Millennium director

November 2, 2005, Los Angeles, sunny.

In an indoor studio of New Line Cinema in Los Angeles, the cast and crew of "Rush Hour 3" gathered together, seemingly waiting for someone.

Until, the door of the studio was pushed open from the outside, and Wu Yuan took Daisy into the studio.

"Hey, good morning everyone!"

"Daniel! You're finally here!"

Roald, the producer of "Rush Hour 3" and deputy director of New Line Cinema, quickly came up to Wu Yuan and gave Wu Yuan a strong hug.

The expressions on the faces of the crew members became a little more relaxed, and they immediately began to get busy and take action.

"Roald, I don't have a bad habit of being late." Wu Yuan spread his hands and asked with a relaxed look: "Are you all ready?"

"Of course, I'm just waiting for you!" Roald affirmed.

For a second-rate Hollywood production company like New Line and a top-tier director like Wu Yuan, they must be careful in their hands.

What's more, Wu Yuan's identity is not just a director, so Roald has to serve him even more carefully.

In a producer-centered system like Hollywood, where producers have the greatest say, the crew of "Rush Hour 3" all listened to Wu Yuan, who was the biggest director.

This is a very rare situation.

After a brief exchange of greetings with Roald, the main actors also came up to say hello to Wu Yuan.

Wu Yuan's version of "Rush Hour 3" has completely reworked the plot, so the selection of actors and roles is also very different from New Line's original version.

Not to mention the two starring roles of Cheng Long and Will Smith, there are two other very important supporting roles in "Rush Hour 3".

One is the villain boss, the Mexican drug lord who planned the kidnapping of the president's daughter. This role is played by Mads Mikkelsen.

When mentioning the name Mads Mikkelsen, many people may be a little confused and don’t recognize him.

But if you mention Hannibal, you will immediately understand.

Mads Mikkelsen is also considered a professional villain in Hollywood. He not only played the ogre serial murderer Hannibal in the TV series "Hannibal".

He also played evil villains in the movies "007: Casino Royale" and "Doctor Strange."

It can be said that as long as his face becomes gloomy, it will immediately give people a sinister and evil feeling, which is very suitable for this type of character.

In the script of "Rush Hour 3", the villain boss, the drug lord, is a gentle scum who looks gentle on the outside, but is actually a pervert with a twisted and crazy personality.

You wouldn't be able to do something like kidnapping the daughter of the President of the United States without going crazy.

Of course, he has a group of very capable subordinates, and these subordinates are the ones who mainly "fight" with Cheng Long and Will Smith.

In addition to him, another very important role, the target of the entire movie's rescue, the president's daughter, is played by Wu Yuan's old friend, the British rose Keira Knightley.

She is of the right age and is a pretty actress, so she is undoubtedly the most suitable choice.

Keira, who is only 20 years old this year, is not like Depp, who became arrogant after becoming famous.

Well, the main reason is that after she became famous, she did not accept any roles. In addition to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, this year she appeared in two movies, "Pride and Prejudice" and "Domino".

By the way, in "Pride and Prejudice", Keira is simply stunningly beautiful, and once again her title of Rose of England has been highly recognized.

Apart from these two movies, Keira has not received any suitable new film appointments. She will have no filming until the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" starts at the end of next year.

Under such circumstances, Wu Yuan contacted her and invited her to star in "Rush Hour 3". Although she was only playing a sideshow heroine, she was very happy to do so.

"Director, thank you very much for inviting me to star in this movie." Keira smiled sweetly at Wu Yuan and said shyly: "I will work hard to make this movie!"

"Well, as long as you maintain your usual standards, this movie won't be difficult for you." Wu Yuan nodded with a smile.

But no, in "Rush Hour 3", Keira's scenes were basically either kidnapped or escaping with Cheng Long and the others.

This scene is almost identical to her character in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series.

It's just that in Pirates of the Caribbean she was always threatened with kidnapping by pirates, but in "Rush Hour 3" she was changed to a Mexican drug lord.

This kind of scene is completely familiar to Keira.

At this time, Cheng Long also led a middle-aged man wearing glasses and a straight haircut to Wu Yuan's side.

"Director Wu, let me introduce to you. This is Li Zhongzhi, our action director."

"By the way, Allen is here too."

Wu Yuan nodded, shook hands with Li Zhongzhi, and said enthusiastically: "I feel relieved because I have a married couple here."

"In terms of fighting scenes, I really don't have much shooting experience. The specific action design depends on you."

Although in 1992, Cheng Long announced the disbandment of the family group after filming "Eagle Project" in Spain, in fact, this "dissolution" was more of a reduction of members.

The film industry on Hong Kong Island is going downhill, and other martial arts groups such as the Hong Family Class are competing for business. Cheng Long disbanded the originally huge family marriage class, leaving only an elite family marriage class, responsible only for him. Movies made by myself.

Li Zhongzhi is the current person in charge of the Family Class. He leads more than ten martial arts masters in the Family Class and is responsible for all the martial arts guidance and substitute work for Cheng Long's current movies.

Among them, there is a very special member in the family class, Brad Allen.

Allen is the first foreign member of the Family Marriage Class. He has joined the Family Marriage Class since 1997, and is mainly responsible for roles in Cheng Long's movies that require European and American faces to perform martial arts.

He has appeared in movies such as "Glass Bottle", "The Secret Agent" and "Shanghai Knight".

What made Wu Yuan take him seriously was that Mr. Allen later did well in Hollywood, specializing in being an assistant director for various action movies and responsible for action guidance.

He can be said to be the continuation of Cheng Jia Ban, the continuation of the Chinese comedy kung fu movies in Hollywood.

Why does Wu Yuan say that the "Kingsman" series has the shadow of Cheng Long's movies, paying homage to and imitating Cheng-style kung fu comedies?

It's because Allen, a martial arts instructor who came from a married family, is the deputy director and martial arts instructor of the "Kings Agent" series.

All the fighting scenes in "Kingsman" were designed by Allen.

Can a foreign martial artist trained in a family class design martial arts moves without the shadow of Cheng Long?

Let's put it this way, in the ten years since Cheng Long entered Hollywood, the most important thing he left behind in Hollywood is not actually the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award.

The most important thing he left behind in Hollywood is the Chinese action movie style.

Since Cheng Long, Hollywood action movies have been divided into two types, non-Cheng Long style and Cheng Long style.

As long as it's Cheng Long's style, you have to hire a professional martial arts instructor from a family class to do martial arts for various Hollywood movies, or even train professional martial arts masters.

The emergence of Cheng Long changed the world of action movies and created an action movie genre that was unique to him.

This is not something that Li Lianjie and other Chinese Kung Fu superstars can compare with.

This is also the reason why Wu Yuan wants to cooperate with Cheng Long and want to help him in Hollywood.

This Chinese actor really has the potential to become a Hollywood star!

"Brother Cheng Long, I will leave all the martial arts instruction to the family class."

Wu Yuan said with great confidence: "I believe that the Marriage Class is definitely the best in the world in terms of martial arts instructors and martial artists."

If nothing else, Cheng Long's group of brothers are indeed great.

If it’s not dangerous, we won’t shoot it. If it’s not dangerous, we won’t shoot it.

Cheng Long was also very proud of this, patting his chest and saying, "That's a must!"

"The martial arts masters in our family class will definitely say nothing!"

"While filming "Plan A", there was a scene where we were doing a dangerous action on a high platform. Three people were changed in a row. The first one was Bao Xin, the second one was a senior who has passed away, and the third one was me."

"As soon as we go up, we fall down. In order to make a good movie, we are not afraid of pain or injury at all."

"After the filming of this scene, all three of us were injured and hospitalized!"

"Movies of that era were all about toughness and showing the real thing to the audience. If you say you kick hard, you really kick hard."

"One of the scenes was a simple kick in the face, but because it was a close-up, it had to be real."

"The martial artist in our family class, the first one was kicked to coax him and he fainted, and the next one was kicked to coax him and he fainted again. As a result, seven of them were kicked unconscious in a row."

"As for dedication, if you search the entire Hong Kong Island, all the martial arts classes put together are not as dedicated as our family class."

Speaking of this, Cheng Long suddenly winked at Wu Yuan and smiled, switching to Mandarin and said: "Not to mention these ghost guys, they are weak in fighting, and they also need all kinds of protective measures and borrowing positions. "

"When I bumped into it a little bit, I started calling for insurance compensation."

"It's too pretentious and troublesome, and I don't dare to do it seriously."

“Would this make for a good action movie?”

As he spoke, Cheng Long probably recalled the desperate look of Saburo when the family class was first established, and shook his head with emotion, "In the past, when I did a big dangerous move, I might have thought in my heart whether I could go home at night."

"It's different now. The safety measures are very good now. The steel wire is as thick as hanging you, so you don't have to worry about anything happening."

"It's a pity that my old brothers didn't catch up with this good era."

Wu Yuan had never experienced the era of desperate martial arts in Hong Kong, but he still patted Cheng Long on the shoulder with understanding: "Without them, there would be no most famous family class in the world."

"All the hard work is worth it."

"Yes!" Cheng Long nodded fiercely, "It's all worth it!"

Wu Yuan smiled brightly, reached out and clapped, attracting the attention of everyone in the crew.

"Okay, that's it for the chat."

"Everyone, get ready, we are going to start the official filming!"

"Kayla, Will, you all go change!"

"Guys, get moving!"

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