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Chapter 751: Hollywood Dream, Don’t Chase It

Wu Jing got straight to the point and said, "Director Li, let me be frank. I want to make Wolf Warrior 3. But I have already made stories about fighting mercenaries both in China and abroad. The second part is obviously not as well received as the first one. I am afraid that if I continue to make stories about fighting mercenaries, people will criticize me for rehashing the past."

Li Yu asked in confusion: "You have been filming a lot of movies recently, playing important roles in all of them, and occupying important positions in the promotional posters. Why are you still thinking about filming Wolf Warrior 3? Your feeling is correct. It will be difficult for Wolf Warrior 3 to achieve great success by relying on the routines of the first two films."

One or two more films about beating up mercenaries will be enough. If there is a third one, the audience will really get tired of it.

In addition, "Wolf Warrior 2" itself is not worth such a high box office.

He is lucky and has encountered a good opportunity, becoming a pig in the wind. To put it bluntly, he is not worthy of his position.

If the third part follows the same pattern as the first two parts, the quality will probably be even worse, and Wu Jing will be scolded by everyone.

If Wu Jing just wanted to make some dirty money, and invested less, and made money by relying on the reputation accumulated from the first two films, and could cheat as many people as possible, then that would be fine.

But Wu Jing is currently at the peak of his career, so there is no need for him to do such a stupid thing of exhausting the resources.

Unless... Wu Jing dares to use his imagination and let Leng Feng stop fighting the mercenaries alone, but sit in the office and issue a wanted order to bring the villains to justice.

For example, in the fictional world, there are some evil forces or mercenary organizations in a certain place in Africa that do all kinds of evil and have killed many Dragon people in the fictional world.

Mercenary organizations and other evil forces are so arrogant that they even dare to kill police officers who were arranged by the Dragon Country to act as undercover agents.

Then Leng Feng, who had been promoted, stopped taking action. He made a phone call and issued a wanted order, causing a large number of weapons to appear out of nowhere in the home of the mercenary organization's arch-enemy.

Some are picked from the mountains, some are picked from trees, and some grow in the ground.

In the end, the mortal enemy used the weapons that grew out of the ground to kill the mercenary organization and the leader of the mercenary organization.

Anyone who truly offends our Dragon Nation will be punished no matter how far away they are!
If such a film was really made, netizens who revisit this film many years later would definitely sigh that Wu Jingzhen is a talented person and a great prophet.

Netizens also marveled that Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior 3" was too conservative, because reality is even more exaggerated than "Wolf Warrior 3".

But...if we shoot like this, we will face a very serious problem at the moment.

Not everyone has the ability to predict the future. People in the future may think that "Wolf Warrior 3" is a documentary.

But if such a movie is released now, it will definitely be criticized by everyone as a bad movie, right? And it is a super bad movie.

The audience would ask Wu Jing and the screenwriter if they drank too much fake wine. If it was real wine, or if there was a peanut on the table, they wouldn't be so drunk.

If you are too ahead of the times, everyone will think you are crazy.

So Li Yu advised Wu Jing, "Don't bother with your Wolf Warrior 3 for now. The timing is not right yet. You don't lack movies to shoot right now, so why are you in such a hurry to organize your own show?"
It is not easy to make a movie, and it is even more difficult to make a successful movie.

Don’t take one or two successes as a sign of being awesome, or you’ll end up dying miserably.”

Generally speaking, others would not dare to say these words for fear of offending Wu Jing.

Wu Jing's first film "Wolf Tooth" flopped, his second film "Wolf Warrior 1" made a name for himself, and his third film "Wolf Warrior 2" ranked first at the national box office.

If he tells this to other people in the circle, they will most likely agree with him.

Li Yu's situation is somewhat special, but Li Yu is Wu Jing's benefactor.

When Wu Jing's "Wolf Tooth" was a flop and no one was willing to invest in his "Wolf Warrior 1", Li Yu felt that this out-of-date actor and novice director had potential, so he invested in him.

So even though Li Yu said this, Wu Jing would not feel that Li Yu looked down on him.

People who look down on him would never invest money in him when he is at his worst, okay?
He felt that Li Yu was telling him the truth, the truth, which sometimes sounded harsh.

"You don't think highly of Wolf Warrior 3 either." Wu Jing was feeling a little depressed.

He does have a lot of movies to act in recently, but how can it be as fun to act in other people's movies as to act in one's own?

He really wanted to organize his own group and make another big move.

“It’s not that I’m not optimistic, it’s just that I’m not optimistic at the moment. If the time is right in the future, Wolf Warrior 3 can be filmed.” Li Yu emphasized this clearly.

Wu Jing pondered for a long time and finally accepted Li Yu's suggestion.

Wu Jing is a living person, and Li Yu can only give him advice that it is indeed not suitable to shoot "Wolf Warrior 3" at the moment.

If there are no new breakthroughs and more attractive highlights, it is estimated that it will not achieve even half or even one-third of the results of "Wolf Warrior 2".

It’s better not to shoot.

If Wu Jing refused to listen and insisted on going ahead, Li Yu would be unable to stop him.

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"Okay, I understand what you mean. Let's not talk about "Wolf Warrior 3" then. When will your "Joker" start filming? If there is a suitable role, I can give you a cameo appearance." Wu Jing said.

Of course, Wu Jing also had a Hollywood dream. He yearned for the Hong Kong entertainment industry in his early years, and even when the Hong Kong entertainment industry was in decline, he still plunged into it.

During Hong Kong's golden age, people like Jacky Cheung, Raymond Lam and Chow Yun-fat all went to Hollywood, hoping to make a name for themselves.

At that time, the bigwigs in the Hong Kong circle were most optimistic about Li Lianjie, but it turned out that Jackie Chan was the one who did the best there.

Chow Yun-fat is the worst. His Hollywood journey can be said to be a complete failure.

In his early years, Wu Jing's senior brother Li Lianjie took Wu Jing to Hollywood when he was filming "The Mummy 3" and helped Wu Jing get an assassin role in the movie.

It is said that the scene took dozens of seconds to shoot, but only a few seconds were edited in the end, and he got a box lunch as soon as he appeared on the screen.

If you don't slow down and pause the video, you can't even see his face.

If the opportunity is right, Wu Jing would like to appear in the movie "Joker" to fulfill his Hollywood dream.

Li Yu rejected Wu Jing's request: "Forget it, there's no need. Our Chinese actors don't need to be so cheap.

You are currently one of the most popular film actors in your country. You can play the leading role in your country. Why do you want to come to Hollywood to play a supporting role?

Besides, there are not many Chinese faces in the movie "Joker". The current plot is already very compact and I don't want to add another character.

If one more character is added, some things will have to be adjusted.”

Li Yu's script is very detailed, and he has written every small plot.

He is not like those directors in Hong Kong who write the script while filming and can add an actor temporarily.

Wu Jing did not insist. Since Li Yu said so, he gave up the idea.

Never mind, I won’t pursue the Hollywood dream.

(End of this chapter)