Actor: I picked up attributes on the set

Chapter 232 The Most Anticipated Movie of the Year!
Early the next morning, Lin Yuan received a call from director Guo Fan, saying that the producer had agreed to use his salary to invest in the film, and he also made an appointment with Lin Yuan for dinner, so that he could get acquainted with the film in advance. , The second is to hand over the complete movie script to Lin Yuan. After all, the crew has even rented the studio, so they can't just leave it there and burn money.

After dealing with the matter at hand, Lin Yuan was ready to go to the appointment.

Parking the car in a nearby parking lot, Lin Yuan looked up at the teahouse. It wasn't very big, but it could be seen at a glance that it was a place with relatively high consumption.

Strange to say, before other directors asked actors to come out to talk about things, either in a bar or in a coffee shop. It is really rare for director Guo Fan to talk about things in a teahouse. After all, young people like to drink tea these days. There are too few, and even teahouses have to sell other drinks.

Lin Yuan fell in love with this place instantly due to the antique decoration inside the teahouse and the smell of tea as soon as he entered the door.

The waiter not far away came over and was a little surprised when he saw Lin Yuan. He opened his mouth wide, but fortunately he didn’t lose his composure and yelled out. low wrist.

"Hi Mr. Lin, are you drinking alone or with friends?"

"I have an appointment, it should be at Longjingxuan." Lin Yuan said the name of the box.

The boxes of domestic teahouses seem to be named after the top ten famous teas, such as Longjingxuan, Maofengju, and Biluofang. It sounds like each has its own characteristics, but the interior decoration is the same.

"It's director Guo Fan, he's a regular visitor here, I'll take you there."

Following the waiter slowly upstairs, from the corner of the eye, I saw a girl in a Tang suit walking up from the center of the lobby, sitting on the stage and playing the guzheng lightly, and a sense of artistic conception arose in an instant.

Go up to the second floor, walk past the antique screen painted with the picture of the river during the Qingming Festival, and enter a private room.

In the box, a girl scraped off sandalwood chips with a sharp tool, and scraped them flat in the incense burner. Lin Yuan didn't know what it was, then lightly spread the sandalwood on it and lit it, and covered the incense burner lid, and the fragrance permeated the air. .

Seeing Lin Yuan coming, Guo Fan got up and greeted enthusiastically: "Mr. Lin Yuan, after learning that you are willing to act in our movie, I was so excited that I didn't sleep a wink for two days."

Although the words are a bit exaggerated, they are the truest portrayal of Guo Fan's heart.

You must know that most of the investment of the crew of "The Wandering Earth" is almost all spent on the special effects of film production. The remuneration they can give the actors is not even as good as some low-cost movies. Some second- and third-tier stars.

Without popular stars in charge, the film announcement and release will definitely not be able to do other films in the same period.

But now that Lin Yuan has joined, even if it is released during the Spring Festival, Guo Fan is confident to compare with the movies of the same period.

"By the way, Mr. Lin Yuan, I heard that the crew of "Shanghai Fortress" also invited you?" Guo Fan asked tentatively.

"Shanghai Fortress", like their "The Wandering Earth", is holding the banner of domestic sci-fi movies. The two movies secretly compete, and it is normal to want to compare themselves.

Lin Yuan nodded and explained: "I have read the script of "Shanghai Fortress", and I feel that the story is less attractive than "The Wandering Earth"."

Guo Fan was overjoyed in his heart and didn't speak.

Fortunately, at that time, he specifically discussed the script of the film adaptation with Liu Zixin, the author of the original author, and listened to his opinions, and carefully revised the script. Otherwise, Lin Yuan would not have chosen "The Wandering Earth" because of his high quality requirements for the script. This movie is over.

Regarding the script of "Shanghai Fortress", Lin Yuan was inconvenient to disclose, so he had to change the subject and asked, "By the way, Director Guo, is Wanda sure about divesting?"

The relationship between Lin Yuan and the people at Wanda Films is not bad. After all, they have collaborated on two "Tang Detective" films before, and Wanda Films still wants Lin Yuan to continue to star in the sequel to "Tang Detective". The relationship between the two parties is definitely Not too bad.

Now that they have joined the crew of "The Wandering Earth", they are now grasshoppers on the same rope. The more investment the better for a sci-fi movie like this, Lin Yuan also doesn't want the domestic sci-fi movie he starred in to be criticized by others Something like fifty cents special effects.

If the crew of "The Wandering Earth" is short of funds, he can talk to Wanda Pictures.

Speaking of the divestment of Wanda Pictures, the joy on Guo Fan's face immediately subsided.

"Wanda has already decided to withdraw their investment. They are going to invest in "Love Saint 2", and our side was directly abandoned." Guo Fan shrugged and said helplessly.

From a business point of view, Wanda's divestment is a very normal thing, but it would be a bit unconvinced to leave it on myself.

From Wanda's point of view, first of all, the director Guo Fan is not a very successful well-known director.

I have only filmed two works before, one is "The Adventures of Li Xianji" and the other is "You at the Same Table". Ability to make earth-shattering good movies

Secondly, the actors are all newcomers with little appeal.

The Qu Chuxiao we settled on is born in the 90s, and Zhao Jinmai is still born in the 00s. In addition, Qu Chuxiao has no outstanding masterpieces, and Zhao Jinmai is even a rookie in the entertainment industry.And the only veteran, Uncle Da, has retired for many years, and his acting skills are still there, but his popularity has long since disappeared. Such a cast does not have a strong box office appeal.

The third is that the special effects of hard sci-fi movies cost a lot of money. After spending [-] million yuan, we have to continue to invest money. The production budget exceeded Wanda’s psychological budget for this movie.

In addition, although Chinese people like to watch sci-fi blockbusters, such as "Transformers" and "Avengers", etc., will the audience pay for the sci-fi movies and IP created by Chinese people themselves?This is also an unknown.

Judging from the above four reasons, it is very correct for Wanda to divest now.

On the other hand, "Love Saint 2", which Wanda plans to invest in, must know that "Love Saint 1" performed very strongly. Although it was produced at a low cost, it was a dark horse at the box office that year. It broke 6.59 million in four days, and finally reached the box office. 2 million, its sequel "Love Saint [-]", the box office is expected to be good.

The second is because of the box office queen Bai Baihe and the national uncle Wu Xiubo, who have a lot of traffic, and the popular singer Xue Zhiqian singing the theme song, which will obviously boost the movie's box office.

It's just that Wanda Pictures didn't think of it, and after thousands of calculations, it still made a mistake: Celebrities will cheat.

"Love Saint 2" has gathered two big stars who cheated, and the box office is expected to be completely cold, causing the publisher to directly choose to withdraw the file. Of course, this is all for later.

After chatting for a while, Guo Fan handed over the complete script to Lin Yuan, talked about the start of filming, and the two went home.

In the next few days, Lin Yuan basically spent his time pondering over the script.

In the middle, I also took time to go to BJ to participate in the casting of the crew of "My Motherland and Me". The casting of the film is irrelevant to Lin Yuan. Just going through the motions.

Fast forward to the beginning of July.

The arrival of the summer vacation schedule has made the domestic film market lively again.

There are domestic films such as "The Richest Man in Tomatoes" and "Di Renjie's Four Heavenly Kings", as well as imported blockbusters such as "Jurassic World 2", "Ant-Man 2", and "Doraemon".

But for domestic audiences, something is always missing.

Huang Bo, Xu Zheng, and Lin Yuan, actors who have dominated the big screen for a long time, unexpectedly did not appear in this year's summer vacation, which immediately aroused discussions among netizens.

"What about Lin Bao, isn't it true that this year, apart from a few films during the Spring Festival, there will be no other films?"

"Could it be that he went abroad to develop? Otherwise, how could he play a supporting role in "Ready Player One" before?"

"That's weird. Among the domestic movies scheduled for this summer vacation, it seems that the only movies that can be watched are Happy Twist movies. Actors like Huang Bo, Xu Zheng, and Lin Yuan don't have any works. They are all waiting for the National Day schedule, right?"

"If you ask me, it must be Lin Yuan and Huang Bo who have won tens of billions of box office successively. They lost their pursuit of goals and began to relax."

"Brother, what you said makes sense, let's stop making a box office of [-] billion, and try to get Lin Yuan a new movie every month!"

"A new film every month? Isn't this frequency the speed at which island actresses release films?"

"Upstairs GKD, quickly come to the mysterious code!"

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This is actually no wonder netizens are so curious.

Last year, Lin Yuan released almost five movies in total, not including TV dramas.

What about this year?Except for the release of several films starring Lin Yuan during the Spring Festival, there is no new film starring Lin Yuan released, and not only Lin Yuan, but also Huang Bo, another actor who just won tens of billions of box office. in this way.

Not to mention that there are no new works released by the two, even variety shows basically seldom participate.

If it weren't for the popularity of "Ready Player One" in which Lin Yuan participated, there might not be many topics about Lin Yuan discussed on the Internet.

Under such circumstances, netizens are naturally very curious about what actors like Lin Yuan and Huang Bo are doing.

Just when this topic became more and more popular on the Internet, major film and television companies unanimously began to promote the movie "My Motherland and Me".

First, the list of directors will be announced.

Brother Chen Kai, Lin Yuan, Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, Xue Xiaolu, Zhang Baibai, Guan Hu.

Although the seven directors cannot be said to be the most powerful directors in the country, they are definitely among the first-line directors.

Brother Chen Kai, Ning Hao, and Guan Hu naturally needless to say, their masterpieces are household names, and almost half of the domestic audience have seen their previous films.

The three directors, Xu Zheng, Zhang Baibai, and Xue Xiaolu, have not bad performances in their films.

As for the last Lin Yuan, even though he only directed "I'm Not the God of Medicine", this movie has broken many records in the history of Chinese-language movies. Highly rated and forwarded.

As soon as the list of directors was announced, it aroused heated discussions among netizens.

"Damn it, these seven directors cooperate to make a movie, isn't that invincible?"

"I said this is the largest movie in China, no one should object to it?"

"Unless Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, Xu Ke, Zhou Xingchi and other directors also cooperate in a movie, I feel that this movie should be invincible."

"It's no wonder that Lin Yuan hasn't released any new works recently. I didn't expect to be cooperating with directors like Chen Kai and Guan Hu to make a movie."

"To be honest, Lin Yuan can enter the list of directors, I feel that there is something shady."

"I also have this feeling. The more I look at it, the more it looks like I'm brushing Lin Yuan's resume. He only made one movie in total. Why should he cooperate with directors like Chen Kai, Guan Hu, Ning Hao, and Xu Zheng?"

"According to you, what qualifications do Zhang Baibai and Xue Xiaolu have? Which movie they made is better than "The God of Medicine"?"

The more intense the netizens' discussion, the happier the major film and television companies are. What they want is discussion and attention. As for the things netizens are arguing about, it doesn't matter to them at all.

As time goes by, the popularity of the movie "My Motherland and Me" is getting higher and higher in the comments of netizens.

These film and television companies also caught the appetite of netizens.

From the announcement of the list of directors at the beginning, the list of leading actors was gradually announced later.

Wu Jing, Huang Bo, Zhang Yi... the names of first-line actors appeared in the starring list one after another, which made netizens look forward to it even more.

It’s okay to cooperate with seven domestic first-line directors, and now there is a luxurious lineup of first-line actors. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the largest film in recent years. Every netizen is looking forward to it. Such a luxurious lineup of actors and directors, What kind of movie will be made.

At the same time, topics related to the movie "My Motherland and Me" have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Even the movie is still in the process of preparing to start shooting, and it seems to have a tendency to become the most popular movie of the year.

(End of this chapter)