Over the next few days, a journalist uploaded the speech from the film’s inauguration onto the internet.
The internet once again exploded thoroughly!
"Damn, Wang Hao’s words are so assertive! Awesome!"
"Just for that spirit, maybe this movie is worth looking forward to!"
"Come on, let’s see how he slaps his own face! I just don’t believe that a director who’s just taken up the mantle can make anything good!"
"Exactly, the tone is pretty arrogant... But then again, it might still be worth watching the movie when the time comes, at least the few things he said were right—he indeed never let people down!"
"Hey, when the time comes, let’s go watch. After all, he did say our Heavenly People’s Republic’s movies are on the rise, it would be a pity not to support it!"
"Right, right, right, it would be worth checking out!"
Such conversations blanket the internet, and everyone is discussing it.
It must be said, Wang Hao’s words were indeed very provocative, and many who were clueless about the truth began to choose to support Wang Hao.
After all, this is the first time Heavenly People’s Republic is challenging Hollywood, and it would be indecent to side too much with the opponent, wouldn’t it?
Meanwhile, inside Tianyi Film Company.
"Damn it, useless, all useless!" Hong Tianyi slammed the desk furiously, yelling, "Look at them! We’ve gone to such lengths for promotion, and now their speech at the start of filming has almost leveled our advantage! Look at the mess you made at the launch ceremony, just inviting a few journalists to take photos, drinking champagne! What’s the bloody use! Bunch of incompetents!"
Sitting below, assistant director Li Bomming, screenwriter Meng Zenan, and the others couldn’t lift their heads as they got scolded by Hong Tianyi. When his anger subsided a bit, Li Bomming hurriedly explained.
"Second Young Master, we really couldn’t do much," Li Bomming said, "Our cast is already strong enough, and if we made such a speech at the start of filming, it might have the opposite effect of elevating the opponent’s value and diminishing our strength. So it was unavoidable, please don’t take it to heart."
"Hmm, you make some sense," Hong Tianyi grunted, to tell the truth, he was just venting his frustration, and he understood the meaning behind Li Bomming’s words.
Their Three Lives of Love production team indeed wasn’t suited to make such an arousing speech during the launch. After all, in their eyes, the opponents weren’t even worthy of holding their shoes. Wouldn’t they be raising the opponent’s worth by being too impassioned?
"So what do you suggest we do?" Hong Tianyi knew in his heart, but was still very annoyed. Wang Hao seemed to have spent not a penny, yet with just a few words he boosted morale. He just couldn’t swallow this.
"Well, actually it’s quite simple," Li Bomming’s eyes twinkled and he smiled, "Didn’t he say they would give it their all? Let’s just give them a taste of their own medicine!"
A taste of their own medicine?
Hearing this, Hong Tianyi’s eyes lit up immediately, and he asked urgently, "What exactly do you mean by giving them a taste of their own medicine?"
"Second Young Master," Li Bomming leaned close to Hong Tianyi’s ear, whispering, "We could do this... do this... do this..."
The more Hong Tianyi heard, the brighter his eyes shone, "Hahaha! That’s great! Let’s go with this plan!"
Yang Haiyang (V) posted a Weibo—
"Filming today was really giving it everything, even cut my hand..." and then there were several pictures attached, one with his hand wrapped in a bandage, blood seeping through the bandage, and another with him receiving an IV drip...
This post immediately went viral among the netizens! Within just an hour, it was shared a hundred thousand times, with eighty thousand comments, and half a million likes!
"Poor Yang, he’s really going all out for acting!"
"Exactly, let the other production team see, this is what you call truly giving it everything!"
"Right, what’s the use of just talking? Look at Yang, this is genuine professionalism! His hand is injured like that!"
"Where are the Yang fans at? Show up fast and support Yang! Other things aside, we still have to secure the box office!"
After Yang Haiyang’s Weibo post, Liu Feifei, the female lead, followed suit by supporting him!
Liu Feifei (V): "Brother Yang truly goes all out when filming, I told him to use a stunt double but he insisted on doing it himself, this level of dedication is incomparable. I’ve even started to push myself to the limit, today I even sprained my foot!" And like Yang Haiyang, she too posted photos of her purple foot.
This stirred up the netizens even more! It was shared a hundred and twenty thousand times, with a hundred thousand comments, and six hundred thousand likes!
"Poor Feifei, she’s so dedicated!"
"Feifei is the most beautiful, you’ll always be our fairy sister!"
"Please take care of yourself, don’t let there be any lasting damage!"
At first, it was just comments under this Weibo post, but soon, the fans of Yang Haiyang and Liu Feifei started a widespread attack!
They were all over the place, proclaiming the dedication of their beloved idols in filming, and quickly the battle spread to the official Weibo of War Wolf!
"You should feel honored! For the sake of your bet, Yang gave it his all to the point of injuring his hand!"
"Indeed, your lot just talk, but when it comes to giving everything, it’s my Yang who truly dedicates himself to filming!"
"If it weren’t for the wager with you guys, how could Feifei possibly have sprained her ankle? Doesn’t your conscience hurt?!"
Such comments were absolutely everywhere!
The official War Wolf Weibo page was completely overrun!
And just when netizens were blaming everything on the War Wolf crew, the very same crew was shooting their first major scene!
The scene fighting pirates at sea.
For a crew with a total budget of 340 million, and main actors whose total compensation didn’t even reach 5 million, they were once again practicing their ’economize where you can’ principle in such a grand scene!
Wang Hao had simply turned to Jiang Huanyu to borrow their company’s ocean-going oil tanker!
Back in his past life, when Wu Jing was directing War Wolf 2, he had spent no small amount of money finding locations, but now with Wang Hao’s current clout, the same type of cruise ship stuffed with stuff, this guy actually didn’t spend any money!
Not a penny! Just a phone call to Jiang Huanyu, and then Jiang contacted the ship’s captain, who stopped in the open sea for two days, specifically for Wang Hao to film this scene...
"Brother Hao is really unmatched..." Zhao Zhenhao covered his face, "Such a badass scene, and this guy just settles it with a casual phone call..."
"Yeah," Fang Wenbin was also quite troubled, "I think we may have been a little too confident. With Brother Hao’s current status, has this film even used 50 million?"
"I doubt it..." Ren Xing decisively shook his head, "According to the script, aren’t all the costly scenes yet to come?"
The guys were discussing this on the cruise ship while Wang Hao was arranging the specifics of the set.
This was a location that had been set long ago, and Wang Hao had Bill Bragg send over more than twenty African workers from his diamond mine, being quite generous with them, paying each person 50 US dollars per day. Everything else like speedboats, lifeboats, diving gear, and waterproof camera equipment was ready to go.
After all, as the director of the crew, Wang Hao was in charge of the whole shooting process, buzzing around like he was on fire, arranging everything big and small.
"Hey you, you, make sure to fall down when the gunfire starts over there!"
"When you’re playing pirates, make sure to act fierce, don’t hold back; you hear me?!"
"When boarding, remember to be professional, don’t take forever to climb aboard."
"After I dive in, make sure you guys hold your breath, don’t start yelling for help when I’m in the middle of fighting!"
While Wang Hao was organizing, Zhao Zhenhao and the others watched with great interest.
After all, according to the script, this was the movie’s opening scene and extremely important. It was through this scene that Leng Feng’s overall strength in the movie would be demonstrated.
And the most difficult part of this scene was the long shot that started with a dive.
"Old Zhao," Fang Wenbin looked at the nearly ready set and asked Zhao Zhenhao, "Do you think Brother Hao can handle it? This is the ocean; nothing should go wrong here."
"It should be fine," Zhao Zhenhao pondered, "Aren’t there lots of rescue personnel? There will also be divers waiting underneath the water. As soon as something seems off, they’ll start to rescue. There shouldn’t be a problem."
While they were discussing it, a blond and bearded foreigner shouted out!
"Hahaha, dear Wang, are you sure you want to stay underwater for more than two minutes? Don’t accidentally drown; I’d be quite upset!"
Hearing this voice, Zhao Zhenhao and Fang Wenbin immediately turned to look.
The man speaking was Wales, a Hollywood martial artist who had come over and was known for filming these high-difficulty scenes. In the industry, he was quite famous.
The reason for hiring him was that although it could be said that Wang Hao was challenging Hollywood alone, the film did have foreigners in it, so while challenging was one thing, hiring was still necessary.
It was just unavoidable that this Hollywood actor who had been invited would look down on Wang Hao.
"Hahaha, who said I was going to stay underwater for two minutes?" Wang Hao, already changed, laughed and said, "You must have heard wrong just now. I said five minutes."
Everyone on set froze when they heard this time!
Stay underwater for five minutes? With a fight included?!
Do you think you’re an octopus? Normal people would already be exploding if they could hold their breath underwater for more than a minute!
"My dear Wang, I think you’re being a bit too arrogant," Wales gave Wang Hao a thumbs up, then pointed it downwards, "How about we have a real go in the water when we fight later?!"
Wang Hao looked at him and smiled, "Sure, then I won’t hold back later, haha!"
Wales gestured a punch in Wang Hao’s direction, "It’s a deal then!"
Last day, folks! Use it or lose it with the monthly tickets!