The SuperSonics continued their winning streak, achieving a record of 11 wins and 1 loss on the 20th.
Everyone flew to Los Angeles for a day off and played against the underdog Clippers away from home. This was a game with no suspense, so it was considered a day off.
The Clippers' star player, Steve Francis, has declined to the point where he can't even sell it. The Clippers are just playing around. The team's top scorer is Corey Maggette, who averages 20 points per game.
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Blue-collar center Tyson Chandler has also been traded to the Hornets. This Clippers has neither offense nor defense this season and is hopelessly bad.
This morning, Yang Jian and Jennifer Aniston were teaching their children to speak in the bedroom, and an unexpected guest came to the house.
Spielberg's good friend, the great director George Lucas, visited Yang Jian at his home and said straight to the point that he wanted to collaborate with him in filming a new Star Wars movie.
"I chatted with Drew last time, and I felt like you knew a lot about Star Wars. How about it? Are you interested in starring in one?" Lucas asked.
"Is there a script?" Yang Jian is of course interested. Star Wars is one of the largest movie IPs in the United States.
In a parallel world, Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012 with a transaction price of US$4.05 billion. Afterwards, Disney made a new trilogy of Star Wars, which received a very low reputation. They took out the scripts of the old trilogy and changed them
Change it, find a group of actors with no acting skills to act awkwardly, and then defraud the box office of billions.
This is the charm of "Star Wars" in North America and it is a cultural symbol of the United States.
As long as it's a Star Wars series of movies, there will be a large number of audiences willing to go to the theater. If you don't believe it, just go and watch the new trilogy. The actors act randomly, the action scenes are shot randomly, the plots are messed up, and even the movie titles are randomly chosen.
The subtitle of Star Wars Episode 9 is "The Rise of Skywalker", which tells the story of the Skywalker family being wiped out and the heroine Rey deciding to change her surname to Skywalker.
If Yang Jian stars in a Star Wars movie, the movie's box office will definitely exceed 1 billion US dollars. The global box office of "Fast and Furious 4" was finally set at 856 million US dollars. Yang Jian has not yet made a movie with a box office of more than 1 billion US dollars.
Once he has a movie with a box office of over 1 billion, his status as the number one commercial actor in Hollywood will be stable. If the box office of this movie reaches the level of "Titanic", then he will go to the Walk of Fame to get a star.
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Now that he has the qualifications to stay as a star, it is only a matter of time when he will go.
"There is no script. It would be great if you could write one. By then you will be one of the producers and you will have a lot of say."
Lucas briefly explained that he would give Yang Jian a lot of freedom and a high bonus on the film's salary. The film would be produced by Lucasfilm. He also bluntly stated that he had no inspiration and needed Yang Jian to write a script.
After filming the prequel trilogy, Lucas entered a bottleneck period and did not know how to continue the Star Wars series. The box office of "Revenge of the Sith" in 2005 did not meet expectations, with a global box office of 849 million.
Lucas hopes that the Star Wars series can produce a movie with a high box office, and Yang Jian is the best partner. Because Yang Jian is good at telling stories and has box office appeal.
Yang Jian completely understood Lucas's thoughts. If he had been inspired, he would not have sold the company to Disney.
It wasn't until 2015 that Disney released "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens." Because the new trilogy produced by Disney was garbage, Lucas regretted selling the company to them.
He had previously approached Leonardo DiCaprio to star in the Star Wars prequels just for the sake of higher box office. Unexpectedly, DiCaprio, who loves Star Wars movies, refused.
Leonardo DiCaprio is unwilling to act in science fiction movies because it is impossible for such commercial films to win an Oscar. Moreover, if an actor's box office is too high, it will affect the Oscar statuette. Academic people do not like commercial film actors.
Yang Jian has no such concerns. He prefers commercial films to in-depth drama films. He does not take the title of Oscar winner seriously at all. If movie audiences around the world know him and like his movies, right?
Is the actor important?
People who have won Oscar acting awards usually play biographical films. Or they play characters who are mentally ill or gay and need to act ugly, self-abuse, etc... Yang Jian is not willing to abuse himself like this. He has always been a person who enjoys life.
He can increase his chances of winning the prize by changing his weight, because he has the superpower to change his body shape. What is difficult for others to do is a piece of cake for him.
Lucas smiled and asked: "How is it? Can you find time to write a good script?"
"No problem, I'm starting to think about it now. If we start preparations this year, we won't be able to start filming until 2009, right? I have to participate in the Beijing Olympics in 2008, which is very important to me." Yang Jian readily agreed and asked.
filming time.
Lucas asked back: "Is it possible to start filming in 2008? You can leave the crew to participate in the Olympics during the period and film other people's scenes. When you come back, you can continue."
Yang Jian did this when filming "Mr. and Mrs. Smith". Lucas was afraid that something would happen if it took too long, so it was rare that Yang Jian agreed so happily.
Yang Jian pondered for a moment and then nodded. "This is not bad. It will be released in 2009 and compare with Cameron's "Avatar"."
He thought of many things at that moment, and felt that if this movie were released in 2009, the box office would reach more than 1.5 billion US dollars.
Because James Cameron will continue to promote imax-3d in the past two years, and then release "Avatar" at the end of 2009. If the Star Wars movie is released in the summer before "Avatar", relying on IP may be better than "Avatar"
"Avatar" is even more popular, riding on the popularity of 3D.
"Avatar" became a hit in China because Chinese people gathered to watch the special effects. If Yang Jian stars in a Star Wars movie, Chinese movie fans will definitely be interested, and they can go to the theater to watch Yang Jian and the special effects.
Lucas was stunned. This was a big-budget movie with an initial investment of 200 million, and it didn't even have a script. Yang Jian chatted with him for a while, and was obviously more confident than him in making a classic film.
Drew Barrymore, who was chatting with him, noticed Lucas' doubts and smiled: "His mind works faster than normal people, so he makes decisions quickly."
Lucas asked: "How fast can it be? Do you have a script idea now?"
Barrymore shook his head and said proudly: "No, I think he has now started to think about who to play the heroine. Because he kept smiling and was stunned twice. He probably thought of an interesting plot."
"..." Lucas thinks this is too nonsense. Is it human beings who can think so fast?
He thought that Yang Jian's achievements in the NBA and entertainment industry were indeed unlike those of a normal person. He could make many girlfriends become friends and live together in Los Angeles. This was not something ordinary people could do.
Yang Jian smiled and said: "I do have an idea. The story takes place after Order 66. The surviving Jedi apprentice Kyle lived an ordinary life incognito in order to avoid being hunted. But an accident caused him to use the Force and...
He is being pursued by the Galactic Empire. He must constantly evade and cooperate with the heroine and the second male lead to deal with the ensuing crises."
"So soon? The story follows the prequel?"
"Yes, the final villain is Darth Vader, and Kyle will have a classic one-on-one showdown with him. Kyle will be an alternative hero who impresses the audience... Can you accept that this is a comedy?
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Lucas Khan said: "Have you even thought about the protagonist's character?"
"I want to play a strong but extremely cautious person who likes to pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger. He will do whatever it takes to fight. He will set traps and use props. He is good at fighting and retreating. He is a Jedi without a samurai spirit." Yang Jian
smiled.
"Okay, I can accept it... When will you be able to write the script?"
"The first draft can be finished in a month. I have to spend time conceiving the details and lines." Yang Jian said easily: "I will send it to you as soon as I finish it."
In fact, after Yang Jian and Jennifer went to the Star Wars world for a month, she thought about what kind of story she would make if she made a Star Wars movie.
He had already planned it, but he didn't expect Lucas to come to him.
Now, he has even thought of a title for the movie - "A Star Wars Story: Fallen Order."