Chapter 475 Assassination Mission

“Cut!”

At the giant tank set in Baja California, after the crew finished filming a sea war scene, the actors were able to take a half-hour break while the rest of the crew got back to work.

The crew went to the filming site to adjust the props and the camera crew began to adjust the camera position.

Prepare for the next one.

When Link returned to the director's area, he found that Wallace and Kauf Black, one of the heads of Blackwater International Security Company, were also there.

Blackwater International Security Company was founded in 1996 by six retired military personnel from the US Navy Special Forces 'Navy SEALs'.

After receiving a huge investment from Horizon Investments in the second half of 1996, the company developed rapidly.

In order to improve Blackwater's business level, in the past two years, Blackwater has purchased a large number of advanced weapons and equipment and scientific instruments, and poached more than 20 veteran agents and managers from organizations such as the CIA, FBI, and the Pentagon.

For example, before joining Blackwater, Kohler Black was the head of the CIA's counterterrorism department, and Joseph Schmitz, the head of Blackwater's intelligence department, was the inspector general of the Army Department at the Pentagon.

The number of Blackwater employees has also grown from the original 6 to the current 150.

The company's clients have also expanded from celebrities in the entertainment industry to the political and business circles.

Currently, Blackwater’s business scope mainly includes security services, training, logistics, etc. Its stealth business includes anti-kidnapping, counter-terrorism, intelligence analysis, military consulting, etc.

Link is both an investor and an important customer of the company.

This time, the crew encountered accidents one after another, and it was suspected that someone was threatening Link's safety.

In order to find out the truth, Blackwater arranged for Kov Black to lead a team to investigate the matter.

Kauf Black told him that the Cuban police interrogated the two suspected paparazzi after capturing them, but did not get what they wanted.

The two paparazzi were subsequently released.

Unfortunately, when they left Cuba and flew to Haiti, they were mistaken for CIA undercover agents by local gangsters and were thrown into a water dungeon.

Five days later, the two men revealed the truth and claimed to be killers from the United States. They received a mission from the dark web to assassinate the billionaire Link.

However, there were too many bodyguards around Link and they were on high alert, so they couldn't find a chance to attack him. So they lurked around the crew and waited until Link was alone before finding a chance to attack him.

Unexpectedly, last month the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" encountered an accident and were arrested as suspects while snooping nearby.

Their assassination attempt also failed.

"This is the information we bought from the Haitian mafia. It is highly credible. The previous accident on the crew should have nothing to do with them."

Kauf Black said.

"Dark web?"

Link was a little surprised. He had heard of this kind of website, but he didn't expect it to appear in 1998, and there were people posting assassination missions online.

"As far as we know, the dark web first appeared in 1996. Currently, there are only a few active users, about 100,000. They mainly post pornographic pictures, entertainment gossip, missing persons notices, and online surfing tutorials. Some people also use such websites to publish various tasks, including assassinations."

At this point, Kauf Black looked at him and said, "In fact, the creation of this website is also related to you."

"Is it about me?"

"Yes, the term dark web is not new, but the concept of issuing bounty missions first appeared in your movie "The Network". Even the design of the earliest dark web portal is exactly the same as in the movie, so many people think that the creation of this website was inspired by "The Network."

Kauf Black said.

Link showed a helpless expression, but was not too surprised.

After the release of "The Internet", because many of the network-related settings in the film were too advanced, many programmers were inspired by the movie, borrowed the technologies mentioned in the movie, and created many similar websites one after another.

For example, Google was created in early 1996, Blogger, a personal website blog that became popular last year, and concepts such as online store orders.

When chatting with him, Google founder Larry Page and Amazon boss Jeff Bezos admitted that they had watched "The Internet" more than ten times. They were inspired by the movie and made Google and Amazon websites more mature and complete. The two also thanked him specially.

It is reasonable that some people now draw inspiration from movies and create the dark web.

The only unreasonable thing is that someone is using the dark web platform to assassinate him, which is tantamount to someone using the dagger forged by Link to assassinate him.

That's too much.

"Kaofu, can we find the person who posted the task on the dark web?"

Link asked.

"We are working on this aspect, but the dark web is designed to be more hidden, and it is difficult to trace the user's information through the IP address. The company's network engineers are using phishing to find people, but the progress is slow and it will take some time."

Link nodded and asked them to continue searching and catch the murderer as soon as possible.

After seeing off Kauf Black and the others, Link continued filming.

In the afternoon, Chen Chong brought Chen Hong, Wang Yan, Zeng Li, Jiang Qinqin, Li Bingbing and others to visit the set. Among them, Li Bingbing was promoting "Rush Hour 2" in the United States, Xu Qing was promoting the movie "The Emperor and the Assassin", and Zhang Ziyi was dubbing "Mulan".

After get off work, Link met them in the hotel and also talked with Chen Chong about film investment.

This year, Dongfeng Pictures invested in 12 films.

Including "The Sent-Down Girl", "Dark War", "My 1919", "Not One Less", "Endless", "The Lotus Lantern", "That Man, That Mountain, That Dog", etc.

Among them, six films are exclusively produced by Dongfeng Pictures, and the remaining six are co-produced with Chinese Brothers, Silver Metro, Golden Harvest and other film companies. The total investment is expected to be 55 million yuan.

Chen Hong, Wang Yan and others also played important roles in these films.

"Last year, Zheng Chenggong was a huge hit, and domestic filmmakers were so excited that they almost went crazy. Many people were eager to make historical blockbusters and send the movies abroad to earn foreign exchange. Major film studios also made plans to invest in the production of multiple historical blockbusters.

Our company received more than 30 historical scripts from the end of last year to the beginning of this year. They were all projects by well-known screenwriters and directors. However, their stories were very bad and had few selling points. They submitted their scripts to us in order to use our technology and distribution channels. Therefore, except for Director Chen's "The Emperor and the Assassin", we have not approved other scripts for the time being. "

Chen Chong leaned in his arms and said with a smile.

After the release of "Zheng Chenggong" last year, it achieved good box office results in major film markets around the world. The current global box office has accumulated 184 million US dollars, and the box office revenue ratio is more than 5 times, making it the best-selling Chinese film in the history of world cinema.

After the release of "Zheng Chenggong", it also won many heavyweight awards at major film festivals.

Including the Palme d'Or for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival, the Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards, the Best Foreign Language Film at the British Independent Film Awards, the Best Film at the São Paulo International Film Festival, the Best Foreign Language Film at the European Film Festival, etc., a total of 82 awards.

This movie can be said to have achieved great success in both word-of-mouth and box office.

When domestic filmmakers saw the huge success of "Zheng Chenggong", they seemed to have seen a way out for Chinese films and followed suit to shoot similar films.

Lin Ke was a little worried after hearing this. The success of "Zheng Chenggong" was not only due to the high quality of the film itself, adequate publicity, and the strong overseas distribution capabilities of Guess Films, but was also closely related to last year's political environment and social atmosphere.

That is the market trend.

Now that the trend is gone, other movies that want to follow suit are more likely to fail.

If that group of people lose money and lose confidence in movies, the domestic film industry will probably be affected a lot.

"Don't worry about domestic affairs for now. When you come to the United States, stay here for a while and travel around. After the filming of this movie is finished, I will also take some time to visit my children in China."

Link said, stroking her smooth shoulder.

"Okay, I'm here with not only them but also two screenwriters. I plan to acquire the copyrights of a number of classic movies from Hollywood and bring them back. Then I'll find someone to revise the scripts and remake them into Chinese movies. There should be a market for this kind of movie in China."

"This is a good idea. We can try it."

Link nodded.

"Sister Chong, Link, are you done talking?"

Chen Hong poked her head out from under the blanket, with a lazy and charming smile on her rosy and tender cheeks.

"What? Are you still not satisfied? Aren't you afraid that you won't be able to walk tomorrow?"

Chen Chong cursed with a smile.

"No! That's not what I meant."

Chen Hong bit her lower lip and looked at Link hesitantly, "Zhui Zhui is so cute. I also want to have a child, Link, is it okay?" Zhuhui Zhui is the nickname of the child born to Chen Chong.

"Of course, I haven't deprived you of your right to be a mother."

Link held her in his arms through the blanket.

"Link, I want to have a baby too."

Xu Qing, Li Binbin and others also rushed to speak.

Lin Ke did not agree immediately. Unlike Chen Chong and Chen Hong, they were still young, under 30 years old, and had a lot of work. They would not have time to take care of the children after they had them. He was busy in the United States and had no time to look after the children. If they also had no time, then it would be better to have fun for a few years and then have another child.

However, he also made a suggestion that those who are willing to quit the entertainment industry and stay at home to raise children can have children now.

Although I can’t continue acting after having a child, I can get a relatively stable job at Dongfeng Pictures or other companies.

They can also receive an additional 1 million yuan in living allowance from the family fund every year, with each child receiving 1 million yuan per year.

After hearing his proposal, Xu Qing and others were very hesitant.

In the end, only Jiang Qinqin and Zeng Li, who were not very career-oriented, were willing to quit the entertainment industry immediately and have children at home. The others wanted to work hard for a few more years and then quit the entertainment industry when they were around 30 years old and raise children at home.

Link did not force them, but fully respected their opinions. If they wanted children, he would give them children immediately, and if they wanted resources, he would provide them with resources.

After chatting for a while, Chen Hong, Jiang Qinqin and Zeng Li also had a good rest.

Link stood up.

The sound of wind and waves outside the seaside hotel suddenly became louder and louder.

(End of this chapter)