This star is going to the moon

Chapter 48 Casting for The Longest Day in Chang'an
"The Wandering Earth" started filming at the end of May. The original plan was to shoot for three months, but it was postponed as expected and the plan was changed to try to complete it within six months.

By September, Lu Yun's scenes had been filmed on and off for more than three months and were basically finished.

However, he had to coordinate with the shooting schedule of others, so Rooyun's post-production scenes were very scattered. The disadvantage was that it took up a lot of his overall time, but the advantage was that he had a lot of scattered free time.

Liu Chun once again came to the crew of "The Wandering Earth" and brought Lu Yun a lot of information about the competitors of "Li Bi", the male lead of "The Longest Day in Chang'an".

He is not very good at choosing scripts, but he is good at judging the configuration. In fact, he had taken a fancy to "The Longest Day in Chang'an" in his previous life because its cost was as high as 6 million!

And it is said that the male lead "Li Bi"'s salary will not be less than 5000 million!
Unfortunately, in his previous life, the movies and variety shows that Lu Yun starred in for the first time after joining the company both failed. His fame did not increase and his acting skills were average. So only Liu Chun took a fancy to "Chang'an", but "Chang'an" did not like his artist Lu Yun.

This life is different. The show "Longing" where Lu Yun is a regular not only became a big hit, but also opened up the domestic "slow variety show" track, which made Lu Yun's fame grow more valuable!

Another thing is the huge hit of "Wolf Warrior 2"... no, it should be a super hit, which made Lu Yun's fame even more valuable.

And this time it is really valuable.

Because Lu Yun did not sign a salary contract with "Wolf Warrior 2", but a box office share contract, this matter was leaked.

This is not a secret. The income of many celebrities is basically semi-public, because various "celebrity income rankings" are calculated using public information.

Of course, some secret contracts are difficult to make public.

At most... there was an internal conflict due to uneven distribution of spoils, and someone exposed their tax evasion, which then became a hot topic.

So when many people learned that Rowoon’s share of the box office was more than 80 million, they were shocked. This is so much money!

You have to know that movies are not TV series. Big stars can easily get high salaries of tens of millions for TV series, but if they act in movies they can only get a fraction or even one-tenth of that salary.

Only the top superstars in the country are capable of earning tens of millions of dollars in movie salaries.

Of course, the money that Lu Yun received from "Wolf Warrior 2" is not actually a film remuneration, and the box office share can be regarded as an investment share in a sense, but such a high income still gave a great boost to his fame.

In addition, everyone has discovered that Rowoon’s acting skills are definitely top-tier among male stars born in the 1990s.

Not to mention the traffic stars, it’s embarrassing to compare with them.

Even those male actors born in the 1990s who are known as "acting masters" are not obviously better than Roo Woon, and many of them are even not as good as Roo Woon.

At most, it’s because the role of “Zhuo Yifan” is indeed relatively simple, with not much room for development, and he is only the third male lead with a short screen time, so people don’t know how good Lu Yun’s acting skills are.

"...You have quite a few competitors this time. After all, 'Chang'an' is a big project with huge appeal."

Liu Chun held up the information and said, "Wu Fanqian and Yang Yang, who have a grudge against you, are also among those invited to audition. Fortunately, 'Li Bi' is set to be in his 20s, and Zhang Hanhai doesn't meet the requirements. Otherwise, you would be 'besieged on all sides.'"

"Also, the other three of the 'Four Returnees' who signed the same contract as Wu Fan are said to be interested."

"They are all top stars, very popular. There are some lesser-known ones, like Wang Yibo and Xiao Zhan, but the others are nothing special..."

Yan Xinxin had a different opinion when she heard this.

Liu Chun's strengths are collecting industry information and negotiation, while Yan Xinxin's strengths also include information collection.

Compared with Liu Chun's information, most of it comes from friends in the industry, which is considered to be more in-depth and formal.

Most of Yan Xinxin's information comes from the Internet. It is rather wild and contains a lot of gossip, so it is necessary to distinguish whether the information is true or false.

So she added: "And the TF boys, they announced a few days ago that they would each go solo and set up their own studios."

"All three of them auditioned this time, vying for the lead role of 'Li Bi.' I heard in several internal chat groups that they've been at odds with each other," Yan Xinxin said excitedly. "It looks like they've officially started fighting now. Grabbing each other for resources is the first step..."

Liu Chun disagreed, saying, "I saw the news, too. They weren't included because they're too young, only in their teens. That's too far from the 26-year-old Li Bi was supposed to be in the original novel, so they weren't counted." "These three lack acting skills, and their looks aren't great either, especially Yang Qianxi..."

"Hey, Old Liu, you don't know this, but it just so happens that Yang Qianxi, who has neither acting skills nor looks, is the most favored by the director!"

Yan Xinxin winked, showing the information on her phone and said, "You don't even watch the internet. The director of 'Chang'an' believes that web dramas should pay attention to internet promotion, especially new media platforms."

"He himself said that he was very optimistic about Yang Qianxi, and said that 'Qianxi has the spirit of a scholar and is very culturally sophisticated.' He could even change Li Bi's age to be younger."

"So Brother Yun's biggest enemy isn't those top stars, but this Yang Qianxi!"

"what?"

Liu Chun was a little surprised. He didn't expect that he was not so good at reading scripts and even missed important information when collecting information.

"This... directors' constant refrain of 'looking for someone' or 'knowing who they are at first sight' is all bullshit. It's either just nice talk after the role is confirmed, or it's all done by the actor's agency. Is the director of 'Chang'an' also going to try to emulate Big Beard's hype and drive traffic for the show?"

Yan Xinxin shook her head helplessly: "I don't know for now..."

When Lu Yun heard this, he also fell into deep thought, because the protagonist "Li Bi" of "Chang'an" in the previous life was indeed Yang Qianxi.

As for other things, he didn't study them in detail. After all, when he first started out in his previous life, he couldn't reach the level of the protagonist of "Chang'an".

The reason why he pays attention to "Chang'an" in this life is, firstly, because it is indeed a good drama, and secondly, the pay is indeed high. If he can star in it, it will be killing two birds with one stone.

But if the role of "Li Bi" is really booked in advance, it will be a bit troublesome.

For some reason, Lu Yun felt that this role should have been reserved in advance, and the director might have organized this large-scale audition just for hype.

After all, Lu Yun had heard of Yang Qianxi's title of "Prince" in his previous life, and there must be a lot of capital behind him.

Fortunately, Lu Yun didn't insist on acting. He is not an ordinary star, and there is a more important aerospace career waiting for him.

If I am not selected, I can focus on the mini lunar rover and Wanhu rocket.

Since the establishment of Blue Star Aerospace, he, the boss and chief technology officer, has not stayed in the company for a few days. He first filmed "Cohabitation" and then "The Wandering Earth". Most of the company's technical problems were solved through video conferencing.

The mini lunar rover project was similar, and Lu Yun spent most of his time remotely controlling the three "strong" roommates on the crew.

What I do is remote control micro-manipulation work such as "moving that screw hole five millimeters to the right".

It's time to go to the front line and do it myself.

Although thinking about this, Lu Yun was still making preparations carefully.

At the same time, the casting auditions for "Chang'an" did cause quite a stir on the Internet. Fans of the popular stars who auditioned were engaged in online verbal battles every day, saying things like "My brother is the best" and "Your brother is the worst".

On the day when it was Lu Yun's turn to audition, Lu Yun put on makeup and changed his clothes and went all out!

【Physical Performance Level 4 (4051/10000)】

open!

[Vocal Lines Level 4 (1899/10000)]

open!

(End of this chapter)