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Chapter 963 Inviting Li Mu

"Your script is quite interesting."

Although Ning Hao didn't read it very carefully, he took a quick look and had a general idea of ​​what the story was.

"No wonder you want to film with Xixi, it seems like this is your first TV series together!"

"Indeed." Li Mu nodded slowly.

"Okay, there shouldn't be anything to prepare on the crew's side."

"Just let your men do it. Put together a team. You get to choose the actors?"

Li Mu asked subconsciously.

"Come on, it's too much trouble. Since you are acting together, just choose it. I am just a puppet anyway, whatever you say is what counts."

Ning Hao's words immediately caused Xing Aina to roll her eyes.

"Fine!"

Li Mu thought about it and decided that this was a simple matter. After all, the male and female protagonists had been confirmed, and he also had suitable candidates for some supporting roles. However, there were not many people to choose from, so he just let Liu Yifei choose them.

"I'm back. How's it going? Is Director Ning willing?"

Liu Yifei asked excitedly when she saw Li Mu coming back.

"I agree." Li Mu nodded.

"But you get to choose the actors. Just pick whoever you like."

"I'll do it." Liu Yifei blinked, then quickly ran upstairs, saying, "Okay, I'll take a look and see who's suitable."

Li Mu couldn't help but laugh when he saw Liu Yifei running up and down in a hurry.

"call!"

Liu Yifei was panting at the moment, still holding the script in her hand. She wrote down the characters one by one with a pen, and then seemed to fall into deep thought.

Li Mu knew the problem at first sight, and he lay down on the sofa and said casually, "How many actors in TV dramas do you know now?"

"Uh" Liu Yifei didn't know how to answer for a moment.

"I'll have Mengying send you a list in a couple of days and you can pick one. Otherwise, who can you pick?"

Seeing Li Mu lying like Ge You and laughing at her, Liu Yifei pouted and then fell down.

"My goodness, you've lost over 100 pounds. Do you think I've lived too long?"

At that moment, Li Mu felt the "bear" pressing on his body, but fortunately he recovered immediately and quickly hugged it with both hands.

"Who told you to mock me, huh."

"How dare you."

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While the two were playing around, Ren Zhonglun, who was far away in the Magic City, frowned slightly.

"Mr. Ren."

Fu Wenxia, ​​director of the Magic City International Film and Television Festival Center, general manager of the Magic City International Film and Television Festival Co., Ltd., and executive deputy secretary-general of the Magic City International Film Festival Organizing Committee, shouted softly.

"Don't call me that anymore, or people will think I'm still working after retirement."

Ren Zhonglun interrupted and said that he had resigned as chairman of Shanghai Film Group last year.

"We must invite Director Li Mu to be the chairman of the jury for the Golden Goblet Awards' main competition unit?"

"Teacher Ren, the main thing is that Mr. Marco Mueller, Ms. Natasha De Villeyer and others have been confirmed as judges for this session. If the chairman of the jury is not suitable."

As a professor and graduate supervisor in the Chinese Department of Shanghai Normal University, it is natural for Ren Zhonglun to call him teacher.

Although Fu Wenxia didn't finish her words, Ren Zhonglun knew what she meant.

After all, Marco Muller is one of the most famous filmmakers in the world and was once the chairman of the Venice Film Festival. Inviting such a person to serve as a judge naturally puts pressure on the chairman of the jury.

Most people can't take that position. "Teacher Ren, I hope you can help me get in touch with the film festival."

Li Mu hasn't been to the Shanghai Film Festival for a long time, and the people have changed several times, so he is no longer familiar with the place. For this reason, Fu Wenxia specially found Ren Zhonglun to come forward.

Ren Zhonglun hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "I'll give it a try, but I can't guarantee it will work. You know Director Li Mu isn't particularly keen on this. He even turned it down at the last Cannes Film Festival."

"I understand, Mr. Ren."

Ren Zhonglun then picked up the phone and dialed the number without hesitation.

The two people who were playing and joking at the moment suddenly heard the phone on the table vibrating, and then the ringtone began to ring.

"Yours, mine?"

"It should be mine, bring it over and let me see." Li Mu gestured.

Liu Yifei took the opportunity to reach out with her right hand and took the phone in her hand. She glanced at the screen and said, "Hey, it seems to be Director Ren calling?"

"Director Ren?"

"Yes, I remember he stepped down last year!"

"It must be something else. Get up!"

As Liu Yifei stood up, Li Mu answered the phone, "Director Ren!"

"Director Li, you haven't been to Shanghai for a long time. I can't even find anyone to have morning tea with." Ren Zhonglun said with a smile on the phone.

"People in the Magic City don't like this."

"Hey, Director Li, you're wrong. Drinking morning tea is not just a Cantonese culture!"

"Okay, I was wrong, I was wrong." Li Mu smiled and stopped talking. "Mr. Ren, you didn't come to see me just for morning tea, did you?"

"What a coincidence. I do have something to ask, but I don't know if it's convenient for you, Director Li."

"Please speak." Li Mu couldn't guess what the situation was for a moment.

"The 24th Shanghai International Film Festival is going to be held soon. I was wondering if you have time. The Golden Goblet Awards need you to be in charge!"

Ren Zhonglun said cheerfully.

"Oh, about this." Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief. He was thinking why it was so important. Just when he was about to say something, he saw the script on the table and smiled bitterly. "I wanted to agree, but I have to prepare a TV series here, so there is a conflict in time."

After all, the entire two-week Shanghai Film Festival will be over soon, and the timing is really not very suitable.

"Is that so? Director Li, you're directing the show yourself?"

Ren Zhonglun was very curious at this moment. After all, for a world-renowned director like Li Mu to direct a TV series must be extraordinary.

"That's not the case. I'm just acting with Sissi."

Li Mu smiled.

"That's a shame." Ren Zhonglun said with a wry smile, and then said, "This time, Marco Muller and his team are here to be judges. This is a bit of a mess."

After hearing what Ren Zhonglun said, Li Mu immediately understood.

"It's a pity that Director Zhang and Director Chen are also busy with other matters and can't get away." Li Mu also felt it was a bit tricky, but suddenly an idea flashed in his mind and he remembered someone.

"Mr. Ren, now that you mention it, I think there's someone who's quite suitable."

"Ok?"

"Director Huang Jianxin!"

Li Mu said calmly that Huang Jianxin's status in the underworld was extremely high and he was definitely suitable for the job. Besides, after the filming of "Changjin Lake", Huang Jianxin didn't have much to do and he had plenty of time.

“This is a good candidate.”

Ren Zhonglun nodded, but it was impossible for him to ask Li Mu to help contact them for such a matter, so he would definitely have to go to the film festival organizing committee to find someone.

(End of this chapter)