Chapter 138 - Low Price Script

The morning after the launch of Song and Dance Youth 3, Eckles appeared in the living room of Lin Ming Yang's house on time. Lin Mingyang's "crazy words" at the launch of "Song and Dance Youth 3" had received mixed reactions from the media, but according to Eckles' optimistic prediction, Lin Mingyang wouldn't be able to hear any praise from Hollywood movie critics for a long time to come.

Since he dared to put words in front of the media, Lin Ming Yang naturally did not care about those comments, the first winter vacation of the university will soon come to an end, "Song and Dance Youth 3"'s has already taken up most of his time, the rest of this time, Lin Ming Yang intends to take a good rest.

But Eckles didn't come here to poke fun at Lin Ming Yang this time, he brought Lin Ming Yang a script that paid him only 4 million dollars for his role. In normal times, with this kind of paycheck, Eckers wouldn't even bother to open the script, let alone recommend it to Lin Ming Yang.

But this time the situation is a little different, Eckles can be very sure that this movie has Lin Mingyang interested in things. He intended to sell a secret, Lin Mingyang had to hold back his curiosity and opened the script himself.

The plot of the story resembled the South African movie Gangster Mob, which had recently won the Best Foreign Language Film award at the Oscars. The gang leader becomes half crazy and half stupid due to an accident, and fantasizes that his son's former girlfriend's child is his grandson, so he plans a baby stealing scheme.

Two bungling thieves facing life's dilemmas, in a desperate situation, agree to help the gangster organization to hijack the newborn babies of two popular stars in Los Angeles. However, the middleman responsible for contacting the criminal organization was detained by the police for a minor incident and could not get the bonus for the mission, so the little baby was forced to stay in the home of one of the bungling thieves. From then on, the lives of the two men are turned upside down by this extra little one, and a lot of hilarious farces are staged. The two thieves are gradually awakened to their inner conscience in the process of getting along with the baby, but at this time, the middleman is released and the gangster organization learns the whereabouts of the baby from him.

Lured by the high prize money, the two thieves finally hand over the baby, but they are also suffering from conscience, and finally they decide to snatch the baby back from the gangs again. After a fierce battle, the two men succeed in rescuing the baby and returning him safely to his parents, and finally they meet at the police station to turn themselves in.

Lin Mingyang how to see how to feel this story is very familiar, this is clearly the Hong Kong film "Baby Plan" of the Hollywood remake, but he clearly remembered that this time the Hong Kong film "Baby Plan" have not appeared, then this out of nowhere script and his memory of the "Baby Plan" plot similarity is so high, based on the word "accidental" can not be explained.

"Who is the other star of this movie?"

Lin Ming Yang just casually said, but it startled Ecks, who was making coffee at the side, and he stared at Lin Ming Yang with wide eyes.

"How did you know?"

Lin Ming Yang looked at the agent who reacted strangely in a confused manner, "What how did I know...I asked who I'll be co-starring with in this movie?"

The two looked at each other wide-eyed for half a day before Ecks realized that he had been overly anxious. Looking at Lin Mingyang's expression, he shouldn't know the truth of the matter yet, which meant that this surprise was still valid.

Ruling out the possibility of the secret leaking out early, Ecks put on an inscrutable look, "Then who do you wish you could work with?"

Thinking that he was only paid 4 million dollars, Lin Mingyang estimated that the movie's budget was also pitifully small. According to this inference, there was basically little chance that the movie would have other big name actors joining it. But to put it another way, from the producer's point of view, if they want to rely on Lin Ming Yang's fame and appeal, then the other side of the payoff for him is simply not enough. This script is good, but not to the point where Lin Ming Yang lowered his price.

Lin Mingyang shook his head, one, he really can not think of any suitable candidates in Hollywood, and secondly, this matter from beginning to end is shrouded in a layer of mist that he can not see through, is it because of his own emergence, the history has become so confusing?

"Your other partner is Hong Kong's kung fu superstar Jackie Chan!"

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What Lin Mingyang had gotten in his hands was indeed the script of the Hong Kong movie "Project Baby" as he remembered it, but not exactly in the standard sense, as the actual situation was again different from his memory. The script was a collaboration between Jackie Chan and another Hong Kong screenwriter, and was originally intended to be made into a Hong Kong movie, but an independent Hollywood production company also took a liking to the script at the same time, and they were prepared to move the movie to the United States for filming.

Jackie Chan himself wanted to return to Hollywood with this movie, and the two sides quickly established the intention of cooperation, Jackie Chan as the film's star and action director, with Jackie Chan as the gold standard of kung fu superstar, the company immediately began to find the right partner for Jackie Chan. Initially, their idea was to find a black actor to partner with Cheng Long, so that the configuration is more or less suspected of plagiarizing "Peak Hour".

This company pitched the script to Lin Ming Yang with nothing more than a trial-and-error mentality. The black actor they wanted had not yet been found, but they first received a call from Lin Ming Yang's agent, Eckles.

The producer of "The Baby Project" is named Curry, when he learned on the phone that Lin Ming Yang was interested in their script and willing to accept the role, his brain "boom", then Eckles said something to him on the phone, he did not listen to it at all. On the other end of the phone, Eckles said a few irrelevant words, found that the other party did not respond, and finally hung up the phone a little depressed.

Curry sat there dumbfounded, holding the phone in his hand, not noticing the busy beeping sound in the receiver. 4 million dollars to hire Lin Mingyang, the current hot in Hollywood, popularity of the first-line movie star, Curry now only have one idea in his head, that is, the company this time is definitely a great deal of money.

His body began to be infected by this excitement, and Curry now felt like his seat was a boiler, scalding his head. The blood in his body was like boiling boiled water, carrying an unbearable heat all the way down to his fingertips. He put the phone down shakily; it was as if it had happened in a dream. Curry slapped his face vigorously to make sure it was all true, then with trembling fingers, he dialed the number on the Hong Kong side. The excitement made him completely ignore the fact that there was a time difference, and it was midnight in Hong Kong.

Jackie Chan's agent Su Zhihong in the middle of the night was Curry from the United States called to wake up, Curry on the phone to speak more than the usual short voice, always like to smooth but not a breath, listened to half a day, Su Zhihong finally understand what he means.

Su Zhihong this person although usually do not show, but hidden behind the scenes of the Hong Kong movie industry, but also considered a party vassals. His Movie Art Consultants Limited was Hong Kong's premier agent company. In more than twenty years of film and television work, Su Zhihong has accumulated a wide range of resources, in East Asia and Europe and the United States and other countries have a wide range of media resources and acting company contacts.

He is in charge of Jackie Chan Films and Jackie Chan Group for many years, the industry prestige is very high, can be called Jackie Chan's "Royal Producer", that his personal ability is also very strong, he is involved in the field of the film is very comprehensive, not only in the early stage of the film investment in the field of a unique judgment, but also in the film planning, film production, advertising and promotion, distribution, Even in the organization of global publicity and promotion have a certain degree of professionalism, and even from a film's co-ordination, team management, implementation of the implementation of the latter part of the publicity are also well versed in and comfortable.

Because he had supervised and produced the Hollywood movie "Tuxedo" starring Jackie Chan, Su Zhihong was no stranger to Hollywood. Don't look at Jackie Chan is now topped with the name of an international superstar, and also in the Los Angeles Avenue of Stars, but in Europe and the United States, his influence is actually not as Lin Mingyang, the new generation of Hollywood local movie star.

When he learned that Lin Mingyang had agreed to star in the movie for a fee of $4 million, Su Zhihong could no longer sleep.

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The second person to be woken up by a phone call in the middle of the night was naturally Jackie Chan, who immediately perked up as soon as the caller showed Su Zhihong. With his understanding of Su Zhihong, if he didn't encounter something important, the other party wouldn't call himself at this time.

Su Zhihong did not say anything on the phone, but only asked Jackie Chan to come out for an interview. Jackie Chan looked at the time, it was already past one in the morning. The ringing when he answered the phone had awakened his wife who was sleeping beside him, she sleepily propped up half of her body from the bed, "You still want to go out so late?"

"Ah Hong's call, there might be something going on in the US, I'm going to meet up with him!" Jackie explained as he dressed.

Settling his wife, Jackie went downstairs to wake up his driver and security guard. Ten minutes later, he arrived at the teahouse where he had arranged to meet with Su Zhihong. Su Zhihong had been sitting in the box for a while by this time, and when Jackie Chan walked in, he excitedly greeted him.

Seeing Su Zhihong's eyes glowing and a smile on his lips, Jackie Chan felt a sense of relief in his heart, it looked like Su Zhihong should have called him with a good news.

"How many years have I not seen you smile so happily!" Jackie Chan was also infected by the emotions on Su Zhihong's face and joked about the other party as soon as they met.

"It's definitely a good news this time!" The excited and enthusiastic expression on Su Zhihong's face was like a flood that had broken the levee, pouring out in a vast, crashing manner, "Curry just called from the United States, and they've already found a suitable partner over there for you in The Baby Project, and you're going to be surprised when this person speaks out!"

"To be able to get you excited like this, that person must not be small!" Jackie Chan laughed gleefully.

"I should say that he is in the limelight, among the new generation of Hollywood movie stars, there is no one who can have a match with him yet." Su Zhihong said half of his words, then deliberately bought a hint.

With Jackie Chan's knowledge of Hollywood, a name immediately surfaced in his mind.

"Are you talking about Felix Lin?"