The Crown Prince of Huayu!

Chapter 267 One Billion Goal
"Lao Hu, which role are you going to audition for?"

"Pu Yao, what about you?"

"I want to try Wei Sheng."

"It suits you very well, Lao Yuan."

Although they are no longer in the same company, Hu Ge and Yuan Hong still have a good relationship and they hang out together when they have time.

Before going to audition for "The World of Cultivation" this time, the two made an appointment again.

"Why don't you try to be a male lead?"

Yuan Hong asked curiously. In his opinion, his friend is definitely the best choice for the male lead of the fairy tale drama.

Especially since the showrunners of "The World of Cultivation" have no intention of casting a character based on the image of the original male protagonist.

Moreover, his friend is handsome, but he doesn't think he is suitable for the role of Pu Yao.

But after a round of auditions, he was not particularly satisfied among the female actors, but among the male actors, Chen Kun performed well.

The audition officially begins.

Yuan Hong felt a little sorry for Liu Sisi.

During the audition, when seeing Hu Ge, Han Jiadong asked the same question as Yuan Hong.

Yuan Hong patted his head: "My, mine."

Compared to the male lead, there are many more candidates for the second male lead.

"No, Sisi chose it herself."

Therefore, Hu Ge would never take the initiative to mention Liu Sisi in front of Yuan Hong. Even if he mentioned it, he would try his best to brush it off.

A few days later.

After secretly sighing, Yuan Hong inquired again.

"Sisi is preparing to audition."

Add in the age limit of under twenty-five, and it can be said that only a handful of people in the entire entertainment industry meet the requirements.

Han Jiadong watched one round and eliminated Zhang Ruoyun with small eyes first.

"Which role is Sisi going to audition for?"

After letting others take charge of one more round of auditions, the candidates still include Hu Ge, Chen Kun, Zhang Ziyi, Fan Bingbing, Tang Yan, Yang Mi, Liu Tao, Qiao Zhenyu, Huo Jianhua, Zhong Hanliang, Yan Yikuan, Cheng Hao , Zeng Li...

He had never considered the male lead when he came, so he didn't pay too much attention to the male lead's requirements.

"Did Mr. Dong help her choose?"

Hu Ge knew that his friend liked Sisi, but Sisi didn't have much interest in Yuan Hong even if there was no Young Master Dong, let alone Young Master Dong.

Secondly, my friend looked very young, but I didn't realize that my friend and I were almost thirty without knowing it.

In his mind, Pu Yao should have a stronger aura and a more evil image.

……

But if I think about it carefully, it seems understandable.

He was not particularly satisfied with the remaining three, so he was ready to watch one or two more rounds.

On the other hand, Director Han Jiadong would ask this question specifically, which shows that Director Han is optimistic about himself and has even considered being the male protagonist.

"Why didn't you try the male lead Zuo Mo?"

Hu Ge smiled bitterly: "I think so too, but the requirement is that you must be under twenty-five years old. I am almost an old man in my thirties."

On the one hand, I was once again hit hard by my age.

Before, he was more inclined to use actresses.

This character has facial paralysis, and a lot of the scenes are focused on his eyes. How can he act even if his eyes are small?
Then Li Yifeng was also eliminated.

"Master Dong, why don't you give Sisi a role with more roles?"

I can't fault the acting.

Hearing Han Jiadong ask this, Hu Ge felt complicated.

Apart from the black spots, there isn’t much wrong with the image.

After the first round of screening, surprisingly, the number of candidates for the male lead turned out to be the smallest among all important roles.

Those who have the confidence to audition for the male lead must be someone who has established a foothold in the entertainment industry, or even has a certain reputation and status.

In the end, only Zhu Yilong, Chen Xiao, Zhang Ruoyun, Yang Yang, and Li Yifeng were left.

Even whether to use an actor or an actress, the balance in his mind tilted again.

After taking charge of a round of auditions, Han Jiadong was still unsure.

Hu Ge patted him on the shoulder: "This kind of thing is beyond our control. We should prepare our roles first."

The aura and temperament are also very well grasped.

……

"Director Han, I am twenty-eight this year."

Hu Ge truthfully stated the reason why he did not audition for the male lead.

Han Jiadong nodded: "The male protagonist will change actors in the second season. You can practice more and prepare in advance."

Hu Ge was immediately overjoyed. He had already read the original novel and naturally knew that the male protagonist's appearance had changed after he reshaped his body in the second season. His body even changed from a thin bamboo pole to a muscular man.

"Yes, I will definitely work hard."

After sending away Hu Ge and auditioning other candidates, Han Jiadong still has not decided on the final candidate. He only eliminated Yang Mi, Huo Jianhua, Yan Yikuan, Qiao Zhenyu, Zhong Hanliang, Liu Tao and others who were obviously dissatisfied.

As for the heroine, there are also many candidates. After Han Jiadong took charge for one round, only Dilraba Dilraba, Zhao Liying, Tan Songyun, Lin Yichen, Zhang Hanyun and Shu Chang were left.

Also somewhat unsure.

However, compared to other characters who are not satisfied with it, this character is quite satisfied.

Anyone can come for the rest.

After all, this role is really not difficult.

It won't have much impact on the plot. The number of scenes will decrease sharply starting from the second season. The role is just to make it cute, adjust the atmosphere, and balance the proportion of male and female scenes with yang and yin.

As for the second female lead, although there are many candidates, Han Jiadong is basically certain to choose one of Yang Mi and Tang Yan after one round of auditions.

Wait until the audition for the third female role.

"Why did you come here?"

Han Jiadong was quite surprised to see Tong Liya appearing in the audition room.

He had not heard Tong Liya say that she was also going to audition.

Tong Liya looked at the other two audition teachers around Han Jiadong and didn't dare to get too close to Han Jiadong.

"I'll audition."

Han Jiadong resisted asking her why she didn't tell him in advance. He only asked: "Why did you choose such a role with so few roles?"

Compared to the heroine Xiao Guo, Li Yingfeng had even fewer subsequent scenes.

Tong Liya said: "Other roles are not suitable."

Han Jiadong thought about it carefully, and it seemed that it was true. Even the current role was not suitable, so he said: "You should go back first. There will be many new characters added in the second season. We will take a look at it then."

After he finished speaking, Tong Liya didn't show any disappointment or happiness, and went back obediently.

at night.

After Han Jiadong finished eating with Tong Liya, he asked her why she didn't say hello to him in advance.

"Why didn't you tell me before that you also wanted to star in this TV series?"

"I...I'm afraid you will be in trouble."

"What's so difficult about this?"

"There are too few suitable female roles. I'm afraid that other women will ask you for roles, so..."

Tong Liya said hesitantly.

Hearing what she said, Han Jiadong couldn't help but hug her into his arms with distress.

the next day.

The audition continues.

"Hello teachers, I am Liu Sisi, I am auditioning..."

In the original novel, Su is a character somewhat similar to Qu Feiyan in "The Swordsman". When he appeared, he thought he was a very important character. The author even made the character very mysterious and realistic. It made people think that there should be many secrets about her, but she ended up being offline inexplicably later. And unlike Qu Feiyan, who finally had an ending, Su simply found out that this person was not there.

The foreshadowing was not explained at all.

One has to wonder whether the author forgot about this person as he wrote.

However, in the adapted script, she and the second female lead, Zeng Lian'er, were merged into one person.

In order to learn divine power, he deliberately blended into the world of cultivation from the demon world.

Just enough for the second female lead to appear early.

Therefore, in terms of overall scenes, this character can even be counted as the most among all the characters who officially appeared in the first season.

Liu Sisi didn't call Han Jiadong in advance to ask for his opinion. She had good vision or luck in being able to choose this role.

And her calm temperament is indeed very suitable for this role.

After seeing her performance, Han Jiadong decided on her.

It can be regarded as the third important role confirmed after Liu Yifei and Xu Qin.

Later, Han Jiadong went to host the audition of Wei Sheng, the third male lead.

Han Jiadong also attaches great importance to this character who once stole the spotlight from the protagonist in the original work, even more than the number one female lead Xiao Guo and the second lead female lead Li Xian'er.

But the result of the audition made him very dissatisfied.

He was so dissatisfied that after the audition, he immediately announced that all the auditionees had failed.

Those who auditioned also included big stars such as Wu Jing, Le Dong, Li Chen, Wu Qilong, He Rundong, and Nie Yuan.

Another important role, Luo Li, was quickly confirmed to be played by Luo Jinlai.

Han Jiadong handed over the remaining roles to others.

The candidates were decided quickly.

Boss Pei Yuanran chose Wang Gang, not the Wang Gang who played He Shen, but the Wang Gang who played Song Yuanqiao in "The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Sword".

The second master, Bo Xinyan, settled on Weizi, who was Yue Buqun in the mainland version of "The Swordsman".

The third master, Boyan Le, defeated Fan Wei.

The first female villain, Hao Min, settled on Yang Ying.

The scheming woman Xu Yixia seduce Wan Qian.

Gong Yangqing, the senior sister of the inner sect, has decided to marry Wang Likun.

Junior sister Xu Qing settled on Jing Tian.

Huang Bo also played a small role named Fu Jin.

Even if a bunch of important roles haven't been finalized yet, just by looking at these small supporting roles, you know that this will be a TV series with a luxurious all-star cast that is not inferior to "The Founding of the Republic".

Magic City.

Office of the Chairman of Shanghai Film Studio.

"Jia Dong, what do you think about the separation of the Variety Show Department and the Special Effects Department?"

After several months of hard work but still being rejected, Ren Zhonglun had to call Han Jiadong over to consult Han Jiadong's opinions.

Han Jiadong didn't care. Although the spin-off would be more conducive to his future development, he couldn't climb too high until his father retired.

It is basically impossible to independently take charge of a listed state-owned enterprise.

But Ren Zhonglun obviously didn't want to hear what he said when he called him here. After all, even if Han Jiadong didn't agree to the split, he couldn't influence the decision above.

"I listen to the company's arrangements. Regardless of whether it is split up or not, I will always be a member of Shanghai Film Academy."

Hearing Han Jiadong's statement, Ren Zhonglun finally felt relieved.

He is not afraid that the variety show department and the special effects department will be separated. After all, these two departments may not be able to function well without Han Jiadong.

And the spin-off doesn't mean it doesn't matter at all. Shanghai Film has worked hard to create these two departments. Even if it is spun off, Shanghai Film will definitely hold shares.

In comparison, what he was more afraid of was that after splitting off these two departments, Han Jiadong would focus on the newly established company and no longer care about Shanghai Film.

This is absolutely unacceptable to him.

After talking about Han Jiadong's position changes after the spin-off, Ren Zhonglun asked about the movie.

"When do you think "囧囧" will be released?"

"Lost in Thailand" has been filmed for more than three months. As a movie without special effects, all post-production work has been completed early.

Han Jiadong said: "Just summer vacation."

"What level should the publicity budget be based on?"

"Highest."

"Okay!"

Even though it was a small-to-medium-budget film, Ren Zhonglun agreed without any hesitation.

Even the confidence in my heart has increased a lot.

However, Han Jiadong was afraid that he would not pay enough attention to it, so he reminded him again: "Don't be afraid of being reluctant to part with it. This movie has a chance to gross over one billion at the box office."

"No...wait! How much?"

Ren Zhonglun suspected that he heard wrongly.

Although as early as three or four years ago, there were already two movies with box office sales exceeding 1 billion.

One of them was written by Han Jiadong.

But a lot of the credit goes to the IMAX theater.

Excluding the box office of IMAX theaters, the box office of those two movies did not exceed 1 billion.

And except for those two Hollywood blockbusters, none of the domestic movies has a box office of more than 1 billion!
Not even 900 million.

The top three "Let the Bullets Fly", "Tangshan Earthquake" and "Those Years" all have more than 800 million.

Under such circumstances, I suddenly heard Han Jiadong say, "Away from Thailand", a small- to medium-cost domestic film that is not a 3D film, has a chance to have a box office of over one billion?

"One billion!"

Han Jiadong emphasized again firmly.

The original "Avatar" was released in China in 10, and more than two years later in 12, "囧囧" took over billion at the box office.

Director Xu Zheng was just a newcomer back then.

It has been more than three years since "Interstellar" and "Avatar" were released. Coupled with his own influence, there is no reason why he can't make a movie with a box office of one billion.

Ren Zhonglun stood up immediately: "Okay, I will go and arrange it myself now."

One billion!
This is different from the threshold of 358 million.

It is an absolutely memorable and fulfilling record.

Han Jiadong said: "There's no need to be in such a hurry."

It's only the end of March, and there are still more than three months left before summer vacation.

Even if you need to promote it in advance, it doesn’t need to be so far in advance.

"Too."

Ren Zhonglun sat down with a wry smile again, feeling full of expectation, irritability, and regret.

More than three months, how do you survive this?

If I had known earlier I wouldn’t have asked.

Han Jiadong didn't take this matter to heart, as if he didn't care about regaining the top spot at the box office of domestic films and the achievement of the first film's box office exceeding 1 billion.

After talking to Ren Zhonglun, he came out of Shangying and got into Tang Yan's car.

“Both of the roles you auditioned for may have gone to other people.”

Looking at Tang Yan driving, Han Jiadong was sitting in the passenger seat. After being silent for a while, he suddenly spoke up.

Although Tang Yan was a little disappointed, the car still drove smoothly: "Oh~ okay."

"Some new characters will be added in the second season, so you can take a look at it then."

"it is good!"

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(End of this chapter)