798 [Divine Eagle Sea Selection]
"What did you say? Oriental TV Production Company is going to flip the "The Legend of Condor Heroes"!" Shao Yifu looked at Fang Yihua in surprise.◆
Jin Yong has long been no longer concerned about the copyright fees for adapting TV series, so he has only allowed TVB to film Jin Yong's dramas for a long time, which is more because of the two old friends having a close relationship.
But Jin Yong suddenly sold the copyright of the TV series "The Legend of Condor Heroes" to Kang Jianfei, and something very special must have happened. Shao Yifu couldn't help but be surprised.
Fang Yihua said: "I just received the news that Dongshi Company has started casting. The person who played Xiaolongnu was Li Ruotong, the champion of Dongjie last year."
Shao Yifu frowned and said, "Mr. Cha is very disciplined in doing things. Since he sold the copyright of "The Legend of Condor Heroes" to Kang Jianfei, he must have his own reasons."
Fang Yihua said: "It seems that Dongshi Company made a temporary decision to film "The Legend of Condor Heroes". The one who was planning to remake it was "The Two Sexes". They started writing the script before they suddenly changed it to "The Legend of Condor Heroes".
Fang Yihua is really anxious. "Happy Tonight" that Wireless Channel has surpassed Phoenix Channel in the past, and its ratings have dropped sharply in the past two years. It is rare for a variety show to maintain its vitality for more than ten years.
Now TVB is fighting against Phoenix TV series and Phoenix TV. The magic weapon is nothing more than a wealthy love and hatred drama and Jin Yong martial arts drama. Now the opponent wants to withdraw from Jin Yong drama, how can you play it?
But Shao Yifu's mind is not on the TV station. In fact, Fang Yihua is running the TV station over the years, and he is just making some ideas in the general direction.
What Shaw Yifu is thinking about now is how to make a big move in the film industry. The first movie of Shaw's comeback has started filming. It is an urban romance film directed by Wang Jing and starring TVB popular stars Ekin Cheng and Anita Yuen.
The movie is scheduled to be released in October. The cost is only more than 3 million. Shao Yifu's goal is to make a box office of 5 million in Hong Kong. He mainly relies on the box office of Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
Once the test work meets Shaw Yifu's expected goal, Shaw Brothers is preparing to expand its production scale and increase the company's annual production volume to 5.
"Dingling..."
The phone on the desk suddenly rang, Shao Yifu waved his hand to answer the phone, and Fang Yihua left the office tactfully.
The phone call was from Jin Yong, and he only said one sentence: "Yifu, I sold the copyright of the TV series "The Legend of Condor Heroes" to Kang Jianfei for 1 yuan."
"I understand." Shao Yifu replied.
Shao Yifu really understood that the copyright of a Jin Yong drama is only sold for 1 yuan, which must be Jin Yong’s favor when he returned to Kang Jianfei.
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Check the house.
Lin Leyi said to Jin Yong, who had just put down the phone: "Ahai came to visit just now, why did I tell me that you have gone out?"
As soon as Yu Pinghai was mentioned, Jin Yong's face showed a faint look of anger and ordered: "He comes back in the future, you will block it!"
"What's wrong?" Lin Leyi asked curiously. Yu Pinghai often came to visit his home in the past two years, so he almost recognized Jin Yong as his godfather.
"A hypocritical and shameless person, I still think he is one of the rare young talents!" Jin Yong handed Kang Jianfei to him that day and threw it to his wife, "You can see it yourself."
Lin Leyi took apart and found that it was filled with information about Yu Pinghai. All the experiences from birth to entering the business world were recorded in detail on paper.
There is also a business card in these materials, with words such as "Shelmes Detective Firm" printed on them, and it seems that they are all information collected by a private detective.
Lin Leyi finished reading the first page of the information and found nothing wrong, but when he turned to the second page, he immediately found that several lines of words were ticked with red pen.
The contents specifically mentioned by the red pen are:
"In December 1978, Yu Pinghai stole $200 in a Canadian department store and was fined by the local court.
In August 1979, while Yu Pinghai was studying in Canada, he was sentenced to two years and one day for seven charges, including signing checks from others, stealing credit cards, and possessing firearms without a license. He was sentenced to two years in prison and actually served four months in prison..."
Lin Leyi continued to flip back. Although there was no red pen mark, Yu Pinghai's case photo and number were attached at the end.
"I didn't expect that he was a criminal who had been in jail!" Lin Leyi said in disbelief.
"I was almost deceived by him by the treacherous man! Young people are inevitably making mistakes, but he has always boasted of integrity and never mentioned any mistakes he has made. This is sincerely lying to me!" Jin Yong's forehead was bulging as he spoke, which shows how angry he was.
Jin Yong's anger is easy to understand. Because of Yu Pinghai's deliberate plea, they were like father and son in the past two years. Jin Yong even planned to sell his shares at a low price, transfer his lifelong efforts to Yu Pinghai in batches, and spent a few years to open the way for Yu Pinghai so that he could successfully take over the entire Mingpao Group.
The ideal successor he spent so much effort to find was actually a hypocrite who had criminal records such as stealing, stealing credit cards, signing checks, and illegally possessing guns. Jin Yong felt that he had been a fool for two years!
Jin Yong could not imagine what he would be like if Ming Pao was handed over to Yu Pinghai!
In another time and space, after Yu Pinghai completely took over Ming Pao, he quickly violated his original promise to Jin Yong to run a newspaper, and later sold Ming Pao. Jin Yong was very angry about this but had no choice but to regret that he had no idea of people.
"Ming Pao" was Jin Yong's lifelong hard work, and it was even more important than his 15 novels. At that time, he insisted on creating novels in order to increase the sales of "Ming Pao".
In fact, Jin Yong started looking for successors ten years ago and was very cautious about the choice of successors. Kang Jianfei exposed Yu Pinghai's case, which undoubtedly saved the Ming Pao Group for Jin Yong. The copyright of the TV series "The Legend of Condor Heroes" is a trivial matter compared to the future of "Ming Pao".
It was a small matter for Jin Yong, but it did shock the big news for others.
Before the news of Dongshi's preparations for "The Legend of Condor Heroes" was reported, it had already spread within the Oriental Group. Many TV stars were running up and down, wanting to get a good character in it.
Because there are too many people who have a relationship. In the end, Zhao Zhenqiang, the producer of "The Legend of Condor Heroes", could not bear it, so he simply announced that he would choose actors through auditions. In theory, anyone can sign up. However, actors from Oriental Entertainment Agency must be preferred, and outsiders will be used unless they meet very suitable candidates.
Zhao Zhenqiang is the producer and director of the original time and space Zhou Run's version of "Shanghai Band" and Liang Chaowei's version of "The Twins of the Peerless". He has also directed martial arts films such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Prodigal Son in Jiangcheng".
In another time and space, Zhao Zhenqiang's most popular thing was in the 1980s. As long as the ratings of TVB TV series were suppressed by ATV, he would be recruited to film and save the scene.
However, Zhao Zhenqiang belongs to Gan Guoliang's family. Since Gan Guoliang was excluded from TVB, Zhao Zhenqiang has not done well and resolutely switched to Oriental TV Production Company.
"No. 21, Li Ruotong!" The staff opened the door and shouted at the audition site.
Li Ruotong put away the novel "The Legend of Condor Heroes" and smiled at the staff, then walked into the room. Although she had already been decided to play Xiaolongnu, since it was an audition, the necessary cutshow still had to go.
As soon as Li Ruotong entered, the actors waiting in line outside began to talk.
"I heard that the role of Xiaolongnu has been decided, it is this Li Ruotong."
"Who made it?"
"Who else? President Kang, I heard that Li Ruotong was able to win the beauty pageant championship last year, because President Kang was working hard behind the scenes."
"Really? Then Li Ruotong isn't it our 'protagonist' too, right?"
"That might be possible."
"Oh no, Xiaolongnu's role can be decided. Other roles may be decided. Most of the time I don't have the chance to play Guo Fu."
"That's not necessarily true. After all, we are all artists from the company, and those outsiders who come to join in the fun have no chance at all."
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He Meitian couldn't help feeling even more nervous when she listened to the discussion around her. She had the urge to give up auditioning. She was the "outsider" in the people, and she was a young newcomer who had only played a small role. She even came to Hong Kong from mainland China a month ago.
He Meitian is a gymnast. He won the balance beam championship of the National Junior Gymnastics Championship four years ago, and just won the free gymnastics championship at the North Korean International Invitational at the beginning of this year.
He Meitian was injured during training some time ago. Although he recovered quickly, he could no longer support high-intensity training. It happened that the TVB station went to the gymnastics team to pick actors. He Meitian and another retired team member were spotted and then taken to Hong Kong to film a TV series.
He Meitian plays a Kun Ban actor who needs to dance with guns and sticks. He appears many times, but his lines are rarely spoken, basically just wielding the guns and sticks to hit them.
After filming that drama, the director felt that He Meitian had a talent for acting, so he did not send her back to Guangdong immediately, but recommended He Meitian to TVB, hoping that the station could sign her.
He Meitian lived in a simple dormitory on the set of Qingshuiwan, waiting for the launch of the wireless station. If she could not sign the contract, she would have to go back to Guangdong.
At this moment, He Meitian saw the audition advertisement for the crew of "The Legend of Condor Heroes" in "Daily Daily". She used to like to read novels by Jin Yong and Qiong Yao during her training in the gymnastics team. When she heard about the crew of "The Legend of Condor Heroes" selected people, she quietly came to register for the audition without telling others.
"No. 51, He Meitian."
He Meitian felt that attending the audition was like going on the court in the past, with extremely huge pressure. She took a deep breath to relax and then pushed the door in.
There are three people in charge of the audition, namely producer Luo Minghao, director Zhao Zhenqiang, and screenwriter Wen Rui'an.
"Are you not 16 years old?" Luo Minghao asked, looking at He Meitian's registration information.
He Meitian nodded and said, "I will be 16 years old in a few months."
Luo Minghao said: "Minors cannot sign a contract by themselves, and they need the consent of the guardian."
He Meitian nodded and said, "I know."
"Have you ever filmed a movie before?" Zhao Zhenqiang asked.
He Meitian said: "I took photos on the wireless station."
Luo Minghao frowned and asked, "Don't there be a contract for the wireless station?"
He Meitian shook her head: "No."
Wen Rui'an came over and whispered to Zhao Zhenqiang: "What do you think you're going to let her play Guo Xiang?"
Zhao Zhenqiang's eyes lit up and he smiled and said, "Not bad."
Chapter completed!