About two days later, the news that Jiang Yuqian joined "Doomsday" and played the leading role was announced.
In foreign media reports, Jiang Yuqian was introduced as the heroine of "Squid Game".
For the public, this is Jiang Yuqian's third international project two years after the broadcast of "Squid Game".
Especially for the Chinese media, there is no domestic actress with a more impressive record than her.
There is the commercial film "Mysterious Ghost", the TV series "Perfect Truth" directed by a famous movie director, and now she has taken on the role of the heroine in a big-budget movie.
Jiang Yuqian's international career has been exceptionally smooth.
Only they themselves know how much "water" there is in this so-called achievement.
it's fine.
There is a saying that goes "A fancy sedan is carried by people."
As long as she eventually becomes more and more famous internationally and is able to gain a firm foothold, these are just the steps she has taken along the way.
He Heng took this opportunity to carry out a large-scale marketing campaign for Jiang Yuqian, who had not had much exposure in China for a long time.
Hollywood blockbuster heroine——
Even if she is actually just a supporting actress, she is still a heroine.
The status is here.
The status is here.
He Heng is well versed in how the entertainment industry operates.
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As soon as the news about Jiang Yuqian was officially announced, it immediately attracted the attention of the domestic entertainment industry.
Several first-line female stars who had previously competed fiercely with Jiang Yuqian all came out at the same time, bought articles and hyped up the fact that Jiang Yuqian had taken on a Hollywood movie that was downgraded to a B-level movie in order to star in a so-called Hollywood movie.
The film project "Doomsday" has attracted quite a lot of attention in China because of several previous news reports about Lu Yanhe, and many people know about it.
Therefore, after being embroiled in the so-called B-movie scandal, Jiang Yuqian's comments on social media really dropped a bit -
We are no longer in the situation we were in 20 years ago when we were ignorant of foreign countries.
At that time, anything from abroad was popular.
Now everyone knows that there are also many bad movies and bad casts abroad. You can't gild yourself by just acting in a movie abroad.
In fact, among the domestic actors who have worked overseas, there are only a handful of them who can actually take on effective films as an actor.
Among the actresses who can really be said to have gone out and taken on films, the early years were Gong Li (Miami Vice, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Young Hannibal) and Zhang Ziyi (Rush Hour 2, Memoirs of a Geisha, the Korean film Samurai and the Japanese film Tanuki Goten), in between there was Li Bingbing (Resident Evil, Transformers 4), and after that there was only Liu Yifei (Mulan). Of course, the above does not include overseas films such as The Forbidden Kingdom and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, which are based on Chinese culture and can only be performed by Chinese actors.
As for other so-called overseas performance experiences, whether they are true or false, whether the films are effective, and how valuable the roles are, everyone knows it well. (Tang Wei is not included because she only focuses on the Korean market, but the Korean market is too single)
In this case, if Jiang Yuqian really got the leading role in an A-level production, that would be awesome - I'm not being Westernized, but as a Chinese actress, being able to eat from other people's pots requires ability and skill, and only if you are awesome enough will others give it to you.
But if Jiang Yuqian took a bad movie for the sake of so-called "Hollywood" and "internationalization", then as a first-line Chinese star and one of the most popular stars in the world, it would be shameful for her.
Jiang Yuqian's opponents are following this line of thinking and are working to discredit Jiang Yuqian on a large scale.
As her agent, He Heng did not expect that they would suddenly face so many doubts.
It’s really hard to respond at a time like this.
Because they cannot answer on behalf of Parameter about the production scale of the movie "Doomsday".
It is a taboo in the industry for actors to talk about things related to a movie without the permission of the film company.
Of course, He Heng also has her own way.
She didn't make a fuss about whether Doomsday was a B movie.
She immediately arranged an interview.
During the interview, one of the questions was why Jiang Yuqian took on the role in "Doomsday".
Jiang Yuqian's answer was something He Heng had planned long ago.
"Because the director of this movie is Reunite Reis, he is a great science fiction director who has made many classic science fiction films." Jiang Yuqian attributed the reason why she took on the role in "Doomsday" to Reunite Reis.
Indeed, regardless of whether "Doomsday" has been downgraded to a B-level movie, it cannot be denied that the director of this movie is Lune Reis.
It is impossible for any actor to say that Lune Reis is a director who is not worthy of their cooperation.
After the interview came out, He Heng immediately made a press release marketing about the reason why Jiang Yuqian took on the role in "Doomsday" to wash away the impression caused by the previous negative articles.
It's impossible to criticize director Lune Reese.
In particular, this director will soon become the film director of Lu Yanhe's next script "Source Code".
It can be said that the public relations angle chosen by He Heng is very accurate.
This was the best angle Jiang Yuqian could find at the moment. At the same time, an American tabloid suddenly published a few photos: Lu Yanhe and Hollywood superstar Drean Dylan were walking side by side on the street, talking and laughing.
At this time, no one knew what the two of them were doing when they met.
In everyone's opinion, it is not strange for the two of them to get together, after all, they just starred in "Hurricane 2" together not long ago.
However, a media outlet soon reported that Derrian Dylan would further develop business cooperation with Lu Yanhe.
Not a collaboration on another project, but a business collaboration.
Two days later, Variety reported that Doomsday was approaching Drion Dillon, who was expected to replace Tom Felton in the project.
Strictly speaking, Drion Dylan is not as popular as Tom Felton. However, the movies starring Drion Dylan are very popular at the box office. Although he is not a big star in the eyes of the media, his achievements as a movie actor are really beyond reproach.
In recent years, Drion Dillon has not only starred in commercial films, but also consciously shot two award-winning films that are very artistic and explore human nature, which has attracted great attention from the media, who will discuss his acting skills and his pursuits as an actor.
The commentary circle is unwilling to discuss those big stars who are clearly only "box office superstars".
This news has not been confirmed yet. Director Rune Reese posted a message on his social media, which was a photo of him inviting Lu Yanhe to visit his home. In addition to Lu Yanhe, there was another person, Jiang Jun.
Soon, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Jiang Jun would join Doomsday.
Following the news from The Hollywood Reporter, Parameter's promotional arrangements also began.
Suddenly, the film project "Doomsday", which was still in an uncertain state last month, is now rumbling on track.
The male and female protagonists of "Squidward Gaming" appear together again in the movie "Doomsday", which is enough to attract a large number of "Squidward Gaming" fans to pay attention to this movie.
In addition, there was news not long ago that Derrien Dylan was also in contact.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a movie that will be downgraded to a B-level movie.
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"This is definitely a scam. What else can I say?" Zhang Yuezhen angrily blamed Chen Pinhe, "I told you that Doomsday would not be downgraded. Now look what happened. Someone got there first."
Chen Pinhe was also in a bad mood.
He lost an opportunity to work with director Lune Reese and star with Drew Dillon in an A-level film production, which was a great pity even for him.
Otherwise, this movie might help him open up the situation in Hollywood.
As China's most powerful film star, it didn't matter to him whether he went to Hollywood or not. But he didn't go when his career was at its best. He stayed in the Chinese-language film industry, and at most occasionally collaborated with overseas directors on one or two films.
If you want to make a name for yourself in Hollywood now, you can’t start with a small supporting role.
Then the choice is much smaller.
Zhang Yuezhen said, "Although Jiang Jun ended up playing in this movie, Jiang Jun has now signed with Shihuo and is actually still a member of Lu Yanhe's faction. It's impossible to say that Lu Yanhe didn't work behind the scenes. Do you admit it? Lu Yanhe had his eyes on this movie from the beginning. I told you that the news of it being downgraded to a B-level movie might have been a trap set by him. You didn't believe it. Now you can confirm this, right?"
Chen Pinhe: “You couldn’t be sure at that time.”
"Are you blaming me? Blaming me for not being 100% sure that 'Doomsday' will not be downgraded to a B-level movie?" Zhang Yue was so angry that his face turned green.
Chen Pinhe: "I don't blame you, it's just that based on the situation at the time, none of us knew what would happen after "Doomsday"."
"But how much effort did we put into getting this movie?" Zhang Yuezhen said, "In the end, it has now fallen into Jiang Jun's pocket."
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In late November, Chen Ziyan told Lu Yanhe that Dylan had officially signed a performance contract with Parameter for "Doomsday".
This means that "Doomsday" will definitely be filmed normally according to the original production plan.
Similarly, Parameter finally reached an agreement with Lu Yanhe. The Linghe branch established by Lu Yanhe in the United States will bear 15% of the production costs of "Doomsday", which also means that Linghe has obtained a 15% investment share of "Doomsday".
Lu Yanhe's name will be included in the list of producers of "Doomsday" and, according to the contract requirements, he will be ranked third.
At the same time, Derian Dylan was indeed interested in Lu Yanhe's future projects. While Darren Wilson was negotiating his salary for "Source Code", Derian Dylan was also communicating with Lu Yanhe about their cooperation.
What Lu Yanhe didn't expect was that Derrian Dylan was actually interested in investing in Lu Yanhe's Linghe Company in China.
He has his eyes on the Chinese box office market.
Especially the movies he starred in in the past were all action-oriented, and many of them were released in China.
Derrien Dylan wants to make money in China by cooperating with Lu Yanhe.
Everyone in Lu Yanhe was confused.
He thought Derrien Dylan was just interested in his business plans in the United States, but he didn't expect that Derrien saw more.
The things involved here are too complicated, so we haven't entered into a deeper level of communication yet.
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In comparison, when Parameter announced the list of producers of "Doomsday", Lu Yanhe's name appeared on the list - and he was ranked third. The shock caused by this incident stunned the entire domestic entertainment industry.
While others were still trying their best to appear in top-notch movies and fighting for a role, Lu Yanhe had already entered the list of producers - even though he had neither the screenwriter nor the leading actor.
Why is that?
Now think about it again, there was a media report before that Lu Yanhe was in contact to star in "Doomsday", and Chen Ziyan also said that Parameter did meet and talk with Lu Yanhe for this movie...
Now it seems that what you guys have been talking about for a long time is not about actors?
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I had a big fight with my family and was in a bad mood. It took me more than three hours to write, but this is all I wrote.
There will be another chapter later. Read it tomorrow morning. (End of this chapter)
