Huayu: Are you even sitting up straight? You're going to be the director?

News from Chapter 129, "Li Yannian"! First North American Collaboration for a Thriller Film
Time flies, and it's already the end of November.

The movies scheduled for release during the Lunar New Year holiday have already launched a massive and powerful promotional campaign.

But all of this had nothing to do with Cao Zhong.

Even if "My Disqualified Daughter" is released as quickly as possible, it will probably only be released by the end of February, which is no longer considered a Lunar New Year film. Cao Zhong believes it would be better to release it in March or April.

Shen Ao has returned to the Beijing Film Studio with all the content reviewed by Cao Zhong and has begun the final editing work before going into seclusion.

Cao Zhong did not take the editing rights for the Olympic bid himself, but instead boldly appointed Shen Ou to the project. During the review of the footage, Cao Zhong informed him of the key editing points.
Cao Zhongcai even took the time to let Shen Ao return to Hengdian to reshoot a few scenes. In the end, Cao Zhongcai was completely satisfied with all the footage before letting Shen Ao go.

As for editing, Cao Zhong couldn't possibly do it himself; he didn't have the time.

However, Cao Zhong wrote two songs for the play "My Disqualified Daughter": one is "Father," and the other is "A Prose Poem Written by Father."
He also asked Shen Ao to contact and train his own team, and through Shu Nan, he found someone to revise the lyrics and arrange the music to make the song content more in line with the movie.

Cao Zhong, unable to bear Fan Bingbing's cunning, adjusted her schedule and chose to finish filming her scenes as soon as possible.

This woman is indeed like a juicer; through mechanical means, she can transform herself into a captivating enchantress.

In order to focus all his energy on filming, Cao Zhong had no choice but to let Fan Bingbing finish filming ahead of schedule.

Afterwards, Cao Zhong was indeed as if he had taken a new calcium supplement, one tablet was equivalent to five tablets!

Not only can I work with Group A during the day, but I can also hold meetings with Group B's special effects team and Dante Lam's team at night to clarify the special effects requirements. I can also work overtime to write the script for the movie I want to shoot, register the content with Bill Kong first, and let him choose a few directors who can shoot thrillers and have time to shoot as soon as possible.

Jiang Zhiqiang said he understood and quickly made the arrangements.

During the filming of Group B, Cao Zhong valued the suggestions of the special effects artists and would adjust Dante Lam's filming content accordingly.

Without altering the original film script's dialogue, and given the current state of special effects technology and completion, Cao Zhong hopes to maximize the visual impact.

Therefore, the filming process for Group B was actually relatively slow.

This was also within Cao Zhong's expectations.

After Zhai Junjie took on the project "Li Yannian, a Man of Both Literary and Martial Arts," he even used his connections at the August First Film Studio to invite Li Yannian to be a consultant. All three films are proceeding smoothly.

They have started recruiting actors across the entire internet.

Information about this movie is finally starting to emerge.

And it quickly swept across the entire internet.

"Zhai Junjie, the director of 'The Great Battle 2: Huaihai Campaign,' is back in the film industry. He will join forces with Tsui Hark and Mao Weining to create another patriotic film from Chengying and China Film Group, following 'Nanjing Photo Studio'!"

"Written by Cao Zhong and co-directed by three directors, who is Li Yannian in 'The Li Yannian Who Is Both Scholarly and Martial'?"

"Filing call for actors for 'Li Yannian, a man of both literary and martial talents,' who will become the male lead in this 60 million yuan production?"

Several news items were like bombshells, but people quickly began to realize one question: Who is Li Yannian?
At this time, Li Yannian had not yet been awarded the Medal of the Republic, and his reputation was incomparable to that of later generations.

Even in later generations, when Li Yannian was awarded the Medal of the Republic, some people asked, "Why him?"
However, in the face of these doubts, Li Yannian donated all the rewards he received.

They didn't even bother to respond to these criticisms.

Of the more than 300,000 heroes, role models, and meritorious individuals who bravely crossed the Yalu River, only 30 were recognized as "first-class combat heroes" and returned home alive.

This shows its high value.

But at that time, the name wasn't well-known enough.

However, with the spread of the news, the information behind this name was naturally unearthed. When the entire company had only about 40 men left, facing an enemy several times their size, Li Yannian was given a critical mission. He reorganized the remaining troops into four squads and adopted the tactic of "luring the enemy deep": first, he used the first line of defense to attract the main force of the enemy, and then quickly withdrew to the second line of defense to concentrate firepower for a counterattack.

This led the US military to misjudge the strength of our forces, resulting in the destruction of several of our tanks.

The battle lasted for a day and two nights. The 7th Company repelled more than 10 enemy counterattacks, killing 636 enemy soldiers and finally holding the position firmly.

People were shocked after the relevant information was uncovered.

The industry is abuzz with discussion.

Compared to the film "Assembly," which has been heavily promoted during this period, people have suddenly realized that there are many heroic figures in China who have not been brought to the screen, and some people don't even know their names.

Countless actors have set their sights on this role.

After checking the information, they could roughly guess that in the story Cao Zhong was going to write, Li Yannian was only 23 years old.

Considering that 23 years old is quite mature at that time, any male actor who doesn't look old should be able to play the role between 25 and 40 years old.

……

Huayi.

When Feng Xiaogang heard the news, his face was beaming with joy.

"Cao Dapao is truly my brother," Feng Xiaogang said excitedly, unable to suppress his smile, his face full of wrinkles.
"As soon as Director Cao announced this news, he helped promote my film 'Assembly'. This powerful partnership has been a huge help to my publicity and distribution. Now the media is talking about him as a heroic figure."

This gave my film, *Assembly*, a natural advantage in the media, over Chen Kexin's *The Warlords*.

Wang Zhonglei frowned and said, "That guy is a true hero, yours is still a bit lacking. Don't keep shouting about going out to freeload, it makes you seem like you have no confidence without Cao Zhong."

Feng Xiaogang paced back and forth, a cigarette dangling from his lips. “That’s not how it works. A living person who has received a special merit award is a hero, but does searching for survivors of the old unit mean they aren’t heroes? It’s just a pity they’ve all passed away.”

"My movie can stab the audience until they bleed!"

Wang Zhonglei did not refute this statement.

In fact, they also saw that when faced with the content of Cao Zhong's new film, many media outlets kept quiet and did not dare to make any further excessive interpretations of Cao Zhong's work.

Faced with living war heroes, and directed by a director from the August First Film Studio, no one was willing to risk offending them just to annoy Cao Zhong.

“I’m thinking of having Deng Chao contact Cao Zhong to try and get him a role. What do you think? Deng Chao is playing the role in ‘Assembly’. Do you think it’s feasible?” Wang Zhonglei asked.

“Don’t mention this guy’s name to me,” Feng Xiaogang said angrily. “Once his relationship with Sun Li was exposed, it ruined my film’s publicity. Anyway, nobody is interested in the film, so I won’t use this guy anymore.”

Wang Zhonglei knew Feng Xiaogang's temper and was speechless for a moment.

Although he has always supported Deng Chao.

……

Soon after, news also came from Jiang Zhiqiang's side.

"Director Cao, I've shortlisted some thriller directors from Hollywood: Oren Paley, William Friggin, and M. Night Shyamalan. I've already sent their information to your email."

Cao Zhong's face lit up with joy...

(End of this chapter)