Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 712 Be fatter and darker

Wen Zhang's cheating ruined his acting career, so he actively transitioned to behind the scenes. This year he made his directorial debut "Lu Yao Knows Ma Li". At the premiere, as a director, the host rarely even mentioned him. He was alone quietly. Standing on the stage, giving almost all exposure opportunities to the actors.

The most impressive thing is the choked words: "...because no one believes me when I play a love scene...I have never been so nervous as I am today. My calves are shaking now. I have devoted everything to this work. I hope everyone can Feel me."

When it comes to the emotional part, I even shed tears.

Really? Really.

I believe he was very sincere when he said this at the premiere, but his sincerity, the audience and the industry no longer bought the bill.

As he knew, the audience didn't believe him.

Released on the same day as him, there is another comedy "Quick Gunslinger", with a very good starring cast, Lin Gengxin's partner Zhang Jingchu.

Also released on the same day was a film called "Roadside Picnic."

As soon as this movie came out, it shocked the industry and even the international film community.

However, in the mid-month market, "Lu Yao Zhi Ma Li" and "Quick Gun Hands" failed to successfully take over, and the opening results of the two films were not ideal.

Only then did Zhang Yuanjun pull away.

It's been half a month since the summer season started, and the two movies released at the beginning of the month are still starring.

The next step is to watch "Escape" and "Legend of the Gods". These two movies are the most popular in late July.

After earning more than 2 million in its first weekend, "Youth " was blasted by netizens.

The entire process of a movie, from preparation to final release, is full of compromises.

"Big Fish and Begonia" also faced a similar situation. It made money at the box office in the early stage, but its reputation could not survive. The audience was extremely dissatisfied with the view of love shown in the movie. The theme song of "Big Fish" was the most out-of-favor.

Not an exaggeration at all!
It’s just that this exclamation didn’t reach the general audience.

For the summer season, it is very abnormal not to have a billion-level hit.

There are many movies released in this half month, but none of them can shake the market position of these two movies.

With a professional team of medical nurses and nutritionists taking care of Liu Yifei, Zhang Yuanjun felt much more relaxed. Liu Yifei took the initiative and said to him: "If you have something to do, just go and do your work. You don't have to keep an eye on me."

The same is true for the adaptation of Lu Yong's case.

However, the two leading movies failed to hit 10 billion.

He joined the screenwriting team of Wen Muye and Han Jia'er to help polish the script.

He asked for a certain comedy element to be added to the script.

The box office of "Rock Tibetan Mastiff" has not exceeded 2000 million since its release, so it is going very peacefully.

But also because of this, his films are really not suitable for ordinary audiences, and the viewing experience will be disastrous!

From here you can see the anomaly of this summer season.

The final box office of "The Invisible Guest" is estimated to be between 8 million and 9 million, and "Cold War 2" is expected to have a revenue of about 7 million.

The market is still for "Chilling 2" and "The Invisible Guest".

Director Bi Gan is known in the industry as a literary genius and "Wang Jiawei from the Mainland".

Some things cannot be written.

But creators are not so easy to compromise, they always have to fight.

Therefore, Zhang Yuanjun added the role of counterfeit medicine dealer Zhang Changlin to Han Jianu's script.

Zhang Yuanjun wanted to use the mouth of this counterfeit medicine dealer to expose something.

"Who have I harmed? The number of leukemia patients I have saved in the past two years, if not one thousand, must be five hundred. This can be considered as a good deed, right?" "Laugh, Zhang Changlin must laugh here." Zhang Yuanjun read. After finishing this line, he also gave some performance advice, "Facing the policeman who was interrogating him, laugh wildly and sarcastically."

Wen Muye and Han Jianu both understood what Zhang Yuanjun meant.

Some of the things that were inconvenient to write about Lu Yong were placed on Zhang Changlin.

Moreover, under the current system, Lu Yong cannot be written like Ron Woodruff in "Dallas Buyers Club".

Lu Yong must be written as a moral saint, so he cannot be a patient himself. He sells counterfeit drugs more out of sympathy for patients than commercial profits - although he claims to be doing it to make money.

This is the creator's helplessness, but there is no other way. It must be written this way if it is to be filmed.

Not to mention that the screenwriter's surname is Han, even if his surname is anything else, it must be included in the framework. Whether the film can be made without the screenwriter's surname being Han is irrelevant.

Han Jianu and Wen Muye were still responsible for the specific work on the script, while Zhang Yuanjun was only responsible for polishing some details.

Han Jianu changed a few paragraphs, looked up at Zhang Yuanjun, and said, "You want to gain weight, I want a decadent middle-aged man, fatter and darker."

Zhang Yuanjun said: "Okay, I will definitely gain weight before starting the machine."

Wen Muye added: "I don't want to work out. What I want is not to be strong from working out, but to be fat in middle age."

"No problem." Zhang Yuanjun agreed, "Just eat and drink. Who doesn't know how to enjoy this kind of thing?"

At noon, a few people were eating takeout lunches at Wen Muye's studio. Zhang Yuanjun asked the crew how the preparations were going.

The script has been roughly finalized, and now we are just revising and polishing the details. Wen Muye's crew should be making preparations.

"It's okay. The location scouting team has already set off. Let's see how the date negotiation goes. I'll draw the storyboards at the same time. Everything will be in time."

"Where are the actors?" Zhang Yuanjun was worried that Wen Muye's reputation was not good enough to attract actors.

Assistant director Wen Muye said with a smile: "Actors are actually easy to handle. We said that Zhang Yuanjun invested in and starred in this drama, and also served as a producer. Many actors are willing to try it."

"You do this kind of thing in my name?" Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile.

"You pay and become famous, isn't that what you do?" Han Jianu said with a smile.

But in fact, the casting process was far less lively than the assistant director said.

It is true that many actors are willing to come to the set to have a look, but many of them come with the mentality of playing a three-pronged role.

Such a realistic movie based on real cases means that it will not be a hit in the current market environment.

This is the era of commercial films, and everyone wants to star in a blockbuster film.

Some actresses even received invitation calls from the crew saying that they would not act in movies with a box office of less than 10 billion.

The production team was quite embarrassed.

Therefore, no matter whether they came to contact the crew on their own initiative or were invited by the crew on their own initiative, so far, few actors have been negotiated.

Although there is still some time before the film is released, the artist's schedule is very tight, so we still need to hurry up and talk.

"We have negotiated with Teacher Wang Yanhui. We originally wanted to cast him as a priest, but he said that the role of Zhang Changlin is good, so he volunteered to play Zhang Changlin. I will sign the contract in a few days."

"You have watched "Heart of the Burning Sun", right?"

The assistant director did not deny this speculation: "Mr. Wang did a good job in the last part. I really didn't recognize him at first. I thought the crew showed a real interrogation tape."

Wang Yanhui used the last few minutes of "Scorching Sun" to conquer the industry and the audience - it turned out that his drama was so good.

The actor was slowly found, but Zhang Yuanjun was not prepared to interfere.

(End of this chapter)