literary world

Chapter 228
Follow Hu Xiaofeng into the Yishuihe studio of "Red Cliff".

"Red Cliff" producer Mr. Han, director Wu Baige, and Wu Baige's close partner Zhang Jiazhen for many years, and domestic famous screenwriter Zou Jingzhi.

And Zhang Fengyi, several actors who were given priority in the group, appeared one by one.

"What, taking a break from your busy schedule? Did you learn from a big Hollywood director?"

After shaking hands, Mr. Han looked at Fang Nan with a smile.

He still has a good impression of Fang Nan. The new generation of domestic comedy directors and "Lost in Thailand" with a box office of [-] million have added a lot of color to his resume.

The only thing that made him dissatisfied was that this kid Fang Nan also started to make a fool of himself to make dramas.

Fang Nan suppressed his doubts just now, and said with a smile: "It is said that Zhang Zhen is here, and I came here specially to find him."

Mr. Han was puzzled: "Zhang Zhen? Why are you looking for him?"

According to his thinking, Fang Nan should be in a hurry to find someone to solve the problem of "Youth in Youth" screening recently, and it seems a bit inexplicable to find Zhang Zhen.

"Find him as the leading role."

Fang Nan's expression was relaxed, and he didn't hide anything, but the people behind Mr. Han were dumbfounded.

They were still sighing and worrying about who would play Zhou Yu, but Fang Nan didn't care who played the leading role.

Mr. Han is not surprised.

According to what he knew, the starring roles in several of Fang Nan's films were decided by him alone, whoever he said would be whoever he chose.

Even if the leading actors are young actors like Huang Bo and Wang Bao who are ugly, they can still make money when the movie comes out. This is the ability.

It's not like "Red Cliff", where this actor has to sign a Hollywood model contract, and that one is dissatisfied with the script, and there are too many things to do all day long.

Thinking of this, Boss Han took the initiative to put Fang Nan on his shoulders, and led him a few steps forward: "The cut of "Youth in Youth" has been cut? The problem has been solved? What kind of film is the new project? Are you going to direct it yourself?"

"The cut of "Youth in Youth" has not been finished yet, and the new project will cooperate with Mr. Xu to play a costume film."

Mr. Han lived in Bengbu: "Old Freak Xu? Is it a big movie again?"

He has seen too many blockbuster movies in the past few years, and he is a little annoying and even a little scared.

As soon as Fang Nan asked Mr. Xu to shoot ancient costumes, he thought of Mr. Xu's ancient costume martial arts blockbuster "Seven Swords Under Tianshan" last year.

Sighing tiredly, he still took the initiative and said, "When the script comes out, send a copy to China Film Group. I'll let someone read it first."

Old Freak Xu was a little unreliable in his heart, Fang Nan still deserves to be trusted for a time or two, even though his "Youth in Youth" has already shown a fluttering appearance.

"After the script is finalized, send it to China Film." After Fang Nan finished speaking, he asked about the business: "Is Zhang Zhen here?"

"I was there just now. I guess I went to the boat. I asked someone to call me over."

After nodding his head, Fang Nan turned around and smiled at Wu Baige, Zhang Jiazhen and the others.

Then he looked at the densely packed model ships on the Yishui River surrounded by mountains.

"It's not easy to burn Chibi. Director Wu must pay attention to the safety of the crew!"

"I don't like you very much!"

The next moment, Fang Nan and Wu Baige said in unison.

Fang Nan was stunned, what did Wu Baige mean when he suddenly said this dryly?
The moment before Wu Baige opened his mouth, he kindly reminded this international director to pay attention to the safety of ginseng.

Could it be to embarrass him on purpose, and the man behind the scenes who made him stand outside for two hours was Wu Baige himself, not the young man who falsely preached the imperial decree?
Fang Nan was very surprised, he and this person really had no grudges in the past and no grudges in the present.

Even if you feel disgusted, you shouldn't do such a shameless thing.

They are all decent people.

Not to mention Fang Nan himself, Boss Han and his group also felt it was amazing, how did the two people who couldn't fight each other come to this drama?

Boss Han asked curiously, "Is there some misunderstanding here?"

"Director Wu, did you leave me outside on purpose?"

"You reported the Yangtze River incident?"

Tit for tat with one voice?
Minds think alike?
Fang Nan almost spat out his lunch.

But the next moment, he suppressed his nausea and looked at Wu Baige with dissatisfaction: "What's the matter with the Yangtze River? What does it have to do with me?"

Wu Baige's identity as an international director.

The first Chinese director who left his handprints at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

"Mission: Impossible" directed by him won the box office champion in North America for several weeks in a row.

The title of the first director to win the Lifetime Achievement Award at the European Film Festival is not good for him.

He knows a truth, you target me for no reason, even if I can't beat you, I will bite off your flesh and not be wronged.

Thinking that he hadn't made his fortune a few years ago, he was just an assistant director with no real power, so he dared to confront Feng Dapao, Huayi, Zhang Dabeard and the Beijing circle, as well as Chen Kaige.

Now that you have made a fortune, and you have a certain foundation in your career and interpersonal relationships, how can you still be afraid of you, Wu Baige, who is at the end of his battle?
Thinking of this, Fang Nan, who was blushing with anger, rolled up his shirt sleeves, as if Wu Baige was going to fuck him today if he didn't speak clearly.

There was nothing wrong with his actions.

On the contrary, Mr. Han, Hu Xiaofeng and his gang were taken aback.

Concealing Fang Nan's billion-dollar box-office director status, he is a young man in his 20s who is easy to get angry and commits bloody incidents.

Hu Xiaofeng grabbed Fang Nan's arm calmly.

Zhang Fengyi, who thought he was strong, also stood beside Fang Nan in an instant.

Even if there is no media at the scene, you can't let the fight happen on the set. It's still two big directors, so shameless!
And Zhang Jiazhen also started to pull Wu Baige, wanting to take him away first.

Unexpectedly, Wu Baige pointed at Fang Nan and gave a strange smile, and then said in a strange way: "You reported the setting of "Red Cliff" in the Yangtze River Basin, right? You can say that the crew of "Red Cliff" is not environmentally friendly with just one mouth? You are the world's policeman what!"

As soon as Wu Baige said this, the senior management of the crew finally understood what was wrong.

"Red Cliff" was originally set for the Battle of Red Cliff as the set at the mouth of the Yangtze River Basin in Hebei Province.

I didn't want to set up the scene, and when the construction of the ship was halfway through, someone reported that the crew had environmental problems.

The crew negotiated with many parties to no avail, and the director Wu Baige was forced to change the filming location to Yishui River, which is now surrounded by mountains.

It took a lot of manpower and material resources to relocate such a large studio.

Moreover, the production team did not have much funds at that time, so the entire senior management of the production team was overwhelmed by this matter.

Everyone guessed that the reason why Wu Baige let Fang Nan down today was probably because he had received some gossip that the whistleblower was Fang Nan.

Indeed, Fang Nan has a criminal record.

After thinking about it like this, everyone was full of doubts.

Only Fang Nan was still confused.

But through Wu Baige's words, he can also guess that the crew of "Red Cliff" was reported because of environmental protection issues, and Wu Baige seems to have identified him as the whistleblower.

Covering his conscience, Fang Nan really didn't know about it.

Recently, he has been busy with the release and road show of "囧囧" first.

Later, he stayed on the crew to shoot "Youth in Youth", and there was no channel for him to understand that the crew of "Red Cliff" destroyed the ecological balance.

Cai Yinong was also unwilling to tell him these things.

Moreover, since the comments section of his blog has become a mess.

Now he doesn't want to blog and joke with netizens like before, so he didn't see these things.

Of course.

Part of the reason why he no longer makes gags like before is because he is no longer an unknown director.

No more blogging to promote a personal movie.

In the future, if there are movies that need to be promoted, he will definitely learn from "Lost in Thailand" and do it through large-scale formal promotion.

He personally also wants to gradually sink to the bottom of the water as planned earlier, so that only the audience can pay attention to his works.

Therefore, his report on "Red Cliff" is nonsense.

Since it was nonsense, he couldn't bear Wu Baige's reckless approach to target him.

It's not his style not to fight back after being beaten, so the next moment, Fang Nan lifted his lips and said sarcastically:

"Director Wu, it's no wonder that you've been in Hollywood, and your brains have broken through the sky. You said that you have this brains to go back to China to make "Red Cliff", and it would be great to stay in Hollywood to make a sci-fi blockbuster. It won't break the box office of film history again. The miracle movie "Windtalker"!"

As soon as Fang Nan's words came out, everyone at the scene couldn't help but gasped.

All of you here are senior people who have been in the film and television industry for many years. No one knows how bad Wu Baige's "Wind Talker" is.

The investor MGM invested US$1.15 million in "Windtalker", and finally got back less than US$3000 million, a loss of nearly US$9000 million. The loss caused MGM's stock market to plummet and almost went bankrupt.

Many senior executives resigned.

Hu Xiaofeng and others were dumbfounded, but Wu Baige was even more embarrassed, panting heavily, and his face was flushed, "Windtalker" was the shame of his life.

But Fang Nan knew that Wu Baige lost money and there was a follow-up "Tai Ping Wheel", so that's where it went.

And even "Red Cliff" is a money-losing product.

Regardless of the popularity of "Red Cliff" abroad, it sold for 2 million U.S. dollars worldwide.

However, the exchange rate at that time was more than 1 to 6 points, and behind the 6 million production fee, the domestic capital did not get the foreign copyright of the film, and ended up with a big loss of [-] million yuan.

Wu Baige didn't even get his director's salary.

The two directors with such status started a war of words under the watchful eyes of the public.

Fang Nan also made Wu Baige's angry face turn red and white.

Mr. Han couldn't stand it anymore: "Xiao Fang, it's almost enough, it should be a misunderstanding."

"The point is that some people don't think so." Fang Nan replied.

Seeing that Fang Nan was unreasonable, Boss Han turned him around abruptly: "Okay, okay, Zhang Zhen is here, you hurry up and talk about your own affairs."

"Then don't you want me to explain?"

"No, no, you can go now and go about your own business."

Boss Han was speechless, even if Liang Zi was tied up, he still explained what a fart, Fang Nan was a typical good guy who got cheap.

Fang Nan nodded happily: "Sure, then I'll go talk to Zhang Zhen."

Wu Baige and Fang Nan faced each other at the door, Zhang Zhen didn't know how late he came, but it didn't affect the communication between the two.

"Although the script has not been finalized yet, the story is roughly like this. You can see if you are interested. If so, let's talk about the salary."

Zhang Zhen is from Taipei, so he may pay more attention to the regulations of the agency, the instructions of the agent, and the filming schedule of the crew.

But Fang Nan only talked about the salary with him so nakedly, he now has the capital.

Zhang Zhen is not that big now.

"Two movies together?"

Fang Nan handed him a cigarette: "That's natural, you don't have to worry, just tell me the number, the business can't be done with righteousness, this time it won't work, it will be the same when we cooperate in the future, I won't be emotionally dissatisfied or anything."

"Director Fang himself?"

Fang Nan slapped his forehead: "Oh, yes, I forgot to mention, the director invited Old Monster Xu."

Zhang Zhen thought for a while, and said, "Then 500 million."

Fang Nanchong stretched out his hand to Zhang Zhen: "Success, I will have someone contact your agency when I return to Pujiang, and then someone will send you the script."

Watching Zhang Zhenyuan go, Fang Nan spat on the set of "Red Cliff" with a "Pooh", and was wronged for no reason. He took advantage of his mouth, but he was obviously not happy in his heart.

Fortunately, Zhang Zhen saved face, and this trip was not in vain.

500 million to shoot two "Xiu Chun Knife", blood earning ah.

He thought the budget for the two "Embroidered Spring Knives" was at most 5000 million.

And the box office of the two movies can reach [-] to [-] million.

With a box office of [-] to [-] million, "Xiu Chun Dao" will not lose money, and the rest will be pure profit.

After leaving Yishui River, Fang Nan drove back to the capital.

Liu Qianqian lived in Yonghe Villa for a few days, and had already left because of something. When she left, she said that she was going to meet people and the great director with Chen Jingfei.

"It seems to be a big drama. Her godfather entrusted a lot of connections to arrange her in." Zeng Li said to Fang Nan expectantly.

"Big drama, how big can it be?"

Fang Nan was taken aback for a moment, then came to his senses, guessing it should be "The King of Kung Fu".

"The King of Kung Fu" starring Cheng Long and Li Lianlian is indeed a big drama.

It is said that the king does not see the king. Two of the best kung fu stars in China appear in a play. Just this gimmick can make "The King of Kung Fu" a big play.

In 2008, when "The King of Kung Fu" was released, there was another movie that impressed him-"Painted Skin".

After "The King of Kung Fu", Cheng Long and Li Lianlian did not cooperate again.

After "Painted Skin", no two of the four major Huadans appeared in the same movie as the heroine.

This movie has also successfully opened the domestic film and television drama competition for titles and the four-wall model.

"In 2008, this year, there were too many impressive moments."

Fang Nan shook his head and muttered, went upstairs to pack his bags.

"Here, take it."

When Fang Nan was stuffing clothes into his bag, Zeng Li handed over a red notebook.

"What the hell?" Fang Nan didn't understand, took a look at it, his scalp tingled, and was delighted to get a marriage certificate.

"I have another one that is different, and I will give it to you if you want it."

Fang Nan felt a little lonely, feeling his body was being hollowed out, "You should put this book away too." He said listlessly.

"Aren't you going to read the other book?" Zeng Li pointed.

Fang Nan was depressed: "What do you mean? Does your photo look good or something?"

Zeng Li shook her head lightly, her expression a little sad: "The bottom shelf of the bedside cabinet, you can read it yourself, I won't accompany you to read it."

"I don't know why. As soon as I saw that certificate, I regretted the decision I made. Now I hope that no matter what happens in the future, you will not let our daughter down."

Fang Nan frowned dissatisfied and said, "You know what you're talking about? My daughter and you are the closest relatives in my life. When the sky falls, I can lift the sky up for you. How can I let you down?"

"I hope you will do what you say. You can see for yourself. I'll take my daughter for a walk in the yard." Zeng Li put the red book in her hand on the bed.

After Zeng Li left, Fang Nan opened the small grid she mentioned in a daze, and then saw three other red books neatly stacked together.

Seeing this scene, Fang Nan was silent.

He didn't need to look to understand the meaning of what Zeng Li said just now.

"Don't worry, I will never let you down!"

Fang Nan muttered in his heart, and packed his luggage again.

(End of this chapter)