Millennium director

Most movie fans don't know that Hollywood capitalists are secretly paying attention to some Chinese actors.

Even most people in the Chinese film industry haven't felt this trend yet.

But there are indeed several Chinese actors at the top of the pyramid who have received audition invitations from Hollywood.

They are very smart. Although they have no communication with each other, they have tacitly not spread the news. Only they and their agents know about it and keep it secret.

And Wu Yuan, who is filming "Riding the Wind" in Shanxi, is even less likely to know about it.

He has a hunch about this. After all, part of the reason for putting Liu Yifei in the crew of "X-Men: Days of Future Past" was to let Chinese actors show their faces more internationally.

When Chinese actors succeed internationally and drive the growth of Chinese box office, they will force Hollywood movies, especially those that want to get more box office from mainland China, to face Chinese actors and choose Chinese actors.

From the 1990s to the first few years of the millennium, there was a trend in Hollywood, that is, using Japanese actors to participate in Hollywood movies.

Why?

It was because the Japanese film market at that time was the second largest film market in the world. If Hollywood wanted to occupy the Japanese market, the best way was to use some local actors who were familiar to Japanese fans.

Unfortunately, this attempt failed later.

But the reason for the failure was not the actors, but the style of movies that Japanese fans liked, which was indeed different from Hollywood. The kind of literary and fresh and Japanese love movies that people like are really not Hollywood.

Special effects movies and anime movies are even more of Hollywood's shortcomings.

So even if Japanese actors were used, in the end only "Inception" was successful in Japan, and this was also due to the Japanese investors behind "Inception".

And the "Inception" in this world simply had no Japanese investors, and the Japanese actor was replaced by Wang Xueqi, which made the performance of this movie in Japan not as good as in the original time and space.

By the way, I would like to mention that Wang Xueqi is still the doctor who performs surgery on Iron Man in Iron Man 3.

Well, after seeing the "special edition" this time, Wang Xueqi was even angrier than in his previous life.

In his previous life, Wang Xueqi had never entered Hollywood and had never filmed a Hollywood movie. He joined Iron Man 3 with a try-it attitude, but was fooled by Marvel.

But this life is different. Wang Xueqi in this life also went to the Oscars with Wu Yuan for his excellent performance as the male lead in Gravity. Later, he also received invitations to several Hollywood movies. Although most of them were not important roles, they at least had more than ten minutes of feature film plots.

Among them, Inception was successful again.

Wang Xueqi is not unfamiliar with Hollywood in this life, and he has also had cooperation experience. In this case, he was still fooled by Marvel and honestly filmed more than ten scenes. In the end, only two or three scenes were edited into the feature film, and they were the special editions for China. This made Wang Xueqi, a good man, very angry.

As soon as "Iron Man 3" was released, he distanced himself from the movie and gave a rare public interview to denounce the other party's behavior.

It is also because of this that Wang Xueqi has some PTSD about Hollywood's invitations.

So, after the success of "X-Men: Days of Future Past", some Hollywood movies came to him and wanted to invite Wang Xueqi to star in them, but he refused them immediately.

He really couldn't tell whether these invitations were sincere invitations, or were just for fun, or just for the sake of using a name.

He is already over 60 years old, and he doesn't pursue honor and fame much. There is no need to ruin his reputation for these invitations full of traps. It is better to refuse them all.

His refusal made several Hollywood film companies embarrassed.

For them, if they want to invite Chinese actors, the first choice must be the male lead of Wu Yuan's Chinese films. There is no other reason, mainly because of familiarity.

Yes, Wu Yuan's Chinese films are really familiar to Hollywood film companies. They are one of the few films they will specifically learn about and watch.

Because the director is Wu Yuan, who is recognized as an outstanding director in Hollywood.

His movies are worth studying by Hollywood industry insiders, including his Chinese films.

Among his several excellent Chinese films, Zhang Guorong, the male lead of the art film, is no longer an actor, Li Xuejian is too old, Hu Ge is good, but his level, popularity and status are not enough.

After counting, Wang Xueqi is the best.

Hey, in the end, they refused to do it.

This worried those Hollywood film companies that wanted to try Chinese actors to see if they could boost the Chinese box office.

But they haven't given up hope yet!

"So, a Hollywood producer called you and invited you to make a movie in Hollywood?"

"Fuck, you're really popular now, even Hollywood likes you?"

Wu Yuan's mouth twitched wildly, with an indescribable weird feeling. He looked directly at the nervous Wu Jing and patted his shoulder hard: "Old Wu, listen to my advice, the water here is too deep, you can't control it!"

In a split second, Wu Yuan figured out why this happened.

It was nothing more than Wu Jing entering Hollywood's sight because he was filming his new movie.

Then Hollywood producers checked and found out that this guy was an action movie actor who started out as a kung fu movie actor and later filmed a police and gangster action movie in Hong Kong Island.

They were familiar with this type!

Hong Kong Island used to export this type of actor to Hollywood!

The successful one was Cheng Long, and the failed one was Chang Wei, also known as Zou Zhaolong.

In short, Chinese action actors have always been the type that Hollywood is more likely to accept and happy to accept. Their "kung fu" cannot be performed by European and American actors.

Coincidentally, Wu Jing is this type of actor. When Wang Xueqi is unwilling to go to Hollywood, it seems that Wu Jing is indeed a good choice as a second choice.

However, when Wu Yuan thought of the "Wolf Warrior" in his previous life, he felt that this guy should not get along with Hollywood.

If he really went to Hollywood to try his luck, he might fight with those old American capitalists.

Hollywood is too deep for him, and he can't handle it.

It's better for Wu Jing to stay in China and do Wolf Warrior. The Chinese film industry also needs him.

If he goes to Hollywood to play Asian supporting roles in some second- and third-rate movies, and then Liu Peiqiang and Leng Feng are gone, it will be really funny! (End of this chapter)