The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 87 The Cult Director
Xu Guanwu also knew that director Hu Jinquan went to Golden Harvest to sign two film contracts the year before last, one "The Storm of Yingchun Pavilion" and the other "Loyalty Picture".

Among them, "The Storm of Yingchun Pavilion" was released last year, and it was well received and sold more than one million at the box office.

In this case, it is also difficult for Jiahe to let people go.

Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie also hold this view.

But Xu Guanwu knew that Hu Jinquan would be invited to Taiwan to make movies, and then made several popular but not popular movies one after another, which caused heavy losses to the Taiwanese filmmakers, and finally he would be sued in court.

"For Director Hu Jinquan, I always have to try it." Xu Guanwu said with a smile, "If we have this living Bodhisattva, our company's reputation in the film industry will be well established."

Xu Guanwen nodded. If Director Hu Jinquan could really be invited to the company, it would indeed strengthen the company's momentum.

"Then make the appointment of directors Hu Jinquan and Chu Yuan first, and then we will continue to look for them." Xu Guanwen clapped his hands and said.

Xu Guanwu continued to scroll down the list, "Gui Zhihong?! Cult director Gui Zhihong?!"

Xu Guanwu was taken aback, and quickly circled Gui Zhihong's name with a pen.

He was very impressed with this cult director, remembering that "Evil" almost scared Xu Guanwu into illness. After watching that movie for a long time, Xu Guanwu didn't dare to stay at home alone, let alone at night. People go to the toilet.

"You made me miserable back then!" Xu Guanwu couldn't help cursing, "Now it's your turn to hurt others."

He knows that Gui Zhihong, as a cult director, has made many weird and weird CULT films, such as the "Evil" series, "Gu" series and so on.

In these films, Gui Zhihong took a slanted approach, doing his best to be weird and evil, and full of strong personal style. He is a rare non-mainstream alternative director in the Hong Kong film industry.

Xu Guanwu sometimes thinks that if Gui Zhihong is allowed to go to Hollywood to make a film, with his cult to the extreme style, he will definitely be able to satisfy the heavy tastes of European and American audiences.

After circled Gui Zhihong, Xu Guanwu continued to scroll down, and then saw an unexpected name—Lv Qi.

"There is really such a person in the Hong Kong film industry." Xu Guanwu muttered in surprise.

He had watched TVB's TV series "Brothers and Difficult Brothers" before. In this drama series reflecting the Hong Kong film industry in the 70s and [-]s, Luo Jialiang played the leading role Lu Qi, including Xie Yuan played by Wu Zhenyu, Chen Baozhu played by Zhang Keyi, and Xuan Xuan played Xiao Fangfang.

The theme song "Brothers and Brothers" is very nice. Xu Guanwu's cell phone ringtone is this song, and he still sings it until now.

"I didn't expect this Lu Qi to become a director, and he was also a director of a tertiary film. Damn it!" Xu Guanwu said in surprise.

A popular niche who starred in romance films in the era of Cantonese films, became a director and then made tertiary films. Xu Guanwu wanted to grab him by the neck and ask him, "Why are you so depraved?"

However, Lu Qi's "Danish Girl" also sold millions of dollars at the box office last year, and it is also a skill for him to make three-rated films.

"If he is recruited into the company, will "*****", "****" and so on be released in advance soon?" Xu Guanwu smiled wickedly, and circled Lu Qi's name.

Looking further down, except for some actors, Xu Guanwu has no familiar people.

Among this group of actors, what Xu Guanwu remembers is the old actors who will be active in TVB in the future, such as Qin Huang who played the old urchin Zhou Botong, "Dakouqing" Wang Qing, "Benz Xiong" Xu Shaoxiong, "Brother Xiu" Hu Feng etc.

Although these gold and green combinations are not as eye-catching as big stars, they are indispensable condiments in the film and television feast, so Xu Guanwu also circled them one by one.

After nearly two hours of selection, the four brothers finally put down their pens and summarized them together.

Xu Guanwen mainly selected talents in screenwriting, because he used to do talk shows on TVB and had to make the audience laugh in a short period of time, so he had relatively high requirements for scripts.As a result, I met a lot of people with screenwriting talents.

Xu Guanjie selected a group of talents related to film soundtracks, such as Gu Jiahui, Huang Zhan, Wang Fuling and others.Now the company produces dozens of movies every year. If there is no professional film soundtrack talent and always turn to outsiders for help, the company will be choked by others sooner or later.

Xu Guanying spent a period of time in the Shaw Brothers Nanguo performance training class, and then played a role in various crews of the Shaw Brothers studio, so she met many actors who were underappreciated.There are many such actors on the list he recommends.

Xu Guanwu selected several directors and some green leaf actors.

"There are not many management talents selected," Xu Guanwen said with a frown after receiving the summary list. "After the company has more people, it is necessary to increase management talents, otherwise the whole company will be in chaos."

"We don't know much about the management, what if we make a wrong choice?" Xu Guanjie explained.

"In my opinion, let Ms. Liang Shuyi introduce some of them. She has been in the management team before, so she must know their abilities well." Xu Guanying suggested.

"Well, Ah Ying, your idea is very good, I agree." Xu Guanwu smiled.

"But Ms. Liang Shuyi is in the management of TVB, and she doesn't seem to be close to Shaw Brothers. What can she know?" Xu Guanjie objected.

"I think Shaw Brothers' management is high-ranking and has been on the set for a long time. They have already acquired a strong official temper. Even if they are recruited, they may not be suitable for our new film company. TVB has just been established, and the talent management The concept is trendy, and there are not so many old ideas. It should be able to adapt to our company quickly." Xu Guanwu analyzed.

Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanying, and Xu Guanjie have all stayed in the Shaw Brothers studio, so they naturally know how old-fashioned the Shaw Brothers management is, so they nodded in agreement, "Then please ask Ms. Liang Shuyi to recruit the management from TVB. .”

"From now on, send people out and scout people according to this list, and count as much as you can." Xu Guanwen tapped the list with a pen and said, "The salary is [-]% higher than that of Shaw Brothers. , producer, screenwriter, and management are twice as high.”

"In this way, our company will soon be strong." Xu Guanying smiled happily.

"In addition to poaching from Shaw Brothers, we must also pay attention to cultivating talents ourselves." Xu Guanwu suggested, "When Mr. Lei Juekun rented our theater again, didn't he ask us to fund the shooting of independent films? I think now It's time."

"Well, the second brother is right. It is not a solution to always poach people. We have to learn to make blood ourselves." Xu Guanwen nodded, "There are also many talented independent directors in Hong Kong, but they lack financial support. If If we can invest funds, we will surely cultivate our own great directors."

"At the same time, we also need to attract a group of allies to join our film company." Xu Guanying said, "Like Golden Harvest, there are so many satellite companies, and we never worry that there will be no films released."

"Aying is right. By the way, brother, before I went to the United States, I asked you to investigate and invest in Ms. Qiong Yao's film. Is there any result now?" Xu Guanwu suddenly remembered and asked.

(End of this chapter)