention to when the first one was released. However, with the large number of novel CQB fighting techniques shown in the film, coupled with the fast-paced The editing of the images enhanced the excitement of the film, instantly making the film a hit in the North American market and sweeping the world like a hurricane.It was also after this film that the mixed martial arts style that was once the most popular in the international film industry was pulled from the altar. Many foreign movies gradually began to adopt CQB as the theme of the fighting style in their films.

Although Zhang Yang is far from proficient in CQB fighting, he has some understanding of it when he was in the United States. In addition, his strength foundation in mixed martial arts is here, and there is Wu Yusen, a master director who created the concept of "gun fighting". Here, he believes that if they work together, they will be able to recreate the scene Zhang Yang wants in the movie.

With the help of the four "John Wick" movies, Zhang Yang has absolute confidence that Yingyang Company can completely open the overseas market that it has not been able to open before and achieve the final result.

Having made a decision in his mind, Zhang Yang quickly began to compile the script for "John Wick".

As Zhang Yang said before, the script of this kind of stylized action movie is not too complicated, especially as the first film in the series. When it was first created, neither the management nor Keanu Reeves himself , did not expect that the film would be such a success in the follow-up.

Therefore, the script design of the film appears to be extremely concise and simple.

It can even be summed up in one sentence.

For a pet dog, destroy a group.

However, although the script was quickly sorted out, Zhang Yang did not immediately enter the filming stage.

Firstly, the post-editing work of "Angel" had to be supervised by Wu Yusen, and there was no time for filming. As for the second and most important point, in order to prepare for the filming of "John Wick", Zhang Yang had to go through a lot of evil. Supplement your firearms knowledge and sort out the CQB fighting skills that have not yet been formed.

After locking all the scripts in the safe, Zhang Yang picked up the phone on the table.

"Hello? Boss Pan, it's me, Zhang Yang. Well, I have something to ask you. Do you know where there is a club on Hong Kong Island where you can practice shooting? Okay, I'll write down the address right now..."

……

While Zhang Yang was busy preparing for Yingyang Entertainment's follow-up "John Wick" series, in TVB's office building, Zhou Xingxing looked at the notice in his hand with excitement and was ecstatic.

After graduating from the training class, he was not reused as expected in TVB. Instead, he was assigned to a children's program called "430 Shuttle" and became the host.

And it took more than two years to do this.

Looking back on everything he has experienced in the past two years, if Zhang Yang hadn't been optimistic about him and kept praising him for his talent, he really wouldn't know how he could have persisted.

As time came to 86, he finally left the children's program that he couldn't bear to look back on, and was officially transferred to TVB's drama team. The drama team also officially notified him that he would be the leading actor. , starring in sitcoms.

Although he is still far from the big screen he yearns for, there is no doubt that he is finally getting closer to the word actor.

When he came to the public phone booth, Zhou Xingxing hesitated for a long time and finally dropped a coin.

Although he didn't know whether it was suitable or not, he couldn't help but want to share this joy with Zhang Yang.

(End of this chapter)