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Chapter 114

After chatting and talking for a long time, Xiao Jian realized that Xu Zheng took Huang Bo and Ning Hao to accompany him to drink tea, and the reason was to cast a movie.

It has been 92 years since Xu Zheng made his debut in 15, and he has participated in countless dramas, TV shows, and movies.Before he starred in the TV series "**Brilliant Pig Ring" and was well-known to the audience, he was already a big name in the drama industry. In 98, he won the best actor in the Magnolia Drama Award, the highest award in the domestic drama industry.

When Ning Hao was still using DV to shoot movies, he had already been the director of the TV series Li Wei as an Official 2 and achieved good ratings.

Of course, he started relatively late as a movie actor, and people didn't recognize him as a movie actor until after the release of Crazy Stone.

Seeing that friends like Ning Hao and Xiao Jian had come from behind and made good achievements in film directing, and even Huang Bo clamored to be a director and make movies, he became anxious.

It's not that I happen to have a script in my hand, so I want to be a director and shoot it.

But it is not easy to find investment. For a person like him who has never directed a movie, even though he is famous, if he wants to get investment, he has to go everywhere to ask his grandpa to sue his grandma for running away and drinking so much that his stomach bleeds.

Ning Hao’s 300 million RMB for Crazy Stone was spent several years before getting funds from Andy Lau’s "Rising Star Director" project through a friend's introduction.

At the end of the filming, there was not enough money, so Ning Hao filled in his family savings before finishing the filming.As for the publicity, there was not a penny of money. If they hadn't hyped it up by themselves, there would have been no additional publicity funds from Andy Lau later, let alone more than 4000 million box office results.

Among them, how could Xu Zheng, as a friend, not understand Ning Hao's torment?

Therefore, when he was looking for investment this time, he immediately thought of Xiao Jian, who was not short of money. Everyone was a friend and he was a self-made family member, so he understood their feelings.

Xiao Jian said with a smile: "Brother Xu, can you think that I am trying to save face, and I am worried that I can't find a film to cast, did you bring the script?"

Seeing people who are used to prevarication, suddenly seeing Xiao Jian so forthright Xu Zheng was a little dazed, he was taken aback for a moment before he took out the script and handed it to Xiao Jian.

"Lost on Journey?"

"Isn't there a scene in your "Very Father and Daughter File" where Bo Er couldn't get on the plane, didn't have a ticket on the train, and broke down halfway in the car? I got the inspiration from there, and talked about the embarrassing things about returning home during the Spring Festival."

"Well, this kind of subject matter is good and there is a market. You guys are talking about that line of work. Let me read it first." Xiao Jian no longer politely took the script and read it.

Xu Zheng has been through ups and downs for so many years, but he was still a little nervous when he saw Xiao Jian flipping through his script, feeling like a primary school student being checked by a teacher for his homework.

It's all due to Xiao Jian's success these days. His first work won the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. Both of the two films he made were well received and sold at the box office. He is recognized as the most talented young director in China. , There is too much pressure on those who have just become directors or aspiring to be directors.

Ning Hao kicked Huang Bo and glanced at Xu Zheng.Huang Bo knowingly pulled Xu Zheng and said, "Old Xu, let's drink tea and transfer the call after filming. Do you have a new film appointment?"

"There are a few TV series, and there is "The Good Man" which feels okay and is still under consideration."

"Hey, you guys who became famous early are good bastards. I don't have such a good life. It's rare to have a film appointment."

Ning Hao teased: "Yes, those who don't have any invitations are still getting big. They even offered a salary of 200 million yuan. I'm thinking about whether or not to play him. How about you help my brother, Xu?"

"200?"

Xu Zheng looked at Huang Bo in surprise. Although he became famous very quickly this year, the very father and daughter show he starred in was almost 500 million at the box office, and 200 million is too high, right? No first-line actor for many years is as high as him worth.

Huang Bo smiled and said: "Nonsense, when will I ask you to pay you 200 million yuan?"

Ning Hao said: "Old Xu, you call his agent and see if she will report 200 million."

The reason for the agent to raise the artist's value is nothing more than to use the high price to fend off the invitation that is not easy to push. This is nothing, Xu Zheng smiled when he realized it.

"Seriously, how about you come and help me play a role in my new play?" Ning Hao said seriously.

"Okay, no problem."

Xu Zheng agreed without even reading the script. Some friends are trustworthy even if they don't meet many times.

Half an hour later, Xiao Jian finished the script.

"The script is very good, and the box office should be fine. Brother Xu, you really sent me money. What's the budget?"

"700."

Xiao Jian calculated whether he could spend 700 million on average. Although he said it proudly, it was too much for a while.As for the box office of the two films, except for the more than 2000 million share of the copyright sale, none of them came into the account.

Seeing that Xiao Jian hadn't spoken for a long time, Xu Zheng thought it was too much, so he said, "If you think it's too much, you can compress it a little more."

"No, it's only 700 million. If there is less, you can add more."

"Xiao Jian, you are really loyal." Xu Zheng stretched out his thumb and said.

Then he asked Xiao Jian, a great talent, about the script: "How do you feel about my script?"

"Overall, it's okay, only some minor problems in some details have little impact on the film."

The problem with the script is not that big, even if the problem can be discovered during the shooting or editing process, it doesn't matter whether we say it or not.

"Where there is a problem, tell me."

Xu Zheng's humbly asking for advice made Xiao Jian have to speak.

"The love story between Manny and Li Chenggong, the little three, was told a bit too much and seemed a bit procrastinated, and it was very likely that it would be cut in the later stage. At the end, Manny's departure was obviously a bit abrupt. In the eyes of the audience, the little three is just for money.

Although the plot of Niu Geng meeting netizens is a bit funny, it is too inconsistent with the plot of the whole play.

Also, the plot and plot of this Malaysian and his wife, who take the train as their home and migrate to stations across the country to sell goods, don’t quite match up..."

Seeing that Xiao Jian cut off a lot of his plots in one go, Xu Zheng was anxious, and quickly explained: "But..."

"I know you want to add something with connotation, but you added too much, making the plot seem a bit loose."

Xiao Jian's words made Xu Zheng unable to refute, "You are right, I will consider revising it."

"Lao Xu finished talking, now we're talking about the script." Huang Bo said.

Xiao Jian stretched out his hand and said, "Where's the script?"

"It hasn't been written yet, let's talk first, I'm a 'script' like this..."

Although the three of them were a little speechless, they had to listen carefully to his idea.

"Bo Zi, your 'script' is very good." Ning Hao clapped his hands and praised.

Xiao Jian: "Very surprised."

Xu Zheng: "Quite surprised."

The four chatted about Huang Bo's idea.

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