This actor doesn't look like a good guy

Chapter 216 Zhang Yimou's Invitation

In a blink of an eye, it has come to the fourth day of the release of Crazy Racing, and the box office of the first three days has also been counted.

A total of 1 million.

This has greatly exceeded their expectations.

Now the whole company is jumping for joy.

By the first week, the box office had reached 4 million.

So far, their investment in this movie has paid off, and it also surpassed Crazy Stone.

You must know that Crazy Stone was shown in theaters for two months, and in the end it only got more than 3000 million, but Crazy Racing got 4 million in just one week.

Everyone felt that the speed at which this movie became popular was a bit outrageous, and there were even some voices of doubt on the Internet, saying that they used the box office to steal tickets from other movies.

Or open a ghost field.

But in the face of such rumors, the best way is to ignore them.

This day, Jiang Bai had just finished filming, and was about to rest for a while after instructing other people's actions, but not long after sitting down, Su Rou ran over from the side with his mobile phone.

"Jiang Ge, Jiang Ge, I have your call."

Jiang Bai stood up when he heard it: "Whose is it?"

At this moment, Su Rou glanced at the caller ID on the phone: "It's a director Zhang Yi."

"Director Zhang?"

Jiang Bai thought for a while, did Zhang Yi call to congratulate himself?

So he pressed the answer button.

"Hey, what has Director Zhang been up to lately?"

"I'm busy preparing for a new movie, but I still have to congratulate your movie on another hit."

"Thank you Director Zhang."

"You're welcome." Zhang Yimou said again on the phone, his voice relaxed, not in a hurry, "but I called you this time, mainly to invite you to come over to film my new movie, and you're playing the male lead. No, how is it? Interested?"

"Male number one?"

How could Jiang Bai not be interested? This is Zhang Yimou's movie.

No matter what, Zhang Yimou's movie is still worth watching. Although the hero filmed last year has a bit of a bad reputation after its release this year, the box office is there.

"Director Zhang, don't you need an audition for this play?"

"No, I chose the cast directly for this drama. In fact, I wanted to invite Mei Yanfang to this drama at the beginning, but now you know that Mei Yanfang will definitely not be able to invite it, so I replaced it with someone else." , and there are two male roles in total. I originally wanted to find Jin Chengwu and Liu Dehua, but I asked Jin Chengwu, he said he couldn't ride a horse, so he refused, but Liu Dehua could come.

But I thought about it later, the head catcher played by Jin Chengwu was a good guy, but Liu Dehua played a bad guy. Speaking of the bad guy, I still think you are more suitable to play the villain, and you said before that you like to play undercover agents. ?It just so happens that this is an undercover agent. "

After roughly listening to Zhang Yimou's talk, Jiang Bai really got a lot of interest.

It is true that Jiang Bai has a soft spot for the role of undercover.

"Director Zhang, I have no problem with this role, but I'm still filming a TV series, and I can't leave right now."

"I can't walk away, it's going to be difficult, my plan is to join the group in November, after everyone has practiced the moves for a period of time, the NO.15 will officially start up around November.

But I'm not worried about your talent in action, so it's okay to come a few days later, but besides the action, there is also a script. Can you finish the filming in two months? "

"I'm not sure about that either, Director Zhang, why don't I ask?"

"Okay, then you can ask."

After Jiang Bai hung up the phone, he looked at Li Guoli, feeling guilty for a moment.

In the production team of Immortal Sword, Li Guoli has already given himself too much convenience, he can leave as soon as he has something to say, and he will send a car to pick him up every time.

As a result, it happened again now.

But Jiang Bai still didn't want to let go of this opportunity.

so just ask

"Director Li, are you busy? I have something to tell you."

"What's the matter? Are you going to ask for leave again? It's okay. How many days?"

Jiang Bai shook his head: "Director Li, I'm not asking for leave, because Zhang Yi, a certain director, wants to find me to film a movie, and the role is pretty good."

"Zhang Yimou?" Li Guoli was startled, wondering if this kid was going to run away?

I gave Jiang Bai so much convenience back and forth, if Jiang Bai ran away suddenly, it would be the behavior of a white-eyed wolf.

Looking at Li Guoli's expression, Jiang Bai could guess what the other party was thinking: "Director Li, don't worry, I will definitely not run away, I just came to ask, because Director Zhang will start filming in November, It's been two months from now."

Li Guoli felt relieved when he heard this.

If Jiang Bai is going to leave in a few days, then he will definitely not let him go. Filming in other crews is different from going out to do publicity. When the lead actor leaves for two or three months, then they will not be able to shoot. made a bid?

If that was the case, even if he had a falling out with Jiang Bai, he would not be able to let him go. If Jiang Bai insisted on leaving and delayed the filming of this drama, Li Guoli would definitely hold Jiang Bai accountable.

But there are still two months left.

"Let me think about it." Li Guoli stroked his chin and picked up the schedule on the side.

At this time, Jiang Bai said again: "Director Li, although I really want to go there to film, but no matter what, since I have already joined the crew, I must stick to our place first. Let's see if I am here If the filming can be finished, I will promise Director Zhang to go over, if the filming cannot be finished, I will push Director Zhang away."

Li Guoli didn't know whether Jiang Bai's words were true or not, but as far as interpersonal relationships were concerned, he didn't want Jiang Bai to make trouble in his heart because of this matter.

"That's not the case. If we can shoot Director Zhang's scene, we still have to shoot. Our filming here is almost over, and we can go to Suihua to shoot the final part in less than a month. The cycle over there is two months. time, but it can also give you adjustments.”

"Thank you very much, Director Li. I have to treat you to dinner later."

"That's easy to say. Anyway, this kind of thing is to coordinate and discuss with each other. If we can finish the filming here, I won't deliberately stop you from leaving."

"That's impossible, Director Li is not that kind of person."

"Yeah, I'm not that kind of person. You can agree to it with Director Zhang later on, but what are you going to shoot this time?"

Jiang Bai shook his head: "I don't know much about this, I only know that it is a martial arts type."

"Director Zhang is going to make a martial arts movie again." Li Guoli couldn't help laughing. He also watched Zhang Yimou's hero before.

To be honest, the artistry is very strong, but the story is indeed a bit sparse.

The background fighting scenes are very good, and the music is also very good, but the story is just average.

A bit out of touch with the masses, not grounded enough.

Anyway, if he is allowed to shoot, it will definitely be a different style, but Li Guoli can't guarantee that the box office of his film will be higher than Zhang Yimou's. After all, his name is there. It is Zhang Yimou who can draw many people to the movie theater by taking out these three words.

Not to mention that there are other people like Chen Daomin, Li Lianlian, Jiang Bai, and Zhang Ziyi.

"Okay, Director Zhang probably wants to develop more in this area."

"Yeah, I guess Director Zhang is tired of shooting realistic subjects and wants to get out of his comfort zone."

The two just chatted for a few words, but they didn't say that Zhang Yimou really wanted to step out of his comfort zone, but as soon as he stepped out, he stepped into the quagmire.

But since Li Guoli agreed here, Zhao Zhe can talk about the salary over there.

Because of Jiang Bai's joining, Zhang Yimou adjusted the original roles in this movie. Liu Butou moved to the original Jin Butou's position, and Jiang Butou replaced Liu Butou's position.

Although Liu Dehua had acted as an undercover agent in the past, and also acted in period films, now Jiang Bai is a well-known undercover professional in the circle, and there is not a single undercover role he played that he did not agree with.

Whether it's bearing humiliation in the early stage and relying on intelligence in the later stage, or starting to be gentle and perverted in the later stage, Jiang Bai can control it with ease.

In addition, Jiang Bai's ancient costume is extremely outstanding, and it is a waste to simply ask him to play a good person.

Although Zhang Yimou said before that Jiang Bai played the male number one, after the role was changed, Jiang Bai became the male number two. It’s just that it’s not a disadvantage to change to the male number two. It’s just that Liu Dehua is a head behind in the role. .

But because of the large number of roles, Zhao Zhe finally negotiated a salary of 700 million US dollars for Jiang Bai.

And Zhang Yimou also promised that Jiang Bai will be included in the film when it is produced and presented for awards.

After all, the protagonist of this movie is now Liu Dehua, the heroine is Zhang Ziyi, and the next is Jiang Bai, the second male and first supporting role.

Moreover, Jiang Bai feels that his role in this movie is like Liu Dehua's role in A World Without Thieves. Although he is not the protagonist, he is also quite brilliant as a supporting role, and his limelight is not inferior to that of the male lead.

Among other things, my salary is 700 million US dollars, and Liu Dehua's salary is even less than myself.

Only 500 million.

But Zhao Zhe also said on the phone that he got the role of Jiang Butou, the second male lead. If he took the first male lead, the salary is estimated to be about 200 million US dollars, and Liu Dehua can get 1 million.

Although there was a difference of 300 million in the middle, Jiang Bai was content and turned back on himself, but he was still incomparable with Liu Dehua.

Moreover, Zhang Yimou knew that Jiang Bai's ability was good, so he deliberately paid an extra 40 US dollars.

Among them, 20 is to hire Jiang Bai and Cheng Xiaodong as martial arts instructors together, and the other 20 is to ask Jiang Bai to compose 20 songs. Of course, the price of [-] can only buy the copyright of these [-] songs.

When we were talking at the beginning, Zhao Zhe gave Zhang Yimou three plans. The first is to buy the complete copyright of the song directly at a high price, and the second is to use the song for free, but Jiang Bai wants to participate in this In the subsequent box office distribution of the movie.

Whether it is DVD or other copyright income, as long as the money is earned, Jiang Bai must be given points.

The third solution is to only buy the right to use this time. These songs can be used in this movie, but they cannot be used in other places.

Zhang Yimou had the intention to buy all the copyrights of these songs, but the investors did not want to spend so much money, so Zhang Yimou had no choice but to adopt the third method.

Calculated in this way, Jiang Bai can receive a total of 740 million US dollars by then.

Although generally speaking, the price of a piece of music is not that high, firstly, Zhang Yimou is willing to spend money, and secondly, he knows that the quality of the pieces made by Jiang Bai is very high, so he paid the money directly.

However, this is because the general domestic market price is relatively low. In foreign countries, dividends are usually used. If you want to buy out at one time, it can range from hundreds of thousands to several million dollars.

After negotiating in this way, the contract came out, and the company and the producer signed it. After that, Jiang Bai just waited for Jiang Bai to go back after filming Immortal Sword and sign his name, and the contract began to take effect.

And Jiang Bai has also started to be busy here, basically there is no rest time, except for filming, he is directing the actors' movements.

In my spare time, I have to teach Wang Baoqiang again. After all, when I leave the group, only Wang Baoqiang will be left here.

"Bao Qiang, you don't have any problems with your kung fu now, and you can teach them. Your weakness is in stunts. The first is horse riding, the second is hanging wire, and the capture of green screens. In the next period of time I will focus on teaching you these."

When Wang Baoqiang heard that Jiang Bai wanted to entrust himself with a heavy responsibility, he immediately nodded his head heavily: "Brother Jiang, don't worry, I will definitely study hard."

"Well, although you are mainly on the path of being an actor, being able to go through the path of martial arts instruction will be good for your future development."

"Brother Jiang, I will listen to you."

Wang Baoqiang is very obedient, he firmly believes that Jiang Bai will not harm himself.

At the beginning, Jiang Bai was able to choose him from so many ensemble actors, and some time ago, in order to get himself the number one male lead in The World Without Thieves, he took the initiative to act with zero pay. Many circles of people.

After filming in Yongkang, the crew moved to Suiyun as a whole.

On Suiyun's side, they mainly shoot in Xiandu Scenic Area, which is about six kilometers away from the city center, which is not too far away, so they still live in hotels in the city.

Every day filming back and forth.

Since Jiang Bai will leave in more than a month, Li Guoli directly ranked all Jiang Bai's roles in the front.

When filming, I also try my best to shoot one and then keep another one, so as to avoid finding out that there is something wrong with the content later, and I have no way to ask Jiang Bai to come back for a reshoot.

And Jiang Bai was also filming, while paying attention to the box office of the racing car from time to time.

Now a month has passed, and the box office of Crazy Racing has reached 8 million.

Although this figure is only the input cost of some blockbuster films, it has already made a lot of money for racing.

Compared with the investment, it has fully doubled, not to mention that there is still a month to go.

"Mr. Jiang, are you leaving in a while?"

Concubine Liu Yi reluctantly asked Jiang Bai that day.

"Yeah, I have to go to other scenes."

"Then how long will your new film be filming?"

"No matter what, it will take three months. Director Zhang is slow in filming, there is no way."

"Then don't you want to film during the Chinese New Year?"

"Yeah, it's probably going to be Chinese New Year in the crew this year."

"Then where will you be shooting? I'll see if I can find you to play with when I'm free."

"It should be in Yanjing at the beginning, and it may go to Chongqing later, but I'm not sure if I can come out. After all, Director Zhang always likes to keep his filming secret."

"That's it, then forget it, I was thinking of playing with you when there was no filming, now it seems that I can only go back to class honestly."

(End of this chapter)