Chapter 525 525, Speed ​​and Passion

February 7, 2001

Chinese traditional festival Lantern Festival

On this day, all the staff and cast members of the "Fast and Furious" crew from China arrived safely in the United States and checked into the InterContinental Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

Accompanying them were Han Shanye of China Film Group, Yu Dong of Bona Film Group, Yang Shucheng of Yinghuang Entertainment, and the well-known domestic director Chen Kaige and his wife.

Sun Hao could understand why Yang Shucheng, Han Shanye, and Yu Dong flew over, because he had reached an agreement with Harvey Weinstein privately that Miramax Films would not become the producer of "Fast and Furious" and participate in the production, so the producer's cooperation agreement needed to be re-signed.

However, the sudden arrival of Chen Kaige and his wife made Sun Hao very puzzled.

Fortunately, Yu Dong had a wide network of contacts and a variety of information channels. Seeing Sun Hao frowning at the door of the hotel, he immediately pulled him into the hotel and sat him down in a leisure corner in the lobby.

"Sun Hao..."

"Hmm?"

"Are you confused about Director Kaige's sudden appearance here?"

"Yes!"

"Don't frown, I'll tell you clearly, he came here for you."

"He came here for me..., why?"

Sun Hao was even more puzzled.

My buddy has always been honest and has never caused him any trouble, nor has he ever teased his beautiful wife. Why did he come all the way to the United States to cause trouble for me?

"Hmm..."

Sitting up straight, stretching his neck to look, seeing that the crew who had completed the check-in procedures began to go upstairs, Yu Dong lowered his voice and said: "Miramax Films suddenly withdrew from the film production, and the production cost of 190 million US dollars had to be redistributed among the three of us, which squeezed the next budget of China Film Group."

"Hmm..., not bad!"

Sun Hao nodded in agreement.

China Film Group is a state-owned enterprise, and the budget invested in film production every year is fixed. If this film gets a little more budget, then the budget of other films will be less.

"I don't know if it was inspired by The Martian, but after shooting the low-budget movie Together With You, Director Kaige was determined to launch a magical blockbuster, with an estimated total investment of 50 million US dollars.

Originally, two days ago, Director Kaige had almost reached an agreement with China Film Group, which could probably take up 80% of the investment in his new work.

But after all his calculations, Director Kaige never expected that you would kick Harvey Weinstein out at this time, allowing China Film Group to add investment in Fast and Furious..."

Yu Dong was very eloquent. In less than three minutes, he explained the whole story to Sun Hao.

But Sun Hao was thinking about something else. Could it be that because of his butterfly flapping its wings randomly, Director Chen Kaige, who was supposed to have the idea of ​​shooting a magical blockbuster after the hit release of The Lord of the Rings, suddenly came to his senses and wanted to shoot his destined movie The Promise in advance?

"Sun Hao..."

"Hmm?"

"Mr. Han means that the production cycle of "Fast and Furious" is relatively short, and it will be released at the end of the year at most, so Director Kaige should hold on first, and we'll talk about it if he can't hold on any longer.

And you..."

Speaking of this, Yu Dong stretched out his arm and hugged Sun Hao's shoulders affectionately.

"Mr. Han means that you should bear more responsibility. Director Kaige is in Los Angeles these days. If he wants to stroll around your crew, let him stroll around; if he wants to see how you make a movie, let him watch; even when he is watching, if he feels itchy and wants to give some instructions, let him show you how to do it?"

"Hmm..., okay?"

Sun Hao pondered for a moment and nodded.

The latest investment agreement has not been signed yet, so I'll just agree to this first.

However, at this time, Yu Dong suddenly reminded: "Sun Hao, we have agreed that since you promised me, don't cheat people, especially Director Kaige."

"Uh..."

"Don't be silly, others don't know you, but I know you, Sun Hao, the corners of your mouth will only slightly curl up when you cheat people."

"Who said that!"

Sun Hao was 'angry'.

At present, Chen Kaige is a banner of Chinese film. He was commended by Deng Gong in the past. Even if I want to make trouble for him, this idea is just a flash.

"Who said that..., of course I said it!" Yu Dong, who smiled slyly, stood up and hugged Sun Hao and walked upstairs to the hotel.

"Sun Hao, the variety show "Guess Guess Guess" you recorded was broadcast on Phoenix TV, and I watched it.

When I saw you standing in the center of the stage with such an expression on your face, I knew that Comrade Ai Dajin was going to be in trouble.

Sure enough, he immediately spent all his money to support the Beijing Olympic Games bid."

When Yu Dong said this, Sun Hao had been observing him and found that this guy really learned the essence of his facial expressions.

I couldn't help but touch my chin, wrinkle my nose, and slightly curl up the corners of my mouth...

Well, it's time to change my habits!

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For the next few days, Sun Hao and Zeng Li stayed at the InterContinental Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

I thought that Chen Kaige and his wife, who lived on the same floor, would take this opportunity to talk to me about the specific matters of film investment, but Sun Hao didn't expect that the couple didn't even touch the topic of [film investment].

Even if they met in the hotel corridor, they just talked about the weather, the Avenue of Stars in Los Angeles, how far the "Fast and Furious" was prepared, and when they wanted to start filming.

If they didn't say anything, Sun Hao would naturally be happy to be quiet. He was still busy as usual, renting a large transport aircraft, signing a cooperation agreement with the Los Angeles Skydiving Club, and coordinating with Colorado to try to temporarily close the Pikes Peak Freeway during the filming of the movie "Fast and Furious". Well..., Sun Hao wanted a full closure!

In general, Harvey Weinstein's coordination ability is still very good. The crew submitted an application on February 8, and on February 10, Elba S County, where the Pikes Peak Freeway is located, approved the application.

In the words of Harvey Weinstein, the old rogue, anyway, there are sparsely populated there, and it doesn't matter whether it is blocked or not. If it is temporarily blocked, they can still earn a lot of site usage fees from the "Fast and Furious" crew.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was February 14, Valentine's Day.

…………

On Valentine's Day, Sun Hao got up very early.

When he went downstairs for a run, he bought two beautiful roses on the street and placed them on Zeng Li's bedside. Then Sun Hao went to the nearby airport and boarded the large transport plane rented by the crew.

Inside the transport plane, five modified sports cars were parked at this moment, including Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, Dodge Challenger SRT-8, Jeep Wrangler, Dodge Charger R/T and Subaru Impreza WRXSTI.

"Hey..., Director Kai Ge, why are you here?"

"Sun Hao, I want to see how your "Fast and Furious" was filmed, can I?"

"Of course!"

In response, Sun Hao, who had been prepared, signaled the staff of the skydiving club to firmly fix the old comrade on the wall of the transport plane.