My Entertainment Festival

Chapter 68 Public Casting
At the end of September, "Military Division" was finished. At this time, only Zhang Ruoyun and Tang Ting were left as the main actors.After Qi Weibu finished filming the last fight scene, he hurried to the next stop like everyone else.

Jiang Quan also returned directly to Yanjing, and often stayed alone in the company, writing the script.During this period, Sun Honglei's agent and Sun Honglei himself called one after another. The reason was that after reading the script sent by Bai Xiaocong, Sun Honglei directly believed that it was a good script. Come out to play the leading role.

After Jiang Quan got the news, he asked Jing Tian on the phone how long it would take for Sun Honglei's part to wrap up. After getting the answer "soon, soon", he knew that his question was useless.

On the second day of wrapping up, Bai Xiaocong came to the company, and when he saw Jiang Quan, he complained, "Boss, I've become twice as busy when you're not on the set."

Jiang Quan was stunned: "Busy? What's going on? When I left the crew, all the work had already been finished. How busy can I be?"

Bai Xiaocong smiled wryly: "It's not that I'm busy with work. It's that I was panicked by people making noise. Without you on the set, Boss Zhang and Tang Ting are too good at evading people."

"En." Jiang Quan responded lightly, and Bai Xiaocong suddenly felt that he had punched the cotton.

Seeing that Jiang Quan was unmoved, Bai Xiaocong went on to say: "On the day of the finale, Tang Ting officially changed her name to Tang Yixin."

"Oh, remember to write this name on the credits of "Military Division"." Jiang Quan still didn't respond much.Tang Yixin and Zhang Ruoyun, those who are interested may see that this is a couple's name, but Jiang Quan has been in the film crew for several months, do you still need to be careful?
"Boss, at least you give people such a reaction."

"It's something that all crew members can see, why do I need to show surprise?"

"It seems to be the truth."

Jiang Quan showed a confident smile: "Sun Honglei really likes the script you sent him, and he has decided to participate in it."

Bai Xiaocong's eyes widened, and he clapped his hands together: "That's a good relationship!"

"Boss, I really didn't expect that the first movie our company made would be joined by a big star. With the capital flow, I think our movie will definitely win!"

After hearing Bai Xiaocong's rhetoric, Jiang Quan poured cold water on him without hesitation: "Don't get carried away, the heroine's problem has not been resolved yet."

Bai Xiaocong nodded, then shook his head violently: "The female lead is indeed a big problem, but as long as there are male leads and villains to set off, even an amateur with no acting skills, I can make her beat the heroines of the same period."

Infected by Jiang Quan, the current Bai Xiaocong is so confident in his directing ability that he is conceited.

Before filming "Military Division", I was somewhat apprehensive, but now the only feeling of apprehension has disappeared with the completion of "Military Division".He is a professional director with decades of accumulated knowledge and experience. If he is like those rookie directors, the protagonist's acting skills are not good, and he insists on his performance, highlighting the weakness of the protagonist's acting skills, then he can really write in his own script I knelt down and apologized.

"Don't be like this, I trust your ability. We didn't have the chance to choose a heroine before, but now we have the chance, so naturally we have to keep improving." Seeing Bai Xiaocong's impassioned look, Jiang Quan smiled to calm him down.

Bai Xiaocong was also attracted by Jiang Quan's last words at this time: "Boss, do you think we have another chance to choose a heroine now?"

Jiang Quan agreed: "In the past we were unknown, and when we didn't need a lot of remuneration, it wasn't us who picked the heroine, but the heroine picked us. But now it's different. With Sun Honglei joining in, we actively choose each other. The right is in our hands. After all, most people have preconceived ideas that it is easier to become popular when they cooperate with big names, and they don’t even care about the script when they see big names.”

"Boss, I always feel that you are alluding to Boss Jing." Bai Xiaocong subconsciously looked out the window worriedly.

"Is there?" Jiang Quan listened to Bai Xiaocong's words, and after thinking about it, it seemed that it was really easy to be misunderstood.Jing Tian in the other world is totally looking for cooperation with whoever is the most popular at that time. "Latent" became popular, so I asked Sun Honglei to cooperate, and "Ip Man" became popular, so I asked Donnie Yen to cooperate.Completely ignoring the unbelievable adobe-like script.

"Let's go against her. It's not because of who is angry, we go to whom. It's because everyone thinks we have a chance of being angry, so let everyone come to us."

"Well, I know." If Bai Xiaocong didn't understand Jiang Quan anymore, he would really be in the film and television industry for nothing.What Jiang Quan has to do is to gain an absolute advantage.

Jiang Quan read the script again, and it read "This killer is not too cold" on it.Jiang Quan is concerned about the general direction of entertainment in this world, while Bai Xiaocong is more concerned about the lack of classic movies in this world.

Bai Xiaocong has been thinking about recreating classic scripts since he first came to this world, but he has no connections or resources, and his plans all along are just fantasy.Until he was approached by Jiang Quan, all the plans could finally be implemented step by step. The first thing he showed was "This Killer Is Not So Cold", which he liked most in his previous life.

Of course, the original script of "This Killer Is Not So Cold" must not be reviewed in China. After two overhauls by Bai Xiaocong and one overhaul by Jiang Quan, the two of them checked again and again before they dared to submit the revised script for review.

For example, there is a huge age difference between the male and female protagonists in the original work, and the female protagonist is even underage, and even the female protagonist has a vague ignorance of the male protagonist.Here Bai Xiaocong is directly changed to the heroine who has suffered domestic violence since she was a child and lacks fatherly love. After her family is ruined and her family is destroyed, the heroine just makes up for the missing fatherly love in the heroine.

Another example is that the hero of the original work is a current professional killer. In order to pass the trial, Jiang Quan set the hero as a former professional killer. The master changed his mind, and from then on, Jinpan washed his hands and vowed to be an ordinary person.

The most important thing is the background of the story. It is definitely not acceptable to put it in modern China. Jiang Quan and Bai Xiaocong discussed for a while, and directly set the background of the story in the northeast of the enemy-occupied area in the Republic of China.In this way, the story is completely localized.

The story has changed drastically, and the personalities of the main characters will naturally have to change drastically.In the end, Jiang Quan and Bai Xiaocong repeatedly deliberated and verified, corrected the loopholes in the plot, and finally got a completely localized script.The two can confidently say that no one will feel that the film has traces of Westernization when it is made according to the revised script.

After filming "Military Division", the two discussed the script of the movie again, and came to the same conclusion: the heroine is open for casting!

(End of this chapter)