Jerry Yan's pricetag is 5 times that of Wu Zun'sThe TV screen debut of Yan Cheng Xu "Jerry" and Wu Zun in the idol drama "Basketball of Fire" has still not started shooting yet. According to reports, F4 Superman-charms Jerry Yan is prepared to accept the production offer to film at nearly $500,000 per episode, creating the new heavenly price mark while the neo-famous Wu Zun only gets $100,000 per episode as an equal "idol".
After all the fanfare, Jerry Yan would now join Luo Zhi Xiang "Show" and Wu Zun in the idol drama "Basketball of Fire" estimated to begin shooting on November, where 3 of the biggest companies producing the dream cast will all combine in a project. Before, Jerry was reported to have accepted the role but later turned it down but when the production exchanged the roles, he finally accepted the project.
It was earlier reported that when Jerry turned down the role, the producer followed him even in Japan and sincerely offered the project to him again, with the price offer certainly not too bad. Yesterday, it was learned that the 3 big companies will shoulder the talent fees for this drama. As expected, Jerry would now create the biggest talent fee record with close to $500,000 per a 90-minute episode. Show will get $200,000 while among the 3, the newbie yet the most famous Wu Zun surprisingly would get only P100,000 per episode.
Putting aside Show in the list, can Jerry Yan and Wu Zun be now considered as 2 of the biggest stars in the Taiwanese drama circle? For the first time when one hears of the talent fees in "Basketball of Fire," how can it be that "a single Jerry Yan could be paid 5 times that of Wu Zun!"
Yesterday, when Wu Zun fans learned about the talent fees, they actually felt unfair and outraged by the arrangements with Jerry. Wu Zun's agent Chen Hui Ying instead said," Wu Zun's talent fee has not yet been discussed yet. It would depend on how much Bai Da is willing to compromise.", and obiously not willing to touch on the difference of Jerry and Wu Zun's price tag issues.
"Basketball of Fire" producer Ba Dai Productions Vice Chairman for Sales Cai Fei Quiao said, "There is nothing to be compared about in the talent fees. The difference of the 2 stars' talent fees are not really very big. Of course rather than acknowledging the issue, this drama is actually everyone's dream project. Setting aside the talent fees, why would we be willing to produce this drama together if not from these 3 big companies who will shoulder the expenses?
It is reported that 3 people joined forces for this dream cast. Bai Da would smash down $60 million production costs for the 3D animation special effects, to stimulate strong basketball movements. At present, it is planned to have 13 episodes, with Bai Da actively auditioning for actors who will play as basketball players, not ruling out ball players Mao Jia En, He Shou Zheng and many more as guest stars in the basketball matches. However, the most pressing problem until now are the leading ladies, who had still not been finalized yet.
Jerry Yan would definitely join the cast of Ba Dai's drama production "Basketball of Fire" to play basketball with Wu Zun and Show Zhu. There are rumors that his talent fee is about NT$490,000, and for a 20-episode project he would get richer with $9.8 million consuming about 1/6 of Ba Dai's total production costs of $60 million.
It is said that Jerry's $490,000 talent fee per episode is still too high compared to Wu Zun's 120,000 per episode fee and Show's P200,000 per episode price tag. However, Jerry's agent Matt Cheng said, "We still had not talked about the price."
The soonest start of shooting date for Basketball of Fire" would be by the end of November. The 3 male leads form the "dream team" and Jerry was reported not willing to take the funny character role of Ying Mu Hua of "Yuan Great Eagles." Over the last 2 years, the producer had been pursuing Jerry to take the role, and even flew to Japan to talk to him. Later Jerry exchanged his with Wu Zun's role of the cool and handsome Liu Cuan Feng of "East Soars."
Then Wu Zun would now play the role of a talented ball player of "Xi Men Horses". Wu Zun then said, "Jerry and Show are both my basketball friends, also gets along as friends, working with them will surely be very interesting,"
Source: http://asianfanatics.net/forum
heheh, no doubts Jerry is worth tt price =)
