Chapter 370 Fallen Leaves Return to Their Roots (Please subscribe to support!)
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More than a dozen Hollywood actresses who were waiting for Xu Kai to come and "visit" them never expected that Xu Kai was not only late, but also found various reasons to pass them all up.
This undoubtedly disappointed these Hollywood actresses.
Among them, the most disappointed was a Hollywood actress named Emily Blunt, because Jon Favreau, the director of "Iron Man 2", was most optimistic about her and had solemnly recommended her to Xu Kai.
In this case, Emily Blunt would certainly feel that the role of Black Widow was a sure thing for her.
Who would have thought that Xu Kai did not accept Jon Favreau's opinion at all, and directly passed Emily Blunt on the grounds that she was a little tall and did not match the role of Black Widow.
Apart from going to Jon Favreau to complain and sow discord between Xu Kai and Jon Favreau, Emily Blunt is really powerless to do anything else.
——Whether it is Iron Man or Black Widow, the copyright belongs to Xu Kai. Xu Kai accounted for half of the investment in the movie "Iron Man 2". In addition to being the producer of "Iron Man 2", Xu Kai and Kevin Feige also became co-producers of "Iron Man 2" this time. Therefore, let alone Jon Favreau, even Kevin Feige dare not control who Xu Kai uses to play the Black Widow.
Of course, Jon Favreau had some resentment in his heart and felt that Xu Kai did not give him face.
but--
When Jon Favreau saw that Nicole Johnson had been cast, he understood why Xu Kai chose Nicole Johnson instead of Emily Blunt to play the Black Widow. Nicole Johnson was simply born for the role of Black Widow.
After the role of Black Widow was chosen, the production of "Iron Man 2", which required relatively fewer characters, could begin.
However, "Shang-Chi", which was launched almost at the same time as "Iron Man 2", was not launched so quickly.
The previous version of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings had a lot of problems.
To sum up, there are actually two main points:
1. There are serious problems with the background setting.
In the previous life, the producers of "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" set up that Xu Shang-Chi's father Xu Wenwu led his Ten Rings Army to sweep every corner of the world for thousands of years, lurking in the dark, subverting various regimes, and rewriting history. He is a very evil character and a very evil force.
Although after the filming was completed, due to the boycott of Chinese audiences, the producers of "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" flatly denied that the character Wenwu was not the infamous Fu Manchu, and that they, Marvel, did not have the copyright to Fu Manchu and did not want to own the copyright to Fu Manchu, but just looking at the setting of Wenwu and the Ten Rings Army in "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings", it can be seen that the character Wenwu has not completely gotten rid of the Fu Manchu that the Chinese hate.
The key point is that they are lurking in the dark and subverting various regimes like a troublemaker. This is obviously what some Western countries often do, and it is too shameless to put the blame on the Chinese.
The key point is that as we all know, the Chinese people who have suffered from invasion only like to defend their territory and do not like invasion. Who doesn't know who likes invasion? The producers of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings are stupid enough to expose people's scars and confuse right and wrong, and they still want Chinese audiences to pay for it. Isn't this wishful thinking?
2. There are particularly serious problems with casting.
There are so many handsome actors among the Chinese people who can represent the Chinese people, but the producers of "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" insisted on choosing the ugliest Simu Liu and Awkwafina to play the male and female protagonists.
It is obvious that Tony Leung's wife cheated on him. Otherwise, with Tony Leung's thick eyebrows and big eyes, how could he give birth to Liu Simu who is old, ugly and greasy and Zhang Meng'er who is plain? And the ugliest Awkwafina, with her looks, any Chinese woman is better than her, even a comedian from Country Love is much prettier than her. The key is that comedians should act funny instead of looking funny. The key is that she has no figure. Let's put it this way, Xu Shangqi is a superhero after all, how blind he must be to not like a beauty but her? As for Liu Simu, who has been a supporting actor for many years and is so proud of killing the Chinese father and kneeling down to lick the American stepfather because he got lucky enough to become the male lead, it is the actor's personal brainless behavior - anyway, he has never thought about returning to China, so we Chinese should not regard him as a compatriot, anyway, we just don't let him make money from us Chinese.
In short, the plot of Xu Kai's version of "Shang-Chi" has to be greatly changed.
First of all, Xu Kai personally came up with the plot framework of "Shang-Chi", which is the main line of "Shang-Chi".
Xu Shangqi's father and mother are hermits like Master Ancient One. Xu Shangqi and his sister Xu Xialing have lived with their parents and tribesmen in the mysterious Tarot Village since they were young.
There are all kinds of mythical beasts in Taro Village, including the phoenix, unicorn, nine-tailed fox and other legendary Chinese auspicious beasts.
Thousands of years ago, Taro Village had a high level of civilization and powerful force.
The people of Taro Village have lived in Taro Village for generations, guarding the powerful dragon from the universe that was defeated and sealed by their ancestors...
Let me put it this way, under Xu Kai's design, Tarot Village is equivalent to the isolated and technologically advanced African country of Wakanda. It is also a powerful force guarding the Earth. When Thanos comes to attack the Earth in the future, Tarot Village will also be a powerful fighting force. The villagers of Tarot Village will fight with Thanos' army under the leadership of Xu Shangqi to defend the Earth.
There are two treasures handed down from generation to generation in Tarot Village. One is the Ten Rings that are comparable to Infinity Stones. The origin of the Ten Rings is quite mysterious. They were accidentally obtained by Xu Shangqi's ancestors. They possess extremely powerful powers that can not only comprehensively enhance the user, but also grant the user eternal life. Moreover, the Ten Rings can be achieved simply by wearing them. More importantly, the Ten Rings have no obvious side effects. They are truly a super artifact sent from heaven.
In addition, Tarot Village also has a set of armor made of dragon scales. Its hardness is comparable to adamantium, and its defense is among the best in the Marvel Universe.
Xu Shangqi and Xu Xialing have practiced martial arts since childhood, and are determined to guard Tarot Village with their tribesmen and suppress the evil dragon sealed by their ancestors.
But Thanos wants to release the dragon to search for the Infinity Stones with him and destroy half of the creatures in the universe.
After SHIELD learned the news, it sent Black Widow and Hawkeye to inform Tarot Village that Thanos's men were going to attack Tarot Village.
But Black Widow and Hawkeye were a step too late. When they arrived at Tarot Village, Thanos' general Proxima Midnight had already defeated Xu Shang-Chi and released the dragon while Xu Shang-Chi's parents were out visiting the Ancient One and were not in the village.
After the dragon escaped, it became more evil and began to destroy the world crazily with Proxima Midnight. Eventually, it settled in the Magic City of China and wreaked havoc at will.
After Xu Shangqi's parents learned about this, they immediately bid farewell to Master Ancient One and returned to Tarot Village through the time and space gate.
After learning the whole story, Xu Shangqi's father decided to lead the villagers of Tarot Village to forge weapons and then go to the Magic City to defeat the dragon.
During this period, Xu Shangqi's parents gave Xu Shangqi, Xu Xialing, Liu Xianer and other clansmen a brief training, and then helped Xu Shangqi to subdue the Ten Commandments.
After Xu Shangqi successfully subdued the Ten Commandments, he put on the dragon armor and led his people together with his parents to seek revenge on Proxima Midnight and defeat the dragon.
Proxima Midnight is one of the five black generals under Thanos. She is extremely good at close combat and is a cosmic fighting master. Her fighting skills are better than most of the strong men in the universe. Her weapon is a magic gun forged by Thanos himself. Once thrown out, it will split into three black rays that can track the target. Any creature touched by it will die on the spot.
In short, Xu Shang-Chi defeated Proxima Midnight in battle, allowing her and her men to escape from Earth, and then joined forces with his parents to kill the dragon.
In order to ensure the fun of "Shang-Chi", Xu Kai found several top Hollywood screenwriters to fill in the details and lines for "Shang-Chi".
By the way, according to Xu Kai’s idea, Shang-Chi’s girlfriend in the early stage was Liu Xianer from the same village, and his girlfriend in the later stage was Captain Marvel.
Of course, the prerequisite is that the Marvel Universe can be filmed until that time.
In terms of casting, Xu Kai selected all the most outstanding actors in China.
For example, Xu Shangqi's parents were chosen by Xu Kai, two well-known middle-aged celebrities in China who are both talented in acting and handsome and beautiful.
Xu Shangqi's girlfriend, Xu Kai directly chose Zhu Bing, who has both Eastern and Western beauty.
As for Shang-qi’s sister Xu Xialing, Xu Kai directly used Zhang Zhiwei.
To play the villain Proxima Midnight, Xu Kai found Wang Yingying, the last female disciple of Master Wu Bin, a martial arts master and mentor of many action stars, who is known as Charlie's Angels, and won the women's Tai Chi fan championship with outstanding performance in the finals of the 4th United States Wushu Championships. She also won the Changquan and Changqiang championships in the 6th National Wushu Open Championships. She is a new generation action actress.
As for other roles, Xu Kai found all the best actors from China and Hollywood.
As for directing, Xu Kai did not direct it himself - one's own family knows one's own business, and Xu Kai was well aware that if he did not have some tricks up his sleeve, his level might not be comparable to other first-class directors. The key point was that this was a Hollywood blockbuster, which was not what Xu Kai was good at. Well... to be frank, Xu Kai was afraid that he would ruin his own plan, and he was also afraid that the things he spent a lot of money and effort to shoot would only have a market in China, but not in other countries and regions in the world.
Therefore, Xu Kaihua spent a lot of money to invite James Spielberg, one of the best directors in Hollywood and a famous Hollywood director who is very good at making science fiction movies, to direct "Shang-Chi", and allowed him to form his own team for "Shang-Chi".
Moreover, Xu Kai promised James Spielberg that he only needed to shoot the film without having to worry about the production costs, and there was no upper limit on the budget.
In short, Xu Kai’s principle in filming "Shang-Chi" was to do the best, without worrying about money.
Frankly speaking, Xu Kai never considered making money with Shang-Chi. He just planned to use Shang-Chi to open up the Hollywood film market for Chinese stars, to export culture, and to let the world get to know China and the Chinese people again.
But then again, if Xu Kai does this, he must be determined to bear huge losses. After all, when it comes to special effects for this kind of science fiction movie, there is really no limit.
——As soon as James Spielberg took over, he took a copy of "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and said to Xu Kai, "Each mythical beast here requires a lot of money. Are you sure you want to make them all?"
Xu Kai said without hesitation: "Go ahead and take pictures, as long as you think it's necessary, do whatever you want."
Having said that, in order to make up for the loss, Xu Kai made another movie of his own - "Forrest Gump", intending to reap the world's box office.
In addition, Xu Kai is also discussing with domestic film producers about selling the subsequent copyright of "Detective Chinatown 3".
In order to sell the subsequent copyright of "Detective Chinatown 3" at a higher price, Xu Kai also created a framework for the "Detective Chinatown 3" series of films, and even directly came up with the script for "Detective Chinatown 3".
"Detective Chinatown" grossed over 3 billion yuan.
"Detective Chinatown 2" grossed over 5 billion yuan.
Now, Chinese audiences are looking forward to "Detective Chinatown 3".
Some experts predict that the box office of "Detective Chinatown 3" may exceed 7 billion, or even higher.
The key point is that after "Detective Chinatown 3", there will be "Detective Chinatown 4" and "Detective Chinatown 5", and it can even continue to be filmed. Moreover, we can also make a TV series of "Detective Chinatown", and even comics and animations. How big a market and how much profit will that be?
In this case, Xu Kai wanted to sell the subsequent copyright of "Detective Chinatown", and naturally many people were interested.
For example, Brothers Films and Aina Films made a lot of money by distributing "Detective Chinatown" and "Detective Chinatown 2".
For example, Shaolin Baoqiang and others whose net worth doubled by starring in "Detective Chinatown" and "Detective Chinatown 2".
For example, major cinema companies and major film investors.
etc……
but--
Although the subsequent copyright of "Detective Chinatown 3" is good, it is not cheap for Xu Kai to get it.
——Xu Kaikai offered 5 billion to buy out all subsequent copyrights of "Detective Chinatown 3".
This is absolutely an astronomical figure.
Even Brothers Films, Aina Films, or the recently emerging Enlight Pictures cannot take over the subsequent copyright of "Detective Chinatown 3" alone.
But then again, don't underestimate the strength of these film companies.
It is true that one or two film companies cannot take over the subsequent copyright of "Detective Chinatown 3", but these film companies can form an alliance.
The key is that behind these film companies are powerful theater companies and film investors.
Later, learning that Xu Kai would focus his development on Hollywood in the next one or two years and would not compete for the domestic movie box office market, Wang Jun of Brothers Company took the lead and joined forces with Brothers Film Company, Aina Film Company, Light Media Company, Wuzhou Film Distribution Company, Sihai Film Distribution Company and seven other individuals including Shaolin Baoqiang to buy the subsequent copyright of "Detective Chinatown 3".
but--
Due to the previous example of Zhao Qihang and others suffering huge losses after buying the subsequent copyright of "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands", Wang Jun and others were cautious this time - they said that they could buy the subsequent copyright of "Detective Chinatown 3" at the price offered by Xu Kai, but Xu Kai must be the director himself.
Xu Kai directly retorted: "If I had the time, why would I sell the subsequent copyright of "Detective Chinatown"?"
After many negotiations between the two parties, Xu Kai finally agreed to serve as the honorary producer and one of the nominal screenwriters of "Detective Chinatown 3", as well as to make a cameo appearance in "Detective Chinatown 3" as an easter egg at the end.
Only then did Wang Jun and others happily buy the subsequent copyrights of "Detective Chinatown".
The sale of the copyright of "Detective Chinatown 3" means that Xu Kai has really shifted his work focus to Hollywood, working hard to complete his transformation into an international superstar.
But this is only temporary. Xu Kai does not want to be a second-class person in the United States forever. Xu Kai just wants to take advantage of the two years when China and the United States are in the honeymoon period to gain more fame and fortune in the United States and even the world, and make a little contribution to the cultural output of the Chinese.
After Xu Kai completes this goal, he will definitely return to his roots...
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(End of this chapter)
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