China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 764 This is the taste I want

Li Yu expected Zhang Chen to agree readily.

For a person who named his company a film and television company when it was first founded, doing stage plays is a necessity due to the reality, and making movies and doing art is his ideal pursuit.

He was secretly happy that a reliable director was willing to take him to make a movie, so he didn't dare to ask for any excessive conditions.

Since the other party had agreed to work together, Li Yu took out the two scripts he had prepared in advance and gave them to Zhang Chen and Shen Teng.

"This is the script of the movie, and the estimated investment is about 100 million. To give you 10% of the movie share, you have to invest 10 million." Li Yu said.

In the previous life, "The Richest Man in Xihong City" boasted to the outside world that he had invested two or three hundred million.

If the later publicity is included, this number may be reached.

However, publicity and promotion also depend on the box office performance after the movie is released.

The box office performance is very good, and each investment will increase publicity and promotion expenses.

"The Richest Man in Xihong City" had a box office of over 2 billion yuan, so it was normal that it cost 200 million yuan in publicity and promotion until the movie was taken off the screen.

However, the film's publicity clearly implies that the two or three hundred million is pure production cost.

This is a bit far-fetched. The production cost of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" is at most 400 to 500 million yuan.

Li Yu directly raised the production cost to 100 million yuan, doubling it. In addition to Li Yu's ability to attract so much investment, it was also related to Li Yu's personal habits.

He is used to fighting wars of wealth, and now it is hard to imagine him having to count the expenses on his fingers while filming a movie.

With more funds, filming can be done more easily.

In fact, with Li Yu’s current fame, he doesn’t even need to show the script to other parties when he’s looking for investment or actors.

Investors will transfer the money immediately, and actors will decisively choose to participate.

Because Li Yu's past achievements can be checked, the quality of his works is guaranteed.

Even if Li Yu didn't take out the script today and asked Zhang Chen to invest 10 million yuan, Zhang Chen would not hesitate.

Zhang Chen thought so too, and he did not hesitate to invest any amount Li Yu asked him to.

Li Yu's latest achievements are two Hollywood blockbusters with a global box office of 1 billion US dollars.

If you ask such a talented director to invest more than 100 million yuan, he might hesitate for a while.

If you ask him to invest 10 million, he won't even blink.

However, since Li Yu had taken out the script, Zhang Chen decided to take a look at it.

Shen Teng is more anxious than Zhang Chen. Whether he can get rid of Hao Jian's influence depends on whether the script written by Li Yu for him is powerful enough.

I hope the role Li Yu writes for him is no worse than the one he played back then.

After spending some time roughly reading the script, Shen Teng, like many actors, actually couldn't tell which script was good and which was bad.

He simply felt that the role of Wang Duoyu was right for him. He was a bit like Xia Luo back then, both of them were losers who made a comeback.

It’s just that Wang Duoyu is obviously more of a loser.

Charlotte in "Dreaming of the Movie Circle" has become a black-hearted businessman in the end, and his evil transformation is very serious.

Wang Duoyu has a bit of a loser temperament throughout.

He was a loser to begin with, and inheriting the estate didn't change his loser nature, and in the end he squandered all his money.

The original inheritance of 30 billion was too exaggerated, so Li Yu modified the amount of the inheritance.

The total inheritance is 3 billion, and Wang Duoyu's task is to spend 300 million within a month.

"This task of spending 300 million within a month is quite interesting. I feel refreshed just reading the text." Shen Teng likes this role very much.

The story of a loser's counterattack has always been popular.

Because most people in the world are ordinary people, who hasn't dreamed of getting rich overnight? Wang Duoyu got rich overnight, and then spent all kinds of money, trying to spend all 300 million yuan, but he still made a profit.

Ordinary audiences will definitely enjoy watching the first half of the movie.

Zhang Chen couldn't tell whether the script was good or bad. He only knew that the first half of the script was very funny and contained a lot of hilarious gags.

With so many funny jokes, it is definitely a successful comedy script.

In addition, the director was Li Yu, so Zhang Chen felt it would be difficult to make a loss.

"Shen Teng, take a copy of the script back and read it. You have to figure it out. Don't let me down when it comes to filming," Li Yu reminded.

"Director Li, I want to ask you something about acting. After I finished "Dreaming Movie Circle", I also acted in several other movies.

At the time, people said I had a serious problem. They said I played the same character in every role, and that I looked like Charlotte in every role.

Shen Teng was sincerely seeking advice.

"No need to change, you are suitable for the role of Charlotte. Wang Duoyu is very similar to Charlotte. You will be successful if you can perform somewhat like Charlotte." Li Yu quickly suppressed Shen Teng's idea.

Are you kidding? You want to change it? This is what I want.

Just act like Charlotte no matter what role you play.

Just play Wang Duoyu with the same feeling as playing Charlotte.

This is a comedy, not a serious movie.

If Li Yu wanted to make a serious film, he would not look for Shen Teng.

"Acting requires a lot of talent. You are only suitable for this kind of role. This is your unique feature. You'd better not lose it." Li Yu said earnestly.

Relying on the approach of playing the same role in any role and being the funny guy, Shen Teng later became a billionaire actor. Isn’t that successful enough?
Every actor wants to be a versatile actor and be able to play any role well, but you have to have the ability to do so.

There are very few actors who can play any role well, and they are all at the level of movie emperors and artists.

Shen Teng was half-believing and half-doubting.

Then, Li Yu wrote down the names of many artists under Happy Mahua and said to Zhang Chen, "Boss Zhang, let these people come to audition later."

Zhang Chen took the list and looked at it. Zhang Yiming, Chang Yuan, Wei Xiang, Wang Chengsi...

These are all contracted artists of Happy Mahua, and Zhang Chen was stunned.

I thought that what Li Yu said about asking more artists to use Happy Mahua was just a polite remark, but I didn't expect that Li Yu was serious about it.

Li Yu thought so highly of him and Happy Mahua that he felt a little ashamed.

"Director Li, you don't have to give us Happy Mahua so much face, right? Many of our Happy Mahua artists have never acted in a movie. Using their words a lot..."

Before Zhang Chen could finish his words, Li Yu interrupted him: "It's not a big problem. Training actors is a required course for directors. Shen Teng had never made a movie before, so it didn't affect the success of "Dreaming in the Movie Circle."

Zhang Chen gave a thumbs up, this famous director is so confident.

Since Li Yu said so, he would no longer be modest.

Objectively speaking, it is a good thing for Li Yu and Happy Mahua that he uses more artists from Happy Mahua.

Li Yu is promoting the artists of their company, which is something they have been longing for.

Shen Teng interrupted: "In fact, Ma Li from our company is also very capable in business. I often partner with her in skits on TV."

Shen Teng and Mali have a good relationship privately. When he saw that Mali's name was not on the list, he thought about trying to help his partner.

"There is no role suitable for Mali, Xia Zhu can't play it." Li Yu replied.

He did not change the settings of Xia Zhu and Wang Duoyu back to the version circulated on the Internet, and still retained the setting of female finance, which is really not suitable for Marley.

(End of this chapter)