Heads Up Hollywood

Tang En determined the concept of high-quality American dramas for Starz TV station.

In the past few years, with the emergence of high-quality American dramas such as "Band of Brothers", "Six Feet Under", "True Detective", "The Walking Dead", "Vice President", and "Warcraft", Starz TV station has also become famous and has become The most recognized professional cable TV station in the United States at the moment!

The number of members subscribed in North America has approached 35 million!

Overseas...the subscribers of the European division also have 4 million households.

The total number of users worldwide is nearly 40 million!

And the competitor in this industry, the second place is hbo, the number of members in North America is only 7 million!

Counting overseas users in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, the total number is about 10 million.

Differs greatly!

If Starz TV is given some more time to develop, after completing the layout in Europe, it can also establish branches in Asia and Latin America, and it will become even stronger.

Now, the market valuation of STA TV Network has exceeded 13.5 billion US dollars, which is... 85 times the transaction price when it was merged into Dunn Films four years ago!

TV station is obviously a traditional industry, but under the operation of Tang En's advanced ideas, the market value has grown so fast, just like an Internet technology company!

The difference is that the technology industry relies on concepts and bubbles to drive market value, and even companies like Amazon have been losing money year after year, and the market value is still pushing up.

The TV station relies on real performance!

Summer is here, starz TV network is about to launch a new large-scale, large-scale American TV series - "Rome"!

This medieval historical drama will bring the legendary Roman Empire to the TV screen.

The American dramas broadcast by Starz TV mainly come from three sources: outsourcing, self-produced by the TV station, and self-produced by the group.

Outsourcing refers to the purchase of some old films with good reputation and popular audiences from outside producers for playback.

After all, starz TV station does not broadcast commercials, and only broadcasts pure dry goods 24 hours a day.

It is impossible to only broadcast new films.

Especially in the early hours of the morning, when no one watches it, a large number of old movies are needed to fill the blank time period.

Self-produced by the TV station refers to its own TV production department under the STA TV network, and its representative work is the upcoming big production "Rome".

The group's own production refers to the TV production company under the New Universal Group - Universal TV.

The output of every big-budget American TV series produced by Universal Television must be approved by Tang En.

It's as if every commercial blockbuster with a cost of more than 100 million U.S. dollars by New Universal needs to be approved by Tang En before it can be formally approved.

The latest big project is a proposal from Tang En, a TV series about kung fu!

"Kung Fu" is really amazing.

Stupid Americans think that all of this is true, there are really people who can go to the sky and escape from the earth with a speed of one hundred. They even think that every Chinese knows kung fu. There are not a few people who are attracted to study.

Because that's how it's played in Hollywood movies. Whenever Chinese people appear, they must know Chinese Kung Fu.

This is understandable.

This is an inevitable stage for the rise of a great power.

In the early years of Hollywood movies, all the big villains were Russians, and each of them was vicious and terrifying. As Russia has become more and more secular in recent years, the villains in Hollywood movies have gradually changed, from Russian agents to terrorists.

It's 2005, and it's an amazing time period.

Internet information is not popular enough, and the US generally has a vague impression of China, and even thinks that there are some kung fu masters with long braids.

For businessmen, this is a business opportunity!

Tang En is going to make a big-budget American drama about Chinese Kung Fu!

This will be one of the topics of most interest to the American people at the moment.

Would be a huge moneymaker.

If the starz TV network wants to go global, it must have more diverse themes. This time it is Chinese style, next time it may be Latin American style, Japanese style or even Indian style.

Originally, Tang En wanted Lao Mouzi to come and take over the filming of this Kung Fu American drama, but because of many complicated relationships, Lao Mouzi rejected his offer and filmed "The Golden Armor in the City" again.

Now, it's time to determine the main creators of this American kung fu drama.

The script comes from the screenwriting department of Tang En Films. Tang En provided the story idea, and his queen screenwriters Deacon Whistler and Bryce Roach completed the story arrangement.

The first version of the script has been finalized.

It's called "One Bamboo Ding Jinshan".

Bamboo, naturally bamboo.

Jinshan refers to San Francisco.

As the name suggests, this is a story about a kung fu master holding a bamboo stick, leveling San Francisco, establishing Chinatown, and fighting for a living land for the Chinese.

The name of the protagonist of the film has not yet been determined, tentatively named x.

The story happened in 1878.

The gold rush in San Francisco swept the world, and countless people came here to make a living.

Among them, there is a boat of braided people from the Qing Dynasty.

In those days, racism was very serious!

In San Francisco at that time, the top was the local chaebols, who held a large amount of capital in their hands and had the power to dominate everything here.

The middle level is government officials, who receive funding from chaebols to help them maintain law and order and make profits.

The lower class are local workers, who have little power and receive ordinary salaries.

The bottom Chinese laborers are the most popular cheap laborers in this city.

Those who are treated worse than the Chinese can only be illegal black slaves.

Black people are stupid and dull, they don't know how to fight for legal rights, they are tall and big, they behave like a kitten. The Chinese are different. There will never be a lack of struggle in that land that has been warped for thousands of years.

Then, the first group of Chinese laborers who landed in North America started a series of power struggles! They want to use their own hands to fight for a piece of their own living land in America!

The hardworking Chinese landed in San Francisco and became cheap labor, which suddenly caused the local labor force to lose employment opportunities.

So, they started to fight back and frantically suppressed the Chinese workers. Seeing more and more casualties, the chaebol had no choice but to come forward. In their eyes, what is important is not the lives of these people, but not wanting to lose this group of cheap labor. Because of this, the Chinese laborers had to report to the regiment to keep warm, but there were only two ways out: coolies and gangsters!

Coolies like black people?

This is impossible!

Then there is only one choice left - the Chinese must have their own gang! Have your own Chinatown!

This is a history of blood and tears of yellow people struggling in the United States, and it is an inspirational growth story.

It will be mixed with stories of love, family affection, friendship, conspiracy, power, beauty, murder, revenge and even abuse.

Of course, the biggest selling point is Chinese Kung Fu!

The protagonist X will be a character like "Dragon Mother" in "Game of Thrones", fighting and fighting all the way, fighting against all injustices in the world. First, it swept through the entrances of Chinatown to integrate the strength of the Chinese, and then unanimously defended the interests and dignity of the yellow race.

This would be more out of touch with reality.

Because in that era, no matter how strong the Chinese were, it was impossible to fight against the local chaebols, and the law and guns were in their hands. The Chinese have only two choices - either kneel down or die.

The establishment of Chinatown is far from being so great, it is just a slum area allocated by the chaebols and the power class to the Chinese workers to survive.

If you shoot realistically, it would be too cruel.

Not to mention Chinese and yellow races, even white Americans are uncomfortable watching it.

The ratings must be miserable.

For the sake of the market, it is necessary to shoot "cool".

The miraculous effect of "Kung Fu" is exaggerated to show that the Chinese came to the United States to create the American dream and gain recognition and success.

This will also be in line with the current mainstream values ​​of the United States.

Of course, after decades of development, the strength of Chinatown has grown, the number of Chinese workers has increased, and the strength of the halls has become stronger and stronger. After forming a real big force, it will be too powerful.

So bad that white people can't live anymore.

It is so powerful that the U.S. Congress, which calls for "democracy, freedom, and equality," will introduce the "Chinese Exclusion Act" to restrict the development of Chinese in the United States and protect the rights and interests of white people.

This part of the content will not appear in the series, at least not in the first season.

"This TV series will use a large number of Asian faces, especially Chinese, and the main creative team should also be mainly Chinese, including producers and directors."

Ted Sarandos, the president of Universal Television, reported to Twain, and he responded like this.

Lao Mouzi has quit, and there are others!

Hollywood has never lacked Chinese Americans!

Ted Sarandos said: "There will be huge risks in the use of people of color. Fortunately, Starz TV is aimed at the best group of high-quality users. Their income is higher, their quality is higher, and they have the ability to adapt. Stronger too. The only thing I'm worried about is... the male lead."

"Um?"

Tang En was slightly taken aback.

He has already handpicked the leading actor in this American drama.

No matter who the producer and director of the show will choose in the future, the leading actor must be Jeter Lee!

This is a big production American drama!

Looking at the world, only Asians like Jeter Lee can bear such pressure on profitability.

It would be too risky to change to a newcomer, or an unknown person.

It can be said that the reason why "One Bamboo Dingjin Mountain" was able to pass the budget review is entirely because of Jeter Lee!

This is a kung fu superstar!

His appeal in the United States is too strong!

Ted Sarandos said: "Even if it's a big production... But the TV series is just a TV series. Jeter Lee is a Hollywood star and is still very young. I'm afraid he is not willing to come and shoot a TV series at this time."

"Is this his attitude?" Tang En frowned.

Ted Sarandos nodded, "His agent has already been contacted. They didn't even accept our script, so they rejected it directly, with a firm attitude."

Tang En said displeasedly: "Ted, I think this is a mistake in your work! I know the situation of Jeter Lee. His last movie suffered a serious box office failure, and he even had to go back to Asia to shoot one movie. "Fearless"! Although our project is a TV series, we are Hollywood!"

Jeter Lee's last starring movie was "Danny the Wolf Dog". The production cost of the film was 45 million, and the total investment was as high as 70 million US dollars including publicity, taxes, division of labor and other expenses.

It turned out to be less than $50 million worldwide.

A loss of at least 30 million US dollars!

Coupled with the fact that the box office of a movie "Deadly Cradle" he starred in did not meet expectations, Jeter Lee's glory days in Hollywood have passed.

Just like John Wu and Jack Chen, they can only return to China for development.

Is it embarrassing to make a big-budget American drama in Hollywood?

At Al Pacino's level, he has just finished filming an HBO American drama.

. Nine Heavens Emperor