new kung fu king

Chapter 495 Signing "First Blood"

When Wang Xiaohu saw Stallone in the office, he almost didn't recognize him for a moment.

"God, is this still the Rocky I'm familiar with?" Wang Xiaohu stood up from the back of the chair in surprise, turned around Stallone and said dissatisfiedly: "Hey, Sylvester, you have been here all these years What to do? Look at your tummy bulging and where are your strong pecs and biceps? Don't tell me you've been enjoying it for years!"

"Boss, it's unfortunate that you hit the nail on the head." Stallone lowered his head in shame, and said with a vague accent.

"Damn it!" Wang Xiaohu cursed, now Stallone's figure is seriously fattened, to be precise, he is out of shape!
Rocky, who was hailed as a "spiritual idol" by young Americans in the past, is gone. Standing in front of Wang Xiaohu is an upstart with a big belly, loose muscles and a little bloated!
That's right, Stallone really gave Wang Xiaohu a sense of nouveau riche, with famous brands all over his body, famous watches on his wrists, and a gold belt around his waist. Wang Xiaohu doesn't even know what words to use to describe him.

Rubbing his painful temples, Wang Xiaohu returned to his seat, pointed at Stallone angrily and said, "Dude, others are acting, but you are bringing the drama to life, even if you want to say it's experience school, you can't do it." It should be before filming "Rocky II", not now!"

"Boss" Stallone blushed, and wanted to explain, but found that he didn't know how to explain.

After becoming famous with "Rocky 1", Stallone felt like he was dreaming. After the success of "Rocky Ⅱ", Stallone's inner expansion completely exploded. He was more direct than the plot of "Rocky Ⅱ": buying a famous car, Mansions, frequent visits to high society, and a life of drunkenness and dreams. After such a long time, he lost himself.

In this world, only Wang Xiaohu can scold Stallone so fiercely and leave him no room to refute.In Stallone's heart, if there was no Wang Xiaohu, he would not have the honor, status, and life he has today. It can be said that everything he has today is given by Wang Xiaohu.

"Don't you want to say something?" Wang Xiaohu looked at him indifferently, his eyes pierced Stallone's heart like a sharp knife, and the thrilling feeling made him take two steps back.

"I have nothing to say." Stallone summoned up a lot of courage, and said after a long time: "Boss, I failed your expectations of me. I messed up. I don't know what to do now. I hate myself"

While talking, Stallone squatted on the ground with his head in his hands in pain, sobbing helplessly like a child.

Wang Xiaohu sighed, he didn't expect Stallone to have such a violent reaction, walked over and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Sylvester, you know, I originally asked you to accompany me to meet someone, but look Seeing you like this, I changed my mind."

"NO, boss, don't treat me like this, I know I was wrong, please don't give up on me." Stallone yelled in pain.

"FAKE." Wang Xiaohu said, "You are Stallone, please don't do such disgusting things, stand up."

"Stand up, Sylvester, if you are still a man!" Seeing that Stallone did not move, Wang Xiaohu repeated it again.

Only then did Stallone stand up with "tearful pear blossoms" and looked at the boss blankly.

"Yes, that's it." Wang Xiaohu turned around and picked up a tissue and threw it over: "Hurry up and wipe your tears away, you must know that you are an American hero, if someone photographs your virtue, your reputation will be ruined gone."

When Stallone was wiping his tears, Wang Xiaohu continued, "Why were you crying just now?"

"I learned from Winterdur that you came to Los Angeles this time to tailor a new film. Just now you said that you changed your mind. I still think"

"You think I'm not going to cast you in the starring role?"

Stallone nodded earnestly, and Wang Xiaohu couldn't help crying when he saw this, and said, "Please, I just changed my mind, and I didn't say I won't let you play the leading role!"

"Look at your current body shape, there is a huge difference from the character I asked you to create, do you understand the huge difference?" Wang Xiaohu's tall figure of Rambo appeared in Wang Xiaohu's mind, and he suddenly said excitedly: "He has a bigger figure than you. Rocky has a stronger body, and has a more painful past than Rocky. With one enemy, killing an enemy is as easy as cutting a watermelon. His eyes are full of hesitation and heartbreaking eyes. But he is lonely in his heart , Lonely, dazed, he cried more like a helpless child, yes, just like you cried just now."

Stallone listened carefully, and every time Wang Xiaohu uttered a word, his eyes lit up, so that finally he asked excitedly: "Boss, who is he?"

"Lambo, an excellent soldier who returned to his motherland from the Vietnam battlefield, won the Congressional Medal of Honor, but he was discriminated against by society and could not live a normal life." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "He was extremely brave on the battlefield. , has driven tanks, and operated equipment worth more than one million dollars. He has had a glorious and painful past. It is such a soldier who returned to the United States. What greeted him was not flowers and praise, but unreasonable curses and condemnations! "

"Boss, I like Rambo, I want to be Rambo!" Stallone suddenly said excitedly.

"Of course, Rambo belongs to you."

Stallone showed a naive smile when he heard the words, but Wang Xiaohu immediately said in a stern tone: "But before that, you must lose the fat on your body. I will not allow a fat pig to gallop on the screen."

"YES-SIR!" Stallone responded loudly, and the fat on his body trembled, causing Wang Xiaohu to roll his eyes.

"Give you half a year. You can go to the Marine Corps to experience military life, or talk to retired soldiers who participated in the Vietnam War, or use other methods. After half a year, I need to see a real Lambo. Can it be done?" Wang Xiaohu asked.

"Yes, absolutely, I swear in the name of God"

"OK, I hope you won't disappoint me again." Wang Xiaohu sighed and said, "I'll give you 10 minutes to clean yourself up, and we'll meet that guy named David Morrel later."

David Morrell is 34 years old and is an American best-selling author. He has written many best-selling books. At the end of 1970, his friend came back from the Vietnam battlefield. He heard a lot about the horror and frightening things on the battlefield, and then he often visited his friends’ homes, and got to know more American soldiers who retired from the Vietnam War, and found that their lives were much more surprising than normal people, so the idea of The idea of ​​creating "First Blood".

This "First Blood" was written in 1972. David Morel had introduced himself to the five major Hollywood film companies with the novel, and only Columbia Company accepted him. At that time, the person in charge of Columbia said: "David, you The novel is great, but sorry, our company had to make the movie."

"Why?" David asked anxiously, knowing that this was his painstaking effort for more than a year.

"Because no one in the United States wants to mention the Vietnam War now, our Columbia company will become the focus of public opinion, so I'm sorry."

David left Columbia Company dejectedly. In the next five years, he approached several film companies to recommend his novels, but was rejected without exception.Some risk-taking companies simply called David a lunatic when they heard that the acquisition of the adaptation rights required 200 million US dollars. Since then, no one has been willing to meet the lunatic David.

Originally, David thought that this book would not be sold, but yesterday he received a call from a person who claimed to be the person in charge of Concord Films' American branch, hoping to talk about the adaptation rights of "First Blood" and It is agreed to meet at a coffee shop near Xiehe Company at three o'clock this afternoon.

Before coming to Los Angeles to meet Wang Xiaohu, the friend who retired from the Vietnam War once persuaded: "David, give up, everyone ignores the existence of our group. We have stained too much blood on the Vietnam battlefield. This is God's punishment. Our punishment!"

"Wait, someone will know the truth and buy this novel, Zierf, believe me, you are all victims." David said stubbornly: "Tiger Wang is an oriental man , His ideas have always been different, after the release of "Rocky", I should have thought of him long ago, but because he is an oriental, I have a certain prejudice against him."

So David took the novel seriously and arrived at the scheduled location two hours in advance.He has heard about the name of Xiehe Company for a long time. Since the company was established in 72, the first film it introduced to the Hollywood market was "Enter the Dragon" by kung fu superstar Bruce Lee. The next year they released the exciting "Rocky" ", then Bruce Lee's true posthumous work "The Warrior's Journey", and the comedy "Home Alone" that swept the Christmas box office myth, and the famous "Jaws" is also invested by this company.

All these moved David inexplicably. Yes, from a business point of view, this company has undoubtedly been a Hollywood box office vampire for several years, and their young boss is also the holder of the four Oscar statuettes. It was created by this young man alone. It is simply a great honor for David to be interviewed by such an outstanding young man.

While David was thinking about it, a voice sounded in his ear: "Mr. Morel?"

"Yes, it's me!" David overturned the coffee on the table in a hurry, and then let out a scream, because he saw that his beloved novel was splashed with a lot of coffee, and he hurriedly wiped it with the corner of his clothes Finally, he raised his head and looked at the person coming.

"You are." Before David finished asking, he saw the big tall man behind the visitor, covered his mouth with his hands in surprise and said in a low voice, "Oh my god, it turned out to be Mr. Stallone."

Stallone greeted with a smile, "Hi."

There is almost no need to ask, the person who can accompany Stallone in person must be a big shot, and looking at the oriental face, David is almost sure that he is the young boss of Concorde: Tiger Wang.

"Mr. Wang?"

Wang Xiaohu chuckled, nodded and said, "That's right, it's me. Nice to meet you, Mr. Morel."

"Call me David." David Morel said with the same smile, "Please sit down."

"Thank you." After Wang Xiaohu and Stallone sat down, the waiter came over and asked what to drink.

After the waiter left, Wang Xiaohu said, "David, I'm sorry to keep you waiting."

"Oh, it's nothing, it's not the time for the appointment, but I'm here early." David said, he found that the young man from the East was very polite, and he didn't frown or feel disgusted because of his gaffe just now.

"Can you tell me about your novel?"

"Of course, I am happy to do so." David handed over the novel with light coffee stains in his hand, and then his heart was pounding. There were too many rejections and blank eyes, and even the family members began to raise objections, thinking that he had sacrificed too much for the change of this novel.

"The novel is good, I was attracted by the beginning."

Half an hour later, Wang Xiaohu put down the novel in his hand, picked up a cup of coffee and said, "David, maybe I should get you a new cup of coffee."

"Ah?" David was taken aback. It turned out that in the past half an hour, because of being too nervous, he had already drank his coffee to the bottom without knowing it.

"Sister, bring a fresh cup of coffee for Mr. Morel." Wang Xiaohu said to Stallone who was beside him in a daze.

Stallone nodded, and before David could say anything, he picked up his cup and walked to the front desk.

"Okay, David." Wang Xiaohu staggered his index fingers on the table to support his chin: "I can tell you very clearly that I bought this novel."

"Really?" David's eyes widened, and a look of ecstasy suddenly appeared on his face: God, I've waited for five full years and finally succeeded!

That kind of joy made David unable to turn the corner for a while, until Wang Xiaohu took out a contract from his briefcase and handed it to him, "If you have no other requirements, just sign your name on this contract, And, of course, there's a check for $200 million."

"COLL!" David took the contract and watched it carefully without any consideration.

This film and television adaptation contract is very formal. As long as David signs, he will directly receive a reward of 200 million US dollars. From then on, the adaptation rights of the novel "First Blood" belong to Xiehe Company exclusively. The right to adapt the novel according to the needs of the movie, and the original author of the novel cannot raise any objections or even use various means to hype.

As for why the last item was added, it was the lesson Wang Xiaohu learned from "Jaws" two years ago, and he didn't want to repeat it.So even the price was not cut, and it was 200 million in one go.

"No problem at all!" David signed the contract, then picked up the check and kissed it vigorously, and said happily: "Mr. Wang, "First Blood" is yours now, do you want It doesn’t matter how you change it, if there is anything you don’t understand, I’m happy to help, of course it’s all free of charge.”

"I'm glad you think so." Wang Xiaohu laughed loudly: "Happy cooperation!"
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