The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 309 "Travel to Bangkok" and "Breaking Bad"

Spring returns to the earth in March, but it is a pity that Yanjing is still very cold, and there are very few pedestrians on the streets.

The Fenghua Film and Television Company of Liangmahe Building is a little different today.

In the office of the company's boss, Li Shengyao was sitting with Hong Jinbao and Wang Jingwei.

During this period of time, with the huge sales of "Prison Break", it was sold to Fox for 800 million US dollars, making Li Shengyao the hottest figure in China Entertainment in one fell swoop.

Not only Chai Zhiping is looking for him, but many Hong Kong directors also want to cooperate with Lee Sing Yew.

Among them is Wu Baige, who was defeated from Hollywood and returned to Hong Kong Island.

This is a great director who once directed Nicolas Cage in Hollywood, but Li Shengyao didn't like it very much.

This guy is obviously belittling mainland actors with Hong Kong island crooked actors.

Even if he is capable, Li Shengyao is not willing to talk to him.

Not to mention that Wu Baige is old now, and his ideas can no longer keep up with the times.

Still using the method of shooting pigeons, the audience has long been tired of crooked.

As for Wu Baige's blockbuster film, it's even more ridiculous. The war scene is shot like a street gangster fighting.

Wu Baige's people contacted Fenghua, and Li Shengyao refused after knowing it.

However, Lee Sing Yew rejected Wu Baige, and there are still many Hong Kong directors who hope to cooperate with Fenghua.

Many people found his phone number, and some people came to visit him in person.

Li Shengyao refused all of them. He already had two people, Fatty Wang and Hong Jinbao, and he thought it was enough.

Needless to say, Fatty Wang's strength is serious, and he is definitely a very good director of commercial films.

Hong Jinbao is also a good director. He directed and acted in many plays in his early years.

As for directors who are actors, Hong Jinbao's directing ability should be better than Zhou Xingxing.

This time he made an appointment with Hong Jinbao and Fatty Wang just to discuss the next cooperation project.

The assistant poured tea for the three of Li Shengyao, and Wang Jing couldn't help but said, "Director Li, why is he a male assistant, change to a female, and work harder."

Li Shengyao chuckled, "In the future, I seldom work in the company now. I have a female assistant, and my salary will be gray for several months."

"Director Li, if you make money, of course you should enjoy it."

Hong Jinbao nodded, "Yes, when I was young, it was a dragon on Portland Street."

Men are like this. When it comes to this topic, they can talk for a long time.

About 10 minutes later, Wang Jing was the first to say: "Director Li, the filming of "Prison Break" has been finished, what shall we film for the next film?"

If there is no accident, "Prison Break" will eventually sell for 4000 million yuan, and the two families will divide it into [-]/[-]. Fatty Wang can still earn more than [-] million yuan.

Wang Jing has never experienced such a profitable TV series.

However, out of the 500 million on his side, only 500 million was paid by himself, and the other 1000 million was invested by him. After all, Fatty Wang will earn more than [-].

This profit is much higher than that of all Wang Jing's past films.

Now he can't wait to shoot "Prison Break 2" and "Prison Break 3" immediately.

But on New Year's Eve, Li Shengyao refused.

The same routine is filmed continuously, and the audience will naturally hate it. Eighty episodes of "Prison Break" were filmed, which is enough.

In fact, the last time Fatty Wang talked with Li Shengyao on the phone, he had carefully considered this issue.

Then he thought of the high-scoring American drama, which was called the most exciting American drama by many fans.

Then I wrote the outline of the story, and asked the screenwriter to expand it. It has not been fully written yet, but most of the plot has been written.

Li Shengyao heard Wang Jing's words at this time, stood up with a smile, took the script from the desk, and handed it to Wang Jing, "Our next drama is called "Breaking Bad", which tells the story of an ordinary person becoming a drug lord. , take a look."

The male protagonist of "Breaking Bad" is a drug maker who eventually became a drug lord, so it is naturally impossible to film in the mainland.

But the script of this drama is definitely strong enough.

It's more than enough for Fatty Wang.

Compared with "Prison Break", the plot of "Breaking Bad" is not so novel, and the ups and downs are not so great.

The beautiful country may not necessarily buy it, even in the Southeast Asian market, it may not necessarily buy it.

After all, Southeast Asia likes idol dramas, and "Breaking Bad" is a thicker drama.

But if you can see it, it will be very exciting.

In Li Shengyao's previous life, "Breaking Bad" was higher than "Prison Break" in the beautiful country, whether it was awards or ratings.

Li Shengyao intends to take it out for filming, he thinks someone will be able to see it.

In addition, TV series like "Breaking Bad" are very suitable for European tastes, and islanders may also like it.

Even if there is no such achievement as "Prison Break", this drama has no big scenes, and the cost of 2000 million should be enough, and paying back the cost is not a problem.

Wang Jing took the script, then got up, came to the glass window, pulled a chair and sat down.

Li Shengyao nodded to Hong Jinbao, then fetched the script of "Travel to Bangkok" and handed it to Hong Jinbao to watch.

The zombies in "Train to Busan" or the scenes are actually not very big, and it is not comparable to "Resident Evil" or "World War Zombies".

This movie focuses on humanistic care and is well written.

College couples, muscular men and pregnant couples, and male protagonists and daughters.

Among them, the male lead and the muscular man are two particularly important roles. When making a movie, the actors for these two roles must be carefully considered.

The male lead is looking for a tall actor with good acting skills, and the muscular guy is looking for an extremely attractive and explosive actor.

To be honest, Li Shengyao didn't pay much attention to the actors in Hong Kong Island, and he needed to have a good chat with Hong Jinbao later.

After he handed out the script, he sat quietly on one side, allowing Wang Jing and Hong Jinbao to concentrate on reading the script.

About two hours later, Wang Jing returned to his original seat.

"Director Li, this script is very well written and the story is very interesting, but overall it is not as powerful as "Prison Break", and it is not commercial enough. It may not be as successful as "Prison Break"."

Fatty Wang had tasted the benefits, so he naturally wanted to go further.

"Prison Break" is a TV series that can catch your eye at first glance.

And "Deadly Poisoner" is a drama that can be savored carefully and watched repeatedly.

In the beautiful country, the "Deadly Poison" series has a better reputation than the "Prison Break" series.

The main reason is that the five seasons of "Deadly Poison" are all very high-level, while "Prison Break" is getting more and more exaggerated.

However, from a commercial point of view, dramas like "Prison Break" do seem to be more likely to explode.

Li Shengyao nodded, "What you said is correct, but this script is more solid, and the growth of the characters is better written. If we finish the filming, the word of mouth should be better than Prison Break, and maybe it can drive sales."

Hearing this, Wang Jing frowned slightly.

Fatty Wang's first choice is whether he can make money. As for word of mouth or awards, he never cares.

"Director Li, is there only this script?"

"Currently there is only this script. If you are not satisfied, come back in half a year. Fenghua should have a new script by then."

Hearing this, Wang Jing glanced at Li Shengyao, saw that his expression did not change, and was a little moved.

He didn't really want to shoot "Deadly Poison Master", at this moment Hong Jinbao coughed.

Wang Jing was shocked and came back to his senses.

If he didn't give Li Dao face this time, then Li Dao might not give him face next time.

At that time, there will be no more cooperation.

Smart people don't do such things.

Anyway, after "Deadly Poison" was apportioned, the investment was only 1000 million. When he returned to Hong Kong Island, with the reputation of "Prison Break", he could easily fool people into investing, so there was no need to offend Li Shengyao.

Thinking of this, Wang Jing immediately said: "Director Li, since this is the case, then I will make "Deadly Poison Master". The plot of this drama is really good, and I like it very much."

Li Shengyao couldn't see what Hong Jinbao did just now, but he didn't bother to pursue it.

Fatty Wang shoots well, even if the final result is not good, he can still cooperate.

If it doesn’t work well, then change someone.

This is quite normal.

At this time, Hong Jinbao had finished reading the script of "Travel to Bangkok". Compared with Fatty Wang, Hong Jinbao was much more excited.

"Director Li, the script of this drama is not well written yet, we can shoot it."

Li Shengyao nodded, and then Yuhong Jinbao discussed the specific investment share.

Considering the large amount of money distributed in various aspects of the film, it is difficult to recover the cost. In the end, the two agreed that Fenghua would produce the script, and the investment would be half of the investment. The film copyright belongs to Fenghua.

Then the two discussed the shooting location and the matching of actors.

Hong Jinbao took the lead in saying: "How about letting Gu Tianle play the male lead and An Zhijie as the muscular man?"

Such a match is not impossible.

But far less attractive than the Korean version.

Probably because he watched too many bad movies of Gu Tianle in his previous life, Li Shengyao didn't really approve of Gu Tianle's acting skills.

As for An Zhijie, he is handsome and capable of fighting, but he lacks charisma.

The male lead in the Korean version is Gong Yoo. Although he has acted in many idol dramas, his acting skills are absolutely excellent.

The muscular man is played by Ma Dongxi, this guy is really powerful, punching zombies, one punch at a time, it's very cool to watch.

Let An Zhijie act, it is better to let Hong Jinbao act refreshingly.

"Brother Sanmao, I don't think these two people have enough charm in movies, especially An Zhijie. We are looking for someone who can fight very well. He doesn't feel like that."

"Then what do you think?"

"Let's prepare first. The actors are actually not in a hurry. The male lead should be an actor from Hong Kong Island, and the female lead should be from the mainland. If there is really no one else for that muscular guy, I think you can do it."

When Hong Jinbao heard the words, he also felt that it made sense, there is no need to confirm the actor today, just prepare first.

Wang Jing said at this time: "Director Li, Chen Kexin asked me to ask you if you would like to cooperate with him?"

Chen Kexin can be regarded as a person who is more knowledgeable about current affairs among the directors going north on Hong Kong Island.

"Huaxia Partner" was filmed by him, and the leading actors are all from the mainland.

But for this person, the commercial attribute is really important.

It's not about his filming of "October Besieged City", but that this person is a pure grassland businessman.

He has a good reputation in the mainland, so he developed in the mainland. Later, "Winning the Championship" was a little unsatisfactory, and this guy ran away, saying that he wanted to form a team and cooperate with Netflix to shoot film and television dramas that would not be affected by the mainland's censorship.

From what I said, it seems that his poor development is the reason for the review.

He saw the times when he was unhappy, but he didn't see the times when he made a lot of money.

Li Shengyao didn't like Chen Kexin very much. He felt that this person had no position and would go where there was interest.

"Forget it, Director Chen is very good himself, why do you need me."

Wang Jing nodded and didn't say much.

Hong Jinbao hesitated to speak.

"Brother Sanmao, what's the matter?"

"Director Li, you may not know Chen Kexin well. He is very good at making feature films. He is a capable director."

There is nothing to say about Chen Kexin's strength. Li Shengyao rejected him not because of his strength.

Simply don't like this guy.

"I know, but I've been busy recently, and there are no suitable projects."

Seeing this, Hong Jinbao didn't say much.

Wang Jing and Hong Jinbao then left Fenghua, and the two planned to return to Hong Kong Island together.

After Hong Jinbao got into the car, he whispered, "Is your script not good enough?"

He read several scripts written by Li Shengyao and thought they were very good. He didn't quite believe that Wang Jing's script was not good this time.

Wang Jing thought for a while, "It's not that it can't be done, but I don't think it's as exciting as "Prison Break", so it shouldn't sell as well."

Hong Jinbao curled his lips when he heard the words, "What are you dreaming about? Prison Break can be sold for such a high price, it's already a big deal. Do you think that future dramas will be like "Prison Break"?"

"Cheng Long is so powerful, people in the beautiful country are tired of seeing it."

When Wang Jing heard this, he felt a sense of enlightenment and sudden enlightenment.

"You're right, I was delusional."

After thinking about it, he decided to increase the stake a bit. Breaking Bad invested 200 million, and the other 800 million was fooled into investing.

This way, if he loses, he won't lose too much. If he can make a profit, he can make a little bit of it.

……

On the second day after Wang Jing and Hong Jinbao left, Fenghua announced a big event. They will set up a video website, which has passed the relevant review and will be officially launched in a week.

At that time, this video website will not only be able to watch TV dramas and movies, but also watch variety shows and MVs.

The video has the function of looping, and you can even use it as a music listening software.

In addition, everyone can register and post their own videos.

Videos are advertised, and publishers can earn money by watching the ads.

Once the news was released, it immediately attracted many people's discussions.

Although the big guys could watch TV series and movies online before, it was not that convenient. Now that Fenghua Video is established, will it divert the TV ratings?
Does the TV drama producer have one more sales channel?Can you make more money?
In addition, if Fenghua does this, can he do it himself?
Some smart people immediately thought of following the trend, and they soon got the news that Fenghua had bought the exclusive network broadcast rights of most popular dramas.

Shit, if there is no good TV series, then watch it with a hammer.

Many people heard the words and retreated in succession.

However, there are also many people who think that building a video website and having an additional media that directly faces the audience is a great help.

They decided to observe Fenghua's business situation, and finally decided whether to set up a video website.

Li Shengyao didn't care about the unexpected comments. The first thing he did was to re-edit a few trailers and clips of "Let's Punch, Dad", and put them on the front page of Fenghua Video for promotion.

(End of this chapter)