director of the millennium

Chapter 146 "Destined to Love You" has fixed roles, with an all-mainland cast!
"Fated to Love You", a work that set a record for the ratings of idol dramas in the history of Taiwan TV.

It is also the representative and famous work of Ruan Jingtian, the "last actor" in Taiwan.

To be honest, Wu Yuan really didn't like this actor from Taiwan, not that there was anything wrong with him.

He just can't understand the behavior of those Hong Kong and Taiwan people who use the mainland's funds and market resources, use the mainland's first-line actors to play supporting roles, praise Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, quickly increase their coffee positions and market value, and then harvest the mainland market .

Ruan Jingtian is one of the most important chess pieces.

For example, in the movie "Blood Droplets" produced by Chen Kexin, the coat of arms was assigned to play the male supporting role, and Huang Xiaoming was assigned to play the villainous boss, and the male lead was the newcomer Ruan Jingtian who had just become popular with this TV series.

Why?
With his acting skills at the level of idol dramas and his popularity in Taiwan, can he be supported by a top-line movie actor from the Mainland?

Then simply give Taiwan Island's film and television industry a wave of accelerated decline.

As Taiwan enters the 21st century, its film industry has been declining rapidly. However, their TV drama industry, because of learning from Japanese and Korean idol dramas, once became popular in Asia in the first decade of the 21st century.

Starting from "Meteor Garden", 2-3 popular idol dramas in Asia are produced every year.

Wu Yuan alone really can't interrupt the golden age of so many idol drama production companies in Taiwan.

But he can press the accelerator button for Taiwanese idol dramas!
"This "Fated to Love You" is an idol drama I prepared for the company, and it focuses on the youth market."

"Now the TV drama industry is also undergoing drastic changes. Those historical dramas and anti-war dramas that were popular in the 90s mainly target the male audience."

"But we can see from the popularity of Qiong Yao dramas such as "My Fair Princess" and "Deep Love in the Rain", as well as the popularity of idol dramas such as "Meteor Garden", "It's All Angels' Trouble" and "Pink Girl". come out."

"Now the younger generation of TV drama viewers, especially female audiences, are more willing to watch some TV dramas about handsome men and beautiful women falling in love. It is more relaxed and happy, and it is best to satisfy women's fantasies about love."

Wu Yuan pointed to the script and motioned Li Jichang to take a look at the content.

"This "Destined to Love You" tells a humorous love story between a post-it girl and a domineering president."

"Post-it girl?" Li Jichang was a little puzzled, not understanding what the word meant.

"This is a concept I came up with." Wu Yuan explained patiently: "The word Cinderella is really common in TV dramas."

"So I created another novel heroine in the script."

"The so-called post-it girls, they have small functions, but they are indispensable. They are like a post-it note that can be torn off at any time. They are inconspicuous and not special, but you must have her by your side."

"This kind of girl is simple, simple and law-abiding, and has small wishes. She has never been a big shot, and she doesn't expect to become a big shot, but she is like most ordinary girls in Asia."

"In the company and at school, they are inconspicuous. Maybe they are not as eye-catching as the hot girls, and they are not the school belles who are sought after by thousands of people, but they are just the representatives of ordinary women."

"Such a heroine, who represents most girls, started a predestined love with Prince Charming by accident. I believe that girls all over Asia will be fascinated by it."

In big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, it is now very common among white-collar workers to use post-it notes.

Li Jichang immediately understood what Wu Yuan meant and was very impressed with his idea!
Isn't this another "Meteor Garden"!

It's just that "Meteor Garden" is about the four young masters chasing an "average" ordinary girl, and this "Fated to Love You" is about the domineering president chasing an ordinary employee.

The background has been changed from the campus to the workplace, but the core is still the same as in "Meteor Garden", where Prince Charming falls in love with Cinderella.

Li Jichang, who worked on the project "The Sky", is quite familiar with idol dramas from Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, and knows that this type of idol drama is the most popular at the moment.

Wu Yuan, a film director with an international focus, can actually know so much about idol dramas and come up with such a script, which surprised Li Jichang.

"This script" Li Jichang hesitated. Could it be that Wu Yuan wrote this script himself?

"Ahem." Seeing Li Jichang's doubts, Wu Yuan pretended to be calm and explained: "I came up with the idea of ​​this script, and asked a few graduate students from the Literature Department of Beidian to help write it."

This time Wu Yuan did not lie.

Although he wrote the scripts for the first six episodes by himself, he doesn't plan to write the subsequent scripts himself.

He wrote out the outline and the follow-up storyline, and then found a few graduate students from the literature department of the school to enrich the content.

Not only this TV series, but also the TV series that the company will make in the future, he plans to do this.

Write a story outline and character biography by yourself, and find a few screenwriters to write the specific content of the script.

In fact, most of the scripts of TV dramas in later generations were completed in this way.

Otherwise, why can one TV series have seven or eight screenwriters named on it?

It is nothing more than a chief screenwriter giving an outline, and other small screenwriters are responsible for lines, character interactions, fighting, and subplots, and divide the script into many parts to write in detail.

This is the so-called industrialization of screenwriting.

It is definitely not possible to do a movie script like this, but TV dramas, especially idol dramas, can be produced on an industrial assembly line like this.

This is the same as Mo Yan's book, which cannot be written by ghostwriters, but online novels can get good grades everywhere.
Wu Yuan also plans to set up a screenwriting department in his company's TV drama department, which will recruit people from the literature department of Nortel to write TV drama scripts for himself.

He is responsible for the outline and biographies, and other editors complete the specific details.

The script produced in this way cannot be said to be exactly the same as those popular dramas in Wu Yuan's impression, but there is no problem with a [-]% to [-]% similarity.

To be honest, even if he was asked to write it himself, he could only write about [-]% to [-]% similar scripts.

Wu Yuan is a human being, not a god. There are dozens of episodes in a TV series. How can he remember every line accurately? He only remembers a rough plot.

Not to mention TV series, even movies, he often writes his own lines, except for some classic lines that he remembers, most of the lines are supplemented by himself according to the situation.

"Director Li, the company's TV drama department has been newly established. Now there are only two or three clerks responsible for administrative work."

"As long as you join the company and make this "Fated to Love You", then the company's TV drama department can be handed over to you."

"This "Fated to Love You" is just the beginning. The company will continue to expand the TV series production department at a production rate of 1-2 TV series per year."

Wu Yuan has already figured it out. In the next 3-5 years, the Light and Shadow Era will focus on the idol drama market, and will preemptively produce some Taiwan and Island idol dramas that will be more popular in the future, and eat this cake.

It's not that he doesn't want to do other types of dramas, the main reason is that idol dramas are really easier to do, and they can seize the Taiwanese drama market.

You ask him to do fairy tale dramas and costume dramas. There are Zhouyi and Tang Ren in the mainland, and they all have their own martial arts teams, costume teams, professional action guides, etc., which are all cultivated by them bit by bit.

If you want to make good costume dramas and fairy tale dramas, there is no shortcut. You have to cultivate a group of professionals in this field.

This is why Wu Yuan wants to cooperate with the Tang people, instead of doing ancient costume fairy tales by himself.

But idol dramas are different. This stuff is a modern urban drama. You can buy a batch of clothes on the street and you can get it done. The shooting does not involve any professional martial arts or stunts. You can just find a group of fresh graduates to shoot.

Then he made a lot of money, "Meteor Garden" earned Chai Zhipin several hundred million at least, several hundred million in 2001!
Li Jichang, who was suddenly hit by such a big cake, was overjoyed.

He was about to lose his job, but in the blink of an eye, he actually had the opportunity to take charge of the TV series production department of [Light and Shadow Era]? !

"Thank you, Director Wu, for your trust. I will definitely take this project seriously!" Li Jichang agreed without hesitation and signed an entry agreement with Wu Yuan on the spot.

From today onwards, he is a member of the TV drama department of the Light and Shadow Times Film and Television Production Company. If "Fated to Love You" is successful, he will be directly promoted to the head of the department!

Li Jichang is also a vigorous character, and he is in his 30s when he is determined to forge ahead.

After getting the scripts and story outlines of the first six episodes from Wu Yuan, he went home and read them five or six times, and immediately started calling his old brothers.

The crew of "The Sky of Heaven" was quickly summoned by him again.

Although this TV series did not sell, the staff of the crew did not affect it. Now it is a blue ocean in the TV drama industry, and TV dramas are being filmed everywhere in Hengdian, Beijing, and Shanghai.

But with a phone call from Li Jichang, almost [-]% of the crew members were called back.

Without him, Li Jichang has the title of "The Age of Light and Shadow" on him. Even the staff of the crew want to go further. The crew work of the TV series is obviously not as high as that of the film crew.

They also want to move from TV series to movies.

Li Jichang doesn't want to take it too easy when recruiting TV drama crew members under the name "Era of Light and Shadow".

Not only did he recruit people from the old team of "The Sky", he also poached people from the crews of many mainland urban dramas.

In less than half a month, he formed a TV drama crew of 80 people.

With the past resumes of the crew members, Li Jichang approached Wu Yuan again.

"Director Wu, the crew has already completed preparations."

Looking at the cast list, Wu Yuan was very satisfied.

Li Jichang really put his heart into it.

In addition to the staff of "The Sky", he also recruited a group of elites.

The lighting engineer who turned on the lights for the crew of "Male Talents and Female Appearance", the sound engineer who carried the recording pole for the crew of "Pink Girl", and the costume designer of "It's All Angels' Trouble".

It can be described as an abundance of talents.

And he also listed several director candidates for the crew.

"Why, Director Li doesn't plan to direct this TV series himself?" Wu Yuan asked curiously.

Logically speaking, Li Jichang should be able to see that this TV series will definitely become a hit if it is filmed well, right?
Wu Yuan didn't know that not everyone had as strong an ability to withstand pressure as he did.

It was precisely because Li Jichang could see that this TV series was likely to become a hit that he didn't have the courage to direct it himself. After all, he was just a new director who had filmed one TV series.

He was really afraid that if he made a film and screwed up the TV series, his future and money would be ruined.

"Director Wu, I think the position of producer is more suitable for me." Li Jichang said shyly.

"Okay, then I'll call you Producer Li from now on." Wu Yuan looked at the list of directors he recommended in a good manner.

Meng Ji, the representative work of "It's All Angels' Trouble", "Martial Arts" and "Starry Pig", Li Jichang must have valued him for having filmed "It's All Angels' Trouble".

Jiang Jiajun, the director of "Talent and Beauty", is a TV drama director born in Hong Kong Island, but he moved north to the mainland early to make a living. In the late 20s, he began to move from Hong Kong to the mainland to shoot film and television dramas.

He does not have the bad habits of Hong Kong Island film directors, and he is a fairly competent director.

In addition, Li Jichang also recommended a director named Zhu Yi, he is the director of "Pink Girl", and he can be regarded as a director who has made achievements in idol dramas.

After Wu Yuan looked back and forth on the resumes of the three, he still decided to use Jiang Jiajun.

"In the name of the company, contact Director Jiang Jiajun and invite him to direct "Fated to Love You"."

Compared with the other two directors, Jiang Jiajun's film "Men and Women" was originally an idol drama about a domineering president meeting Cinderella, so he has rich experience in this area.

If you want stability, he is definitely the most suitable choice.

"Okay." Li Jichang agreed without hesitation. He wished that Wu Yuan would make the decision.

"Then the lead role?" Li Jichang asked again with some anxiety.

In addition to the director, he also listed the list of candidate actors for each role from the producer's perspective.

Actor Ji Cunxi: Chen Kun, Lu Yi, Bao Jianfeng, Ren Quan, Nie Yuan, Sha Yi.

Yes, Sa Yi is also on Lee Ji Chang's shortlist.

He is now a well-known cream boy in the Mainland, a military art school grassroots, and has become the dream lover of thousands of women by virtue of the role of the son-in-law Sha Pingwei in "Marrying the Right Man in the Wrong Sedan Chair".

Although "The Story of the Cooking Class" put him on the path of comedy, Li Jichang still wanted to give him a chance.

However, Wu Yuan didn't see it that way.

Holding a ballpoint pen, he immediately crossed out Sha Yi's name, and then crossed out Bao Jianfeng's name.

Bao Jianfeng is handsome, but too short to play the boss.

Chen Kun didn't have much to hesitate, he doesn't make TV dramas much anymore, he mainly focuses on the film market, and "Painted Skin" will be included in the second half of the year, Wu Yuan also crossed off his name.

Among the remaining people, Lu Yi, Ren Quan, and Nie Yuan are all popular TV drama niches, and each has his own handsomeness.

After thinking about it, Wu Yuan circled Lu Yi's name and said, "Contact Lu Yi first. He is the first choice. If he is not available, contact Nie Yuan."

Lu Yi originally played the overbearing president Qiu Shi in "Male Talents and Female Appearance", and he has already left the impression of a domineering president on the mainland audience.

Just like Ming Dao on Taiwan Island, as long as he appears on TV, people will think of the word "president".

He is definitely the best choice.

"What about the heroine?" Li Jichang continued to ask while recording.

"Heroine." Wu Yuan was dazzled as he looked at Li Jichang's candidate list.

Li Xiaolu, Huang Yi, An Yixuan, Dong Jie, Xue Jianing...

How to put it, Wu Yuan was not very satisfied.

It doesn’t feel like Chen Xinyi’s energetic temperament in the play.

The heroine of this show cannot choose the kind of beauty at first glance, because the heroine is set to be an ordinary girl, and she must not be too beautiful.

But you can't really choose a girl with an ordinary appearance, after all, this is an idol drama.

From the perspective of future generations, this kind of heroine is an ordinary girl, a Cinderella character, so it is suitable to find a sweet girl to play.

For example, Xue Shanshan, played by Zhao Xiaodao in "Shanshan Come to Eat", is a very classic casting.

It would be nonsense to say that she is not beautiful, but her appearance in the play is at best the little girl next door who is a bit sweet, not a big beauty, and not yet beautiful.

Letting her play Chen Xinyi in "Fated to Love You" is definitely very suitable.

It's a pity that Zhao Liying doesn't know where she is now. She won't make her debut until 2006 in the "Yahoo Star Search" talent show.

Wu Yuan had no choice but to retreat and think of another person.

"Hey, Producer Li, I think the heroine of your "The Sky" is pretty good."

Wu Yuan smiled and said, "That little girl named Jin Sha is quite suitable for the role of Chen Xinyi."

"The appearance is relatively sweet, which can be regarded as Xiaojiabiyu's style, and it is not too beautiful, which makes people feel distant."

"She put on glasses and an ordinary uniform, which fits the image of a post-it girl."

"Jinsha." Li Jichang thought for a while, and nodded in agreement. Jinsha really fits well in terms of image.

However, "after Jinsha finished filming "The Sky", because the TV series was never broadcast, she changed her career to become a singer."

"Last year she signed with Haidie Music. She was the first mainland singer signed by Haidie Music. After signing, she was sent to a music academy in Singapore for special training."

"He should still be in Singapore now."

Jin Sha was also out of luck. He finally made his debut as an actor, but his debut film couldn't be aired.

After going back and forth several times to shoot the singer's MV, he was finally spotted by the music company and signed a contract to send him to training.

But Wu Yuan didn't care so much, he said indifferently: "Being a singer in this era when the music gods fight is not so difficult."

"Go to contact her and invite her to go back to the mainland to film a TV series."

"She is a newcomer. I invite her to play the leading role in the company's TV series. Can her agency not agree?"

Wu Yuan definitely has the confidence to say this. In the current mainland entertainment industry, no actor can refuse his invitation.

Li Jichang's waist straightened immediately.

Yes, he is different now. He is now from the age of light and shadow. People who work for Wu Yuan are still afraid that they cannot hire actors?

"I understand, I'll contact Jinsha right now!" Li Jichang said confidently.

Wu Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

After the casting of the male and female protagonists is confirmed, other supporting roles can be easily selected.

The glamorous and confident female number two is obviously the most suitable for Chen Hao, she is very suitable to play this kind of gorgeous female number two.

Wu Yuan, the male number two, chose Ren Quan. He has a gentle temperament, and his appearance in a suit is not much inferior to that of Chen Chuhe.

As for other character actors, many of them in the Mainland are veteran actors, and they are overqualified for acting in idol dramas.

So far, the main creative team of "Fated to Love You" was finalized during the conversation between Wu Yuan and Li Jichang.

Except for the director, the entire crew, leading actors and supporting roles, are all from mainland China!
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