The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 48 Stallone

Zhao Yazhi's parents heard the news that Xu Guanwu planned to go to the United States to develop, and they also planned to invite him to their home for dinner. By the way, they asked him how to deal with his relationship with his daughter, but they were firmly stopped by the tender-faced Zhao Yazhi.

The news that Xu Guanwu decided to go to the United States made Zhao Yazhi at a loss.

She didn't know whether to go with Xu Guanwu, nor whether to break up with him, so Zhao Yazhi, unable to make a decision, could only escape reality like an ostrich.

Before Xu Guanwu got on the plane, she kept avoiding meeting Xu Guanwu.

It wasn't until the moment when Xu Guanwu passed the security check that Zhao Yazhi walked out quietly.

"I'll pick you up when I'm settled over there." Xu Guanwu has been searching for Zhao Yazhi's trace. At first, he thought she would not come, but when he saw her pretty figure, Xu Guanwu was still very excited.

Zhao Yazhi nodded, and was about to say something when Xu Guanwu was pushed away by the flow of people.There was a sudden heartache in my heart, and I hated myself for not showing up earlier.

"I don't know how long this trip will take." Zhao Yazhi thought with tears in her eyes.

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Xu Guanwu took a plane to Hollywood, USA, where the Golden Harvest branch is located.

Hollywood has gathered more than [-] film and television companies, attracting a large number of world-class directors, actors, screenwriters, and special effects personnel.

Countless people come here to pursue their dreams every day, and countless people choose to leave disappointed every day. All in all, this is a huge dream-making machine.

In the 70s and [-]s, American films were still at a low ebb. Hollywood film companies closed every day, and film companies also opened.

The opening of Golden Harvest's US branch was a big fanfare. Xu Guanwu specially invited a dragon and lion dance team from Chinatown in Los Angeles to make a name for himself, and danced on Burbank Avenue for two consecutive days.

Although this item only cost one hundred thousand dollars, it gave Golden Harvest a brand name, and all of Hollywood knew for a while that a Hong Kong film company had opened.

This has attracted many down-and-out producers, actors, and directors to come and explore.

In order to support Xu Guanwu's work, Jiahe sent two old officials of Jiahe to help him, and they also took on the duty of monitoring.

Zhou Zhengyang and Zou Wenhuai, the old courtiers who followed when he left the Shaw Brothers, have higher qualifications than Xu Guanwu, and are very experienced in film production.

Cui Yuye, who once studied in the United States, returned to Hong Kong to join Golden Harvest, but was kicked back to the United States by He Guanchang.He had studied film in the United States before, and he has a deep understanding of American native films.

The branch office opened for business. Although there were only these three people in total, the sparrow was small and well-equipped.

Manager Xu Guanwu is responsible for reviewing and making decisions; Zhou Zhengyang is responsible for calculating investment costs; Cui Yuye is responsible for contacting and publicizing.

When Xu Guanwu first arrived in Hollywood, he was really full of pride. He wanted to open up the situation and show his strengths. Everyone would be warmly welcomed when he came.

But for one month in a row, there were almost 5000 people who talked, but there were no superstars that Xu Guanwu would be familiar with in the future, nor did they bring any well-known scripts to future generations.

"Those future big directors and big stars, where are you all nesting?" Xu Guanwu was so bored that he knocked on the table in a panic.

Although he liked Hong Kong movies very much before traveling, he was not ignorant of Hollywood movies.

In the 90s, American movies began to rise, and there were indeed many excellent works passed down to future generations.Such as "Rocky" series, "Die Hard" series, "First Blood" series, "Jaws" series, "Terminator" series, "Alien" series, "Star Wars" series, "Star Trek" series blah blah blah.

These series of movies, Xu Guanwu can become famous in Hollywood after only catching one.

However, he also read many scripts during this period, but all of them reflected social reality, advocated the liberation of X, called for anti-war and so on.

This kind of film may win one or two awards at an awards ceremony, but the box office will be killed without exception.This kind of film is even avoided by the eight major film companies, how dare Xu Guanwu invest in shooting it.

And Cui Yuye also frequently ran out during this period, holding cash to find major film companies, looking for opportunities to cooperate again, but also took a few projects back.

However, after Zhou Zhengyang's calculations, Jiahe has to invest tens of millions of dollars in each project, but the rate of return is frighteningly low, and there is no investment value at all.

Seeing Cui Yuye's dejected face, Xu Guanwu couldn't help but feel a little funny, "Those giants in Hollywood are blood-sucking bugs, why would you let you do those projects that are obviously profitable. What he can launch is low return rate. Projects that don’t look good. Trying to find leaks in these projects is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.”

Xu Guanwu wanted to write a script by himself, but after thinking about it, he couldn't even make up the outline of the story except that he remembered watching a few "Terminator" and "Die Hard".

And the few movies that I can think of have an investment of more than tens of millions of dollars, which is not what the current Golden Harvest can afford.

"Hey, Chollima, where are you hiding? Hurry up and come to me. My bole is waiting for you." Xu Guanwu knocked on the table and said boringly.

"Excuse me, is this Golden Harvest Film Company?" Just when Xu Guanwu was so bored that he wanted to bang his head against the wall, he heard a man's ambiguous voice.

Xu Guanwu raised his head and looked out, and was startled.

I saw the man outside the door with a burly figure as solid as a concrete pier, with an unshaven beard and a lonely face, and his expression was as stiff as carved out of marble.

The lowered corners of the eyes, the slurred voice, and the iconic unsmiling expression.

"Sylvester Stallone?!" Xu Guanwu was startled, jumped out from behind the table, rushed to the door in three steps at a time, and ushered in the future action superstar.

"Sir, hello, I'm Sylvester Stallone." The future movie superstar looked a little embarrassed at the moment.

Xu Guanwu found that the clothes on his body were second-hand, and the boots on his feet were worn out in many places. It can be seen that Stallone's recent life is not very good.

Stallone found that Xu Guanwu was staring at the old boots on his feet, and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. He stomped his feet and made a few crisp sounds.

This sound reminded Xu Guanwu, "Ah, Mr. Stallone, hello! May I help you?"

Xu Guanwu smiled kindly, like a strange sorghum who lured Lori to see the goldfish.

"I wrote a script recently, and I'm looking for someone to invest in it. I hope you can read it." Stallone said, and took out the script in his arms.

Xu Guanwu suppressed the excitement in his heart, reached out to take the script, and saw that the script had been turned over countless times, and even the corners were wrinkled.

On the cover, there are a few English letters "ROCKY" with strong accents.

"That's right, it's the dark horse in the film industry whose investment was only a million dollars, but the final box office revenue exceeded [-] million dollars, and he was nominated for ten Oscars and won three trophies." Xu Guanwu almost cheered, but he still tried his best to hold back Hold back the excitement inside.

(End of this chapter)