From traffic to movie star

Chapter 47 "Forensic Chronicle" Screening

The book "Wuwen Xidong" is very interesting.

A script contains four different short stories, connecting the lives of four generations of people with good qualities through Huaqing's centuries-old spirit of inheritance.

Four different stories, each with its own protagonist.

So to some extent, everyone is the protagonist.

Except for Wang Jiamin, played by Zhai Qing, who has absolute heroine status, in the other three stories, Zhang Guoguo, Shen Guangyao, Wu Linglan, and even Chen Peng, who is in love with Wang Jiamin, these four male characters can be the male protagonists.

This is also one of the reasons why Wei Xun chose to shoot "Wu Wen Xi Dong".

Because this book can impress Zhai Qing, let Huaying come forward to jointly invest, and it can also help him promote his own status.

After "Wuwen Xidong" is released, Wei Xun can not only use the role of Shen Guangyao to declare for the best actor, but also boast that he has played opposite Zhai Yinghou.

With such a resume, when he turns over to be the male lead in the next play, the audience won't feel awkward.

After all, we are also the ones who have worked with Zhai Qing, right?
If you change the script, no matter how much Zhai Qing likes the script, it is impossible for Wei Xun to act as her counterpart.

As for the reason, it is very simple.

The coffee positions between the two are one in the sky and the other in the bottom. Even if Zhai Qing agrees to Wei Xun as her male lead, Huaying Media will definitely not let their first sister carry the sedan chair for a trafficker.

But today, after Jiang Duzhou read the script of "Wuwen Xidong", he anxiously wanted to play the role of Zhang Guoguo, and he also promised Wei Xun that he would bring in Times Pictures to invest. In fact, he played the same role as Wei Xun idea.

Because the story line of Zhang Guoguo is independent, he is fully qualified to apply for the leading role.

With such a high-quality movie script and Zhai Qing's dominance, it might be possible for him to be lucky enough to win a Best Actor trophy for nothing with this script.

How could Jiang Duzhou, who is currently short of awards, be willing to miss out?
So it seems that Wei Xun has been able to deceive Huaying Media and Times Pictures today, but if the quality of "Wuwen Xidong" is not high enough, even if he has the ability to talk like a lotus flower, he will not be able to fool other people's investment.

Jiang Duzhou was in a hurry to go back to discuss the investment with Huaying Media. Seeing that he stood up and was about to withdraw, Shao Bing didn't rush away and asked, "Then who is the director of this film?"

Wei Xun asked directly: "Are you interested in directing?"

Jiang Duzhou, who had already got up, stopped when he heard the words, and also looked at Shao Bing.

Shao Bing replied more directly: "To be honest, I'm not interested, and I only guide the books written by myself."

Hearing this answer, Wei Xun was not surprised.

Although "Wuwen Xidong" is of high quality, it is a delicate literary drama.

This is very different from Shao Bing's own directing style, and as Shao Bing himself said, the films he makes are basically scripts written by himself.

Jiang Duzhou felt a little regretful: "Old Shao, if you don't come to shoot, then I really can't think of others for a while."

"I do have someone to choose. In fact, this is the reason I just said that I want to ask you for help." Wei Xun said: "When I was filming "Forensic Chronicle" last time, I had a good chat with your assistant director Qi Jibo. If you don't mind, I would like to ask him to direct the film."

Qi Jibo?
Shao Bing was a little surprised when he heard that, his eyes swept over Wei Xun's face with deep meaning, and nodded, "As long as Lao Qi agrees, I have no objection, and the company should be fine."

In fact, Shao Bing knew himself as an assistant director very well. He didn't have any outstanding talents, but he was safe, obedient, and temperless.

If Times Pictures and Huaying Media decide to jointly invest in "Wuwen Xidong", then these two media giants should be better than Qi Jibai if they randomly pull out a director who is well-known in the circle.

After all, Qi Jibo is not only not capable enough, but also has not directed a movie independently.

But Wei Xun chose Qi Jibai.

Almost without much thought, Shao Bing came to the conclusion that Qi Jibai should be used as a cover by Wei Xun to take over the position of director. It is very likely that Wei Xun will have the final say when "Wu Wen Xi Dong" is filmed.

After all, Qi Jibai's advantage is that he is obedient.

But since he doesn't plan to touch this movie, Shao Bing doesn't need to meddle in other people's business.

On the other hand, Jiang Duzhou was surprised and said, "You want to choose Lao Qi as the director, no, Lao Qi has no ability..."

Shao Bing pushed Jiang Duzhou to stop his unfinished words, and then smiled at Wei Xun: ""Forensic Medicine Chronicle" is scheduled to be released next Friday, and there will be some screenings on Sunday the day after tomorrow. Do you have time? You can go and have a look. The matter between you and Tianguang will probably be a headache in the future, so I won’t take you with the movie road show, and when it’s officially released, I’ll just go to two promotional activities in Beijing, okay?”

Wei Xun nodded and said, "No problem, just open your mouth when the time comes."

"Okay, then Lao Jiang and I will withdraw first. With the two of us helping out with the investment, I think it's not a big problem."

Shao Bing hammered Wei Xun's shoulder, and said with a smile, "It's not a big deal to terminate the contract, don't hold on, if it really doesn't work, when the time comes, you come to Times Pictures, and Lao Jiang and I will cover you."

Jiang Duzhou smiled and said: "You can have this, Xun Xun, if you come to the era, brother welcomes you with both hands."

Sometimes, the friendship between people is a very wonderful thing.

Obviously Wei Xun, Jiang Duzhou and Shao Bing have not known each other for a long time, but they are very comfortable getting along with each other. These two people are also very righteous, they are definitely reliable brothers.

Although he cheated the two brothers just now.

But brother, isn't it just for cheating.

cough.

In the next two days, Huaying Media and Times Pictures seized the time to evaluate the script of "Wuwen Xidong", and because Zhai Qing and Jiang Duzhou liked the script very much, the boards of directors of the two companies preliminarily approved the project.

Negotiations between Wei Xun and these two companies have also gone smoothly. Seeing that in the past few days, the issue of role assignment has been refined, and the contract can be signed.

But at this time, something happened suddenly.

After the limited screening of "Forensic Chronicle", the news of Wei Xun's participation in the male lead spread like wildfire, sparking heated discussions on the Internet.

Afterwards, some film critics criticized Wei Xun's acting skills as still eye-catching, not only that, but also began to go wrong, even showing off his figure on the big screen to attract attention, which simply ruined the atmosphere of the film industry.

Then, unknown gossip spread wildly that Wei Xun, the second male lead, was the one who used his connections to snatch Zhou Xingchen away.

Almost overnight, Wei Xun fell into a word-of-mouth crisis again.

The male lead of a niche film has caused such a big disturbance. You don't need to guess. This is Dynasty Entertainment taking advantage of the screening of "Forensic Chronicle" and started to make a secret move.

And Wei Xun's wave of online negative comments also made Times Film and Huaying Media, which had negotiated to sign the contract of "Wuwen Xidong", hesitate, and their attitudes were obviously much colder than the previous two days.

Wei Xun had no choice but to buy a screening ticket for "Forensic Chronicle", planning to watch this movie first.

The enemy made another move. He had to watch the movie before launching a big counterattack.

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