Entertainment Era: My Good Sister Is All Over the World

After the contract was signed, the production team officially began preparations.

Xu Xiaoming introduced the people he had brought to Huang Wenbin and Wu Tianming.

Of these, only three are worth mentioning.

One of them, Cao Rong, just turned 18 this year. He also started learning martial arts from a young age. A couple of years ago, he was discovered by Xu Xiaoming and taken on as a disciple, working as a stuntman at RTV (Rediffusion Television). Later, he met Sammo Hung and joined Hung's stunt team, gradually becoming an actor and director. His most famous roles are probably Sun Wukong in "Journey to the West: The Sequel" and Prince Moang in "Journey to the West: The Second Sequel".

Another one is named Lin Dian, also 18 years old this year. He is also Xu Xiaoming's apprentice, having started learning martial arts from Xu Xiaoming at the age of 9. He has spent most of his time as a stuntman and stunt double, having been a stunt double for Jet Li and Chow Yun-fat. He started working with Ching Siu-tung in the 90s, gradually developing his own style. Later, he went to Hollywood with Yuen Woo-ping, serving as the martial arts director for films such as "The Matrix" and "Spider-Man 2," thus gaining international fame.

He was also the assistant director of the "Young and Dangerous" series and even had a cameo role, I think it was as Brother Kun's henchman. He played the henchman of many gangsters in Hong Kong movies, earning him the nickname "professional gangster henchman".

His most famous work as a martial arts choreographer in mainland China is probably Chen Kaige's "The Promise".

This is a truly divine prophetic film, terrifying beyond belief!

The third person is Derek Yee, a photographer. As you can tell from the name, he is Derek Yee's brother, or more precisely, Derek Yee's older brother.

As is well known, Derek Yee has two older brothers, one named Paul Chun and the other named David Chiang.

Where did this Er Donglong come from?

The reason is that both of Derek Yee's parents were remarried, and each had children from their previous marriages. Derek Yee has a total of seven or eight siblings.

Derek Yee is half-brother of Paul Chun and David Chiang, and half-brother of Derek Yee.

Because Derek Yee's father, Er Guang, passed away in 1974, he has always lived with his mother's side of the family, so he is closer to his two older brothers on his mother's side.

Derek Yee has twenty or thirty relatives on both his paternal and maternal sides who work in the film industry, making him a true family of performers.

The remaining four extras were too lazy to be named; they were all responsible for translation and other miscellaneous tasks on set.

"This gentleman is Huang Wenbin, my dear younger brother. According to custom, you can call him Uncle."

Xu Xiaoming then solemnly introduced him to his friends and apprentices: "He is a famous screenwriter and writer in mainland China. The novel 'The Benevolent Huang Feihong' that I showed you before was written by him."

Lin Dian and Er Donglong were slightly surprised to hear this.

"Writing martial arts novels, what's so great about that?"

Cao Rong, however, was slightly disdainful. He curled his lip and said in Cantonese, "Compared to Jin Yong and Gu Long, he's far inferior. Our TV station's screenwriter, Huang Ying, also writes martial arts novels, and they sell quite well."

This person has excellent martial arts skills and his instruction is also quite good, but his character is a little problematic.

Around 2020, he suddenly criticized Li Yuan, the director of "Journey to the West: The Sequel," and Qian Yanqiu, the screenwriter, online, saying that they were in cahoots and that the script they wrote was terrible, resulting in insufficient screen time and so many repetitive shots in "Journey to the West: The Sequel," which ruined his hard work.

However, Qian Yanqiu quickly refuted Cao Rong's claims point by point, stating that the script was cut because Cao Rong removed scenes he didn't understand, including many of Zhu Bajie's scenes, and then forcibly changed dialogue scenes into action scenes, resulting in a severely insufficient plot. He added that he used the same script to film "Shi Gandang," which had more than enough episodes.

The exchanges were lively and intense, and overall, Director Qian's predictions seemed largely accurate. However, the final outcome was somewhat darkly humorous, as Cao Rong began promoting his poorly made online film, "The Sea-Stabilizing Needle."

This is similar to selling films at Teacher Liu's funeral.

Before Huang Wenbin's time travel, Cao Rong settled in his hometown of Chenzhou, Hunan, and started making short videos. He gradually became more down-to-earth and was no longer as arrogant as he was in his youth, and his reputation improved slightly.

Huang Wenbin highly recognized Cao Rong's abilities, but if he wanted to use him, he had to temper his arrogance and temper his personality.

No need to rush, there's plenty of time later, take your time.

At this point, Xu Xiaoming added, "He also contributed to the film 'The Deadly Gold in the Cold Mountain,' which was a hit a few days ago, but his name wasn't credited, which is a bit unfair to him."

Lin Dian murmured, "That movie's midnight screenings were pretty hot. I heard it might make over two million at the box office. Ren-ge has really struck it rich this time."

The original version of "The Deadly Gold in the Cold Mountain" was released in 1980, grossing only around 1.2 million HKD, ranking 46th on the annual box office chart. It was actually not bad; Liu Songren only suffered a small loss, but the film received poor reviews. This made Liu Songren and Du Qifeng hesitant to touch movies for a long time.

Er Donglong said with a sigh, "The cost was only a little over 500,000, Ah Ren really made a profit this time. I wish I had invested as well."

Cao Rong was still somewhat skeptical, and then retorted, "Master, wasn't that all thanks to you, Du Qifeng, and Brother Ren? What does it have to do with him?"

"If you can't speak properly, then shut up!" Xu Xiaoming glared at him, and finally dropped a bombshell: "He was also the screenwriter for the TV series 'The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia,' which we just finished filming. Without him, there would be no such series."

Upon hearing this, Er Donglong and Lin Dian's expressions changed.

Several of them participated in the filming of "The Legendary Fok Yuan-gap". They didn't care much about who the screenwriter was before, and thought that Xu Xiaoming wrote it himself.

"Really?!" Cao Rong stared at Huang Wenbin in shock, speaking in Cantonese with some disbelief, "This kid looks about our age, right? How can he be so sharp?"

Huang Wenbin can understand and speak Cantonese, but his pronunciation is not very standard.

"I'm older than you," Huang Wenbin said casually. "And since you're a friend of your master, you should call me 'uncle,' it's just polite."

Cao Rong was taken aback: "You understand Cantonese?"

"What do you think?" Huang Wenbin asked with a smile.

Cao Rong immediately looked embarrassed and at a loss, turning to look at Xu Xiaoming.

Xu Xiaoming nodded and said, "He is my adopted younger brother. In terms of seniority, you two should indeed call him uncle."

Cao Rong looked speechless: "Master, is it okay if I don't call you that?"

Lin Dian also looked embarrassed. He was the same age as Cao Rong and only about a year and a half younger than Huang Wenbin. It was really too embarrassing for him to call the other party "uncle".

Er Donglong, standing to the side, chuckled softly with his arms crossed.

These two wild monkeys are always disrespectful in Hong Kong, and they still don't know how to behave here. Now they're in an awkward situation.

"Alright, let's get down to business." Xu Xiaoming casually smoothed things over and said to Huang Wenbin, "Let's discuss casting. I know almost nothing about actors from the mainland, so I'll need your help."

Huang Wenbin was waiting for these words, and said, "We can go and take a look at the Yanjing Wushu Team first."

"Great!" Xu Xiaoming nodded. "I've wanted to go for a long time, but I've never had the time. I've heard that there are many hidden masters there."

Huang Wenbin said, "Then you're too late. All the good talents have been picked by Director Zhang Xinyan."

"That's a real shame," Xu Xiaoming said, shaking his head with a sigh.

The group still took a bus to the Yanjing Wushu Team.

……

Yanjing Wushu Team.

Coach Wu Bin took a break and was drinking tea in his office.

The tea was brought to him from Hong Kong by director Zhang Xinyan. Accepting gifts is a mistake, so he didn't dare to take too much, just a little bit as a token, because he couldn't let his compatriots in Hong Kong down.

He had barely started soaking his tea when the office door was pushed open: "Coach, someone's here!"

Wu Bin nearly got scalded by the water and slammed his fist on the table in anger: "When will no one come by? Why are you making such a fuss?"

"A director from Hong Kong came to select people!" the young athlete said excitedly.

Wu Bin was taken aback and blurted out, "Why are you here again?"

This is the third wave of Hong Kong directors to come to their martial arts team to select actors this year.

The first wave was the cast of "The Treasure Hunt Beyond the Great Wall," who selected Wang Qun, Wang Xiuping, and others. Li Lianjie also auditioned, but the director rejected him because he was too short.

The second wave was Zhang Xinyan's "Shaolin Temple" crew, who selected Li Lianjie and others.

What's the origin of this third wave?

The young athlete said, "The directors who came this time are quite young; they're right outside the door."

Wu Bin put the teacup aside, stood up, and walked out, saying, "I'll go take a look."