Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

The issue of the right to adapt the novel was settled in less than a week. After all, the price offered by Li Wei's studio was very generous. In addition, Li Wei promised to adapt and direct the novel himself, which gave the author great confidence.After taking back the right to adapt the work, the screenwriting team began to create scripts according to Li Wei's requirements.Now Li Wei seldom writes scripts, and usually only puts forward the main characters and the main points of the main plot, and the rest is the screenwriting team's labor and cooperation.

According to the requirements of the Huaxia National Screenwriters Union, Li Wei naturally couldn't sign the screenwriter, so Li Wei's script had a vacant spot, so it was handed over to the three people who contributed the most to the screenwriting team to sign.Because it was a collective creation, the first version of the script was completed in only three days.After the script doctor's initial review, the script came to Li Wei.

Li Wei looked at it a little bit, and the plot is really similar to "33 Days of Broken Relationship".However, it may be that the author's own literary and youthful temperament is too strong, resulting in the work also has a sub-literary youth's love view.Li Wei looked at it, and asked the screenwriter team to remove some unnecessary side plots, and focus all the plot of the story on the heroine and heroine.

"This is a chick movie, we don't need to exclude the so-called depth and breadth. Put away your critique of human nature and social scrutiny. This is a commercial movie! If you set too high a viewing standard for the audience threshold, then the audience will only use the low box office to retaliate against us!" Li Wei said to the screenwriters.

In fact, Li Wei looks down on the current directors a little bit, and always feels that he is the best in the world, and the works he has produced are shocking and will enter the history of film and even cultural history.The results of it?It's completely self-indulgent, the audience can't understand and don't want to understand, so the box office is pitifully low.But even so, these lofty directors don't know how to reflect on themselves, and instead blame the audience for their lack of appreciation.

Kirin Wave, a label under the Kylin Film Group that specializes in investing and distributing literary films, invested in a film last year. The director of that film has only directed short films, but he still has aura.The script has also been reviewed by Qilin Tide, and it was originally planned to follow the route of suspenseful cult movies.This kind of film not only has a wide audience among CULT fans, but even among ordinary moviegoers, it can gain a certain amount of box office.But what happened?With the 3000 million yuan invested by Kirin Wave, this rookie director suddenly turned a suspenseful film into a literary film full of stream of consciousness.When this movie was handed over to Kirin Wave for distribution, the entire distribution department was dumbfounded, because no one could understand what it was talking about.In the end, Kirin Tide squeezed his nose and pushed the film to Caesars Pioneer Cinemas, but it was only released for a week and was forced to withdraw from the film because of being scolded by the audience.The box office of the whole film was only 10,000+, thanks to which a vice president of Kirin Wave had to take the blame and resign to take responsibility.Qilin Wave has lost a vice president, and this new director who is too self-indulgent has naturally become a blacklist in the film industry. There is no one who is obviously an aura director who insists on tossing himself into such bitterness and hatred .

Li Wei knows a director in the circle who specializes in making literary films. He is already the vice chairman of the Directors Association and the dean of the Yenching Film Academy. Generally, when directors meet him, they will respectfully address him as Teacher Sun or Master Sun.But for this master director, his film budget never exceeds 100 million yuan, because he himself said that the box office of his movies is about 300 million to 500 million yuan, and he can't waste investors' money.Why can't many literary film directors get investment?It's not just cheating the audience while cheating investors.Director Sunglasses Wang from the earth plane, back then he had his investor vomited blood and sent him to the hospital, almost dying.

Li Wei himself is also a literary film director. He made literary films purely because of his love, so he can ignore the cost and the industrialization process of film production.But not now, he is now transforming into a commercial film director, so all shooting processes must respect the market and industrialization.

After receiving Li Wei's revision opinions, the screenwriting team took two days to hand in the final script.This time Li Wei took a look and agreed.After Li Wei approved the script, he started a meeting with his director team. There were two assistant directors leading two projects respectively.The assistant director, Long Hai, is in charge of splitting the literary script into shot scripts with several assistant directors, and at the same time cooperates with Li Wei to make the storyboard; while the other assistant director, Yang Zhenhua, is in charge of leading several assistant directors to go outside for location scouting, After all, if this kind of chick movie is produced with green screen technology and virtual reality technology, the cost will be too high; in the end, an assistant director, Cao Jianjun, began to be responsible for forming the crew.

Li Wei has started preliminary work here, and the marketing department of Li Wei Studio has also begun to contact film investment companies or film funds in the circle to see if they are interested in participating in the investment of this film.Although Li Wei's studio can invest entirely by itself, in order to reduce production risks, it is also a way to allocate part of the cost.

In the two major film and television production centers of Donghai City and Yanjing City, there are already a plethora of film and television production companies, but there are only more than fifty companies with real production capabilities, and only six companies with distribution capabilities. .The remaining film and television companies are basically leather bag companies, which are actually film and television investment companies or film and television fund companies.Generally speaking, medium and large-scale production companies among the more than [-] capable production companies will release their own production platter plans every quarter. If you are interested, you can subscribe.To put it bluntly, it is the same as buying stocks.If the movie box office is high and you can still sell DVDs and peripherals, then your returns will be rich and long-term; but if the movie box office hits the street and there are no movie channels willing to take over and the DVDs and peripherals cannot be sold, then you can only bite a small handkerchief Weeping and fainting in the toilet.

Generally speaking, the assortment plans released by film companies are not particularly outstanding films. Films with potential have already been invested by their own companies alone or brought together with friends. How can it be the turn of these film and television investment companies or What about film and television funds?Therefore, the elimination rate of film and television investment companies and film and television funds is very high, but in the end all those who can survive are old foxes.Their green light review system is even more professional and strict than the production company, and they will also participate in multiple platter plans to hedge risks.

But obviously, Li Wei, the director, is a blue chip stock in the eyes of film and television investment companies and film and television funds. The three films he shot in front of him were not low at the box office and won awards.Although Li Wei has no experience in directing commercial films, everyone has listed Li Wei as a B-level director, that is, the category of "investable".

"You said Yihua Film wants to invest in my film? Is it the Yihua Film from Yanjing?" Li Wei was taken aback when he saw an investment request, especially after seeing the producer's affirmative nod Even more strange.

Yihua, Guanghui and other film companies belong to the Yanjing film company. Although there is no deep hatred with the East China Sea film company like Li Wei Studio, they will definitely not cooperate.

The entire Chinese film circle is divided into four circles: Yanjing Circle, Donghai Circle, Pearl Nanhua Circle and Beidao Circle. Among them, the Pearl South China Circle mainly produces Cantonese films and belongs to a circle for self-entertainment; while the Beidao Circle Bian is a place where a group of literary and artistic young directors and actors gather together, exploring the artistry and avant-garde of movies all day long, and it is also a relatively closed self-promotional circle; but only the Yanjing circle and the Donghai circle cover the whole country and even the world. production center.

Yanjing Circle is supported by Yenching Film Academy, National Academy of Drama and Yenching Art Theater; Donghai Circle is supported by Tunghai University Film Academy and Tunghai Drama Academy.Both circles consider themselves to be the leaders in China's film circle, so they place great emphasis on their director and actor resources.Not to mention talent exchange, even cross-border cooperation may lead to retaliation.Because Li Wei's company is located in Donghai, and he is also a half alumnus of Donghai University's film school, he was naturally identified as the director of the Donghai circle.

"We were also taken aback when we received the request from Yihua. Although Yihua has developed rapidly recently and seems to be no longer willing to be controlled by those in the Yanjing circle, it suddenly invested in our film. It still surprised me and me." The person who said this was Wu Lei, the senior vice president of Li Wei Studio, who is also the producer of the film directed by Li Wei. "However, Yihua has additional requirements, hoping that we can hand over the position of the heroine of the movie to their actress Yingli. Yingli is one of the so-called four little flowers now, because she starred in several good costume martial arts TV dramas. I have a lot of fans, but my acting skills..."

"Among the four major female roles, only Yi Zizhang's acting skills are quite good, and the remaining three are just fooling the domestic audience." Li Wei sneered, "Show me the information about that Yingli, if there is any I don't mind working with newcomers if I wish."

Seeing what Li Wei said, Wu Lei handed over Yingli's DVD to Li Wei.Li Wei went back to the projection room in his office, put Yingli's DVD into the disc player, and leaned back to study Yingli's acting skills.Just as models carry their model cards with them when they look for a job, actors carry their DVDs with them when they look for a job. In the DVD, there are usually clips of my most popular or award-winning performances, and there will also be some photos of my life and magazines.This DVD was originally 120 minutes long, but Li Wei couldn't help but turn off the DVD player after watching it for less than 10 minutes.In fact, Li Wei's aversion to Xiaohuaxiaoxianrou originated from the earth plane, and he really didn't study Xiaohuaxiaoxianrou in the water blue plane.

As a result, after watching Yingli's DVD this time, Li Wei called Wu Lei, "You Yihua said, it's okay to invest, don't interfere with our casting. It is absolutely impossible for Yingli to appear in my movie." Those of the film crew, if you have to come, ask them to arrange for Yingli to take acting classes for two years!"

Hearing what Li Wei said, Wu Lei had no choice but to tactfully express his thoughts to Yihua.Yihua is not a fool either, knowing that Li Wei doesn't like Yingli's acting skills, so there is no further negotiation.

Originally, this kind of company-level interest exchange had nothing to do with actors, but Yingli became upset because she found out about it.I ran to my Weibo and wrote a paragraph, "Recently, the company planned to arrange for me to act in a play directed by a newcomer, but people didn't like my acting skills. Hehehe, I have been the heroine of several popular dramas anyway, Are you saying that if I don’t have acting skills, then I don’t have acting skills?”

Although Xiao Hua Xiao Xian Rou's acting skills are not online, she has a lot of brain-dead fans.Yingli's words naturally blew up her fans, and they all came out to comfort Yingli, saying that Yingli's acting skills should have been the queen of both the Golden Dragon Award and the Academy Award.And another part of the brainless fans didn't know how to find out, and they actually brought the flames of war to Li Wei's side.