Millennium director

Mid-October.

The domestic box office potential of "Love" has come to an end, with a total box office of only more than 30 million yuan, but it is already the best box office among mainland literary and artistic films this year.

Wu Yuan, who had no hope of making money from this movie, is already very satisfied with the box office results.

He gave the company's employees a short vacation, and he also carried his suitcase and flew to Tokyo alone to meet his little girlfriend who was receiving singing and dancing training at Sony Japan.

The little girlfriend was very happy to see him come to see her.

"Brother, are you here to see me?" Liu Yifei held Wu Yuan's arm with a smile, and happily shared her life in Tokyo with him.

In fact, they talked on the phone every day, and she also told Wu Yuan about these trivial matters in life, but she still wanted to share her life with Wu Yuan.

“The food here is not delicious at all. It looked novel when I ate it for the first time, but it became boring after eating it a few times. The taste is too bland!”

"Sony Music is really professional. The vocal teachers and dance teachers are very good."

"The company said they would create a tailor-made album for me, bilingual in Chinese and Japanese, and they would also ask a very well-known music producer to write songs and compose the music for me!"

"I still have to learn Japanese every day. It's so difficult!"

"It's a good thing to learn another language." Wu Yuan smiled and hugged his girlfriend's shoulders. "The idol industry in Japan is very popular, and fans are also very supportive of idol activities. They are very active in investing, buying albums, etc."

"It's just that Japanese fans are quite extreme and generally cannot accept idols falling in love. When Japanese actors and singers fall in love or get married, they even have to hold special press conferences to apologize."

"I'm afraid your Japanese fans will be mad if they find out that you were already in a relationship with me before you even debuted in Japan."

Wu Yuan's face was a bit tangled.

Before breaking the window with Liu Yifei, he thought it would be good for his little girlfriend to come to Japan to release an album. She could attract a wave of Japanese otaku fans, increase her popularity in Asia, and in the future she could be said to be an Asian superstar.

But now that he was in a sweet relationship, he began to worry.

Japan’s fandom culture is really extreme.

Later, Korean fandom culture was actually learned from Japan. Japanese fans were the first to create such things as anti-fans, illegitimate meals, sending razors, and sending death threats.

In the 1980s and 1990s, if a Japanese idol publicly fell in love, ardent fans who couldn't accept it would even jump off the building, or turn fans into fans, hoping to kill the idol.

Well, this culture was later introduced to Hong Kong Island. After all, the Hong Kong music scene in the 1980s and 1990s fully learned from the Japanese music scene and directly translated Japanese songs into Chinese.

Therefore, Andy and others only dare to hide their marriage and dare not make their relationship public, because they are afraid that their extremely fanatical fans will do something crazy.

It can be said that the era of fan fanaticism experienced throughout Asia, when celebrities did not dare to fall in love or make their relationships public, all originated from Japanese fan culture.

So now that Liu Yifei is coming to Japan to become an idol singer, Wu Yuan is also a little worried, fearing that in the future her fans will know that she has an "undercover love" with him, and they will directly turn from fans to fans.

By the way, why did Liu Yifei’s Japanese fan support club dissolve in the dream?

"Oh, let's talk about the future later." Liu Yifei chuckled and held Wu Yuan's arm tightly.

For him to say this means that Wu Yuan has thought about making his relationship public in the future, which makes Liu Yifei very satisfied.

Although she really doesn't want to make her relationship public now. After all, she is only 18 years old. How can any 18-year-old female star openly fall in love?

But she doesn't want Wu Yuan to not want to make their relationship public.

A woman's mind is so complicated.

"Hey, let's go, senior brother, I know a very delicious Japanese restaurant, I'll treat you to a meal." Under her mother's helpless eyes, Liu Yifei happily pulled her boyfriend out of the Sony building.

After staying with Liu Yifei in Tokyo for three days and relieving the lovesickness between himself and his girlfriend, Wu Yuan flew directly from Tokyo to Los Angeles, USA.

Before leaving, Liu Yifei made an agreement with him that she would go to Los Angeles to reunite with Wu Yuan during the Spring Festival.

Well, this year the Liu family and her daughter are also going to the United States to visit relatives.

On October 28, Wu Yuan arrived in Los Angeles, and his American assistant Daisy came to pick him up personally.

He still went back to Beverly Hills to rest for a day, adjusted the time difference, and changed the time zone on his watch. Wu Yuan did not join the crew of "Rush Hour 3" immediately, but returned to the Light Age first. company.

"Hey Daniel, I'm glad that you've only been back to China for a little more than two months and you're back again."

When they met at the company, John teased Wu Yuan first before getting down to business.

"Daniel, Disney wants me to ask you what you think about "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" and when do you plan to launch it?"

"You know, it's not an easy thing to bring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, who are busy as tops, together, and Disney has to coordinate early.

"Damn, I really didn't expect that Disney, which has not been successful in the field of live-action movies for a long time, would do so well with this success."

"Even though the box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean Part 1" was so high, the DVD that was discovered later turned out to be the best-selling DVD in the world. It has now earned Disney more than 100 million US dollars."

"I believe Dick Cook, the chairman of Disney, must be so beautiful that he is laughing under the covers!"

"Daniel, although I am not a director, based on my experience as a producer, "Captain Jack Sparrow" is indeed one of the biggest factors in the success of the film. But if "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" continues to rely on Johnny Depp If there is a personal performance, then the ship may not be able to avoid the fate of sinking.”

"Captain Jack is a bit too important. Perhaps his role should be less important in the third film."

For a successful movie series, putting all the chips on one character in the movie is undoubtedly a very high-risk thing.

Once the actor goes on strike or gets into some kind of scandal, the entire series will be ruined.

This is why later, when Marvel was building its own Marvel universe, it has been developing more different superheroes with their own characteristics, instead of holding on to a generation of Avengers until they grow old.

"I understand." Wu Yuan shrugged, "I talked with Terry (one of the screenwriters of Pirates of the Caribbean) and we need to add more characters in the third part to share Depp's performance burden."

"Not only the characters who appeared in the first two films will appear again, but there will also be more important new characters appearing."

"Terry and I have already decided that the third film will include a pirate overlord in the South China Sea and his beautiful daughter."

"Wow, that sounds cool." John raised his eyebrows noncommittally.

After all, the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series has nothing to do with him and the Light Era.

The reason why John gave Wu Yuan advice was because of their good personal relationship.

"Okay, let's get back to the topic. You haven't answered me yet. When are you going to make this movie?"

"Well" Wu Yuan thought for a while, "I'm actually not sure. Terry's script is still being perfected. Following my suggestion, he plans to invite a group of experts and scholars from China to work together to improve the script for the third part."

"I estimate that the production will not start until the second half of next year at the earliest, and it may be delayed until December or December next year."

"If all goes well, this movie will also be the last "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie directed by me."

"You won't continue filming in the future?" John looked like he had expected it.

"No." Wu Yuan shook his head: "The trilogy is enough. My enthusiasm has been almost worn away. Disney should find a new, more passionate person to partner with."

John understands Wu Yuan's thoughts very well.

Hollywood has produced countless excellent series of movies over the decades, but most of them stop at trilogies. Even if there are sequels later, the directors and screenwriters will basically be replaced.

Without him, creative enthusiasm is limited. It is impossible for a director and screenwriter to stick to a theme and maintain a high level of creation.

In Chinese terms, there will always be a day when a talent is exhausted.

And this gives time for "every talent to run out", usually the limit is the trilogy. If you continue to work on it, the quality will definitely decline visible to the naked eye.

Wu Yuan's choice to stop in time was the right decision.

Even Disney would agree.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have only wanted to sign a three-part contract with him.

The number "three" is really a curse in the Hollywood series of movies.

No director can make four or five movies in a series and still maintain success.

Both the "Fast and Furious" and "Harry Potter" series have gone through countless directors.

"I will convey your idea to Disney and ask them to try to coordinate the schedule of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3"."

While John kept writing and drawing on the desktop and correcting documents, he kept talking and continued: ""Amazing Night at the Museum" has entered formal preparations."

"We only contributed the money and copyright, and Fox took care of the rest."

"Fox has found a director named Shawn Levy and Ben Stiller to play the male lead. Other roles are also being auditioned. It is estimated that filming will officially start in January next year."

"I will also be one of the producers, and I will personally monitor the movie when the time comes."

"By the way, don't we have to stop preparations for "The Hangover 3" and work on "Fake Marriage" and "Weakness" first."

"Phillips, who had nothing to do for the time being, handed me a script called "The King of Gimmicks." He wrote it with a few friends and wanted the company to invest in the production."

"This is a remake of a 1960 British film of the same name."

"I took a look at the content. The content of the new version is almost the same as the old version. Of course, many modern factors have been added."

"To be honest, I think this movie is average, but you said before that we need to support Phillips more, so I want to ask your opinion."

Without any hesitation, Wu Yuan said directly: "Vote, give Phillips as much as he wants."

Phillips, the director of The Hangover series, this is a gem!

Although Phillips is still very low-end now, making small and medium-cost movies such as comedies and comedy romances.

But Wu Yuan is very aware of Phillips' talent.

In the future, Phillips, who has been making comedies for ten years, may be tired of comedy movies, or maybe every good comedy director has a tragic heart hidden in his heart.

In 2019, he wrote and directed a movie that cost only US$55 million but ultimately grossed US$1 billion at the global box office.

This movie is called "Joker"!

By the way, the very famous TV series "Never Ending" is the TV series about drug addicts who became gods. Phillips is also one of the producers.

This is a talent, a star-like talent!

Although Wu Yuan didn't quite remember how the "Gimmick King" performed at the box office, he was willing to invest in Phillips.

"Okay, you are the boss, you decide." John spread his hands and said nonchalantly.

Although he is not very optimistic about this movie, John has similar ideas to Wu Yuan. He is also optimistic about Phillips himself and is willing to invest in his future.

"Is there anything else?" Wu Yuan stood up from the sofa and stretched lazily.

"If there's nothing else, I'll go back."

"After two more days of rest, "Rush Hour 3" will be launched. This is a very important project for the company, and I have to take it seriously."

John agreed very much, "Yes, Daniel, I am very pleased to see you working hard for the future of the company."

"We must make it well. I hope "Rush Hour 3" can be a big seller, so that we can follow up with the "Kings Agent" series."

"Don't worry." Wu Yuan said confidently: "With Jackie Chan and me, this is the top combination in the Chinese world."

"I can't think of any reason why it could fail."

"Just wait and enjoy the victory champagne."