Chinese Entertainment's Shining Star

"What are you talking about? I heard you guys laughing inside before I even entered the door." Nie Wei walked into the conference room and asked with a smile.

"The great director is still curious about us women chatting about such trivial matters?" Zhang Ziyi said jokingly.

"Why aren't you curious? You are my actors. As the screenwriter of the crew, why should I care about their status? You have read the script, how is it? Is there anything you are dissatisfied with?" Nie Weixiao asked.

It was Zhang Ziyi who answered first. She and Nie Wei were the only ones here familiar with each other.

"I'm quite satisfied with my role. It has a lot of character, and it doesn't lack depth and conflict. Now I want to know when the detailed script will be released. I want to take a look at the lines." Zhang Ziyi asked.

The other three actresses also nodded subconsciously and looked at Nie Wei.

Lines are very important for an actor, because they are an important way of communication between characters. For example, many senior actors will pay special attention to their lines when reading scripts, and many actors will also modify their lines appropriately.

This is not because the lines written by the screenwriter are not good. Many times, actors change their lines to suit their own habits, because every actor has a different way of saying lines, and there is always a line that may be awkward, which needs to be modified.

"It will take about two weeks to come out. The company's screenwriting department is working overtime to catch up. After all, in addition to your TV series, there is also a "Gentleman's Dignity" to be filmed. I just met with the actors over there last night. Meet." Nie Wei explained.

But after hearing Nie Wei's words, Zhang Ziyi couldn't help but become curious.

"Who are the actors in that TV series?" Zhang Ziyi asked with a gossipy face.

"Three people have been identified so far, Hu Jun, Yuan Hong, and Huang Xiaoming." Nie Wei did not deliberately hide the news, and generously told the ladies present.

Several ladies nodded subconsciously, feeling that this lineup was okay. Except for Yuan Hong, who was slightly less popular, the other two were all first-line male stars. Of course, compared with their lineup, they were slightly inferior. After all, they had Zhang Ziyi. Well.

The inner comparison among the ladies is inevitable. After all, from the time Nie Wei handed them the script, everyone knew that there was another male (female) version. The two TV series were like twins, both stemming from the Nie Wei's works also tell stories about four good brothers or sisters, and even their names are very similar.

So whenever the other person is mentioned, comparisons are inevitable.

The screenwriters are all Nie Wei, so there is no way to compare in this regard, but everyone will subconsciously compare the directors, the production lineup, and after the broadcast, they will also compare the ratings, online click-through rates, even word-of-mouth, and discussion popularity.

This is the case for all good actors, because good actors not only have high requirements for their acting skills, but also have ambitions for the results of their works.

Nie Wei also saw the little thoughts of several ladies, so he simply added fuel to the fire.

"Your two TV series will be produced at the same time and will most likely be broadcast together. I don't mind if my TV series competes with my own TV series, so you guys should be mentally prepared to compete with them."

After Nie Weiwei finished speaking, some of the ladies looked disdainful, or looked solemn, and some looked high-spirited, but it was obvious that these words had fired up their fighting spirit.

"The effect is good." Nie Wei thought to himself. Maybe he should talk to Yuan Hong and Hu Jun about this. After all, competition will motivate a person to make progress.

After chatting for a while, Nie Wei quickly got to the point.

Today's gathering is mainly about Nie Wei telling his starting point for writing this TV series, and discussing character creation issues with several female stars. After all, he is a screenwriter, and he undoubtedly has the deepest understanding of the characters he writes. learn.

There are many inner things in a character that actors cannot discover even after reading the script many times. This requires the screenwriter to assist the actor in understanding the character.

For example, the character played by Zhang Ziyi, the all-powerful queen in the workplace, is usually a woman who is so strict that she is called the devil behind the scenes by everyone in the company. However, her strong appearance also hides vulnerability, and she seems to be a deformed woman. A woman with a steely ambition, but she actually has a soft side in her heart.

If there is a detailed script for these things, the actors may be able to understand them during repeated readings, but without a detailed script, Nie Wei needs to explain these deeper things clearly.

This has been explained for more than two hours, and the things the woman asked were relatively detailed.

After the chat was over and it was time for lunch, Nie Wei simply took a few ladies to experience the starry canteen.

When the four goddesses appeared in the restaurant, it really caused a sensation. Many people were curious about how these four goddess-level actors came together.

But looking at them and Nie Wei together, I could vaguely guess that there was a collaboration. Only the people in the editorial team knew best. However, they were too busy to come to the restaurant for dinner at the moment, and naturally they had no time to spread gossip to their colleagues. .

The filming of "The Three-Body Problem" was a difficult problem for Nie Wei. He did not have a good reference target. Nie Wei was personally responsible for the preparation of this film from the beginning, including the adaptation of the novel.

Therefore, the script was developed very slowly, so slowly that it is only halfway through now.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhang Ziyi suddenly came to film a TV series. Of course, it is also related to her own desire to try TV series. After all, the income of TV actors is no less than that of movie actors nowadays. The key is that TV series have become more popular than movies in recent years, and the audience is wider. It has become the choice of many excellent actors.

For example, this time Zhang Ziyi filmed a TV series, and her salary was 50 million Chinese yuan, which is still a friendly price. Otherwise, if it was a TV series produced by other companies, it would not be a problem for Zhang Ziyi to receive a salary of 100 million.

This is not the kind of "sky-high salary", but her worth is there.

Her current movie salary in Hollywood is between 6 million and 8 million US dollars. If she returns to China to film a movie, her salary will at least double on this basis. This is the effect of opening up the Hollywood market and the recognition of her strength. After all, as a Chinese, she can conquer Hollywood, so she deserves such a halo.

This is completely different from the false popularity of traffic stars.

And if you spend hundreds of millions to invite Zhang Ziyi to act, it is really worth it, but traffic stars are different. Facts have proved that the popularity of traffic artists is not very helpful to the real box office or even the ratings of TV series except for online dramas. His so-called huge popularity is worthless in front of the box office conversion rate.

Just like a certain traffic star, his fans are said to be hundreds of millions, and a film company asked him to make a movie, thinking that even if one tenth of his fans buy tickets, then his movie will be profitable.

But the result is that, let alone one ten-thousandth, there is not even one ten-thousandth, and the box office of the movie may not be as high as the salary of this traffic star in the end.

The key is that the box office is lost and the reputation is lost. A group of people on the Internet mock traffic artists for their poor acting skills. This kind of thing is not occasional.

So traffic is really not equal to box office. If these traffic idols want to really transform into actors, they can't just think about relying on fans, or how to be handsome in movies and TV series to attract fans. These are all wrong views. Real actors always think about the movie and the role itself, devote themselves wholeheartedly, and try to be more in line with the role and interpret each plot more realistically.

After Zhang Ziyi and several actresses finished their meal, they said goodbye to Nie Wei and left the company. Nie Wei did not stay in the company to work, but went home directly.

When he got home, Nie Wei entered the house and saw Shu Chang sitting on the sofa, watching a movie.

You should know that Shu Chang used to be either taking a nap or reading in the study. Since she semi-retired, she rarely watched movies and TV series, as if she really wanted to cut off from this circle, but Nie Wei knew that this state was actually wrong.

Now Shu Chang has made a comeback and is interested in these things again, Nie Wei is also very happy.

"Are you back? Have you eaten?" Seeing Nie Wei enter the house, Shu Chang stared at the TV and greeted casually.

"I've eaten at the company, what are you watching?" Nie Wei asked as he walked to the sofa and looked at the movie playing on TV.

"Han Guo's movie?"

"Well, it's called "Time Out"." As Shu Chang spoke, he reached out and picked up the disc shell from the tea table and handed it to Nie Wei. Nie Wei then discovered that there were a lot of movie discs on the tea table.

"Edge of Tomorrow, Source Code, 50 First Dates, 12:01... Why are they all of this type?" After flipping through the books, Nie Weiyi suddenly found that these movies have one thing in common, that is, they are all related to time and time travel.

After hearing Nie Wei's question, Shu Chang still focused on the movie and answered casually: "Isn't it Zheng Shuang who is going to shoot your movie script, she came to ask me, I am just tutoring this one, don't teach her when the time comes, but she asked me, how embarrassing it would be for me."

Nie Weiyi couldn't help laughing when he heard it.

"That's right, I'll watch it with you for a while, we haven't watched a movie together for a long time." Nie Wei put down the disc in his hand and said with a smile.

Hearing this, Shu Chang's attention finally moved away from the movie, and she looked at Nie Wei with a smile. Obviously, she was very satisfied with Nie Wei's choice to accompany her.

The name of the movie played on TV is "Time Out", which tells the story of a teacher in 1983 and a criminal policeman in 2015 fighting criminals and saving their loved ones through dreams.

The director of this movie is Lee Jae-young, who is very famous in South Korea. This director once shot a love movie that was popular throughout Asia, but his ability to control this kind of science fiction movie is obviously not very good.

Nie Wei watched it for half an hour, and his inner evaluation was that the idea was good, but the director's ability to control it was insufficient, which wasted the idea and the superb acting skills of the two good actors, the male and female protagonists. The plot had obvious flaws, and the turning point was quite abrupt. It can be said that it was all ruined by these points.

This is like a computer. If the motherboard is broken, your graphics card and processor are useless.

If Nie Wei were to rate it, it would be barely six points, no more.

"If I were to shoot such a good idea, it would definitely be more exciting than his." With the hasty ending of the movie, Nie Wei couldn't help but complain to Shu Chang.

"I don't believe it." Shu Chang answered casually.

But what she didn't expect was that her casual answer aroused Nie Wei's desire to win or lose, especially since such a good idea was shot so badly. As a director, Nie Wei really had the urge to shoot another work with this idea.

"Wait for me." Nie Wei said this and went to the study. Shu Chang was confused by Nie Wei's incoherent words, and soon his attention was attracted by the next movie.

In the following half a month, Nie Wei spent all his time writing scripts, except for discussing roles and plots with Zhang Ziyi and Hu Jun. He even put the script of "The Three-Body Problem" on hold.

Of course, Nie Wei did it on purpose. He had reached a bottleneck in the adaptation of "The Three-Body Problem". It was just the right time to change the subject matter and change his mind, so that he could relax and not be too nervous.

It is worth mentioning that this year's Lunar New Year holiday has produced another masterpiece, and interestingly, this movie is also adapted from Mr. Liu's work, called "The Wandering Earth", which has a box office data of 4.6 billion.

As "The Wandering Earth" became popular, Chinese science fiction fans are increasingly looking forward to "The Three-Body Problem" that Nie Wei is adapting. When "The Wandering Earth" was popular, tens of thousands of science fiction fans went to Nie Wei's social account every day to ask about the progress of "The Three-Body Problem".

Of course, nothing came of it in the end. Nie Wei hadn't been on social media for a long time, so he naturally couldn't see these messages. Even if he saw them, Nie Wei couldn't give an answer. After all, he didn't know when the script would be completed, so he couldn't be sure when it would be filmed or released.

After watching "Time Out", Nie Wei also began to write a movie about the intersection of time and space. In fact, China is the real ancestor of time travel. Hong Kong movies have had similar movies for a long time, such as Zheng Yijian and Bai Zhi filmed a very famous movie called "Infinite Resurrection". There are many similar ones, and in online articles, the ways of time travel are even more varied.

Nie Wei wanted to write a movie script at first, but as he started writing, he had more and more ideas, and finally the movie script became a TV series script.

And this one was a full thirty-six episodes.

This is also the first TV series script that Nie Wei has written in person after many years. Unlike the creation of "The Three-Body Problem" which was like being stuck in a quagmire, when writing this script, Nie Wei really had a lot of words, and basically completed two episodes of the script a day.

After the first version of the script was completed, the first thing Nie Wei considered was finding an actor to match the role.