China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 701 He Refused
There are few popular actresses in China who are not interested in "Mulan".

Many people who have had dealings with Hualiu Company have called the company to inquire about the situation.

The company did not receive any confirmed information from Li Yu and could only give a perfunctory answer.

Such an answer obviously cannot satisfy those hungry female stars.

Some girls who had a good personal relationship with Li Yu even called Li Yu.

For example, Liu Yifei, she has the most positive attitude.

She and her team's decision maker, her mother, heard that Dishini was willing to invite Li Yu to cooperate.

Mother Liu used her connections in the United States to inquire and found out that the news was not groundless and that there really was such a plan within Disini.

After learning about these circumstances, she hurriedly urged Liu Yifei to contact Li Yu as soon as possible.

If Li Yu can finally become the chief director of "Mulan", their chances of getting their dream roles will increase significantly and the difficulty will decrease significantly.

Li Yu achieved great results in Hollywood with "Aquaman" and "Barbie".

Those are real global movie box office numbers.

He has had two successful experiences in the Hollywood market and is also a big director with strong appeal in the local Chinese market.

If Li Yu joins, he will definitely have a lot of say.

Even if Li Yu cannot directly decide on a certain actress to play Mulan, Li Yu's suggestion can become a very important suggestion to Deshini.

Li Yu strongly recommends a person, and the probability of this person successfully getting the role is quite high.

As for those who say that the foreign entertainment industry is more fair and transparent than the domestic one, and that roles are obtained based on one's ability, you can just listen to such words.

Li Yu stayed in Hollywood for a while and found that the entertainment industry abroad was much darker than that in China.

Let’s just say that compared with foreign countries, domestic entertainment seems much more innocent.

Those who say that China is a society based on human relationships, while foreign countries are not such societies, and that foreign countries only care about fairness and law are talking nonsense.

As far as Li Yu knows, the relationships and circles there are no less wonderful than those in China, and in some places they are even more outrageous than those in China.

For example, some people will give gifts to powerful people, and then exchange them for favors and get business cards signed by powerful people.

If you commit a crime outside one day, and it is not particularly serious, you can use your business card to make light of it.

For example, if you are caught for not obeying traffic rules, and you give the traffic police a business card of a big shot, the traffic police will take the card and not issue a ticket, and the favor of the big shot will be used up.

Some bigwigs will change the style and anti-counterfeiting method of their business cards every once in a while.

If the favor is not used beyond the time limit, it will automatically expire.

What? Want to get a new favor (business card)? Then you have to give a gift again. There is no such thing as returning a gift for a refund after it expires.

When personal connections can become a clearly priced business, this is what a true capitalist society is all about.

Aunt Liu brought Liu Yifei to the United States many years ago, and they believe they know the situation there better than Li Yu.

They know very well that fairness is all bullshit.

The difficulty of getting roles for them is very different with or without Li Yuzai.

"Li Yu, congratulations on the huge box office success of your movie "Barbie" overseas." Liu Yifei came up and praised the brilliant performance of "Barbie".

Her mother protected her very well, but she is old enough to know some basic social etiquette and polite words. Again, most of the stars who can be popular in the entertainment industry for many years have high emotional intelligence.

You can doubt the cultural level of celebrities, but you cannot doubt their emotional intelligence.

Few of those who can thrive in the world of fame and fortune are brainless.

"Forget about the congratulations. Since the release of Barbie, I've received at least thirty calls from people congratulating me, including calls from home and abroad." Li Yu felt a little melancholy.

People are afraid of becoming famous just like pigs are afraid of getting fat. The ancients were not lying to me.

Those who called Li Yu to congratulate him were basically people of status and position, or people who had a good relationship with Li Yu.

For example, those who are not very familiar with Li Yu but want to be familiar to Li Yu, they dare not call Li Yu for fear of disturbing Li Yu and being put on Li Yu's blacklist.

There are more people of this kind, and they all sent WeChat messages to congratulate Li Yu.

It is no exaggeration to say that Li Yu's phone has been blowing up these days, like a female celebrity's phone number leaked, with phone messages coming every few minutes.

"The domestic media are saying that you are going to be the director of Mulan. Is that true?" Liu Yifei asked straight to the point.

"It's all the media that's spreading the news. The domestic media just translated the foreign media reports into Chinese. Maybe Deshini really has this in mind.

But they haven't officially sent anyone to contact me yet, so if you want to ask me if it's true, I don't know how to answer, you can judge for yourself."

Li Yu replied.

"They are all thinking about this, which proves that the information is reliable. Maybe their people will contact you today." Liu Yifei said optimistically.

If she were to judge, that's what she thought.

She felt that as long as Li Yu was willing, Li Yu could be the director of "Mulan" and then give her a backdoor.

Liu Yifei asked optimistically: "If they really let someone contact you, you should agree to them, right? That's Dishini. If you agree to them, you can recommend me to play Huamu..."

Li Yu interrupted Liu Yifei directly: "If they really invite me to be the director of this movie, I will refuse."

"What???" Liu Yifei was completely stunned.

Reject? Seriously? This is an epic production with an investment of 300 million RMB.

If Deshini invited other domestic directors, they would agree without hesitation.

When it came to Li Yu, he actually said no?
"You heard it right. If they really contacted me and said they wanted to work with me, I would refuse." Li Yu emphasized again.

He wasn't kidding, he was serious.

He doesn't want to touch the big pit of Deshini's "Mulan".

He knew that the cost of 300 million was inflated, and 100 million of it was for publicity and promotion.

Also, this movie invited a number of superstars such as Li Lianjie and Gong Huang, which must have cost a lot of money. The pay of these people is ridiculously high, and there is no cost-effectiveness at all.

After deducting these expenses, how much is the actual cost of production? Anyway, it is far less than the figures they boasted.

Add to that the arrogance in their bones, and they want to make money in China using stories about China without having a deep understanding of history.

In fact, the failure of this movie was doomed from the beginning, but no one dared to question the powerful Deshini.

After all, Disini has had brilliant achievements in the past. If anyone dares to say that he is not optimistic about "Mulan", someone will immediately criticize Disini with more than a dozen movies that have grossed over 1 billion US dollars, saying that how can a small person like you understand movies better than Disini?

(End of this chapter)