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Chapter 346 Li Yu’s Super Double

Chen Kaige is very fast when he gets serious.

It only took him half a month to assemble the crew after returning to the capital.

Of course, investing or anything else is out of the question.

Even though Chen Kaige's "The Promise" was a big hit, "Mei Lanfang" and "The Orphan of Zhao" were half of them. Due to his historical achievements and historical status, his movies will never lack investment.

For example, he later spent more than one billion to build a Tang Dynasty city for the filming of "The Legend of the Cat", which can be said to be very arrogant.

If the entertainment industry were to award an architectural designer award, he would definitely win the award.

And he will definitely not be ridiculed by people like Jiang Yiyan with his Architectural Designer Award.

"Gone Girl" is a modern literary film that does not require city construction or high investment. Chen Kaige controlled the investment within 7000 million.

They all make literary films, but box office is not their top priority.

Li Yu knew it was safe as soon as he heard Shi Shi's words.

Because she knew Li Yu would never lie to her.

The days of shooting were busy and fulfilling, and the days passed very quickly.

Li Yu smiled and said to Shi Shi: "No, you don't know Director Chen. The movies he shoots at the fastest speed will never be bad.

Not long ago, Shi Shi returned to the set of "The King of the Northern Dynasties" from Chen Kaige's set.

If you invest hundreds of millions, the probability of losing money on this type of film is extremely high.

Except for some particularly important scenes where Li Yu's requirements are so critical that he needs to shoot them several times, the actors in general scenes can basically deliver excellent answers in one go.

Li Yu is very confident in this movie. How can he not participate in something that can make money?

By the way, 7000 million of the 2000 million is Hualiu Company's investment.

After Chen Kaige was ready, Li Yu arranged for Shi Shi to join his crew for filming.

After Shi Shi left, Li Yu's shooting speed also began to speed up.

Shi Shi looked confused, is there such a thing? Don’t they say the more polished the better? Why did it happen the other way around when it came to Chen Kaige?
Although it was a bit outrageous, Shi Shi chose to believe Li Yu.

7000 million is relatively safe. As long as the box office can reach 2.1 million, it will not lose money.

What he wanted was not to give Chen Kaige a chance to think too much.

For a literary film, a box office of 2.1 million is considered a very good result.

The advantage of having many veteran actors and actors in the crew is reflected.

A month after Chen Kaige started working, Li Yu urged Chen Kaige several times to hire someone.

After coming back, Shi Shi said with some worry: "Brother Yu, I feel that the movie I am starring in may be in doubt. Director Chen seems not very satisfied with the movie he made. He said that the time is too late and he has many ideas. It’s time to implement it.”

In the blink of an eye, a month and a half passed, and news of completion came from Chen Kaige.

For example, after a period of time, the veteran actors had a tacit understanding with each other, and the filming speed was faster than Li Yu expected.

On the contrary, if he talks about a movie that he has been planning for so many years and that it took so many years to shoot and produce, then you should definitely not expect it, because there is a high probability that it will be a bad movie. "

"Shi Shi, you have to work hard. After filming "The King of the Northern Dynasties" is completed, I will immediately arrange another movie for you. You may have to seamlessly join the new crew."

The movie Li Yu is talking about is "Xiu Chun Dao".

If we want to promote Shi Shi into the film industry, we need to be more forceful.

"Xiu Chun Knife", "Gone Girl" and "The King of the Northern Dynasties" will definitely make Shi Shi rise to the top in the film industry.

If you want to get rewards, you have to make sacrifices. Shi Shi’s schedule this year is basically full.

Between the time she spent filming and the post-production publicity work, she couldn't even think of taking a break this year.

However, Shi Shi's scenes in "The King of the Northern Dynasties" were not too difficult. In addition, Li Yu taught her about Taoism and opened the back door, so her time on Li Yu's crew would not be too hard.

…Two or three months later, the time has entered July 2011.

On July 7, "The King of the Northern Dynasties", which has been in production for almost half a year, was officially completed.

After Li Yu and the actors had a closing banquet, they quickly returned to the capital and returned to his alma mater, Beijing Film Academy.

Li Yu made an appointment with a junior student in the directing department through Teacher Gao to meet.

This junior is Lu Yang, who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy's directing department in 07 and is the director of "Xiu Chun Knife".

Lu Yang began his career as a director in 05 when he served as the assistant director of the period emotional drama "Snowflakes Gone with the Wind".

His resume is quite impressive. He won the KNN Award in the New Trends section of the Busan International Film Festival and the Golden Rooster Award for Best Director's Debut.

Of course, it also depends on who you compare with. Compared with most directors in the entertainment industry, Lu Yang's historical results are already excellent.

If you want to compare with Li Yu, he is completely inferior.

At that time, Lu Yang received a call from his school teacher, saying that Li Yu wanted to talk to him about the script called "Xiu Chun Knife" and that Li Yu was interested in investing.

For a moment, Lu Yang really thought that there was something wrong with his ears and that he was hearing hallucinations.

Although Li Yu is only one year ahead of him, he and Li Yu are so different that they don't seem to be from the same world.

The honor he is most proud of is the Golden Rooster Award for Best Director's Debut. Li Yu has already won the highest award of the Golden Rooster Award.

Not to mention in the field of commercial films, before "Man Jiang Hong" came out, Li Yu was the box office record holder of Chinese movies for a year or two.

Li Yu is the chief screenwriter and producer of the movie "Man Jiang Hong". If you round up, it can be counted as half of Li Yu's works.

In short, Lu Yang really never dreamed that Li Yu would want to cooperate with him one day.

After all, the directors who usually work with Li Yu are top directors like Zhang Yingmou and Chen Kaige.

"Senior."

After meeting Li Yu in person, Lu Yang's attitude was very polite.

"Lu Yang, I heard that you plan to make a commercial film, and you have a ready-made script in your hand."

Li Yu asked knowingly.

Speaking of this, Lu Yang's expression looked a little melancholy.

As early as last year, the script of "Xiu Chun Knife" had already taken shape.

From last year to now, Lu Yang has mobilized all his connections, including teachers at school, to find investors to get an investment to make the movie.

He met with a lot of investors, but none of them were optimistic about the movie.

In his previous life, Zhang Zhen was very interested after seeing the script. Lu Yang seized the opportunity and invited Zhang Zhen to star. He used Zhang Zhen's reputation to get 3000 million investment from China Film.

Unlike Li Yu who had read the answers to the test paper, Lu Yang was already a little discouraged today.

He was a director who became famous for his artistic films and wanted to switch to commercial films, but investors had no confidence in him at all.

In addition, his movies have completely outdated martial arts themes, and investors have even less confidence in him.

"Senior, I'm not afraid of your jokes. The investors I've met in the past year or so are either fifty or thirty years old. They didn't want to invest at all after seeing my script."

Lu Yang's tone was a bit self-deprecating.

Li Yu went straight to the point and said, "It's okay. I can vote if others don't. I'll give you 6000 million to make the movie."

"..."

Lu Yang just had a shocked face of disbelief.

He had always expected that he would be satisfied if he could get an investment of 30 million to 40 million. Unexpectedly, Li Yu actually gave him a super double.

6000 million is definitely not a small number, especially for an artistic film director like him who has never proven himself by making commercial films.

(End of this chapter)