Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 353 - Favors

"Is there a delay?" Chen Yuzheng panned left and right at the camera. Zhang Ruoyun was about to speak when Song Zuer pushed him aside.

Then this young lady, who was obviously much thinner, talked to Chen Yu in Jinmen dialect about the serious crimes she suffered on the set of "The Wandering Earth".

Chen Yu touched the tip of his nose and looked at Song Zuer's Gatling-like cherry mouth on the screen.

I vaguely remembered that "The Wandering Earth" was successfully completed at the Oriental Movie Capital last Tuesday.

On that day, Guo Fan and all the cast and crew did not want to hold any celebration ceremony or activities. Everyone was looking forward to shooting the last set of shots and then hurriedly evacuated and left.

Because the working environment of this film was too difficult, the work tasks were too heavy, and the work atmosphere was too tense, chief cameraman Liu Yin arranged the equipment while wiping his tears.

The moment Guo Fan shouted "finished", Song Zuer and Qu Chuxiao collapsed on the ground and covered their faces and sobbed. Even Wolf Warrior sneaked into a dark corner and choked in a low voice.

On the contrary, Guo Fan did not show any excitement and even his eyebrows were more solemn than before. After all, the most critical and expensive post-production was officially started at this moment.

If the post-production of this film is not done well, all the sweat and pain put in by the brothers and sisters in front of him will become the subject of ridicule by others.

Therefore, Guo Fan really has no intention of holding a finals banquet right now. He wants to immediately lead the post-production team to overcome difficulties and perfect the work step by step.

After everyone had almost released their emotions on the set for more than 70 minutes, the film's producer and planner Chen Shaohong ran in and told everyone that CCTV Six would be interviewing.

"The way we looked at Chen Shaohong at that time frightened the young lady so much that she didn't dare to say anything for a long time." Song Zuer turned around and asked Zhang Ruoyun to help her get a bottle of Bai Fatzi to relieve her dry mouth.

"Li Mi, Guo Wei and the others came to Shed No. 9 at around seven o'clock the next morning." Song Zuer sipped a sip of yogurt and squinted her eyes happily.

Originally, CCTV's six sets were planned to be filmed for one day, starting from talking to the actors about their thoughts and experiences, to everyone talking about interesting things about work, and finally recording everyone's interactions.

However, the cast and crew who had completely relaxed yesterday were not ideal in terms of physical strength and energy. Their condition was even worse during the interview, and they often became distracted and wandered off.

Wu Jing, Li Guangjie, and Yang Haoyu all suffered from enteritis after drinking heavily for half a night with Qu Chuxiao.

Wu Jing and Yang Haoyu were barely able to participate in the interview, while Li Guangjie and Qu Chuxiao were already sent to the hospital by Liu Cixin and Gong Geer.

"When we were recording the first interview at 7:20 in the morning, the two big brothers didn't dare touch their butts on the chairs and they were sweating after just three or four sentences."

In fact, Song Zuer was not in good condition at that time. She stayed up until five in the morning playing games to vent her anger. She couldn't concentrate at all while sitting on the sofa during the interview.

Guo Fan was always thinking about post-production, so what he said was basically all questions and answers. This made the program director frequently call for a stop to let everyone adjust their status.

All the members of "The Wandering Earth" were lost, forcing CCTV 6 to change the interview plan and process.

Zhang Yichi and Qu Jingjing, who are still in trouble as directors, took the program team to visit the eight filming studios where the film was shot, and used a pseudo-documentary method to get the program back on track.

As for the previously recorded interview content, only a small part can be retained as appropriate, and the remaining 70% will be deleted.

Since CCTV 6 has always been the "flag bearer" supporting Chen Yu's faction, Li Mi and Guo Wei specifically asked Guo Fan and Wu Jing what contribution Chen Yu made to the film.

The two people who heard the music and knew the elegant meaning were naturally specially selected and said that because Song Zuer joined the crew through the recommendation of Chen Yu and others, it was not convenient to talk about this topic.

Song Zuer chatted happily with Chen Yu for nearly eighty minutes. It wasn't until Meng Ziyi sent her a WeChat message to ask her to play games that she ran back to her lounge to let Zhang Ruoyun talk about business.

Zhang Ruoyun mainly approached Chen Yu for the project "Celebrating More Than Years". Originally, Tencent Pictures, Xinli Media, and Yuewen Film and Television were interested in inviting Chen Yu to star in the male lead of the series.

However, due to the recent altercation between Chen Yu and the Chinese National Table Tennis Team and the "earning five million US dollars in two weeks" incident, "Celebrating More Than Years" had to abandon Chen Yu.

Moreover, Chen Yu was originally not enthusiastic about this series. In addition, Sun Hao, the director of "Celebrating More Than Years", believed that the gap between Chen Yu and "Fan Xian" was too big.

Director Sun Hao once made a color palette for Chen Yu based on his own observations. He felt that Chen Yu was more arrogant, domineering and aggressive, and he also liked to provoke malicious provocations.

If Chen Yu plays Fan Xian, it will be a pure subversion of the original work, but the effect is not necessarily worse than the original work and may even become a classic.

However, the above opinions and conclusions are all director Sun Hao's personal inferences and cannot represent the current market trends and audience aesthetics.

In fact, he, executive producer Li Xiaobiao and screenwriter Wang Juan contacted the original author and discussed the issue of subverting the male protagonist.

The original author does not have too many requirements for the film and television version of the novel. Anyway, as long as he has enough money, he can remain silent in front of the media.

But this guy's frank attitude made director Sun Hao and screenwriter Wang Juan dare not subvert Fan Xian's image.

Although the bosses of the management have repeatedly given reassurance to the production team and creative team of "Celebrating More Than Years", they said that the audience for this series is not fans of the original book.

And I also support the proper adjustment of Fan Xian's character, but if something goes wrong by recasting Fan Xian recklessly, I'm afraid the crew will still take the blame.

In the original work, Fan Xian does not have stunning good looks, nor a ruthless character, but he firmly attracts readers with his love, justice, compassion and gags.

To be honest, it is very difficult to film this kind of character in a drama, otherwise director Sun Hao and other main creators would not have thought of using Chen Yu to subvert the original Fan Xian. After all, if the male protagonist is good-looking, smart, and has a strong style, he can more or less cover up some flaws or deficiencies in plot logic and plot structure.

Moreover, Chen Yu is quite cool in reality:

A world-class boxing champion who dominates the professional fighting and boxing circles, he is currently the only Chinese artist who plays the leading role in Hollywood and his fiancée is Dilmurat Dilraba.

The effect of bringing your own coolness when acting in a cool drama is 100% that one plus one is greater than two, but to be honest, Director Sun Hao doesn't dare to take the gamble because he is afraid of taking the blame after failure.

Previously, Noon Sunshine's Sun Molong and Zhang Kaizhou were interested in taking over the direction of "Celebrating More Years", and they were the first to propose the idea of ​​reconstructing Fan Xian based on Chen Yu's personality.

However, Hou Hongliang and Chen Yingjie had great differences on the investment ratio and sharing method, which led to the failure of the two companies to reach a strong alliance.

Then director Sun Hao joined the crew through private channels and took on the important task of turning the tide.

The biggest dilemma facing director Sun Hao now is: Not only did he shrink from the battle and dare not insist on using Chen Yu to subvert Fan Xian, Chen Yu has now missed the project.

Now choosing who to replace Chen Yu has become an urgent matter for Director Sun Hao to consider.

At present, after two rounds of screening, the casting studio has reported to the main creative team seven people, and Zhang Ruoyun is one of them.

Chen Yu, who was in Tokyo at the moment, also realized what Zhang Ruoyun meant, which was to trouble him to give Tencent a break.

"You have quite a network of connections, so why do you ask me for help in such a small situation?" Chen Yu secretly reminded his good friend that there are a lot of bad things happening to him right now.

Although major companies have always supported themselves due to their interests, some seniors and teachers in the Chinese entertainment and film and television industries have clearly targeted them.

And there was Zhang Ruoyun's biological father, Zhang Jian.

Perhaps father and son had to play the severance game for practical reasons in order to get out of some big trouble.

But Chen Yu was unwilling to do anything that would be a waste of time for his good friend or would easily cause trouble for Zhang Ruoyun.

In addition, Chen Yu heard from Dilmurat Dilraba that anyone who wanted to succeed him in "Celebrating More Than Years" must sign a five-year, three-part contract.

"If the first part of "Celebrating More Than Years" went directly to grandma's house, then you would be putting your head in the hanging rope yourself."

Chen Yu took a bite of the red apple and kept stroking his neck with his right hand. Even if Zhang Ruoyun wanted to save money for his wedding and future baby, there was no need to gamble his future.

Zhang Ruoyun chuckled and rubbed his cheeks, then calmed down his expression and said seriously. He was personally very optimistic about this project and even wanted to invest some spare money in it.

All the members of the production team of this project are hard-working and hardworking, and the management, led by Tencent, is also willing to spend money, so "Celebrating More Than Years" definitely has potential.

"To hold on to you, Tencent squeezed out 30 million shares for Dilraba Studio. Could you please help me as a co-producer?"

Currently competing with Zhang Ruoyun are juniors such as Song Weilong, Wang Yibo and Wu Lei, while Ren Jialun and Xiao Zhan were unable to fully participate in the first part due to scheduling reasons.

Xiao Zhan may make a guest appearance in "Celebrating More Than Years".

"And me!" Song Zuer jumped out again and startled Zhang Ruoyun.

This young lady will also join the cast of "Celebrating More Than Years". As one of the investors, Dilraba arranged for Song Zuer to play the role of "Ye Ling'er" as a friend.

In addition, the discerning director Sun Hao and the casting studio also hope that Dilraba will help bring Meng Ziyi into the cast to play the role of "Zhan Doudou", the Empress of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Unfortunately, Meng Ziyi was too distracted and had no choice but to turn down the job.

Zhang Ruoyun blocked Song Zuer's little mouth with a big bag of potato chips, and then continued to chat with Chen Yu about "Celebrating More Than Years".

At nine o'clock in the morning, Yanjing time, Chen Yu took out his mobile phone and directly dialed Chen Yingjie's personal number to recommend Zhang Ruoyun to him.

Chen Yu did not let Dilraba contact him because he wanted to show his attitude to Tencent. Through this move, he told the goose factory that he and Zhang Ruoyun had a special relationship.

Chen Yingjie said without any nonsense that Zhang Ruoyun should stay at home and wait for the good news.

He is now assigning the production team of "Celebrating More Than Years" to go through the contract procedures.

Neither Chen Yu nor Chen Yingjie said anything about three dramas in five years.

Even if Zhang Ruoyun and Chen Yu have an extremely hard relationship, they can't go too far.

After all, Zhang Ruoyun is not Chen Yu's biological brother or biological son.

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