director of the millennium

Chapter 15 Power On!
The next day, at seven o'clock in the evening, in Fengze Garden.

Chen Kun, Zhou Xun, Zu Feng, Sun Honglei, Chen Jianbin, Yan Danchen, Zeng Li, and Qin Hailu gathered in a box, chatting endlessly.

Mainland actors in 2000 didn't have much concept of celebrity status.

Although Sidan Shuangbing has already gained momentum, some agents of domestic entertainment have also learned from Wang Jinhua the celebrity marketing in the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles.

But the actors Wu Yuan invited were either traditional professional actors who were still following the drama route, or they were young people who had just graduated.

In their current professional concept, the roles are not big or small, and they are all singing in a proper way.

No matter if you are playing a supporting role or a leading role, everyone is equal in personality, no matter whether you are playing a supporting role or not.

Therefore, although the roles of the eight actors are different, it does not affect their hot chat.

In other words, they are holding a script reading and discussion meeting.

This is something that is rare to see in 20 years, but is very common now.

"I don't know this Director Wu, but after I got the book from a friend, I was fascinated at first glance. This book is so well written, just reading the text makes people want to stop."

Chen Jianbin leaned on the table with one hand, and waved his hand up and down: "Good guy, I read the script three or four times before I roughly figured out the contradictions in it and the changes in time and space!"

"Just for the role I want to play, there are more than a dozen "parallel worlds" of myself!"

"It's so interesting. I only saw this kind of theme in American blockbusters before. I didn't expect that there are directors in our country making such movies!"

When Chen Jianbin spoke up, Zu Feng and Sun Honglei, who were sitting next to him, also echoed.

Among the several actors present, most of the others agreed to join the crew without hesitation because of their friendship and relationship with Wu Yuan.

But the three of them were really moved by the script. They talked about the script clearly and clearly. It was obvious that they had read the script at least several times or even ten times in just one day after receiving it.

While chatting, Sun Honglei frowned suddenly, and said hesitantly:
"Whether the script is good or not is the director's ability to shoot it well. Just reading the script gives me a headache, so the filming must not be a mess?"

It's not surprising that Sun Honglei had this idea. He learned about Wu Yuan's situation from Chen Kun. He is 18 years old and is a junior after the summer vacation. He has never had independent directing experience before.

Such a pure new director wants to make a movie with hundreds of contradictions and more than a dozen time and space intersections. Can he do it well? Is it good?
"Harm, don't worry about it." Chen Kun stopped Sun Honglei's shoulders and said calmly: "Yuan'er is the screenwriter of this movie. He wrote this book. Can he not film it well?"

"Yes!" Zhou Xun, who is familiar with Sun Honglei, also said: "I filmed with Wu Yuan in the crew of "17-year-old Bicycle". I even held a film meeting with the director."

"Director Wang Xiaoshuai said that his younger brother is spiritual and born to be a director. He is full of praise!"

While talking, Chen Kun suddenly remembered something, reached out his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then whispered: "By the way, it will be Yuan'er's in a few days..."

After ten minutes.

The door to the box was opened, and Wu Yuan led a handsome man in his early thirties wearing glasses and walked in.

"Everyone is here."

Wu Yuan looked around the box and nodded with a smile: "Let me introduce to you, this is our producer Chen Yuan of "The Night the Comet Came", Producer Chen."

"Your acting contract will be signed by him on behalf of the crew."

While talking, the "supervisor" Chen Yuan sent by China Film Group took out stacks of contracts from the briefcase he carried with him.

Wu Yuan negotiated the remuneration with them yesterday, but there is actually nothing to talk about, they are all a group of unknown actors, at most they have only acted in a few film and television dramas.

Weekly News is the most expensive, with a salary of 6000 yuan.

For the rest of the cast, because they all have similar roles, including the male and female protagonists, they all received a uniform salary of [-] yuan.

Don't think too little, "The Night the Comet Came" is expected to only need to be filmed for seven nights, and they can rehearse and perform in the theater during the day.

This is equivalent to a part-time job, and the part-time job can earn 5000 yuan a week, which is already a very high salary for these actors in the theater.

As for Zhou Xun's 1000 yuan more than others, this is the value brought by her Paris International Film Festival Best Actress Award.

Zeng Li, who was supposed to play the heroine, was the one with the highest pay. After all, the whole film was conducted from her perspective, and she played the most important role.

But who told Zhou Xun to win the Best Actress trophy?

Being able to spend 6000 yuan to invite Zhou Xun, Wu Yuan felt it was well worth it.

There is nothing fancy about the contract. There is no need to worry about the contract provided by China Film Group. Everyone signed their names at the end of the contract without looking at it carefully.

After Chen Yuan withdrew the contract one by one, he sat down and looked up at Wu Yuan who was the only standing one with the others.

Being watched by nine people together, Wu Yuan felt a little nervous.

The last time he came to Fengze Garden, he was just a young actor in Wang Xiaoshuai's crew.

This time, he turned himself into a director of a film crew.

Although there are only eight actors in this crew, there are only three crew members.

But Wu Yuan still felt infinite pride in his heart.

In the dream world, it took him 20 years to become the chief director of a film crew and a real film director.

But this time, it only took him two years to build a film crew!
Although the crew is small, this is where his dream started!

"Okay, since everyone has signed the contract, we won't delay any longer."

Wu Yuan put his hands on the table, looked at each other, and breathed a long sigh of relief: "Next, we will hold a few script reading meetings to thoroughly read the script and figure out the relationship between the characters, and then we can start filming. .”

"During the start-up period of the crew, I don't care about you during the day, but every night from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-], you must arrive at the crew on time to start work, and you must bring makeup to work!"

"Is there a problem?"

"No problem!" everyone replied in unison.

"Okay, let's eat first, and we'll have a meeting after eating!" Wu Yuan smiled with satisfaction.

At the moment when Hong Kong Island’s film capital has not yet moved northward on a large scale, there are no rituals such as beheading chicken heads, worshiping Guan Gong, or throwing up red cloth when filming in the mainland.

So for the crew of "The Night the Comet Came", the meal tonight is the opening ceremony.

In the next three days, Wu Yuan would gather with eight actors every day to discuss the script, their respective character settings, their code of conduct in the film, and how to act in some more complicated places.

Three days later, China Film helped Wu Yuan rent the filming location, a small western-style building in XC District.

Bringing the actors of the crew, as well as a master cameraman invited from Beijing Film Studio and two rented film cameras, Wu Yuan moved to Xiaoyang Building.

So far, "The Night the Comet Came" is officially launched!
(End of this chapter)