Millennium director

"Daniel, your fame and influence are not inferior to Quentin's at all."

"Since his film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" can earn US$300 million at the global box office, there is no reason why you can't do it!"

"We all believe in your talent, and even more believe in Bruce Lee's charm!"

Producer Jovan Garfield from Disney was beaming with praise for Wu Yuan.

It can't be said to be flattering. In his opinion, Wu Yuan's new Hollywood film is indeed full of potential and the timing of its appearance is also very appropriate.

It may not be a big deal to other major Hollywood studios, but to Disney, this movie is very important.

Wu Yuan also noticed something was wrong from his words and emotions.

Disney is currently the top film company in Hollywood. It is the only major Hollywood company that has not been traded so far. Its Marvel is the world's largest money-making company. It makes no sense that it only has a goal of 3 for a movie like this. So excited about a movie with a box office of 100 million US dollars.

"Jovan, is Disney in trouble?" When dealing with this group of Europeans and Americans, you have to be straightforward.

Faced with Wu Yuan's straightforward inquiry, Jovan Garfield scratched his head. After thinking about it, he felt that there was nothing he couldn't say, so he explained: "There is some trouble."

"The live-action film project here at the headquarters over the past two years has not been going well."

"You know, after the success of 'Beauty and the Beast,' the company's live-action film strategy shifted to princess films."

"But the failure of "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms" last year was a slap in the face to the company."

"At the same time, the production of "Mulan" has not been going smoothly. The production team has been suspended now, which has cast a haze on the headquarters' live-action film strategy."

Disney is currently one of the largest film companies in Hollywood. It has successively acquired independent film giant Miramax, 3D animation overlord Pixar, and animation giants Marvel and Lucasfilm.

However, after the acquisition, these companies all operated independently and were not completely integrated into Disney.

Unlike Marvel and Lucas, which are becoming more and more prosperous, Disney's film investment in the past two years has indeed suffered some failures.

Disney's live-action fairy tale film "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms", with an investment of US$120 million, suffered a disastrous box office failure after it was released in November last year. It was completely blocked in North America and ended up with a total box office of only US$65 million.

In fact, Disney is an expert in adapting live-action fairy tales into movies, and has produced many super hits.

"Maleficent," "The Jungle Book," "Alice in Wonderland" and "Beauty and the Beast" are all Disney's live-action fairy tale movies that have received critical acclaim.

But starting in 2018, Disney began to have trouble with its live-action fairy tale movies.

Wu Yuan was aware of the failure of "The Nutcracker and the Four Realms", but he really didn't know about the setback of "Mulan".

"What happened to "Mulan"?" he asked doubtfully, "Isn't "Mulan" already being filmed? I remember seeing the news at the end of last year."

"Oh, this is really a bad thing." Jovan Garfield sighed: "Speaking of which, this matter also has something to do with you."

"I?"

"Yes."

"Ms. Niki Caro, the director of "Mulan", originally wanted your wife, Crystal Liu, to play Mulan."

"She believes that among Asian actresses in the world, only Crystal Liu can play Mulan well and play this most special Disney princess."

"But Crystal Liu did not reach a cooperation with the crew in the end. I heard that this was related to your instruction."

"Of course, it's meaningless to say this now. I know Crystal is pregnant and gave birth to a beautiful princess for you."

"In short, after losing Crystal Liu, Disney finally chose Chloe Bennet (Chloe Bennett/Wang Keying), a Chinese-American mixed-race Hollywood actress, to play Mulan. This was also Disney's choice. The most suitable actor."

"At the beginning, Nikki Caro also accepted the result, and Chloe also joined the group and started training."

"But from here on, things took a turn for the worse."

"Although Chloe has appeared in many TV series of "SHIELD", her fighting scenes are really average. During training, she always uses various reasons and excuses to ask to relax. The training was originally scheduled for three months. It took me half a year to finish it."

"After the hard training was completed and the crew officially started filming, Nikki Caro was very dissatisfied with her performance. She thought her attitude was perfunctory, her acting was weak, and she didn't have the flavor of Chinese Kung Fu."

"In short, the two had a lot of conflict on the set, and it is now an open secret that the heroine and the director are not at odds."

"Last month, the crew even stopped production. Niki Caro asked to change the heroine to reshoot or replace her. The company is also very distressed now and is trying to mediate the conflict between the two."

After listening to Jovan Garfield's complaint, Wu Yuan not only failed to solve his doubts, but became even more confused, "That shouldn't be the case. How dare Ms. Chloe go against the director?"

"She is not an A-list Hollywood actress, let alone a movie queen."

"Oh, this is complicated." Jovan Garfield shrugged: "I can only tell you that there is a reason why she got the role of Mulan."

At this point, Wu Yuan realized that it seemed that someone was supporting her behind the scenes.

This is indeed troublesome.

After all, Niki Caro herself is not a very influential director. She can only be regarded as a second-rate director in Hollywood.

No wonder she can only say "either I go or she goes" to force Disney to make a choice.

It is already a very frustrating thing for the director to be forced to this extent.

"So what will Disney decide in the end?" Wu Yuan gossiped with interest.

"I don't know about that." Jovan Garfield sighed, "With things getting to this point, only one of the director and the heroine will definitely stay."

"But this matter may take a few months to come to a conclusion. "Mulan" may have to be re-filmed, and the company will waste a lot of money."

Pouting, Wu Yuan really didn't expect that the movie "Mulan" would be so difficult to produce in this time and space.

It's hard to say whether the ending of the streaming media release in the previous time and space was miserable, or the result of the twists and turns in this time and space was more miserable.

However, he still prepared for the worst and said, "Jovan, let's make it clear in advance that even if Mulan plans to kick out the heroine, don't even think about coming back to my wife."

"Unless the script and crew arrangements are in accordance with our requirements, this cooperation is impossible."

"You know, as Chinese actors, we have very strict requirements for filming movies about our country. Just like Cheng Long never plays a villain, Crystal also doesn't play in movies that change the historical background and disrespect Chinese culture." (End of this chapter)