Rebirth 96: Begin the life of a monster from kindergarten

Chapter 249 Zhou Xingxing

Mid-July, Beijing.

In an office in the China Film Group's office building, Zhou Xingxing sat quietly on the sofa. On the sofa next to him, Han Sanping was reading a script.

Zhou Xingxing was a little confused, wondering why Han Sanping asked him to come to the capital.

His development has not been smooth in the past few years, because he parted ways with his old club. Under the threat of the other party's forces, he was almost blocked by the entire Hong Kong film industry. It was not until he met Han Sanping who supported him that he finally broke through the siege of his old club. .

Therefore, Han Sanping was kind to him, and he was a grateful person. When he heard that Han Sanping wanted to see him, he immediately rushed to the capital.

Han Sanping put down the script in his hand, leaned on the sofa and asked, "Xingxing, I heard that you want Ge You to play the father role in this movie!"

Zhou Xingxing nodded and explained in broken Mandarin: "Originally, I planned to cast Feng Xiaogang, but he had a movie to shoot and didn't have time, so he recommended Ge You to me, and I was planning to contact him to take a look! "

Han Sanping stared at Zhou Xingxing's face and said, "You can actually play this role yourself!"

Zhou Xingxing shook his head and said with an embarrassed smile: "I can't do it. This father's occupation is a migrant worker. I can't act!"

"No, no, career is not a problem. I think you can do it, even more suitable than Feng Xiaogang and Ge You."

Hearing Han Sanping insist on this point of view, Zhou Xingxing suddenly fell silent.

He is just not good at talking and communicating, but he is smart. Since Han Sanping said this, he can only play this role by himself.

"Then, before the movie starts shooting, I'll go experience life first!"

"Well, by the way, are you designing the alien creature called Qizai in the movie?"

Stephen Chow shook his head and said, "We are looking for a special effects company."

"Then let me recommend a company to you, Dreamweaver Culture. You can let them try it!"

After saying that, Han Sanping flipped through his mobile phone address book and found Zhang Yixing's phone number. He handed it over and said to Zhou Xingxing: "You can call this number directly."

Zhou Xingxing is a little depressed. He has always been paranoid about his own movies and can hardly tolerate the interference of others.

But since Han Sanping personally recommended it, he still had to give him the favor, so he wrote down the number while thanking him.

Dreamweaver Culture, the company that filmed "Kung Fu Panda"!

Although he has an impression of this company, Zhou Xingxing still doesn't think this company can produce the Qizai in his heart. For the quality of the movie, the design of this Qizai cannot be ambiguous in the slightest.

While writing down the number, Zhou Xingxing thought to himself: When the time comes, contact them to design a first draft, and then just reject it because the design does not meet the vision of the movie.

When Han Sanping had no other suggestions, Zhou Xingxing left China Film. After returning to the hotel, he dialed the phone number he had written down today.

"Hello, my name is Zhou Xingxing..."

On the first day of summer vacation, Zhang and his party were quite surprised and pleasantly surprised when they received a call from Zhou Xingxing.

Without him, Zhou Xingxing's movies are truly a sentiment for people of their generation.

In the drawer of the TV cabinet at home, Zhang Yixing bought CDs of Zhou Xingxing's movies, including almost all of the works starring him.

"That's right, I'm planning to make a movie with an avatar in it, which is an alien dog! President Han Shanping recommended Dream Weaver Culture to me, so I want to entrust you to help with the design!"

After listening to Zhou Xingxing's laborious explanation, the movie "Yangtze River No. 7" quickly popped into Zhang's mind, and the image of the alien puppy in it seemed to be dancing in front of his eyes. Just like designing an Olympic mascot, the reborn prophet is too ridiculous to do such a thing.

"Ok, no problem!"

After agreeing to the matter, Zhang and his party asked Zhou Xingxing about his design requirements and wrote down all the contents.

After hanging up the phone, he called Han Shanping again to express his gratitude. Although this was only a small job for DreamWeaver Culture, cooperating with Zhou Xingxing was still helpful in increasing the influence of the industry.

And you can never ignore the good intentions of others, not to mention that this person is Han Sanping, who is in charge of the life and death of Huaxia Film!

After chatting with Han Sanping for a few words, Zhang and his party also understood the ins and outs of the matter.

Inspired by the "Shenzhou" manned spacecraft, Zhou Xingxing came up with the idea of ​​making a science fiction movie, "Yangtze River No. 7".

It's just that according to his original plan, he only appeared as the film director rather than as the starring role.

As a producer, Han Sanping felt that Zhou Xingxing's image was actually very consistent with the father character in the script. Secondly, compared to Feng Xiaogang and Ge You, he was more optimistic about Zhou Xingxing's box office appeal, so he strongly insisted on this migrant worker. The father is played by Zhou Xingxing himself.

As for the design of Qizai, it is entirely because Dreamweaver Culture has become quite famous in the industry with its wonderful IP images. Even the Olympic Fuwa has adopted the design inspiration of Dreamweaver Culture.

Therefore, in Han Sanping's eyes, designing a small alien dog was not a problem at all for Dreamweaver Culture, so he casually suggested it.

This led to the phone call between Zhou Xingxing and Zhang Yixing.

This should be the last movie starring Zhou Xingxing himself! After filming this movie, he concentrated on being a director behind the scenes.

After hanging up the phone from Han Sanping, Zhang Yixing turned the pen in his hand and simply sketched a pattern on the paper. It was the image of the alien dog Qizai in "Yangtze River No. 7" that he had seen in his previous life.

After looking at the drawing for a while, Zhang Yixing took out another piece of paper and drew a new copy. This time, the Qizai drawn were only five-fifths like the original drawing.

After finishing the painting, Zhang and his party called Chen Ruyi. After a while, Chen Ruyi went upstairs, knocked on the door and entered the house.

Zhang Yixing listed several requirements put forward by Stephen Chow on the drawing, and then handed the drawing to Chen Ruyi, "Give it to the comics department and ask them to design fifty kinds of alien puppy images based on this direction!"

Chen Ruyi took the sketch and asked if he had any other requirements, then quickly left with the sketch.

Looking at the perfect Qizai in his hand, Zhang Yixing picked up the pen and scratched it out.

Naturally, it is impossible to directly hand over the complete Qizai described in his memory to Zhou Xingxing, otherwise it would be really amazing that he would take a liking to it at a glance.

Let the comics department draw more styles, and then let Zhou Xingxing make suggestions for revisions, and then finalize the draft step by step.

This also makes work seem difficult, isn’t it!
Two days later, Zhang and his team had more than 50 alien dog design drafts in their hands, a dozen of which were eighty percent similar to the original Qizai image.

Zhang and his party selected more than 20 copies, took photos of them all and sent them to the email address left by Zhou Xingxing.

That afternoon, Zhang and his party received another call from Zhou Xingxing. From the phone, Zhang and his party heard that Zhou Xingxing seemed very excited.

"It's incredible! There are several designs in it that are very consistent with my vision. I want to go to Dream Weaver Culture and finalize the final design version with the artist!"

"No problem! Yueshan welcomes you!"

(End of this chapter)