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After the face-to-face communication between Fan Zhe and Du Zhengde, within a few days, Du Zhengde's own management team negotiated his film appointment with Dimension Entertainment.

Du Zhengde will act as the chief director of "Martial Arts Master: Fire of War" and participate in the project formation.

At the same time, some of the main actors in the movie have basically been decided.

Since the film project follows the TV series, Dimension Entertainment does not plan to replace many characters. Like the protagonist Lou Cheng and the heroine Yan Zheke, Chen Yu and Wu Na will definitely still play the roles. Like Lin Que, Chen Weiting would also play the role.

But there are also some characters that have not appeared in the TV series of "Martial Arts Master", most of them are villains.

These need to be recruited from the outside.

The villain is not an unimportant thing. On the contrary, in an action movie like "Budo Grandmaster: Flames of War", there will always be a final boss to defeat, and whether the final boss is done well or not, then It is definitely one of the key factors that can affect the final score of the movie.

No one likes to see the protagonist messing around for a long time, just playing a weak scum.

At the same time, in the current commercial movies, more and more trends prove that having a villain with enough charm in itself is definitely a plus.

In the original book, the final boss in the plot of "Martial Arts Master: Flames of War" is called "No. 18". After the man-made experiment achieved relatively good success, in order to improve his strength to a higher level, he also transformed himself, and his strength became very powerful. But also because of this, his personality has undergone some changes. He doesn't like to use his real name, and he prefers to use the code name 'No. 18' to call himself.

He is also indeed a product of the eighteenth generation of Transformers.

In the original novel, this human experimentation criminal group has shadows of the United States, Japan and other countries behind it. However, there may be some policy risks in writing novels like this, let alone movies.

If "Martial Arts Master: Fire of War" wants to be released smoothly, these contents that may touch politically sensitive risks must not be touched. The power of the crab and the beast is above everything else.

What's more, the ambition of Dimension Entertainment's movie is not limited to the domestic market.

This movie is bound to go global.

In fact, the TV series itself already has a certain influence on a global scale.

If you want to make money in the Japanese market and the North American market, of course you can't blind black people.

Ever since, the background of this villain, in the script of the movie, was simply treated as an international criminal group, and had nothing to do with politics.

This is safer.

As for the actors of the big boss 'No. 18', Dimension Entertainment had contacted some European and American stars in Hollywood as early as two months ago when it was preparing for the project.

In the original book, this character is a foreigner.

Of course, when it comes to making movies, there is nothing wrong with using Chinese people. However, considering that the film is going to be released globally, and the European and American markets are also very important, it is actually more appropriate to find a Caucasian actor in the choice of this important role.

Not only did he want to find a white actor, Fan Zhe also wanted to invite a more famous movie star.

The staff of 'Dimension America' have met many suitable stars in this month.

The arrogant Hollywood doesn't like a movie from Far East China, and most of the contact work ended in failure.

However, in the end they found a more suitable actor.

Henry Cavill.

He played the role of Superman in several DC movies.

"Superman: Man of Steel", "Batman v Superman", "Justice League"...

Apart from the most famous Superman role, Fan Zhe admired his performance in a movie, "Secret Agent", a very gentlemanly agent image, and he did quite well. By the way, Fan Zhe also likes the movie "Secret Agent", and the movie itself has a good reputation, but I don't know why it is not very popular. By the way, Fan Zhe is also very much looking forward to the Witcher TV series he played in. He is looking forward to seeing the 'White Wolf' Geralt and the sexy Yennefer on the screen.

Closer to home, Henry Cavill is a very standard handsome British guy in terms of appearance, tall and handsome, especially after wearing a suit, he has the temperament of a British gentleman.

In Hollywood, he is not actually a serious first-line movie star. Most of his fame was brought to him by Superman, and besides Superman, although there are some other roles, from the TV series "Tudor Dynasty" to the movie "Secret Agent"... But none of them can make him Really fire.

In fact, the real commercial value of this kind of star who became popular through superhero movies needs to be questioned.

In the current movie market, especially the series of superhero-adapted movies like Good Rascal, the relative value of the star itself is not bad—except for those like Iron Man who have been endowed with a special soul by Robert Downey Jr. For some superheroes, changing actors to play them may have a certain impact, but it will not be too great.

On the contrary, the quality of the movie itself, the name of the superhero, and even the appeal of Marvel or DC... these may be relatively more important.

Imagine if the actors of Superman and Captain America were swapped from the beginning, as if it would be fine.

As for Henry Cavill, apart from Superman, he really doesn't seem to have any particularly good works.

If he goes to play Superman, the salary must be very high. But it's not all about playing other roles.

Of course, no matter what, he is still a Hollywood movie star, and the influence of Dimension Entertainment is nothing to Hollywood—at least for now.

Therefore, if you want to impress him to play the role of the final villain in "Martial Arts Grandmaster: Flames of War", you still need to give certain results in terms of remuneration.

Dimension Entertainment offered him a salary of 10 million US dollars.

There are some rumors on the Internet that he was paid 14 million dollars for Superman, but that is completely nonsense. To shoot Superman, his actual film is probably less than zero less than the 14 million salary. He made "The Witcher" for only $400,000 an episode, and there were only eight episodes in total.

The price given by Dimension Entertainment is quite good.

The fact is exactly the same, this money moved Henry Cavill. His management team took over the job from the Far East.

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The typo in the last chapter has been corrected...

Write BJ as a war-torn area... I don't want to live~