Millennium director

In the "Doctor Strange" series, "The King" is an indispensable character.

In the original comics, Wang is Doctor Strange's assistant, servant, bodyguard, and friend. He is a martial arts master and a master of magical knowledge. He participates in almost all of Doctor Strange's adventures. The two are the best partners.

In the movie script of "Doctor Strange", it is set as Doctor Strange's teacher, Kama Taj, the librarian who has a large collection of mysterious books.

It is worth mentioning that in the comics, the king does not know magic. Although he knows a lot of magic knowledge, the ancient master taught almost all his magic knowledge to the king.

However, Wang himself cannot use magic, but he is able to fight against the mage with ease, because he is very familiar with various spells and can fight against the mage through martial arts.

However, in the movie script, there is no such setting. Even Wang is a battle mage in the movie. He is very good at opening portals and playing magic whip. On the contrary, he has no special performance in martial arts.

But it is not easy to find a suitable actor for this "king".

Maybe it was due to preconceptions. Wu Yuan felt that the original actor did a good job. When he thinks of Wang, he will think of the original actor's face that looks like Ma Dongxi.

After much deliberation, Wu Yuan, who originally wanted to find a Chinese actor, never thought of an actor who was more suitable than the original version.

Just like Dr. Strange had to be played by Juan Fulai, Wu Yuan felt that Benedict Wong also had to be played by Benedict Wong.

Yes, it's a coincidence that the actors who play Doctor Strange and King are both named Benedict in real life, but they just have different surnames.

Maybe it's because they are all British. This name may be very popular in the UK, just like Zhang Wei and Li Qiang.

I can only say that maybe this is fate.

It was also because the two people had the same name that Wu Yuan remembered Benedict Wang.

Without thinking of a better option, Wu Yuan still called Marvel and asked them to contact the British-Chinese actor.

It is worth mentioning that he is a pure second-generation Chinese and may not even speak Chinese.

Soon, Marvel gave feedback. Benedict Wang is considered a small actor in Hollywood and is not difficult to find. Moreover, he does not have any film contracts and can only film one film a year on average. It was just a film and television work, and the schedule was very loose. Marvel only spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to sign him.

Well, he felt that he had made a lot of money and personally called Wu Yuan to thank Wu Yuan for casting him in "Doctor Strange".

It was also during this phone call that Wu Yuan confirmed that this second-generation Chinese was indeed a very British person. He only knew Chinese at the level of "hello and thank you" and could only speak some common Cantonese at most, because he His parents are immigrants from Hong Kong Island.

This is relatively rare in most Chinese families.

After all, second-generation Chinese immigrants generally use Chinese to communicate at home due to the influence of their parents. It is generally not until the third generation of immigrants that they stop using Chinese. Even immigrants from Southeast Asia still use Chinese to communicate after the fifth or sixth generation.

But Wu Yuan wisely did not have a more in-depth exchange with Benedict Wang on this topic. He only needed an actor who could play the role well and did not want to explore too much else.

At this point, the important actors of "Doctor Strange" have been assembled.

After the three main actors, Doctor Strange, Ancient One, and Wang, are confirmed, other roles, including the villain actors, can be left to the producers. Then Wu Yuan only needs to wait until November to join the filming.

However, before joining the team to shoot this movie, Wu Yuan first had to complete the release of "Riding the Wind".

Soon, just a few days after Wu Yuan completed the casting work of "Doctor Strange", the time came to October 1st.

As a gift film, "Riding the Wind" did not hold a special premiere. After all, this is a gift to the motherland, and the creators do not need to overshadow the show.

On October 1st, Wu Yuan stayed at home and didn't go anywhere.

This year, there will be a grand military parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the anti-French victory, but it will not be on National Day, but on the anniversary of September 3.

At that time, Wu Yuan also stayed at home and watched the live broadcast of CCTV. He stayed in front of the TV early in the morning, waiting for the military parade to start at 10 o'clock on time!

As a normal man, it is really difficult to resist the charm of the military parade.

Ever since he became conscious, Wu Yuan has never missed a live broadcast of a major military parade, and he has been watching the entire process.

Wu Yuan's blood would boil every time he saw those heroic and mighty military columns, as well as the important national weapons that represented "truth".

Perhaps every man has a military dream in his heart.

In short, Wu Yuan was very satisfied with this year's military parade and even did some very childish and exciting behaviors!

However, Liu Yifei was amused by Wu Yuan's childish appearance several times at that time, especially when the military phalanx was approaching on the TV. Wu Yuan showed a more serious expression than the leader and waved at the TV. Liu Yifei's scream A funny one.

I can only say that the saying that a man is a boy until he dies is indeed true!

However, Wu Yuan stayed at home on National Day, not to watch the live broadcast, nor to watch the live broadcast of the military parade.

Mainly because there was no premiere, and "Riding the Wind" was a tribute film, Wu Yuan hardly needed to worry about the release of this film, and he did not need to appear on any variety shows or run road shows to promote the film.

The only thing he could do was to stay at home and wait for the news of the premiere results.

At the same time, in more than 14,000 cinemas across the country, "Riding the Wind" was ranked first in the list of released movies, and it was the most scheduled movie among all the movies released today, with a scheduling volume of nearly 40%!

In fact, since it was to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-French War, the film should have been scheduled to be released on September 3, the same date as the military parade.

But who said that September 3 was not a legal holiday, not even a weekend. If the film was scheduled on September 3, it would not be convenient for the public to watch the film.

And because of the tight schedule at the time, Wu Yuan wished that the release date of "Riding the Wind" could be later, so as to avoid the embarrassment of temporarily withdrawing the film in case it was not released in time, so he finally decided to schedule it on National Day.

This decision was actually not so correct.

Although, during this National Day holiday, there will definitely be countless public officials, state-owned enterprise employees, and Wu Yuan's fans who will take advantage of the holiday to go to the cinema with their relatives and friends and choose to watch "Riding the Wind", a special tribute film directed by Wu Yuan.

"Riding the Wind" also had more than 100,000 screenings on the day of its premiere, with an average attendance rate of more than 40%!

However, during this National Day, "Riding the Wind" has a big enemy that was released five days earlier than it!

The next day, just after midnight, the national ticketing system counted the first-day box office results of "Riding the Wind" - 186 million!

Successfully broke the first-day box office record of 170 million of "Monster Hunt"!

But unfortunately, it failed to break the first-day box office record of 212 million of "Hong Kong囧" which was released five days earlier than "Riding the Wind"!

Yes, the big enemy of "Riding the Wind" at the same time is "Hong Kong囧", the sequel to the top comedy IP!

Wu Yuan, who received the news of the box office results, showed an expression of "as expected" and sighed softly.

"Sure enough, Lost in Hong Kong is still amazing." (End of this chapter)