Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 54 Two Directors
"Brother Ke? Why were you called too?"

"Lin Lingdong? Were you called too?"

In the corridor of Jiayi TV Station, Tsui Hark and Lin Lingdong walked towards each other and looked at each other.

In the past two days, people at Jiayi TV Station were in panic from top to bottom.

Since Li Wanshui "ascends to the throne", he can be said to be an emperor and a courtier, and he will chop at the people below him when he comes up.

In fact, laying off 30% of employees was a difficult decision that Li Wannian and Li Wanshui had to make.

After Liang Shuyi became the general manager this year, she randomly used high salaries to poach TVB's corners, increasing the total number of people in the station from more than 600 to more than 800, causing the station's "overstaffing" problem.

Therefore, Li Wannian and Li Wanshan were forced to cut off the knife.

But this also means that out of ten people in the TV station, three people will be fired!
It’s very possible that the colleague you were chatting and laughing with today will be gone tomorrow!
In this case, even a director like Tsui Hark is still nervous.

After all, he was just a new director who directed a TV series. Although the TV series received a good response, it was not a hit, and failed to beat TVB's "Tycoon" of the same period.

Nowadays, Jiayi TV Station does not need so many TV series, even the "Celebrity Love Story" he has on hand. It was originally expected to shoot 100 episodes, but now it only shot 36 episodes before it was forced to stop. It is not sure whether it can continue filming in the future. !
The Lin Lingdong in front of him was in a similar situation to his own. He was also a new director, and he had just filmed a criminal police TV series "Vanguard". It was recently aired, and the ratings did not meet expectations.

Both of them came to the general manager's office on short notice today, presumably to be fired.

Thinking of this, the two looked at each other with bitter smiles.

"Walk together?"

"Walk together!"

As he spoke, there was a strong wind rustling and the water was cold and tragic.

"Dong dong dong..."

Together they knocked on the door of the general manager's office.

"Please come in!"

The voice coming from the door didn't seem to be Li Xuelu's, but the two of them couldn't care less about that at this time, as the prospect of getting fired was always hanging over their heads.

Opening the door, I found many people sitting in the general manager's office.

Behind the desk, Li Wanshui was sitting on an office chair and looking at information. General Manager Li Xuelu stood behind Li Wanshui like a follower. On the sofa next to him, there was a young man sitting on the sofa, holding a cup of tea and looking out. distance.

"You guys are here? Please sit down!" When Li Wanshui saw the two of them, he put down the information in his hands and looked at them with a smile.

Li Wanshui's smile was obviously amiable, but to the two of them, it was as if Grandma Wolf was giving Little Red Riding Hood a New Year's greeting.

"Director Li, let's just stand!" Tsui Hark replied politely.

"Me too!" Lin Lingdong echoed.

"Don't worry, I'm not here to fire you this time, but to make some special personnel arrangements for you!"

When Li Wanshui said he would not be fired at first, the two of them were relieved, but then they heard about the personnel arrangements, and they became excited again.

"I wonder what Director Li wants us to do? We will do our best to do it!"

"Me too!" Lin Lingdong continued to echo.

"Mr. Li, tell me!" Li Wanshui said nothing more, but gave the opportunity to announce the news to Li Xuelu behind him.

"You two, after discussion with the TV station, Director Tsui Hark, the drama "Celebrity Love" is temporarily handed over to several other directors. You have a new drama here, which will be shot by you. Director Lin Lingdong, you have been temporarily transferred from the production department. I'm going to serve as the deputy director of the newly established children's animation department. Do you two have any questions?"

"What? I have a new movie to shoot?"

"What? I'll be the deputy minister?"

The two people's reactions were completely different.

Compared to Tsui Hark's joy, Lin Lingdong almost went crazy!

What is this?

I'm just an ordinary director!

Why do you want me to be a deputy minister?

And the children's animation department?

The deputy minister of this department is not worthy of a dog!
"Any questions?"

"No problem!" "No problem!"

Sure enough, although Lin Lingdong was very resistant in his heart, he was very honest in his words, and he was very thorough and did not stumble in the slightest.

"Very specific situation, you can communicate with Mr. Li, he will give you a detailed introduction!"

"Mr. Li?"

It was only then that the two people standing took a serious look at the young man who had been sitting on the sofa. Just by looking at the fluff at the corner of his mouth and his immature face, he knew that this child was not yet an adult, right?

"Hello! Director Xu, Director Lin! Let me introduce myself, my name is Li Wannian!"

This person was Li Wannian. At this time, he finally stood up and shook hands with the two of them.

"Hello there!"

"Hello there!"

"Please sit down. I will discuss your work content with you in detail!"

After shaking hands, Tsui Hark kept thinking as he sat down, why is this name so familiar?

"Director Xu, I have a play here that I need you to direct. Here are the script and storyboard. Please take a look!"

Li Wannian moved the documents that had been prepared on the table slightly towards Tsui Hark, and Tsui Hark quickly took them.

"'Hong Kong Island Love Story'?"

"Yes, the plot of this TV series is not complicated, and there are no big scenes. The main test is the director's skill and the actor's acting ability. However, I believe you have the ability!"

"Thank you! Is there anything else I need to pay attention to?"

"As for the actors, only two heroines have been confirmed so far. The first female lead, Chi Lixiang, will be played by Mi Qiaolai, the second female lead, Guan Limei, will be played by Zhao Nazi, and the third female lead..."

"Zhao Nhazhi? Isn't she an actress from TVB?"

"No, now it belongs to our Jiayi!"

"learn!"

Tsui Hark immediately understood that under the background of Jiayi's overall employment structure, Zhao Nazhi could still enter Jiayi, so the relationship was obviously unusual!
As for who to go with?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Li Wanshui sitting on the main seat.

In fact, Tsui Hark's guess was not wrong at all. Zhao Yazhi is now the proprietress of Jiayi TV Station, so the relationship is certainly extraordinary!

As early as the summer of 1976, after Li Wanshui returned to Hong Kong Island, Zhao Nashi no longer wanted to be a flight attendant, so with Li Wanshui's support, she resigned and joined Infinity TV.

In the past two years, she started from the lowest level. As an assistant director, she was responsible for production, assistant director, drama management, props, costumes, etc. Later, she became the host of "Big Heart and Small Heart", and then moved to the behind-the-scenes position. Started filming TV series before.

Although she filmed a few TV series that were not very popular, she accidentally participated in the Xu brothers' comedy "Half a Category" and unexpectedly gained a certain degree of fame.

Even the TV series "Tycoon" that defeated Tsui Hark also starred Zhao Nazi.

However, in April this year, Zhao Nhazhi chose to resign, and for this reason he also turned down the role of Zhou Zhiruo in "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword".

Because it only took Li Wanshui one summer to make DreamWorks rise rapidly.

Such an achievement also completely conquered Zhao's parents, so in September 1976, the two officially got married.

It’s just that both of them were not well-known at the time, and their activities were relatively low-key, so not many people knew about it.

This also made people wonder when Zhao Yazhi suddenly left TVB, why did she give up such a good opportunity?
Little did they know that she was going to resign and become the boss of another TV station!

"As for the male actors, I haven't found a suitable one in Jiayi at present. You can also help me find one. In addition, this TV series is adapted from a comic. You can also read the comic below the script to see the two male actors. Which actor is more suitable?"

"comics?"

When he heard about the comic, Tsui Hark immediately became interested. He pulled out the comic from under the script and saw it read: Hong Kong Island Love Story, original work by Long Live, illustrated by Ho Chi Man...

"Long live?"

Almost instantly, Tsui Hark felt a light flash through his mind, and he immediately realized who the person in front of him was.

Isn't this the author of the book "Death" that I read every day?

I am really blind and ignorant!

(End of this chapter)