Disaster Artist

From the "Human Removal Project" series to the "Quick Pursuit" series, Lu Qian plays the role of a producer. He needs to find a screenwriter to take over his follow-up work, but the first step is to find a director to take over the project, and then The director and screenwriter will complete the follow-up creative work in a negotiated manner.

Regarding the director, Lu Qian has a bold idea.

In the "Human Removal Project" series, they abandoned the conventional trilogy production method, and the protagonists of the first, second, and third parts are all different.

The first part and the second part took place on the same day, but the camera focuses on different groups: the first part is a small family, mainly with secret rooms and street fighting, the second part is a small group, gradually united and resisted during the wandering Those who wantonly kill and commit crimes, the lens of multi-line narrative will focus on the entire city.

Then the third part, with the rebels as the protagonist, can be set three or five years after the first clearing plan is launched, and then they plan to overthrow this regulation, and the protagonists of the first two parts will also converge to fight together. However, regarding the ending, whether the rebellion was successful or not, Lu Qian has not yet conceived—

He tends to rebel and fail, but the purge plan is also out of control. The seemingly successful purge plan has rebounded strongly after three and five years of low crime rates. Instead, it has spawned more crimes around "Purge Day" because of hatred. And sin has been freed from the cage, like another war, and the result is backlash.

It was conceived this way because the entire film industry is currently stuck in the sequel quagmire—

Often the sequels need to get bigger and bigger, and the whole story gets bloated without getting any better.

If the "Human Removal Plan" is planned according to the regular trilogy, it is either "Chainsaw" or "The Hunger Games". Putting aside the old-fashioned and vulgar, the story is easy to fall into the rut of boredom is the most terrifying; so Lu Qian came up with the trick of switching perspectives and changing styles.

Break the stereotype of the trilogy.

Then, the three films are shot by three directors with different styles.

In the first part, the scheduling of moving around in a small space needs to be better; in the second part, the control ability of large-scale scene scheduling and multi-line narrative parallel needs to be better; in the third part, there should be a kind of story for a story whose ending is destined to be tragic. Absurd and dark crazy narrative style.

Of course, Lu Qian will act as the producer to ensure that the series of films can form a unified core. Once successful, this will undoubtedly become a phenomenal work.

However, the "Fast Pursuit" series is different. Lu Qian hopes that the trilogy will be shot by a director.

If nothing else, "Fast Pursuit" will be created with Hong Jiaban as the main team and Guan Zhou as the male protagonist. The whole series will be as unified as possible in style; the director needs to lock the camera on Guan Zhou, and then follow Slowly and deeply explore the entire dark underground world with the tube boat.

Naturally, the director's ability is very important. He needs to have the ability to narrate in a small area, and he needs to have the ability to narrate in a large scale, as well as a very, very important core reflection perspective—

He had better be able to capture the cleanness and sadness that comes with Guan Zhou, which is crucial to the series.

In fact, when Lu Qian proposed the whole idea, both Ji Xu and Xiu Zhong believed that Lu Qian should be the director of the "Quick Pursuit" series, and the "Human Removal Plan" could be handed over to three different people. Director, it would be better if the third part could be directed by Lu Qian.

But Lu Qian insisted on his point of view, and he wanted to seek more breakthroughs; moreover, the style of "quick pursuit" needs to be distinguished from "raid", otherwise Guan Zhou would not be a genius with outstanding acting skills, and the audience would not If you don't pay attention, you may bring the tube boat into Artest again, which is a negative effect.

After some discussion and negotiation, Ji Xu and Xiu Zhong finally agreed with Lu Qian's point of view.

Then, Lu Qian started to look for a suitable director.

Hou Xiaochuan came into Lu Qian's sight very, very unexpectedly.

The director is fifty-nine years old this year, and has been in the industry for 25 years. He is definitely a veteran, and he has occupied a place in the industry early on.

Hou Xiaochuan is very, very special. He was born as a reporter. After graduating from university, he worked in a TV station for many years, from reporter to editor and planner to editor and director. Slow became interested in making movies.

Later, he really resigned from the TV station and took up the camera to shoot a movie. His first work was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Onkyo Film Festival, one of the three major film festivals in the world. The top award of the Ding'anqiao Film Festival has established its own position in the industry.

One after another, Hou Xiaochuan has won a lot of recognition at different award ceremonies. It can be said that he is a solid and unique director, especially his background as a reporter, so that his shots always have the uniqueness of a documentary. Texture, cutting into the context of characters and stories at close range.

Logically speaking, with Hou Xiaochuan's status, how could he be willing to direct a commercial film like "Quick Hunt"?

But the reality is cruel.

Since Hou Xiaochuan failed to shoot three consecutive works five years ago, he has fallen into a creative blank for a long time. Especially after his age, the industry generally believes that his creative vitality has It began to decline, not to mention the director job offer, and even the projects he conceived of himself had a hard time getting funding.

In the blink of an eye, five years have passed, and Hou Xiaochuan, who used to be brilliant, is now faced with the dilemma of having no scenes to film.

Lu Qian is also not sure whether Hou Xiaochuan is interested in the project of "Fast Pursuit", and he is not sure how Hou Xiaochuan's remuneration is, but he always has to interview to find out.

Through Yu Shao's contacts, they finally got in touch with Hou Xiaochuan after 70% off, and after three emails back and forth, it took a lot of effort to finalize the meeting tonight.

What is the specific situation, we will only know after we meet and talk.

Of course, it is also possible that Hou Xiaochuan's creative vitality has indeed declined. After the real conversation, Lu Qian also felt that he was not suitable, and the cooperation could not happen after all.

In any case, Lu Qian is looking forward to meeting Hou Xiaochuan tonight.

Tapping.

Tapping.

Lu Qian trotted all the way into the bathroom, took care of himself as quickly as possible, and was looking forward to meeting tonight.

Ji Xu looked at Lu Qian's back, and couldn't help but rejoice that he had come over in advance, otherwise things would have been bad.

Ji Xu took a seat in front of the desk, carefully read Lu Qian's busy creation, and then the sound of the phone vibrating came.

Ji Xu looked left and right, and suddenly found that it was Lu Qian's phone—

a decoration.

Most of the time, it's not a useful decoration at all.

Ji Xu glanced at the caller ID, there was no name displayed, that is, an unfamiliar number. Could it be a work contact? Or a scam call?

However, why do you think the phone number looks familiar? I always feel as if it is a number I know, is it really a work phone?