After buying Marvel, I became the king of Hollywood

There was a look of admiration in his eyes.

Then some shots were taken, and after get off work, they took Tsui Hark and Jackie Chan to a high-end restaurant.

............

He ate too much Chinese food, and Jackie Chan and Tsui Hark were the two Chinese people to be entertained. Kevin chose Spanish food this time.

After ordering a few signature delicacies and serving some red wine, Kevin asked Tsui Hark directly:

"Director Tsui Hark, do you have any ideas for the new movie? You can boldly mention it."

Facing Kevin's question, Tsui Hark pondered for a while, and then said:

"I don't know Director Kevin, but do you know about Chinese Xianxia culture?"

There was a smile on Kevin's face. Needless to say, Tsui Hark may not have a deeper understanding of Xianxia culture than him.

After all, the immortals of this era are actually martial arts to some extent, and have not completely entered the realm of immortals.

"I have a very deep understanding of Taoist culture."

As soon as Tsui Hark heard it, he knew that Kevin was knowledgeable.

The word immortal originated from Taoism. Kevin didn't talk about immortals, but talked about Tao, which shows that he has a deep understanding of immortals.

That being the case, it's easy to say.

Tsui Hark directly took out a vernacular version of Shushan Swordsman from his body.

Hold up the book and say:

"I have an idea, which is to adapt the story of this book into a movie."

When Kevin saw it, a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

Sure enough, Old Freak Xu already had the idea of ​​making The Legend of Shushan Swordsman into a movie.

It's just that due to the Hong Kong film market, it is difficult to find a suitable investor.

To put it simply, the investment is small, and the effect of Xianxia cannot be shot.

The investment is huge, and with the size of the Hong Kong market, it is difficult to recover the cost.

Tsui Hark in the future may not be unable to guess that he will lose money, but in order to realize his dream of being a director, sometimes the profession of director does not care about the consequences.

"The Legend of Shushan Swordsman, I know, and the story in it is also very clear to me."

"However, if you want to shoot, I don't recommend using this story, of course the background can be appropriated."

Tsui Hark frowned.

"why?"

Kevin ate a mouthful of food and chatted like:

"The reason is very simple, not popular enough."

After all, without waiting for Tsui Hark to refute, he continued:

"Even in China, the Legend of the Swordsman from Shushan shouldn't be considered a popular book, right?"

"As far as I know, the only popular book on this subject is Journey to the West."

Tsui Hark was at a loss for words. Kevin, an American, actually knows more about Chinese culture than him.

"Then how do we change it?"

Tsui Hark asked directly.

"First of all, there is no doubt that the hero and heroine must be American."

I won’t talk about xenophobia here, it’s very simple, if Americans are not used as the hero and heroine, it is impossible to have an audience in the United States.

So for the 5000 million US dollars that Kevin plans to invest, there is a high probability of losing money, and at the same time, it will not attract the attention of Americans.

Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible to promote Xianxia culture to Hollywood.

The first step in promotion, the movie must sell well.

Only when it sells well, other things behind will be possible.

For example, using Chinese as the protagonist, or other situations.

Tsui Hark is obviously not a fool, he immediately knew what Kevin meant.

Although he is not reconciled, but in order for this culture to break into Hollywood, he can bear it.

Tsui Hark nodded, expressing his acceptance of this opinion, while continuing to listen to Kevin's other opinions.

Seeing that Tsui Hark agreed with his opinion, Kevin continued:

"The second step is the real scene."

"If you really want to shoot, I hope you will take the photography team to the famous mountains in the mainland to take pictures."

Taking the mainland of this era as an example, the cost of Kevin bringing such a photography team to the mainland to shoot scenes can be said to be too low to believe.

Much cheaper than doing special effects directly.

Chapter 163

"This···"

Xu Ke hesitated immediately.

Hong Kong will return to the mainland next year. At this time, countless people in Hong Kong demonized the mainland, and many rich and wealthy people chose to flee.

Although he has no prejudice against the mainland, but let him go to the mainland to make movies, this...

"I will also go to the mainland with you, but it will not be until after May."

Kevin spoke directly.

Kevin, who had memories of his previous life, knew that May 1996, 5 was a critical moment.

After that, China and the United States will usher in a honeymoon period for a period of time, and it is the best time to go to the mainland at that time.

As for now, the relationship between China and the United States is still a bit tense, and he may not be able to go even if he wants to.

"During this time, just stay with me and see how I make movies."

"At the same time, let's discuss together how to set up your new movie script."

Tsui Hark nodded. This kind of opportunity to watch Steve Kevin's movies up close is rare.

As for the script, you still have to communicate with Kevin.

After eating, Kevin arranged a hotel for them before returning to his villa.

It's good to be filming near Hollywood, you can go home and rest at night.

Of course, even so, in fact, he didn't have much free time at night.

During filming, I was busy with filming during the day.

At night, it is to communicate with the special effects company on the idea of ​​special effects production.

In order to release it at the fastest speed, Kevin did not choose the method of making special effects slowly after the filming of ordinary movies is completed.

Instead, it took the method of making while shooting.

For this reason, he had to communicate with special effects companies all night at night, and at the same time, he kept watching the special effects they produced to determine whether they were what he wanted.

He even arranged for sisters Helen and Emma to sleep in separate rooms.

Fortunately, the sisters have gotten used to the special rhythm of Kevin as soon as he starts making movies.

With the money Kevin gave, they would be quite happy to go shopping during the day.

The days passed quickly.

For Americans, March [-] is just an ordinary Friday.

On such a day, Hongfan District began to be screened in major theaters in the United States.

...

A typical American fat man, holding a thick notebook in his hand, and a part of the questionnaire printed some questions about the movie audience.

Wearing work clothes with the unique LOGO of Chenxi Film Company.

Chenxi Film Company, after many adjustments and replacements, finally decided on a very good LOGO.

The so-called Chenxi means the twilight at dawn.

Therefore, Kevin's choice is also such a picture.

A straight line symbolizes the horizon, and the sun reveals a little body from the horizon, and the shimmering light dispels the darkness and illuminates the earth.

To put it complicated, it is actually a line between virtual and real, plus a little bit of the rhythm of the sun, and the sunlight composed of countless colors.

Probably such a LOGO.

Office workers who do not sit in the office need to dress uniformly when they go out, so as to spread the influence of the morning light movie.

And this American fat man in his 30s is the investigator hired by Chenxi Film Company.

At this time, Fatty Grew was doing his work conscientiously.

From his body shape, it can be seen that he is at the bottom of American society. He has no education, no skills, and can only do some physical work.

Or simply work.

In this kind of work, the investigator is undoubtedly a relatively easy job.

Gru, who got the job, naturally did not dare to neglect.

Gelu saw two boys happily discussing the affairs of the Hongfan District, and hurriedly approached and asked:

"Hello, you just bought the movie tickets for the Hongfan District, right?"

"I am the producer of Hongfan District, a staff member of Chenxi Film Company. This is my badge. May I know why you choose to watch Hongfan District?"

Gru smiled. Thanks to his badge and the fat man's harmless smile, the two big boys nodded.

Among them, the blond boy stood up and said:

"I saw the promotion on the previous posters. It seems that Jack Chen's status in Hong Kong is similar to that of Bruce Lee. I personally like kung fu movies very much. I am a fan of kung fu movies."

"When I saw this poster, I wanted to see this movie."

Gru nodded, thanked a few words and started recording.

The night passed quickly, and Gru almost finished a long night shift. However, the nature of the job of an investigator is different, and there are more holidays. In exchange, once he gets busy, there is no eight-hour work system.

After completing the data summary and bringing the movie theater's box office summary of the day, the investigator Gru went to the company to return the data, and then began his own rest.

...

"How about it, Hongfan District's box office on the first day still has word of mouth?"

During the past few days, Tsui Hark stayed on the set to study almost every day, and he was very busy. Kevin also asked him to help him try out some less important shots.

This can be regarded as Kevin training Tsui Hark in advance, letting him learn how Hollywood makes movies.

Jackie Chan, on the other hand, is unrestrained.

With money in hand, and being in Hollywood and not being followed by those paparazzi in Hong Kong, these days it can be said that he has let himself go.

Had a good time.

But today, he has no time to play here.

Jackie Chan was on the set early, waiting for the people from Chenxi Films to send the data.

Although it is not possible that there is no box office of 1000 million US dollars, but if there is really only 1000 million US dollars at the box office, then Kevin is willing to invest in letting him make a movie.

He himself was ashamed.

After all, it cost 500 million US dollars to buy out, plus the use of publicity and manpower and material resources, if it is less than 500 million US dollars, it is a proper loss-making transaction.

$2000 million is still a small breakeven.

In other words, if it is less than 2000 million, he has no face to mention the new movie to Kevin.

Looking at the anxious Jackie Chan, Kevin is not in a hurry at all, he is more confident than Jackie Chan.