director of the millennium

Chapter 108 The role of "If Love" is fixed, and "Stealing Heart" premieres (please order first!)

Inside Wu Yuan's office.

Zhang Guorong, who had finished the audition, handed some resumes to Wu Yuan.

Wu Yuan took a closer look and a smile appeared on his face, "Are you sure you've chosen them?"

In his left hand is Chen Kun's resume, and in his right hand is Yan Kuan's resume.

Zhang Guorong really fell in love with Yan Kuan at a glance, and asked him to play the male number three originally played by Chi Zhenxi.

In terms of appearance, Yan Kuan, one of the four beauties in Tianya, is much more handsome than the male protagonist of "Dae Jang Geum".

What's more, the character of Monty is originally a "cool" character in the movie.

In the movie, he is a gate of memory, not a real person. He has repeatedly transformed into a writer, a driver, and a waiter, waiting beside the confused protagonist.

Whenever his angelic face and gentle smile appear, the protagonists will wake up in memory one after another.

In a nutshell, this character is so handsome that the audience can understand why the protagonists wake up from their memories when his face appears.

Chen Kexin found a South Korean actor who is not outstanding in appearance, which is indeed a little bit of meaning.

Wu Yuan was very satisfied with Zhang Guorong's choice.

Of course, he chose Chen Kun as the male lead, Wu Yuan was even more satisfied.

It can't be said that Zhang Guorong chose, there is really no choice.

If Wu Yuan did not restrict the use of only mainland actors, Zhang Guorong could find a lot of actors suitable to play Lin Jiandong.

But limited to the mainland, there are not many actors of the right age to choose from. If you want to choose one of the 20-30-year-old male actors in the mainland, the most suitable one is Chen Kun.

Otherwise, Chen Kun would not have acted in five movies in the last two years.
Now in mainland China, as long as the project is established and the preparations start, and the lead actor is under the age of 30, the first step is to find Chen Kun and hand him the script.

There is a joke in the circle that for all the movies that are planned to be shot in the mainland, the scripts of the male protagonists will be passed through Chen Kun's hands first, and after he has selected them, the rest will be given to other actors.

As for the actresses, it was Zhou Xun who received this treatment.

It's not that Gong Huang and Jiuji Zhang don't have this kind of treatment, but the movies being prepared in the Mainland are now not worthy of their celebrity status.

To put it bluntly, I can't afford to invite the two of them to play the heroine.

Gong Huang and International Zhang are now actively contacting the Hong Kong circle and Hollywood, and they look down on the three-acre land in the Mainland.

Well, except for Zhang Yimou and Wu Yuan.

Their movie can afford these two, and these two can't wait to be in their movie.

Back to topic.

Zhang Guorong decided to use Chen Kun to form the golden pairing of Zhou Xun + Chen Kun. Of course Wu Yuan was happy to see this.

"Zhang Sheng, is that the deal?"

Wu Yuan laughed: "The choice of other supporting roles, you can figure it out yourself, and you don't need to show me."

"I won't be the producer of "If Love" this time. Our new movie should start together, and I don't have time to help you with the production."

Wu Yuan gave Zhang Guorong the full authority that a director should have on the crew. In addition to funding the script, he did not have any other instructions for Zhang Guorong.

This also made Zhang Guorong very happy, and felt that it was right to sign into the Light and Shadow Era.

"Director Wu, don't worry, I will definitely make this movie well!" He assured Wu Yuan with a serious expression and some expectation.

The casting of "If Love" lasted for three days, and Zhang Guorong finalized Hu Junlai as a film producer in the film, and after Xu Qing came to play Lin Jiandong's agent, the crew entered the formal preparation period.

However, before the film was launched, Zhang Guorong's first directorial work "Stealing Heart" was first released in the mainland and Hong Kong Island.

This film, which can be called the crystallization of Zhang Guorong's dream, has a box office of 100 million yuan in the mainland and 200 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong Island on the day of its release because of the gimmick of "Zhang Guorong's first film directed by him".

After the first day of screening, some film critics also spontaneously published their own reviews in newspapers.

As a debut film, "Stealing Heart" is still very well completed, and the theme of "love" is also the theme that audiences will never tire of watching.

Maybe if the plot is placed 20 years later, it will seem a bit bloody.

But in this era when Qiong Yao's dramas can kill the world, "Stealing Heart", a movie where two men and one woman are constantly misunderstood and missed, does not appear to be bloody.

At least it is much better than the films "Daddy's Love", "Echo of Emotion" and "Beautiful Concentric Knot" released at the same time.

Within a week of the film's release, "Stealing Heart" has earned a box office of 800 million yuan in the Mainland, and Hong Kong Island's box office has also broken through 1200 million Hong Kong dollars.

And the reputation is pretty good. Whether it is in the Mainland or Hong Kong Island, most film critics and industry insiders believe that Zhang Guorong's transformation debut is a success.

Sunglasses King even publicly accepted an interview with Ming Pao, praising Zhang Guorong's "Stealing Heart" as a mature film, not at all like a new director's work.

In the interview, he did not hesitate to praise Zhang Guorong and believed that Zhang Guorong is expected to become a leading figure among the next generation of directors in Hong Kong.

Of course, he didn't mention a single word about the film's mainland capital and producer Wu Yuan.

He also deliberately ignored several mainland leading actors, and the entire interview only revolved around Zhang Guorong.

Director Han was unhappy when he saw the relevant news reprinted in the mainland. Does the sunglasses king only have Zhang Guorong in his eyes?
Immediately, he ordered his propaganda department to fully fire, and many large newspapers in the mainland wrote various promotional articles around the lead actor of "Stealing Heart" and Wu Yuan.

Today I praise Tranquility, Hu Jun and others for their excellent acting skills, tomorrow I praise Wu Yuan for his hard work as a producer, and the day after tomorrow I praise China Film and Television for his insight into heroes. In short, the success of "Stealing Heart" and Zhang Guorong is the result of the hard work of all the crew, and everyone has contributed.

In this way, the media in Hong Kong Island and the media in the mainland fought each other. For more than a week, "Stealing Heart" dominated the headlines of newspapers in both places.

This has made the film's reputation steadily rise, and it has also promoted the continuous growth of the box office results!
But Wu Yuan didn't care about these things, he just paid attention to the movie when it was released, and then put all his energy into the performance of "Romeo and Juliet".

Wu Yuan's first year of Ph.D. is coming to an end, and his play will be performed for the teachers of the directing department at the end of June.

Although Wu Yuan believed that he had rehearsed the play very well, and the actors were all trained to their best condition by him.

But as the "examination" approached, he was somewhat anxious, and the rehearsals arranged for the actors became more frequent.

Not too often, he has a very tight itinerary.

After the performance of "Romeo and Juliet" here, Wu Yuan will fly to the US to attend the premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean", and he will stay in the US for at least half a month, accepting various interviews.

Afterwards, he had to rush back to China non-stop, and officially started the work of scouting, setting angles, and filming for "Your Name".

Wu Yuan, who had been salted for more than half a year, fell into a busy life again.

(End of this chapter)