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Chapter 517 Director Guo: Money comes so easily?

Da Tiantian quickly realized that she had really shot Li Yu just now.

Li Yu’s company made a movie called “The Night the Comet Came” a few years ago. It was quite famous at the time and was hailed as a model of low-cost science fiction films.

This year, Li Yu filmed "Ready Player One", which is also a science fiction film and was completed not long ago.

"I just came back from Africa not long ago. It was hard to get online there. I didn't even know you had started filming Ready Player One."

Da Tiantian quickly explained.

After explaining, she quickly asked: "Can you really make hundreds of millions?"

“From my personal perspective, I think The Wandering Earth can make you 300 million or 200 million.

But this is too exaggerated. After all, The Wandering Earth has not started filming yet, and there is not even a shadow of it. "

Most of the time, Li Yu would only talk to Da Tiantian about these unreliable, predictive things.

Because Da Tiantian is really not short of money, she wouldn't even blink an eye if she lost several hundred million, let alone one or two hundred million.

Moreover, she has been working with Li Yu for so many years and has full trust in Li Yu.

She might not believe in the evil and argue with Li Yu over some trivial matters.

When it comes to major issues like this, she usually chooses to listen to Li Yu's opinion.

Without waiting for Da Tiantian to answer, Li Yu continued, "Why don't you ask your company's professional team to find out whether this project is reliable?"

"Makes sense."

Da Tiantian agreed with this and asked Li Yu for a copy of the project information of "The Wandering Earth". She sent it to the company's professional team on the spot and asked them to give an evaluation report within half an hour.

Da Tiantian’s behavior put a lot of pressure on Guo Fan, who had just arrived.

He was very happy when he received a call saying that Li Yu, a senior from the directing department and the most famous director in the circle, wanted to talk to him.

He was even happier when he learned that Da Tiantian, the most beautiful and rich girl in the world, was also there.

Before coming, he was thinking that perhaps the investment matter could be settled at once with Li Yu and Da Tiantian.

Only now did he realize that the difficulty was much greater than he had imagined.

Da Tiantian actually asked the company's professional team to evaluate the "The Wandering Earth" project. He has to prepare for the worst.

These days he has approached more than one company for investment, but most of them have expressed pessimism, and a small number are in a stage of hesitation and wavering, unable to make up their minds.

But since I'm here, I must fight for it.

"Senior, Miss Jing."

Guo Fan said politely with a smile on his face.

He is a few years older than Li Yu, but Li Yu entered Beijing Film Academy seven years earlier than him, so Li Yu is indeed his senior.

This is also one of the great advantages of the academic school, every industry has its own small circle.

We all graduated from Beijing Film Academy, so we are naturally closer.

“Although you are older than me, I am your senior in the film industry. As a senior, I have to say that the younger generation is formidable.

I have been shooting TV series and movies for so many years before I had the opportunity to shoot a blockbuster movie with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars. You have only shot two movies and already have such an opportunity. "

Li Yu sighed.

Reality really is stranger than fiction.

If you write a novel based on Guo Fan’s experience.

The protagonist studied law, but suddenly went to film school. After graduation, he made two movies, and then the third movie was a big production with an investment of several hundred million yuan.

Not only did it win the honor of China's best science fiction film, it also earned more than 4 billion yuan at the box office, ranking among the top Chinese-language film box office.

Readers will give such a protagonist the nickname Long Aotian.

Li Yu was praising Guo Fan, but he didn't deserve it. He replied modestly: "Senior, you are kidding me. Investing 5000 million yuan is the slogan of China Film Group's external publicity.

In fact, they were only willing to give me 8000 million, and the rest had to be figured out by me as the director.

I've been worrying about money these days and my hair has turned grey. "People don't know how great they are until they succeed.

The same is true for Guo Fan.

He now has no idea how to raise hundreds of millions of dollars.

Even if he manages to get enough money, his goal is not 20 billion or 30 billion. As long as he can ensure that the movie does not lose money, it will be considered a victory.

After chatting for a while, the professional team of Starlight called Da Tiantian.

Their evaluation result is that almost no one in the industry is optimistic about science fiction films, and even less optimistic about "The Wandering Earth" directed by a "small director" like Guo Fan.

In conclusion, "The Wandering Earth" is not worth investing in, and you will definitely lose money if you insist on investing in it.

Guo Fan was disappointed when he learned about Da Tiantian's team's opinions.

Da Tiantian was extremely excited and asked in a slightly excited tone: "Director Guo, have you decided? I want to invest 100 million in your movie."

"???"

Da Tiantian’s outrageous behavior has made Guo Fan unable to do anything.

Didn't the Starlight Blind People say that they couldn't vote? What's going on with Da Tiantian? He really couldn't understand.

Of course he couldn't understand, Da Tiantian had already mastered the special usage of her team.

She admitted early on that her star-studded family had raised a bunch of useless people.

If she had followed the route planned for her by the 'professional team', she would have already fallen to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

One year, Da Tiantian asked Li Yu whether he should lay off all the team members in the company and replace them with a new group of people.

After all, her uncle is not in the entertainment industry. Different industries have different worlds. It is not reliable to recruit a team for her just by spending money.

Li Yu rejected Da Tiantian's idea at that time.

Li Yu’s answer was, how much time and effort would it take to fire a team that can keep the company running and then find a group of people to form a new team?

Besides, the newly formed team is not necessarily better than the current team.

The current team is qualified in other aspects except for its poor vision.

It is said that as long as they are used in the right place, a pair of underwear or a piece of toilet paper has its value.

Since the star-studded team is unable to help Da Tiantian select good scripts and projects.

Then wouldn’t it be enough to let them screen out the bad projects?

At this point, Datiantian found the correct way to open the company team.

As long as she and her team do the opposite, the chances of winning are very high.

For example, if her team thinks a certain movie is great and strongly recommends that she star in it, she would definitely not do so.

On the contrary, if her team is particularly pessimistic about a certain movie, it is worth her careful study.

Guo Fan didn't know all this, so he was shocked.

Li Yu knew Da Tiantian's situation, and he was not surprised at all. He also said: "I can also invest 100 million in you. My company has invested in too many projects, and 100 million is not a small amount.

Let’s do the rest this way. I’ll speak up for you and help you get some investment. Let’s see how much we can get.”

"..."

Guo Fan was confused.

What? He hasn't even used his tricks yet, and he's already got 200 million yuan in investment? Is it that simple?
The money came so easily that it seemed unreal to him.

It turns out that he has too much inner drama.

In fact, even if he didn't ask for it today, he would still be able to get the investment from Li Yu and Da Tiantian.

Because Li Yu and Da Tiantian decided to invest before meeting him, instead of waiting for him to persuade them.

(End of this chapter)