How did I become famous?

Chapter 116 Two Movies Simulated (3rd Update, 10,000 Words, Please Vote!)

The next day, Wu Kai woke up from his sleep and stared blankly at the unfamiliar ceiling.

The atmosphere had reached that point yesterday, and he actually said those kinds of things to Fang.

I was clearly going to defeat him.

After resting overnight the night before last and going to the hospital yesterday for bandaging and filling, Wu Kai finally made a decision.

He still wanted to leave and try his luck on his own.

Even if he suffered a crushing defeat, at least he did something he hadn't dared to do in the past seven years.

But

"Huh? You mean you want to leave?"

Inside the meeting room, Fang Bie picked at his ear, then snapped his fingers: "I didn't expect you to be so rich. Hand over the forty million in breach of contract fees, and you can leave."

Liu Mang, who was standing next to him, readily agreed and handed over a contract.

Wu Kai flipped through the contract, his expression growing increasingly grim with each turn.

When he saw his own handprint at the end, his expression turned even uglier.

"When?"

Fang Bie smiled slightly and typed a message on his laptop: "After you fell asleep the night before last, why else would I have provided you with food and paid for your dental treatment yesterday?"

After Wu Kai finished reading it, Fang Bie deleted the message.

He won't make the same mistake as Wu Kai.

Seeing Wu Kai's still bitter expression, Fang Bie laughed: "Then what else did you do? I heard you even went to other people in the industry to ask for help. Don't blame me for being blunt, but after what you did at that awards ceremony, it's obvious you don't plan to stay in the industry and are going to change careers. And you went to find other people? I can only say that you still lack social experience, Kai-ge."

I'm kindly taking you in; if you don't want to do it, then you'll have no choice but to become an engineer specializing in the translational symmetry structure forming of orthogonal silicate high-temperature condensed matter materials.

Wu Kai looked completely bewildered: "What's that?"

Liu Mang scoffed, "Moving bricks, what else could it be?"

For example, a top connective tissue removal surgery is actually just cutting hair.

Endoscopic skin circumcision is actually just nail trimming.

"But this salary... three thousand a month."

"Food and lodging provided, what more could you ask for?"

"No, not exactly."

"We've paid for all five social insurances and one housing fund for you, and you're still not satisfied?"

"Fine, I accept."

"That's right!"

Fang didn't say anything; this was just Liu Mang's habitual way of teasing Wu Kai.

Actually, he simply forgave Wu Kai, but didn't know how to say it.

You should know that it was Liu Mang who approached me yesterday to ask if I could also get a share of the profits from the movies Wu Kai makes in the future.

Of course, Fang Bie agreed.

He had no grudge against Wu Kai; in fact, he had even tricked him before.

Besides, he had already told Old Man Su that he wanted to protect the young lady's dream.

Giving Liu Mang and Wu Kai a standing ticket doesn't seem like a problem.

What difference does it make who you lend a hand to? Just do it as you see fit, so as not to appear indifferent.

"Now that Skinny Monkey is on the team, let's talk about the box office," Liu Mang asked Zhao Qiumei, who was sitting below. "Qiumei, what's our box office revenue now?"

Zhao Qiumei opened a spreadsheet on her computer and said, "After three weeks in theaters, 'The Shadow of Light' has already grossed over one billion yuan. If we estimate based on its one-and-a-half-month run and box office trend, the final box office will probably be around 1.5 billion yuan."

"Nice!" Liu Mang and his gang shouted, clenching their fists.

The first movie grossed 1 billion yuan, and the second movie grossed even more than 1.5 billion yuan!

Now, Liu Mang is in charge of the company's third film!

Created by the original team behind "Captain China" and "Shadow of Light"! His goal is to gross 2 billion yuan at the box office!

Fang Bie didn't feel anything.

When money becomes just a number, nobody feels anything.

Moreover, this money basically never ends up in his pocket.

Although the young lady said he would get a lot of dividends.

But the young lady never gave him any money.

Fang Bie was too lazy to ask.

Anyway, he has no worries about food or clothing now, he just wants to make games.

Because he wants to buy a big villa and a sports car, he doesn't know if he can afford it.

But he wants to be able to afford it.

Moreover, now that storefronts and residential buildings have become a pipe dream, Fang Bie has become much more relaxed.

The consequence was that he became completely indifferent to movies.

I'll definitely go see him, and whether I take pictures depends on my mood.

Aside from the two movies he was tentatively working on with the Los Santos trio and the "Passion" organization, he wasn't interested in anything else.

Zhao Qiumei ignored their speculations and continued, "Director Wu Kai's 'Life Is Not Worth It' has grossed over 700 million. It was already showing signs of decline, but what Director Wu did the day before yesterday actually stimulated the box office. Yesterday alone, the box office rose by nearly 20 million, but it will eventually decline again, and Director Wu's film will soon be taken off the shelves. The final estimated box office will be around 800 million."

Fang asked, "Brother Kai, how much did you invest in your movie?"

Wu Kai smiled wryly: "More than 30 million."

He shook his head: "That won't work either, Director Fang. I'm still far inferior to you. Besides, this film has nothing to do with me anymore. I have no intention of making art films."

Fang Bie: "."

Tsk, Wu Kai has only been here for a day and he's already learned to be sarcastic and pretentious?

The art film grossed over 500 million yuan, but the investment was only 30 million yuan.

While their own films have high box office returns, this one cost over 100 million to produce.

If the box office still couldn't beat Wu Kai's, then Wu Kai wouldn't be here right now.

Liu Mang said leisurely, "Skinny monkey, you've got some skills. Don't worry, you'll definitely be worse than me in the next movie."

Wu Kai looked up at Fang Bie in surprise: "Director Fang, your company's next movie is being directed by Liu Mang? You're not going to act in it yourself?"

Fang Bie nodded: "Okay, let him practice. I still need to work on our company's 'Miss' album."

"Is the company's heiress that Miss Su Mulin?" Wu Kai also became interested. "Director Fang, who exactly is that girl?"

Fang Bie didn't have anything he couldn't say: "She's our company's boss and a film investor. But that's not her main identity. Her main profession is being a rich second-generation heiress; she's the daughter of the owner of the Su Group."

Name: Su Mulin; Occupation: Heiress; Full-time rich second-generation; No problem.

"..." Wu Kai's smile was somewhat unnatural. "You mean the Su Group?"

"What else could it be?" Fang Bie said irritably. "I was bored the other day and did some research. I found that the Su Group's subsidiaries took three minutes to scroll down and still hadn't finished. Heaven knows what companies they actually own."

It feels like a penguin from a past life, no, even fiercer than a penguin.

It's the kind of company or something you've heard of, and when you look it up, you find out it's either a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Su Group or the Su Group is its largest shareholder.

That's pretty much the feeling.

There are even several large companies in the same industry that are rivals to each other, but their major shareholders are all the same group, the Su Group.

Wu Kai was stunned.

This is not what he expected.

He always thought Fang Bie had carved out his own niche in this ostracized circle, but now you're telling me that the person behind him is infinitely more powerful than his former father-in-law.

And yet I'm still so passionate?

He only has one word on his mind right now.

"grass"!

But he soon beamed with joy.

Because Fang asked him a question.

"Hey Kai, I heard you want to make a commercial film?"

Wu Kai nodded repeatedly: "I want to! I dream about it!"

Fang Bie beckoned with his finger: "Come on, do you have a script? Let me take a look."

Yes, yes!

Wu Kai took out a USB drive from his pocket.

This is his treasure; he keeps all the scripts he wrote here.

This was the most important thing to him, something he had never shown to anyone before.

But Fang Bie looked at it for less than ten minutes before his face filled with disgust: "Brother, is this the script you wrote yourself?"

Wu Kai nodded: "Yes, Director Fang, how is it?"

"Hmm," Fang Bie didn't know how to say it.

To put it bluntly, in four words, it's a complete mess.

Interstellar war? You want to make a Star Wars movie?

This is actually not a problem.

But you start with a planet exploding, followed by a series of battles. In the first thousand words, there are more than fifty characters with names, surnames, and lines.

Who the hell is the main character?

This isn't a short story where you can just pursue grandeur; this is a screenplay, dude!

There should be a primary and secondary role, right?

But Fang Bie was too embarrassed to directly criticize him, since Wu Kai had only just joined.

So he changed his approach to a more tactful one: "I think there's still room for improvement."

Wu Kai's face immediately fell.

Is there still room for improvement?

He said the same thing when he showed Fang Bie a sample of his previous film, "Iron-Blooded Sand".

And the result? "Iron-Blooded Sandstorm," with an investment of 80 million, flopped both at the box office and with critics.

After reading it, Liu Mang was also a little puzzled: "Skinny Monkey, isn't the script for 'Life Is Not Worth It' your own?"

That movie had a really good plot and was well-made; otherwise, it wouldn't have had such high box office returns.

But that script was clearly of a much higher standard than the script Wu Kai wrote himself.

Wu Kai said listlessly, "That was the script Uncle Zhang gave me, oh, it's Director Zhang Luo."

No wonder.

That makes sense; Zhang Luo does have skill and insight after all.

Whether he wrote it himself or received the scripts, they were all pretty much the same.

Wu Kai quickly put on a smile again. He felt that he had already said goodbye to the past since he had just arrived, so he wanted to change his mindset and start anew.

"Director Fang, how about I lend you my hand in your next movie?"

"No need, Liu Mang will be directing the next movie anyway." Fang Bie laughed. "But I do have a script here, Kai-ge, are you interested?"

Wu Kai had a good reputation in the past, and his film "Life Is Not Worth Living" was also quite good.

This shows that as long as he has a good script, he can indeed produce something good, but for now, this is limited to art films.

But he insisted on directing his own script and making it a blockbuster.

He was indeed a bit inferior to Liu Mang, who managed to create his own "superhero universe" through a series of outrageous maneuvers.

Wu Kai nodded repeatedly: "Of course I'm interested!"

He didn't even ask what kind of movie it was.

It's definitely a commercial film, no doubt about it!

You said "Shadow of Light" is an art film?

Can that scene be considered an art film?

He might at most admit that it was a commercial blockbuster with some depth.

Ultimately, isn't it still just a "superhero movie"?

Liu Mang protested, "Old Fang, are you discriminating against me? You gave me just an idea, but you gave Skinny Monkey a complete script?"

Fang Bie said irritably, "Have you never been beaten down by society or what? Don't you know that new employees are treated better than old employees? Besides, the idea I gave you wasn't bad either. If you don't want to film it, just give it back to me. I don't want to act in it anyway."

"No! I'll take the picture! I'll take the picture, okay?!"

Wu Kai was a little envious of their bickering, which showed that they had a really good relationship.

He asked cautiously, "Director Fang, what kind of script is it?"

Fang Bie smiled slightly: "Martial arts."

求！

(End of this chapter)