Chapter 669: Producer

About two days later, the news that Jiang Yuqian joined *Doomsday* and served as the lead was announced.

In foreign media reports, the introduction to Jiang Yuqian was the lead of *Squid Game*.

For the public, this was the third international project Jiang Yuqian took on two years after *Squid Game* aired.

Especially for Chinese media, among domestic actresses, no one has a more fierce record than her.

There is the commercial film *Mysterious Ghost Shadow*, the drama series *Perfect Truth* by a big film director, and now she has taken on the lead of a big production movie.

Jiang Yuqian's international path has been exceptionally smooth.

Only they themselves know how much "water" is in this so-called record.

However, it doesn't matter.

There is a saying called "flower sedan chairs carry each other."

As long as her fame internationally becomes greater and greater in the end and she can stand firm, these are just the roads she walked in the middle.

He Heng took this as an opportunity to do a large-scale marketing for Jiang Yuqian, who hadn't had much exposure in China for a long time.

Hollywood blockbuster lead—

Even if it is actually just a side lead, it is still a lead.

The status is here.

The rank is here.

He Heng is well-versed in the way of operating the entertainment industry.

As soon as this news about Jiang Yuqian was officially announced, it immediately attracted the attention of the domestic entertainment industry.

Several first-tier actresses who had fierce competition with Jiang Yuqian before all went down the line, bought drafts, and wantonly publicized that Jiang Yuqian took on a Hollywood movie that was downgraded to a B-movie in order to star in a so-called Hollywood movie.

This movie project *Doomsday* was quite concerned in China because of Lu Yan He's several related news before, and many people knew about it.

Therefore, after being entangled in the scandal of the so-called B-movie, Jiang Yuqian's comments on social media really went down a bit—

Everyone is not in the situation of twenty years ago where they don't understand foreign countries.

At that time, anything foreign was fragrant.

Now everyone also knows that there are many bad films and bad teams abroad, and it is not that you can be gilded by acting in a play abroad.

In fact, among these actors who have gone overseas to fight, there are only a handful of people who are really acting in effective films as an actor.

Among actresses, those who really took on films going out were Gong Li (*Miami Vice*, *Memoirs of a Geisha*, *Hannibal Rising*) and Zhang Ziyi (*Rush Hour 2*, *Memoirs of a Geisha*, Korean movie *Warrior*, and Japanese movie *Princess Raccoon*), in the middle there was Li Bingbing (*Resident Evil*, *Transformers 4*), and later there was only Liu Yifei (*Mulan*). Of course, the above did not count overseas films like *The Forbidden Kingdom* and *Snow Flower and the Secret Fan* which were Chinese cultural backgrounds and could only find Chinese actors to act.

As for the other so-called overseas acting experiences, whether they are true or false, whether the film is an effective film, and how much gold content the role has, everyone knows it. (Tang Wei was not counted because she only focused on the Korean market, but the Korean market is too single)

In this case, if Jiang Yuqian really took an A-level production lead, that would be awesome—not worshiping foreign things, but a Chinese actor who can grab food in someone else's pot, this requires ability and skill, and it is also because you are awesome enough that others will give it.

But if Jiang Yuqian took a bad film for the sake of "Hollywood" and "internationalization," then as a Chinese first-tier star, and one of the most popular stars internationally at present, everyone also feels ashamed.

Jiang Yuqian's rival followed this line of thinking and blacked Jiang Yuqian on a large scale.

He Heng, as her agent, really didn't expect that they would suddenly face so many questions.

It is really not easy to respond at this time.

Because they cannot answer what kind of production scale the movie *Doomsday* is on behalf of Parameter.

It is also an industry taboo for actors to say things about movies without the permission of the movie side.

Of course, He Heng also has her own way.

She didn't make a fuss about whether *Doomsday* is a B-movie.

She immediately arranged an exclusive interview.

In the interview, one question was why Jiang Yuqian took on *Doomsday*.

Jiang Yuqian's answer was designed by He Heng long ago.

"Because the director of this movie is Rune Reese, he is a very great sci-fi director who has filmed many classic sci-fi films." Jiang Yuqian attributed all the reasons for her taking on *Doomsday* to Rune Reese.

Indeed, no matter whether *Doomsday* is downgraded to a B-movie, it cannot be denied that the director of this movie is Rune Reese.

For any actor, it is impossible to say that Rune Reese is a director not worth their cooperation.

After the interview draft came out, He Heng immediately did a round of marketing for the reasons why Jiang Yuqian took on *Doomsday* to wash away the impression caused by those black drafts before.

Director Rune Reese cannot be blacked.

Especially since this director is also going to be the director of Lu Yan He's next script *Source Code*.

It can be said that the public relations angle He Heng chose is very precise.

It is the best angle Jiang Yuqian can find at present.

At the same time, at this time, a small American newspaper suddenly released several photos: Lu Yan He and Hollywood superstar Derian Dillon walking side by side on the street, talking and laughing.

At this time, no one knew what they were doing together.

In everyone's view, it is not strange for them to get together. After all, they just acted in *Hurricane 2* not long ago.

However, soon a media reported that Derian Dillon will further develop commercial cooperation with Lu Yan He.

Not cooperation on another project, but commercial cooperation.

Two days later, *Variety* magazine reported that *Doomsday* is contacting Derian Dillon, and Derian Dillon is expected to replace Tom Felton to star in this project.

Strictly speaking, Derian Dillon's popularity is not as good as Tom Felton's. However, Derian Dillon's movies have very outstanding box office performance. Although he is not a big star in the eyes of the media, his achievements as a film actor are solid and there is nothing to say.

Derian Dillon has not only starred in commercial movies in recent years, but also consciously filmed two award-winning films with artistic pursuit and exploration of human nature, which has also attracted relatively large attention from the media, who will discuss his acting skills and his pursuit as an actor.

That kind of big star who is clearly only doing "box office superstar" is not disdained by the comment circle.

This news has not been determined yet, director Rune Reese posted a dynamic on his social media, which is a photo of him inviting Lu Yan He to visit his home. Besides Lu Yan He, there is another person, Jiang Jun.

Not long after, *The Hollywood Reporter* broke the news that Jiang Jun will join *Doomsday*.

With the news of *The Hollywood Reporter*, the promotion arranged by Parameter also started.

Suddenly, this movie project *Doomsday* rumbled into the right track from the situation of "uncertain future" last month.

The male and female leads of *Squid Game* are in the same frame again in the movie *Doomsday*, which is enough to attract a large group of *Squid Game* drama fans to pay attention to this movie.

Plus the news that Derian Dillon is also contacting not long ago—

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a movie that is going to be downgraded to a B-movie.

"This must have been pitted, is there anything else to say?" Zhang Yuezhen angrily blamed Chen Pinhe, "I said *Doomsday* will not be downgraded, now it's good, it's been snatched by others."

Chen Pinhe's mood is also very bad.

He lost an A-level movie production that could cooperate with director Rune Reese and star with Derian Dillon. Even for him, this is a very regrettable thing.

Otherwise, this movie might be able to help him open up the situation in Hollywood.

Before, as the actor with the greatest influence in China, it didn't matter whether he developed in Hollywood or not. At the best time, he didn't go, stayed in the Chinese film circle, and at most occasionally cooperated with overseas directors on one or two movies.

Now if he wants to open up the situation in Hollywood again, it is impossible to start from a small supporting role—

Then the choice is much smaller.

Zhang Yuezhen said: "Although it is said that Jiang Jun finally acted in this movie, Jiang Jun has now signed to Pick Fire, and he is actually still a person in Lu Yan He's faction. To say that Lu Yan He didn't work hard behind his back is impossible, do you admit it? Lu Yan He has been eyeing this play from the beginning. I told you that the news of downgrading to a B-movie might be his trap, you didn't believe it, now can you confirm this matter?"

Chen Pinhe: "You couldn't confirm it at the time either."

"Do you mean to blame me? Blame me for not being able to 100% confirm that *Doomsday* will definitely not be downgraded to a B-movie?" Zhang Yuezhen was so angry that her face turned green.

Chen Pinhe: "I didn't blame you, just according to the situation at the time, none of us knew what the situation of *Doomsday* would be later."

"But how much energy did we spend to get this movie at that time?" Zhang Yuezhen said. "As a result, it fell into Jiang Jun's pocket now."

By late November, Chen Ziyan told Lu Yan He that Derian Dillon had officially signed the *Doomsday* appearance contract with Parameter.

This means that *Doomsday* will definitely be filmed normally according to the initial production plan.

Similarly, Parameter finally reached a consensus with Lu Yan He's side. The Linghe branch established by Lu Yan He in the United States will bear 15% of the production cost of *Doomsday*, which also means that Linghe has obtained 15% of the investment share of *Doomsday*.

Lu Yan He's name will be listed in the producer list of *Doomsday*, ranked third according to the contract requirements.

At the same time, Derian Dillon is indeed interested in Lu Yan He's subsequent projects, and Darren Wilson is communicating with Lu Yan He about their cooperation while negotiating the salary for *Source Code*.

What Lu Yan He didn't expect was that Derian Dillon was actually interested in investing in Lu Yan He's Linghe company in China.

He took a fancy to the box office market in China.

Especially the movies he starred in in the past were mainly action-oriented, and many of them were released in China.

Derian Dillon wanted to make money in China by cooperating with Lu Yan He.

Lu Yan He was stunned.

He thought Derian Dillon was only interested in his commercial plans in the United States, but he didn't expect that people saw more.

The things involved here are too complicated, so there has been no deeper communication yet.

In comparison, when Parameter announced the producer list of *Doomsday*, Lu Yan He's name actually appeared in it—and it was ranked third. The shock caused by this made the entire domestic entertainment industry stunned.

Others are still trying their best to show their faces in top-production movies, fighting for a role, but Lu Yan He has already entered the producer list—without him being a screenwriter or starring.

Why is this?

Now think about it, there were media reports before that Lu Yan He was contacting to appear in *Doomsday*, and Chen Ziyan also said that Parameter did meet and talk with Lu Yan He for this movie...

Now it seems that you guys were not talking about actors at all? ===== CHAPTER 670 =====