Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 592 Tsui Hark's Big Production
As Lin Daoqiu expected, in the next few days, the gap between "Unlucky Gambler" and "Wolf Brother Tiger Brother" has been widening.

Although the margin was less than that of the first day, by the third day, the difference in the box office of the two dramas was already as much as 200 million.

If it weren't for Lin Daoqiu asking Li Maowen to tell Wang Jing his expectation for this drama, Wang Jing would still be very worried, fearing that the box office of "Unlucky Gambler" would not satisfy Lin Daoqiu.

However, judging from the current trend, it is definitely no problem for "Unlucky Gambler" to break [-] million, but the time has to be delayed a little bit.

When most people were still focusing on the confrontation between "Unlucky Gambler" and "Wolf Brothers and Tiger Brothers", Tsui Hark walked into Lin Daoqiu's office with a script.

Ever since he opened his own film studio, Tsui Hark has always wanted to make this film as the pioneering work of his film studio.

After receiving the script handed over by Tsui Hark with a serious face, Lin Daoqiu looked down and found that there were five large characters written on it, "New Shushan Swordsman".

"This play is adapted from the novel "The Legend of the Shu Mountain Immortals" written by Lord Huanzhu. Mr. Lin may have heard of this novel before."

Lin Daoqiu has never seen Tsui Hark's "Legend of Shu Mountain Immortals", but Lin Daoqiu has watched the "New Shu Mountain Swordsman" he wants to shoot many times.

This is Tsui Hark's first Xianxia movie, but the box office results can only be considered mediocre.

After all, with a production cost of 2000 million, it is almost impossible to recover the cost in Hong Kong.

And the performance of selling port is even worse, so Tsui Hark's "New Shushan Swordsman", although it has been named a classic in later generations, unfortunately, its box office performance is still unsatisfactory.

"Mr. Lin, what's the matter with you?"

Tsui Hark found that when he was talking, Lin Daoqiu seemed to be in deep thought, but he didn't know what he was thinking.

"It's nothing, how much budget do you plan to have for this movie?"

Although Lin Daoqiu asked this question, in fact, he already knew how much it would cost to shoot this movie.

Hearing Lin Daoqiu's question, Tsui Hark rubbed his hands, and then looked embarrassed.

"I would like to ask the team in charge of Star Wars to produce the special effects of this movie. The production cost is about 500 million."

What Tsui Hark said was quite conservative, but he was already very brave if he dared to talk to Lin Daoqiu.

After all, this drama is aimed at Chinese-speaking audiences, so there are not many places where it can be shown.

The markets of Baodao and Southeast Asia are already the limit of this drama.

In these places, if the cost of 2000 million is to be recovered, at least a box office of 6000 million Hong Kong dollars must be achieved.

"Mr. Lin, I have great confidence in this film. As long as it is filmed in due time, it will definitely be an epoch-making work."

What Tsui Hark didn't say to Lin Daoqiu was that the actors he wanted to invite were exaggerated.

Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Zheng Shaoqiu, Brigitte Lin, he wants to invite these four people into this drama.

And the remuneration of these people alone must add up to at least 500 million.

"Old Xu, what you said is correct, but do you think that after the filming of this film, you can earn back the cost?"

Lin Daoqiu put down the script, and then looked at Tsui Hark seriously.

"Of course it's no problem, Mr. Lin, I've already thought about it, as long as I get 3000 million at the box office here in Xiangjiang, plus the money from selling ports, it's absolutely no problem to pay back the capital, and maybe I can make a small profit .”

It can be said that Tsui Hark used a very optimistic idea to predict the box office of this movie.

He felt that no one had made a movie of the type "New Shushan Swordsman" before.

I believe that when this drama comes out, it will definitely make everyone's eyes shine, and it may even cause a wave of enthusiasm.

"Old Xu, who do you plan to cast as the protagonist in this play?"

Lin Daoqiu didn't say whether he would agree to the other party, but first asked Tsui Hark which actors he wanted to invite.

Tsui Hark looked a little embarrassed when asked by Lin Daoqiu.

"The leading actor in this play, Di Mingqi, I want to invite Yuen Biao to play the role, Fatty will let Big Brother Hong play the role, as for Ding Yin, I think it would be perfect for Zheng Shaoqiu to play the role, and the Lord of the Immortal Castle, I would like to I think Miss Lin's temperament is very suitable..."

There is no difference in the casting idea from the previous life. Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Adam Cheng and Brigitte Lin, the four core characters all came from Tsui Hark.

But just when Tsui Hark was talking happily, he didn't notice that Lin Daoqiu's face had become a little different from before.

"Old Xu, I'm afraid I can't support you in this drama."

Without thinking about it, Lin Daoqiu directly rejected Tsui Hark's request.

Because the film "New Shushan Swordsman" only lost money when it was filmed. If this is the case, why waste your own money doing these meaningless things.

Originally, Tsui Hark thought that Lin Daoqiu would definitely support his idea, but what he didn't expect was that the other party rejected it very simply, which made Tsui Hark a little at a loss for a while.

"Mr. Lin, please believe me, this movie will definitely make money. If the box office hits the street by then, I won't take a dime."

Tsui Hark was in a hurry, he really wanted to shoot "New Shushan Swordsman".

At this time, Lin Daoqiu is the only one who has the ability and is willing to invest in him in the Xiangjiang film circle.

If he refused, then his "New Shushan Swordsman" would probably be aborted.

"Old Xu, this movie is very good, but with the current special effects technology, it is far from meeting your requirements, and "New Shushan Swordsman" has too many limitations, not to mention making money, even it is difficult to maintain capital."

Lin Daoqiu was not afraid that Tsui Hark would be unhappy, anyway, he had already made up his mind that he would not invest in Tsui Hark to make this movie.

Tsui Hark originally wanted to persuade Lin Daoqiu, but when he saw the serious expression on the other party's face, he knew that Lin Daoqiu was not joking with him, and he really didn't intend to invest in himself.

"In this case, don't bother Mr. Lin, I'll go back first."

Tsui Hark looked very depressed. After picking up the script, he bowed to Lin Daoqiu, then turned and walked out of his office silently.

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"Hey……"

Back home, Tsui Hark looked sad.

Sitting in the living room with a cigarette lit, without saying a word, I just sat like this all afternoon.

As soon as Shi Nansheng opened the door and walked into the house, she smelled a strong smell of smoke.

"Why don't you open the window?"

Shi Nansheng walked to the window and opened it.

And when she returned to the living room, she found that Tsui Hark was still sitting there motionless, seemingly lost in thought.

"Did something happen?"

Shi Nansheng hurried over, then sat beside Tsui Hark and asked in a low voice.

"Mr. Lin refused to invest in me."

(End of this chapter)