Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 26: Guest star becomes starring role?
With the departure of the gang members, the oppressive atmosphere was swept away.

The entire crew rushed up and surrounded Lin Yuan.

"You're such a good fighter! After so many years of filming action scenes, I never thought anyone could be as tough as they are in the movies!"

"A real-life version of Xiao Li's Flying Daggers! It's a shame there's no flying dagger event in the Olympics, otherwise you would have won glory for our country in no time."

"Lin Yuan, you are so handsome! I want to give birth to a dragon cub for you!" a female staff member shouted.

"You're stupid! It's almost 2001. At best, you'll have time to give birth to a snake baby!"

Faced with everyone's enthusiasm, Lin Yuan didn't know how to respond for a moment, and could only say: "This is just a trivial trick."

"He's obviously very strong, but he pretends not to care. How hateful! I've been fooled by him!"

Lin Yuan felt something was wrong, and everyone reached out to hug him.

"What are you doing? Ah...haha...put me down..."

Everyone lifted Lin Yuan up and threw him into the air repeatedly.

After a while, he let go of Lin Yuan and let him stand on his feet.

Zhang Ziyu squeezed out of the crowd and came to Lin Yuan. Her eyes were still a little red from crying.

"Brother, thank you so much for today. I will always remember your kindness, so I won't say more about my gratitude."

Lin Yuan walked forward, hugged her gently and let her go: "Sister, don't be afraid, I will stand by you no matter what happens."

She smiled and nodded, took a few steps back, and went to a side to adjust her mood.

Then the crew members gathered around again and asked questions enthusiastically.

Everyone wanted to get close to him with good intentions, so Lin Yuan was forced to start his social cow mode and try his best to cope.

"Okay, everyone can disperse and go about their business. Lin Yuan and I still have something to discuss." Seeing that it was almost time, Chen Long stepped forward to disperse the crowd.

Lin Yuan picked up the document beside him, but he didn't have time to read it carefully when the gang members came to make trouble and interrupted him.

But the document in his hand was snatched away by Chen Long.

"Big brother?"

"Sorry, I got the wrong one. This one isn't for you."

Chen Long stuffed the document into the drawer, then took out another one and handed it to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan smiled but didn't point it out.

It’s not that he took the wrong thing, but Chen Long changed his mind at the last minute.

He gave himself another cooperation agreement. Although Lin Yuan didn't know what the content was, it was definitely better than the previous one.

Times have changed. After experiencing the gang riot, Chen Long values ​​Lin Yuan even more.

It's not surprising that they came up with an agreement with higher stakes.

Lin Yuan opened the agreement, flipped through a few pages, and asked doubtfully, "Brother, this contract is not right?"

"What's the problem? I checked it myself, so it should be correct."

"Did the contract's salary have an extra zero?"

Chen Long took a look and immediately said, "Yes, that's the number."

"The pay is too high. I'm just playing a small cameo role."

Chen Long's salary in the contract was $200 million... US dollars. According to what Lin Yuan learned later, Zhang Ziyu's salary for the film was only a little over $100 million.

As the villain boss, she has a very important role in the play.

But as a guest actor, Lin Yuan’s salary is higher than Zhang Ziyu’s. Is this really appropriate?

"I want to modify the script a little bit and ask you to perform one or two action scenes. This price is reasonable." Chen Long gave his reasons.

Lin Yuan knew that this was not the real reason.

The script for Rush Hour 2 has been polished to perfection. Even if Chen Long wanted to give Lin Yuan more scenes, it would only be four or five minutes at most.

Otherwise it would break the rhythm of the whole movie.

Therefore, the reason why he offered such a high salary was mainly due to personal connections.

"Brother, I feel unworthy of this salary." Lin Yuan declined politely.

"I know what you are worried about. So, just listen to me first. If you still can't accept it after listening, I will definitely not force you." Chen Long said.

Lin Yuan nodded and motioned Chen Long to continue.

"First of all, my price is for a top martial arts master, and the remuneration must be commensurate with your status. I have witnessed your swordsmanship and knife throwing today, and I cannot pretend not to see your value.

If I offer an unreasonable price, I won’t be able to get past this hurdle myself.” Chen Long paused and continued.

"Secondly, you helped me a lot today, and I've already considered you my little brother. You can't just allow me to help you without letting me express my gratitude, right?"

"Finally, since you're already the star of a top Hollywood film, you can't sign a low-paying contract with someone else. Even for a cameo, the salary can't be too low, otherwise you won't be able to negotiate later."

Chen Long's explanation was very sincere, and he took every aspect into consideration for Lin Yuan, making it impossible for him to refuse.

So Lin Yuan said, "Brother, I accept your point, but I'm worried that if you modify the script, it will affect the compactness of the entire film."

Lin Yuan's worries are not unnecessary, because "Rush Hour 2" is already an extremely successful commercial film in the future.

If you try to add more scenes for yourself and disrupt the smooth rhythm of the film, it will be counterproductive.

Originally, "Rush Hour 2" was scheduled to be released around August 2001, and its box office in North America was as high as 8 million US dollars, ranking fifth on the North American box office list of the year!
Higher than both The Mummy Returns and Jurassic Park 3...

If the global box office is calculated, "Rush Hour 2" reached 3.47 million US dollars, which is equivalent to nearly 29 billion yuan based on the exchange rate at the time.

In comparison, the total box office of movies in mainland China that year was just over 8 million yuan.

The box office of Chen Long's movie is more than three times the total box office of all movies in mainland China.

I can really say: Brother Chen Long is so terrifying!
The huge success of "Rush Hour 2" not only earned Chen Long a salary of 1500 million US dollars, but also further earned him 2600 million US dollars in box office dividends, for a total profit of 4100 million US dollars.

This series of dazzling achievements made Lin Yuan marvel at it, and he was worried that he might be doing more harm than good.

Chen Long was not worried at all about this.

Chen Long took the document from Lin Yuan's hand, turned to the last page and handed it back to him.

"My initial plan is to give you a short, independent plot line. As a Hong Kong Island detective, you will independently track down the mastermind behind the scenes, without directly intersecting with my main plot."

"I understand. This way we won't interfere with each other."

"Although this method is clever, if you want the independent storyline to be interesting, you need to come up with some exciting action scenes to support it."

"That's totally fine."

How could Lin Yuan let go of the opportunity to gain attribute points and strengthen himself?

(End of this chapter)