Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 317 Laziness
"Mr. Lin, these two movies are the latest movies New Art City plans to release."

Mai Jia and Huang Baiming approached Lin Daoqiu with two scripts, one called "Chasing Girls" and the other one was a sequel to "Ghost Horse Zhi Duo Xing".

Previously, "Ghost Horse Zhi Duo Xing" won a box office of 580 million, which is considered a small profit, so this time Maijia plans to continue to make a sequel, and the protagonist is still Lin Zixiang.

And "Chasing Girls" is an urban romantic comedy made by a group of them. This is a small-budget production.

This time, Mai Jia hoped that the production cost of "Ghost, Horse and Stars" would increase to 200 million, while "Chasing Girls" was just an urban romantic comedy, so the production cost was not high, they only asked for 80.

"I'll ask the accountant to remit the money to your account in New Art City later, and I'll take it with dim sum."

Lin Daoqiu agreed to their request immediately after reading the script briefly. It seemed that he was quite straightforward.

But in fact, this is also because Lin Daoqiu knows that these two plays will definitely not lose money, especially the box office results of "Chasing Girls", which Maijia and the others don't pay much attention to, can be said to be very impressive.

It’s just that they haven’t realized this yet, and Lin Daoqiu didn’t intend to remind them. After all, he established New Art City early to refresh the reputation of the East.

If he really wanted to make money, I'm afraid he wouldn't let Maijia and the others make these low-budget and low-production movies.

"Thank you Mr. Lin, we will definitely make these two movies well with our heart."

Mai Jia and Huang Baiming didn't expect Lin Daoqiu to be so easy to talk to. It took less than 10 minutes between them sitting down and Lin Daoqiu's agreement. They were surprised that the negotiation was completed so quickly.

After leaving Lin Daoqiu's office, Mai Jia and Huang Baiming seemed to be in a good mood. Originally, they were worried that Lin Daoqiu would not agree to open two plays at once.

When they walked to the elevator, as soon as the elevator door opened, they saw Wang Jing and Wen Jun walking out of it.

Wen Jun and Wang Jing did not expect to meet Mai Jia and the others.

"You also came to see Mr. Lin?"

Mai Jia asked with a smile, and passed both plays without any problems. It can be said that he was in a very good mood, with a smile on his face all the time.

"Yeah, we wrote a script and plan to come to Brother Qiu to discuss it."

Wen Jun nodded. He came to Lin Daoqiu this time because he, Zheng Danrui, and Wang Jing jointly wrote a script, but the most important person who wrote the script was Wang Jing.

"Mr. Lin is in a good mood today, so hurry up, let's go down and get busy first."

Mai Jia and Wen Jun didn't have much friendship, the two sides had a brief chat and then went to do their own things.

Not long after Lin Daoqiu sent Mai Jia and Huang Baiming away unexpectedly, Wen Jun came to the door with Wang Jing.

He remembered that Wang Jing originally planned to shoot "A Thousand Kings Fighting Thousand Tyrants", but because Shaw Brothers issued a ban on New Oriental, he couldn't invite Shaw Brothers actors at all.

And now that they have come to find them again, could it be that Wang Jing wrote a new script and came out?

"Brother Qiu, this is a new play we wrote."

Wen Jun put a script on Lin Daoqiu's desk.

Lin Daoqiu looked down and found that the movie was called "The Demon Hunter", but he had never heard or seen this movie in his memory.

In fact, this is an action movie filmed by Wang Jing in the previous life in 1982. The protagonists at the time were Ti Lung and Chen Huimin, and the team was all members of Shaw Brothers.

But this time, apart from Chen Huimin, all the characters Wang Jing did not use Shaw Brothers, but were replaced by other people.

When "The Demon Hunter" was released in 1982, it could be said to be star-studded. Ti Lung, Chen Huimin, Wang Yu, Wang Longwei, Luo Lie, these famous Shaw martial arts stars gathered, but unfortunately the final box office was only 360 million.

"Chen Huimin plays the leading role, do you think the audience will accept it? Or to put it another way, will the audience like it?"

Chen Huimin is really good at fighting, but it's probably not a good idea to let him play the leading role.

"Chen Huimin is very powerful. He used to be the champion of boxing in Southeast Asia. Everyone said that Chen Huimin has the same punches as Chen Huimin and Bruce Lee. It is definitely no problem for him to play the leading role."

It seemed that Wen Jun was full of confidence, and Wang Jing who was beside him also nodded quickly.

They want a production fee of 100 million for this movie, which is actually not much for an action movie, but if it doesn't get 300 million at the box office, the movie won't make any money at all.

"Change the script, this play won't work."

Lin Daoqiu thought about it for a while and decided to reject the script, because in his opinion, even if the film was made, it would be just a waste of time.

Why spend time making a movie that can't make money? It's better to spend some time making movies that can make money.

Neither Wang Jing nor Wen Jun seemed to have expected Lin Daoqiu's attitude to be so resolute. They had high expectations for this drama.

"Brother Qiu, this movie will definitely work, just trust me once."

Wen Jun became anxious. After he and Zheng Danrui opened their studio, they haven't produced a single movie yet.

Especially when they saw Mai Jia and Huang Baiming just now, the other party knew from the happy face that they must have gotten investment from Lin Daoqiu.

"I don't intend to trust you just once, I can trust you many times, but if the script you bring is only of this level, I will not invest. You go back and think about other scripts."

Lin Daoqiu was worried that his words would hurt Wen Jun and the others' confidence, so he added: "As long as the script is good enough, big productions are fine."

Originally, Wen Jun's heart had sunk to the bottom, but Lin Daoqiu's words suddenly filled him with hope.

Wang Jing thought about it and felt that Lin Daoqiu's decision seemed to be right, because he didn't have much confidence that the film would be a big hit after it was filmed, so the reason why he was so eager to write it was because he wanted to make a movie as soon as possible.

"In that case, let's go back first."

Wen Jun and Wang Jing got up at the same time to leave, but Lin Daoqiu suddenly stopped Wen Jun.

"You stay here, I have something to talk to you about."

Wang Jing didn't know what Lin Daoqiu wanted to say to Wen Jun, but the other party had already spoken, so Wang Jing could only leave Lin Daoqiu's office alone.

After Wang Jing left, Lin Daoqiu suddenly stood up.

Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui were the first to follow him. It can be said that Lin Daoqiu trusted them very much.

But it's a pity that these two guys don't know if they have been spoiled by themselves, and now the work of screenwriting is not doing well at all.

After watching this "The Demon Hunter", you know that most of the plots in it are written by Wang Jing, so how can it go on like this.

"How much of this was written by you and Ari?"

Lin Daoqiu walked up to Wen Jun and asked, frowning.

"It's all three of us..."

Before Wen Jun finished speaking, Lin Daoqiu frowned even deeper.

"Thirty percent... twenty percent... less than ten percent."

The more Wen Jun talked, the lower he lowered his head. This drama was basically written by Wang Jing, and they only participated in a small part.

"Starting today, you and Ari will participate in the production of "Mr. Zombie". I have other arrangements with Wang Jing."

Lin Daoqiu couldn't help but shook his head, he didn't want Zheng Danrui and Wen Jun to continue to be lazy like this.

Wen Jun didn't dare to refute Lin Daoqiu's decision at all, so he could only nod his head.

(End of this chapter)