Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 1648
While Lin Daoqiu and Tsui Hark were still talking, there was a sudden knock on the door.

After Lin Daoqiu responded, Fang Jinsheng opened the door and walked in and said to Lin Daoqiu.

"Miss Wang is here."

The Miss Wang mentioned by Fang Jinsheng refers to Wang Zuxian, who was invited to New Oriental by Lin Daoqiu today.

During the absence of Lin Daoqiu, Wang Zuxian was not idle. In addition to guest roles in the movie of New Art City, Luo Wei also took the initiative to invite her to play the leading role in a movie called "Heartbeat".

This is a very ordinary literary and artistic romance film, and of course the box office is also very average. After two weeks of release, it only got 300 million box office results.

Including overseas sales, Luo Wei can probably earn hundreds of thousands of dollars from this drama, which is not without merit.

If you want to find one of the biggest highlights from this drama, it is Wang Zuxian, who was born in the basketball school team, and showed off her basketball skills in the movie.

In fact, in 86, Wang Zuxian should have returned to Baodao and co-produced a movie called "Fragrant Grass and Green Sky" with Qi Qin.

It is precisely because of the relationship between this drama and movie that Wang Zuxian and Qi Qin came together.

But in this life, because Wang Zuxian has joined the relationship with New Oriental, it is impossible for her to participate in that play.

The heroine of the play "Fragrant Grass and Green Sky" was naturally replaced by someone else. As for whether the new heroine will become a couple with Qi Qin, only God knows.

"Mr. Lin, Director Xu."

After Wang Zuxian entered the door, she found that Tsui Hark was also there besides Lin Daoqiu, and she hurriedly greeted them.

In fact, when he was preparing to shoot "Swordsman", Tsui Hark got inspiration from Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio and wanted to remake "Nie Xiaoqian" from Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio.

As early as 60 years ago, Li Hanxiang, who was in Shaw Brothers, once filmed a version of "A Chinese Ghost Story".

And here "A Chinese Ghost Story" is adapted from "A Chinese Ghost Story" by a miscellaneous house in the Yuan Dynasty. Li Hanxiang adapted "Nie Xiaoqian" into "A Chinese Ghost Story".

At that time, Li Hanxiang wanted to make a film that could hit the international film awards, so he specially selected this passage for adaptation. At that time, the director of that film was Li Hanxiang, and the assistant director was Hu Jinquan.

This time Tsui Hark asked Ruan Jizhi to write the script of "A Chinese Ghost Story", Tsui Hark planned to be the producer, and the director asked Cheng Xiaodong to do it.

Tsui Hark is still very satisfied with "A Chinese Ghost Story" written by Ruan Jizhi, but he is now stuck in the choice of the two protagonists.

Like the previous life, Tsui Hark wanted to find Leslie Cheung to play Ning Caichen. I wonder if it was because he was not able to invite him to play "Swordsman", which made Tsui Hark want to cooperate with Leslie Cheung in a play more and more.

In "A Chinese Ghost Story", Tsui Hark wanted Leslie Cheung to play Ning Caichen, instead of the image of a knight with high martial arts skills that Leslie Cheung played before, and replaced him with a seemingly weak but extremely strong scholar.

It's just that when Tsui Hark approached Leslie Cheung, after reading the script, Leslie Cheung was not very satisfied, because this character looked too unlucky, soft and weak, and the contrast with the role he played in the movie before was too great.

So Leslie Cheung did not agree immediately.

However, Tsui Hark did not give up this time. He planned to find Leslie Cheung after sorting out the characteristics of the script and characters, because he felt that he could not think of a second choice for Ning Caichen in "A Chinese Ghost Story" besides Leslie Cheung.

As for the choice of the heroine, Tsui Hark still had no idea, he wanted to get Leslie Cheung settled first and then figure out who to choose as the heroine.

But what Tsui Hark probably didn't know was that Lin Daoqiu had already learned from Fang Jinsheng that Tsui Hark was planning a movie called "A Chinese Ghost Story".

When hearing the news, Lin Daoqiu's immediate reaction was to smile slightly.

Lin Daoqiu had seen many behind-the-scenes reports about "A Chinese Ghost Story" in his previous life.

It is said that the actor who played Nie Xiaoqian was not Wang Zuxian at the beginning, because after Leslie Cheung and Tsui Hark collaborated in "The True Colors of Heroes", the scenes in it were deleted or deleted, and in the end Chow Yun-fat's roles were added.

Although Leslie Cheung didn't mind, Tsui Hark was still very sorry for this, so he decided to make a movie for Leslie Cheung.

After inviting Leslie Cheung, Leslie Cheung actually recommended Neon singer Akina Nakamori to play Nie Xiaoqian, but the follow-up was unable to take place due to various reasons.

The Nie Xiaoqian drawn by Ning Caichen in "A Chinese Ghost Story" is actually based on the appearance of Akina Nakamori.

In this life, because of the relationship he traveled through, there was some confusion in this time and space. Lin Daoqiu didn't know whether Tsui Hark's invitation to Akina Nakamori would be successful this time.

But since "A Chinese Ghost Story" is a movie that made Wang Zuxian famous, Lin Daoqiu will naturally not give up this opportunity to others.

After Wang Zuxian sat down, Lin Daoqiu chatted with her casually, while Tsui Hark felt that he had finished what he had to say, and was about to leave.

But at this moment, Lin Daoqiu suddenly changed the topic.

"By the way, I heard from Ah Sheng that Director Xu is currently preparing a movie called "A Chinese Ghost Story"?"

Asked by Lin Daoqiu suddenly, Tsui Hark nodded immediately. In fact, this drama is still in the preparation stage. Although the script has been almost written, it is still in the stage of inviting leading actors.

"Ning Caichen in this play, I would like to ask Young Master Rong to act, but he is a little hesitant, and I'm still talking to him."

Tsui Hark admired Leslie Cheung very much. Even though the other party declined to star in "Swordsman", Tsui Hark still insisted on finding him to play Ning Caichen this time, and it was a movie specially made for him.

"I didn't expect Director Xu to have such a big obsession with Rong Shao. "Swordsman" couldn't invite him, so he wrote "A Chinese Ghost Story" specially for him."

Tsui Hark just smiled at this, because Lin Daoqiu was right, he really wanted to cooperate with Leslie Cheung in a movie.

Wang Zuxian on the side didn't know about it at all, but even if she knew, she wouldn't have too many thoughts. After all, she hadn't read the script, and Lin Daoqiu and Tsui Hark didn't mention her name, so she naturally wouldn't Volunteer to express opinions.

Glancing at Wang Zuxian next to him, Lin Daoqiu thought about it, and then asked casually.

"Have you decided on the heroine for this play?"

Tsui Hark thought that Lin Daoqiu was just asking casually, so he shook his head directly.

"I want to talk to him about the heroine after Rong Shao agrees."

After Tsui Hark finished speaking, he didn't think of anything, but for some reason, he suddenly found that Lin Daoqiu looked at him with a strange smile.

At this moment, Tsui Hark suddenly seemed to notice something. He turned his head and glanced at Wang Zuxian beside him, showing a thoughtful expression.

(End of this chapter)