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However, Takeshi Iwata laughed, as he said so.

"Who said we must go to Japan? Our movie is shot here, right in Hollywood."

After finishing speaking, he ignored the group of men and women who were already in a state of confusion.

Iwata Takeshi seemed to move his fingers around casually, leading everyone's attention.

"A 'Tokyo City' will be built here!"

Good guy, so courageous!

Everyone was stunned, and they were all thinking about how much it would cost.

However, it can be regarded as completely solving everyone's doubts.

It turns out that this is the studio, no wonder I came here.

But in fact, Takeshi Iwata knew it very well.

The original "Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift" was actually filmed in Los Angeles...

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Chapter 323 The Hongmen Brothers?Let's go ashes

Why build a city?

Simple, this time on a budget.

After fully seeing how the capitalist base camp makes movies, Takeshi Iwata made his decision.

Save your fucking money!

Don't forget, the current "Fast and Furious" series has established a separate company or a joint venture.

Takeshi Iwata's current status in the company is roughly equal to being a technical shareholder. Although he occupies the majority, the distribution of money is not necessarily the case.

Because the funds for filming were collected by Universal.

To put it simply, you, Takeshi Iwata, do have the right to say in the film, but in terms of the distribution of money, you have to calculate according to the proportion of the investment. Of course, you will definitely have considerable preferential treatment.

This is probably the more popular partnership system in the United States, but not exactly.

In business, the contracts that are often drawn up are simply unimaginable.

It's like the gambling contract that is very popular in business.

VAM is actually not new at all, and it has been around for a long time.

As Takeshi Iwata knew, there were many VAM contracts in our domestic entertainment industry, which seemed unbelievable.

For example, some netizens will find that the box office of a certain blockbuster movie does not meet the certain standard in the betting contract, but the producer or the big director and big cast can make more money.

That's weird, isn't it?

Actually, it's not surprising at all.

This type of contract seems to mean that the employer has suffered a lot of losses, and the employer is not suitable.

But, just think about it from another angle, that is, is there such a possibility?

If the employer didn't transfer the benefits in this way, and didn't take greater risks, then those big directors and casts wouldn't sign the contract with the employer?

That is to say, big names and figures with extremely high box office appeal will cooperate with other employers, right?

To put it bluntly, capital is also involved in many cases, and it also needs to compete. There are many capitals in the market, not just one company.

But now, Takeshi Iwata obviously doesn't have the strength to make the capital side roll up.

At least that's how it is in Hollywood. If it's in Japan, then of course he has no problem. How many people are waiting to get money to make movies for him.

It's just that the Japanese market is a bit small. Moreover, Takeshi Iwata has his own company, so why waste his money on outsiders.

It's different in America.

When I met Zellman before, this guy not only talked about the VCD issue with Takeshi Iwata, but also naturally talked about the sequel of "Fast and Furious".

This time the budget is $5000 million!

It's 1992, and $5000 million is real $5000 million.

Well, that means it's much bigger than the original $7600 million budget for the second part.

That was more than ten years later. Although the U.S. dollar was strong at that time, it was really incomparable with the present.

Ever since, with such a large budget, so much money was given to Takeshi Iwata to burn.

Then why don't I burn it properly?

Of course, his burning was not indiscriminate.

Our man is Takeshi Iwata, a famous director and an internationally renowned director.

We will definitely burn it reasonably, powerfully and interestingly.

Ever since, he already knew that the second "Fast and Furious" was a bit of a mess, so he might as well come up with a big one.

It is worth noting that Takeshi Iwata is actually very clear that "Tokyo Drift", a rumored movie, actually has a very low box office.

The movie itself wasn't a success, however, there are some really good things about this movie.

Right, it is easier to burn money.

I built a Tokyo city in a ruined place in Los Angeles, isn't that enough to burn?

In addition, there are some aspects of the movie "Tokyo Drift" that are desirable.

Like the name of this movie, 'Drift'.

People who have seen this movie will be very impressed with the drag racing scenes in this movie.

The first two parts of the original "Fast and Furious" both highlighted a key 'speed'.

It is the speed of the United States, or to put it in a bad way.

Silly quick.

At the end of the first part, the drag racing between Boss Tang and the hero Brian is a straight line acceleration, which is faster than whose car.

Yes, this is indeed the American style, and many cars in the United States are like this.

The reason is that it adapts to local conditions.

The roads in the United States are very distinctive, and many of them are straight roads.

For example, there is a section of the famous Route 66 that extends continuously, as if leading to the end of the sky.

If it is photographed, it is indeed very beautiful, especially appreciated by young artists.

And of course, this kind of road will accelerate hurricanely and continuously in a straight line. It depends on who is more fierce and able to rush.

However, we all know that the fun of racing is definitely not just straight-line acceleration.

The first two films in this series basically played this kind of linear acceleration to the extreme, and under the circumstances at the time, that was it.

So, what to do next?

The highlight of the third part is drifting. What impresses many people is that the Japanese and the protagonist are racing in the parking lot. At the spiral bend in the parking lot, the Japanese car is always drifting. win.

That drag racing joke is very visually impactful.

Of course, to shoot such a drag racing scene, Takeshi Iwata had to find a very good drifter.

In this regard, I have to find it from Japan.

After all, the comic "Initial D" actually has many parts that are very realistic.

There are indeed five consecutive hairpin bends on Qiuming Mountain, but probably no one has tried the bends of the drainage ditch, or the ones who have tried it are already in the underworld.

But, in any case, drifting is entertaining, and it has a great sense of freshness compared to the straight-line acceleration in the United States.

Takeshi Iwata intends to add a lot of drift in this movie, to be precise, in the drag racing scenes!

So, what did Takeshi Iwata intend to do?

Is he going to mix the second part of "Fast and Furious" with "Tokyo Drift"?

Of course, moreover, he will add something.

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"Everyone work hard!"

"Can these tasks be completed on time? Is the time set above a bit too much?"

"It doesn't matter so much! You have to pay if you can't finish it!"

"That's true!"

About the construction site, the bald Vin Diesel has a deep understanding.

But at the beginning, the construction site he was in was mainly made of wood.

Many houses built in the United States are mostly made of wood.

It's a little strange, isn't it also a brick-concrete structure before?

But Wen Diesel is not a professional, he is more than enough to be a calf on the construction site, but if he talks about some architectural skills, this guy has no idea.

Right now, before we start filming on this movie, the engineering side has to be done.

Ever since, this big bald head had the idea of ​​returning to his old job.

Anyway, idle is also idle, come to the construction site to have a look, or lend a hand, isn't that also very good.

Interestingly, Vin Diesel quickly discovered some of the peculiarities of their studio.

So many workers, why do they all have oriental faces?

Simply put, basically all Asians!

Vin Diesel actually knows about it. It seems that Asia is still very good at architecture. There have been many well-known designers. Moreover, building things is also very fast.

By the way, I heard that there is a city in southern China where a skyscraper was built in a few days.

Well, Wen Diesel is just a rumor.

The original news was that Pengcheng had one floor every three days.

But no matter what, in short, Asians are so damn good in architecture.

But this is America, right?

Why are there so many Asians working?

Vin Diesel seems to have discovered some secret, but unfortunately, even if he discovered it, it would be useless.

Of course, the bald man didn't know that many of these people were actually from Chinatown.

To be precise, it is Liu Zechang's people.

Ah this...

That is to say, the Japanese Yakuza was sent to the construction site to fight ashes. Did Takeshi Iwata get the Chinese gangsters in the United States to work on the construction site again?

The rain and dew are all stained.

In fact, this is just a normal business operation. It just so happens that Liu Zechang has people on his side. Moreover, during the Los Angeles riots, some people had a difficult life.

Didn't people like Wang Laosan come to join Takeshi Iwata?

Let's all fight ashes, everyone has a bright future.

Of course, it’s also because we Asians, mainly Chinese this time, are indeed more efficient in construction than other races in the United States.

Can you imagine?

Find a group of old blacks, and then watch them work while doing live rap?

In fact, in the United States, many people are particularly good at foreign labor.

The origin of the term "moyanggong" is learned from foreigners.

Takeshi Iwata set the construction time at two months this time. Of course, we just build a place where we can shoot, and we don't really want to build a city.

Shooting can start in about a month, and some scenes only need some decorations.