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Chapter 127 The best road movie

After 4 months of shooting, Feng Xiaogang's blockbuster "Night Banquet" has finally wrapped up.

Compared with the startup, the shutdown ceremony of "The Banquet" is much simpler.

Only a ceremony was held within the crew, the media was not invited, but the crew had a meal together.

The specific news was revealed by Xu Li, vice president of Huayi.

During the Lunar New Year last year, I just watched "The Promise", "Clues of Time and Space" and "King Kong" fighting.

But Feng Xiaogang's absence did not make the Lunar New Year festival lack of laughter. Everyone was busy watching the jokes in "The Promise".

Feng Xiaogang's blockbuster is ready to go.

Cheng Yu'an, who just won 1.7 million box office, has not moved yet.

Through this Lunar New Year campaign, Cheng Yu'an has been fully recognized by the market.

It has also firmly established its position as a domestic first-line director.

No one can ignore the 24-year-old anymore.

Cheng Yu'an no longer has to solicit investment everywhere for making movies, and finally someone took the initiative to give him money.

Huayi, China Film, Shanghai Film Group, and even Xiying Film Group waved their money and asked him when he would make a blockbuster movie.

The most exaggerated one was Bernard Yu Dong, who directly said that if Cheng Yu'an wanted to make a blockbuster, he would pay 1 million.

But Cheng Yu'an didn't accept the call, and directly released the word that he will not make so-called blockbuster films this year, and the focus of this year's work will be on the construction of the company's distribution department and the training of new directors.

Yes, after experiencing box office theft, Long-distance Media is going to set up its own distribution department.

Han Sanping said that she wanted to thoroughly investigate the matter, but after such a long time, China Film still did not give a specific statement.

Cheng Yu'an knew that this matter was just muddled through.

So the aunt and nephew started to form their own publishing team.

As for training new directors, an important reason is that Cheng Er quit.

He is undoubtedly an excellent director, but he is not a qualified tool man.

He is too thoughtful and stubborn and arrogant.

He didn't want to take "Sunflower" before, he didn't like such a superficial story.

When filming "Sunflower", firstly, he was living in poverty at the time and needed generous compensation from remote media, and secondly, he wanted to meet his idol Andy Lau.

After the filming of "Sunflower", Cheng Er turned to his own script "The Third Man".

This film got the shooting permit as early as 03, and it took a long time to start this year.

Then Cheng Er ignored Cheng Yu'an.

As a result, Cheng Yu'an's directors were not enough.

Guo Fei has already switched producers and basically stopped filming. Huang Ke is on the set of "Soldier Assault", Ning Hao is still working on the later stage of "Crazy Stone", and Han Yan is busy with his graduation short film, so he has no time to help him.

Young directors are unreliable, so they can only find someone from the older generation of directors.

It just so happened that Cheng Yu'an had a script suitable for directors of the older generation.

"Falling Leaves Return to Roots".

In Cheng Yu'an's mind, there is no one of the best domestic road movies.

This story originated from a report in Southern Weekend, which tells the story of a migrant worker who carried his corpse back to his hometown for burial.

So I set out to adapt the story.

So our director Cheng licked his face and came to the academy.

He wanted to ask Tian Zhuang to direct the play.

"Here we come." Tian Zhuang saw him coming, still holding the script in his hand, "The efficiency is very high, "Clues to Time and Space" has a new script within two months of its release."

Cheng Yu'an handed over the script and explained why he came: "Teacher Tian, ​​please read this book."

Tian Zhuang lit a cigarette and watched while smoking.

After a while, he said, "It's a good story, is it lack of money or actors?"

"There is no shortage of money and actors, but there is a shortage of directors." Cheng Yu'an showed his fox tail, "I want to ask you to do this play."

Tian Zhuangzhuang refused without thinking: "I don't have time, I have to work on "Wu Qingyuan" and I can't get away. There are also a few other film producers and supervisors, so I really don't have time. It's a pity."

Tian Zhuang likes the story of "Falling Leaves Return to Roots".

"How about you wait for me for a year, and I will set aside time to shoot next year."

"No," Cheng Yu'an shook his head, "I haven't scheduled any projects for this year, and I want to put "Falling Leaves Returning to the Roots" on November this year."

Just as he was talking, Hou Keming came in from the door with a thermos cup: "What a pity, the two of you are sighing here." He took a sip of strong tea.

"Is there a new play? Come, let me see." Hou Keming saw Cheng Yu'an's script in Tian Zhuang's hand.

Cheng Yuan's eyes lit up, and he immediately climbed up the pole: "Teacher, take a look at this."

Hou Keming took the script and read it: "It's a very good script for a road movie. What are you looking for, Mr. Tian?"

"I want to ask him to make this movie, but he doesn't have time. Hey, Mr. Hou, you don't have time to direct the movie yourself, do you?" Cheng Yu'an pulled a stool and moved closer.

Hou Keming knew Cheng Yu'an too well, as soon as Cheng Yu'an pouted his butt, he knew what shit he was going to do: "Why, you miss me because you can't pick up Mr. Tian?"

"What do you mean I have no time to direct a movie? Didn't I just finish filming a movie last year?"

Hou Keming made a TV series last year called "Nie Huo", which will be broadcast this year.

"I'm talking about movies. After 90 years, you haven't made movies, have you?" Cheng Yu'an laughed.

Hou Keming co-produced "Strange Marriage and Strange Things" with others in 90. This movie did not arouse much response, and he never touched the movie again.

The focus of Hou Keming's work has always been on film teaching and academic research, and he has also worked as a supervisor and producer.

It has been more than ten years now, and I have only filmed 4 TV series.

As far as the director's identity is concerned, Hou Ke's low-yielding film cannot be lower-yielding.

"If you are interested, we, master and apprentice, can cooperate?" Cheng Yu'an hit the snake with a stick.

It’s good that Cheng Yu’an didn’t say that. After he said that, Hou Keming realized that he hadn’t made a movie for more than ten years.

Tian Zhuangzhang smoked at the side, and persuaded: "Old Hou, this story is not shabby, you can pick it up if you want, you haven't made a movie for more than ten years, don't your hands itch? I really don't have time this year, otherwise this Can I give you a good book?"

Cheng Yu'an raised fire from the side: "Teacher, don't think about it, you have to be impulsive and passionate in making a movie, and if you think too much, it will delay things."

"I didn't say not to shoot." Hou Keming was still moved.

"That's it." Cheng Yu'an knew that the matter was settled, "I'll be the producer for you, and the two of us, master and apprentice, will join forces, and it will be a good story to tell."

Hou Ke said with a smile: "The good story is also because of your credit. "Clues to Time and Space" sold for 1.7 million yuan. I can't fail to sell it at such a high price."

Cheng Yuan's score of 1.7 million made Hou Keming's face greatly embarrassing in the academy.

Everyone knows that Cheng Yu'an is his most proud student.

"Don't worry, it's not a problem for this film to sell for 4000 to [-] million. If it's not complete, you can get an award." Cheng Yu'an said something nice.

To be honest, the film "Falling Leaves Returning to Roots" really didn't sell 8000 to 4000 million yuan, but Cheng Yu'an is still sure to do it if it sells for [-] to [-] million yuan.

"How much are you going to vote for this film? Who are you going to cast?" Hou Keming asked.

"I originally thought that if Mr. Tian couldn't direct, I would ask him to play the leading role. Now it seems that Mr. Tian has no time."

Tian Zhuang ignored him while smoking a cigarette.

"I'm going to ask Uncle Zhao to play."

"Honsugi?"

"Well, he has this kind of simple migrant worker temperament, so you don't need to play it deliberately." Cheng Yu'an still respected Yuan Shikong's casting, and Zhao Benshan's performance in "Falling Leaves Returning to the Root" is really good, so there is no need to change it.

(End of this chapter)