This actor doesn't look like a good guy

After returning from Zhang Yimou, Jiang Bai organized a meeting with the main creative staff of "Jianghu II" to conduct a review.

"Actually, based on the situation in the past two years, it is impossible for "Jiang Hu II" to win a box office as high as 21 billion. However, the films we have led in the past two years have all achieved success, coupled with the domestic film market The development is relatively good, so those companies that specialize in theater chains have expanded greatly.

In the past three years alone, there have been thousands of new movie theaters in the country. In addition, these theater companies are relatively optimistic about "Jiang Hu [-]", so the movie schedule is very full. "

"However, there are also the factors of good reputation and good publicity that we have accumulated. In addition, the movies released at the same time as ours were not as good, so we still succeeded with this movie."

Listening to Zhao Zhe's summary, Jiang Bai nodded: "Well, although we succeeded this time, we still can't relax in the future. It seems that we made hundreds of millions this time, but we will lose money very quickly. Money is hard but spending money is easy.”

Everyone else nodded. After all, Huayi is in such a situation now. It is undeniable that Huayi was indeed very successful in the past, but in recent years, Huayi has been basically supported by Feng Xiaogang, and a large number of artists have left. So now Not very good.

Of course, compared to them here, Huayi is a giant.

Jiang Bai has finished all the work at hand. Although there are still many film and television drama invitations sent to Yang Tianzhen, Jiang Bai feels that they are not very interesting after watching them, namely "Red Cliff" and "Painted Skin" It's okay, but in comparison, Jiang Bai still thinks "Painted Skin" is a little more interesting. The director of "Red Cliff" is Wu Yusen, and now they have confirmed a female lead Lin Zhilin to play Xiao Qiao, Jin Chengwu to play Zhuge Liang, and a actor to play Gan The popular Japanese actor Shido Nakamura.

Others have not yet been decided.

Wu Yusen wanted to invite Jiang Bai to play Zhou Yu.

Jiang Bai thought for a while, but still didn't take on this job. Although he could play with Lin Zhilin, Jiang Bai still felt that he could wait and see if there were any good movies in the future.

As for "Painted Skin", he didn't agree after thinking for a long time, even though the other party offered a high price and promised to let Jiang Bai serve as action director in it.

But now, after Jiang Bai became the director and filmed "Jiang Hu II", he felt a little tired of martial arts movies and costume movies, so he wanted to make some modern or modern movies and TV series.

So I rested at home for a long time, and every day I either went to the Sports University to teach students, or I went to Shichahai Sports School to help teach the students there.

The remaining time is to urge those people to continue practicing Tai Chi.

After all, Jiang Bai went to Yan Ti University on Lao Wu's recommendation and reciprocated the favor. Naturally, he also wanted to teach at Shichahai Sports School.

There are also those students from the sports school. Although most of them have been packed away by Jiang Bai, there are always some left. After all, other majors can also choose martial arts as elective courses.

In this way, the time came to March, and Yang Tianzhen suddenly called me that day, saying that a crew wanted to ask Jiang Bai to be the action director.

"What kind of show is this?"

"It's a bit similar to what you requested before. "The Legend of Bruce Lee" is a modern drama. Originally, I wanted to try to get you a male lead, that is, to play Bruce Lee, but people said that Bruce Lee's role has already been played. We have already found him, his name is Chen Guokun, and he looks very similar to Bruce Lee himself, so this character will definitely not move."

After hearing this, Jiang Bai felt a little regretful. After all, Bruce Lee is a modern kung fu legend. If he could play him, Jiang Bai would naturally be willing to play him.

But they had already found an actor who looked like Bruce Lee, and he was a special actor who looked very much like him, so Jiang Bai didn't say anything anymore.

"Furthermore, the background of this movie is also very risky. It is jointly produced by China International Television Corporation and CCTV. The producer is Bruce Lee's daughter, so there is no choice. If you want the role, you can only grab it.

But in a movie, it’s definitely different to just be behind the scenes, so I want to help you win over Ip Man, but Ip Man has already been found. By the time Bruce Lee was around, Ip Man was already older. So they found Master Yu Chenghui to play the role. "

"Well, this is what it should be." Yu Chenghui also has a high status in the domestic martial arts circle and often plays guest roles in various movies and TV dramas.

Jiang Bai had met each other several times before. The first time they met was in "The Swordsman". At that time, Jiang Bai was filming a serious role for the first time. After competing with some martial artists from Xiangjiang, he finally met Jiang Bai. Cheng Hui even came over to praise Jiang Bai.

"So it's not impossible if you want a role, but you can only make a cameo. And because the filming of this Bruce Lee legend is mainly done abroad, so if you want to take it, you can only have some ordinary roles. I asked and now there is one Huang Mao can act." Yang Tianzhen said.

There's only so much he can do, after all, there really aren't that many characters to choose from.

"Huang Mao might as well forget it. There probably won't be many scenes, but the action coaching job can continue."

"Okay, then I'll pick it up for you." Yang Tianzhen nodded and said over the phone, "There is another project also led by CCTV, but it's not the same place, but the creative team are all old acquaintances. Yu Mingsheng plans to We are filming a spin-off of "Lotus Lantern". He should have told you before that this time he will be filming "Magic Phone", which is also a TV series. We are still looking for collaborators."

"This drama is finally going to be filmed. This must be agreed to. I have promised Director Yu before. At that time, he had this idea, but it has not been filmed for so many years. In addition, the cooperation you mentioned is What?"

“I just need to find a joint production company.”

"Then let's do it next. It just so happens that we are all old acquaintances. Our company has also produced products ourselves, so we are quite experienced in this aspect."

"But Brother Jiang, if you want to take over the production, Mr. Zhao may have to come."

"Well... then I'll talk to Brother Zhao later. Then you two... no, the three of us will go there together."

"If that's the case, then I'll get back to Director Yu and ask him to help ask the leaders of the production company and tell them that we have intentions in this regard."

"Okay, go ahead and ask. If possible, it's best to make an appointment and we'll go there together."

"No problem, but "The Legend of Bruce Lee" may have to be shot both domestically and abroad. The current filming date is set for August, but there is no rush."

"Okay, there shouldn't be any schedule conflicts in August. Anyway, I plan to shoot modern or modern things this year, so I'll take my time."

Yang Tianzhen was very efficient. She hung up the phone and immediately went to contact Yu Mingsheng. Because Yu Mingsheng was in Yanjing now, and the two CCTV TV drama production centers were also studying, she drove directly to Yu Mingsheng's place. We decided on the roles first, and then talked about the remuneration. Firstly, we are all old acquaintances, and this is the collaboration we had promised before. Secondly, after the TV series is filmed, it will definitely be broadcast on CCTV, so It’s not too demanding either.

I just wanted to ask for 5 yuan per episode.Moreover, the pay for CCTV filming is generally not too high, because there are high-quality dramas produced and led by CCTV. If you don’t film many, people will want to film them. It is a mutually beneficial and win-win situation for both parties, and CCTV’s dramas do not require a specific person. Actors are used to increase the ratings, because CCTV’s national broadcasts are not far behind in ratings.

But for Jiang Bai, there is not much difference between 20 yuan an episode and [-] yuan an episode. What he wants now is to make some excellent dramas to change his mind.

So 5 yuan is just pocket money.

The next step is to talk to those leaders about cooperation.

But there are still some preparations to be made before cooperation. Yang Tianzhen first got some information from there, and then Zhao Zhe learned some more specific shooting content and ideas from Yu Mingsheng, so he began to work on the production plan, including the TV series Before the release, we solicit investment for advertisements and pre- and post-broadcast advertisements, including the promotion plan of the TV series, and more basic ones, including cooperating with CCTV and the director to select other actors, set up the crew, manage the production team, coordinate resources, and after the TV series is released, if There are other TV stations that want to buy the rights and so on.

Jiang Bai's company currently has a fixed production team, but Yu Mingsheng said that most of these production companies will be produced by companies designated by the TV station, so Jiang Bai asked the planner to engage in a joint production when doing the PPT report.

That is to say, both companies provide photography, but the post-production team does it together, and then the people on my side do not need to pay, and all the expenses are paid by myself.

There are other items that are actually pretty much the same.

If this was just the case, other people could do these projects, so Jiang Bai also proposed some more novel publicity plans. Jiang Bai is now very famous in terms of publicity. The two previous films Jianghu and No Man's Land The propaganda created a historical precedent.

In addition, Jiang Bai also added a spin-off project, that is, after the TV series is broadcast, he can find some manufacturers to make peripheral products for the TV series, such as Sha Niu's mobile phone, posters of the actors and cartoon figures, etc.

Finally, Jiang Bai also wanted copywriting and planning to add value at the end.

When Zhao Zhe personally presented the plan in front of all the leaders, the leaders were very satisfied.

It only took a few days for the plan to be approved and decided to cooperate with Jiang Bai.

In this way, Jiang Bai began to arrange personnel to coordinate with director Yu Mingsheng and CCTV for follow-up work.

The leading role has not been confirmed yet, but Sha Niu has already confirmed Shu Chang, and Chen Qi will also play the villain King Huang Mei in it.

Chen Qi himself is naturally very willing.

After all, the character Di Qi he played in "Jiang Hu II" left the country again. Although there were not many scenes, he was more important and took on the final key plot turning point.

The next thing Jiang Bai has to do is to start designing the actions of these two TV series.

"Magic Phone" can be regarded as a modern fantasy drama, with a city and fairy background, so the action design is mostly based on spells, and then special effects are added in post-production.

Therefore, Jiang Bai used a lot of wires when designing. Since it is a god, it must look good when it flies.

But in any case, as long as there are no too complicated movements, the design is very simple. But what is really difficult in Jiang Bai's mind is "The Legend of Bruce Lee" in August.

Because after "The Legend of Bruce Lee" was also accepted, he read the script.

A lot of kung fu is used in it. In addition to Wing Chun, which Bruce Lee first learned, there are also Kung Fu, Jeet Kune Do and Inch Fist moves that Bruce Lee created based on Wing Chun, which integrates the essence of various martial arts in the world.

There are also foreign kung fu such as judo, boxing, taekwondo, etc.

The producer, who is Bruce Lee's daughter, had very high requirements for this film and required that everything must be specially restored, so Jiang Bai spent half a month to recreate all the actions of "Magic Phone". After I got it done, I started to contact the Wing Chun masters in China.

Although Jiang Bai had martial arts that were similar to Wing Chun at that time, this TV series wants to reflect Wing Chun in the 20s, so Jiang Bai still has to learn more about it, otherwise it will not be possible to restore it.

Thanks to Jiang Bai's current status in the martial arts circle and Wu Hai's help in making introductions, those masters basically agreed without much thought.

After all, this can bring glory to the family.

The first person Jiang Bai found was Wang Zhipeng, the president of the Yanjing Wing Chun Federation. Wang Zhipeng was from Inner Mongolia and had been practicing martial arts since he was a child. He had also been a coach at a martial arts school and led students to participate in competitions many times and won outstanding awards. results, and also appeared on TV.

Especially in the past few years, the other party has gone to the Hainan Armed Police Corps and a special reconnaissance camp to teach Wing Chun. Last year, he also went to the University of Cambridge to give lectures.

"Jiang Bai, I have admired you for a long time, but this is the first time I have met you. Now I see you are still so young. You are really young and promising."

"No, no, Master Wang. This junior is just a latecomer. This time, I want to make a TV show, so I want to ask you to learn more about Wing Chun systematically."

"It's easy to talk about." Wang Zhipeng said with a smile, but martial arts practitioners will feel a little itchy when they meet a master.

"But if you want to understand Wing Chun, you can't learn it all at once just by watching and listening. How about we try two moves? But after all, it's a competition and learning, so we'll stop there. What do you think?"

"Okay, Master Wang."

Jiang Bai was learning this time, not to compete. Just like what the other party said, just hit him until he hit him. But Jiang Bai's idea was to just let the other party hit him until he hit him, and he would be able to resist more.

This also has the advantage that if Jiang Bai himself doesn't understand something, he can just change his moves during the sparring session and see how the other party responds.

"Next, I will use all Wing Chun moves to fight you." Wang Zhipeng said, and then asked, "Do you want to wear protective gear?"

Jiang Bai smiled and shook his head: "No need." (End of Chapter)