Super Zoo

Su Ming will be very busy these two days.

That night, Tony drove a helicopter and took him and Guo Zijian around the zoo. Su Ming thought Guo Zijian was just looking at the topography. It would only take an hour at most to take a plane.

Guo Zijian had planned to do so. What could he see in such a dark day? He could just get familiar with the environment.

The bad things happened on the helicopter.

Helicopters are like cars. They are both means of transportation, but one flies in the sky and the other runs on the ground. Cars have high beams, low beams, fog lights and a lot of other lighting equipment. Of course, helicopters have more. Not only that, but the brightness is far greater than that of car headlights. When turned on at night, it can illuminate a large area in front as bright as day.

On the plane, Guo Zijian habitually asked Tony something in English.

In the past, Tony would definitely ask Su Ming what he meant first, but he drank a little too much that day and responded in English without asking Su Ming.

Later, Su Ming found out that Guo Zijian was asking Tony if he could control the helicopter to stop in mid-air and use the searchlight on the plane to illuminate him. He wanted to conduct a field investigation. Tony said that as long as it was not at a 90-degree angle, he could do it.

All night long, Guo Zijian was on the plane. Whenever he saw a scene or location that he thought might be suitable for a movie, he would get off the plane and observe it in person, letting Tony use the helicopter as a flashlight. It was better on flat ground, as the helicopter could land. If there was no landing space around, Su Ming's nightmare would come. The helicopter was tilted and almost made him vomit.

Overnight, Guo Zijian carefully searched the back mountain, the zoo, and the reservoir area, and did not return home until dawn.

The next morning, before Su Ming had slept for three hours, Guo Zijian called and said that he had selected 23 scenes last night, some of which were suitable for night scenes. He wanted to go around again during the day to find scenes suitable for daytime shooting, and asked Su Ming to join him.

Su Ming refused without hesitation, and found an excuse that he was busy with official business, so that Tony could go with him, and he hid in the waterside pavilion to sleep.

He slept until three o'clock in the afternoon. Just as he opened his eyes and got out of bed to find something to eat, the phone rang again.

It was Guo Zijian again. I don't understand why this guy has such strong energy.

He couldn't not go this time, because he had to determine the range of actors.

Su Ming was the producer of the investment party. The matter of actors was decided by the director, but it would definitely not work without the nod of the investors. Maybe the investors would take the opportunity to insert a few actors.

In fact, many of the crudely made micro-films in China now, and even a few blockbusters with huge investments, to put it bluntly, are just rich people who spend money to support the role and make beautiful women laugh. The investment of millions or tens of millions in the eyes of ordinary people is just a play for the real rich.

It seems that Guo Zijian knows everything about the mainland circle, perhaps because the Hong Kong film circle is also like this. In short, if Su Ming is not there, he will never take the initiative in actors.

Fortunately, Su Ming finally had a good sleep and recovered his spirit.

These two days, he was almost in the process of revising the script and selecting actors.

He was not tired physically, but his heart was too tired. Selecting actors and revising scripts are both brainwork, which requires very precise judgment and some inexplicable intuition.

It just so happens that selecting actors is very important. It is not like an exam. After the exam, there is a correct answer, and you can know whether your original choice is right or wrong. There is only one chance to select actors, and no one will ever tell you whether this choice is correct or whether there will be better choices, so you must be cautious before making a decision.

There is another important reason, money. Guo Zijian knows that Su Ming has such a small investment, and every penny must be spent worthwhile, at least Su Ming, the boss, thinks it is worthwhile.

Sometimes when you work for someone, you not only have to do the things the boss tells you to do, but more importantly, you must make the boss feel that you are doing it according to his intentions, otherwise it will be thankless.

Guo Zijian is quiet and doesn't talk much, but he is almost forty years old. He has been in the circle for many years and knows it in his heart.

Guo Zijian proposed several candidates for the male lead.

One is a popular young actor in Hong Kong in the past two years. He has starred in "The Gigolo 1" and "The Gigolo 2" and won awards. He is handsome and has a kind of lovable taste. His salary will not exceed two million, and this price can be negotiated;

"Two million..." Su Ming thought about it and rejected the proposal.

This price is not expensive, but it is not worth it compared to the popularity of this young actor in the mainland.

Su Ming has seen the movie "The Gigolo". This young actor did not leave a deep impression on people. He is handsome, but he is not the type that can become popular overnight. It feels that he lacks a bit of soul.

The appeal of a star directly affects the box office. It is not worth spending two million to find a young actor from Hong Kong who has almost no fans in the mainland. It is better to spend more money and directly invite a star who is at the end of the first line or the beginning of the second line.

The second is the TFBOY group that the female employee of the zoo once mentioned. Of course, only one of them can be chosen. Although they are a little young, this movie is not a love movie.

Su Ming thought about it for a long time and rejected it.

From the perspective of personal preference, Su Ming, a man in his twenties, really has no feelings for TFBOY, whose fans are mainly women. Of course, Su Ming wants to make a movie, not watch it at home, so the casting cannot be based on his own preferences, but must fully consider the box office and the public.

If we can invite one of the members of this group, we can bring in good box office revenue just by relying on the fan economy.

But there are two problems.

First, this is a group that has just become popular. At present, it seems that their development trend is that the whole group will advance and retreat together. It may be difficult to invite one of them alone, and this group has become popular now, so the price will not be cheap.

Second, the advantage of fan economy is that no matter whether the movie is good or not, there will be a group of stable box office contributors, but it will also exclude another group of people who don't like them. This group has many fans in China, and there are also many people who hate them. The zoo is divided into two factions. Those who like them love them to death and clamor to give birth to monkeys for them, without considering whether it is illegal to have a relationship with a minor; those who don't like them sneer at them and call them feces boys. They wish that the three children would fall into the feces pit and drown while walking, which is quite vicious.

Third, the age of this group is a little young after all. Su Ming's filming this time is a test. If it works, it can be regarded as a sustainable industry in the future. He doesn't want to limit the way at the beginning.

Dangdang is okay as a guest star, but forget about the leading role.

The third candidate is the popular young actor Wu Yifan in China.

"This actor is the most suitable candidate in my mind." Guo Zijian said.