superstar director

Chapter 395 Work Arrangements
Li Lianlian is not in a good mood recently. As a representative of the new Chinese martial arts in recent years, he seems to have touched a bottleneck, or he can't see the future direction, which makes him a little depressed.

Today, he is worth more than [-] million yuan and has no worries about food and clothing. However, seeing Cheng Long and Zhou Xingxing, who became popular at the same time as him, are showing their ambitions, and the movies have broken their respective box office records time and time again. Only he seems not to be in the same place. To step is to slide down.

From his debut to the present, he has worked with many directors, among which the highest-grossing series is directed by Wang Jing's "Yi Tian Tu Long". After that, he has made other martial arts films, modern kung fu films, and tried kung fu comedies. It is not as good as the "Eternal Dragon Slaying" series.

He also consulted with Director Wang Jing, but Wang Jing is not specialized in making martial arts films. He is a director with a wide range of dramas. More precisely, he is just a comedy director who shoots his own style. Regarding Li Lianlian's question, he Also helpless.

His brain holes in martial arts are not endless. At least, after the two parts of "Yi Tian Tu Long", he tried a few other martial arts films from other novels, but the results were not as good as those of "Yi Tian Tu Long". part, so he has no idea of ​​making martial arts novels for the time being.Because no matter how hard he tried, he still couldn't break through Ning Sheng's box office record.

This not only made him a little disappointed, but also made him lose interest in this type of movie. Now Director Wang Jing has begun to return to his favorite and best urban comedy, and Li Lianlian's style is obviously different from his opinion. Suitable for my current type of movie.

As for Li Lian, who was in a period of confusion, not long ago, out of temptation, it was also a helpless attempt. He accepted the invitation of the old martial arts director Zhang Cheh and starred in "Jing Wu Heroes", a remake of Bruce Lee's classic works. In the end, the movie only sold more than 8 million yuan at the box office in China, but if you want to invest nearly [-] million yuan in him, there is no doubt that this work has failed commercially.

In terms of word-of-mouth, the score is only around 6.5 points. The biggest complaint from fans is that compared with the original Bruce Lee movie, except for the clearer shots, bigger supporting roles, and more realistic scenes, the others are really not particularly worthwhile. like.

In particular, Zhang Che insisted on the old-school real kung fu movie shooting method, but Li Lian obviously did not have the powerful real kung fu of Bruce Lee, so the filming effect was neither as chic and handsome as the new-school martial arts, nor as punchy as the old-school martial arts. sense of reality.

Overall, this attempt was a failed experience!

Now Cheng Long, Zhou Xingxing's salary has reached the ranks of 5000 million Chinese celebrities with their continuous movie sales, while Li Lian's salary has slipped to [-] with the failure of "Jing Wu Heroes" About ten thousand.

Now it is not only Li Lianlian himself who is anxious, but his agent is even more anxious. Because of the unsatisfactory box office performance, Li Lianlian's popularity will inevitably decline. Now it has affected other aspects, such as endorsement fees and advertising fees. Broker income.

After the Golden Tripod Awards Ceremony, Li Lian was not in the mood to attend the banquet afterward, and left early.

The manager didn't go back with him, but went to each banquet one by one. By the time he left from the last banquet, the sky was already bright.

The agent went to several parties, naturally not for the sake of eating and drinking, nor for signing autographs with any star. His main purpose was the big directors at the parties, or the producers of some film and television companies.

He seems to have returned to the state where he just signed a contract with Li Lianlian, distributed business cards everywhere, and searched for scripts everywhere. However, this time, although he exchanged contact information with many people, he also received not many responses that the director agreed to consider. Promise to send the script over.

But the economic man was actually very disappointed in his heart, because the big director he really wanted to find did not meet at the party, and those big directors who were really capable of picking up an actor did not give an accurate word, or even Most of them are perfunctory, because to be honest, Li Lianlian's acting skills are not suitable for every movie.

But Ning Sheng, the most suitable martial arts film director, couldn't be found at all, and the manager went back disappointed.

However, it is clear that they will not give up.

And what was Ning Sheng doing at this time?

Ning Sheng first took the time to complete the post-production of "Taken", and then continued to cooperate with Julia, asking her to help discuss the film's distribution in North America, but Julia's own studio is already applying for distribution qualifications, maybe Next time, Julia's own studio could take care of the film's distribution.

After the film production is completed, the distributor will be responsible for the rest of the work, while Ning Sheng will start to deal with the shooting plan of Ning Tong's three girls.

As early as last year, Ning Sheng promised them that as long as their acting skills pass the test, then this year each of them will be given a big drama as the leading role, and Ning Sheng promised that as long as they perform well according to the script and the director's requirements , there is nothing wrong with being a popular TV drama actor this year!

First of all, the acting skills of the three of Ning Tong passed Ning Cheng's test, and then, the three girls followed Ning Cheng to Xingtong's studio early in the morning.

"You guys go to the meeting room first, I'll be here soon!" Ning Sheng asked the staff to bring the three girls into the meeting room, and then he went back to the office to arrange the content of the meeting.

In the conference room, the three of Ning Tong sat together, whispering excitedly.

"Tongtong, do you know what roles Brother Ning arranged for the three of us?" Ying Bao asked curiously.

Shi Shi also looked at Ning Tong and said, "Yeah, will it still be martial arts? Just like the last time we filmed "Dragon Babu"?"

Ning Tong's dark eyes rolled around and said, "I don't know about this either, why don't we make a bet, let's guess their respective characters and TV genres, and whoever guesses right will play the one who guessed wrong How about a bang child?"

Yingbao and Shishi shook their heads at the same time and said, "We are not fooled, you must know something, you want to deceive us and deliberately fall for it!"

"That's right, we have been deceived by you several times, and we will never be deceived by you in the future!"

Ning Tong blinked and said, "Isn't it just a troublemaker? If I'm right, you'll know what you want to know. If I'm wrong, then no one needs to talk about it? Yes wrong?"

Ying Bao and Shi Shi looked at each other and thought about it carefully. It seemed that this was the case. Although they still had doubts about the words of Ning Tong, a "big liar", they really wanted to know the news about the TV series they were going to star in earlier, so Still couldn't help but nodded and said, "Okay, who will guess first?"

Ning Tong smiled happily and said, "Let's write it down on paper together, and then take it out to read together, it's the most fair!"

The other two had no objections, so after a while, the three of them finished writing with the pen and paper in the meeting room, and unfolded it on the table at the same time!

Ning Tong wrote "Martial Arts, History, and Immortals", Shishi wrote three martial arts, while Ying Bao wrote two martial arts and one city.

The two people were most concerned about Ning Tong's writing, and they asked one after another, "Tong Tong, who is your three types? And history, martial arts types are all male dramas, right?"

Ning Tong said, "Oh, aren't most of the current film and television dramas are male dramas? Except for the urban relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, or love dramas, isn't that one mainly male dramas? But as long as the heroine's The role of the scene is heavy enough, isn't it good enough? The great director Ning Cheng will naturally consider it. We will wait for a while to announce who guessed it right. Whoever loses will be judged. Don't play tricks. Lazy, don't run away!"

Ying Bao put her bun face in both hands, looked at Ning Tong and said in confusion, "Tong Tong, why do I feel that you are so confident that you can win? Be honest, did you know it a long time ago, and deliberately set up a trick to deceive us?" What about the two?"

Ning Tong looked at the two of them and said with a smile, "How could it be? I guessed it based on clues and logical reasoning. You all know that Ning Cheng has already moved out. Where should I go to find out the news? Isn't it?"

Seeing the two hesitatingly nodding their heads and believing her words, Ning Tong also heaved a sigh of relief. In fact, there was one thing she didn't say. Ning Cheng moved out, but she had already got her elder brother from her mother. The key to the house, so, she herself went to my brother's house a lot. As for the three TV types she guessed, he also figured it out from the script compiled by my brother.

A script of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", a script of "A Thousand Bone Flowers", and a script of "Scary Step by Step", she roughly read them all, especially Shooting the Condor. In the conversation, she was already sure that she was going to play the Condor Shooting in all likelihood, but she didn't know who would play "A Thousand Bones of Flowers" or "Scary Step by Step" between Shi Shi and Ying Bao.

The three girls laughed and quarreled for a while, and the conference room began to have people entering the meeting. These people were no strangers to Ning Tong and the three of them. The name was deliberately picked up by the media, and Ning Sheng was even asked if the word Tong in the name of the studio meant Ning Tong.

Ning Cheng nodded and admitted without paying attention at all, and the three of Ning Tong have been to the studio frequently, so the staff here are as familiar with the three girls as the staff of Huijie Records, and almost Everyone asked them for their autographs and took a group photo.

One after another, the spacious conference room was soon full last night, and Ning Cheng finally walked in with Lin Ling, then sat in his seat, looked at everyone, and coughed lightly, "Okay, Everyone is here, let's have a meeting!"

Ning Sheng looked at everyone and said, "This meeting is mainly to talk about our studio's work plan for this year. "Taken" has been completed, and the rest of the publicity and distribution have nothing to do with you, so let me tell you first. For the next job, first of all, this year we will start filming three TV series at the same time!"

Ning Cheng said while looking at Ning Tong and the three of them, "To put it bluntly, these three TV series were filmed for Ning Tong and the others. One is the martial arts drama "Legend of the Condor Heroes", with Ning Tong playing the heroine Huang Rong." , the director is Director Zhang who previously filmed "Swordsman" and "Dragon Babu", and the second film is the fairy tale drama "Flower Thousand Bone" adapted from an online novel. These are some online movies that our studio bought earlier. In one of the film and television copyrights of the novel, Zhao Liying starred as the heroine Hua Qiangu, and the third is Shishi’s fictional historical court drama "Scary Step by Step", which is also one of the online novels that we bought the copyright for."

Ning Cheng said to Ning Tong and the three of them, "I'll give you the scripts of these three TV dramas in a while, you go back and read them carefully. Then read the original novels again, think about your characters, and how they relate to your characters." The relationship between the characters involved in the scene and the background of the whole story, the official shooting will probably take a month, so you have to hurry up and do your homework, understand?"

The three of Ning Tong nodded repeatedly, with joy on their faces.

Ning Sheng paused, then continued, "Pay attention to the finances. The specific investment of these three plays, no matter whether there are other companies joining or not, we must make a budget and prepare for each play. Then calculate with the director, how much we should pay, how much we should spend, how much we should use. It is still the old rule, we are not afraid of spending money, as long as you can spend the money where it is really needed, our studio Those who supervise the funds have paid attention. As long as the director’s request is a formal request that is beneficial to the quality of the film, it can be approved, but if it is eating and drinking, or other unnecessary waste, it will be rejected. Director Zhang They are all old friends, there is no problem, but there are still two drama directors who need to be found from outside, no matter how big the wrist is found, the principles that should be adhered to cannot be changed, understand?"

"President Ning, don't worry, we know!"

"In addition to these three dramas, my personal work for the second half of the year is temporarily uncertain. What the studio needs recently is to make preparations for the simultaneous shooting of these three TV dramas. Although everyone used to have the most, this time it is three TV dramas. Together, and with different styles, so if there are not enough people, you can find some skilled and reliable temporary workers to help, or coordinate by yourself, no matter what, when the director is in place, I don’t want to see the director because of our preparations You can't start work if you don't have the work in place, understand?"

"Understood, don't worry, Mr. Ning! We will make arrangements!"

"Okay, next, each department will talk about your plans, or if there are any problems——"

This meeting didn't last very long, but it was longer than before, but even so, under Ning Sheng's decisive ruling that he was not short of money, everyone's embarrassing problems were solved in one morning, and the rest It is to carry out each other.

And Ning Sheng himself is responsible for finding two directors, finding two suitable directors for "A Thousand Bone Flower" and "Scary Step by Step".

(End of this chapter)