China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 718 Don’t brag too much
Finally, the senior management of Huana made the final decision and they invested 200 million yuan.

They had to return the favor, and Li Yu rejected Dishini's invitation for them.

Li Yu is so kind and has helped them make so much money. If they are unwilling to go all in with Li Yu, their vision would be really small.

It’s just 120 million. It’s no big deal if I lose it all.

Li Yu's "Aquaman" and "Barbie" helped them earn more than 120 million.

Besides, since Joker failed, they could have taken advantage of the situation and asked Li Yu to shoot Aquaman 2, right? They could have made back all the money they lost with interest.

Li Yu's ability to shoot commercial films has been verified by the market many times.

As long as Li Yu is willing, it won't be a problem to make a movie that can make money.

Since Huana had promised to pay, Li Yu began to look for actors for the movie.

The first to be affected is of course the Joker, the core character of the movie.

For this role, Li Yu decided to copy Huajin Phoenix directly.

Sith Lacco's Joker has become a legend and in the eyes of many people is an unsurpassed classic.

Joker Phoenix was able to create another Joker who was no less charming than Sith Lako, and he even won the Oscar for Best Actor. There is no need to doubt his acting skills.

But Hua Jin is not an easy person to invite.

His taste in choosing scripts has remained unchanged for decades. He once publicly stated that he would not take a role for fame or fortune.

He has also publicly stated that he has no interest in roles in comic book movies.

After all, in the United States, the most popular comic-adapted movies are those superhero movies produced by Man Wei.

Those superhero movies are undoubtedly very successful in the commercial field, but they are not attractive to actors with artistic pursuits.

On the contrary, aspiring actors are quite disgusted with superhero movies.

Not to mention veteran actors like Hua Jin, even Chris Evans, who plays Captain America, is very resistant to the role.

He is an artistic young man with an artistic heart. He does not want to be bound by the superhero Captain America and wants to challenge more different roles.

However, it is hard to say whether he will be successful in the future. Anyway, he is already highly tied to the role of Captain America, no matter whether he is happy or not, or willing to admit it or not.

When people mention Captain America, his is the face that comes to mind.

Hua Na invited Hua Jin, but was rejected by Hua Jin.

Huana's people called Hua Jin again, but were rejected again.

Because Hua Jin has some prejudices against superhero movies, he thinks what nutrition can superhero movies have? They are just cartoons for adults, just for fun, and he dislikes this type of movie the most.

Finally, Li Yu personally went to Hua Jin's home to have a face-to-face meeting with Hua Jin.

The people at Hua Na felt that there was no need for Li Yu to come in person. There were many good actors in Hollywood, so why did they have to stick to Hua Jin?

Li Yu just smiled and didn't respond.

In his opinion, the role of the Joker is really the right one for Hua Jin.

Besides Hua Jin, who else could play the clown to that level? Li Yu couldn't think of any other actor.

If there is a full-mark answer in front of him, he must copy it.

"I know you've publicly stated that you're not interested in superhero roles.

But I think you should still understand my script. The Joker is a good comic book adaptation, but I can guarantee that this script is different from your impression of superhero scripts.

I have brought the script with me, you can take a look at it first."

Li Yu said calmly. Hua Jin knew who Li Yu was.

One of the most popular directors in Hollywood in the past two years. Not all ordinary people in the United States may know Li Yu, but Hua Jin, as an insider, must know Li Yu.

It's like an actor in the domestic film industry who doesn't know Guoshi, Chen Kaige, and Feng Xiaogang. Is it possible? Unless the Chinese entertainment film industry he is in is not in the same dimension as the Chinese film industry that everyone is familiar with.

Hua Jin probably didn't expect that Li Yu, the popular director, would come to invite him personally.

Logically speaking, since such a big shot as Li Yu came to invite him personally, he should give him face.

It's a pity that he's really not interested in comic-based superhero movies.

He only takes roles that he likes and never takes a role for fame or fortune, so he could only say sorry to Li Yu.

This is what Hua Jin thought in his heart.

But he is not a person with low emotional intelligence. He is a big director, and it would be too disrespectful to him to just refuse and kick him out.

So Hua Jin plans to start with this script.

He wanted to find faults in the script and then use those faults as reasons to reject Li Yu.

This makes perfect sense.

Seeing Hua Jin pick up the script, Li Yu smiled.

He was not afraid of Hua Jin reading the script, but he was afraid that Hua Jin would not read the script.

This script and the character of the Joker will definitely conquer Hua Jin.

This is indeed the case, everything is moving in the direction Li Yu expected.

Hua Jin read the entire script word for word from beginning to end. At first he was disdainful, thinking that a superhero script couldn't be that special and it was completely impossible to impress him.

He said he would not take a role in a comic book-adapted superhero movie, and he just wouldn't take it.

Even if Hua Jin had no more movies to shoot and was starving to death, he would not take any job.

However, no one can escape the law of true fragrance, and he soon found himself slapped in the face.

He found that Li Yu was not bragging, and this script was really different from ordinary superhero scripts.

Strictly speaking, although the name of this script is Joker, it has nothing to do with the Joker in the comics.

Sith Raike is essentially the Joker in the Batman story, representing pure evil and chaos.

The Joker in this script may appear similar to Sith Laco's Joker in terms of outward appearance, but its spiritual core and theme are completely different.

This is not a superhero script at all, but a very good crime drama script.

After reading the script, Hua Jin's prejudice against superhero movies was finally eliminated, and he was very glad that Li Yu came to him in person.

If Li Yu hadn't come to him, he might have missed out on a great role.

"This is the type of role I like, I'm willing to take it." Hua Jin admitted that he was slapped in the face.

I shouldn't have boasted so much at the beginning. I agreed not to accept such a script, but I accepted it anyway.

"Are you sure? If you want to play the role of the Joker well, you will have to make great sacrifices. With your current body shape, you will have to lose at least 40 to 50 pounds," Li Yu reminded.

This is for the needs of the plot. It is normal for actors to gain or lose weight for the sake of the plot and to better fit the role.

The leading actor of the "Batman" trilogy has a nickname of Rubber Man in Hollywood, which means that he can adjust his weight at any time to fit the role. He can lose 56 kilograms in a month and his weight drops to just over kilograms.

Then, in order to play Batman well, he spent half a year to gain weight to 182 pounds, becoming a very powerful superhero, which is really outrageous.

(End of this chapter)