Chapter 712 Walking on the Blade
Zhou Kang rubbed his teeth and didn't know how to speak for a while when facing this lineup.
After a while, he hesitated and said, "Why do I feel shabby? After all, it is a movie that invested 120 million US dollars, and it does not require visual effects, and there are no big stars. How can I spend so much money!"
Tony Leung and Sophie Marceau may be considered superstars in their own country, but they are just ordinary actors in Hollywood.
Now Zhou Kang is starting to worry about the box office of the movie. This lineup looks too shabby. It is obviously a Disney movie, but it looks like an independent movie costing several million dollars.
Zhong Liangping also frowned and asked, "Is this a rumor online or has it been really announced?"
Tony Leung is clearly a movie star, but why do he feel that it is a big difference?
Zhang Chu shook his head and said with a purse: "There are reports from Vanity Fair, and several other authoritative media have also reported it. If it is not very certain, this would never be named and said the names of these actors."
In his previous life, Professor Robert Langdon was played by Oscar winner Tom Hanks, who almost blended with this role.
Tom Hanks is definitely top-notch in the United States and has a reputation all over the world and audience. Both Tom are world superstars, and Tom is almost unique in the field of drama films.
If you take a captain and the captain's biopic, the box office in North America can exceed 100 million. You can imagine how much you like him!
But this time, Robert Langdon, the male lead in "The Da Vinci Code", was changed to a Chinese by Zhang Chu, who is a professor at Yan University.
In this way, Tom Hanks certainly could not play an Asian role, and Zhang Chu could not go back and modify it.
In his previous life, with the blessing of Tom Hanks, the Oscar-winning actor, the global box office of "The Da Vinci Code" was only over 500 million US dollars.
Although the number of cinemas has increased a lot now, the difficulty of $500 million is still not small!
It is lost in the east and won in the sun. Although the box office attractiveness in North America and other regions has declined a little, the box office improvement in China should be relatively large.
From the original work, script to actors, these all have a Chinese imprint!
It can be said that the global box office of "The Da Vinci Code" this time mainly depends on how much China can contribute.
"What do you think of this casting?"
"To be honest, I was always a little angry when Hollywood didn't use Asian actors as the protagonists. But now I use them. I feel that these Asian actors are not good at it, and there are not many of them who can show off, especially male actors!"
Zhou Kang had to admit, "In these Hollywood blockbusters, actresses have at least been able to support large-scale productions, but there are really few male actors besides martial arts and kung fu. Do you think there are several Chinese or Asian male actors who can be the leading actors in Hollywood now?"
Zhang Chu shook his head, "I really can't think of it."
"Yes, I felt that Tony Leung might not be able to support this movie at first, but I don't know who else can be replaced. Actors with better acting skills do exist, but are they really suitable for starring in Hollywood commercial films? They rarely play male lead roles in our Chinese movies. Can you imagine Teacher Li Xuejian, Teacher Chen Baoguo, Teacher Chen Daoming, and Teacher Tang Guoqiang going to make foreign movies?" Zhou Kang read out the names of many old actors in a row, but they all rejected them one by one.
It is estimated that Disney executors are also very immense and cannot find a suitable star to make movies, so they can only target Xiangjiang in the end.
Sophie Marceau is not a well-known figure. Most of the time, he is just a vase with some acting skills, but it is enough to have good looks in the movie!
Now Zhang Chu can only silently hope that the higher the box office of this movie in China, the better, so that the box office share ratio he determined with Disney will be higher.
In fact, the situation in "Boyce Pi" is very similar to "Da Vinci's Code". The movie also has no stars, and the actors are even a pure Indian teenager and a tiger made of a computer. At least Tony Leung and Sophie Marceau are well-known in Asia and Europe.
But the focus of "Boyant Pi" is not the actors, but the visual effects and plot, so Zhang Chu is a little optimistic about the box office of this movie.
Both of them can be regarded as brothers and brothers. They are clearly shot by top Hollywood manufacturers, but neither of them joins the franchise.
When Zhang Chu thought of this, he felt a little painful, "In the future, you must write a movie that can instinctively allow big stars to participate in, otherwise it would be too cold!"
It means that now he has to use the influence of his works to carry the banner of publicity, after all, those actors cannot count on it.
In this way, the benefits and disadvantages are obvious, and the presence of the original work will be strengthened. Once the film is successful, it will be linked to the film, and readers will bring the actor's image into the work.
If you fail, the consequences will be very serious, and the popularity of passers-by will definitely drop a lot.
Simply put, "The Da Vinci Code" is now walking on the blade and will slide down if you are not careful.
In addition to fans who are really looking forward to the movie, many people are probably looking forward to the day when this masterpiece is made into a bad movie!
What Zhang Chu can do is to control the script. At this time, the actors are basically irreversible, so the script of the movie must not be held back.
So he planned to fly to the United States after the final exam and must confirm the script with Disney. This is the only possibility of turning the tables.
Now all news media are almost crazy, and they are reporting on the news about this movie!
[The starring role of "The Da Vinci Code" is announced, Tony Leung, a French beauty, Sophie Marceau, staged the Louvre terror!]
[Long-looking! Disneyland announced the main creator of the movie "The Da Vinci Code", directed by the Oscar for the best director, and the gathering of male and female gods from China and France!]
[Tony Leung will play the leading role of Da Vinci's password!]
[The filming of Da Vinci's password is about to begin, and the casting is unexpected!]
[Shocking! Chinese actors won the top Hollywood production male lead, looking forward to Tony Leung!]
[The main creative lineup of "The Da Vinci Code" was revealed, and the male lead was actually him!]
After many days, "Da Vinci Password" has once again appeared on Weibo's hot search list, and the topic "Da Vinci Password-To-wei Leung" is also on the hot search list.
Tony Leung, who had always been very low-key, is quite popular among netizens, but the actors who are not in line with each other are strangely connected to their works at this time!
They had speculated about Disney's choice and thought they would choose an Asian male actor in Hollywood to play Professor Yang Xuan, but they did not expect that it would fall on the head of Chinese actors. This is almost a resource that can make people ascend.
If an ordinary actor can get this role, he will at least be remembered by the media in his entire life. Even a European and American actor in Hollywood's A-level production male lead has to fight hard to get it, let alone a Chinese actor.
But Tony Leung is also the best actor in Cannes. He has starred in classic films such as "Hero", "Infernal Affairs", "The Grandmaster", "East Evil and the West", and "Spring Light" at best. This resource is to let him enter the sight of more people and let him move from the world of art films to commercial films, which depends on whether the commercial value can surge!
All domestic netizens were shocked, pies fell from the sky!
"It seems that Disney wants to restore the Da Vinci password. Fortunately, it was Weizai, so it really can't accept it if it was a banana person."
"When I was eating, I almost spit out the rice!"
"At first I felt that Tony Leung couldn't stand this movie, but if it were a different person, I didn't know who to replace him. Maybe the only one who is competitive is Uncle Daoming, but unfortunately Uncle Daoming has no popularity abroad."
"Wow! Weizai is so awesome. He actually got such a blockbuster quietly!"
"Just for the starring Zhang Chu and Tony Leung, I also want to go to the cinema to support him!"
"You tell me this is a Hollywood blockbuster? This lineup looks like a typical Chinese-US co-production bad movie."
"I thought the group of people on the Internet were clamoring to change the background successfully. Unexpectedly, Baby Di chose to use a real Chinese as the protagonist, and she must like it!"
"I'm so happy. These two people seem to match. Come and shoot it!"
Netizens from Twitter, Facebook, instagram, tumblr, reddit and other places were confused. The directors and starring actors didn't seem to be very famous.
"Who are they? The photos look pretty good."
"I haven't seen the movies they acted in, but it must be great to win the Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival!"
"Sophie! I love her so much!"
"This is very similar to the description in "The Da Vinci Code". I hope it will be very good when it is shot."
"Hollywood can't find good actors? I finally looked at Asia and Europe. I'm very happy as an Asian!"
"I thought I had started filming a long time ago, but I just found the actor now?"
With this news, Tony Leung's Google search volume finally ushered in an explosion.
He has achieved great success in the literary and artistic film industry, but it was a long time ago that he showed his face in front of the public.
The maintenance is pretty good. It is still acceptable to play a middle-aged university professor in this state.
Now netizens are curious whether the development of the movie will be consistent, or will it be appropriately adapted and add something new.
After briefly browsing these comments, Zhang Chu said with gratitude: "Tomorrow's trial reading will definitely be very lively, and fortunately our venue will jump to the triple level."
Zhou Kang highly agrees with this statement. If he still stays in Hanlinxuan Bookstore, media reporters may be able to squeeze the glass out!
The centenary commemorative lecture hall, which can accommodate thousands of people, is obviously a very suitable place. Zhou Kang felt that the staff of his company might be a little short of maintaining order, so he had to ask the school security department for help.
Everything has been put together, and the media will never miss the opportunity to interview Zhang Chu this time!
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The fourth update is delivered, a total of 10,000 words!
Chapter completed!