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Chapter 500 The Strongest Martial Arts Instructor Lineup Planning "Myth"

If the six years from 71 to 77 were the era of Wang Xiaohu's dominance, then from 78 when Wang Xiaohu let Jackie Chan start his own business, it was the era of dominance.

It is easy to win the country, but it is even more difficult to secure the top spot in Hong Kong movies, but this is just the inertial thinking of outsiders.

To be precise, Wang Xiaohu is not a character who just sits and waits for orders. He now has greater ideological ambitions. From the moment Xu Guanwen was asked to establish the Xu Brothers Film Company, Wang Xiaohu knew that Hong Kong films cannot be maintained by himself .

Just like the Shaw Brothers film dynasty that is now beginning to decline, if Wang Xiaohu sticks to the old ideas, today's Shaw Brothers will be a true portrayal of tomorrow's Concorde.

Before the arrival of the [-] New Wave and the glorious era of Hong Kong movies, Wang Xiaohu was ready to go and built his team as solid as an iron bucket. He didn't want to embezzle this or suppress that. Brighter and longer.

So after the new year, Wang Xiaohu immediately set up the crew of "Mythology".

"Mythology" is a soul-stirring epic blockbuster, which includes elements of military warfare, martial arts action, special effects, history, love and other aspects, so the crew of this crew is bound to have more people involved.

Wang Xiaohu did his part to become the film's director, action director, screenwriter, producer, producer, and even the leading role.

As an old partner for many years, Yuan Heping is in charge of the martial arts guidance of the film and also serves as an assistant director.This is mainly to improve Yuan Heping's control ability in large-scale production and large-scene movies. He is the second action director in Hong Kong, and only Wang Xiaohu can let him come to be a martial arts instructor. Others can't invite Baye at all.

"Ah Hu, we have a cooperation, haha!" Yuan Heping is very positive about being able to join forces with Wang Xiaohu again. He has also heard about the investment and filming implications of "Myth". I am very grateful for the experience.

"You still have to rely on Ba Ye." Wang Xiaohu clasped his hands together, and Yuan Heping yelled at him. He punched Wang Xiaohu and said, "You are tricking me. You don't want to bury people like this."

Wang Xiaohu laughed loudly, and pulled Yuan Heping to study the script.

After Yuan Heping read the script of "Mythology", he was so surprised on the spot that he didn't come back to his senses for a long time. He not only clicked his tongue in amazement, but said, "Ah Hu, I just heard rumors that this movie is very grand. Be majestic."

In Yuan Heping's script, the scene where the Meng family's army and the Daqin army were fighting, according to the prompts in the script, Yuan Heping learned that this would involve fighting alone, one against a hundred, fighting on horseback, fighting off horses, or even hundreds or thousands of people. Bow and arrow shooting and other war scenes, it is blunt to say that there is no film company in Hong Kong that can shoot such a grand movie.

Just the hundreds or thousands of extras is enough to make Hong Kong filmmakers, who are always petty, sigh in admiration.

"You, how much do you plan to invest?" Yuan Heping asked with some excitement.For anyone who is a director, the first word that comes to mind when seeing such a good script is: money!
No money can't make a movie, no big investment, no good actors can't make a blockbuster movie.In particular, after "Police Story" invited Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao, two Taiwanese actresses, to join in and opened a large-scale production, everyone saw the benefits of high investment and high returns.

But not every film company has enough money to squander. Even if they attract a few rich people to invest, they are worried that the money they pay will not cover the cost. Even a big company like Shaw Brothers will cost more than 50 Hong Kong dollars per film. , also need special approval from Run Run Shaw.

"I haven't calculated it." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "But the special effects part is going to cost several million dollars, and I will let Hollywood's Industrial Light and Magic do the production in the later stage. Their technology is much more advanced than Hong Kong's."

Yuan Heping felt dizzy. The special effects alone cost several million dollars. Although Wang Xiaohu didn't give a clear figure, he already guessed the total cost of the film through the hint brought by this sentence: 2000 million, no, At least 3000 million Hong Kong dollars!Just like "Shaking Earth" that died two years ago, God, Ah Hu wants to make such a big noise!
"Dayan, don't be dumb, come and help me design the action of this scene." Wang Xiaohu greeted Yuan Heping with a smile when he saw that Yuan Heping couldn't turn his head in surprise.

"Oh." Yuan Heping hurriedly agreed, lying on the table and studying the script with Wang Xiaohu.

After several revisions by Wang Xiaohu, the script of "Mythology" was basically finalized.

Among them, the ancient scenes stick to the original plan, just remove the golden cat and replace it with the princess of a small country in the Qin Dynasty. Meng Yi still follows Qin Shihuang's order to meet the princess, and still needs to cross the enemy country and encounter the enemy's robbery. In the end, the Qin army's welcoming team was wiped out except for Meng Yi and the princess, and the two climbed mountains and waded all the way back to Qin.

In this way, the entire history of the Qin Dynasty is basically emptied, and several small countries are fabricated as the allies and enemies of the Qin Dynasty. This is the result of Wang Xiaohu's repeated consideration. This is also to avoid certain historical experts from coming out to criticize. After all, this is a movie. , Some history should be revised and revised, and fiction should be fabricated.

After returning to the state of Qin, Qin II (who was still the prince at the time) advised Qin Shihuang on the grounds that Meng Yi took too long to welcome his relatives and caused the princess to travel long distances and suffer, so Meng Yi was sent to Lishan to supervise the construction of the Qin King's Mausoleum.

Since entering the palace, the princess has been silent and unhappy all day long. In fact, the princess has long developed feelings for General Meng Yi during the escorting journey.

At this time, Qin Shihuang was already terminally ill, and immediately took the princess to Lishan to check the construction of the royal mausoleum. After seeing Meng Yi again, the princess finally smiled rarely.

Just as Xu Fu was looking for the elixir of life, Prince Qin and the prime minister made a plan to send Meng Yi to get the elixir of life, but on the way back he arranged for the army to rob and kill him, thus staged a passionate and epic heroic scene.

In this robbery and anti-robbery, Meng Yi stepped on the corpses of hundreds of people alone, guarded the pass, and asked his subordinates to deliver the elixir of life to the first emperor, but he was beheaded by the leader of the rebel army.

Although the elixir of life was delivered, the king of Qin was worried about its efficacy, so he forced the princess to take it, but the princess passed out. The king of Qin thought the medicine was poisonous and did not take it.
This is the ancient part of Wang Xiaohu's revised "Mythology" script, which mainly combines "Mythology" with Li Bihua's "The Love of Terracotta Warriors". They don't look too obtrusive.

More importantly, Wang Xiaohu's revised script has two large-scale war scenes: the first is to escape from the enemy's formation with the princess, and the second is to deal with the robbery and killing of the prince and prime minister.

"I plan to let some of our martial arts instructors design the action parts of these two major war scenes during the time in Hong Kong. Then arrange a group of dragon and tiger martial artists to rehearse." Wang Xiaohu bit his pen cap and said to Yuan Heping: "Of course, we The live-action shooting will be in mainland China, and I will invite about a thousand soldiers from the People's Liberation Army to act as soldiers of the Qin Dynasty."

"Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army?" Yuan Heping was a little puzzled when he heard the words, "Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army can protect their families and protect the country, but I'm afraid they can't be filmed. They haven't had professional training!"

Wang Xiaohu laughed, pointed at Yuan Heping and said, "Big Eye, you don't know something, don't look at this group of People's Liberation Army who haven't been trained as actors, but they are organized and disciplined, so it's easier to command. And they are soldiers themselves. , playing the role of a soldier in the film is perfect, where can I find such a suitable extras."

"But can they listen to our assignment?" Yuan Heping was still puzzled.

Wang Xiaohu waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I have friends on the mainland, so it's not a problem to mobilize a thousand people."

Yuan Heping blinked and said to himself, Ahu, you are getting more and more unfathomable. I am afraid that you are the only one in Hong Kong who can maintain such a good relationship with the mainland. Even soldiers of the People's Liberation Army can call you!

"I'm afraid we can't do it alone. We need art directors, photographers, theater managers, etc., and for such a big scene, I'm afraid we need several of them." Yuan Heping thought for a while and said.

Wang Xiaohu nodded: "Well, I've thought about it, let's send a batch from Hong Kong, and let the mainland cooperate. As for photographers, I plan to transfer back Xie Dongshen and Li Qingsheng, who studied in Hollywood. Props Well, bring Wang Jiaxin and Zhang Yuan together, what we need most in this industry is martial arts guidance, you, me, Yuan Biao, Yuan De, and Yuan Kui have all participated in it, and the mobilization meeting will start tomorrow."

After Wang Jiaen's second birthday, Wang Xiaohu immediately rushed all the seven little blessings to a meeting in the company. When all the staff arrived, Wang Xiaohu distributed a script to everyone, then coughed twice and said, "Brothers, the company is going to prepare a show this year. As the scene is grand, everyone is invited to come and help design the action, and you have half of the script of the play in hand, so you are required to put down your work during this period of time and work together to design the action."

When the Seven Little Fortunes heard the script, they hurriedly read the script. Their reaction was similar to that of Yuan Heping. This rare opportunity, I believe that after the baptism of this big drama, their martial arts guidance and director experience in the film industry will be more abundant.

"Are you confident?" Wang Xiaohu asked, crossing his arms.

"Yes!" Qi Xiaofu replied neatly and loudly.

(End of this chapter)