Entertainment: God-level director

Lin Ran’s next movie will be”Inception”.

In his version, the story setting will naturally not be exactly the same as the previous life, but some modifications have been made.

For example, the Japanese tycoon Saito was replaced by an American.

The content of the revised story is probably that the gang of thieves headed by Cobb failed in a dream-stealing operation against the American energy tycoon Mitchell, and were instead exploited by Mitchell.

Mitchell coerced Cobb, who was wanted and was in exile overseas, to help him break up the company of his rival Maurice Fisher, and took extreme measures to plant the seeds of abandonment in the deep subconscious mind of his sole heir Robert Fisher. The idea of a family company, of starting your own business.

In order to return to the country, Cobb secretly turned to his father-in-law, Professor Miles, and on the recommendation, he recruited the young dreamer Susan, the pretender Marn and the pharmacist Joseph to join the action.

In the progressive dreams, Cobb not only had to deal with Fisher’s subconscious instinctive resistance, but also had to face the destruction of his late wife Mel.

After the story background is modified, several Hollywood actors can appear in the movie, such as tycoon Mitchell, Robert Fisher, the sole heir of Mitchell’s rival, Cobb’s father-in-law Miles, his wife Mel, and members of the gang of thieves. A member of Joseph.

As for why Cobb’s wife is American, the setting is also easy to solve. Architecture professor Miles came to teach at a Chinese university. Cobb was his student before, so he met his daughter Mel and eventually became lovers. Enter the marriage hall.

Since Joseph, a foreign member of the thief gang, was recommended by Miles, it was natural for him to do so.

In this way, the core roles of the male and female actors in the movie are still Chinese actors, while the second female lead who plays more roles and the biggest villain are Hollywood actors, which can achieve a better balance.

It will not be like”Super Body”, Will Smith has completely become a soy sauce role, resulting in”Super Body”‘s overseas box office, even with Universal Pictures as the distributor, it is a full 250 million US dollars less than in the previous life.

The reason why Lin Ran went to great lengths to give up so many roles to Hollywood is, again, in order to better harvest overseas box office.

Now with his influence, even if”Interstellar” is released, it will not be possible for a movie with an all-Chinese cast to reap crazy box office revenue around the world.

Only when Lin Ran becomes famous enough and overseas audiences gradually become accustomed to watching Chinese-language movies, can they give up relying on well-known Hollywood actors to attract audiences overseas.

Lin Ran believes that after the two movies”Interstellar” and”Inception” are released consecutively, his influence overseas will definitely increase greatly.

In his next movies, he can gradually reduce the proportion of Hollywood actors and eventually achieve an all-Chinese cast.

He can even rely on his influence to promote China’s unique fairy culture to the world and export culture, just like Bruce Lee introduced Chinese Kung Fu to the world decades ago.

After a period of thinking, Lin Ran roughly determined the candidates for the main roles.

The male number one dream thief Cobb is played by Zhang Hanyu, and the female number one dream builder Susan is played by Dilraba Dilraba.

She has already gained a certain reputation overseas because of”Super Body”. This appearance will not only increase the star power of this film, but also increase her overseas popularity after the release of”Inception”.

Of course, there is also a bit of Lin Ran’s selfishness here. The most suitable candidate is Zhang Ziyi.

Firstly, her acting skills are much better than Reba’s, and secondly, after”Interstellar” is released, Zhang Ziyi’s popularity overseas will not be lower than Reba’s.

However, who calls Reba his woman? Who else can he praise her for?

The second male lead, Sentinel Gordon, is Chen Kun, and the second female lead, Phantom Mel, is model worker Jessica Chastain.

The actor’s father-in-law, Professor Miles, is still the old Michael Caine in”Interstellar”, and the tycoon Mitchell has chosen Jason Statham,”an old friend of the Chinese people.”

In order to hire him, Lin Ran offered a salary of US$12 million.

There is no way, with Lin Ran’s current influence, he still can’t get these big-name stars to appear at a reduced price.

In fact, even in his previous life, Nolan was able to recruit two Oscar-winning actors and actresses, and five Oscar-nominated actors, not only because of his fame, but also because he paid a huge salary. DiCaprio’s salary alone was more than 20 million. Dollar.

Hollywood has always been so realistic!

Unless these big names are starring in big blockbuster films next, or they want to win awards and automatically lower their pay to make art films, then don’t let them star in films at cabbage-price salaries just relying on the director’s reputation.

Just like Robert Downey Jr., who relied on Marvel to make a comeback, but only appeared for 15 minutes in”Spider-Man Homecoming” and still received a salary of US$10 million instead of a friendly price.

Leonardo DiCaprio, even though he starred in super director Quentin Quentin’s”Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, still received a salary of US$10 million.

Lin Ran was able to win Will Smith and Widow Sister in”Super Body” and”Interstellar” at a relatively low price because the previous films they starred in were flopped, and there were no major productions looking for them at the time.

Otherwise, it would be absolutely impossible for the widowed sister to win 5 million US dollars based on her reputation.

After a few major roles were cast, the rest of the cast decided to audition.

For a movie, generally the director can directly decide on only a few of the most important leading actors. Many actors can play other roles. At this time, the decision must be made based on the audition results and the actors’ remuneration.

Hollywood directly sends the role requirements to the Screen Actors Guild, and the union will screen out the actors who initially meet the requirements, and finally conduct interviews for these actors who meet the requirements. Lin Ran does not need to think about which actors meet the requirements one by one.

The domestic side will also conduct auditions for the initially selected actors to determine the final result.

Actors who received audition invitations were overjoyed. Those who did not receive invitations immediately inquired for information and tried their best to get an audition opportunity.

After an audition, Deng Chao was cast as the third male pretender, Ma En.

The Successor is played by Joaquin Phoenix.”Joker” starring him is still in theaters. The global box office has just reached 1 billion. His popularity has obviously increased compared to before it was released. However, after all, he has not yet won the Oscar. In the end, Lin Ran won 6.5 million Signed him with a salary of US$10,000.

His salary for starring in”Joker” was only 2.5 million, and his salary more than tripled.

However, Lin Ran felt it was worth it. He knew that”Joker” would win Joaquin Phoenix the Oscar in three months.

After all, Lin Ran’s version of”Inception” also has two Oscar winners (as does Michael Caine) and one Oscar nominee (Jessica Chastain).

After everything was ready, Ranmeng Pictures released the news that Lin Ran’s new film would hold a press conference two days later, which instantly attracted the attention of the media and countless netizens.