Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 354 The Stubborn Xiao Sheng

After receiving Fang Jinsheng's call, Mai Dangxiong and Xu Xiaoming rushed to New Oriental without stopping.

As soon as he entered Lin Daoqiu's office, Mai Dangxiong almost reached out and asked Lin Daoqiu for the script.

Lin Daoqiu looked at Mai Dangxiong's eagerness to try, he couldn't help but shook his head, and then took out the script of "Heroes Huo Yuanjia" from the drawer.

Impatiently, Mai Dangxiong took over the script and immediately started to read it with Xu Xiaoming.

Huo and Zhao, two martial arts families in Jinghai County, Tianjin, have to hold a martial arts competition because of a dispute over who is the authentic master of the secret boxing.

Huo Yuanjia, the fourth son of the Huo family, was weak and sick since he was a child, so his father asked him to abandon martial arts and pursue literature. However, Yuan Jia watched his father and brother practice martial arts every day, and after a long time, he developed "Mizong Quan" by himself.

"Mizong Fist..."

Xu Xiaoming couldn't help muttering the name of this boxing technique in a low voice.

"I've already selected all the characters I need for this play, please take a look."

Huang Yuanshen plays Huo Yuanjia, Zhao Qiannan is played by Michelle Michelle, and Chen Zhen is handed over to Liang Xiaolong, who has martial arts skills.

Speaking of the character of Chen Zhen, Ni Kuang is actually a fictional character and does not exist in the real world.

In 1972, Golden Harvest filmed a kung fu film "Fist of Fury". As one of the screenwriters of this play, Ni Kuang created the character of Chen Zhen for Bruce Lee at that time, and it turned out to be a generation of classics.

"Since Mr. Lin chose the role, it's no problem."

Even if there were any problems, Mai Dangxiong had no choice but to refute this time, because Lin Daoqiu now owns 30% of ATV's shares and is already the second largest shareholder of ATV. In addition to Lin Daoqiu's current status, he There is no room for refutation.

"Let Li Xiaotian write the theme song. When he writes a song that satisfies me, when will the show start broadcasting. If he doesn't write it, it won't be broadcast. Remember, the theme song must highlight the national For the people, the concept of uniting the whole people."

Mai Dangxiong and Xu Xiaoming nodded as they listened. Basically, Lin Daoqiu's request should be done with all their strength even if they couldn't achieve it.

And when Qiu Degen knew that Lin Daoqiu was writing a TV series for ATV, he opened the door of convenience, bluntly saying that ATV must fully cooperate in this drama, there is no upper limit on the production cost, and everyone must fully cooperate with this drama.

So before coming to New Oriental, Mai Dangxiong and Xu Xiaoming never worried about the production cost.

What they are worried about now is how to make the script written by Lin Daoqiu well.

"Two years ago, I worked with Director Xu on "Ip Man". The martial arts style in it may be applicable to this film. The most important thing is to be concise, efficient and beautiful. I believe you should be able to understand Director Xu. What am I talking about?"

Lin Daoqiu often mentioned this to Xu Xiaoming two years ago. Xu Xiaoming, who had worked in "Ip Man" for a while, of course knew what Lin Daoqiu meant.

"Mr. Lin, don't worry, I plan to ask Cheng Xiaodong to take charge of the play in this drama."

Cheng Xiaodong has already filmed "Lotus Hegemony" with Lin Daoqiu before, so this time Xu Xiaoming plans to cooperate with Cheng Xiaodong to film this "Heroes Huo Yuanjia".

Regarding Xu Xiaoming's suggestion, Lin Daoqiu looked noncommittal, and it seemed that he did not object to Xu Xiaoming's doing so.

As for the producer of this drama, it is natural that Mai Dangxiong is in charge, but Xu Xiaoming is mainly responsible for the production of this TV series.

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ATV, which has been useless for a whole month, finally ushered in an exciting news.

A few days after getting the script, ATV revealed in an interview with the media that a TV series written by Lin Daoqiu is in preparation for filming.

Originally, during this period of time, Chow Yun-fat and Zhao Yazhi occupied the most prominent positions in the entertainment news pages, even the supporting actors of "Shanghai Bund".

But after ATV revealed the news, the entertainment pages of newspapers all over Hong Kong began to report the news.

As soon as Lin Daoqiu made a move, he immediately overwhelmed the limelight of "Shanghai Bund".

You must know that the two TV shows he filmed before, "Ip Man" and "Lotus Contest" both achieved good ratings.

This time, Lin Daoqiu's move was obviously aimed at Wireless.

There are even good-natured people who took this matter to ask TVB-related producers and actors, and wanted to ask what they thought.

However, Fang Yihua had issued a gag order before the reporter's interview, forbidding them to talk about the TV series written by Lin Daoqiu in front of the reporter, so everyone was very cautious and did not express any opinions on it.

ATV has already made a move, and now it's TVB's turn to take over. Almost everyone is waiting to see what TV series TVB plans to make this time to challenge Lin Daoqiu's "Heroes Huo Yuanjia" .

A few days later, Fang Yihua and Jin Yong appeared on TVB and announced that TVB would remake Mr. Jin Yong's "Dragon Ba Bu".

After hearing the news, Mr. Jin Yong's book fans are full of expectations for TVB's remake of "Tian Long Ba Bu".

And there is a Mr. Lin Daoqiu in it, he is very curious about who will TVB find to play the role of Wang Yuyan without Chen Yulian.

But the strange thing is that after TVB announced the remake plan, it has not given the cast, which made Lin Daoqiu very anxious, and he even asked Fang Jinsheng to find out what was going on.

It turned out that not long after TVB announced the remake plan, there were disagreements on casting, so it has been unable to pass it.

At the beginning, Fang Yat-wah intended Chow Yun-fat to play Duan Yu. After all, the play was agreed to have Chow Yun-fat play the leading role.

But Xiao Sheng, the producer, disagreed. He felt that Chow Yun-fat was too tall, and his appearance in ancient costumes did not fit the temperament of a refined scholar.

So he insisted that Tang Zhenye, who played the role of Chen Hanlin in "Shanghai Bund", play Duan Yu.

I'm afraid no one would have imagined that Xiao Sheng would be so stubborn that he would dare to disobey Fang Yathua's opinions within a few days after arriving in Wireless.

Many people privately advised Xiao Sheng not to be so stubborn, and just let him follow Fang Yihua's wishes.

But Xiao Sheng just didn't listen, because he knew very well that if the TV series didn't get good ratings, it would be more serious than disobeying Fang Yat Hua, that's why he persisted.

Seeing the time passing day by day, Fang Yihua wanted to replace Xiao Sheng several times and let someone else take the film, but in the end she endured it.

In the end, Fang Yihua and Xiao Sheng agreed to let Chow Yun-fat and Tang Zhenye wear ancient costumes at the same time, and let other producers judge to see who is more suitable for this role.

It can be said that Fang Yihua was very tolerant to Xiao Sheng this time, and Xiao Sheng knew very well that if he refused, Fang Yihua might really be unhappy, so he had no choice but to agree.

On this day, in TVB's studio, Chow Yun Fat and Tang Zhenye both put on ancient costumes, and then appeared in front of several producers including Fang Yat Hua and Xiao Sheng.

In the end, Tang Zhenye won the role of Duan Yu with a vote of [-] to [-] without counting names, which temporarily calmed down the turmoil of this casting.

As for the role of Wang Yuyan, whom Lin Daoqiu cared about, Huang Xingxiu was finally cast.

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