Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 823 Twelve Hours, Enough (4k6)

After reading a few chat records, Zhou Mo recognized that "juvenile dementia" was Zhu Yilong, "three bottles a day" was Zhang Ruoyun, and "destiny" was Li Xin.

"Why did you change the group nickname to this?"

"I did it on purpose, to see if it could be used as a promotional point for the TV series. It's a pity it didn't become popular." Liu Shishi explained.

There was regret in her voice as she said this.

This idea was thought of by several of them together.

Zhou Mo searched for relevant information on the Internet. There was indeed a related announcement, but it was not very popular. It was only on the hot search once, and its popularity was only in the top ten.

According to this ranking, it can basically be said that the plan has failed.

But this is not surprising.

There is a certain metaphysical element in propaganda.

Whether someone is popular or not sometimes depends purely on their looks.

Although hot searches can be bought with money, generally only less mature teams will spend money to create a bunch of hot searches at once.

Mature teams create a lot of things at once and let them ferment freely. Later, they will give more money to whichever ones become popular.

At this time, Liu Shishi suddenly patted Zhou Mo.

"Can I tell them some of the news you told me?"

"Well, it's good to tell them something so they can prepare in advance."

Liu Shishi immediately began to think about what gossip she should pass on. Before that, she asked Zhou Mo, "Come to think of it, a few of us have speculated on the subsequent plot, but we didn't guess it."

"Guess the plot?" Zhou Mo was interested: "Is there any record?"

"Have."

Liu Shishi pulled up the chat history and let Zhou Mo read it directly, while she sat aside thinking.

Zhou Mo roughly browsed through the records. To be honest, from the records, the plots and characters guessed by the four people were all similar. Although they were slightly different from what Zhou Mo set himself, they also had their own style.

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Zhu Yilong felt that he would get older and older, until in a certain battle, his lifespan would be completely exhausted;

Li Xin felt that she would use up all her luck in a certain battle and become a completely ordinary person;

Zhang Ruoyun felt that her illness would become more and more serious and that she would die one day.

At the end, the four people all agreed that they would be killed.

Zhou Mo finally understood why Liu Shishi felt that their characters would be "completely burned out".

My goodness, when you were discussing, you were all speculating based on tragedy, so wouldn't that mean everything would be ruined?

Besides this, there is another interesting point:
The four people had a disagreement when discussing the order in which the characters would die.

Zhang Ruoyun felt that he would be the first to die, because he was the one who looked the weakest, and he might even die.

Zhu Yilong disagreed and said, "I can regain my youth thanks to your treatment. If you die, I will not be able to regain my youth, so I will definitely stand in front of you."

Liu Shishi thought that she would be the first to die because her skill had too much impact on team battles, and the subsequent plot would require her to leave the game first.

Li Xin said that you are all very powerful, but I am just an ordinary person, I don’t have any extraordinary abilities, and I will be the one to fail...

Seeing this, Zhou Mo turned his head and looked at Liu Shishi: "No, I didn't hire Yu Hua as the producer of this drama. Where did you get this self-destructive guess from?"

Liu Shishi came back to her senses and smiled.

"It was just a casual chat. Teacher Ju and Ruoyun both thought they would be the first to fail, so they started arguing, and then Xinxin and I joined in."

Zhou Mo glanced at the date they had the argument, January 2nd, the day after the TV series was aired.

"When you reveal the information to them later, you can ask them if they are willing to accept the box lunch."

Without even thinking about it, Liu Shishi said categorically: “How is it possible? With a cost of tens of millions and a revenue of hundreds of millions, they would be fools to give up this drama.

Even if you want to write them off now, they will find a way to ask you to revive them. I guess at the latest tomorrow... no, tonight, they should call you to inquire about the follow-up arrangements."

Zhou Mo chuckled, he knew that what Liu Shishi said was true.

Only a fool would choose to quit when faced with a good work that is visible to the naked eye.

Unless there are special events, such as Wang Baobao being called away by the army in the second season of "Running Brothers", under normal circumstances, there is only one fundamental reason why an actor chooses to leave the crew: they are not making money.

Or:

It’s not as profitable anymore, it’s less profitable, it’s more expensive… and so on.

"Night Watch" is only in its first season, so it is obviously a long time before the above situation occurs.

At this time, Liu Shishi had already thought about revealing the information and was about to start typing on the keyboard, but her hand was stopped by Zhou Mo.

"and many more."

"what happened?"

Zhou Mo thought for a moment and said, "I suddenly had an idea to promote "Night Watchmen."

"what?"

“Didn’t you just say that the attempt to promote using the group nickname was unsuccessful?
So, let's set up a plan. I'll hint to you that one of the characters might die later, but I don't know which one it will be.

And I won’t reveal the real news to them next, so just let the three of them guess slowly.

We will send this news out later and let the audience and netizens guess along and see if it can become a hot search in the end."

As Liu Shishi listened to this plan, her eyes became brighter.

Let everyone guess who will get the box lunch...it's exciting just thinking about it!

"I'll notify them now!"

Zhou Mo also contacted a few people and began to assign tasks.

After a moment, Liu Shishi typed out the entire message and asked Zhou Mo to read it again. After confirming that it was correct, he clicked send.

"Friends, I just got the news that the four-member team of 'old, weak, sick and disabled' in the sequel of 'Night Watch' may be reduced in number, and the situation is very tragic..."

Once the message was sent, it quickly caused a small storm in the group.

"Are we really going to reduce the number of staff? Did Director Zhou say that?"

"Any more specific news?"

"How many people were reduced?"

Faced with the continuous problems that appeared on Liu Shishi's screen, she turned directly to Zhou Mo for help.

Zhou Mo thought for a moment and pointed at the screen: "Tell them that you should go and get the information now."

Liu Shishi continued to ask while typing on the keyboard: "Then what?"

Zhou Mo raised his lips and said without hesitation: "Then just log out of your account, turn off your phone, and disappear. That's it. Let them see how dangerous the world is."

Liu Shishi's fingers suddenly paused, and then a smile similar to Zhou Mo's appeared on her face.

"it is good."

Half an hour later.

Liu Shishi looked at the WeChat messages that kept appearing and her smile became more and more charming.

"Are you sure you don't want to reply to their messages? Six or seven people have contacted me already."

In addition to the three people in the group, the people who contacted her included their agent and the assistant director of the crew.

This shows that a lot of calls were made back and forth during this half hour.

Among them, the news about the assistant director is the most interesting.

"Shi Shi, where did you hear the news that someone was going to get a box lunch? I don't know. Did Director Zhou say that? I sent him a text message, but he might be busy and didn't reply to me."

Zhou Mo didn't reply because he turned off his phone a long time ago. After Liu Shishi showed him the message, Zhou Mo was confused: "Do you have an assistant director in your crew?" Liu Shishi was also stunned for a few seconds when she heard this, and then said in a slightly strange tone: "If the assistant director heard you say this, he would probably cry."

Zhou Mo spread his hands and said, "Okay, this matter is indeed my fault. I just notified the director of your crew, and no one else was notified."

The position of assistant director is rather awkward in China, as it is a position where one has a title but the power is far less than that of the director.

In some crews, the status of the assistant director is not even as high as that of the executive director.

Zhou Mo himself often uses assistants with professional skills as assistants of the deputy director. He would call on those who are too busy to handle anything. As for filming and publicity, he would leave it to other people.

So this time, he didn't think about the assistant director at all.

Liu Shishi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and asked, "Then how should I reply to him?"

"Just tell him, and no one else needs to reply."

The director of "Night Watchmen" understood Zhou Mo's plan as soon as he received Zhou Mo's call, and started working happily.

Tricking actors is a compulsory course for every director.

A typical example is Marvel. In order to prevent the actors from leaking information, they even prepared several sets of fake scripts just to blur the real information.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the director sent an email to Zhou Mo, saying that everything had been arranged and it depended on the follow-up of this movement. If he was lucky, it would probably attract a large wave of traffic within two or three days.

Zhou Mo asked Liu Shishi to take a look at the content of the email.

"Next, let's just wait for the news."

……

In the next two days, while Liu Shishi was waiting a little impatiently, the hot searches about this "getting a box lunch incident" really came out and became more and more popular.

Unlike some of the hot searches for "divine soldiers descending from the sky"

Regarding the news about "Night Watchmen", Liu Shishi witnessed with her own eyes the three words "die". In the beginning, they were only spread within the crew, then they also started to be heard among the fan group, and finally they successfully broke the circle and attracted a lot of attention from non-audience groups.

During this period, a large number of self-media in the entertainment industry and the "uncle party" joined the drama, bringing countless traffic to this topic.

"According to rumors, a post-80s actor with two Chinese characters will replace one of the 'old, weak, sick and disabled foursome'."

"The latest news is that a popular ancient idol star will join "Night Watch"!"

"The person who is going to be replaced is one of the two male stars. He recently had a new drama that conflicted with the schedule of "Night Watch". The new drama is more valuable, so he reluctantly gave up "Night Watch". The replacement is the star who sang on the stage two days ago."

It is this kind of seemingly plausible news with vague information that makes the spectators imagine a lot of grudges, love and hatred, and swordplay.

Now, after a few days of dissemination, everyone knows that "Night Watch" is selling very well, and there are so many jealous people in the circle who want to play a role.

Many actors try their best to get an important role or to grab the spotlight, each using their own unique talents.

From finding connections, to using connections, to having relationships, there are countless ways to do it.

In addition, at this time, news came out that someone had withdrawn from "Night Watch".

Wouldn't that make people feel like someone else has snatched the role?

On January 13, Zhou Mo received news that the revenue of "Night Watchmen" exceeded 700 million.

Liu Shishi heard this number on the side. When Zhou Mo hung up the phone, she was surprised and happy: "I didn't expect that this rhythm would actually pick up."

“The main reason is that other stars joined in, bringing a lot of traffic to “Night Watchmen”,” Zhou Mo concluded.

It has to be said that fan economy is indeed a major boost to consumption.

On the morning of the second day after the news of the cancellation of "Night Watch" was announced, fans who were suspected to be the "replacement" had already started buying hot searches for their idol.

And once it was bought, it topped the hot search list.

The nouns are more popular than those in "Night Watch" itself.

When Zhou Mo learned the news, he was shocked by the actions of those fans.

This efficiency is already faster than his film production team.

Liu Shishi added: "And Teacher Ju and the others also assisted us."

"Ah."

Zhu Yilong and his friends didn't receive a reply from Liu Shishi on the first night. The three of them were not fools. After communicating with each other, they figured out what was going on.

So, the next day, the three of them went directly to Liu Shishi's house for dinner. After getting accurate information from Liu Shishi, they immediately began to cooperate with the crew for publicity and asked the studio to send out some very vague information.

for example:

"xx character will face a big change in the second season."

"I like my role very much and hope I can continue to play it."

For the spectators, how could they possibly know what kind of "accident" is? If a character encounters danger, it is an accident; if an actor is replaced, it is also an accident. Naturally, they will believe whichever one they see.

So, in just a few days, Liu Shishi, Zhu Yilong, Zhang Ruoyun, and Li Xin, the four-member group, were basically forced to receive box lunches in the "grapevine".

It can be said that "all members were killed in action".

When Zhou Mo saw this message, he discovered that Liu Shishi had been replaced many times by "Da Mimi", "Huang Shengyi" and others.

"The netizens are really fair and impartial, not letting any one off." Zhou Mo was in awe of the netizens' speed.

He saw a piece of "revelation" on Little Blue Book this morning that Liu Shishi and Da Mimi were engaged in a fierce competition over "Night Watchmen".

You know what, the content of that post is quite well written.

What "Although the crew prefers Liu Shishi to play the leading female role, Da Mimi herself contacted Zhou Mo and suppressed everyone's dissatisfaction through Zhou Mo, and she will strongly join "Night Watchmen" in the second season."

In addition to the text, this post also comes with a photo.

A photo of Zhou Mo and Da Mimi having dinner in a restaurant in the afternoon.

The title is: The two discuss "Night Watch".

Not long after this post was published, it had received hundreds of thousands of views and tens of thousands of likes.

After seeing the photos, many people believed them to be true and actually went to Liu Shishi’s personal account to inquire.

Liu Shishi was helpless about this.

Her helplessness lies in the fact that even if the news is true, netizens should ask Zhou Mo or Da Mimi, why ask me?

Netizen: Because you are going to be replaced, let us ask you what you think.

Liu Shishi: …

In fact, the photo of Zhou Mo and Da Mimi eating in a restaurant was taken many years ago. When they were discussing roles in "Qi's Army", they took the photo specially to release it in order to warm up for the movie.

In other words, a netizen used the pictures Zhou Mo sent out many years ago to fabricate Zhou Mo's experience many years later.

The key is that there are still many netizens who believe this.

I can only say that the Internet is so magical.

Liu Shishi has a different opinion on this.

"What this netizen said is not entirely wrong. Da Mimi did contact you and recommended herself to you, saying that she really hopes to play a role. What do you think?"

Zhou Mo tilted his head to look at Liu Shishi, smiled and said, "Forget it. Didn't Mimi just say a few days ago that she would go to Yanjing TV Station to participate in the Spring Festival Gala this Spring Festival, and she would be with Brother Kun. Let's not disturb her."

Liu Shishi's eyes were always fixed on the TV, as if the question just now was just a casual question. After hearing Zhou Mo's answer, she just said "hmm".

"What a pity. She is actually quite suitable for this kind of drama. However, the job of the host of the Yanjing Spring Festival Gala is also good... By the way, are you going back to work tomorrow?"

Faced with such a blunt change of subject, Zhou Mo smiled and nodded without saying anything: "The New Year movie season is about to start, I have to go back to check the venue."

Liu Shishi was silent for a while and suddenly looked at the clock.

On the clock, the short hand is pointing to the number eight.

It is eight o'clock in the evening, and there are still twelve hours until eight o'clock tomorrow morning.

"Twelve hours is enough."

Zhou Mo: ???
(End of this chapter)