Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 362 Breaking through billion, JW's idea

So, that night, the crew of "Cold Wind" announced the final box office.

Two billion one hundred and thirty-four million.

Break through the 2 billion target.

Breaking the box office record for domestic films.

Such an achievement shocked China, Asia, and even the Hollywood film industry.

For the Chinese film market, every breakthrough in movie box office means the growth of the film market, a deepening of the market's impression of domestic films, and increased competitiveness of domestic films.

This is undoubtedly good news for all filmmakers.

For films from many Asian countries, it is more complicated.

For example, when people learned that the main plot of "Cold Wind" was about cherry blossoms wreaking havoc, killing the Sakura president with one shot, and overturning the unified character who originated in Korea and was hated and loathed by countless people, countless people spoke out online, hoping that "Cold Wind" could be introduced to China as soon as possible.

They want to see Leng Feng go on a killing spree!
In addition, there are many Korean directors who, after watching Leng Feng while abroad, felt that their creative ideas were flowing and they had a lot of flashes of inspiration. They couldn't wait to form a crew and make ten or eight reflective films on the issue of "unified role".

It is worth noting that when the "Uni-President Corner" was established in Korea, its founder was arrested for several months for various illegal activities during its operation.

After the cherry blossom season, its development speed was extremely fast.

I can only say that foreign monks are really good at chanting.

As for Hollywood, they were shocked by the speed of development of the Chinese film market.

It hasn't been long since the record set by "Avatar" in China was broken, and then surpassed again by nearly one billion.

Countless film industry bosses, film and television investors, directors, and crews have turned their attention to China, a market with huge potential... no, it cannot be said to be a market with huge potential.

With the box office of "Cold Wind" reaching 2.1 billion, the Chinese film industry market has already been able to squeeze into the top three markets in the world.

It's a complete behemoth.

And it is still developing rapidly.

Many people began to reconsider their cooperation with China.

Correspondingly, last year in Cannes, the person in charge of Walt who hoped to lower the price of "Lucy" by "inviting Zhou Mo to shoot "Shang-Chi"" was scolded by Zhou Mo. According to rumors, he has been dismissed.

On the phone, Luc Besson and De Niro both congratulated Zhou Mo.

"Zhou, congratulations on your box office exceeding 2 billion yuan."

"Blake, you are now the most famous young director in China."

"Thank you."

The news that Walter's person in charge was dismissed was conveyed by these two people.

"By the way, Zhou, Lucy has been completely filmed. What's left is post-production. According to the plan, it should be released in July this year."

Zhou Mo is in good spirits.

According to the previous plan, after the filming of "Lucy", Luc Besson will rest for less than a month, and then he will start filming the European and American version of "John Wick".

Since it is a European and American version, Zhou Mo simply called it "JW (John Wick)".

The protagonist is still played by Keanu Reeves.

The decision was made by Luc Besson.

Don’t think that international directors don’t want to save money. Compared with other stars previously discussed, Keanu Reeves’s cost-effectiveness is simply explosive.

Due to the failure of "Man of Tai Chi", Keanu Reeves is in urgent need of another work to restore his reputation.

So, when Luc Besson approached him and proposed a collaboration, Keanu Reeves agreed readily even though the pay was very low.

In addition to this, Luc Besson also considered that Keanu Reeves is mixed-race, with one-eighth Chinese blood. He is very popular among the public in China, much more popular than some Hollywood male stars.

This will be a good material for future promotion of "JW" in China.

"Zhou, I have sent you the final version of the script of "JW". What do you think?" Zhou Mo nodded across the phone, then realized that the other party couldn't see.

He changed his nod to an "hmm".

"I've seen it, it's very good."

Due to Zhou Mo's operation, Zhang Zhi has replaced the story line of JW, so the story of "JW" must be changed into a new version.

According to the joint opinion of Luc Besson and Zhou Mo, the general plot of "JW" has become:
JW is a killer among InterContinental Hotels in America.

In addition, JW is actually a retired veteran. He chose to retire because he was tired of war life.

But due to severe post-war post-traumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD, JW himself could not adapt to normal life at all.

So, by chance, JW once again joined the InterContinental Hotel and became one of the killers. With his outstanding abilities, he became the nightmare of countless people.

Then, it’s the old routine of “I didn’t mean to cause trouble, but trouble happened to me.”

JW's peaceful life of "getting up early in the morning to buy a hamburger and killing someone by the way" was disrupted.

One day, he was approached by someone who, through a blood contract, asked him to carry out an assassination.

The target of the assassination is a wealthy man.

After JW killed the man as requested, he discovered that in addition to being a wealthy man, he was actually connected to the Eagle Sauce GOV, working for them and providing information for them.

The moment the mission was completed, he was attacked.

At this point, JW knew that he had fallen into a trap and was being cheated.

After evading numerous pursuits, JW finally found the person who hired him with a blood contract, and learned from him who was manipulating everything behind the scenes.

It turned out to be a person in the Eagle Sauce GOV with a powerful background. He wanted to kill JW because JW had participated in a mission involving confidential information during his service.

At this point, JW, who had figured out the situation, started killing people indiscriminately, shooting and blowing people in the head along the way.

Until the mastermind behind the scenes is killed.

But the moment he killed the "mastermind", the real conspiracy came to light.

The so-called mastermind behind the scenes is nothing more than a pawn.

For a true chess player, his goal is never JW or any war secrets, but the InterContinental Hotel!

Meanwhile, JW is also in danger.

At this point, the plot of the first part has officially ended.

On the phone, Zhou Mo discussed the plot with Luc Besson for a while, while De Niro served as a consultant, providing advice to the two and judging whether there were some sensitive points in the movie script that were unique to the Eagle Sauce.

For example, when it comes to GOV.

"You said gov, it's a small matter."

De Niro was very calm: "The current president is Obama. As long as his skin color and race are not mentioned in the movie, other content related to the president, even jokes about the president, are not a big problem."

"Zhou, your idea is completely logical. Being cheated and then taking revenge is completely commercial. We have at least 25 gunfight movies involving the government every year, if not 50. And the image of the government is always negative.

So you don’t need to worry about that at all.”

De Niro used his own personal experience to show that these were not a big deal.

Both Luc Besson and Zhou Mo listened to it with great interest.

Although they have all done research on the American film market and even have a dedicated team.

But there is a huge gap between the text obtained through research and the personal narration of De Niro, who has been in the film industry for his entire life.

As Zhou Mo listened to De Niro's explanation, he suddenly remembered his impression of De Niro's disgust for a certain big golden retriever.

(End of this chapter)