There are many Hong Kong and Taiwan stars who came to audition this time, including many big stars with box office appeal, such as Chow Yunfa of Xiangjiang.
According to Jiang Zhiqiang, Chow Yun-fa is willing to reduce his salary to $500,000 in order to star in Li Yan's new film.
The purpose of this is obvious, his target is Hollywood. has worked hard in the Xiangjiang film and television industry for many years, experienced the popularity of the scene, and also experienced the downbeat time known as the box office poison, Chow Runfa at this time is one of the top stars in Xiangjiang.
After winning many Academy Awards, he felt that there was no room for growth in Xiangjiang, so he turned to Hollywood.
Especially after Cheng Long and Li Lianjie succeeded in Hollywood one after another, he was even more determined to this idea.
However, Hollywood is not easy to mix.
Chow Yun-fa can't take on big-budget films in Hollywood, and Hollywood studios will easily not let Chinese actors play the leading roles in big-budget films, which is too risky.
Several of the films he starred in were average at the box office and received mediocre responses.
It can be said that Chow Yun-fa's road to Hollywood has encountered setbacks, and this time he came to the capital just to catch up with Li Yu and pave the way for his career in Hollywood.
If it is an ordinary mainland crew, Chow Runfa is willing to act, and the director and investors are too late to be happy, they must have taken a plane to Xiangjiang overnight to negotiate with Chow Runfa.
There is no way, stars like Chow Yunfa and Liu Dehua have box office appeal in the mainland.
People who are contemporaries of Lin Zixuan grew up watching Hong Kong films, and they will go to the theater to watch movies just for nostalgia, not to mention those new generation of star chasers, the four kings are treated as superstars in the mainland.
But Li Yu is not an ordinary director, and Lin Zixuan has no interest in running to Xiangjiang.
Times have changed, and the glorious years of the Hong Kong film industry have come to an end.
Some people can't feel the changes, and they still want to squeeze into the Xiangjiang film circle, thinking that mixing in Xiangjiang is more advanced than in the mainland, and knowing a few Xiangjiang stars makes them very remarkable.
Sooner or later, such people will be eliminated and will not find their place.
Chow Yun-fat's trip was quite low-key, and he didn't want to attract media attention, because the outcome of the audition was uncertain, and he knew that his biggest competitor was Chen Daoming, an influential actor in the mainland.
If Li Yan is confirmed to play the role, Chow Yunfa doesn't mind chatting with the media.
Since the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon audition, the entertainment media in the mainland have been active, guessing the list of actors, and the hotel where Li Yu lives has always been guarded by reporters.
This is a good thing, and it has been promoted in advance for the movie.
During the filming of the movie, Good Dreams Company will also expose news one after another, continuing to heat up the topic of the film.
Li Mubai's role is currently only contested by Chow Yun-fa and Chen Daoming.
Jiang Zhiqiang and Li Lianjie have been in contact, because of the salary problem, Li Lianjie's salary in Hollywood is 10 million US dollars, and even if he lowers the price of making Chinese films, it will not be less than 3 million US dollars.
The newspaper was divided into two factions, one supported the use of Hong Kong and Taiwan actors.
They think that Hong Kong and Taiwan actors acting in martial arts films are authentic enough, and mainland actors are too serious to turn martial arts films into historical films.
There are also some star chasers who think that Hong Kong and Taiwan actors are better than mainland actors, so they like Xiangjiang movies.
The other faction supports mainland actors, thinking that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a martial arts novel in the mainland, so mainland actors should be used.
Everyone still doesn't know what kind of martial arts film Li Yu wants to make, and their inherent concept is that it is the kind of film in Xiangjiang.
In addition to Chow Yunfa, another big star is Yang Ziqiong.
Yang Ziqiong is a famous martial arts star, and her salary is one of the best among all actresses in Xiangjiang, her salary for making films in Hollywood is 2.5 million US dollars, and it costs 5 or 6 million Hong Kong dollars to shoot movies in Xiangjiang. auditioned for the role of Yu Xiulian this time, and her salary dropped to $400,000.
In order to cooperate with big Hollywood directors, they are willing to sacrifice their salaries, because they know that as long as they have fame in Hollywood, they can earn back the lost salary in minutes.
If it weren't for Yu Feihong, Li Yu would have signed Yang Ziqiong a long time ago.
He thinks that martial arts films are more flavorful to use stars, and he even has the idea of gathering all the famous stars in Xiangjiang in the film.
Fortunately, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's funds are not so sufficient, otherwise I don't know what whimsical ideas Li Yu would have.
The director is like this, he always feels that the money is not enough, and there are many ideas that he can't try.
Lee's first feature film cost only $480,000, and his latest Hollywood film cost $35 million.
Therefore, the presence of producers and producers in the crew is needed to prevent the director from overspending.
Auditions for actors are a tedious process, and the larger the investment, the stricter the audition for the film project, and the more responsible it is for the investment.
A low-budget movie with an investment of 2 million yuan can easily determine the actors, and the investment of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is more than 80 million yuan, so naturally it can't be child's play.
Auditions for big-budget films are generally divided into three rounds.
The first round is the primary selection, which mainly depends on the basic skills of the actors, and those with poor psychological quality and insufficient acting experience will be brushed down first.
The second round is the second selection, where the actor has to perform a large part of the plot to see if the actor's plasticity is suitable for the role.
The third round is the final selection, at this time, you have to style the actors, put on makeup, put on costumes, take pictures, see if they are photogenic, have the temperament of the protagonist, and play with other actors.
It's a very strict process, not just talking to the director, unless you're a superstar.
For the role of Li Mubai, the first two rounds can be canceled and directly enter the final selection stage.
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Zhou Yunfa and Chen Daoming have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Chow Yun-fa has made movies in Hollywood and has a certain reputation in the United States, Chen Daoming is familiar with the plot and his acting skills are even better.
This is not to say that Zhou Yunfa has no acting skills, these stars in Xiangjiang generally do not have professional acting education, and most of them are from TV stations' artist training classes.
The artist training course of Xiangjiang TV is relatively famous, and the duration of study is basically about half a year.
The first three months to learn the basics of acting, and the second three months to intern at a TV station, is actually a trick.
In a society like Xiangjiang, where efficiency is paramount, it is good to be able to learn theoretical knowledge for three months, but what can be learned in three months, the effect of this kind of rapid training method is not ideal.
The stars of Xiangjiang are more of the acting skills honed in the process of participating in film and television dramas later, so these big stars of Xiangjiang did not have good acting skills in the early TV series.
Some of them are getting better and better by honing their acting skills, while others have been stagnant.
For example, before Liang Chaowei met Wang Jiawei, his acting skills could only be said to be acceptable, and he only grew up under Wang Jiawei's training.
Anyway, in Xiangjiang, idol stars can mix, but not many people pay attention to acting.
Zhou Yunfa's acting skills are not bad in Xiangjiang, but compared with Chen Daoming, an actor who was born in a class at the Beijing Drama Academy and has experienced many years of polishing, it is inferior. t1706231537: