Manhattan Beach author Chris Fenton addresses ‘Feeding the Dragon: The Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA and American Business’
MB resident Chris Fenton confronts the ‘Dragon’ of censorship. Photo by JP Cordero Diamonds. Motorcycles. Hang gliders. The scene would have it all, Manhattan Beach resident Chris Fenton promised in his pitch to Chinese officials. Fenton was working on the 2015 remake of the 1991 surfer heist flick “Point Break.” He and his team envisioned a “cold open” for the film — the remake maintains the adrenaline-junkie thieves conceit of the original but expands it to more exotic locales — set in a diamond operation on the “150th floor” of a skyscraper of in the Pudong district of Shanghai. “An elevator opens, and our ‘Robin Hood’ characters come out on motorcycles, and they drive through breaking glass and grabbing all the diamonds, and everybody’s yelling and screaming and calling the guards and everything. Everybody’s like, ‘Where are they going?’ and they just shoot straight out the window. And of course when they get out there they flash out these hang gliding things. They’re hang gliding out of the building, they escape, and because they’re Robin Hood characters they take all the diamonds and just dump them into the streets below,” Fenton said, summing up the pitch in an interview…
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