The Best Director

Chapter 283 I Don't Believe You're Old!

Wang Yang ignored the film critics of Jeffrey Westhoff and others. For him, this war of words is over, and the whole world will naturally know who wins and who loses.

However, he didn't go crazy to work during the Christmas holidays. He didn't want to be Miranda; All in one", which means that he does not need to participate in any promotional activities such as movie press conferences and press conferences, and can enjoy the holiday leisurely and with peace of mind.

Of course, since the release of "The Devil Wears Prada" and before the Christmas holiday, Wang Yang has not been lazy, and has followed up a lot of work every day.

Not to mention the occasional decision-making opinions provided to Flame Movies, one of the several film and television works he is personally responsible for, "Prison Break" will return to rebroadcast on January 12 after the winter break, and the production preparations for the second season "Prison Break: Escape" On going, the script is still being written and finalized; the preparations for "The Big Bang Theory" are also progressing smoothly, it is worth mentioning that Johnny Galecki as Leonard, Jim Parsons as Sheldon , Howard's Simon Helberg, and Raj's Kunnao Neyya all completed their auditions in November and December and joined the crew.

In the first season, each person is paid 60,000 US dollars per episode, which is the unified salary of the five leading actors. Compared with the copyright fee of 10,000 yuan per episode, Huo Family Entertainment is really a lucrative treasure! However, 60,000 US dollars per episode per person is already the highest price for newcomers and new dramas in the industry. It is impossible for Flame to break the industry rules and insist on giving 10,000 US dollars per episode, and Jim Parsons and others are also very satisfied and excited about this film contract. .

The o4 version of "The Big Bang Theory" will add a colleague character of Caltech Chinese genius mathematician named Freddy Lee.

In fact, "e" is one of Wang Yang's names, because strictly speaking, his middle name is f1y, and he doesn't know what his parents think, but f1y, which means flying, seems to be cool. It sounds even more "youth flying", but f1y also means flies and flying insects. Wang Yang doesn't hate this moth, but few people called him that since he was a child. His family members have always been Yang and yung, and only a few old friends have mutated into e, which is used for joking and intimacy.

In any case, Freddie Lee has entered the world of "The Big Bang Theory". It is really hard to find a good and suitable Chinese actor. The "Big Bang" team has been selected and auditioned before, and finally Wang Yang has starred in "Dancing Out of Me". Cen Yongkang (Little Harry Sham rry-um-jr.) in the supporting role of "Life".

Yongkang Cen was born in Costa Rica on April 28, 1982. When he was 5 or 6 years old, his family moved to San Francisco to grow up. He is 184m tall and strong. He started to learn dance in a dance company in high school, including break dance, mechanical dance, electric dance, lock dance, etc. Dance and so on, the dancing skills are amazing, compared to Wang Yang who is only limited to the level of arrogance in bars and nightclubs, little Harry is a professional player.

2 years be awards ceremony (b1-nmen-n-rd,

Awards for African-American and ethnic minority American artists), Yongkang Shum started his career as the only male dancer in the i-e segment, and later won the awards of Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez , Jessica Simpson and others as one of the backup dancers, starred in "Dancing Out of My Life", followed by "The Big Bang Theory".

Little Harry is not so "handsome" but has a good screen charm. He is suitable for the image of a leftover male scientist who can't find a girlfriend. He also has the shy and shy temperament of a geek, with a pure accent and a good understanding of the characters in the script. Wang Yang handed Freddie Lee over to him with great confidence.

As for the actor who will play Penny, Wang Yang asked Kaley Cuco's agent about her schedule and the possibility of audition, but he didn't expect that a lot of things would change after asking. Although the role of "Bridget Hennessy" is well-loved by the audience and has brought enough popularity to Kaley, she even won the Teen Choice Award, but Kaley Cuoco's agent has long been dissatisfied with "Eight Rules for Dating My Daughter" She thinks it's a waste of her talent and time.

In 4 years, the TV movie "Girl Boss" starring two new stars, Kaley Cuoco and Megan Fox, will be broadcast on b, which will naturally directly affect the future of the two on the screen; On the other hand, why not film the third season of "Eight Rules for Dating My Daughter"? With Fan Yang's inquiries, the agent proposed many harsh contract renewal terms, such as packaging the heroine of a TV movie.

Do you think of yourself as Jennifer Aniston? Originally, "Eight Rules for Dating My Daughter" suffered a serious decline in ratings, which made people feel disheartened; but the passing of "Friends" next year brought the opportunity of the sitcom "Great Voyage", and "The Big Bang Theory" will debut again. It makes the newcomer Anne Sweeney and other high-level executives of the entertainment department already ambitious and ambitious. They dare to create "Lost", which is called "the most expensive TV series in history", are they afraid that there will be no good sitcoms?

So during this winter break, b announced that it would no longer produce the third season of "Eight Rules" because of its unsatisfactory performance.

Kalei Cuco lost her main job all of a sudden, which is a bit of a big deal! The agent also didn't expect that B would suddenly become strong from cowardice, and he would cut it off as soon as he said it. If he couldn't find a new film contract, he would be shooting himself in the foot. But if there is no audition inquiry from Miracle Yang, he would not adopt this kind of strategy of living with rare goods. The best result now is naturally to join "The Big Bang Theory" as the heroine.

Now that Kaley Cuoco has become a free agent, the whereabouts of Penny's candidates have also been answered. Wang Yang was a little speechless about being the "culprit" himself, but Kalei Cuoco's acting skills are guaranteed, the way of acting, temperament and appearance, and the chemical reaction with Jim Parsons and others are complete, so he readily gave Kalei Cuoco Ray Cuco was confident and invited her to audition for Penny, but she had to wait for a while, save some face for B, anyway, there was no rush to start the machine.

With Miracle Yang’s optimism and promise, Kaley Cuoco’s agent was relieved, and then excited, to be able to star in "The Big Bang Theory"...Who said 18-year-old Kaley Cuoco couldn’t be the next Jennifer Aniston!

Except for the work of "Prison Break: Escape" and "The Big Bang Theory", Wang Yang's energy is still mainly devoted to the preparation of "Firefly", selecting actors for important roles, and participating in directing the design of various crew departments such as art, props, costumes, and special effects. Preparations, these works were completed after the post-production of "d", and were carried out intermittently between the release and promotion, and were suspended with the arrival of the Christmas holiday.

In the happy holiday atmosphere, the New Year's bell is getting closer and closer. The last weekend of 2003 from 26-28 has become history. Among the 200 million box office, "Lord of the Rings 3" and "D" continue to rank first and second. Banknotes; new films "A Basket of Children", "Cold Mountain", "Memory Rift" and "Peter Pan" were released on a large scale, and among them "Memory Rift", which received 13.46 million box office in 2762 theaters, fully declared Wu Yusen's "death".

This sci-fi action film with a production cost of 10,000 yuan caused nightmares for co-investors Paramount and DreamWorks. The starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman became "poison". The freshness of the film review was 27% and 13%, but John Woo this time is not Miracle Yang, nor Wen Ziren, the audience likes only 52%, boring, bloated, sleepy, noisy and stupid, boring chase, bad, bad, bad, bad ...

Needless to say, the 57-year-old Woo Yusen was a master in Hong Kong. "A Hero" and "Bloody Heroes" are all classics in film history; "Broken Arrow" co-operated with Travolta and Nicolas Cage "Face Changing" was a great success, with countless fans. "Disc 2" in 2010 was the global box office champion that year, and it also made him a top-notch in Hollywood. Great director, left his name and footprints on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 21, 2020.

Duo duel, gun battle blood, sunglasses windbreaker, pigeon church... Thanks to Zhang Che as a teacher, the blue is better than the blue, and the "King of Gun Fight" John Woo raised the violence to the realm of aesthetics, which made audiences all over the world go crazy. Directors scramble to learn.

A film critic once said with a smile to Quentin Tarantino: "Wu Yusen can explode, set fire, and shoot guns." Quentin Tarantino responded: "Yes, Michelangelo can only shoot. It's just a wall." Samuel Jackson once said in the gunfight training in the so-called "Anti-Terrorist SWAT Team": "They are just rolling in John Wu's movies, not in actual combat!"

These all explain Wu Yusen's status in the arena from the side. However, starting from June 14, 2020, Wu Yusen seemed to have been subjected to some terrible demotion, and he encountered Waterloo continuously and truly.

"Mission: Impossible 2" is also the annual global box office champion, and Miracle Yang's most powerful is only the fourth place. The two times were "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" in 1999 and "The Ninth District" in 2012. However, "Wind Talker" gave John Woo a big blow when he was in the spring breeze, MGM's eternal nightmare, and now "Memory Rift" "do it again", the executives of Paramount and DreamWorks have begun to question themselves: "I How can you still trust John Wu?"

He is old! Two big productions in a row received the worst results, completely lost their aura, and there was nothing left. Wu Yusen would never be able to make good movies again!

In the words of Mark Slanter, it is: "No one in Hollywood will use him anymore, he is old, and more importantly, he is not 1uy anymore." The old fool has no aura, nor any luck, to get the most feared label in the industry "Unlucky", speaking of it, Wu Yusen is the 100% office building rule, the annual champion, the Avenue of Stars... the end. But Wang Yang had seen John Woo's work "Red Cliff" in his mind returning to the Chinese circle, and it continued to be not very good.

why? Shooting action movies to the peak, tired, want to transform? But after suffering a disastrous defeat, shouldn't you look for suitable opportunities and try your best to prove that you are not old? What's better for John Woo than a cool, intense gunfight action movie?

Wang Yang couldn't understand why this violent aesthetics master forced himself to shoot unfamiliar science fiction and historical films at such a critical moment of life and death. Isn't the war film lesson of "Wind Talker" not obvious? Or that no one has provided such a film appointment opportunity? Then he offers it!

Like many directors, Wang Yang admires John Woo's style very much. "The True Colors of a Hero" and "Face Changing" are among his favorite action movies. I can't forget Xiao Ma's burning money and lighting cigarettes, and the dancing crowd Pigeon... In any case, he doesn't think Wu Yusen is too old to move, he just wants to trust this old guy who has no aura and no luck once! With an appointment that is most suitable for "The King of Guns".

It is not the American version of "Infernal Affairs". John Woo does not have this kind of story style. "Infernal Affairs" does not need cool gun battles. The struggle of human nature is the soul! If they were put together, it might be a happy marriage, but it would be a bit "spoiled" for both parties.

"Hi, John!" The bright and elegant study room, although it is the Christmas holiday when there is no office, this is not the Chinese Spring Festival after all. After watching the unstoppable failure of "Memory Rift", Wang Yang mustered up his energy and was very excited. A little excited and impatient to call Wu Yusen. His early knowledge brought good preparations. This movie is one of the five-year key plans of the Flame Group. Even if Wu Yusen does not direct, there will be someone else in the director's chair.

"You invited me to direct a new movie?" Wu Yusen, who is in Los Angeles at the moment, is very surprised. He and Wang Yang have known each other for a long time, and they have a good friendship. I joked to myself that if "Memory Rift" fails again, maybe the magical Yang who is 34 years younger than him will ask him to make a movie. I didn't expect self-deprecating to become a reality!

He suddenly didn't know what to say. Someone would look at "Memory Rift" being crushed by a crane and ask him to make a movie with a smile. This is really...

"Director John Wu's landmark latest thriller 'ye' is probably the dumbest movie in 3 years. Stupid story, stupid details, and pretty weak acting too! And surprisingly, good guys and The bad guy duels are jumbled, the camera sequences are out of order, it's dull, and it doesn't find anything of John Wu's previous excellence. Too bad! It just makes a whole lot of painful mockery." -Film critic. .Worski, b site.

"Yes! How is it?" Wang Yang leaned back in his chair, looked at the movie reviews on the computer screen, shrugged, and said seriously: "John, what's the problem? I know that the situation of "Memory Rift" is not good now, We Chinese directors have been hit four times by the film critics recently." He chuckled and continued: "But you know I don't agree with you being eliminated, you just made a wrong choice. I don't care about "Windtalker" ", Regardless of "Memory Rift", I don't believe you are old, so I want to invite you to direct a pure gunfight action movie."

Pure gunfight action movie? Wu Yusen's heart skipped a beat, and his breath became short of breath: "Oh!" After "Mission: Impossible 2" won the global annual championship, he was tired of action movies and lost enthusiasm, and said to himself, "You can't play with two guns for a lifetime, To make some movies with more connotations, like literary and musical films", he knew what he was thinking after "Wind Talker": "I want to prove that I am not old!"

In the end, he got "Memory Rift", which combines science fiction, suspense, horror, and action elements. He thought he could do it, but he failed again! Now he really longs for another chance, a chance to avenge his shame!

It's just that his agent has warned him many times: "John, don't mess up. If you screw up, you will be eliminated." Feeling cold, tossing and tossing like ants for the past few years is too tiring, are you really old?

Now Wang Yang... I can't believe you're old, gunfight action movie! Wu Yusen was so excited that he was speechless for a few seconds. He heard Wang Yang say "how is it?", and he smiled in surprise: "Oh, I'm very interested. What kind of movie is that?"

"Well, our idea is to adapt a comic." Wang Yang tapped the keyboard a few times, but his brows were wrinkled. Is Wu Yusen excited or hesitant? If he didn't have the passion to direct, then naturally his level of aura would not drop. Even with the most suitable equipment, he wouldn't be able to shoot well. Passion is the life of a director.

Looking at the screen, Wang Yang first continued: "This is--n's new comic that will be released in December this year, "Wanted" ("Assassins") drawn by Mark Miller, probably the main character Wesley Gibson is a loser, life Almost everyone in the village was bullying him. Suddenly one day, a hot and beautiful killer Fox came over and said that his father was a killer and died, and Wesley was going to be the new killer..."

Flame Films has already negotiated with --n and Mark Miller about the intention of adapting the film. Although the contract has not been signed yet, they have a very happy conversation. Mark Miller is very flattered. Wang Yang knew that he must win the "Wanted Warrant", even if others raised the price to eight figures, there would be only one word: "Follow." But the "Wanted Warrant" that has just been published has not attracted anyone's attention at all.

After giving Wu Yusen a general introduction to the story and world view of "Wanted Warrant", Wang Yang smiled and said to the phone: "John, I don't know what you think, but I think you should return to the gunfight action at the moment. Don’t you want to tell others that you are not old and don’t want to surpass yourself? I still remember a line from "The True Colors of a Hero."

He paused, and gradually read aloud in impure Cantonese: "I have been waiting for this opportunity for three years. I want to fight back. I don't want to prove that I am more powerful than others. I just want to prove what I lost. It must be brought back!"

Wu Yusen's breathing became short again.

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: After "Memory Rift", Paramount had planned to remake the gunfight action crime film "Red Circle" in 2010, directed by John Woo, but the "Heroes of the Lost Treasure", which was planned to be released in 6 years, still died, and then John Woo returned to the Chinese circle Production of "Red Cliff".

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