Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 315 Po Meng
"Brother Jing!"

Meng Bai greeted and walked towards Wu Jing.

"You're here." Wu Jing walked towards him with a smile, "I thought the crew was busy and you couldn't come."

"It's Brother Guo and his team who are busy. I am the representative." Meng Bai said: "Arc Light is the investor anyway, so they must come to fill the spot."

After saying that, he looked at the premiere scene again and said, "Not many people came today."

Compared to the star-studded premiere of other films, the premiere of "Wolf Warrior 2" seemed a bit deserted.

Apart from the media and the audience, there were hardly any stars present.

When Meng Bai entered the venue just now, he looked around and the only people he could name were Chen Sicheng, Yu Hewei, Li Chen, Eddie Peng and a few others.

Oh, another big name is Guo Degang, who was probably invited by Yu Qianer, who also starred in the movie.

In fact, Wu Jing had contacted many people before and spent a lot of effort to promote the product.

Unfortunately, the fickleness of human relationships in the circle is often very realistic.

"Maybe they are all busy." Wu Jing's expression was bitter for a moment, but then he smiled with relief, "It's okay, it's enough that you can come."

Meng Bai also smiled and changed the subject: "How many screenings are there for the movie?"

Speaking of this, Wu Jing's spirits suddenly lifted: "Not bad, we managed to get 19% of the first-day screenings. Now I think that avoiding The Founding of an Army is not a bad thing, at least it can get a much higher screening share."

19% of the screening rate is not high, but it is still acceptable in this period.

After all, there are several other films being released at the same time, including "Knife of the Assassin 2", "Despicable Me 3", "The Monkey King " and "Father and Son".

As the protagonist of today's premiere, Wu Jing was very busy. So the two of them just chatted briefly and then parted ways.

Meng Bai glanced around and found Chen Sicheng who had arrived earlier.

"Brother, I didn't expect you to come here too."

"Zhixi asked me to help hold the place up." Chen Sicheng said, "I just happened to have something to ask you, so I came over."

"What's wrong?" Meng Bai asked.

Chen Sicheng said: "I am planning to start preparing for Detective Chinatown 2. How do you think of the script?"

"It's already been prepared. I'll send it to you in two days."

The first part of Detective Chinatown was released last summer, and it has been a year since then. The script has been polished and completed long ago, so Meng Bai is not surprised by this.

"I don't need to read your script to make me feel at ease." Chen Sicheng said with a smile: "I plan to catch the New Year's Day slot at the end of next year. When will your online drama project start?"

"It will probably be the end of the year. ArcLight has a lot of projects in the second half of the year."

"I heard that web dramas will have to pass censorship before they can be broadcast?"

"Yes, but it's just an extra set of procedures. The censorship is still relatively loose." Meng Bai said easily: "Besides, our story is set in Thailand, so the impact of censorship is not great... If everything goes well, it should be around National Day next year."

"Don't worry, as long as we can make it before the movie is released." Chen Sicheng said with a smile: "If it can be connected with the movie, the effect should be even better."

According to what the two had discussed before, many "detectives from all over the world" will appear in the plot of the second part.

In order to make this setting smoother, content related to this aspect will be mentioned in the web drama that will be aired first.

The two discussed the background setting of the "Detective Chinatown Series" for a while, and Meng Bai remembered another thing.

"By the way, Senior Brother, I just happen to have something to ask for your help."

"We are just talking to each other, just talk."

"Arc Light has a movie project this month. There's a role in it that's quite suitable for Sister Yaya, and we'd like to ask her to help out with a cameo appearance." Meng Bai said.

The project he mentioned is "Soul Ferry: Huangquan" which will start shooting this month. This movie is a prequel to the feature film "Soul Ferry". It tells the story of a girl "Sanqi" who is the new Mengpo of Huangquan. Because she lost one of her seven orifices when she was born, she has a simple and foolish personality and a naive mind.

She has been guarding Mengpo Village beside the Naihe Bridge all year round, in charge of the Yin-Yang Book that records life and death, and serving Mengpo soup to the souls of the deceased.

There are many different opinions about the origin of the image of "Meng Po" in traditional mythology. One says that she was a celestial official from the three ancient realms. Seeing that all living beings were nostalgic for their past lives after death, she came to the banks of the Wangchuan River and provided people with Meng Po soup to seal their memories.

There is also a saying that after Meng Jiangnu cried to the Great Wall, she did not find her husband's body and died of sorrow. God was moved by her sincerity and spared her the suffering of reincarnation. He let her cook Mengpo soup by the Naihe Bridge, so that the ghosts participating in reincarnation would forget everything in their previous lives.

There are many different opinions about Meng Po's image. In most traditional works, she is described as a white-haired old woman.

However, many people also believe that it should be a stunningly beautiful woman.

How can I put it? There is no shortage of old perverts among the literati of all ages. Fox, Jingwei, Hanba can all be beautiful girls, so there is no shortage of Mengpo.

In the setting of "Soul Ferry" created by Meng Bai, "Meng Po" was turned into a position, which was inherited from generation to generation.

This time, Meng Po is played by Sanqi, the heroine played by Zhu Xudan. The previous one was the heroine's mother, Meng Qi.

Meng Po has always been a woman. After marriage, the man must erase life and death and give up the worldly affairs. Meng Qi fell in love with a mortal who accidentally entered the underworld, Chen Shi. Unfortunately, the latter was greedy for the human world and escaped on the wedding day, and also stole the soul of his daughter "San Qi".

Meng Qi, who was betrayed, hated all the living people who entered the underworld. It happened that the zither of the monk Wuming was snatched away by the Hades A Cha, so he broke into the underworld alone, fought with Meng Qi, and killed him with the "Arhat blood" in his body.

However, Wuming did not succeed. He eventually lost all his cultivation, his soul and body were separated, he forgot everything about his past, and became a messenger in the underworld - the "soul ferryman" Zhao Li.

This is the whole story of "Soul Ferry".

The role of Meng Qi doesn't have many scenes, but it is quite important in the plot. As for her appearance, Meng Bai adopted a setting that the audience likes more - charming but not coquettish, with a beautiful appearance.

In fact, when Meng Bai first thought of this role, the first actor he thought of was Guo Zhenni, who played "Zhao Hede" in "The Legend of Miyi".

Her image in it meets the requirements very well.

Unfortunately, he retired from the entertainment industry two years ago, so we can’t invite him here even if we want to.

Then Meng Bai thought of Tong Liya, who played her sister Zhao Feiyan.

"Sister Yaya, are you free recently?" Meng Bai asked.

"She should be free. She has a movie to shoot at the end of September. Before that, there are no other films." Chen Sicheng said.

But after saying that, he said awkwardly: "But if you want to invite her, you'd better call her yourself. If I were to say it, she would definitely refuse."

Meng Bai was stunned for a moment, but he reacted immediately.

During the Chinese New Year, this guy was caught again in a room with two girls "playing poker", and it caused quite a stir at the time.

"What's wrong, senior brother? Didn't you coax me this time?" Meng Bai said, trying not to laugh.

Tong Liya's external image in family and love has always been that of a silent and forbearing person. She once said, "As long as I can go home, it's fine." She is a model wife.

But after the incident in Bangkok last year, Meng Bai discovered that his senior sister was definitely not that simple.

But then again, no matter how much you can tolerate it, if it explodes once a year, you have to be a little impatient.

"Well, it doesn't matter whether I can coax you or not." Chen Sicheng tried to save face and acted as if he didn't care.

But after saying that, he couldn't help but start scolding the paparazzi who were following him.

"There's nothing we can do about that. Since you are a key person now," Meng Bai said jokingly.

"Alas, you are the best. Being single is still very free." Chen Sicheng patted Meng Bai's shoulder and sighed, "Listen to my advice. If you can avoid getting married, don't rush into it."

"Don't worry, I won't consider getting married until I'm 35."

Meng Bai said: "Okay, then I will contact Sister Yaya directly, but I don't know if Senior Sister can give me face."

(End of this chapter)