I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 775: All or Nothing

"I've already bought the adaptation rights... and found someone to write the script. Let's do it together!"

Wu Jing interrupted: "Aren't you working on "Shushan"? "

"…If nothing unexpected happens, the Shushan trilogy should be successful…" Shen Liang continued, "I also have to consider the next work…"

"When will you shoot the scene with Jackie Chan?"

"Next summer...it's already been agreed!"

"The director is Zhang Yimou?"

"Yes," Shen Liang nodded: "If nothing goes wrong, it will be online in the summer of next year!"

Guo Fan said: "I feel like you don't seem to be very interested in the Spring Festival period?"

Shen Liang: "…The cinema chains have too much say in the Spring Festival period. I am not used to being controlled by others!"

Lu Yang nodded: "That's right... Initially, "Assassination of Novelist" wanted to be released during the Spring Festival... but the scheduling fee, including publicity costs, was as high as 200 million... I simply chose the summer season!"

"The cinema chains think that the public will choose to watch movies during the Spring Festival, so they have the final say... They can schedule the films however they want... Many top films cater to their ideas and spend money to ensure that they are scheduled during the first three days of the prime time..."

"Let's not talk about this..." Guo Fan waved his hand: "What do you think?"

"What are you thinking about?"

“Photography plan…”

Shen Liang: "Two-year cycle, one big production every two years, two or three low-budget movies every year..."

"Are "Shushan" and "Primal War" considered big productions?"

"Yes!" Shen Liang nodded. "The topic selection for a big production is very important. You have to interest the audience. The theme of Primal is "fire" and "blood". They represent the most basic emotions in the human heart - fear, passion and life itself... In the harsh environment, our ancestors of primitive people were tenacious and unyielding, and passed on the torch! This is the touching part. The protagonist searches for his fellow countrymen along the way, which is similar to the current culture of searching for relatives and ancestors. Anyway, it is much more interesting than "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"!"

Lu Yang nodded and said, "People today cannot see the moon of the past, but this moon once shone on the ancients."

"Yes, that's what I mean!"

"Okay, I'll go back and read the original novel..."

Wu Jing interrupted: "Leave your schedule after September next year to me!"

"What's going on? Is 'Tai Chi Master' going to be filmed?"

"Well... we can't delay this any longer!"

Lu Yang immediately asked: "Who did you find for the action director?"

"Yuen Woo-ping!"

“…Add Mulberry Forest…”

"Action director of "Blade of the Assassin"?"

"right…"

"Okay, we have enough budget anyway!"

Guo Fan said cheerfully: "You collaborated with Shen Liang and directed the movie Tai Chi Master, which has definitely grossed over 30 billion yuan!"

Wu Jing sighed: "I'm afraid of this kind of thought..."

Shen Liang also said: "The expectations are too high. If they are not met, we will definitely be met with complaints and criticisms, so we have not dared to start filming..."

Wu Jing nodded: "As soon as this project was filed, it attracted the attention of a lot of action and martial arts movie fans..."

“So, it has to be a classic…it’s not easy to create a classic!”

"It was just roasted on the fire..." Wu Jing smiled bitterly: "But we had to shoot it anyway... We made many assumptions... and finally decided to return to tradition and shoot an authentic kung fu film!"

...Shen Liang still likes chatting with Guo Fan and his group...

They are very professional, and Shen Liang can gain something from every nonsense talk...

Living with good people is like entering a room full of orchids, which will naturally make you fragrant after a long time.

Living with bad people is like entering a store selling abalone; you will stink after a while.

Mozi was sad about dyeing silk. This is what it means. A gentleman must be careful about who he makes friends with!
Well, actually, the Bad Monkey team is also kind people...

Bad Monkey Pictures is a new star in the mainstream domestic film industry and has produced many films that have achieved both good reputation and box office success.

In fact, the mainstream film circle is very tight-knit, and the people employed are basically professionals with a background in film. Bad Monkey's long-term male protagonists include Huang Bo, Xu Zheng, etc.

Ning Hao is famous for only hiring people he knows.

Back then, Zhou Dongyu was able to successfully get the role in "Lost in Thailand" because her agent was familiar with Ning Hao's wife.

Shen Liang… Actually his debut work is “Time Travel”, and he is quite familiar with Xu Zheng…

In a sense, he and Bad Monkey should be very close...

That's ok...

"Miracle · Stupid Kid", directed by Wen Muye, although there were some unpleasantness during the cooperation, the result was not bad - "Miracle · Stupid Kid" finally made a profit of more than 200 million, which is the only profitable work of Bad Monkey after "Dying to Survive" and "Alien"!
Bad Monkey has released many works in recent years, including "Sweet Life", "Tropical Memories", "Clouds and Water"...

The box office wasn’t that good, and the word of mouth was just so-so!

Ning Hao personally came out to officially announce two movies, "Mr. Red Carpet" and "Bridget Jones in Progress". As we all know, "Mr. Red Carpet" lost a lot of money. "Bridget Jones in Progress" was renamed "The Best Man" and is tentatively scheduled for the 24th National Day. I don't know if it will be released later...

The Olympic bid film "All or Nothing" was originally called "Fishing Operation" and Zhang Yixing was confirmed to be the lead actor.

Then Shen Liang joined, and felt that his temperament was not right!

Zhang Yixing gives people the impression of being a little sheep who is bullied...

In the original "All or Nothing", he did not show the state of a programmer struggling in an ultra-high-pressure environment and never giving up hope...

The fact that this movie sold over 3 billion has nothing to do with Zhang Yixing. If this role was replaced by Huang Zitao or Lu Han, it would not affect the box office results!
So, since Shen Liang has put forward his suggestion, let’s change it!

Peng Yuchang was found...

As for the heroine, Shen Liang only found out when he arrived at the crew...the heroine was actually Naza!
Oh, after Shen Liang arrived in Hainan, Director Shen Ao came to pick him up...

By the way, I whispered to Shen Liang: "Actually, I want to find Lin Chiling the most!"

Shen Liang was speechless: "Forget it, she's almost 50, stop torturing her!"

“…How could that be…”

"She was born in 1974. Don't you think she's almost 50?"

"Even if she's 60, she's still Sister Zhiling!"

Shen Ao is a director with a low standard and good at adapting. When he was a junior, he tried to get sponsorship from the Youth Film Studio to shoot his graduation film. At that time, most movies were shot with film, and the equipment was expensive. There were 19 students in that class, but only 4 spots were available. With the money, he could shoot a decent short film as a stepping stone to becoming a director in the future, and it would be even better if he could win an award at a film festival.

He thought of an idea. He consciously put together elements that foreigners might be interested in - class, ethnicity, church, and Cui Jian's songs, and wrote a story about a Korean man and two Beijing youths - "Helongchuangang"!
Shen Ao is of Korean ethnicity, and the filming took place in his hometown village in Yanbian. This approach helped him get sponsorship and won the favor of the film festival.

Shen Liang was speechless: "What is there to be ashamed of? The sixth generation of directors have always created like this... There is no reason why they can make films but you can't! This was the path back then. You had to become famous overseas first, and then you could make films in China!"

"But I don't like film festivals. I won the silver and gold awards that year for my film about a chicken farm in Brazil, but I didn't understand it at all!"

Shen Liang scratched his head: "Maybe he wants to reflect human nature through raising chickens?"

Shen Ao thought about it, then shook his head: "I don't know... I don't understand it anyway!"

(End of this chapter)