1novels Chapter 069 A Deeply Affectionate Death Stare? Are You Crazy?
Chapter 069 A Deeply Affectionate Death Stare? Are You Crazy?
Su Nan and Rosamund Kwan were still chatting while watching the film crew shoot.
About ten minutes later, Li Jiaxin finished her performance. As Ah Xin walked over, she was about to say something.
A commotion erupted outside the sealed-off film set.
The current filming location is in a suburban mountain forest area, with little trace of modern architecture.
Looking around from the south, one can see a number of vehicles arriving one after another on the road at the edge of the woods.
Those figures getting out of cars and motorcycles looked like gangsters, picking fights with the crew members on the perimeter of the film set.
Su Nan was taken aback. "Did they not pay protection money?"
Sister Guan shrugged. "It's probably the gang members trying to intimidate Li Lianjie. He didn't sign a long-term contract."
"Now, how many groups are vying for it? Brother Nan, after you finish filming your incredibly talented scripts, they'll be box office hits, generating huge export fees and making you a fortune in US dollars."
"After (Huang Feihong 1), Ah Jie's personal appeal exploded and he was able to earn US dollars."
"The crew has had a few similar incidents before, but I never mentioned them unless something really went wrong."
The filming time for (The Swordsman: Invincible East) was not long.
It won't be difficult for Xu Ke to secure this solo film contract; once this one is finished, she won't be able to get another one.
After all, (Swordsman II) grossed over HK$3400 million in Hong Kong and HK$5000 million in Taiwan.
Selling ports to South Korea and island nations also yields millions of dollars per location.
But what about (The Legend of the Condor Heroes)? The male lead was changed to Yu Rongguang.
Brigitte Lin was still present as the leading lady, and the Hong Kong Island ticket only sold for HK$1120 million.
That means Rosamund Kwan always had at least three Skyworth bodyguards when she went out to the film set, one of whom would carry a gun. Li Jiaxin was similar.
Only then can they remain relatively calm and watch the drama unfold.
Those are all top-tier fighters like Ah Shun, who can take on ten opponents with a single tactical dagger and still manage to inflict twenty or thirty cuts on others while still sustaining only minor injuries.
The female bodyguard has a tactical knife, which is extremely lethal.
Li Jiaxin exclaimed, "Yes, David Luo of Jiahe hired a bunch of newcomers."
"Brother Yang from Wanwan, and Lao Cai from Fuyi, are all vying for Brother Jie."
"Luckily, Sister Zhi and I are just pretty faces and don't have much influence, otherwise we would be in even worse situations. We are also very grateful that Brother Nan is willing to protect us."
Su Nan shook her head, both amused and exasperated. "These trivial matters are quite annoying."
He recalled that without him, the butterfly effect trajectory led to a complete breakdown in negotiations between A-Jie and Jia-He.
Old Cai was killed, and Li Lianjie fled back to the mainland to avoid trouble for several months.
He had just received an offer from Wing Shing and Lao Yang's support to return to Hong Kong and develop his business in Hong Kong.
The intensity of friction and conflict among the parties decreased in the first six months, but the duration also increased.
After complaining, Su Nan ignored it and watched the commotion for a while until the group of thugs started beating people and smashing the film crew's props and surrounding set.
Su Nan silently gestured for his bodyguards to escort him, Rosamund Kwan, and Li Jiaxin to step back.
Sister Guan was also slightly bewildered, "The previous few times were just minor skirmishes."
"Has this escalated to violence and vandalism? Director Xu's protection money has been wasted."
Fortunately, Su Nan came to visit her on set today, otherwise she wouldn't feel so confident.
The three of them, along with seven bodyguards, retreated to a corner of the woods.
The gangsters all went to the (Invincible East) film crew, and production in the filming area had to be suspended.
Su Nan coughed and gave Haozi, the bodyguard who drove him there, a wink. Haozi quickly walked away to make a phone call.
On the other side, Cheng Xiaodong and his assistant director and action choreographer team tried to intercept the group that was vandalizing the property and renegotiate with them.
Martial arts film crews have many action directors, stuntmen, and production crews.
Just like the group of junior disciples of Linghu Chong, played by Jet Li, they were all stuntmen.
The group of thugs who came this time wasn't too many, just over 20 people, mainly armed with knives and clubs and looking quite menacing.
The action choreographers and stuntmen are just doing odd jobs to earn a living.
That's why the scene showed a situation where the opponent was being strongly suppressed by more than 20 thugs and gradually retreating.
The group of thugs' main purpose was to intimidate Li Lianjie. After venting their anger by smashing and looting, they started talking to Cheng Xiaodong.
Ah Jie was also dragged to the center of both sides' formations by several thugs.
Many people in the crew, such as the actors, were somewhat indignant but didn't say much.
Everyone has heard about Jet Li's contract disputes.
But that was a contract that Ah-Jie was scrambling to take, back when a film could earn him millions of Hong Kong dollars in fees, and it didn't really concern ordinary industry professionals.
After the two major hits of "Wong Fei-hung," Ah-Jie's salary increased several times over.
The people who came this time were still from Fu Yi.
The negotiations lasted for more than half an hour, gradually easing the tension from the initial standoff. The ringleaders, however, remained quite arrogant.
Finally, Cheng Xiaodong, representing the crew, presented red envelopes, and the farce gradually ended with a phone call from a mobile phone to invite others to speak remotely.
More than 20 thugs also withdrew under the leadership of the three hooligans.
As they walked, the leader of the thugs glanced over Su Nan, Guan Zhilin, and Li Jiaxin, stopped, rolled his eyes a few times, and whispered something to his two accomplices.
These 20-plus people turned and headed towards the edge of the mountain forest, heading straight for southern Jiangsu.
The two women, Rosamund Kwan and Su Nan, were startled and quickly grabbed Su Nan's arms.
Six bodyguards quickly stepped forward and began to draw their tactical knives.
The three leading thugs paused for a moment, then a long-haired guy from seven or eight steps away laughed, "Brother Nan from Shixiawei?"
"Our boss said that you have to be sensible when you meet Brother Nan."
"I used the red envelopes the crew gave me to treat Brother Nan's underlings to tea."
After saying that, the scoundrel took out the red envelope that Cheng Xiaodong had given him and held it up to show it off, mainly because he didn't want the Skyworth bodyguards to misunderstand.
He then walked over alone, his expression a mix of humility and arrogance, quite complex.
Su Nan patted Guan Dajie's arm, which was holding him, and stepped forward to take the red envelope and give it to a female bodyguard, saying, "I'll distribute it to the stage manager who got beaten up later."
He then looked at the long-haired boy, "What's your name?"
The long-haired guy chuckled and said, "Brother Nan can call me Bone-Scraping Xiong or Ah Xiong, it's fine."
"This is my second time on this set. I was lucky enough to meet Brother Nan, and it was alright."
Knowing about Ishigaki Nan-ge's fearsome reputation, I felt a bit...? That's it?
Brother Nan's fearsome reputation is divided into several layers, with the more powerful figures involved knowing more about him.
Since July of last year, the twenty or thirty members of the Xinji gang have all been killed in gunfights. The ordinary thugs and gang leaders really don't know anything about it.
No matter how much the various forces tried to scare Li Lianjie, the leaders all instructed him not to frighten the Skyworth employees.
You have to be nice to people from Skyworth.
Ah Xiong was following his boss's orders to be polite, after all, Lao Cai was a big drug lord and he dared not disobey.
But after getting to know him in real life, I felt that Nan-ge Shixiawei was a bit overrated, a pretty boy?
Su Nan chatted with him for a few more minutes, and Ah Xiong glanced at Su Nan and his group of bodyguards before leaving.
More than 20 thugs arrived one after another on the road outside the film set, along with cars and motorcycles.
One of the thugs who was with Ah Xiong suddenly said, "There's a foreigner over there with Brother Xiong, and that bastard is watching us."
Ah Xiong looked over and saw an old Russian standing next to a motorcycle a few dozen meters away by the roadside.
The other person was over 1.8 meters tall, dressed plainly, with sloppy hair, carrying a long, narrow backpack on one shoulder, and sipping a small bottle of baijiu in his hand.
They kept their eyes on the 20-odd rich kids.
Ah Xiong was stunned. "Take a few of your underlings and go ask them. What the hell are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen such a handsome boss before?"
Several rich and handsome young men swaggered over.
The Russian suddenly opened his long, narrow backpack and pulled out an AK74.
Fu Yi boys, "..."
Ah Xiong was completely bewildered.
When the old man's mobile phone on his motorcycle rang, he answered it, chatted for a few minutes, got on his motorcycle, and sped away.
Before leaving, he gazed at Fu Yizai, number 20 or so, with deep affection and regret on his face.
"Deboned Male," "???"
You're insane!
Ah Xiong felt increasingly frightened as he lit cigarettes to calm his nerves, somewhat resembling the scene in "Kung Fu Hustle" where Ning Li's character, the advisor, lights a cigarette for Brother Chen.