"Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing?"
When Fan Xiaopang heard that Li Tang had invested in a movie, he actually shouted in a questioning tone.
Li Tang explained patiently: "Cheng Er has just received funding from the HBF Fund. If we don't take the money, the money will be wasted. Let's all chip in."
"Then how risky is this? Don't even lose your money by then!"
"So let's all work hard together to make this movie a success. Hey, don't talk nonsense. Are you going to act or not?"
"Play, of course I will play." Xiaopang said hurriedly.
That was the heroine of the movie. She was excited just thinking about it, but at the same time she was worried about Li Tang's crazy behavior.
"Then it's agreed. We don't have much money, and I'm afraid I won't be able to pay much."
It sounds awful to say that prostitution is for free, but there must be some hint.
Sure enough, Xiaopang said: "Oh, who do you think I am? I don't want any pay."
"It's not appropriate, your agent's side..."
Before Li Tang finished speaking, he was interrupted by Xiaopang: "It's okay, I'll take care of Sister Hong. Oh, by the way, when will your filming take place?"
Li Tang couldn't say for sure for a while now, so he could only estimate: "We have just started preparations, but the filming must be completed in the first half of the year anyway."
"That's not a big problem, but you better hurry up. I will join the group in June..."
At this point, the fat guy on the other end of the phone suddenly smiled strangely and said, "Guess what Sister Hong and I were talking about just now?"
"Take the role. Didn't you just say that you would join the cast in June?"
"Then what do you think the show is?"
"How could I know that?"
The biggest difference between domestic and foreign countries is that the Chinese New Year in the traditional sense is the Spring Festival. Now that the New Year has begun, all walks of life have begun to get busy, and there is a new atmosphere in the New Year. Specifically in the entertainment industry, with the launch of a large number of dramas, preparations for another large number of dramas have begun. The most popular ones these days are simply costume dramas, costume martial arts dramas or dramas from the Republic of China period.
"Hehe, I will play the female lead in "Young Boy Bao Qingtian 2"!"
Xiaopang revealed the answer to the mystery, and it was not difficult to hear her proud mood at this time from her laughter.
Last year, the movie "Young Bao Qingtian" in which my ex-girlfriend starred together with Zhou Jie and Ren Quan was very popular, and her ex-girlfriend also gained a large number of fans for it.
I didn’t expect that there would be a change of characters in the sequel?
But if you think about it carefully, you can understand that there are always too many people in the entertainment industry, and everyone is frantically grabbing all kinds of resources. If Xiaopang really grabs the leading female role in "Young Boy Bao Qingtian 2", it can only mean that Sister Hong is one step ahead of Sister Hua.
Li Tang was secretly glad that he didn't ask his ex-girlfriend to play the role of sister Xiao Feng this time, otherwise he would have to fight.
You must know that stealing roles is actually cutting off other people's financial resources. There is a saying that cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing one's parents. That is a deep hatred! I really didn’t expect that Big and Little Bingbing would face each other so quickly.
When Xiaopang heard that Li Tang was silent, he immediately said dissatisfied: "What, are you feeling distressed? I told you that this time it's not just her, but Brother Jie has also been replaced. Lu Yi plays the role of Bao Zheng."
Li Tang understood. Nowadays, "Shao Bao" is like a piece of sweet cake. There are more people grabbing it. Of course, the producer is willing to replace Zhou Jie with the more popular Lu translation. So Xiaopang also took advantage and took the opportunity to squeeze out Da Bingbing.
Big and small Bingbing competed for the same role, and Xiao Bingbing won in the end. This is a good topic of hype.
The two most popular new generation actors in the past two years are Lu Yi and Xiao Yanzi. It's just that there are obvious differences in the two people's development routes. Since the popularity of "Never Rest", Lu Yi has actually taken the idol route of a singing and dancing artist. He has received a lot of advertisements, but his works are really famous. But not much. It is estimated that his agency realized this this time and did not hesitate to let him play the role of the black and white Bao Heizi.
On the other hand, Xiao Yanzi has now joined the Hong Kong circle. After last year's "Battle of the Forbidden City" with Andy Lau and Zheng Yijian, this time it is said that she will also play the female lead in Xingye's new work "Shaolin Football" Number.
Moreover, during the reform of CCTV last year, a total of two major dramas were launched in cooperation with Hong Kong and Taiwan. One is the "Swordsman" which has just finished airing and is well-known all over the world, and the other one is "Deep Love" in collaboration with Aunt Qiong Yao. "Rainy".
One has a male protagonist, the other has a female protagonist, and the concept of cross-strait and three places.
Compared with Li Tang, who was lucky enough to play the role of Linghu Chong, Xiao Yanzi has long been designated as the heroine of "Love in the Rain". In addition, the reason why "Love in the Rain" was postponed until November last year is because it is said that In order to take care of Xiao Yanzi's schedule.
But despite this, Lu Yi's performance as Bao Zheng in "Shao Bao 2" is still a dimensionality reduction attack, and Zhou Jie has no way to compete. Sometimes I feel helpless when I think about it. Although my acting skills are better, I have to lose to a pretty face.
There's no way everyone likes to look at your face. As long as you don't stretch your hips too much, the audience will be happy to accept it. For example, Tom Cruise and Pete Bradley in Hollywood are examples of this.
Including Li Tang himself, in addition to acting skills, appearance must have played a big role in successfully starring in Linghu Chong.
Li Tang didn't want to dwell too much on the topic of his ex-girlfriend with Xiaopang, so he said, "Hey, don't you want to read the script first?"
"Of course I have to read it, but I believe in your vision. Since you are willing to invest money to play the male lead, the script must be good. I have some work on hand right now, so I can't leave for the time being. I will come over when I get busy. "
Hearing this made Li Tang feel warm in his heart. Although Xiaopang occasionally acted a little temperamental, he was still quite considerate most of the time.
So he said in a gentle voice: "Well, I'll wait for you."
Zeng Jia will fly from Beijing to Shanghai at around 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. This girl's work attitude is really nothing to say.
Two hours later, we landed at around nine o'clock. Li Tang had to find Xu Guangtou to pick up the car again and gave him the script by the way.
"Sure, my car looks like I bought it for you!"
Although Xu Guangtou was rude, he still said: "Don't add more oil."
Li Tang made a goodbye gesture to him and drove away in the little Sail Juechen. There were a lot of big trucks on the G20 outer ring early in the morning, and the traffic jam was severe when crossing the Xupu Bridge.
When Li Tang drove to Pudong Airport, Zeng Jia was already waiting at the domestic arrival exit.
"Ouch, I'm sorry to have to wait, there's a traffic jam on the road." Li Tang quickly got out of the car and helped carry the suitcase.
Zeng Jia helped and said with a smile: "It's okay. Actually, you don't have to go there yourself. It's very convenient for me to take a taxi myself."
"Nonsense, I asked you to help, and I asked you to take a taxi. Sorry. Come on, get in the car."
Li Tang opened the car door for her personally.
Zeng Jia was a little flattered: "Brother Li, I'm even more embarrassed if you do this."
"Hurry up and get in the car. You can't park here for long. The traffic police will come to catch you."
After getting in the car, Zeng Jia first looked around the car curiously. After all, this new car, which was just launched last year, is currently very popular. But she didn't ask any more questions and immediately got into work.
"Brother Li, how far is the work currently being carried out?"
"I haven't started anything yet. I'm just waiting for you to come over and help... Oh, the actors are basically confirmed. Here are some things I wrote yesterday. You can take a look first."
Li Tang handed her a plastic document bag placed between the two seats.
Zeng Jia opened the document bag and took out the paper inside to read. Li Tang's handwriting is not pretty, but she pays more attention to what she writes.
It wasn't until after watching it that she asked, "Brother Li, why don't you get paid?"
Li Tang smiled and said: "The money is not enough in the first place, so it doesn't matter."
Zeng Jia said seriously: "This is unreasonable. Even if you don't get paid, it can be converted into investment. In this case, your share will be higher."
"Well...it seems like you are quite confident in this movie."
Li Tang really didn't think too much, he only thought about how to save money. Hearing what Zeng Jia said, he was moved in his heart. It wasn't that he didn't understand but he didn't expect it. Then he felt a little confused: "But Bingbing and Jiang Qinqin, I have already made an agreement with them. They are all here to help. , no pay required.”
"Brother Li, it's just for your sake that they don't want remuneration. It's a favor from you, but it's two different things from investment. The remuneration of all the actors must be included in the calculation. Regardless of whether the movie can make money in the future, the rules must be set first. Otherwise, no one can tell what disputes may arise in the future.”
Li Tang was a person who was most afraid of trouble. When he heard these words, he immediately became alert and nodded: "Then you can draw up a charter and show it to me later."
Zeng Jia's arrival made him relieved. He arranged Zeng Jia to stay at a Jinjiang Inn Express Hotel on Changshu Road, not far from the old apartment on Wuyuan Road, only about ten minutes' walk.
"You take a rest first, and I'll treat you to dinner later."
"Brother Li, I want to meet with the director as soon as possible to talk about the formation of the team."
"Okay, let's meet in the afternoon."
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Xiao Ke: Fan Binbin;
Xiao Feng: Jiang Qinqin;
Lin Mo: Xu Zheng.
Looking at the cast list, Cheng Er couldn't help but open his mouth: "Brother Li, this, this... is it true or false?"
You must know that each of these three is more popular than the other.
"I can't lie to you. Don't worry, everything has been discussed. Bingbing may not be able to come over for a while. My senior brother Xu Zheng has already given him the script. If you want to talk, you can talk at any time."
As a director, you must meet and talk with the actors, mainly to reach a consensus on the understanding of the characters.
"Besides, regarding group formation, you should contact Zeng Jia."
As mentioned before, Zeng Jia is not only Li Tang's executive agent, but also serves as the assistant producer of the crew.
The various preparations before the start of filming were very tedious. As a director, screenwriter, and one of the producers, Cheng Er was eager to have a helper who could take charge of the overall situation, but he was still hesitant about Zeng Jia's age.
Because he is also a newcomer and knows the difficulties of being a newcomer. But it didn't take long for Zeng Jia's vigorous and resolute work style to dispel his hesitation.
Although Zeng Jia is young, he has strong working ability and a tough attitude. Nothing like showing off seniority can be used in front of her. In one sentence: Can you do it? If you can't do it, leave!
To put it bluntly, he is just a red face. At this time, Cheng Er or Li Tang comes forward to calm the old comrades' emotions and give them a step, and many things will be solved.
By the time the work was almost sorted out, it was already the end of February. That day Li Tang suddenly received a strange phone call.
"Are you Li Tang?"
The tone sounded a bit arrogant.
"I am Li Tang, may I ask who you are..."
"Oh, I am Director Zhang's assistant Zhou Wei. Please come to our place tomorrow afternoon. I will send you the address on your mobile phone..."
"Hey, I'm sorry, who is Director Zhang?"
Li Tang sounded a little confused. His first reaction to the name Zhou Wei was the character in Lou Ye's "Summer Palace" script, and then it was Director Zhang or something like that. He didn't even know who it was. Zhang Beard actually likes people to call him Director Zhang. Could he be Lao Zhang's new assistant?
The person on the other end of the phone paused for two seconds and said obviously unhappy, "It's Director Zhang Yimou who wants to invite you over for a chat."
"Ah? It turns out to be Director Zhang!"
Li Tang couldn't help but open his mouth, and then said quickly: "Tomorrow afternoon, okay, no problem."
First update!
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