Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 165 The Legend of Chu Liuxiang

Shi Xiaolong asked first, "What new project?"

Chen Shantong replied, "It's a TV series adapted from Gu Long's novel, The Legend of Chu Liuxiang."

Shi Xiaolong praised, "This is great, it's some of Gu Long's most exciting characters, Li Xunhuan, Chu Liuxiang, Lu Xiaofeng, and The Two Heroes.

The other few have basically been filmed in the mainland, except for Chu Liuxiang. "

Chen Linfeng touched his chin. It turned out to be this drama.

I remember that this drama was played by Zhu Xiaotian in the previous life, and he played it as a fat version of Chu Liuxiang.

The screenwriter is still Yu Ma, and the adaptation is very large, but the story is rare and good.

The female characters are the highlight, there are many beauties, forming a sharp contrast with the male protagonist.

Chen Shantong recounted the whole story of this project, which was still a collaboration with China Central Television, but this time it was the Film and Television Department, not the Art and Literature Department.

The adaptation rights for the drama he and Fang Hua were planning to make have already been acquired and are scheduled to start next year, with the broadcast expected to begin the year after.

Chen Linfeng said directly, "It's better to start it as soon as possible. It will be too late to broadcast it next year. "

Chen Shantong was a little surprised and was just about to ask what the difficulty was.

He stretched out his hand to interrupt, "Wait a minute, I'm not asking you to speed me up."

Then he expressed his concerns. As far as he was concerned, he was a little reluctant to continue making costume martial arts dramas.

In recent years, there have been quite a few costume martial arts dramas, and many of the scripts are poorly made and cannot stand up to scrutiny.

"Even the movies are all about ancient martial arts dramas, which reminds me of Hong Kong in the last century. So I'm wondering if I should take it easy."

Chen Linfeng gave his father a thumbs up in his heart.

No wonder, in addition to some TV series he directed, most of the dramas invested by Chen Shantong himself have also achieved good results in recent years. He really has his own set of ideas about love.

Indeed, after several years of popularity of costumed martial arts dramas, audiences will sooner or later get tired of this type of TV series.

And this time is not far away, it is in 2007.

This year, except for a few places, in most areas of provincial and municipal television stations, the dramas that topped the ratings were mostly sad dramas.

Even other types of costume dramas are somewhat unable to keep up.

The most typical example is Ming Dynasty 1566. It is hard to say whether the low ratings of this drama are due to the problem of the broadcasting platform or the broadcasting year.

That’s why Chen Linfeng suggested starting the show as soon as possible, preferably in 2006.

Although judging from the situation in the past, even if this drama was aired in 07, it would have performed quite well.

But if the production quality is improved and it is released in 06, the performance will definitely be more outstanding.

After this, it is not that costumed martial arts dramas cannot be filmed, but the format needs to be changed.

What replaced it was the fairy tale drama, which was actually just a fully upgraded costume martial arts drama with martial arts special effects and stories.

After Chen Linfeng expressed his understanding, Shi Xiaolong was confused without waiting for Chen Shantong to react.

"No, according to what you two are saying, martial arts dramas will no longer be popular in the future. What should I do?"

For many years, he has made a living by starring in costume martial arts dramas.

Shi Xiaolong was also upset. When he was young, his younger brother always warned him that it would not be easy to transform into a child star in the future.

Now the transformation seems to be successful.

As a result, he was told that martial arts dramas would no longer be popular.

Chen Shantong comforted him, "Don't worry, I won't forget you. Xiaofeng suggested a play for me, and I was planning to tell you during the Chinese New Year."

Shi Xiaolong asked hurriedly, "What drama is it?"

Chen Linfeng explained, "Didn't you want to work with Wang Baoqiang before? Now the opportunity has come. It's a modern military-themed TV series."

This is naturally "Soldier Assault".

Although the script of this drama was already in Huayi's hands in 04.

But Huayi didn't really take the show seriously, but now that it had received an investment and cooperation offer from Dragon and Kirin, it readily agreed. Shi Xiaolong didn't know exactly what the show was like, but he always believed in his brother and father's judgment.

Now that I know I have found a place to stay, I won’t say anything more.

Chen Shantong continued to chat with Chen Linfeng about "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang".

"According to you, this is a good project, and it's best to start the project as early as possible?"

Chen Linfeng nodded.

Chen Shantong thought for a while, "It's already November now. If we want to broadcast it in the second half of next year, apart from the production and review time, that means we have to start the early preparations now."

He said with a headache, "Funding and personnel are easy to deal with. I can also communicate with Fang Hua relatively easily. But this script is not easy to prepare. It won't be that fast."

Chen Shantong paced back and forth, thinking about how to solve this problem.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he turned to ask Chen Linfeng.

"Xiao Feng, I remember you write scripts very quickly, how about you write it?"

Chen Linfeng had no objection, but he was currently writing a script.

"That's it..."

Chen Shantong thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll find two screenwriters to help you, just like when you were editing the script for the Legend of the White Snake. You can ask them to fill in the plot, and this shouldn't take up much of your time."

This method is not bad, so Chen Linfeng agreed.

Now that the project has been decided to be launched, the first thing to consider is the casting of the director and the male and female protagonists.

Chen Shantong said that he wanted Chen Linfeng to also consider the candidate for director.

Chen Linfeng did not hesitate and directly recommended director Zhang Min.

Chen Shantong thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out who this person was.

"In his early years, he often served as Wang Jing's assistant director and executive director. He was not very well-known here in the mainland."

"Why did you choose such a person?"

Chen Linfeng was embarrassed to say that this person was the director of Zhang Zhiyao's later version of "The New Adventures of Chor Liu-heung".

Judging from the effect of this version, its directing style is very consistent with Gu Long's dramas.

Chen Linfeng also recommended the action director of this drama.

Chu Liuxiang's performance of Qinggong is one of the keys to the success of the TV series.

The Qinggong moves in "The New Adventures of Chor Liu-heung" are almost the best type he has ever seen in a TV drama, so it would be best if Sun Mengfei could be invited.

Chen Shantong frowned and thought for a while, then decided to follow his son's advice and contact these two people first.

……

During this period, CCTV-6 previously recorded and broadcast the Yanying semester assignment exhibition. The ratings of this video were average, but after being posted online, it attracted a lot of attention from netizens.

Especially the part about Chen Linfeng.

"Am I seeing right? Is Xiao Chen's status so high? Can he sit down and discuss with several big directors?"

"Look at what Director Chen Kaige said. Chen is a screenwriter. Hasn't he only written The Lotus Lantern? How can he be taken seriously just because of this?"

"You don't understand this. Chen is a very successful person in Hollywood."

Those who knew the inside story also explained Chen Linfeng's past experiences.

"That's no wonder. I thought Xiao Chen was just a writer and had an average status in the film and television industry."

"There's a photo in front of me, with several first-line celebrities surrounding Xiao Chen. It looks like he's got something."

……

In mid-November, Shi Xiaolong joined the crew of The Legend of Xue Rengui. He only has to play a supporting role in this period and should be back in less than a month.

At this time, Tang Ren's Legend of Sword and Fairy had already been broadcast on satellite TV and had been broadcasting for some time.

(End of this chapter)