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Chapter 227 New Film Selection
"Hello, Huang Ze."

"Hello." Huang Ze smiled and held the other person's hands with both hands.

Huang Ze was quite excited when he saw this face that he often saw on TV and in newspapers in his previous life.

At the same time, I didn’t know what to say.

How come every time you go to Shanghai, you always rise to the top?

"I heard that you are going to build buildings from various dynasties in the future? Make it the largest film and television city in Asia?" the other party asked with a smile.

"That's true. I'm also moving towards this goal step by step." Huang Ze pointed to Yangcheng Street and said, "We will strive to build five or more similar buildings within ten years. By then, dramas about thousands of years ago can basically be filmed here."

"Local villagers can also act as extras in the crew, or do other small businesses."

"That movie 'Huang Feihong' was well made and has a great scale." The other party praised, and then said, "In the future, you can make more movies that promote our traditional culture."

"You are now also a great name card for our country abroad."

"I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it." Huang Ze said modestly.

After a while, everyone arrived at the stage, and then each other spoke to the distant relatives. Huang Ze and Gong Xing also said a few words, and a group of people cut the ribbon together.

After the ribbon-cutting, the matter is over.

I stood there and watched the construction of the Qingming Shanghe Scene. After watching for a while, I felt there was nothing to see.

Huang Ze went back.

That night, when the family was eating around the dinner table, Huang's father asked about Huang Ze's next movie, "Son, what are you planning to shoot next?"

“I haven’t thought about it yet.” Huang Ze really hadn’t thought about it. ATV and records were enough to distract his attention. If he also thought about the new film, would these two months still be considered rest time?
If you want to rest, of course you have to look like you are resting.

Once I have had enough rest, I will naturally make a new film.

"Then are we still going to shoot in Hollywood?" Huang's father asked persistently.

"That's definitely not the case." Huang Ze shook his head. "The next time I go to Hollywood, I have to wait until the last movie is completely released and the box office data is released. That will be next year."

"If we are going to do it, we will definitely shoot it in the country or Hong Kong Island."

"If possible, let's shoot it in China," said Huang's father. "Our studio can fully cooperate. Let's cooperate according to the model of Once Upon a Time in China."

"Look, if it's shot in China, then we can cooperate." Huang Ze responded casually without taking it too seriously. In the end, isn't it him who has the final say?

Can a father still force his son to do things?

In fact, Huang Ze had not thought about the new film, but after returning to Shanghai and resting for three days, he couldn't help but want to find something to do.

My own thing, of course, is making movies.

Holding a pen, Huang Ze wrote down several conditions for the next film.

The box office has to be high, and it would be best if the North American box office is not low either.

If "Pulp Fiction" does well at the box office, the new film will definitely reap a wave of profits. We must make a work that has box office potential, can catch the profits, and allow ourselves to gain a firm foothold in Hollywood.

You need to have a certain level of style. Well, this is very important to me. It’s not easy to become a thorough commercial director all of a sudden. I still have to mix in the Big Three.

Even if we don't mention the Big Three, we will still be criticized when we return to China.

I don't really care about their criticism, but if it can achieve both box office success and good reputation, isn't it obviously better than just box office success?
After these conditions were finalized, and considering that the film had to be shot in China, Huang Ze remembered that he had recently shot the martial arts film "Huang Feihong", and he made up his mind.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

There are prizes and box office!

In my previous life until I traveled through time, the highest-grossing foreign language film in North America was still this film, which had been released for more than 1.3 years, with a box office of nearly million US dollars.

That was in the North American market where audiences don't like to read subtitles, and the lines were in Chinese, but the box office was still so high.

The second-ranked foreign language film, "Life is Beautiful," took in less than half of that.

Many domestic audiences said they couldn't understand Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and it was boring, but Huang Ze felt it was necessary to film it because of the green dollars and the strong influence it could bring. He could even find Li Lianjie, who Li An originally wanted to find but declined because his wife had a baby, to play the leading role.

The most important thing is that if the box office is good, the North American distribution rights for the two "Once Upon a Time in China" trilogy will be easy to sell.

Same director, same leading actors, same subject matter, just tell me whether it has marketability or not.

If it’s less than 10 million US dollars, don’t even think about it.

It really kills two birds with one stone.

It's him!
After slapping the table and finalizing the next film to be shot, Huang Ze stood up, found the small phone book he always carried with him, and prepared to call the people from the Federation of Literary and Art Circles whom he had met in previous meetings.

But as soon as I pressed a key, I felt something was not quite right.

Wang Dulu, who writes martial arts novels, is probably nothing in the eyes of this group of people.

Moreover, you have to repay the favor after using it, so it’s better to find someone more familiar and ask him to help.

Thinking of this, I called Wang Zhiwen.

Wang Zhiwen had already become famous because he had starred in several of his own films, so he did not go to the Central Academy of Drama to be a teacher as he had done in his previous life, but was directly snatched away by the Beijing Film Academy.

His current identity is a well-known teacher at Beijing Film Academy.

"Feng Kuzi, you won't thank me secretly, will you?" He smiled playfully and the call was connected. "It's me, Huang Ze."

"Brother Huang!" Wang Zhiwen smiled on the phone, "I'm flattered. What do you want to talk to me about, Brother Huang?"

"Looking for your help."

"Just tell me, as long as I can do it, I will do it for you as soon as possible."

"Aren't you in the capital? Find out for me where the widow of a martial arts novelist named Wang Dulu lives. Just find out this." Huang Ze remembered that it was true that he died in Tieling, but later his wife and children should have been in the capital.

"Okay, no problem, I'll get back to you as soon as possible."

After making this call, Huang Ze called Hong Kong Island again and asked them to go to Beijing to prepare to buy the adaptation rights of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and come directly to their door after finding the location.

"Get the adaptation rights at all costs!"

After all these things were arranged, Huang Ze couldn't help but let his thoughts wander and started thinking about the main actors in the play before he even started writing the script.

There is no need to say much about Li Mubai. Yu Xiulian and Yang Ziqiong can no longer play the role because she is a rich wife, and Huang Ze can't accept her accent.

In the previous life, Li An corrected the Mandarin of the male and female protagonists word by word. Huang Ze doesn't want to suffer that. Isn't it better for me to just find someone who can speak Mandarin?
Speaking of which, Xiao Fangfang should be fine, right?
Huang Ze asked himself this question in his head, then nodded secretly, thinking that there would definitely be no problem.

She knows martial arts.

Acting skills, won the Berlin Film Festival Best Actress Award in her previous life.

Mandarin, he also sang "Only Mother is Good in the World" in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", so it must be good.

You would never have thought that the person singing this song was actually Fang Shiyu’s mother in “Fang Shiyu”.

It's just her age, but not too old. After all, she is several years younger than when she played Fang Shiyu in her previous life. It's not a big problem to make her look younger and Li Lianjie look older.

The biggest problem was that Huang Ze thought of the role of Jade Fox.

My mind is full of international chapters.

But Zhang Ziyi is still in primary school now, right?
I have to change one, who should I choose? Huang Ze scratched his head, but couldn't think of an answer, so he listed the conditions on paper first.

First, the actress who plays Jade Fox cannot be too old, preferably no older than 20 years old.

Second, you need to have a background in martial arts or dancing, otherwise you won’t be able to shoot the fighting scenes. A background in martial arts is best.

Third, she needs to have talent for acting, and it would be best if she stood out in her previous life. Her Mandarin must also be good, because I am too lazy to adjust every word for the other party.

Fourthly, you need to have that kind of stubborn temperament, or be able to act it out.

(End of this chapter)