China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 392 Shameless and inferior artist
After leaving Hualiu Company, Wang Baoqiang called Xu Zheng in the car and told him the information he had just obtained from the conversation with Li Yu.

"Director Xu, maybe you really should stay away from this. Director Li is extremely confident about the "The Great Wall" series.

He said that this is a concentrated reflection of the experience and skills he has accumulated over the years since his debut, and he expects the two parts to start at 15 billion. "

Although Wang Baoqiang tried his best to keep a calm tone when he said these words, his voice trembled slightly because he was too shocked.

This is a box office of 15 billion!
If Li Yu could really do it, his status and reputation could rise to a higher level.

This means that one of China’s best-selling film series has been born.

"The Great Wall" will also usher in an era of domestic historical mythological blockbusters.

Xu Zheng's heart sank.

He believed Wang Baoqiang's words 100%.

He also believed that Li Yu's confidence was not groundless and blind.

The Great Wall is very important to Li Yu. He became a film master who created a new genre for Chinese-language films.

If it fails, it will become a joke like Chen Kaige's "The Promise".

Therefore, when filming and producing "The Great Wall", Li Yu will definitely give it his all and will not hold back at all.

Wang Baoqiang did not hear Xu Zheng's response. Seeing that the other party was silent, he continued to sigh from the bottom of his heart: "Director Li is really a very talented person. His script for "Detective Chinatown" is so well written.

Many people's speculations outside are wrong, Director Li's level has not declined.

On the contrary, he is improving all the time.”

Wang Baoqiang was hinting something to Xu Zheng in his words.

Don't ever clash head-on with Li Yu during the Lunar New Year holiday, otherwise there will be nothing left of you.

"Baoqiang, thank you very much for providing me with this information."

Xu Zheng was somewhat unwilling, so he asked again.

"So what do you think of the movie Detective Chinatown?"

This is what Xu was thinking. If the film really has to be withdrawn from the Lunar New Year schedule, can it be changed to the Spring Festival schedule?

Wang Baoqiang said that the script of "Detective Chinatown" was very well written, but the director was not Li Yu himself after all, but Wang Jing, who is known as the king of bad movies.

Another strong competitor during the Spring Festival is "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

Xu Zheng's views on Stephen Chow's film are consistent with those of many bigwigs in the industry, and he is skeptical about films that are not starred by Stephen Chow himself.

From this perspective, there is no New Year's Day movie during the Spring Festival.

Xu Zheng is already looking for a second way out for himself.

Unfortunately, Wang Baoqiang poured cold water on the film the next second: "Detective Chinatown is also very powerful. It is a very pure commercial film, and Wang Jing is very good at making commercial films.

Director Li has high expectations for Detective Chinatown and intends to make the first film the beginning of a series.

"..."

Xu Zheng was about to collapse.

What did he do to offend anyone? He just wanted to find a time to appear on screen that wouldn't get him into trouble. Is it really that difficult?

The Lunar New Year and Spring Festival holiday seasons have not yet arrived, but this year's biggest dark horse has already shown a serious lack of confidence.

……

Such an incident happened in Hong Kong Island, thousands of miles away.

A guy named Du heard that Wang Jing had secured investment in the mainland, so he returned to Hong Kong to scout for actors.

This guy named Du asked Wang Jing for a role.

Wang Jing knew very well how much Li Yu hated this guy, so he tactfully rejected his request.

In the circle of friends of the person named Du, there are also many people who want to audition for "Detective Chinatown" and get a role.

Wang Jing did give them the opportunity to audition, but eliminated them during the audition process for various reasons.

Wang Jing knew them too well. If he said that ten out of ten people were not right, there might be some who were wrongly accused. If he let every other one go, there would definitely be a lot of fish that slipped through the net. The mainland film market is so big, he didn't want to randomly select some problematic actors and cause dissatisfaction from Li Yu and Da Tiantian.

Du Gou talked to his friends privately, only to find out that neither he nor his friends were selected by Wang Jing.

Wang Jing would rather choose younger actors who usually don’t have opportunities to shine than use their old actors.

Du Gou was very unhappy about this.

His character is extremely bad, and he has always been known as a mad dog.

Even if someone is his benefactor, if they do something that makes him unhappy, he will bare his teeth and bite them.

A typical example is Andy Lau.

Du Gou and Andy Lau met during the filming of "Infernal Affairs" in the early years.

Andy Lau had long been known as one of the Four Heavenly Kings. In contrast, Du Gou was just an actor with low income and little fame at the time.

Du Gou couldn't even buy a house in Hong Kong Island, let alone rent one when he was at his lowest point.

Liu Dehua did not look down on him and generously lent Du Gou one of his mansions.

When Du Gou got married, Andy Lau was very respectful and served as the best man.

What happened? He wanted Andy Lau to invest in the sequel to Isabella, but was rejected.

His expression immediately changed, and he bit his benefactor like a mad dog.

When reporters asked him whether he had ever stayed in Andy Lau's mansion, he shamelessly denied it.

He also said that he had never asked Andy Lau for investment, and that his boss at the time was much richer than Andy Lau, implying that Andy Lau was nothing.

Later, Du Gou even tried to flatter himself, saying that he turned against Andy Lau because he saw that he was a traitor and was against the Hong Kong people, and that it had nothing to do with investment.

To quote Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, I have never seen such a shameless person.

Today, Wang Jing has selected a group of actors from Hong Kong Island and plans to bring them back to the mainland to choose a date to officially start filming.

There happened to be a cocktail party tonight, and as one of the bigwigs in the Hong Kong circle, Wang Jing had to attend.

What Wang Jing never expected was that Du Gou actually questioned him in front of several other bigwigs in the industry: "Director Wang, you are one of the famous directors in Hong Kong Island. Why are you becoming more and more humble now?
I thought that if you went to the mainland, you would do the same as Director Wu did before, and use the mainland people's money to promote our own actors.

In the end, you don't use many talented and talented actors here. Are you going to be a dog for that guy named Li?"

Du Gou's provocative words instantly made Wang Jing the focus of the party.

Even a smooth person like Wang Jing was very angry at this moment.

Because Du Gou came here to embarrass him, and he started by mocking him for going to the mainland and becoming Li Yu's dog.

At the party, many people were already pointing fingers at Wang Jing.

After observing the reactions of others, Du Gou showed a somewhat smug look on his face.

"Du, stop talking nonsense. Do you believe that I will cut off our relationship?"

Wang Jing was very annoyed.

He also tasted the pain of being bitten by a dog.

Du Gou had acted in many of his movies before, and it was he who gave Du Gou opportunities many times.

The result? Just because he refused Du Gou's participation in "Detective Chinatown", the mad dog started to bite him in public.

"Director Wang, did I hit the nail on the head? You're not really going to be a dog for that mainlander Li Yu, are you?

Do you think being his dog is like clinging to someone powerful? You will regret it, because his crap movie "The Great Wall" is doomed to fail.

I was lucky enough to beat Director Wu once or twice and then I thought I was great and that I could start my own school, but in fact I am nothing.”

Given Du Gou's status, it is normal for him to have no good feelings towards Li Yu and wish Li Yu would die sooner.

Wang Jing's anger was completely ignited by Du Gou's outrageous words.

(End of this chapter)