Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1187 The name of the new play

If Mai Jia hadn't been with Lin Daoqiu for long enough, everyone would think that Mai Jia said this to disgust Lin Daoqiu.

It's not good to ask someone to be the director. Mai Jia actually recommended Sammo Hung to be the director in front of Lin Daoqiu. Isn't this making Lin Daoqiu look bad?
When Lin Daoqiu heard what Mai Jia said, his face was very calm.

Because before that, he had already guessed that the other party would recommend Sammo Hung as the director.

I have to say that Maijia's proposal is indeed the most appropriate and pertinent.

How can I say that Sammo Hung is also the big brother of the Xiangjiang film industry, there are many people who are older than him, but everyone should give him face.

And the lead actor Jackie Chan is still his younger brother, and when Sammo Hung is the director, Jackie Chan naturally dare not be disobedient.

As for supporting roles or guest stars, with Sammo Hung around, he can naturally arrange it properly.

The Lunar New Year films that were made before, such as "Five Lucky Stars", "Oriental Condor", and "Extraordinary Train", these have a large number of stars participating in the performances, which shows that Sammo Hung is indeed capable of coordinating everything.

But even if Hong Jinbao has all kinds of good things, if Lin Daoqiu is to decide on him as the director, Lin Daoqiu really can't make this decision.

"If you have any other opinions, please let us know."

Lin Daoqiu did not agree or reject Maijia's proposal, he wanted to see if there were other candidates.

Not to mention better than Sammo Hung, it doesn't matter even if it's a bit worse, as long as it's on the passing line.

Then the people at the scene began to recommend their own candidates for the director. From Chu Yuan and Zhang Che, to Mai Jia and Yuan Heping, they recommended everyone, and some even recommended Wang Jing to be the director.

Apart from Sammo Hung, it seems that everyone has also found a way to set a unified standard, and each has someone in his heart that he wants to recommend.

After this meeting, a conclusion was not reached in the end, but in the end, a few people surfaced.

Sammo Hung, Mai Ka, Chu Yuan, Yuan Heping, generally speaking, these people are the most discussed ones, except for them, only Lin Daoqiu is the most suitable to direct this drama.

Back in the office, just looking at the expression on Lin Daoqiu's face, he knew that he was not in a good mood at the moment.

Wen Jun, Zheng Danrui and Wang Jing followed closely into Lin Daoqiu's office.

"Brother Qiu, I think it's better to choose Director Chu. He has high qualifications and seniority, and he can be flexible in filming, and we can also assist from the side. It will definitely be no problem."

In Wen Jun's view, as long as Sammo Hung is not allowed to be the director, he doesn't care whoever becomes the director.

Wang Jing originally wanted to join in the fun, but when he compared himself with those directors on the list, Wang Jing still kept silent, and didn't even have the idea of ​​competing.

After all, not only in terms of seniority and seniority, he is not as good as those on the list, and his box office success is not as high as the other party's.

If he wanted to participate in the director's competition this time, he would at best be a spoiler.

"Director Chu Yuan's qualifications and seniority are fine, but he is not suitable to be the director of this movie."

Lin Daoqiu vetoed Wen Jun's proposal without even thinking about it. The director of this drama can't just be a senior with seniority.

When Lin Daoqiu said this, Wen Jun was speechless and had to lower his head.

"Brother Qiu, how about asking Ba Ye to be the director of this movie?"

Since Chu Yuan was not suitable, Zheng Danrui felt that it would not be a big problem for Yuan Heping to direct the play.

But Lin Daoqiu shook his head directly. Yuan Heping was going to take him to Baodao to film "Royal Senior Sister". This matter had been settled before.

And it's not very suitable for Yuan Heping to direct this movie, after all, this movie is not a pure action movie.

With Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao present, Lin Daoqiu didn't need to worry about the action of this drama at all.

Neither Chu Yuan nor Yuan Heping was suitable, and Wen Jun and the others didn't know who to mention. After all, the remaining candidates were not necessarily better than Chu Yuan and Yuan Heping.

"Forget it, let Mai Jia be the chief director of this film, and arrange a few directors for him to assist him."

Lin Daoqiu really couldn't think of any good candidates, so he decided to let Mai Jia direct the play.

Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui would naturally not object to this, after all, Mai Jia is also one of his own, and it is the best choice for New Oriental to let him direct.

And the next day, when the news came out that Mai Jia became the chief director of the new play, many people were surprised by it, but most of them thought it was reasonable.

Their ideas are almost the same as those of Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui. New Art City is a subsidiary of New Oriental, and Mai Jia has been with Lin Daoqiu since the establishment of New Oriental.

Letting him be the director of this play is a compromise solution. It's not the best choice, but it's certainly not the worst one.

In addition to Mai Jia, the chief director, Teddy Robin, Yuan Kui, Cheng Xiaodong, and Wang Jing have all become members of the director team.

It can be seen that Lin Daoqiu is still very concerned about this drama of the Performing Arts Association, and has arranged so many directors for Mai Jia to assist him.

As the chief director, Mai Jia had to discuss with Lin Daoqiu about the new play before he left Xiangjiang.

After all, Lin Daoqiu will be going to Baodao for three months, and by then the film should have already entered the filming stage.

Before Lin Daoqiu left, Maijia wanted to ask clearly what Lin Daoqiu thought about this drama.

"Mr. Lin, I heard that you had people build a Kowloon Walled City on the set of Fushan Road. I heard that it will take at least four months to complete. In fact, you don't need to be in such a hurry to appoint a director."

Mai Jia had heard people talk about this matter before, and he thought that even if Lin Daoqiu needed to stay in Treasure Island for three months, when he came back, the Kowloon Walled City might not have been built yet, so he didn't need to be so anxious to put it away. The director decides.

"Four months for the Kowloon Walled City is too long. I have asked them to shorten the construction period to one month."

Lin Daoqiu's original expectation was to build a very good Kowloon Walled City.

But after he thought about it carefully, after the Kowloon Walled City was built, he would stay on the set of Fushan Road.

When I want to shoot such a scene in Tseung Kwan O, wouldn't it be necessary to rebuild the Kowloon Walled City?

Money is still a small problem, but the problem is that time will be wasted a lot, so Lin Daoqiu changed his mind and shortened the construction period to one month, just shoot one look, and the scenes in the room are still done in the way of scenery, This way you won't waste too much time.

"So that's the case. If that's the case, then what kind of name does Mr. Lin plan to name this play?"

What Lin Daoqiu thought of before was to name this drama "New 72 Tenants".

But now the blueprint of the story no longer uses "72 Tenants", so the name can't use that.

As for what kind of name to choose, Lin Daoqiu didn't even think about it himself. When Mai Jia asked him this question, Lin Daoqiu immediately fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)