superstar director

Chapter 312 Male Lead

When Gu Tianle was in Ning Cheng's last life on Earth, after he became famous, he played many distinctive villains. He portrayed the villain's image so thoroughly that people gritted their teeth with hatred. However, Gu Tianle in this world is not as good as Ning Cheng's impression. Later, with such mature acting skills, Ouyang Quan's performance can't be said to be bad, but it can't be said to be wonderful, which made Ning Cheng not very satisfied.

Next, Liu Ye and Xie Tingfeng, when they started playing against each other, Ning Cheng realized that Liu Ye was a little too tall, and when he played ancient costumes, especially when he was a villain, he was always a bit weak, which made people feel This villain doesn't seem to be much of a deterrent.

And Xie Tingfeng seemed to be somewhat resistant to the villain's performance, which made Ning Cheng not very satisfied.

However, after comprehensive consideration among the three of them, Ning Sheng finally decided to give Gu Tianle the role of Ouyang Quan. Ning Sheng believed that with the help of everyone, Gu Tianle would definitely be able to make Gu Tianle the villain. The special charm bloomed as soon as possible.

Although Gu Tianle is already a very popular first-line niche in the TV industry, but he is indeed a newcomer in the film industry, so the salary is not high. Considering his popularity, it is only 1000 million.

But for TV drama actors, especially those who want to enter the film industry, in order to participate in a good work, not to mention the low salary, or zero salary, as long as the opportunity is really good, there are some who want to come .So Gu Tianle and his agent are very satisfied with this price, without any objection.

After Ouyang Quan's role is decided, it will be the junior sister Yue Lingshan, and the three candidates are Li Jiaxin, Zhou Huimin and Wang Zuxian.

Among them, Li Jiaxin played the role of the junior sister in the second part of the original "Swordsman", and the evaluation given by the audience was a unified "vase", except for being beautiful and having no acting skills.

Therefore, if Ning Sheng wants to make a better movie, he naturally has higher requirements in the selection of actors, such as very important acting skills.

After the performances of the three beauties, there was no doubt that Wang Zuxian had the best acting skills, but Ning Sheng chose Zhou Huimin in the end.Because Wang Zuxian's appearance is a bit different from that of a junior sister, and Zhou Huimin's acting skills are not bad in addition to her appearance, so, after all considerations, Ning Sheng decided on Zhou Huimin.

Zhou Huimin has debuted for several years, and has developed a lot of film and television songs, but in fact, apart from being good-looking, popular, and a few good songs, the TV film industry, especially the film industry, really has nothing to show for it. So Ning Sheng only paid her a salary of 500 million. It wasn't that Ning Sheng was stingy, but that her salary was just that much at the market price.

The two roles were settled, and the other actors who didn't get the role had different moods, but Ning Cheng was not in the mood to concern others, and the most important male lead in his drama hadn't been found yet.

Ning Cheng thought about it all morning, and finally decided to let Li Lian come over for an audition first. The environments in the two worlds are different, maybe these actors will also have some changes?

However, after a while, Lin Ling told him that Li Lianlian was out of schedule, he was signed by director Wang Jing, and their new movie "The Demon Sect Leader" will officially start filming in three days!So Ning Sheng's call was too late!
Director Wang Jing's "Tianshan Child Elder" grossed more than one billion yuan at the box office. Although Lan Yingzhu lost to Ning Sheng, the final score of this movie on Douban remained at 7.4, which is not low. The box office should have been around 20 billion.

Later, some people analyzed with a pity tone that the box office tragedy of "Tianshan Child Elder" was because it was unfortunately released at the same time as Ning Sheng's "Dragon Inn". , "Tianshan Child Elder" should have no problem breaking through 20 billion.

No matter whether the netizen's argument is correct or not, at least Director Wang is very upset that he lost to a junior boy. Although he didn't say something silly, but during the private gatherings of his good friends, he already He has repeatedly threatened to get back this place, and to let this junior, Ning Cheng, know how good he is!
Therefore, this time, Wang Jing has been preparing for "The Demon Sect Leader of Relying on the Heaven and Slaying the Dragon" for a long time. He talked with his company Suoya Film and Television for a long time, and then found Jinbei Film and Television, Yinghuang Entertainment, Wireless Media, Huayi Entertainment and many other film and television companies. The entertainment company invested together and opened this top-level production with an investment of [-] million yuan for him!

But this time is different from the last time, if it fails again this time, then next time no such top-level production will ask him to be the director, and he will slip from the position of the top director in the country to the At the level of ordinary directors, it is even more difficult to climb up again.

Just like some big directors in Hollywood have worked hard for many years, step by step from a small director to a big production with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars. However, once you fail in the production once, or twice, at most three times, there will be no production company after that. Will find you, you can only go back to the level of ordinary directors, looking for a small production, small investment, no big star team to continue to work hard, but the next time you can direct a top-level production film and don't know what it will be It's time!

Wang Jing's previous directing achievements can be said to be very rich. The two "God of Gamblers" made him the top director in Asia. The director will also be given up by the film and television company, unless he can prove his directing ability again, otherwise, all entertainment companies that put profit first will not spend hundreds of millions for you to play!
Therefore, Wang Jing is more serious this time. In addition to Li Lianlian, the leading actor who made investors frown, other actors include Zhang Manyu, who has just become popular because of "Dragon Inn", Kung Fu superstars Liu Jialiang and Zheng Shaoqiu, and the popular Xiaosheng Xie Tingfeng, Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun, among the four most popular actresses, listen to these actors, and you can know that the investment of [-] million yuan is really not a lot for such a star-studded movie.

What made Ning Sheng sigh the most after watching it was that, except for Li Lianlian who still played the role of Jiao Zhang Wuji, the other original characters were all different.

Zhang Sanfeng became Liu Jialiang, Zhang Cuishan became Zheng Shaoqiu, Yin Susu and Zhao Min were played by Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Zhiruo became "Xun Ge", and Song Qingshu was played by Xie Tingfeng. Unexpectedly, he was unwilling to play the villain , In the end, I had to play such a role.

Other characters such as the White-Browed Eagle King, the Blue-Winged Bat King, and the Six Heroes of Wudang are all old actors who have worked with Wang Jing himself. Playing the role of Manyu, it can be seen that he has put a lot of effort into this film, so it follows that this film will achieve the lofty goal in his heart.

"Break the box office record of Ning Sheng's "Dragon Inn"!" This was what Director Wang said personally at the press conference of the film's opening ceremony.

As for why Li Lian, a film star who has failed at the box office in a row, is used in such a big production?Director Wang's answer was "That's because some directors don't know how to shoot Kung Fu stars like Ah Jie. I believe that under my lens, Ah Jie will be a new generation of Kung Fu superstars who are not as bad as Cheng Long!"

Regarding Director Wang's high evaluation, Li Lianxie couldn't say much except expressing "I will work hard and live up to Director Wang's expectations!", even if he was a little worried.

Li Lianlian's last movie "Dragon at the End of the World" hit the box office, causing investors to lose tens of millions, so Li Lianlian is very grateful for Wang Jing being able to choose him as the leading role in such a big production, So he even took the initiative to lower the salary for this reason. The announced salary is 5000 million. In fact, his actual salary for this film is 3000 million. This is also an important reason why Wang Jing persuaded investors to accept Li Lian as the protagonist.

Wang Jing's film has become the focus of media attention since it started filming. Whether it is star power or Wang Jing's slogan of "breaking the box office record of "Dragon Inn"", they are all attractive selling points. Ning Cheng was surrounded by the media and asked him, "Ning Cheng, Wang Jing shouted slogans to break your "Dragon Inn" box office record, what do you think of this matter? Do you think it is possible?"

Ning Sheng said expressionlessly, "Records are meant to be broken. I welcome anyone to break the record of "Dragon Inn", because it means that there will be new, better and more classic movies in the domestic film market, so , the record is there, as long as anyone has the ability, anyone can break it!"

The reporter asked again, "Ning Cheng's face is not good, is it because he is worried that his record will be broken?"

Ning Cheng glanced at him, and said with an expressionless face, "My complexion is because I haven't had a good rest. I have broken countless other people's records myself, so I don't care how important records are!"

The reporter asked again, "You used to be the person who broke the record, but now you are the person who will be broken the record. Do you feel any difference?"

Ning Sheng said, "When the box office record of "Dragon Inn" is broken, then ask me, because I have never been broken by anyone else!"

"Ning Cheng was worried that his "Dragon Inn" box office record would be broken, so he couldn't sleep day and night, and his face was haggard. However, in the interview with the reporter, he was still stubborn and refused to bow his head. It can be seen that Ning Cheng, a genius, is not yet ready to be accepted by others. The situation of catching up and overtaking, I hope that if this situation really happens, Ning Sheng will not be completely devastated!" --- Huaxia Sun Newspaper.

Ning Cheng threw the newspaper aside, feeling a little angry, but more worried. Ning Cheng knew what entertainment newspapers were like, so he could only treat the news in these newspapers as a joke, and never take them seriously. Otherwise, it won't be long before you will be pissed off.

What Ning Cheng is worried about is that his leading actor has not yet been found. He said in the interview before that he did not have a good rest because the leading actor of "Swordsman" has not been decided yet, which made him impatient. As for the box office record, He really didn't care about it.

At this moment, Lin Ling opened the door and came in, "Ning Cheng, everyone who came to audition is here, we can start now."

Ning Cheng nodded, got up and went out to the interview room.

Since the day he found out that Li Lianlian was signed by Wang Jing, Ning Sheng began to select candidates from the information of the Actors Guild, and then issued invitations to audition one by one. Today, he simply made it public, as long as he felt that any actor who met his requirements could come. audition.

And Ning Cheng's only requirement for the actors who come to interview is that they have the heart of a prodigal son, or can show the feelings of a prodigal son!

However, one day has passed, two days have passed, three days have passed, and the "Linghu Chong" in Ning Chen's mind still hasn't appeared, and there are dozens of actors who have already participated in the audition.Not to mention those who are purely lucky like the third and fourth tiers.

Ning Cheng's leading actor was not selected, but news of Ning Cheng's new movie "Swordsman" spread all over the world.

Of course, the undecided news about Ning Cheng's new actor's lead role leaked out unstoppably.What's more, Ning Sheng didn't want to keep the auditioned actors secret.

So recently, on the major entertainment boards, in addition to the movie news directed by Wang Jing, interviews with various actors who have participated in Ning Cheng's auditions have also appeared frequently. Of course, the prominent positions are all first-line movie stars. Go talk, the media are too lazy to listen.

The reporter asked those movie stars who had auditioned, "It is said that Ning Sheng's new play is still about martial arts. What is the reason why you were not selected for the male lead?"

Du Chun said, "Director Ning said that I don't have the feeling of a prodigal son, which doesn't match the main temperament of the male lead!"

Huang Xiaoming said, "My acting skills still need to work hard, and I don't match the temperament of the character!"

Deng Chaodao, "The director said that my character is too lively, playing the prodigal son is too much!"

Ruan Tian said, "The director said I am too heroic!"

Sun Lei, "The director said my eyes are too small and my stature is too tall——"

Everyone looked at the first-line stars in the newspaper who were excluded by Ning Sheng one by one from the male lead due to various reasons. Everyone's fans were resentful that their idols were not selected, perhaps because no one has succeeded so far. , Speaking of everyone's offensive remarks, but as to who Ning Cheng will find to play the leading role, everyone is becoming more and more curious!
Some netizens who like to disturb things even shouted, "There are so many first-line stars who have been eliminated, which one of the first-line stars dare to take on this actor? Are you afraid of being sprayed by fans of other companies?"

Yes, some fans really plan in their hearts to wait for Ning Cheng to choose the hero in their hearts. Once the other party is a star of the same level as their idol, or even a lower level, then everyone will hate Ning Cheng and hate each other. Some are reasons, some are excuses.

For example, why is the other party better than your idol?Why can the other party act if they can play their own idol?Whether Ning Sheng is involved in shady scenes, etc., anyway, this kind of fans are people who are idle and looking for trouble.

When the time comes, it will be fun to tear it up. Of course, if Ning Cheng finally finds a celebrity of the first level of actor, then there is nothing to say, except that Ning Cheng is demanding, maybe he can only do it in his own. Support and encouragement under the idol Weibo!

However, who is Ning Cheng's final male lead?This candidate is really beyond everyone's expectations!It also makes many people feel unconvincing!
(End of this chapter)