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Chapter 628 Chapter 627, Director, we strongly request an audition
The other party came for unknown reasons.

The disappearance was also inexplicable.

When Jiang Feng compared the other party to Pan Jinlian, he thought she would send harassing text messages again, or even appear in front of him and scratch him...

Jiang Feng, you are the Pan Jinlian? !
But it didn't happen. Even after Jiang Feng planned all the shooting ideas and processes in this small shooting base converted from a nursing home, he still didn't receive any reply from the other party.

Sisters Kim Kyong-hui and Kim Ok-hui were very smart. They noticed the car when it was following the convoy, but they were a little helpless because they could only see a tall and heavy foreign driver driving the car.

As for who was sitting in the back seat of the vehicle, no one saw it at all.

However, it doesn’t matter anymore.

Since she could send me a text message, it meant that she had something to ask of me or that she had no ill intentions. If she had any malicious intentions, she would have basically taken action directly.

If you need to hit someone with a car, use a car to hit him. If you need to shoot someone, use a gun to shoot him. There is no need to tease yourself like this.

I don’t know if it was because Charlize Theron arrived in Chicago early and was exposed by the media, but George Clooney, Matt Damon and Leonardo Dicaprio all arrived early in the morning on May 5th.

Speaking of which, these three people should have a good relationship. They drove here. Well, the three of them drove a Lincoln Navigator.

Without any assistants, no assistants, or agents, just three grown men drove a white Lincoln Navigator to the parking lot of the Park Hyatt Hotel in Chicago, laughing and joking.

Standing in the coffee shop on the second floor of the hotel, Jiang Feng saw them getting out of the car and then picking up their luggage. He felt deeply moved. It turned out that the big names in Hollywood were really simple.

In China, let’s not talk about others, let’s just talk about my classmate Chen Kun. Because he became famous for starring in the TV series "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind" last year, in order to reward him, the agency Rong Xinda provided him with a driver, two life assistants, a writing assistant and an executive agent.

Well, some people may not be familiar with the position of writing assistant. In fact, it is the accompanying screenwriter who helps Chen Kun analyze the script. If during the filming process, the writing assistant thinks that the lines or the plot do not conform to Chen Kun's settings, he will even find the assistant director and strongly request to change the script.

Just like some time ago, when Chen Kun was filming the movie "The Unknown" in Shancheng, his writing assistant was once chased away by Dawei.

your sister!
How dare you come to this place and act so high and mighty? Don't you think about whether your master dares to speak like this in front of me? !

Jiang Feng was just thinking, when suddenly, he saw Leonardo Dicaprio, Matt Damon and George Clooney coming to the cafe on the second floor of Park Hyatt Hotel together. Well, each of them was carrying a small black bag on their back.

I guess this is all the luggage they brought with them to film.

"Good director!"

"Hello, George!"

George Clooney was the oldest. When Jiang Feng saw him coming over, he first extended his hand and then gave him a warm hug.

Matt Damon and Leonardo Dicaprio...

"George, Leonardo, Matt, I'm so glad to see you!"

After hugging them one by one, Jiang Feng motioned for them to sit down, and then asked with a smile: "According to the contract, you can arrive here before 5 pm the day after tomorrow. Why are you all here so early?"

This question is a bit sharp.

Leonardo Dicaprio looked at Matt Damon next to him, and then Matt Damon turned to look at George Clooney on the other side.

Perhaps because George Clooney was the oldest and the most casual in his behavior, he sat in a chair, drank a sip of coffee, and then told the truth.

“Director, let us tell you a story.

Last year, a film director came from China. He was young and handsome, and most importantly, he was very smart and knew how to use his intelligence to fight against the Hollywood Actors Guild.

He clearly wanted to shoot a movie in one night, well, it was a 14 or 15-hour full-on shoot, but when the actors' union staff came to check, he told the union staff that we were auditioning. "

At this point, George Clooney suddenly laughed, turned the coffee cup on the table with his hand, and said: "Director, I, Matt Damon, and Leonardo Dicaprio mean that you have to audition for us!
Otherwise, we won’t know if our acting skills are suitable for your movie.”

"Uh huh huh!!!"

After George Clooney finished speaking, Leonardo Dicaprio and Matt Damon nodded together, and while nodding, the two guys held up two fingers and spoke seriously.

"Director, actually the three of us don't ask for much. As for the audition fee, each of us only needs 3% of the box office."

"Yes, yes, yes. We mainly want to experience that feeling. Our audition process can be edited into a movie and then sell a box office of 2 million US dollars."

At this time, a tall blonde woman walked in from outside the cafe and said, "Director, I strongly request the same as the three of them. You must give us an audition!

Since my influence is less than theirs, you don’t have to give me two points, I will be satisfied with just one and a half points.”

Ha ha…

Looking at the four guys who made the request, Jiang Feng shook his head and smiled bitterly.

I was a little confused just now, why Matt Damon, Leonardo Dicaprio, and George Clooney came so early? It turned out that they were waiting for me here.

Well, there is also Charlize Theron. This beauty was alone the past two days and was unable to speak. Now that three Hollywood colleagues have come, she naturally made her request as confidently as them.

...

After talking about business and drinking a cup of coffee in the cafe, Matt Damon, Leonardo Dicaprio and George Clooney went upstairs together. They are basically of similar status in Hollywood, so they all stayed on the same floor of the Park Hyatt Chicago, the 26th floor.

Charlize Theron also lives on the 26th floor, but she did not go upstairs. Instead, she sat quietly opposite Jiang Feng, not saying a word, just staring at him.

Talented boy, I would like to see how you "audition" for us without any preparation.

Of course, you don’t have to “audition”!
But I just don’t believe that you would not be tempted by such a big “cake”.

You know, a movie starring George Clooney, Leonardo Dicaprio, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron is much better than the one you starred in with the less famous Jessica Alba.

The movie "Paranormal Activity" shot by the two of you grossed over 2 million U.S. dollars. Now with the four of us working together, I don't believe the box office will not exceed 4 million U.S. dollars.

However, the quality of a movie is not only determined by the actors involved in the performance, but more importantly by the story. If the story is good, even if the actors are not so good, it will still attract most audiences to the cinema.

Does the movie written by Jiang Feng have a bad story?
It must be good!

Movies like "Seeing a Ghost", "Paranormal Activity", and the horror movie "Saw" have now become big IPs, and even in the United States they have very strong and loyal fan groups.

And what story is Jiang Feng planning this time?

Looking at Jiang Feng sitting by the window of the cafe and staring out motionlessly, Charlize Theron couldn't help but be a little dazed.

Sure enough, men who are serious are the most handsome!

Charlize Theron, who was suffering from hysteria and was sensitive by nature, suddenly felt something was wrong, as if she was a cute sika deer jumping around on the African savannah and was suddenly stared at by a hungry wolf.

With this feeling, Charlize Theron turned around and looked inside the cafe. Sure enough, at the 6 o'clock direction, there was a pair of young women wearing huge sunglasses on their noses, pointing at her.

Ok…

Charlize Theron frowned slightly, stood up and walked over.

"Hello, are you from China?" "Yes!!!" The two beauties nodded together.

"Do you know me?" Charlize Theron asked.

"We know your name is Charlize Theron, and you're from South Africa, but we don't know you." Li Jiaxin, who was wearing a red jacket, spoke first.

"Since you don't know me, why are you pointing fingers at me? Don't you know that it's very rude to talk about others behind their backs?" Charlize Theron was a little angry.

I was expecting a miracle to happen, but you guys ruined my mood.

"Oh, sorry, Ms. Charlize Theron, I think you may have misunderstood." Huo Wenxi, who was wearing a gray coat, stood up first to explain.

"I'm from China and a friend of Director Jiang Feng. I wanted to go over and have a chat with him, but my friend Miss Li saw that he was thinking about something, so the two of us had a few words about it.

Well, let me put it this way, I promise that what we talked about has nothing to do with you! "

"Oh, that's how it is…"

Charlize Theron felt relieved, as long as you didn't talk about me, but when she turned around and wanted to go back to Jiang Feng, suddenly, her curiosity arose.

"Um, excuse me, which one of you two is Wang Fei?"

"no!"

The South African beauty asked directly. Huo Wenxi and Li Jiaxin, who were sitting in the cafe drinking coffee, looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.

"If it's not Wang Fei..., then who among you is Yu Feihong?"

"no!"

Huo Wenxi and Li Jiaxin shook their heads again.

"It's not Yu Feihong..."

Charlize Theron touched her chin with her hand and then spoke again.

"Then, who among you is Wang Zuxian? Who among you is Gao Yuanyuan? Who among you is Guan Yulin? Who among you is Fan Jiuyi..."

wipe…

Li Jiaxin, who came from afar, was about to swear.

Unexpectedly, this South African beauty in front of him, who was over 1 meters tall, asked questions in great detail. She even found out about the scandals about Jiang Feng that were hyped on various domestic websites.

……

Sitting by the window of the coffee shop, Jiang Feng was focused.

To be honest, if George Clooney, Leonardo Dicaprio and Matt Damon hadn't asked for an "audition", he wouldn't have thought of it.

Before filming "The Departed", he filmed another movie using the same crew and the same actors, just like in the heyday of Hong Kong films, when director Liu Zhenwei used the actors of "Ashes of Time" to film "A Chinese Odyssey".

Same actors, same crew, same classics...

But what kind of movie should I make to maximize the potential of these awesome actors in Hollywood? !

"Buried Alive"?
"Buried" definitely won't work because there is only one actor who appears on the screen from beginning to end, and the other actors are just voice actors at most.

"The Night the Comet Came"?
"The Night the Comet Came" certainly isn't a good movie either. Although this movie is a classic, many Chinese people still gave it a high score of 8.5 on Douban over the next decade, but its box office was not good.

In the previous life, this movie cost 5000 US dollars to invest, but the box office was only a few hundred thousand. Now, even with the addition of Hollywood big names such as Leonardo Dicaprio, Matt Damon, George Clooney and Charlize Theron, the box office will definitely not exceed 1000 million US dollars.

Ok…

What I want is both fame and fortune!
Jiang Feng's brain was working quickly, and he was repeatedly weighing the movies he had studied in his previous life. Suddenly, the phone in his pocket vibrated.

I took it out and looked at it, and saw that it was a text message from Han Shanye.

[Jiang Feng, what are you busy with? Is it convenient to talk? ]

[It's convenient, Mr. Han, you decide.]

[Oh, I forgot just now that it is daytime in the United States. ]

[Jiang Feng, first of all, congratulations to you. The art film "Departures", which even you were not optimistic about, has reached new box office records since its release.

上映6天，在港岛拿下600万港币电影票房；在宝岛省的电影票房是2900万新台币；在韩国，6天的观影人次是35万，票房金额大概是140万美金左右。

But in Xiaori, it is quite impressive. The box office of the movie in 6 days is 670 million US dollars. Well, in this way, the money that has been distributed to China Film has already recovered the investment, and even made a small profit. 】

[Really? Mr. Han, congratulations.]

To be honest, Jiang Feng didn't plan to make money when filming "The Collector", but to win awards. Now, hearing that the movie has made a small profit, Jiang Feng can be said to be relieved.

Because there is a famous director in Hong Kong who once said this: A film director who doesn’t make investors lose money is a good director!

Jiang Feng deeply agrees with this.

【Congratulations!!!】

[Jiang Feng, you should know that if "Departures" makes money, you will also get a share.]

[Well... Jiang Feng, there is something I want to tell you. A few days ago, in order to relax the leaders, Ouchi organized a movie viewing party before the meeting.

The movie being screened is "Nobody"!
After watching the movie, the leaders were very satisfied and praised you one after another, saying that you are indeed the most talented young filmmaker in the country.

However, there is also a leader who has made higher demands on you. He said, since Jiang Feng shot the science fiction movie "Moon" three years ago, why can't you continue to work hard and use local methods to compete with Hollywood science fiction movies. 】

Using earth methods...

Seeing these four words, Jiang Feng couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly.

At that time, the filming of "Moon" was just a speculative demand, compressing the big scenes, and then some special effects shots were rubbed by hand...

Nowadays, it is basically impossible to compete with Hollywood science fiction movies.

However, when Jiang Feng thought of this, he suddenly had a feeling.

[Mr. Han, there is something I was about to report to you. In order to adjust the actors' status, I plan to organize an "audition" for these Hollywood bigwigs. The audition time is about 14 hours, the investment is no more than 5000 US dollars, and the audition time is set on May 5. ]

As soon as the text message was sent, Han Shanye replied immediately.

[Jiang Feng, wait for me. I will notify the staff to buy me a plane ticket to Chicago, USA.]

(End of this chapter)