After buying Marvel, I became the king of Hollywood

Page 227

Chapter 333 Action Movies

"I know that there is a Chinese kung fu master. It seems that he was among the bombardment filmed last year."

"It is said that it also caused a wave of kung fu fever?"

Last year, in the movie Thunderbolt 4, Jet Li had a few minutes of the scene, which caused a sensation among the audience.

In terms of playing beautifully in the movie, there is only such a kung fu emperor in the entire Chinese entertainment circle.

"Yes, that's him, Kevin, are you interested in making a movie with him?"

"We originally had this idea, but we hesitated..."

Kevin understood what Warner meant.

It seems good to find Jet Li to make a movie?

It's really Kevin's idea to make an action movie.

Jet Li Johnson?

In an instant, countless thoughts appeared in Kevin's mind.

"It's feasible, but I need to think about it. Please help me contact Jet Li."

"Okay, he's in Los Angeles, and he's going to have a wedding on September [-]th. Is Director Kevin interested in attending?"

"Okay, President Robinov will make arrangements here."

After a little recollection, Kevin knew that this was the wedding between Jet Li and Li Zhi.

It has to be said that behind the status of Kung Fu Emperor, Jet Li also has a somewhat disgraceful side.

But this kind of personal matter has nothing to do with Kevin, and Jet Li is just a star.

What Kevin likes is his ability.

Kung fu, in the United States at this time, is a rare element.

Just one thing, let Jet Li be the protagonist, will it cause resistance in the United States.

Kevin is very aware of the plight of the Chinese in the United States.

Although racial discrimination is not allowed on the surface.

But in fact, in the United States, the No.1 species is always white.

Then there are the blacks.

Followed by other minorities.

As for the Chinese, the status is the lowest.

To be honest, until now, Kevin has not figured out why the Chinese are desperately coming to the United States.

If it was because there was not enough to eat in the past, then after everyone can have enough to eat, why do people still yearn for the United States so much.

If you have money, let's not talk about it for now.

After all, with money, these discriminations are not a problem.

In the United States, the rich are the privileged class.

But, without money, this is hell, these people...

Kevin waved his hand.

These things are not what he should care about.

His current status does not allow him to do some thankless things.

To put it bluntly, when these people choose to join the United States, they do so at their own risk.

"it is good!"

Robinov immediately agreed, and at the same time began to look forward to Kevin's new project.

····

After hanging up the phone, Kevin also thought about the theme of the new movie in his mind.

There are actually quite a lot of action themes in Hollywood, and Kevin just thought about it in his mind and a lot appeared.

Among them, the first thing he reviewed was of course some of Jet Li's future movies.

Cosmos Wanted seems to be good, with full marks for creativity, but unfortunately it only earned $7000 million at the box office, which is a loss compared to its cost of $5000 million.

Deadly Romeo and the Kiss of the Dragon is not bad, but the overall upper limit is only more than 1 million US dollars.

Actually not too high.

If you choose Jet Li's movie, Kevin knows that there is a high probability that it will not be able to support the box office.

This made Kevin dispel the idea of ​​letting Jet Li be the absolute protagonist.

This is not because of Jet Li's failure, but because of the discrimination against the Chinese in the general environment of the United States.

Just like in the mainland movie market, how is it possible for a movie featuring Japanese stars to achieve particularly good results?

Although the metaphor is not very appropriate, it probably means this.

The only way is to have two protagonists.

As a director, being able to shoot a movie with Jet Li as the protagonist can be regarded as fulfilling a little wish in his heart.

To put it bluntly, Kevin has a little idol filter for Jet Li and wants to support him a little bit.

Of course, it would be even better if you can earn a little money while supporting them.

Abandoning Jet Li's own movies, Kevin set his sights on Hollywood as a whole, and his vision suddenly broadened.

Those tough guy action movies are generally played by muscular tough guys, so this should be ruled out first.

It is undoubtedly neither fish nor fowl to let Jet Li come to this kind of movie.

The second is other types of films with fighting scenes.

For example, adventure movies, in this regard, Jet Li is quite suitable.

The movie he once collaborated with Tsui Hark, Adventure King, is quite interesting.

However, the box office of that movie, because it was too long ago, Kevin didn't have much impression.

But since it feels good to him, thinking about it, it should be okay.

The image of Jet Li is also very suitable to play an explorer with thick eyebrows and big eyes.

Adventure movies can be used as an alternative.

After arranging several options in his mind, Kevin set his sights on other types.

Crime films, spy films, rescue series...

Quick chase?

These movie types flashed through Kevin's mind one by one, and finally Kevin set his sights on the rescue series.

The so-called rescue series is actually named by Kevin himself. Generally speaking, this refers to a movie with a plot to rescue a certain target.

From this perspective, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan can all be counted in this category.

But what Kevin said is of course not this kind, but similar to action movies such as Hurricane Rescue, Speed ​​of Life and Death, and Air Rescue.

In these rescue films, the protagonist group uses clean and agile skills to eradicate criminal gangs or gangsters, etc., with the goal of saving their relatives.

Or some extremely important goals.

Like the President of the United States?

This kind of movie, in the previous Hollywood, actually emerged endlessly. This is a classic type of movie.

But still the same sentence, Hollywood action movies are too ugly to shoot.

Before there are more exciting action scenes, the audience can actually accept it.

But since Kevin raised the entire action level of Hollywood through Hong Kong's martial arts, many action movies of this type have hit the market.

The common complaint of the audience is, is this a fight?

It looks like play house.

This has almost become a unified slot.

To put it bluntly, among Hollywood directors, there are too few who can skillfully use the martial arts profession.

This has also led to the fact that in the past two years or so, no decent action movie has been released.

Shooting action movies at this time is just enough to satisfy the hungry audience.

Thinking of this, Kevin lifted his spirits, it seems that the idea of ​​starting an action movie is quite good.

Especially this thrilling rescue series.

As for the corresponding criticism, Kevin doesn't care about the criticism that will come at that time.

As a big capitalist, his primary purpose is profit, not art.

Chapter 334 Hurricane Rescue

Playing art, wait until he is five or sixty years old and then think about it.

Presumably at that time, even if he made a bunch of movies that no one could understand, countless film critics would rush to praise that it was a masterpiece.

After all, Hollywood is a vanity fair. Sometimes, awards are really not based on the quality of the movie.

Instead, it is given according to the status of the person who made the film. Anyone who knows the future Black Panther, Green Book, etc. knows everything.

After understanding this point, and watching the so-called art films, you will find that most of the art films are rubbish.

Of course, it's not that there are no good ones, but in this era of rampant capital, good artwork does not mean a good box office.

Therefore, before Kevin has completely climbed to the top of Hollywood, Kevin will not even think about these things for a second.

After selecting the subject matter, Kevin also began to choose movies in terms of production cost and future box office potential.

With Kevin's memory, it is naturally impossible to remember everything so clearly.

Therefore, in the following time, Kevin asked Dawson to arrange someone to help collect action movies of the last ten years, and use these materials to compare with his memory to see what other action movies are most suitable for shooting now.

After ten days of searching.

Kevin finally settles on a suitable movie.

Taken.

This rescue film directed by Pierre Morel, with a production cost of 5000 million US dollars, has achieved a global box office of more than 2 million US dollars.

Let its producers make a lot of money, although it doesn't sound like the box office of other films of Chenxi Films.

But if you consider that this is a French movie.

Then this box office is very impressive.

If this movie is co-starred by Kung Fu Emperor Jet Li and Johnson, who is full of joy and action for the audience.

Coupled with the reputation of Steve Kevin, as well as greater publicity and higher investment.

To put it simply, it is the super deluxe version of Taken.

What kind of box office results can it achieve?

Even Kevin is not sure about this, but he dares to say that this is definitely a top commercial blockbuster that makes the audience dizzy.

Just thinking about it, Kevin felt his blood boil, as if he had regained the enthusiasm he had just filmed.

In this way, after being with Anne Hathaway for half a month, Kevin left her and began to meet with gold medal screenwriters in the company to make a rhythmic double-lead script for Kevin's idea.

The plot of Taken is simple.

The protagonist is a retired secret agent. The long-term career as an agent has caused the protagonist to become increasingly estranged from his wife and daughter. After retirement, the protagonist loves his daughter very much in order to make up for his daughter.

However, when the daughter asked to go to Paris alone, the protagonist refused her daughter's request because of worry.

The father and daughter had a big fight, and in the end, the protagonist, who felt guilty for his daughter, agreed to his daughter's request.

As a result, her daughter was abducted and trafficked by a mafia prostitution gang in Paris.