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Chapter 250 Asking Xu Ke to direct, I dare not accept the invitation

This time, Cao Sheng was silent even longer than before.

He didn't want to lie to her.

But he didn't want to break up with her because of this, so after a long silence, he said something ambiguous.

"I can't prove my innocence in this matter."

The main reason is that he is really not innocent this time.

So, there is no way to prove it.

Huang Qingya: "I understand. I'm not that petty. However, there seem to be a lot of reporters following you recently. I won't come over to add to your scandals for a while. I'll come over to find you after this storm is over."

Cao Sheng: “Okay!”

……

In the next few days, Cao Sheng occasionally worried about his relationship.

This is also the reason why he wanted his love life to be simpler before.

He knew that having too many women would inevitably take up some of his energy and affect the speed at which he could draw his sword.

Fortunately, Wang Zuxian and Huang Qingya did not contact him in the past few days, which allowed him to gradually calm down.

Refocus on your career.

It has to be said that during his recent trip to Hong Kong, Jackie Chan’s words still had some impact on him.

Before his rebirth, he had witnessed the rampant feminism and felt that Cheng Long's attitude towards relationships between men and women was worth learning.

For example: focus on your career and don’t spend too much time and energy on relationships between men and women.

Career is the foundation for a man to establish himself in this world.

As long as your business survives, you will never lack women.

On the contrary, a man whose mind is always on women is destined to have an unsuccessful career, a bumpy love life, and an uncertain old age.

He called Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao separately to thank them for helping him cover up in front of the media.

Cheng Long laughed happily on the phone, "What's the big deal? Brothers should cover for each other in this kind of thing, isn't it? Haha, how about it? Are you grateful now that I invited Ah Xian to the seafood dinner that night?"

Cao Sheng: “…”

Cao Sheng smiled slightly and changed the subject, "Have you read the script of Pacific Rim? What do you think? Do you like it?"

Cheng Long: "Well, I did read it, and the script is indeed quite attractive, but the mecha in the script... I want to make it, and make it realistic. With the current computer special effects technology, I'm afraid it can't be made, right? Not to mention that Hong Kong can't make it, I'm afraid even Hollywood can't make it!"

Cao Sheng doesn't think so.

Because he remembered that "Jurassic Park" was released in 93, and the filming time must have been earlier, and the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park" were already very realistic.

He still remembers the live-action versions of "Transformers" and "Iron Man", both of which were released around 08, and were definitely filmed even earlier.

This kind of special effects movie may be filmed one or two years earlier than it is released.

The project may be launched several years earlier than the official shooting.

When they started the project, the film company was obviously confident that they could produce good special effects.

Therefore, the technical conditions for filming "Pacific Rim" may have matured by now.

"Have you seen Jurassic Park? What do you think of the special effects in this movie?"

Cao Sheng's question left Cheng Long speechless for a moment.

Then he asked, "You mean Hollywood's special effects are now capable of making movies like Pacific Rim?"

Cao Sheng: "If I remember correctly, Jurassic Park should have been released in 1993, and the filming time must have been earlier. After so many years, Hollywood's special effects will only improve, not regress. Otherwise, can you help me submit the script to companies like Paramount and Universal?"

He remembered that Paramount was involved in both the Transformers and Iron Man films.

Cheng Long: "This... OK! I can help you try, if it works, can you let me play the leading actor?"

Cao Sheng laughed, "This is not something I can decide, but if it really happens, I can recommend you to the other party to play the leading role."

Cheng Long laughed twice and thanked him repeatedly.

……

When I called Hong Jinbao, he said, "Is this just a small thing worth a special phone call to thank you? It's not worth it, not worth it!"

After a pause, he took the initiative to mention the two scripts that Cao Sheng sent him after returning to Huizhou.

"Hey! Mr. Cao! I think your Xianxia script "Legend of the Demon Lord in the Tomb of Gods" is quite interesting. Can you sell it to me? I want to wait until Xu Ke's "Legend of Zu" is released and then ask him to work on this project. It just so happens that he has experience in filming "Legend of Zu", so he should be able to do a good job filming "Legend of the Demon Lord". Do you think it's okay?"

Do it with Xu Laoguai?

Cao Sheng's expression became a little strange.

Because he estimated that the "Shu Shan Zhuan" in this time and space would most likely be a flop like the original.

After this movie fails miserably, I’m afraid Xu Kai will never touch the fantasy theme again in his life.

Before he was reborn, Old Monster Xu already had a head full of white hair, and he still didn't dare to touch the fairy tales, which is very telling.

However, apart from Xu Ke, who else can make a good fantasy film?
There is definitely no chance for foreign directors.

It seems that directors from the mainland are not good at this either.

I'm afraid Hong Jinbao wouldn't be able to shoot it well either.

Who else can I entrust the photo to?
Perhaps the only way is to find an investor to invest, and then pay Xu Ke to shoot the film, but the premise is that Xu Ke does not participate in the investment.

Because there is a high probability that Xu Kaiwei will not dare to invest money in fantasy movies anymore.

"As long as you can convince him to direct, I'll sell you the script."

Cao Sheng answered like this.

For him, he doesn't care about the box office performance of "Legend of the Demon Lord in God's Tomb".

Because he does not participate in the investment, he will not lose money due to low box office.

He only cares about whether this script can be filmed in a fairy-tale style?

In his mind, although Xu Ke often loses money when making movies, and "The Legend of Zu" was a complete loss, his movies, whether martial arts or fairy tales, all have artistic conception.

This is rare.

Hong Jinbao: "Okay! It's a deal!"

"A word is settled!"

Cao Sheng agreed with a smile.

When he ended the call, he was still thinking that Hong Jinbao might not be able to convince Xu Zheng to direct "Legend of the Demon Lord in the Tomb of the Gods" in a short period of time.

Firstly, Xu Ke’s "The Legend of Zu" has not been released yet, but Xu Ke should have felt the speed at which the money was burned, and he should have foreseen that this movie would lose a lot of money.

Secondly, Tsui Hark has recently taken over the movie "Ong Bak", so he should be very busy and may not want to be distracted for the time being.

but……

It turns out that he thought too much.

Within two days, he received a call from Hong Jinbao.

On the phone, Hong Jinbao said happily: "Mr. Cao! Let's talk about the script fee for Legend of the Demon Lord! The old monster has agreed to direct it."

Cao Sheng: “???”

Is it that easy?
He felt that he might have underestimated the friendship between the two men.

One of them is a famous director of martial arts films, and the other is a well-known action actor and martial arts instructor. They may have collaborated many times before, and their friendship is probably very deep.

For other matters, Hong Jinbao might not be able to ask Old Monster Xu for help.

But if you pay Xu Ke to help make a movie, Xu Ke is very likely to agree, because Hong Jinbao was able to invite Xu Ke to direct it.

Cao Sheng offered a low price.

"50, how about that?"

For the previous "Hunger Games" script, at the suggestion of Jackie Chan, he was given 100 million.

Hong Jinbao should know this news.

Even if he didn't know this news, Hong Jinbao should have known that the prices of several scripts that Cao Sheng had previously sold to Huang Baiming seemed to be no less than 50.

"Sure! No problem! Mr. Cao, thank you for not asking for too much! Thank you very much!"

……

After discussing the script price and the script contract with Hong Jinbao, Cao Sheng called Xu Ke.

On the phone, Xu Ke admitted that he had agreed to direct "Legend of the Demon Lord in the Tomb of God".

And he said: "Sanmao forced me to go out for a drink. While we were drinking, he asked me to read your script. I saw it was your script, so I read it carefully. After reading it, do you know how I felt?"

Cao Sheng was intrigued by his words.

"Oh? What does it feel like?"

Xu Ke: "Alas! If I had seen your script earlier, I would have filmed this one instead of "The Legend of Zu"! Even if I were to film "The Legend of Zu", I would definitely try my best to ask you to revise the script for me. Compared with your script, "The Legend of Zu" does have too many characters and side plots! The plot is not compact enough!"

Cao Sheng smiled and said, "Director Xu! You're too kind! My script is not as profound as your "The Legend of Zu Mountain". "God's Tomb" is not as well-known as "The Legend of Swordsman in Zu Mountain". This movie may not be as good as your "The Legend of Zu Mountain" after it is made."

They praise each other! Cao Sheng can do that, too.

Xu Ke was very happy to hear this, but his words still revealed his regret for not insisting on asking him to revise the script.

……

Finished chatting with Xu Ke.

Cao Sheng looked at the movie world involved in "The Mysterious Tower of Heaven and Earth" on the computer: "A Man's Martial Arts", "Ong Bak", "The Hunger Games", "Twilight", "Legend of the Demon Lord in the Tomb of the Gods", "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", and "Pacific Rim".

Before we knew it, three of the so many scripts had already been sold. By the time "Legend of the Demon Lord in God's Tomb" was officially signed to Hong Jinbao, that would mean four had been sold.

The remaining "Pacific Rim" has been entrusted to Cheng Long to be submitted to Hollywood.

Only the scripts of "Twilight" and "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" series remained in his hands, and he had never submitted them.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt like laughing.

Because he suddenly realized that once he finished writing this novel, he would definitely have no hope of becoming a world-famous writer, because his novels were only popular in the Chinese-speaking regions.

But after finishing this novel, he may become a world-famous screenwriter.

He is a novelist, but after writing a novel, he did not become a world-famous author, but became a world-famous screenwriter. Isn't that funny?

What’s even funnier is that he still has no interest in changing his career to become a professional screenwriter.

His interest is still in novels.

Maybe after the movies he wrote become a box office hit, many people will think it’s a pity that he didn’t write novels.

Many people will advise him to write a script.

He could already foresee what would happen then.

None of the scripts he wrote would be a box office hit.

can you?

He wasn't sure, nor did he really care.

He just wanted to finish writing "God's Tomb" and "The Linglong Tower of Heaven and Earth", and then concentrate on writing the prehistoric theme for which he had already prepared a partial outline.

……

Because of the recent scandal with Joey Wong.

In the following days, Cao Sheng began to stay at home and rarely go out.

Staying in the villa, concentrating on typing.

But every day when I update my work, I always see some posts discussing his scandals in the book review section.

He didn't want to reply, nor did he want to be affected by the scandal, so he stopped reading the book reviews.

but……

He doesn't watch it, but many people like to watch it.

For example, Jiang Xiaoshuang.

She is currently interning at a TV station. After get off work every day, she will find an Internet cafe to read the news and Cao Sheng’s latest works.

Every time after reading his updates, she would check out his book review section.

For example, on this day, she saw some such posts in the book review section of "God's Tomb".

"Although Ah Hui and Zu Xian have denied the rumors, saying they are just friends, and Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao have helped them clarify, I still think their relationship is complicated! The reason is: What are Cheng Long and Hong Jinbao's identities? Do they need to entertain Ah Hui at Zu Xian's place? And they ate her cooking for two consecutive days? Could it be that her cooking skills are better than those of chefs in five-star hotels?"

"Ah Hui! Your updates recently haven't been very good! Have you exhausted all your energy on Nie Xiaoqian?"

"Author! Do you have a girlfriend? You have been involved in so many scandals lately. Isn't your girlfriend jealous? Isn't she making a fuss with you? How come you haven't stopped updating for a day?"

"It's true that when you are famous, you are prone to gossip! Some time ago, the news just reported that the author had written four scripts, and now they are hyping up his scandals. He and Joey Wong? This is outrageous! How could Joey Wong like him? Since when did screenwriters have the power to take advantage of others?"

……

In front of the computer.

Jiang Xiaoshuang looked at these posts, frowned slightly, and seemed to be thinking about something, with suspicion in her eyes.

She could no longer tell whether Cao Sheng and Wang Zuxian had a relationship?

The news and some netizens' analysis made her think that they must have had a relationship.

But her mind told her: Impossible! How could Wang Zuxian be interested in him? How famous is she? There is also a huge age gap between them.

She thought for a while, took out her cell phone and called Cao Sheng.

No one answered.

She knew that he had the habit of silencing his phone when he was typing.

So, he was not called a second time.

But he lowered his head, wrote a text message and sent it.

"I believe you are innocent! The recent news must be annoying you, right? How about going out for a drink together? Let's get rid of the annoyance?"

After Cao Sheng finished writing a chapter, he picked up his phone and saw this text message, with a self-deprecating smile on his face.

I thought to myself: Thank you for your trust, but I am not innocent.

As for going out for a couple of drinks with her?
He was even more afraid.

After his rebirth, he had gotten into trouble twice due to drinking.

The first time was when I slept with Huang Qingya.

The second time was... he was slept with by Joey Wong.

He now seriously suspected that after drinking, his sanity would drop significantly and his personality before rebirth would emerge.

And his personality before his rebirth... was very wild!
At that time, he was very skilled in flirting with girls. He would want to flirt with any beautiful woman he saw, and he would be even more eager when he saw a single beautiful woman.

So, Jiang Xiaoshuang asked him to drink at this time?

How dare he agree?
"Thanks for the invitation! Sorry, I'm not in the mood today. Maybe next time!"

(End of this chapter)