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Chapter 150 Strange Urban Magical Drama

This year's National Day file has a spoiler - Jackie Chan's "Baby Project".

To say that at this time Jackie Chan's appeal is really unique.

It will be released across Asia on September 9, with 28 million in the first week of its base on Hong Kong Island. After the National Day holiday, the mainland received 179 million, firmly sitting at the top of the National Day file.

"Night Banquet" followed with 3000 million.

Therefore, "Falling Leaves Returning to the Roots" was released after the holiday, which attracted very limited attention.

But with Uncle Zhao's high audience popularity, the premiere will not be left out in front of the door.

"This story comes from a news report last year. I found it very interesting, so I started to adapt it." Cheng Yu'an replied to the reporter, "I am not the protagonist today, but Mr. Hou and "Falling Leaves Return to Root". If you have any questions, you can ask Hou more teacher."

"Falling Leaves Return to Roots" has a good story and many stars, but from a commercial point of view, it's really impossible for this film to be a big hit.

Because "Falling Leaves Returning to Roots" is not very entertaining, and it is not as fragrant and interesting as the later "Heart Blossoms on the Road".

The motivation of the story of "Heart Blossoms on the Road" is that Hao Yi deliberately took Geng Hao on the road to pick up girls in order to let Geng Hao get out of the shadow of divorce.It's down-to-earth from the start.

But "Falling Leaves Return to Root" is not. The starting point of its story is a solemn promise between friends, and carrying corpses for thousands of miles is not as pleasing as picking up girls for thousands of miles.

Hou Ke's acceptance of this film was not entirely aimed at the box office.

It's best to get the box office, if you can't reach the high box office, of course you can get back the money.

Hou Keming also said the same at the premiere.

Cheng Yu'an sat at the scene for a while and then left. This press conference does not require him to stand on the platform.

Uncle Zhao and Hou Keming's contacts in the industry for decades are not fake, Cheng Yu'an may not be able to invite so many people.

"Road movies are still a niche genre in China. I thought Director Hou would be unfamiliar with movies for a long time, and he would be unfamiliar with techniques, but this film gave me a big surprise."

"Ke Ming has never made a comedy film before. I didn't expect that his cooperation with Zhao Benshan, Guo Degang and Song Dandan would be so harmonious. Choosing to use comedy to interpret such a deep theme, I have to say the boldness and innovation of the two masters and apprentices Hou Cheng .”

"This film brings together some domestic celebrities, Zhao Benshan, Guo Degang, Hu Jun, Song Dandan, Xia Yu, Liao Fan, Guo Tao. It is reported that except for Zhao Benshan, the rest of the actors are free to help."

In fact, it can't be said that, there is no salary, but Cheng Yu'an still gave each of them a red envelope afterwards.

"Falling Leaves Return to Roots" focuses on niche road themes, and the industry is very optimistic about Hou Keming's attempt.

Adding the finished film is really good, so after the screening, various media and experts affirmed it.

However, this film is destined to be popular or not, and the box office on the first day was only an ordinary 75 yuan.

The next day, Cheng Yu'an went to see Li Gongda, the deputy director of the literature department of the TV drama production center of CCTV.

After "Lotus Lantern", Yao Yuan has become much closer to him.

This time Li Gongda has a new notebook to cooperate with remotely.

According to the people in the company, it is a strange urban magic TV series.

The name sounds awkward, urban magic, and Cheng Yuan came to Li Gongda's Tianxingji full of doubts.

"Teacher Li, Director Yu." Cheng Yu'an met the golden pair of Li Gongda and Yu Mingsheng in Tianxingji.

According to the original direction of time and space, "Lotus Lantern" was originally a project of Tianxingji, but it was intercepted remotely now.

So Cheng Yu'an was a little embarrassed to see the two of them.

Li Gongda got straight to the point: "We have a new script, and we hope to cooperate with Remote."

Li Gongda is a gold medal producer of CCTV. He has no shortage of funds and people, and he is willing to cooperate with him remotely if he has a new project. He just wants to make friends with the director Cheng Yu'an.

Cheng Yu'an did not agree, saying that he would read the script first.

Yu Mingsheng handed over the script, Cheng Yuan saw it, and his eyelids twitched:
"Magic Phone".

Can this film fall on my own head?

Cheng Yu'an read the synopsis and the scripts of the previous episodes, and said, "Isn't it good to joke about Journey to the West?"

Not a good ghost!

He has no psychological burden, he just wants to lower the price.

"Is this joke a little too big?" Cheng Yu'an expressed his "worries".

Li Gongda said: "We also had this worry when we first made this script, fearing that the audience would not accept such a joke. But then I thought, "Journey to the West" can be uploaded, why can't we upload it."

"Journey to the West" can be called an S-level script, and it has deconstructed the mythical system of Journey to the West.

If it weren't for the limited funds and the helpless insertion of so many ghosts and animals to delay the time, this film would be a godsend.

"The deconstruction of "Magic Phone" is really nothing compared to "Journey to the West"."

Cheng Yu'an continued to criticize: "But your script is suspected of plagiarism. You see, Zhu Bajie is wearing a leather jacket and riding a Harley motorcycle, which is obviously "Terminator"; and Monkey King dodges bullets. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell it is Keanu Reeves I'm afraid I'll be scolded when I come out."

This thorn left the two of them speechless, and finally forced to explain: "This is a comedy, and we did it for the comedy effect, and it cannot be called plagiarism. Cheng Dao can be regarded as a kind of ridicule of classic movies."

After Cheng Yuan got the script, he decided to vote for this TV series. The purpose of the challenge was nothing more than to get more investment: "This drama can be tried remotely. I don't know what the budget of the two of you is."

Yu Mingsheng took over the words: "We roughly calculated the cost of this show. The special effects are relatively expensive. The total cost should be around 1500 million. We will transfer the investment of 400 million to Remote at most."

Cheng Yu'an's thorn in the side for so long was not because of the 400 million: "400 million is too little." Cheng Yu'an shook his head.

"In this way, we will send out the crew remotely, and we will also find the actors. How about accounting for the 800 million investment?" Cheng Yu'an opened his mouth, asking for more than half of the share.

The two of Li Yu resolutely refused, the idea was theirs, they couldn't find any crew or actors on CCTV, Cheng Yu'an asked for 800 million yuan, what a mess!

But the two thought for a while and said, "It's fine if you need 800 million for the remote, but we have one condition."

"Teacher Li, tell me."

"If Director Cheng insists on asking for 800 million, it's fine, but you have to direct "Magic Phone" yourself." Li Gongda was more greedy than Cheng Yu'an.

La Venice's best director and annual box office runner-up to make a TV series for him!
To put it bluntly, Cheng Yu'an really wants to take on a foreign film now, and his director's salary is more than 800 million.

Cheng Yu'an resolutely refused to agree, he never sold himself so cheaply.

It's almost the same if you add a 1 in front.

In the end, both parties took a step back, and Remote was responsible for the selection of actors. Cheng Yuan was named as the producer, and Remote won 700 million investment shares.

In fact, Cheng Yu'an's previous worries were not unreasonable. When the show premiered on CCTV in 08, Douban scored 3.6 points.

There was a lot of scolding, and it was directly labeled "Leiju".

But 14 years later, when the children who watched the show grew up, coupled with the background of their peers, the show actually soared to 8.3 points.

The success of this drama also pushed Shu Chang to another peak in her career.

The first peak was in the past two years. After "Lotus Lantern" became popular, Shu Chang's popularity was second only to Liu Yifei.

The three briefly discussed the cooperation details, Cheng Yu'an did not change roles, and tried to maintain the original team.

After another simple meal, the three of them dispersed.

(End of this chapter)