China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 468 "Three Kingdoms: Chibi" director and who played Cao Cao
After the Best Actor and Best Actress were awarded, the last two awards were also awarded. [Best Director] was won by Du Qifeng, and [Best Film] was also won by "New World".

8 nominations, "New World" finally won 6.

Sun Honglei's "Best Supporting Actor" lost to his own people. Strictly speaking, "New World" only lost the relatively unpopular award of "Best Editing", which can be described as a great success in this year's Academy Awards.

The next day, Cao Xuan and Mr. Zhou became the best actor and queen of the golden statue, which also became the headlines of many entertainment editions.

It is the first time that mainland actors have won the Best Actor and Best Actor at the Academy Awards.

However, before that, there was a time when mainland actors won the Golden Horse Awards, that is, in 2001, Liu Huohua and Qin Hailu were not only mainland actors, but also classmates.

But Liu and Qin were hardly famous at that time, and even many people didn't know there was such a movie until after they won the award.

Except for mainland actors and classmates, the two have almost no gimmicks that can be used by the media for publicity.

However, Cao Xuan and Mr. Zhou are different. An international superstar, a four-star actress, undoubtedly top-notch, the media is yelling at the page.

Among them, the Hong Kong media has a lot of painting styles, some of them have broken the defense, and they are angry that the Hong Kong Film Awards have no spine, and the garbage awards should be closed.

Some people feel sorry for the decline of the Hong Kong film industry. Counting last year's international awards and the last two years of Golden Awards, two pairs of best actor and best actresses have been won three by mainland actors.

However, there are some people who feel that they deserve it, and feel that it just proves the fairness of the Hong Kong Film Awards, and they also advocate the need to open up more, so that the Hong Kong Film Awards will change from the regional Hong Kong Film Awards to the Chinese Film Awards. .

The three parties were arguing with each other, and there were other opinions. In short, it was a mess. It is said that the scolding war lasted for two weeks before it slowly stopped.

Compared with the chaos of the Hong Kong media, the media in the mainland and Taiwan provinces are more unified, and they directly broadcast.

And because of the popularity of Cao Xuan's "Legend", the Asian media also gave a considerable amount of news coverage to Cao Xuan's award as Best Actor this time, and even European and American media reported it.

The "New York Times" in the United States put the photo of Cao Xuan holding the trophy on the front page, and directly commented.

"This Chinese is not only a top musician, but also an excellent actor. Hollywood film company bosses, don't act quickly. Maybe he is the next Bruce Lee and Jack Cheng..."

I don't know if the bosses in Hollywood are tempted, but this time Cao Xuan won the best actor, which really caused a lot of trouble in China.

With the rise of the Internet in the past two years, the three gold awards for Chinese films have become more and more known to many fans and movie fans. Naturally, they also understand the weight of the two gold award winners.

Basically, those who can have two of them are the top actors in the industry, and even many top actors do not have this achievement.

And because of geographical restrictions, it is difficult for Hong Kong and Taiwan actors to win the Golden Rooster, and it is difficult for mainland actors to win the Golden Statue, especially male actors.

Therefore, mainland male actors can often collect all the Golden Horses and Golden Roosters, but they cannot meet the Golden Statues. Hong Kong and Taiwan actors have won several Golden Horses and Golden Roosters, but it is difficult to nominate the Golden Rooster.

So far, only last year's Cheng Long and this year's Cao Xuan have both survived this hell.

Cheng Long is still short of a golden statue, and Cao Xuan is short of a golden horse. Considering the current situation, resources and connections of the two, it is still a great advantage to gather the Grand Slam.

Aside from that, at the year's end of the Golden Horse Awards, Cao Xuan holds two films, "Xiu Chun Knife 2" and "New World".

Until then, many people looked away from Cao Xuan's crazy performances in the music world, and found that Cao Xuan's film and television achievements had reached this point.

The only thing to blame is that Cao Xuan's career as a singer was too successful, so dazzling that it overshadowed all other achievements.

Although everyone has seen many of his movies and TV series, and they are deeply impressed by his roles, when mentioning Cao Xuan, the subconscious first impression is that of a singer.

The so-called success is Xiao He, and failure is Xiao He. The title of Cao Yingdi may not surpass Cao Tianwang in this life.

Unless Cao Xuan wins an Oscar winner, but the probability of this is too small, even the probability of one in ten million is estimated to be less than one.

The Grammys still need to show some face, and there are many things to consider. The Oscars are completely decided by the AFI gang.

Not to mention the Oscar winner slapping the host, even if the Oscar awards ceremony is directly blown up, it is easier to achieve than Cao Xuan winning the Oscar winner...

.........

Mr. Zhou, who had just returned to the crew of "Painted Skin", was massacred.Surrounded by reporters waiting here.

"Congratulations on winning the Best Actress award. Do you have any thoughts? Share with everyone."

"Did you announce the good news to your boyfriend after winning the award? We saw that Da Qi forwarded the news of your award on his blog."

"It was reported that you and Cao Xuan returned to Beijing on the same plane, why didn't you see him come to the set?"

"..."

More than a dozen questions were thrown at his head and face, and half of them were asked of Cao Xuan, which showed the real purpose of this gang of media.

Mr. Zhou also has a temper. He answered the other questions first and said everything was almost done. He made the media jump in anger before expressing it calmly.

"He still has some business in the company, and we separated at the airport. As for when he will join the team, I don't know."

The media wanted to ask more questions, but Mr. Zhou stopped answering. The assistant and the security personnel from the crew of "Painted Skin" came over immediately and fished him out.

Mr. Zhou strolled to the dressing room, Hu Jing with white hair ran over and gave her a hug, congratulating her.

"Congratulations to the coronation of Zhou Daying Queen."

"Same joy, same joy, that actor in your family deserves one-third of your credit."

"A fight, right?"

Hu Jing gave Mr. Zhou a slap. The two of them knew each other when they were filming "Daming Palace Ci", and they met in their infancy. They are true old friends and have not broken up with each other in these years. Although their relationship is not the closest, it has always been very good.

Therefore, Mr. Zhou is also one of the few entertainers who dare to make jokes about "three nights and three flights" in person. If you change someone else, you don't even think about changing careers, and you don't want to get in touch with a project of Fanxing Galaxy.

"By the way, I won't tell you what script meeting your family is attending."

Hu Jing glanced at the door, and said in a low voice, "Actually, there should be wind after a while. Next year, Fanxing and China Film Group are going to make a big production. He will go to a meeting."

"Big production, how big is it, 2 million yuan or 3 million yuan?"

"3 million is just a bottom line!"

Mr. Zhou was stunned. At present, "The Promise" and Lao Mouzi's "Full City with Golden Armor" have the highest investment in domestic films, both of which are about 3 million yuan.

With a base of 3 million yuan, no matter how much it goes up, it is a rare super-big production in the Chinese film industry.

Even though Mr. Zhou knew that he had just won "Painted Skin" and that it was impossible to overwhelm the stars and actresses to snatch an important role, he still couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat.

"What subject matter and script."

Mr. Zhou is going to collect some information, and make some preparations, just in case there is a chance.

Hu Jing didn't care about her small thoughts, anyway, she herself had already determined that she would not play an important heroine in it, and even guessed that Fan Xing and the others had already got the news, so she didn't mind giving Mr. Zhou some information.

"Three Kingdoms, Battle of Chibi."

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"The Battle of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms is a plot familiar to countless audiences. The literary drama and big scenes are very charming, and a large number of popular characters appear on the stage..."

In the meeting room of Fanxing Building, Vice President Ding Ying skillfully used the PPT on the large screen in the meeting room to explain the plan to Cao Xuan and related leaders and persons in charge.

The film, tentatively titled "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff", was prepared as early as the end of last year under the favor of Han Sanye and Cao Xuan, and received strong support from the leaders of a certain bureau and even the propaganda department.

Not to mention, the relevant leaders directly helped to solve the problem of using troops to help with the filming. Within two groups, the crew can negotiate and contact directly.

With the strong support of the leaders, Cao Xuan and Sanye Han are more open.

"Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" is planned to be divided into two volumes, the first and the second.

The main character in the first part is Zhuge Liang, who started filming from Xinye’s retreat, Changbanpo’s solo ride on the savior, drinking off the Dangyang bridge and other famous scenes, and then Lian Sun Kangcao, verbal battle against Confucianism, straw boat borrowing arrows, and finally the official Welcome to the Chibi War.

The protagonist in the lower part is Zhou Yu, Jiang Gan steals the book, counter-plans to kill Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, and Huang Gai sings with Huang Gai, tricks the armored chain, and finally burns Chibi, talking and laughing makes Cao Cao's army disappear.

For script writing, Cao Xuan hired a luxurious scriptwriting team.

Chen Shou, the author of "Three Kingdoms", Sima Guang, the author of "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", Luo Guanzhong, the author of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and other related editors of the history of the Three Kingdoms.

But these people are no longer there, and the screenwriters who are really alive and participating in the script creation are the latter few.

Du Jiafu and Zhu Xiaoguang, the two screenwriters of the 94 version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Well-known historical screenwriter, Liu Heping, screenwriter of "Da Ming Dynasty 1566" and "Yongzheng Dynasty".

Lu Wei, the screenwriter of "Farewell My Concubine" and "To Live", is also among them.

It is worth mentioning that Lu Wei is also one of the screenwriters of "On the Red Cliff" in the original time and space, but according to him, his script has long been abandoned by Wu Baige, and a large part of the final product was not written by him.

The reason why it was abandoned was that Lu Wei himself wanted to dig out the pressure and inner feelings of soldiers such as Zhou Yu of the Eastern Wu Dynasty under the war and the situation at that time. The theme was to fight for faith and independence without fear of violence.

Wu Baige, on the other hand, advocated "Peace" wholeheartedly, paying special attention to Xiao Qiao's role.

Not only did Mengmeng stand up, but in the end Xiao Qiao was also asked to lurk beside Cao Cao as an undercover agent. From a battle for hegemony between the two major power groups in the world, she became a gang boss who snatched horses...

"Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" is basically based on the above-mentioned several screenwriters.

The two in the 94 version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are more of a consultant color, and they don't participate in the creation much, mainly for checks.

It is Liu Heping and Lu Wei who really control the script of the movie. Liu Heping is ranked first, responsible for shaping the strategy and sense of historical thickness, and Lu Wei is ranked last. Under the framework of the historical plot, he digs the heart and glory of the characters.

In addition, there are four Fanxing on-the-job screenwriters to assist. They are all experts in the script creation center under Fanxing. They have all been in charge of a certain project independently, with good ability and experience.

The abilities of Liu Heping and Lu Wei are not to be said, but one of them has a background in historical evidence, the other is a literary film, and "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff" is a major commercial production.

Cao Xuan was afraid that these two would make a move, and the script would be too deep or artistic, so he added four screenwriters.

These have all participated in successful commercial film and television projects, have their own sense and sensitivity to the current film and television market, and can greatly comprehensively balance Liu and Lu, lest they let themselves go.

The screenwriter team has already started creating, and the filming will start next year. There is still time to polish it. Cao Xuan and others are not in a hurry.

On the contrary, the choice of director is the top priority now.

The direction of the script, the preliminary preparations, and the casting and location selection have to be checked by the director himself, not to mention that such a large project has a long cycle and heavy tasks, and it is necessary to select it as soon as possible to avoid delays.

Today we said it was a script meeting, but in fact it was more about discussing director candidates. In comparison, other issues were minor issues.

"How is Brother Chen Kai?"

A China Film executive put forward his own idea, and the scene was silent, and many people directly showed foolish eyes.

Although many people still think that "The Promise" was just an accident, Director Chen was eventually pulled down from the altar.

And the tragic example of "The Promise" is in front of you. It is less than half a year now, and Han Sanye has a headache when he thinks of him. How could he entrust such a big project to him again.

Not to mention Cao Xuan, even if he was the director himself, it would be impossible for Director Chen to waste his money.

"Where's Wu Baige? I heard recently that he has the idea of ​​returning to China for development."

"He has never been exposed to any historical movies, and he has also smashed big productions. I don't like him."

Cao Xuan directly expressed his opposition, and Wu Baige's reputation is not small now. He broke into Hollywood in the late 90s, and "Mission: Impossible 2," even won the global box office championship in 2000.

Judging from the commercial box office experience alone, he is a representative of Chinese directors. The well-known Li An was also ranked behind him before he won the Oscar for Best Director.

Because of this, as soon as Wu Baige returned to China, the original space-time Wu Baige immediately received strong support from China Film Group, and won hundreds of millions of investment to film "Red Cliff".

But now with Cao Xuan, at least Wu Baige can't fool Fanxing.

In order to prevent anyone from taking chances, Cao Xuan directly pointed out the classic record of this former Hollywood player——

Almost bankrupted the Hollywood giant MGM!
In 2002, MGM, which was already in a difficult period of the company, took a big gamble and took out the largest investment in the company's history of 1.2 million U.S. dollars to let Wu Baige film "Wind Talker".

As a result, the box office will reach 3000 million U.S. dollars within three weeks of its release, MGM Pei’s underpants are gone, and the executives directly take the blame and resign, making the already difficult situation even worse.

There is one thing to say, the matter of MGM is very complicated, and Wu Baige cannot be blamed for all the reasons.

However, it is an indisputable fact that "Wind Talker" failed miserably at the box office and gave the precarious MGM a heavy blow.

It is also because of this that Wu Baige, who had developed smoothly in Hollywood, never got a project in Hollywood. He only served as the producer and producer of some projects, and then returned to China to develop.

China Film Group and others subconsciously ignore or take chances on this famous halo filter, even if they may know something about it.

Cao Xuan knew this person's development, and he could understand the opponent's weight better, so he didn't care about the so-called "famous guide halo".

Fanxing is the main controller of the project, Cao Xuan strongly opposed it, Wu Baige would definitely not be selected, some supporters felt a little regretful, and moved out another one.

"How about Li An? He just won the Oscar for Best Director."

Cao Xuan was speechless, he could see that this group of people did have a strong "inferiority" mentality, and those who can achieve great achievements abroad will be given extra points.

Although Cao Xuan himself gained a lot of glory because of this, he didn't like this kind of atmosphere.

"Director Li An's film is a literary film, you give him a few hundred million to test the waters and transform into a business."

"So what if you try."

A senior executive of China Film Group muttered something in a low voice, Cao Xuan frowned, put down the pen in his hand, and looked at Sanye Han with a low voice.

"Han understands, don't blame me for speaking harshly, Fanxing invests 50% of this project, which is earned by me penny by penny, and I am responsible for my own money and the money of all investors.

Since it is a commercial project, it is not making money, and we don't need to hold meetings here. This is not a political achievement project. "

This remark was very rude, and the executives of China Film Group were a little upset, but Han Sanye did not express it.

He knew that what Cao Xuan said was right, many people from the outside world had started to criticize him, just watching a lot of money being thrown out, blockbuster one after another, but the word of mouth was poor.

Although the blockbuster strategy has positively promoted the film market, its negative effects are also obvious.

Because of this, Han Sanye chose to deepen cooperation with Fanxing to create high-quality movies and set an industry benchmark.

Under such circumstances, Cao Xuan sprayed out a few small questions, it's a cooperative meeting, there is no way not to quarrel.

When grabbing the investment share of "Three Kingdoms: Chibi" before, he also patted the table in Cao Xuan's office, swearing a few times in his hometown dialect.

Sanye Han signaled everyone to be calm, and then asked: "Wu Baige and Li An are not suitable, who does Boss Cao think is suitable."

"To be honest, I didn't think about it."

Cao Xuan pondered for a while and added: "However, I personally feel that directors from Hong Kong, Taiwan and foreign countries are not good at shooting historical themes. Many of them have no concept of ancient history at all. If they are forced to shoot, it may be a joke.

So even if Director Xu is the contracted director of our company, I never thought of letting him shoot Three Kingdoms. "

"Hong Kong, Taiwan and foreign countries are not good, so they are mainland directors. Now Xiaogang and Yimou are the ones who are more successful. Are you interested in them?"

Cao Xuan hesitated for a moment: "Personally, I prefer Director Zhang, provided that he doesn't touch the script."

This sentence caused many people on the scene to laugh. Lao Mouzi's screen, scheduling and other director skills have nothing to say, but the story has always been flawed and has become a meme.

And Cao Xuan's proposal also aroused the thinking of many people. To be honest, Lao Mouzi is indeed one of the most suitable candidates to some extent.

Directors from Hong Kong, Taiwan and foreign countries are not suitable. Director Chen passed, and Feng Xiaogang has hardly made any big-scene movies before. In this respect, he is not as trustworthy as Lao Mouzi.

If the old Mouzi can't do it, and few new directors can hold on, then the old directors of the third and fourth generations have to be picked up.

But many people haven't held a guide tube for many years, so whether they can shoot well is a problem. To put it bluntly, the film and television works of their peak period back then are completely different from the current film and television shooting structure.

To take a gamble with the old director, it is better to draw one from Lao Mouzi and Feng Xiaogang.

"Look for Director Zhang, Boss Zhang in the new picture won't have any ideas."

"Count him a share, according to the investment of funds."

Cao Xuan didn't pay attention to this difficult boss Zhang. The film's mastership must be star-studded. He cooperated with Lao Mouzi and invested money according to the rules. Fanxing and China Film Group are not vegetarians either.

If Sanye Han were to sit on a mountain sculpture, Cao Xuan could also be Cao's big stick, but he, Boss Zhang, is definitely not fighting a tiger to go up the mountain...

"I'm not worried about Boss Zhang."

Han Sanye muttered: "The main reason is that Yimou is now the chief director of the Beijing Olympics. Does he have time to make movies?"

Cao Xuan scratched his head. He almost forgot about it. At the beginning of this year, the Organizing Committee of the Beijing Olympic Games formally invited bids for the post of Chief Director.

Many directors participated in the bidding, and Director Chen also staged a famous scene. The sentence "Suddenly spread outside the sword and received Jibei, and the clothes were full of tears when I heard it for the first time" shocked the entire organizing committee, and then was out of the first round without any surprise.

After a competition, Lao Mouzi was still selected, but because of his poor performance in the 8 minutes of the Athens Olympics, many people were not optimistic about him, and even gave Lao Mouzi the name of "National Teacher" as a mockery.

Cao Xuan didn't care about Lao Mouzi's situation, but in this way, he doubted that the other party really had time to film "Three Kingdoms: Red Cliff".

"Let me go back and talk to Director Zhang, and also prepare for the contact work with Director Feng's team."

Feng Xiaogang is not good at history, but the big scenes are not bad. "1942", "Tangshan Earthquake", "Assembly" and other related plots are remarkable. If Lao Mouzi can't get it down, he can only settle for second .

Of course, Cao Xuan doesn't have to stick to these two, and there are also some other directors' alternatives for further comprehensive comparison.

The rest is mainly to discuss investment shares. Fanxing took 50%, China Film took 30%, and the remaining 20% ​​was allocated to various film and television companies.

Because of Fanxing's previous success, and this time being a super-big production, and being led by Fanxing and China Film, the "Three Kingdoms: Chibi" project has been snapped up by the outside world, and everyone will not give up their investment share.

Cao Xuan originally wanted to get dividends, but China Film and other investors would rather agree to give Cao Xuan a total of 1.4 million film remuneration based on the market price, rather than taking dividends to convert the film remuneration.

China Film and Fanxing are discussing how to divide the 20% this time. Each family has its own "relatives and friends". There are more wolves and less meat.

The big head has already been divided before, Han Sanye and Cao Xuan did not participate in this debate, and Han Sanye, who was still worried about the director, thought of another candidate.

"What do you think about letting Jiang Wen shoot?"

"Jiang Wen?"

Cao Xuan quickly shook his head. This person's style is too unique. He was afraid that Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu would eat dumplings and complain about Cao Cao, and then they would kill Meng De together with a knife in hand.

However, when Cao Xuan thought of Jiang Wen, his original decision was suddenly shaken.

"Mr. Han, Mr. Bao is definitely fine playing Cao Cao, but it lacks surprises. What do you think of Jiang Wen playing the role of Cao Cao?"

"Jiang Wen, Cao Cao."

Sanye Han's eyes lit up: "It's interesting."

He was moved, but Cao Xuan hesitated. This guy was too jumpy, and he was afraid that ordinary directors would not be able to restrain him. He was also worried that Cao Cao would "change his taste" and then take the style of the whole movie.

"Let's discuss it later. We'll talk about the director first."

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