The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 159 Standing for the director

Hearing Zhang Ruoyun's frustrated words, Sun Li held the coffee in her hand and gave him a funny look: "According to what you said, most of the screenwriters are going to commit suicide. This is the first time I've seen this type of script. You There is no need to belittle ourselves, we are all ordinary people and cannot be compared with geniuses."

Although she only filmed the scene for a few days, Sun Li is still very satisfied with Zhang Ruoyun's acting skills, with quick responses and good lines. Even among all the young actors she has come into contact with, Zhang Ruoyun belongs to the best group, and It can be seen that this young actor has a lot of ideas about filming, and maybe one day he will become a director across industries.

This made her sigh that the casting of the crew was very careful. She originally thought that after she and Deng Chao, DreamWorks would probably find young traffic or related accounts to act in the play. Deng Chao said that if it was him, he would She will do this, so Zhang Ruoyun's performance and the level of the crew surprised her a little.

In particular, the director Tian Xinye carefully crafted every shot, and even had a prepared script for every actor to read. This is quite new to her. Sun Li can feel that the whole crew is almost shooting a movie. filming this show.

The few people chatted and laughed for a long time until Deng Chao shivered a little and got into the RV. The weather became cooler in the evening, and it was raining today, and it was windy, wet and cold. The play is indeed a bit difficult.

The filming of this scene means the end of work, Deng Chao said while trembling: "Director Chen, didn't you mean to invite us to eat hot pot? Hurry up, I miss it again after two days without eating, this weather is the most suitable for hot pot. "

Chen Jingxing got up with a smile and opened the car door, went to Tian Xinye and transformed himself, picked up a guide tube and shouted: "Tonight I invite everyone to eat hot pot, the place has been booked, the address will be posted in the group later, I want to Go back to the hotel after eating and washing up, the sooner you go, the better the location!"

Chen Jingxing was going back to Beijing tomorrow, so he decided to treat the whole crew to a hot pot meal before returning.

The "Signal" TV series is definitely a big project in terms of the amount of funds, and the production cost is nearly [-] million, which is more than "Source Code".

The main reason is that the proportion of salary is a bit high. Sun Li’s salary alone has reached 2500 million. In fact, this is already a discounted price for friendship. When she was filming "Hot Mom" ​​last year, her salary had already reached 3000. Ten thousand.

Purely out of love for the script, the salary was reduced to 2500 million. Of course, the superficial reason is that the number of episodes of "Signal" is small, only 24 episodes, but the shooting time will not be longer than those [-], [-], [-] or [-] episodes. There are few TV series.

With Sun Li's status, it is entirely possible to propose not to calculate the pay based on the number of episodes, and with the current trend of skyrocketing pay, there are many projects in the market that ask Sun Li for an episode of 200 million.

For the price of 2500 million, Chen Jingxing felt that it was quite a bargain. In front of the TV station, Sun Li's name was more than 2500 million. The TV station's purchase intention and purchase price were completely different between the dramas with Sun Li and the dramas without Sun Li.

In addition to Sun Li, Deng Chao's salary is also as high as 1500 million, which is of course much less than Sun Li. This is the current TV drama ecology, which is different from the film actors' pay.

Sun Li is currently the most commercially valuable TV drama actor, bar none.

Zhang Ruoyun's salary is less than 500 million, plus other actors' salary, the actor's salary alone exceeds 5000 million, accounting for more than half of the production cost.

Such a large-scale production directly handed over to Tian Xinye would obviously make many people worry. Naturally, Chen Jingxing couldn't be a hand-off shopkeeper. He also signed up as a producer and followed the crew to the mountain city to shoot.

In fact, Xu Wenshen and even Huanshi.com and other shareholders suggested that Chen Jingxing and Tian Xinye should co-direct the first or first two episodes, and learn how Hollywood film directors "go down to earth" to operate TV drama platforms. This is also conducive to the development of TV dramas. Publicity, especially online publicity.

However, Chen Jingxing immediately rejected this proposal. Hollywood TV drama directors themselves are tool people, but Tian Xinye is not a tool person in his eyes. For capable talents, Chen Jingxing is willing and hopes to respect them.

Now that the director has already selected Tian Xinye, there is no need for Chen Jingxing to steal other people's credit and limelight, he himself is not short of limelight.

The main purpose of Chen Jingxing staying with the crew for a few days this time is actually to give Tian Xinye a platform and help him smooth out the relationship with the crew. After all, he is the original crew of the "Signal" crew. Naturally, Chen Jingxing can hold on. Airborne directors with strong qualifications may not be able to hold back.

It's not necessarily that someone deliberately dislikes Tian Xinye, it can only be said that people's hearts are like this, which is completely normal.

After seeing that Tian Xinye's relationship with the film crew and several leading actors was on the right track, Chen Jingxing decided to return to Beijing.

In fact, he hid in the crew for the past few days to avoid the shareholders who came to the office every day to talk to him about the "Gravity" project.

But he really couldn't hide anymore, not only Xu Wenshen's urging, but also an email from Universal, tactfully asking why the "Gravity" project has not been approved yet, and at the same time admitting that the schedule of the Legacy special effects team has expired. It's free, hope to start the project soon.

Although Firefly Publishing Company in North America already belongs to DreamWorks, Universal is still more concerned about the special effects production of "Gravity" as one of the conditions of exchange. Although they are not worried that Chen Jingxing will break the contract, after all normal people know the truth Annoyed Universal, he may not be able to help you get things done, but bad things are more than enough.

Chen Jingxing also decided to start the "Gravity" project as soon as possible, because there is no need to delay it. Judging from the attitudes of various parties that Xu Wenshen passed on, all parties have basically made a final decision on the willingness to invest in this project. There will be no more repetitions.

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In Beijing, Chen Zhonghuai, CEO of Penguin Pictures and Penguin Video Network, looked at the document in his hand and smiled, picked up a pen and signed it.

Jiang Hongwei, the vice president of Penguin Pictures, asked hesitantly: "According to the previous evaluation, the risk of the project "Gravity" is a bit scary. Lianhe Cinemas and Tianrun both rejected it straightforwardly."

Even for Penguin Pictures, which is rich and powerful, the investment of hundreds of millions of yuan is not a small amount.

Chen Zhonghuai smiled after hearing Jiang Hongwei's tactful remonstrance, and asked, "Old Jiang, do you think Chen Jingxing, a talented director, has any signs of exhaustion?"

Jiang Hongwei thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I had such an idea before, but after reading the rough cut version of "Source Code", I temporarily dismissed this idea."

Although the post-production special effects of "Source Code" have not been finished, the rough cut version has already come out, and Jiang Hongwei has naturally watched it. Even as a professional in the film and television industry, he has to sigh "Big hole, shocking people's hearts".

(End of this chapter)