When Xu Zheng left Jinling, Yu Dong had already written one-third of the script for "Love Through Time" and it would be completed in another week or two.
But by the time he finishes writing this TV series, it will be May. He needs to hurry up and start writing "The Da Vinci Code", otherwise he will not have time to work on it in the first half of this year.
On April 20th, when Yu Dong was revising the script of "Love Through Time" at home, Ning Jing suddenly called.
After the call was connected, Yu Dong spoke, and Ning Jing said, "Where is my sister?"
"She should be in the piano room right now. What do you want?"
"I have good news to tell her."
"Oh." Yu Dong nodded, "Then you can wait until she comes back before calling."
"Hey, brother-in-law, don't hang up. Are you not curious about the good news I'm telling you?"
"Well, I'm curious, what's the good news?"
"Brother-in-law, you are so perfunctory... But I am in a good mood, so let me tell you, I passed the audition for "Party A and Party B"."
"What role did you play? Heroine?"
"No, I lived with the female star in it."
"Oh, that suits you very well." Yu Dong nodded and asked, "Do you know who plays the other roles?"
"I'm not sure, but I heard that Ge You is going to participate in the show. As for who he will play, I don't know. In fact, I really wanted to audition for the heroine at the beginning. After all, there is only one woman in this team.
It’s so outstanding and there’s so much drama, but they all said that I’m too pretty to be suitable for this role, and I think they’re right…”
Listening to Ning Jing's ramble, Yu Dong moved the microphone to the side. This girl was such a talker that she never finished talking.
It happened that Cheng Yanqiu opened the door and came back. Yu Dong smiled and raised the microphone: "Your good sister."
Cheng Yanqiu smiled while slipping on his shoes: "Why did Jingjing call at this time?"
Ning Jing heard Cheng Yanqiu's voice on the other end of the phone and replied with a smile: "Sister, I have good news for you."
Yu Dong twisted his lips, put the phone on the cabinet, got up and returned to the study.
Sitting at the desk, he thought about "Party A and Party B" again. After the script of this movie was finalized, they wanted to find the director and asked Yu Dong who he would recommend.
At first, they wanted to find several well-known directors, but Yu Dong recommended Lu Xi, a director majoring in Jinyi.
This surprised Yuli and the others. After all, Lu Xi was young and had no great works. He had not even officially graduated from Jinling Art Institute and was still a student.
But Yu Dong thinks there is nothing wrong with Lu Xi.
If it is to make a literary film, Lu Xi will definitely not be as good as Zhang Yimou and others, or even his senior Jia Zhangke, but when it comes to making commercial films, Lu Xi may be better than them all.
Since her freshman year, Lu Xi has been exposed to many internationally renowned commercial film directors and the most advanced film shooting concepts in Hollywood.
Although he has not yet made any major films, from some of the short films he has made before, it can be seen that he has great potential in making commercial films and is a director with a very good sense of rhythm.
For example, he previously participated in the filming of "Bring Her Eyes". Although the production was small and the story was simple, the overall rhythm was not problematic at all and was even surprisingly good.
Lu Xi had a great contribution in this, otherwise Qu Aiguo and Wang Hailin alone would not have been able to do it.
Let him film "Party A and Party B", and it should be better than Feng Xiaogang. The original "Party A and Party B" relied on its story and lines to shine. The shooting technique itself was very crude, and the rhythm of the storytelling was also a bit uninteresting.
In addition, what Yu Dong found interesting was that Ge You was still chosen.
When they made the preliminary list of roles before, Yu Dong saw Ge You in it. They didn't say much at that time, fearing that he would affect their judgment.
Now it seems that Ge You is indeed suitable for this movie.
…
Feng Xiaogang felt that it was not interesting at all. During this period, everything he did felt uncomfortable.
Originally, Zhang Heping from Forbidden City Pictures called him and asked him to write a movie and participate in the competition for Lunar New Year movies.
He was quite happy at first, thinking that as long as this was done, his name would be left in the Chinese film industry in the future.
He racked his brains for ideas, but his mind was filled with Wang Shuo's stuff, so he made a special call to Wang Shuo and wanted to adapt "You Are Not a Common Man".
Originally, he thought this matter should be no problem. After all, he had a good relationship with Wang Shuo, and Wang Shuo was not in a good situation now.
But he never expected that the film adaptation rights of "You Are Not a Commoner" had been bought by someone. He asked Wang Shuo who bought it, but Wang Shuo didn't tell him.
Feng Xiaogang was not discouraged. He wrote another script and showed it to Zhang Heping. Although Zhang Heping was not very satisfied, he still agreed to invest in the film.
But a new problem has arisen. Previously, Forbidden City Pictures cooperated with Yanjing Studio, and planned to invest a total of about 3.5 million to shoot this movie. Now Yanjing Studio no longer cooperates with Forbidden City Pictures.
, their budget suddenly changed from 3.5 million to 2.5 million.
Originally, 3.5 million was very tight, but now that there is 1 million less, shooting becomes even more difficult.
Later, Forbidden City Pictures didn't know whether they felt that the investment was really low, or they felt that the number 250 was not pleasant to hear, so they chipped in another 300,000, increasing the film's budget to 2.8 million.
Okay, now that we have the script and funding, we need to start organizing the team and casting the actors, right?
Due to time constraints, Feng Xiaogang took a two-pronged approach, setting up a shooting team and selecting actors at the same time.
When it comes to casting, the first thing he thinks of is Ge You. They have worked together many times. Not long ago, they were chatting together. Feng Xiaogang also knew that Ge You had recently played a supporting role in "Half Life".
, there is no other job.
Feng Xiaogang thought, they are all buddies and they have to take action on their own. Ge You has no reason to disagree.
But after the call was made, Ge You immediately refused as soon as he heard the time.
He asked Ge You why. Ge You only said that he wanted to participate in another movie and did not reveal the name of the other movie.
Today he went to Forbidden City Pictures to find Zhang Heping, and finally learned everything from Zhang Heping.
It turns out that the company that bought the film adaptation rights of "You Are Not a Common Man" was Deep Space Company, and it was also Deep Space Company that poached Ge You. The new partner of Yanjing Studio is still Deep Space Company.
"Mr. Zhang, why do their deep space companies target us everywhere?"
Feng Xiaogang asked cautiously. He was not sure whether the Deep Space Company knew what he had done before, so he was so targeted.
Zhang Heping smiled and said: "This matter has nothing to do with you. It's because Deep Space Company is too greedy. Originally, the Lunar New Year issue had nothing to do with them. They insisted on interfering with it. It's just a bit of a coincidence. Their
The new movie actually uses Ge You."
Feng Xiaogang secretly curled his lips, not only "You Are Not a Commoner" was also bought by Deep Space.
"Then what should we do now?" Feng Xiaogang asked.
Zhang Heping glanced at Feng Xiaogang, "What, you don't have confidence anymore?"
Feng Xiaogang said with a smile: "It's not that I don't have confidence. The main reason is that the Deep Space Company has developed too fast in the past few years. It is impossible to say that we don't use some means. Now we are opponents of them. Of course I am not afraid of being honest. I am just afraid.
We are afraid that they are stumbling in secret. They now have a deep space with more and more netizens inside. If they make any unfavorable remarks to us on the website, we have no place to talk back, and we can only suffer the consequences of being dumb.
"
Zhang Heping muttered: "They shouldn't be able to do this."
"Don't think too well of people, Mr. Zhang."
"But if they really want to do this, there's nothing we can do. After all, they created this website." Zhang Heping frowned.
Chapter completed!