director of the millennium

Wu Yuan put Zhang Yishan's matter aside for the time being. He would wait until he gained about ten or twenty pounds. Then he would make the final decision on whether to use him as the male lead of "The Monkey King" based on his image.

At the same time, the film has also begun its preliminary preparations.

As a superhero special effects movie, the so-called preparatory work is actually mainly to find a special effects company to do the modeling, and find an art team to design some pictures and scenes, make costumes, etc.

Wu Yuan needs to participate in these matters, but he doesn't need to be very deeply involved. He just needs to be a big boss who is in charge.

This is much more relaxed and comfortable than Guo Fan who is currently filming "The Wandering Earth".

After all, he is a veteran commercial director. He is different from a young director who is making a sci-fi blockbuster for the first time.

This also made Wu Yuan feel a little free.

The early preparations for "The Monkey King" do not require him to keep an eye on them all the time. It is expected that the film will not officially start shooting until the end of the year, which means he still has three to five months of free time.

It is the summer season now, and there is a movie being shown in the theaters by Light and Shadow Times, which was previously spotted by Li Xiaoping and then the copyright was purchased for a remake.

Unlike Wu Yuan's impression of the Chinese version of "The Accidental Murderer" produced by Chen Sicheng, the creative team of the Light and Shadow Era version of "The Accidental Murderer" can be said to have been completely replaced.

The director is Li Yang from the company. After filming "Better Days", he lost interest in youth films and wanted to try a breakthrough with a new subject matter. This "A True Story" was just the right opportunity for him.

The director became Li Yang, which led to major changes in casting.

Li Yang finally chose Wang Qianyuan to play the tragic father of the male protagonist Li Weijie.

The actor Wang Qianyuan's acting skills are naturally impeccable. He is a favorite of many art film directors. From "The Piano in a Factory" to "Saving Mr. Wu", he has contributed excellent performances.

Especially Wang Qianyuan has a face that shows "bitterness and hatred". He can play a bad guy, or he can play an honest man who has been bullied and turned into complete despair and evil.

He doesn't even need to act. Just as soon as Wang Qianyuan shows up, people can believe that he has had a very tragic experience. He is a perfect match for the male lead Li Weijie.

Li Weijie's daughter, the girl who was violated in the story, was played by Tan Songyun, a professional baby-faced girl designated by the company. Although Tan Songyun is no longer a girl now, there is no sense of incongruity in letting her play a 17-year-old girl. The most important thing is to keep the benefits within the company, and the company's own films will definitely be given priority.

However, the role of Li Weijie's wife was played by Tan Zhuo, just like in the original version. Tan Zhuo and Wu Yuan have worked together in "Dear", and she can be regarded as an actor who has had a pleasant cooperation with Guangying Times. It just so happened that Guangying Times did not have any contracted artists who were old enough to be a "mother", so this role was given to her.

Li Yang was also very satisfied, or it could be said that almost all film directors favor Tan Zhuo. This actress is very popular in the field of literary and artistic films, even more popular than Wang Qianyuan.

As for the villains in the movie, the Thai female police chief and her husband, they are played by Kara Hui and Ning Li.

Ning Li, needless to say, is also a man who makes people feel that he is very scheming just by looking at his face. Just like in "The Wandering Earth 2", from the moment he appeared on the stage, even if he did nothing and even helped the male protagonist Liu Dehua, as soon as the audience saw his face, they felt that this person was not a good person and was definitely a villain behind the scenes.
I can only say that some actors' images and roles are really fixed, and they are "born bad guys".
Kara Hui was chosen by director Li Yang. He believed that Kara Hui could portray the feeling of a vicious woman, especially in recent years as she has aged and become thinner, and her appearance has indeed become more sinister.

Thus, this movie with a completely different cast from the original was born!

Even the name of the movie is not "A Murder in the Past", but "A Murder in the Past", and it was released two years earlier than the original time and space, in the summer of July 2017.

However, they are all adapted from the original Indian version, and the final results are similar. At present, the film has been released in mainland theaters for a week and has achieved a box office of more than 6 million yuan. Although it is not like those annual blockbusters that can take more than 10 billion yuan in the first week, according to the current box office trend, it should be no problem for the total box office to exceed billion yuan.

The cost of this movie "The Accidental Murderer" is just over 100 million yuan, and it will be a very successful commercial film invested by Light and Shadow Era!

But this matter had nothing to do with Wu Yuan. Although he was the big boss of the company, he had no intention of participating in the promotion and celebration banquet of "A True Story".

Wu Yuan thought about it and decided that since he had nothing to do, he might as well go and visit Liu Yifei.

She is currently filming "Time Raiders" in Shanghai. It has been almost two months and it will be completed in about half a month.

This movie has a little bit of science fiction and magic, but the story is still quite interesting, at least it is a qualified chick flick.

Over the past month, Liu Yifei had called Wu Yuan quite often, chatting about interesting things that happened on the set and inviting him to visit the set, after all, Wu Yuan was really free during his vacation this year.

He did what he thought. On the next day, July 7, Wu Yuan arrived in Shanghai by plane. He asked his assistant to order two cars of milk tea and iced drinks, and went to the crew together.

The crew of "Time Raiders" is currently filming in an old two-story residential building on the outskirts of Shanghai, which is also where the male and female protagonists live together.

The only difference is that the male lead rented the house in 1999, while the female lead rented the house in 2018.

The two people lived in a period of 19 years apart, but when the same door was closed, it turned out to be the intersection of two time and space, and two people from different time and space met in one room.

Thus, a series of wonderful stories began to emerge.

It was afternoon when Wu Yuan arrived at the crew. The crew had just finished filming a scene where two people were getting along in a house with disordered time and space.

"Hey, you're here?" Liu Yifei, who was about to drink the water from her assistant, noticed the two cold drink trucks parked outside the crew and Wu Yuan leaning against the trucks. A smile immediately appeared on her face.

During their video call last night, Wu Yuan told her that he would come to visit her on set today.

But she was still very happy to see people.

As the leading actress, Liu Yifei's every move has always been the focus of attention, and soon other crew members also noticed Wu Yuan.

The crew's director Su Lun also walked over in surprise, "Director Wu, are you here to visit the set?"

"Welcome, welcome. You even brought some drinks. The crew is in luck today."

Before he finished speaking, Su Lun's eyes suddenly lit up, and he swallowed the second half of Gong Wei's words back into his stomach. He asked expectantly with his eyes wide open: "Hey, Director Wu, since you are here, why don't you come and make a guest appearance?"

"We just so happen to have a funny scene this afternoon where Haidilao employees provide door-to-door service. This can be used as an Easter egg!" (End of this chapter)