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"Inheritance" has not started yet, "Double Happiness" started first, Yuan Yuan took the revised script, and found that Xingmeiyi is still very hardworking, the new screenwriter is good, the revised script is definitely icing on the cake, next It depends on the expressiveness of the director. If the script can be restored, the movie is basically considered a success.

The director hired by "Double Happiness" is a director of the new generation. Although the low-budget comedy he directed last time did not do well at the box office, it has a good reputation and a lot of hits on the Internet. Netizens have high expectations for him.The leading role is also a comedy sketch actor transformed, and his acting skills are not a problem. That is to say, the careers of both directors and actors are on the rise.The film investment is not as small as 500 million as originally said, nor as much as 2000 million as suggested by Ning Xiuwu, it is almost 1000 million.After starting the machine, they took the initiative to send the final payment to Yuan Yuan, because they would have to use the name of Yuan Yuan and "Qianlong" to promote it.

Because the experience of the Cultural Revolution was blurred, the establishment of the "Inheritance" project went smoothly.Yuan Yuan worked with the director on the script again, revised it a bit, and it was almost finalized.Actors were also in place one after another. Yuan Yuan led Gu Yuren and Chen Xian to Huizhou to choose the location for the location shooting.This time, Gu Yuren intends to be the producer himself. He thinks that since he is playing by himself, he should play it thoroughly.

The movie's budget was 2000 million, and Gu Yuren didn't raise any money to invest, he paid for it all himself.With "Hidden Dragon" as the foreshadowing, it is easy to attract investment, but Gu Yuren knows very well that this movie is a purely literary film, whether it can be released or not is another matter, it has no commercial value, basically it cannot make money Yes, he may even lose money, and asking people to invest is basically throwing money away, so he invested himself.

After returning from Huizhou, Yuan Yuan said: "I feel that the cost will exceed the budget." The location of the film crew requisitioned an ancient Ming and Qing village that has not yet been developed into a tourist attraction. The filming took about three months. During this period, the villagers in the village To be emptied out and replaced with extras, in addition to paying money, you also need to resettle the lives of a village, which is not a small fee.

Gu Yuren said: "Spending money is expected. Since we have done it, we should do it well."

Yuan Yuan felt a lot of pressure. For this movie, Gu Yuren pushed a lot of scripts, but he still hasn't accepted a movie this year.Yuan Yuan was even more worried that even if it was filmed, would these sensitive topics pass the content review?Whether it can be released normally is another question.

"Brother, you don't have to worry, you should do whatever you want." Gu Yuren said.

Yuan Yuan had no choice but to keep his worries in his stomach, not to show it, and began to prepare for the next script.Zhou Fengming called Yuan Yuan: "What have you been up to lately?"

Yuan Yuan told him about the filming of "Inheritance", and Zhou Fengming said, "Which investor did he find?"

Yuan Yuan said, "I didn't find it, I paid for it myself."

Zhou Fengming said: "I'll go, how can anyone use their own money to play, are they afraid that others will share the profit?"

Yuan Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "This film is a literary film, and most of it won't make any money. He felt that he couldn't cheat people, so he funded it himself."

Zhou Fengming was speechless: "He is spending a lot of money to buy you a smile, he really knows how to play romance."

Through the phone, Yuan Yuan's face burned like a piece of red cloth, and it spread to the base of his neck. What did Zhou Fengming mean this week? He pretended not to understand: "What are you talking about?"

"It's nothing. If he loses everything, I'll invest in your next movie, write the script well, I don't care if there is any depth of thought, the most important thing is that the story is wonderful." Zhou Fengming said.

Yuan Yuan smiled: "Then thank you in advance."

On May 5, "Inheritance" was launched.Yuan Yuan is going to follow the crew, anyway, he doesn't have to go to work now, he can follow the crew to understand the shooting situation, and he can still write the script there.Before leaving, Yuan Yuan received a call from Jiang Sizeng: "Xiao Yuan, are you free? Come and help me write a script."

Yuan Yuan was a little surprised: "What script?"

Jiang Shui once said: "I need to adapt a novel, and the screenwriter the producer found is not satisfactory to me, so I will let you try it."

Yuan Yuan was a little flattered: "Thank you Director Jiang for trusting me, then I'll try it. Send me the novel first, and I'll read it."

"Okay, if you want to write, write an outline first and come and show me." Jiang Shizeng said.

"Ok."

Jiang Shi once said: "If you are determined to adapt it, I hope you will come and write it here."

Yuan Yuan thought for a while: "Okay."

There are two main types of movie scripts: one is original scripts and the other is adapted scripts.The scripts created by Yuan Yuan before are all original scripts. Compared with adapted scripts, the original scripts take more risks. You need to grasp the values ​​and the direction of the story by yourself. It may not be sold after writing, but as a screenwriter , The creation of original scripts is more free, without the limitations of the original ideology and values, and can be played arbitrarily.

The advantage of adapting the script is that the crew adapts it only when needed, so you don't have to worry about not being able to sell it.In terms of creation, the difficulty may not be less than that of the original script. Although there is a framework for the original story, it is not easy to extract the essence from the original story. In addition to short stories and novels, novels are at least 3 words, and a movie The script, at most, is more than [-] words, which requires refining the plot and adapting the plot, which is not easy to grasp.After many popular novels were changed into film and television dramas, the original flavor of the story was lost, and fans of the original books complained a lot.

After Yuan Yuan got the novel, he found that it was actually the most popular online novel "A Strange Journey". This is a series of supernatural adventure stories with a very large reader base. Unexpectedly, Director Jiang actually bought one of the stories "Hell" The film rights to The Door.Yuan Yuan also happened to have read this novel, and once thought in his mind, if he wanted to adapt this story into a movie, from what point of view, he should select those fragments, but he never thought that the right to adapt this story really came into his own hands.

Yuan Yuan said to Gu Yuren: "Brother, Director Jiang has a script that I need to write, and I will not go to Huizhou for the time being."

Gu Yuren asked about the situation and was very happy for him: "This is a very good opportunity, write it well, as long as the story is changed well, the box office will definitely explode, and your position in the screenwriting world will be completely determined in the future. Write A script can be in the millions.”

Yuan Yuan knew that this was a good opportunity, no matter how many people asked for it, he had to write well: "Well, I will work hard."

Gu Yuren patted him on the shoulder: "Believe in yourself and work hard. If you need my help, just tell me."

Yuan Yuan said, "Okay."

Yuan Yuan temporarily canceled his trip to Huizhou, so he took the time to reread the story, and the creative impulse spewed out. He quickly wrote down his thoughts one by one, and organized them into an outline. After finishing all this, he found that the sky was almost dawn No, he was busy all day and night.

Yuan Yuan opened the window, and the tall buildings in the jungle loomed in the dewy morning light. This noisy city was still dreaming, unusually quiet and dignified, the breeze swarmed in from the window, with a sweet and fragrant breath, Vigorous vitality is sprouting, and May in Beijing is an intoxicating season.

Yuan Yuan really wanted to share his feelings at this moment with others, but there was no one else in the empty room except himself, and Gu Yuren had already set off for Anhui yesterday.The wind blew the paper on the table and made a "squeaky" sound. Yuan Yuan turned around, took the paper in his hand, and was about to press it under the computer. Looking at the name of the protagonist Lin Changsheng on the manuscript paper, he thought, Can Gu Yuren play this role?

Yuan Yuan sent the outline of the story to director Jiang Szeng.Lying on the bed, he thought, Gu Yuren has not accepted a play this year, if he can adapt this story, if he can act in it, it can be regarded as barely fulfilling his promise to write a script for him.Most importantly, he wants to work with him again.

Yuan Yuan fell into a drowsy sleep, until he was woken up by the phone, and it was Jiang Shizeng who called: "Xiao Yuan, I've read the outline, come over and talk about it in detail."

"Okay." Yuan Yuan hurriedly got up to clean up, and went to the place he designated according to Jiang Sizeng's request.

In order to avoid interference, the production team arranged a very quiet environment for Yuan Yuan to create. In a villa on the outskirts of the city, he lived and ate here. There were people to take care of the three meals. He only needed to write the script every day.In addition to him, Mo Liu, the original author of the novel, and Zhou Xiao, the former screenwriter, brainstormed together to create a movie script.

This method is also common in the screenwriting world. The crew invites people to come and treat them with delicious food. The screenwriter does nothing but write, but completes the tasks assigned by the crew regularly and quantitatively, which is called retreat creation.Yuan Yuan doesn't like this way of creation very much, because there is no freedom, and it feels like working behind closed doors.Fortunately, there are still people to communicate with this time, especially the original author. Mo Liu is a very funny and humorous person, and he is very good at writing novels. After all, the screenwriter is a layman with many ideas. Ideas are like scattered beads, which cannot be connected together. , Yuan Yuan stringed all these things together into a story.

Lin Changsheng, the protagonist of "Strange Journey" is an experienced traveling friend. His favorite thing is to explore, and he often goes to the corners, so he often encounters some strange things. The whole book is his record of what he has seen and heard. "The Gate of Hell" tells the story of Lin Changsheng visiting the Death Valley of Kunlun Mountain, known as the Gate of Hell, and met a group of mysterious people who claimed to be scientific expedition members, but in fact they were a group of tomb robbers. They encountered some unbelievable things in the Death Valley thing.Lin Changsheng followed them into the dark river in Death Valley, and found a huge and mysterious underground palace, and an unusually mysterious power, which is the origin of the phenomenon of the gate of hell.

The story doesn't have much depth, the most important thing is the strangeness, the imagination is fantastic, the scenes are thrilling, the experience is exciting, and it explains the origin of the gate of hell from a supernatural perspective.Jiang Shizeng has always made commercial films, so this film fits his style very well.

It took Yuan Yuan and Mo Liuzhou Xiao three weeks to finalize the script.Because Yuan Yuan's outline was adopted in the end, and he was also the chief writer, so Yuan Yuan won the first authorship right, Zhou Xiao was second, and the author Mo Liu ranked third. For Mo Liu, writing novels is the most important thing. It's his main job, screenwriting is just a side job, and he doesn't care much about this ranking.

The remuneration for this script was 100 million, Yuan Yuan took 50, and the other two shared it.50 a month is quite profitable for Yuan Yuan.

When Yuan Yuan chatted with Jiang Shizeng, he found that the script and investment of "The Gates of Hell" were in place, but the protagonist had not yet been decided, Yuan Yuan said: "Has Director Jiang ever thought about finding Gu Yuren to act? "

Jiang Shi once said: "Thought about it, I talked to Gu Yuren's agent, the salary he asked for is too high, I can't afford it."

Yuan Yuan was a little curious: "How much does he want?"

"200 million. Ning Xiuwu is also a little messy, and he started to ask for a lot of money, and now even some famous actors can't afford it." Jiang Shizeng sighed, "The highlight of my play is special effects, so I invited him The special effects team in the United States did it, and the cost of special effects is more expensive than the shooting part. The budget of this film is 1.5 million, and I guess it is not enough.”

Yuan Yuan said: "Director Jiang, with such a large investment, you must hire two actors who can top the box office."

"So I'm still looking for it, isn't it? It's hard to find cost-effective actors. Gu Yuren is actually quite suitable for this film, with good age, experience, and acting skills. It would be great if the price can be half cheaper." Jiang Szeng told Yuan Yuan said this because he knew that Yuan Yuan and Gu Yuren had a good relationship, and hoped that he could help persuade Gu Yuren.

Yuan Yuan said, "I'll ask him about this for you later." The salary of 600 million yuan is a bit small for Gu Yuren, but he also knows that actors are not acting purely for money. All of them are willing to lower their salary to take on the show.And the price is not without room for negotiation, just leave it to Ning Xiuwu.

Yuan Yuan brought the script he had created to the crew of "Inheritance". He didn't tell Gu Yuren in advance, and went directly by himself.It's almost June, and there is a lot of rain in spring and summer in the south. It was also raining on the day he arrived. The rain was not heavy, and it was dense and slanting in the breeze, falling on the black tile roof, like a white layer The light smoke, the water dripping from the eaves, splashing in the bluestone alleys, there is a neat row of round water nests on the bluestone slabs, the wet early summer in the south of the Yangtze River is full of poetic and picturesque, which makes people feel My heart is also moist.

Gu Yuren stood in the rain with his trouser legs rolled up, holding an umbrella in one hand, and was instructing the workers to set up the set.Yuan Yuan didn't see his appearance, only heard his voice and recognized him, he opened his mouth and called out: "Junior Brother!"

The sound passed through the rain and fog, mixed with water vapor, and became extremely pleasant to hear. It entered Gu Yuren's ears. He thought he was hallucinating, but he turned his head full of hope, and saw an umbrella in one hand and a drag in the other. Yuan Yuan, who was holding the suitcase, suddenly smiled into his eyes: "You've figured it out!" After speaking, he strode towards him, stretched out his big hand, patted his shoulder, and took his suitcase , "Go, hurry into the house."