I am a historical film director in the entertainment industry.

"Brother Hua, can I take a look at the script first?"

Cheng Sheng did not explicitly refuse, but wanted to see if it was the script he had guessed.

"Okay, I brought the script a long time ago."

Liu Dehua, who was carrying a black bag, took out a thick stack of scripts from the bag and handed them to Cheng Sheng after hearing this.

With Liu Dehua's expectation, Cheng Sheng slowly opened the script.

When Cheng Sheng saw the title of the script, his eyes twitched a few times. Just as he had expected, it was another terrible movie.

In order not to offend Liu Dehua, Cheng Sheng did not immediately refuse, but pretended to be reading the script carefully.

half an hour.

Cheng Sheng closed the script and took a deep breath.

He was truly disgusted. It was no wonder it was a terrible movie set in another time and space. He couldn't believe the director had the courage to make it.

It's a wonder that Andy Lau was able to keep up with the role.

This movie is a complete patchwork, a little bit of imitation of foreign Marvel movies with the addition of excavator octopus arms. No wonder even with Andy Lau as the lead actor, it couldn't save the movie.

The special effects are so rudimentary that you can tell they wanted to do something, but they simply lack the ability.

Calling this film a commercial sci-fi film is an understatement; it's more accurate to call it a wuxia film, only with a futuristic sci-fi twist on the traditional wuxia genre.

In this film, Chinese moviegoers will see that in a future world, robots that have transformed into the shapes of animals such as eagles, mantises, and scorpions still use traditional fighting styles from Chinese martial arts, such as eagle claw, mantis fist, and scorpion tail swing. However, the action effects incorporate elements of science fiction, making the whole action look magical and ethereal—a hybrid of different creatures.

The plot is also rambling and chaotic, with no highlights.

Cheng Sheng would never accept a film like that, even if his life depended on it.

"How was it, Director Cheng?"

Liu Dehua looked at Cheng Sheng expectantly and asked.

In recent years, the Chinese mainland film market has risen, and Hollywood science fiction films have garnered high box office returns in the mainland. This has led many Hong Kong filmmakers to want to get involved in science fiction films and see if they can make a fortune in the domestic market with this genre.

They may be trying to make money, but at least they should show some sincerity.

No wonder this sci-fi film flopped in another world.

"Brother Hua, I bet this script wasn't received by you; someone wanted you to show it to me."

Cheng Sheng stared at Liu Dehua strangely. If he hadn't known about this movie, he would have actually believed what Liu Dehua said.

The movie "Future X-Cops" was written and directed by Fatty Wang.

"I'm sorry, I was just doing this for someone else; he's been kind to me..."

Liu Dehua explained somewhat embarrassedly.

Before he could speak, Cheng Sheng interrupted, "Brother Hua, don't explain, I understand."

Of the more than 100 films Liu Dehua has acted in during his acting career, three are universally recognized as terrible movies: "Switch", "Future X-Cops", and "Mission Milano". Director Wang Pangzi directed two of them: "Future X-Cops" and "Mission Milano".

As a result, many netizens, and even many fans of Andy Lau, don't understand why Andy Lau still always cooperates with Fatty Wong, who frequently "tricks" Andy Lau. In fact, there are deeper reasons behind this.

First, Fatty Wang had shown Liu Dehua great kindness and support.

Fatty Wong was one of the first directors to cast Andy Lau in a film. Back in 1986, Fatty Wong cast Andy Lau in "The Magic Crystal," and he was even the male lead.

It's important to know that in 1986, Lau Tak-wah had only been working in the film industry for a few years. Before that, he mostly played supporting roles or second male leads in movies. Moreover, Lau Tak-wah had just been "frozen out" by his former employer, TVB. At this time, Lau Tak-wah urgently needed to make a name for himself in the film and television industry to prove his strength to TVB and the outside world.

At this time, Fatty Wong recognized Lau Tak-wah's talent and cast him as the lead actor. The two hit it off immediately, which was exactly what Lau Tak-wah needed. In the following year or two, Fatty Wong continued to cast Lau Tak-wah in comedy films such as "The Best Loser" and "The Best Loser's Love Trial," which helped Lau Tak-wah establish his idol status in the film industry. Therefore, it can be said that Wong Jing had a great influence on Lau Tak-wah!
Secondly, during difficult times, Fatty Wang showed care and assistance to Liu Dehua.

In the early 1990s, Andy Lau founded Teamwork Motion Pictures and invested in and produced films such as "Saviour of the Soul," "Saviour of the Soul 2," "Legend of the God of War," "So Long, My Son," and "Heaven and Earth." However, apart from "Saviour of the Soul 2," which made money, most of the other films he invested in lost a lot of money.

As a result, Liu Dehua incurred a debt of nearly 4000 million yuan. In the 90s, 4000 million yuan was an astronomical figure. So Liu Dehua worked day and night during that time. In those years, Liu Dehua did not care much about the quality of the roles he took. He could make more than a dozen movies a year in order to earn money to pay off his debts every month. During that period, Fatty Wang gave Liu Dehua a lot of resources and often invited him to act in movies, which relieved Liu Dehua's debt pressure.

Moreover, because Andy Lau was filming every day at that time, he had to run to many different film sets every day, which made him very tired and severely sleep-deprived. However, when filming Fatty Wong's scenes, Fatty Wong gave Andy Lau plenty of time to sleep on set.

So when Liu Dehua talked about these things later, he always expressed his gratitude to Fatty Wang. Liu Dehua once said that if someone suddenly brings a lot of bread to a very hungry person and says that he is going to eat it, even if the person seems to be not paying attention, he will actually eat his fill.

The person Liu Dehua was referring to when he gave him bread was Wang Pangzi, and his gratitude was palpable!
Thirdly, there's Liu Dehua's personality; he'll repay anyone who treats him well or helps him tenfold.

Liu Dehua is a very kind person. He will repay anyone who is good to him or who has helped him. For example, when Fatty Wang asked him to act in a movie, Liu Dehua knew in advance that the quality of the movie would not be very good, but he still did not refuse. This was because Fatty Wang had been kind to him and had asked him to act in many movies during the years when he was in financial difficulty, which was considered to be special care for him.

Liu Dehua was actually not optimistic about the movie "Future X-Cops".

However, Wang Pangzi had serious doubts at the time about whether domestic directors and the technology of the domestic film industry could make a good science fiction film like "Future Police". But the director of this film was Wang Pangzi, and the investor of this film was Yang Dengkui.

Yang Dengkui also specially invited him to film the movie. Yang Dengkui is a film tycoon in Yizhou who has a lot of dealings with Liu Dehua and has always taken care of and helped Liu Dehua. Therefore, even though Liu Dehua did not think highly of the movie "Future X-Cops" beforehand, he finally accepted the role because of the two of them.

In this world, no one expected Liu Dehua to seek out Cheng Sheng. (End of Chapter)