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Chapter 559 What? Invite Li Yu to shoot the Magic City Fortress together?

Teng Huatao was serious. He really wanted to work with Li Yu and then join forces to film "The Fortress of the Devil City".

He was the director and Li Yu was the screenwriter, and he couldn't understand why he lost.

He went to see Li Yu not only to reassure Mr. Xiao Wang and because Li Yu was indeed a great screenwriter, he planned to use Li Yu's fame to increase his chances of success.

Although he thinks the worldview and scale of the movie "Ready Player One" are a bit small, he also admits that the movie is good.

Li Yu has a precedent of successful science fiction script writing. Using this point as marketing, he can attract many people to the cinema.

In order to show his sincerity, he personally went to Hualiu Company to invite Li Yu in person.

The headquarters of Huayi and Hualiu companies are both in Beijing, so it is not difficult to visit them.

"Director Li, I've heard of your name more than ten years ago. I've watched Ready Player One, which is currently in theaters, twice. It's really great." Teng Huatao complained about the shortcomings of Li Yu's science fiction movies when he was at Huayi, but it was a small meeting within the company with only him, Feng Xiaogang and Mr. Wang, so there was no need to be too taboo in what he said.

When he came in front of Li Yu, he certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to complain about Li Yu's movie to his face.

Li Yu and he were not familiar enough to complain about each other's works. Moreover, the purpose of his visit was to invite Li Yu to film "The Fortress of Devil City" with him, so he had to be more humble and polite.

Speaking of which, Teng Huatao really envied Li Yu.

In front of others, Li Yu can say that he is the son of half a coal boss. He has risen quickly in the circle relying on his family background of nearly 100 million and his talent.

In Teng Huatao's eyes, Li Yu's family background meant nothing.

Different fields have different mountains. Even though Li Yu's family is rich, his father can only give him financial help. He can't help with anything else. Li Yu has to rely on himself to figure things out.

He is different, his father is a famous fourth-generation director in China.

His starting point was very high. His father could provide him not only financial support, but also connections in the circle and so on.

However, although his starting point was much higher than Li Yu's, his progress was much slower than Li Yu's.

Li Yu debuted many years later than him. Li Yu was already making large-scale commercial films, but he was still making TV series.

It was in 09 that he transformed from a television director to a film director thanks to the nationwide hit "Snail House" which attracted attention from all walks of life.

The achievements he has made since entering the film industry can be considered pretty good.

But compared with Li Yu, he is far behind.

While Teng Huatao was looking at Li Yu with deep emotion in his heart, Li Yu was also looking at Teng Huatao.

He had heard of the name of Teng Huatao. The famous sci-fi masterpiece "Fortress of Devil City" was created by this man.

It is difficult for ordinary people to surpass such a heavyweight work.

In "The Climbers", good actors cannot save the director and screenwriter.

"The Fortress of Demon City" is bad in every aspect, with a bad director, bad screenwriter, and bad actors.

When this movie was first promoted, it was said to be a masterpiece that would open up a new era of science fiction.

Li Yu believes that from another perspective, this movie has achieved this.

It has lowered the threshold of domestic science fiction films to a very low level and has indeed opened up a new era of science fiction.

Future directors can shoot movies with confidence. No matter how bad the movie is, it will hardly be worse than "The Fortress".

From this perspective, "The Fortress" has the same merits as Director Bi's "Dreaming of Show Business".

"Director Teng, I've seen your film "Snail House", it's very well made, it's a really good drama." Li Yu was not complimenting Teng Huatao, he was just telling the truth.

"Dwelling Narrowness" is indeed a good drama. Teng Huatao is a good director of urban emotional dramas. He has made many good dramas of this type in his early years.

However, in recent years, the quality of his new dramas has declined significantly.

Teng Huatao rubbed his hands excitedly. It was great that Li Yu had actually read his novel "Dwelling Narrowness" and gave it a pretty good review.

In this way, it should be easier for him to discuss cooperation with Li Yu next.

"Director Li, let's be frank. I don't want to beat around the bush. I'm telling you straight out that the purpose of my visit is to invite you to work with me on a science fiction movie.

A story about how the Chinese fight aliens to save the Earth. Let me briefly tell you the plot.

In the future, alien dark forces invade the earth, and Magic City becomes the last hope of mankind.

I set the protagonist as a college student with great talent for flying fighter jets. I can find a very popular and handsome actor to play the role.

The heroine is the commander. She and the hero will have a sweet sister-brother relationship while repelling aliens and saving the earth.

Science fiction, war, romance, action, sister-brother love, little boys and mature women, these are all very popular elements.

Combining these elements together will definitely be a big deal.”

Teng Huatao talked incessantly about his ideas.

"..."

Li Yu was completely speechless.

Isn't this the movie "Fortress of Demon City"? If he collaborates with Teng Huatao to shoot this, his reputation will be ruined.

Moreover, "The Fortress of Devil City" is bad in every aspect, and it cannot be solved by simply changing the screenwriter.

Teng Huatao is an excellent director of urban emotional dramas, but he really can't handle science fiction.

The leading actors he found were equally difficult to watch.

If you want to make "The Fortress of Devil City" a success, the director, screenwriter, and leading actors all have to be changed.

If he really wanted to turn down everything about "Fortress of Demon City", why didn't Li Yu do it himself? Why did he cooperate with Teng Huatao?
"Director Teng, forget it. I have a lot of things to do recently. I am too busy to work with you. We can talk next time when the opportunity is right." Li Yu politely rejected Teng Huatao's "good intentions".

Li Yu doesn't want to be laughed at for many years.

Teng Huatao looked a little lost. It was such a pity that Li Yu actually rejected him.

Without Li Yu, he would have to spend more time convincing Mr. Wang, and he would also have to put more thought into the marketing and promotion of the film.

However, he is still confident in the quality of the script. He thinks the script of "The Fortress of Demon City" is already very good.

Even if Li Yu joined in, he would not ask Li Yu to make major revisions to the script. At most, he would ask Li Yu to help beautify some details and let Li Yu put his name on the script.

"It's such a pity, Director Li, are you really not going to reconsider it? The investment cost of my film 'Magic City Fortress' is over 3 million." Teng Huatao tried to persuade Li Yu to change his mind.

"I don't have time, really. I wish in advance that Director Fuji's movie "Fortress of Devil City" will be a big hit in terms of word-of-mouth and box office." Li Yu said with a double meaning.

"Blast" can describe a movie that is very popular, but it can also describe a movie that literally explodes.

Teng Huatao thought it was the former, and he thought Li Yu was just being polite.

But what Li Yu wanted to express was obviously the second meaning.

As someone who has read the script, he knows too well how explosive "The Fortress of Demon City" is.

(End of this chapter)