China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 219 Finishing and returning to China, new movie and appointment
At the beginning of August, "On the Journey, Not the Journey" finished filming. Li Mu, his assistants Liang Bing, Shen Teng, Wang Baoqiang and others flew back to China. Liu Yifei and his assistant Zhao Xiaoqian went to Beijing International Airport to pick them up.

Because they were going through VIP passage, there were no reporters or fans surrounding them. After Li Mu and the others finally appeared in sight, assistant Zhao Xiaoqian excitedly pointed to Liu Yifei while waving to the group of people. She calmed down quite a bit, but when Li Mu approached, she stretched out her two arms to meet her. Li Mu's assistant Liang Bing, actors Wang Baoqiang, Shen Teng and others consciously spread out to give way to the two of them. Li Mu also stretched out his arms to hug Liu and turned around.

"It seems to be a lot lighter. Are you losing weight recently, or is it just me?"

"Really? Some time ago, a Hurricane 3 film review said that I seem to have gained weight, and I am adjusting my diet recently."

"It's good to be fatter, and it's comfortable to hold if you are fleshy, but you are indeed a little lighter than before I left."

Liu Yifei happily held Li Mu's arm.

The group continued to go out. Shen Teng suggested that everyone find a KTV to relax today. I am really not used to it after staying in Africa for two months. After finally returning to the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, don’t you hurry up and have fun?

Most of Wang Baoqiang, photographer, assistant director and other cast and crew agreed. Li Mu smiled and said that he would not go. Everyone ate, drank, had fun and sang well. Lie Yifei's heart.

Everyone expressed their understanding, but Liu Yifei sneaked into Li Mu's ear and said:

"Do you want to eat at home? But I didn't prepare for it. I originally wanted to eat outside. If you want to eat at home, let's call it group delivery."

Li Mu also leaned into Liu Yifei's ear and whispered, "Do you want to order 'takeaway' for me? Isn't that good? Don't you know that when I said a big dinner, I was actually referring to yourself?"

Liu Yifei's heart fluttered when he heard the words, and he leaned into Li Mu's ear with reddish cheeks and said, "Are you going to eat right away when you get home? It's broad daylight, and what's wrong with ordering takeaway? Can't you wait a minute? Afraid the takeaway will arrive while you're 'eating'?"

Li Mu pursed his lips and shook his head, leaned into her ear and whispered, "You really don't know what 'takeaway' means!"

When they came to the parking lot, Li Mu got into his car first, and Liu Yifei approached his assistant Zhao Xiaoqian and asked her what she meant by taking out food.

Zhao Xiaoqian didn't understand either, and said, "What's the point? Isn't it just the takeaway from the group and Eleme's takeaway?"

Liu Yifei's face was a little redder than before, and he said to himself: "I'm real, I'm dirty, I'm ashamed to face people, how could I think of that? How could takeaway be connected with that thing? It's said that women are thirty Ruhu, but I'm only 24..."

After returning home, Li Mu didn't do it right away. In fact, he was a little anxious, but he was a little too impatient to do it as soon as he entered the door. He made it as if he had never seen a woman before, so why don't you bear it?

Turned on the TV and watched the episode of cat and mouse, Liu Yifei couldn't bear it anymore, Li Mu wanted to "eat" her when they met today, and it was a takeaway, which caused her to think about it, but when you got home, you seemed to be okay Looks like a cartoon?How can this work? !
So when Li Mu was half-heartedly looking at the cat and the mouse, Liu directly rode on Li Mu's lap, stretched out her hand to hook Li Mu's neck, and asked, "The 'meal' is already ready, why not while it's hot? eat!"

Li Mu stretched out his hand to hold her waist, kissed her again and said with a smile: "It's quite hot, it seems a little hot, then I'll start it..."

……

The next day, Li Mu had dinner with the main creators of "Cohabitation in Time and Space" at the hotel. There were more than a dozen people in total. In addition to the director Su Lun, the leading actor Lei Jiayin, and the leading actress Tong Liya, there were also assistant directors, photographers, producers, and executive producers. Pian et al.

Director Su Lun is a woman with short hair. She looks very young, but she is actually very young. She only graduated from the Directing Department of Central Opera in 09. As a result, she became the director of Huashang's key movie "Cohabitation in Time and Space" in early 11.

In fact, with Su Lun's qualifications, she was flattered to be able to accumulate experience and qualifications as an assistant director in Huashang's crew. She didn't expect that Huashang would directly let her be the director.

While she was excited, she also expressed her anxiety to Liu Siying. She did not expect Liu Siying to tell her that it is not difficult to be a director, and she does not need to be afraid of her lack of experience, because Hua Shang will prepare a few very experienced directors for her. assistant director.

If Vice President Liu Siying was not also a woman, Su Lun would even suspect that she had taken a fancy to him.

In fact, the most important reason why Li Mu gave Su Lun this opportunity was because she was supposed to be the director of this movie.

The former space-time Su Lunhui served as the executive director of "囧囧 in Hong Kong" in 15, and then wrote and directed "Cohabitation in Time and Space" in 18. As a result, it won the box office of 2500 million yuan with a production cost of only 9 million yuan. A big dark horse.

During the whole dinner party, Lei Jiayin was extremely active, and Mr. Li was extremely attentive.In the past, he was called Li Mu, Director Li, but since the first half of this year, he has changed his name to Mr. Li, because this guy has also signed with Huashang Huashang Media.

Zhang Jiayi and Statement were also signed with him at the same time.

This matter was not led by Li Mu himself, nor did he tell Liu Siying to do it, but it happened naturally.

In fact, Li Mu himself does not want his company to sign too many artists, but sometimes when the company develops to this level, some things will happen naturally.

Lei Jiayin had always been a drama actor at the Shanghai Drama Art Center before, but the drama contract he signed with the art center did not affect him from signing film and television actor contracts with other companies.

Lei Jiayin, Zhang Jiayi, and Chen Chen from the original time and space will sign with SMG Shangshi Films in March 2011, becoming the first batch of contracted actors of Shanghai SMG Shangshi Films.

In this time and space, Lei Jiayin has starred in two key films of Huashang Media - "33 Days of Broken Love" and "Cohabitation in Time and Space". In the key work of the media, "Beijing Meets Seattle", he plays Frank, and he is also a fellow with Li Mu.Even the statement also participated in "The Martian" directed by Li Mu himself.

In short, these three personal time and space have had a deep intersection with Huashang Media, so signing with Huashang Media has become a matter of course.

During the banquet, Tong Liya toasted Li Mu with a glass of wine. Li Mu put down the glass and said with a smile: ""Mythology", "Beijing Love Story", and "Cohabitation in Time and Space" will be released soon, and "Gongsuo Xinyu" will be broadcast in the second half of the year. ", when these movies and TV dramas are released, you will almost reach the first-line threshold."

Tong Liya filled her wine glass again and drank it down.

When Li Mu mentioned the front line just now, the first thing that came to her mind was actually Zhao Liying, this little-known woman not long ago, just because she was favored by President Li, she starred in "33 Days of Broken Love", and it turned out that it took more than half a year She became a hot first-line floret, and was appointed as the new fourth floret by Mr. Li.

She was favored by Mr. Li earlier than Zhao Liying, but now she is not as popular as her. This inevitably made her feel a little unfair and competitive.

In fact, Mr. Li cultivated her a little more than Zhao Liying, but Zhao Liying's luck is really good. Who would have thought that a "1000 Days of Broken Love" with a production cost of only 33 million yuan could earn 7 million yuan How much box office?
In terms of investment scale, "Cohabitation Beyond Time and Space" actually surpassed "33 Days of Broken Love", but "33 Days of Broken Love" is a box office miracle and a dark horse at the box office. How can ordinary films dare to expect such results!

……

The next day, assistant Liang Bing told Li Mu that there was a Xiangjiang director who wanted to meet him, and Li Mu immediately asked Liang Bing to arrange a time when he heard the name of the person.

That afternoon, the Xiangjiang director went to Li Mu's office.

"Hello Mr. Li!"

"Hello Director Xu!"

After shaking hands, the two sat down respectively.

The name of the visitor is Xu Chengyi, who was born in Xiangjiang, graduated from Xiangjiang University of Science and Technology, and is now a Chinese-American director.

Many people may be unfamiliar with his name, but most people will know the projects he participated in, even if they have not seen it in person, at least they will have heard of it.

Speaking of this person's previous projects: "Shrek" character design and animation consultant, "Shrek 2" animation director and person in charge of model design, "Shrek 3" co-director.

"Mr. Li, the reason why I took the liberty to bother you today is actually to recommend yourself."

Li Mu nodded slightly.

Xu Chengyi continued: "Mr. Li's "Man Wu Comic" is the best-developed comic periodical in recent years. Since its founding, it has created a large number of excellent comic works-"Frozen", "Crazy Zootopia", "Coco" ", "Despicable Me", etc. I heard that "Frozen" is already producing an animated film version. It can be seen that in Mr. Li's mind, these comic works are not just a simple comic work, these are the future animated films in Mr. Li's mind. "

Li Mu nodded and said: "I have a lot of ideas, but unfortunately I don't have enough talents to help me realize them. It takes too long to make animated movies. I don't know how many years have passed since all these comic works have been made into movies."

Xu Chengyi's eyes lit up, and he said, "I don't know if Director Li understands my experience, but I'm actually..."

After briefly talking about his experiences, he looked up at Li Mu.

Li Mu nodded and said, "Which comic work are you looking at?"

""Despicable Me"! Mr. Li, with all due respect, most of these comics have reached the world's top standards, but this "Despicable Me"..." He paused for a moment and continued, "Of course the plot is still very good. , but the character design does not seem to be as exciting as the other works, it just so happened that I did the character design of "Shrek"..."

Li Mu blushed a little. The character designs of several other comics followed the original version of the original time and space. Following the original design, the character design of "Frozen" has been changed, but the most important thing is to change the image design of the Queen. To be precise, Liu Yifei's characteristics have been integrated into the Queen's appearance.

Only in "Despicable Me", Li Mu almost completely removed the white features of the original character image, turning it into an out-and-out comic work with a yellow race as the protagonist of the story.

The biggest change is that Li Mu himself has comic book skills, which cannot be said to be average, but at least he is not at the level of a genius, so...

"You will be the co-director of "Despicable Me". As for the image changes of the characters, you will also do it, and I will just check it out."

Xu Chengyi was overjoyed, he didn't expect it to be so easy.

At this time, Li Mu said again: "But before that, you have to direct a live-action movie for Huashang Media."

"Live-action movie?"

Xu Chengyi said unexpectedly.

Li Mu nodded, then called his assistant, Liang Bing, and ordered, "Go to the script room and bring the script of "Monster Hunting" over."

"Ok."

In fact, Xu Chengyi is not only the co-director of "Shrek 3", he is also the national box office champion in 2015 and the director of the first domestic film "Monster Hunt" with a box office of over 20 billion yuan.

After a while, Liang Bing brought the script, and after Li Mu signaled, Liang Bing handed the script to Xu Chengyi.

Xu Chengyi looked at each other.

He came here today to recommend himself as the animation director of "Despicable Me", but Mr. Li agreed to be the co-director of "Despicable Me". Not to mention, he even wants to direct another... It should be a mythical movie?

"Monster Hunting" Li Mu must be filmed. Although the reputation of this film is mediocre, but with a box office of 24.34 billion, it is hard to ignore it.

The past few years have been a critical moment for the development of group shopping. Li Mu needs to use popular movies and phenomenal movies to promote group shopping and Maoyan.

Xu Chengyi read the script on the spot. Before reading it, he was somewhat conflicted because he didn't know what the script was like. He didn't expect his whole heart to warm up immediately after reading it.

In general, this script is still very much to his liking.

So the matter was settled like this, Xu Chengyi signed a contract with Huashang Media for two dramas at once, one "Monster Hunt" and one "Despicable Me".

……

In the afternoon of the next day, Li Mu and Zhou Xun secretly met in a hotel in Beijing. The purpose of the meeting was naturally to cast a role for the new movie "Monster Hunt".

Zhou Xun still had mixed feelings when facing Li Mu. Don’t get me wrong. Of course, it’s not that Zhou Xun has any thoughts on Li Mu, but that there have been several changes that have had a greater impact on her career over the years, more or less They all have a certain connection with Li Mu in front of him.

When casting "The Legend of Condor Heroes" in 2004, Zhang Jizhong publicly stated more than once that the little dragon girl in his mind was Zhou Xun, and Zhou Xun also made a lot of preparations for the role of the little dragon girl. As a result, the TV series officially started and the heroine became The girlfriend of the person in front of him is Liu Yifei.

Zhou Xun thought she had been scammed, and since then she has been a stranger to Zhang Jizhong. In an interview later, Zhou Xun said that she hoped that she would be the last person to be hyped.

Nie Yuan also encountered the same person. During the preparatory stage of the TV series, Yang Guo’s candidate was always hyped as Nie Yuan. In the end, he was replaced by Huang Xiaoming. It is said that Nie Yuan went to cut his bones in order to better fit Yang Guo’s role. In the end, he ended up fetching water from a bamboo basket. Nothing.

If it weren't for Zhang Jizhong's use of Zhou Xun and Nie Yuan's hype, it seems that there is really no more reasonable explanation, and casting hype has always been Zhang Beard's forte, but this kind of good show is for those who are eliminated It's a bit cruel.

In addition to this, there is another thing. Zhou Xun joined Huayi Brothers in 2006, and immediately there was a dispute for the first sister within Huayi Brothers. It stands to reason that Zhou Xun is fully capable of competing for this first sister. The better relationship between Li Lianhua and Li Mu made her lose quickly.

In those few years, Li Lianhua participated in many blockbuster movies that were popular all over the world one after another. The relationship between the two was instantly raised to a higher level, and the so-called first sister dispute naturally became a joke.

It can be said that the few setbacks I suffered in my career in the past few years are more or less related to this man in front of me, but after learning that this man is going to invite me to act in a movie, I am still inexplicably moved and excited.

(End of this chapter)