Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 188: Collaboration with Director Cohen
Lin Yuan suddenly realized that this filming of "The King of Spy Wars" was different from all the movies he had participated in before.

This time, the film is fully funded and produced by Linyuan Film Studio, and it is no longer a case of borrowing someone else's chicken to lay eggs.

Therefore, important positions such as leading actor, director, and producer should be decided by themselves.

The producer will definitely be Mr. Eisen, there is no need to say more about that.

What about the director?
What about other important characters?
"Except for the female lead who has already been chosen, I thought you would help me confirm the others." Lin Yuan said.

"This is your movie, your movie to beat 'The Lord of the Rings: Rise of the King' next year, I'm not getting involved in that.

I will just take care of the logistics, and the success of the film depends solely on you," Mr. Eisen replied.

Lin Yuan thought for a moment and asked, "How is Director Cohen doing lately?"

Mr. Eisen replied, “Not very well.”

"Then it's time to go meet them." Lin Yuan stood up from his chair.

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A coffee shop in Douglaston town.

The store where Lin Yuan and Liu Yufei had their date.

Here, Lin Yuan met Mr. Eisen for the first time.

It was also here that Director Cohen solemnly took out his bank card and handed it to Lin Yuan, telling Lin Yuan that he would find a way to solve the funding problem.

Lin Yuan always kept this kindness in his heart.

Without the help of director Cohen, Lin Yuan's Hollywood journey would not have started so smoothly.

Today, it is Lin Yuan's turn to help Director Cohen.

Lin Yuan had an appointment with director Cohen and Vin Diesel to meet here, but the two had not arrived yet, so he sat on a chair and drank coffee milk.

It's coffee-flavored milk with lots of sugar.

He has never liked bitter coffee.

No matter how others tell him about the aroma of coffee, Lin Yuan still prefers to add a little coffee flavor to the sweet milk. For him, this is his favorite.

While drinking the sweet coffee milk in the cup, Lin Yuan was thinking about today's meeting.

After filming "The Fast and the Furious", Lin Yuan has not had the opportunity to work with director Coen again, but they are busy with their own things.

But as history has shown, Universal Pictures took the filming of the "Fast and Furious" sequel away from director Coen, and Vin Diesel lost the opportunity to star in the second film.

Lin Yuan had anticipated this matter, but did not intervene.

After all, it was a Universal Pictures movie. If he wanted to exert influence, it might not only rigidify the relationship between the two parties, but also completely close the door to subsequent cooperation.

Only after "2 Fast Furious" failed at the box office and Universal Pictures suffered a setback did they realize the importance of Vin Diesel, and only then would it be natural for Lin Yuan to intervene.

Sometimes a fall is a necessary price to pay.

Director Coen and Vin Diesel, as if in historical time and space, collaborated with Columbia Pictures to shoot "xXx".

The film officially hit theaters last month.

If one only looks at the press releases released by the media, the public might think that this movie is in great shape.

News spread everywhere, such as it won the weekly box office championship and its first-week box office revenue reached 4600 million. However, Lin Yuan knew that the film was not a success.

The IMDB score is only 5.6 points, and the reputation is completely bad.

This led to the subsequent poor box office performance of the film, with the final total being only $1.3 million.

At first glance this result may not seem too bad, but considering the production cost of 6000 million US dollars, the film is likely to lose money.

Therefore, in historical time and space, in the second part of "xXx", everyone from the director to the leading actor was replaced.

But Lin Yuan also didn’t understand what Columbia Pictures had in mind for the “xXx” series?
Almost every movie in this series loses money, but there are still many sequels, all the way to the fourth one!
But no matter what, director Cohen and Vin Diesel are not in a good situation at the moment and are at the lowest point in their lives.

He planted the seeds of "Fast and Furious", but had the fruits picked when they were ripe.

He left Columbia Pictures in an attempt to make a comeback, but ended up not getting any success.

For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

This seems to be the mysterious law of the world, just like if you finish this job and then go home to get married, you will die.

Lin Yuan decided to take the opportunity to help them, as he happened to need people for his film "The King of Spy War".

"crunch~"

With the sound of the door being pushed open, Director Cohen and Vin Diesel walked in together.

"Director, uncle, long time no see." Lin Yuan stood up and shook hands with them with a smile.

"In just one year since we last met, you've already soared to heights I can't even reach," Director Cohen said with emotion.

During this year, both of them were busy with their own things. Although they occasionally called each other to say hello, they hadn't seen each other for a long time.

"My foundation is still weak, so I come to you for help?" Lin Yuan said with a smile.

Director Cohen was a little moved when he heard Lin Yuan's words: It was obvious that he wanted to help him today, but he said it was a request for help, which really gave him enough face.

After the three of them were seated, Lin Yuan felt that Vin Diesel seemed to be in a low mood and had not said much since they met.

Lin Yuan discovered that Vin Diesel had a new tattoo on his left leg.

That was a man's name: "O'Connor."

If someone else doesn't know the truth, they might mistakenly think that this is Vin Diesel expressing his love for Paul Walker.

Because Paul Walker's character in "The Fast and the Furious" is called Brian O'Connor.

But the truth is not so. Instead, Vin Diesel used this tattoo to commemorate a person: Harry O'Connor.

He was Vin Diesel's stunt double. He died accidentally while filming "xXx" not long ago.

This incident also deeply hit Vin Diesel, making him feel more and more the difficulty of shooting action scenes.

Before, he had always watched Lin Yuan filming action scenes. Those scenes that looked extremely dangerous were all handled by Lin Yuan with ease, which made him think that action scenes were not that dangerous after all.

It wasn't until O'Connor had an accident while being his stand-in that Vin Diesel truly felt how brave and extraordinary Lin Yuan was.

Looking at the two people who seemed a little depressed, Lin Yuan did not hide anything and said straight to the point: "I have a movie called "The King of Spy Wars" that is about to start shooting, but I can't find the right person.

I would like to invite you to direct this movie. There is an important role that I would like you to play. Could you please condescend to help me? "

(End of this chapter)