After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 529: The War of Words Escalates! The War of the Century!
The next day, late March.

New news came from the country. Tan Bing held a press conference and openly criticized Zhen Zhidan, listing more than 20 of Zhen Zhidan's evil deeds.

"Zhen Zhidan's driver killed Zhao Wenzhuo's driver" is even more shocking.

Li Mingyang was speechless. He was actually involved in such a matter! It was too much! No wonder Wu was unwilling to get involved.

Incheon Airport.

"It's a turbulent time! The capitalists have gone blood-thirsty..." Wang Changtian sighed.

"Mr. Wang, do you know the truth?" Li Mingyang asked curiously.

"I've been pushed out by them and have to work in animation, how could I possibly know... But it's not hard to guess, it's about Zhen Zhidan. You're the most prolific director in the mainland, and he's the most prolific action star in the mainland. The basic base is too stable. With him or without him, the box office of the movie will be completely different..."

"I am much stronger than him..."

"The first bird to stick its head out gets shot. You've been kicked out, and now we have to start dealing with him. But he's really unlucky. He met Zhao Wenzhuo, who sparked cross-strait issues. It's going to be difficult to resolve..." After Wang Changtian finished speaking, he took out a document from his bag and handed it to Li Mingyang.

"what is that?"

"Invitation letter to the Academy Awards."

Li Mingyang smiled and said, "You really gave it to me. I thought they didn't dare to give it to me."

"These people are now acting very harshly. You'd better be careful. Just watch the show, but don't get involved." Wang Changtian warned.

"Don't worry, I'm in a very peaceful state of mind now."

Wang Changtian flew back to Yanbei.

On the way back, Li Mingyang sat in the car holding the invitation letter for the Academy Awards, reading it over and over again, and suddenly said with gloating: "Yen Chi-tan is one of the faces of Hong Kong movies, but she was treated like that... So there is such a thing! The overall situation is determined, you guys just wait to be the clowns at the Academy Awards!"

……

Yanbei.

Jiang Wen is so miserable, so fucking miserable!
He never dreamed that at the critical moment when he won the Academy Awards, Zhao Wenzhuo and Zhen Zhidan would fight, and the fight became known to the whole country and shocked the whole nation.

This is even more ruthless than what Li Mingyang did when he was running Zhenglong Liqi, and the impact is even greater!

The Beijing and Hong Kong circles are fighting each other! No one is willing to stop!
"Damn it, if you want to fight, wait until I win the Academy Award! You're destroying my Taoist faith!" Jiang Wen took a puff of cigar to calm himself, picked up the brush and wrote a few words, then threw the brush away, unable to write any more. It was so depressing.

At this time, Zhou Yun came over with a cell phone, "It's Mr. Han's call."

When Jiang Wen heard this, he immediately picked up the call from his leader and smiled brightly.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Wen took two puffs of his cigar and scratched his head. "You want me to go to a meeting at this time? What kind of meeting?"

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang Wen came to the large conference room of the Zhongshu base to hold a meeting.

More than 40 directors from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan gathered together. There were not enough seats, and many people had to stand during the meeting, but the seat next to Zhang Yimou was empty.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that the empty seat belongs to Li Mingyang.

But no one mentioned it.

Jiang Wen looked at the empty seat opposite him, and suddenly remembered Li Mingyang's sinister look with sunglasses on. He suddenly felt that his seat was not very auspicious and wanted to exchange seats with Lu Sang.

Lu Sang kept refusing and didn't want to change places with Jiang Wen.

But what Jiang Wen wanted to do was beyond Lu Sang's ability to resist.

Jiang Wen kicked his chair back and pushed Lu Sang to his seat, then laughed heartily, put his own chair away and sat on it.

Lu Sang had a lot of troubles to tell. He smoked silently and recalled all the unfair things he had experienced when he was looking for a gun.

Why does this place feel a bit chilly?
Lu Sang muttered to himself and looked around, but there was no vent!

At this time, Zuoshandiao walked into the conference room with a smile. Everyone stood up to greet him. After Zuoshandiao sat down, he waved his hand for everyone to sit down. Only those who had seats sat down. Of course, those who didn't have seats could only stand.

"Why is there still an empty seat?" Zuoshandiao asked with a smile.

This sentence made it difficult for the people present to respond and comment... It's not that no one wanted to sit down, but they were all asked to leave by the staff...

"Director Li is not here." said the secretary.

Zuoshandiao hummed, smiled, and slowly glanced at the directors present.

Everyone felt inexplicable pressure and felt like they were to blame for something again.

The combination of finance and film policies has led to a huge influx of hot money into the domestic film industry. It is no longer like before, when one had to scrape together money from all over to make a blockbuster.

The policy and money were in place, and Li Mingyang also contributed the production manual and documentary of Weathering with You, and achieved results.

Zuoshandiao first boasted, then made demands, and finally picked a few directors and asked them when the film would be released or whether they had confidence.

Among them, Feng Kuzi, Chen Kaizi, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kexin, Jiang Wen and Lu Sang were questioned in particular.

Jiang Wen didn't think it was a big deal, he just asked about the progress.

He started by bragging, then said the script was still being written, and then that was it.

The process is basically the same for others.

Zuoshandiao listened to everyone's words with a smile and said, "Those of you who are still looking for scripts to write, are you interested in taking on special identities?"

quiet!
The conference room suddenly became quiet. Zhao Wenzhuo and Zhen Zhidan broke up publicly and fought to the death. The original director also came out to criticize Zhen Zhidan.

It's really unbearable to watch. No one wants to take on such a huge blow.

Zuoshan Diao said calmly: "China Film Group is now involved in this project. If you have any ideas, please feel free to share them."

With China Film Corporation getting involved, this farce is expected to be over soon. For a while, many directors showed great interest, but the big directors remained silent. It was not that they did not want to take over, but they wanted to understand the inside story of the movie before they would take it.

The collaboration between China Film Group and Wanda is unexpected and exciting.

The film schedule is super guaranteed!

"The script can be rewritten, and Zhen Zhidan can still be the protagonist, producer, and action director. It's almost like reshooting it." Zuoshandiao lit a cigarette and said with a smile.

For a moment, the whole audience was boiling, and several big directors could no longer sit still.

Zhang Yimou immediately expressed his intention to take over.

Xu Ke followed closely behind.

Feng Kuazi and Jiang Wen also expressed great interest.

In the drama Special Identity, Zhen Zhidan took home 35 million just for being the leading actor and producer, and together with the action director, he took home at least 40 million.

But no one thinks it’s expensive, that’s its appeal!
"Okay, I feel everyone's enthusiasm, but... this project needs a director with experience in action movies... How about this, Zhang Yimou, Jiang Wen, and Xu Ke, the three of you stay."

Zuoshandiao picked three people, all of them were big directors, and the others were just supporting roles.

"Lao Mouzi has made movies like Heroes, so he has experience. Jiang Wen has experience in action movies!"

"Pulling a bellyband is also considered an action movie, haha!"

"China Film Group and Wanda Film Group are producing this together. The world is changing so fast!"

“A few years ago, who would have thought that Wanda could compete with China Film Group?”

Several Hong Kong directors gathered together, walked at the back of the crowd, and made sarcastic comments.

"Hey, it's getting harder and harder to survive in the mainland. I was hoping that after Li Mingyang left, life would be easier, but I didn't expect it to be even worse than before."

"It's a waste of time."

"The fuss Donnie Yen made is the first time in my life that I've ever seen a box office poison like him flip the table and make such a big fuss. Who dares to say it wasn't intentional?"

"What a drama tyrant! Isn't this guy a drama tyrant himself?"

"What a cancer..."

"Haha, BJ has ten apartments, so he doesn't have to worry about food and drink."

"They always expose what we do, which makes them look very clean. They are just a bunch of losers, but they are not much better than us."

"How can you talk like that? We didn't cheat people out of money. We don't have such a big brothel."

"Times have changed. Old guys like us are no longer welcome. We just have to do our job as usual."

"I suddenly want to change my ticket..."

"The tickets have been sent out for audit, can you tell me how to change them?"

“The results haven’t come out yet?”

"It seems that we have changed the auditing company this year, so it will probably be slower."

……

Here, China Film Group is selecting a director for a special identity.

Over there, the century-long verbal battle between Zhao Wenzhuo and Zhen Zhidan has developed to the point where they have to take it offline!
The cause of the incident was that a netizen suggested that since both of them were martial arts masters, they should settle the dispute by "fighting in a ring".
Zhen Zhidan responded: "I did want to fight him, but in a movie, but he didn't agree!"

Zhao Wenzhuo responded: "It doesn't matter, we can fight anywhere!"

Then Zhen Zhidan didn't respond.

Just when people thought the matter was over.

Li Mingyang was eager to watch the fun and posted a message on Weibo saying "want to see it".

Li Mingyang, who hadn't updated his Weibo for a long time, suddenly posted on Weibo at this critical juncture.

Public opinion suddenly changed, and countless netizens flocked to Zhen Zhidan and Zhao Wenzhuo’s Weibo, leaving messages saying they wanted to see the two fight!
In less than an hour, Zhao Zhen's offline PK topped the hot search list on major platforms.

The combined number of comments on the two's latest Weibo posts exceeded one million, and countless netizens are looking forward to a fight between the two.

The crowd was excited, Zhao Wenzhuo immediately posted on Weibo, set a date, and asked Zhen Zhidan to choose the location. The two had known each other for many years, and if they really fought, Zhao Wenzhuo was not afraid of Zhen Zhidan at all.

Zhao Wenzhuo spoke, but Zhen Zhidan remained silent.

But netizens disagree. This is the first time in China that two kung fu superstars have competed offline!

Netizens are really looking forward to this PK of the century.

One day, two days passed.

Zhen Zhidan still remained silent and refused to fight.

Worried netizens and media outlets directly blasted Zhen Zhidan for not having real kung fu, bullying the weak and fearing the strong, being afraid of being beaten, and not daring to fight.

"What Kung Fu superstar! He's just an embroidered pillow. I can beat him!"

"Brother Zhuo is awesome! Brother Zhuo is a real man! I will never watch Zhen Zhidan's movies again!"

"You can't be too Zhen Zhidan! What kind of person is this!"

"Let's fight! If you guys fight, I'll buy tickets to your movies from now on!"

"Zhen Zhidan can beat ten people, what a joke! He can beat ten people with this! I am dying of laughter!"

"Zhen Zhidan, the sick man of East Asia!"

"Zhen Zhidan, you disappoint me so much. Others have bullied you to this extent, how can you pretend to be dead? Screw him!"

"Brother Zhuo is so awesome, Brother Zhuo is a real man!"

"Brother Zhuo is so awesome, Brother Zhuo has real kung fu! Zhen Zhidan is just a monkey trainer!"

"Fight! Fight me!"

"I can't even watch Zhen Zhidan's movies now. He's just a clown. It's so shameful!"

"Ye Wen, stand up!"

"Damn it, I've liked you for so many years, Ip Man, beat me, or I won't watch Ip Man anymore!"

"Let Zidan fly for a while longer!"

Li Mingyang's irresponsible Weibo post has made people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macau start looking forward to the 'Battle of the Century'. It can be said to be the top traffic in the domestic entertainment industry and a national event!
Public opinion was overwhelming, but Zhen Zhidan refused to respond.

Lu Zhen was speechless, and his special status was immediately suspended.

Things have been pushed to this point, and the kung fu superstar doesn't even dare to accept the challenge. Not to mention the netizens, even the producers can't stand it anymore.

With hundreds of millions of people looking forward to it, capital has also rushed in to broadcast this battle of the century live.

Penguin even offered each player an appearance fee of 10 million.

Mango TV, Blue Channel, Youku and iQiyi are not to be outdone and will also broadcast live.

At this point, right or wrong no longer matters.

All the intrigues don't matter anymore.

Truth comes from fists!
Whoever wins is right!
The public was full of emotion, including all media, major TV stations, various investors, relatives and friends...

Zhen Zhidan, exhausted, hid in the hotel, sighing and drinking. Several cell phones vibrated frantically, all asking him to accept the challenge.

Zhen Zhidan didn't want to fight because there was no need.

As a public figure, having an offline fight and having it broadcast live has a very bad impact.

There's no way we could start a fight.

He is now waiting for the higher-ups to step in and stop this farce.

"Brother Dan! Open the door! I'm Li Mingyang!"

Bang bang bang!
Zhen Zhidan rolled his eyes at Li Mingyang who was outside the door.

It was Li Mingyang who forced him into this situation.

Bang!Bang!Bang!
"Brother Dan! Open the door!"

"Brother Dan! The internet is not in your favor right now, accept the challenge!"

"Could it be... you really can't beat Zhao Wenzhuo!"

Click!

Zhen Zhidan opened the door and pointed at Li Mingyang unhappily, "This is all your fault. Find a way to end this."

"Fight!"

"How could a fight break out?"

"Whether or not a fight can break out is not your concern. What you should be concerned about is that if there is no fight, you will have to pay compensation. Your special status will earn you a total of 35 million yuan in salary. If the project fails, you will have to pay compensation."

"..."

"Come on, post on Weibo quickly. Didn't he ask you to pick a location? China definitely won't work. Let's pick Seoul. I'm familiar with that place!"

"..."

"Brother Dan, you can't really be unable to defeat him, right?"

"He is nine years younger than me... I am almost fifty years old..."

"Fight first, and leave the rest to me. There's no way we can fight."

"Can't fight?"

"Who doesn't have accidents? How can you fight if you get a broken bone or end up in the hospital?"

Seeing Zhen Zhidan hesitate, Li Mingyang smiled and said, "The truth is not important. Traffic is the most important. Let's fight first and divert public opinion to another direction. Then we can deal with other things. Didn't you sue Tan Bing? The lawsuit will take a long time. If you win this lawsuit, those rumors against you will be broken!"

"Now someone is trying to harm you on purpose! You don't want all your years of hard work to go to waste, do you?"

"Brother Dan, following the pace of others is a big pit of fire. If Zhao Wenzhuo fails, he will be a box office poison. Brother Dan, you are different! You are the box office guarantee. Do you want to go down with him?"

"What happened between you two is not considered a big deal in the industry. Don't worry about what is right or wrong. There is no right or wrong at all."

"He just wants to drag you down with him."

"Brother Dan... could it be that what Tan Bing said was true?"

As a former director, Tan Bing held a press conference and publicly criticized Zhen Zhidan, which was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

He revealed a lot.

For example, Zhen Zhidan used his power to persecute young directors from the mainland;
Under the tyranny of Zhen Zhidan, the film that was about to start shooting was aborted overnight;
Zhen Zhidan threatened to stop performing in order to force Jackie Chan to give up his position as producer of the movie "The Ultimate Code";
Zhen Zhidan went on strike, demanded a pay raise for no reason, refused to return her pay, etc...

Zhao Wenzhuo's bombardment at the cost of a ban, coupled with Tan Bing's revelations, one blow after another, was really fierce!
Zhen Zhidan rolled her eyes and really wanted to kick Li Mingyang.

"Not a word he said is true!" Zhen Zhidan picked up the wine glass gloomily, took a big sip to moisten his throat, and told Li Mingyang about the conflict between him and Tan Bing.

The contradiction is that Lu Zhen didn't like Tan Bing, but only liked Zhen Zhidan, so he withdrew his investment and ran away.

Zhen Zhidan thought that everyone had worked so hard for so long and many people needed to eat, so he found a new director and started shooting again.

Lu Zhen trusted Zhen Zhidan very much, so he let him do it.

The so-called "Zhen Zhidan's driver killed Zhao Wenzhuo's driver" was actually an illegal conflict between two societies. The two people involved were drivers of the crew and were not anyone's private drivers at all.

At this point, Zhen Zhidan scratched his head, "This happened many years ago, and it can still be dug up... I feel like my own people have betrayed me..."

Li Mingyang patted Zhen Zhidan on the shoulder, comforted him with a few words, and told him to be more open-minded. Then he patted his chest and assured him, "Brother Dan, don't worry. I can lie to anyone but you! You can be right if you listen to me!"

"..."

"I have offended almost everyone in the domestic entertainment industry. These people want me dead. They have messed with me so many times, but I am still living a good life. In just a few years, I have made billions of dollars! I am very experienced in dealing with this kind of thing. You can't find anyone more professional than me in the entire domestic entertainment industry."

"Wu Jing..."

"Brother Dan, why are you so stubborn? Wu Jing can't solve the problem at all. His senior brother is Li Lianjie! Li Lianjie has been scolding you for a long time. He is not good enough, and he hopes you will become like him sooner!"

Zhen Zhidan smiled with his big white teeth, "Tell me, you are so active, you must be after something."

"Brother Dan, you have misjudged me. I, Li Mingyang, have always been worthy of my friends. I would risk my life to help my friends when they are in trouble."

"..."

"Brother Dan, I want to host an offline PK between you and Zhao Wenzhuo. Can you sign a contract with me?"

"Didn't you say we don't need to fight? What's the point of signing a contract?"

"No, you don't need to call! But I want to use this data. Don't worry, I'll pay for it."

“This has to be written in the contract…”

"Add an additional contract..."

Zhen Zhidan nodded and suddenly asked, "How much money are you going to give me?"

"888 million, let's all get it together."

"I won't fight for one hundred percent!"

"No problem. Of course if you're willing to fight I'll give you 20 million."

When Zhen Zhidan heard this rather tempting price, he nodded and believed Li Mingyang's lies.

(End of this chapter)