My wife always wants me, a big star, to eat soft rice

Chapter 187 Hiring Two Great Directors Again
After confirming the director, Lu Ming saved the phone numbers of the three business cards in his mobile phone, and then drove away from the film and television base.

With a director like Xu Mulin around, he doesn't have to worry about "The Legend of Condor Heroes" at all. He doesn't have to stay on the set all the time. The next thing he has to do is to manage Tianmeng Company and Tianming Film and Television well.

At around one o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Ming was resting in the office when Liu Mengmeng walked in.

"Director Lu, a director is looking for you."

Hearing this, Lu Ming immediately got up from the sofa, and rubbed his temples.

"Where is he now?"

Liu Mengmeng replied, "I have asked him to wait for you in the reception room."

Hearing this, Lu Ming immediately went to the reception room.

After coming to the reception room, Lu Ming found a middle-aged and elderly man with gray hair sitting on the sofa, drinking tea.

Lu Ming carefully recalled the pictures he found in the morning when he checked the information, and soon he remembered that this should be the director Gong Hangao who he had the first phone call with in the morning.

Then Lu Ming came to Gong Hangao, and said politely: "Director Gong, you came so early."

"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Lu Ming, and I am the chairman of Tianmeng Company."

Hearing this, Gong Hangao put down the teacup in his hand, then stood up, and shook hands with Lu Ming.

He smiled and said, "I know you without introducing yourself."

Lu Ming has been very famous in the entire film and television industry recently. Since "Charlotte Annoyance" became popular, directors have been paying attention to him. In order to be able to quickly find the actors they want after receiving the drama, those big directors usually Pay attention to some actors, and when they are filming, he will quickly know that the protagonist in the drama he accepts needs that actor to play.

Gong Hangao and Xu Mulin are old friends. He saw Lu Ming acted as the leading actor in Xu Mulin's film and television drama twice in a row, so he also became interested in Lu Ming.

Gong Hangao knows Xu Mulin very well. When he shoots a movie, he usually finds an actor he thinks is suitable. He will not agree to play the leading role just because Lu Ming is the boss of Tianmeng Company. Therefore, Lu Ming can be in "Charlotte "Trouble" and "Legend of Sword and Fairy" played the leading role, which proves that Lu Ming still has something that Xu Mulin likes.

At this time, Gong Hangao continued: "I won't talk nonsense. Since Lao Xu gave you my business card, he should have introduced my personality to you. You can bring me the script. Take a look at the script and we'll talk about other things."

Hearing this, Lu Ming felt a little ashamed in his heart. Xu Mulin just gave him the business card and did not introduce to him the personalities of the people in the business card. But this is not important. Since Gong Hangao proposed to read the script, then Just show him the script first.

Thinking of this, Lu Ming turned to Liu Mengmeng and said, "Mengmeng, go and get the scripts of Tianlong Babu and Wulin Biography from my desk."

After Lu Ming finished speaking, Liu Mengmeng turned around and went to Lu Ming's office.

Lu Ming continued: "Director Gong, please sit down first."

Gong Hangao sat down immediately. At this time, Gong Hangao asked with a smile: "I heard that you were suppressed by the two big groups recently. What's going on?"

Lu Ming replied: "Maybe it's because I built my own film and television platform, and the two major groups think I will pose a threat to them."

Gong Hangao laughed, and then said: "Sure enough, it's better to bring up anti-monopoly issues earlier."

Lu Ming asked at this time: "Director Gong, if you accept my drama, you are not afraid that the two major groups will block you and never ask you to film again?"

Gong Hangao replied with a smile: "It's best not to invite me."

"At my age, how can I still be afraid of these things? You see that Lao Xu has accepted your company's drama differently."

Lu Ming thought for a while, and what Gong Hangao said was right. He was already at his age, and it was time for retirement. He didn’t have to worry about his own future at all, so it was difficult for the two big groups to threaten him.
This provided him with a good idea, that is, when hiring directors in the future, he must hire older ones, especially those who are about to retire like Gong Hangao.

At this time, Liu Mengmeng entered the reception room, and she came to Gong Hangao with two scripts, and said, "This is the script of Wulin Waizhuan and Tianlongbabu."

Gong Hangao took the script and asked, "Strange, why did you prepare two scripts?"

Lu Ming replied, "That's right. We plan to shoot these two dramas at the same time. Besides you, we have hired another director."

Gong Hangao said: "So that's the case. Is the other director Lao Xu?"

In Gong Hangao's view, these two scripts were prepared by Tianmeng Company for him and Xu Mulin.

Lu Ming said: "No, Director Xu is already filming another TV series of ours, and we just started it today."

Hearing this, Gong Hangao was taken aback for a moment, and then he asked, "Are you planning to shoot three dramas at the same time?"

Lu Ming nodded, and replied: "Well, to be precise, there are four dramas. These two dramas plus the drama filmed by Director Xu belong to Tianming Film and Television's successor drama, and there is another drama sponsored by other companies. commercial drama."

Gong Hangao said with a smile: "It seems that your company's ambitions are not small. Under the situation of being suppressed, you are still desperately producing new TV series."

Speaking of this, Gong Hangao began to read the TV drama script given by Liu Mengmeng. Seeing that he was reading the script, Lu Ming didn't continue talking, but just sat quietly.

After a while, Gong Hangao said: "These two scripts are very good, and I will accept the drama Tianlongbabu."

Having said that, Gong Hangao put the script on the tea table, and then asked: "By the way, can your screenwriter come to the scene during filming?"

Gong Hangao has a habit of filming dramas, that is, when revising the script, he will discuss the revision with the screenwriter, because when the screenwriter is creating this drama, he has a complete story in his brain and knows what the details express. If the director is blind Changing the script is likely to destroy the integrity of the TV series.

Of course, sometimes Gong Hangao has to change the script when he sees some problems in the plot, but he likes to discuss with the screenwriter and make changes after communication.

Hearing Gong Hangao's words, Lu Ming said helplessly: "I'm afraid not. He is busy, and he is more afraid of trouble. He usually sells the script to us and then stops doing anything."

Gong Hangao said with a smile: "The creators are too talented, and indeed they will be more arrogant in terms of personality."

Speaking of this, Gong Hangao asked: "The script of Lao Xu and these two scripts were written by Huan Ming, right?"

Gong Hangao has also been paying attention to the screenwriter Huanming. He is an independent director, and sometimes he will invest in filming when he sees a good script, so he pays more attention to screenwriters with high creative standards.

In his opinion, Huanming is a screenwriter with a relatively high level of creation. Although he doesn't have many scripts, almost every drama can have a good popularity.

For example, "Love Apartment", "Charlotte Annoyance" and the recent hit "Legend of Sword and Fairy", it can be said that Huanming is already quite famous in the film and television circle.

The most important thing is that the format of his script is very special. Gong Hangao has read the script written by Huanming a long time ago. There will be copyright registration on the script website. After the general TV drama or movie is released, the script website will publish the script of the film and television drama that has already been released. .

Gong Hangao has studied Huanming's scripts, and his scripts are written in great detail, even more detailed than those professional screenwriters, and the special format of the script makes it very easy to understand how to shoot.

Gong Hangao wanted to meet this screenwriter last year, but he never had the chance.

Lu Ming replied at this time: "Yes."

After hearing Lu Ming's answer, Gong Hangao continued to ask: "Has this Huanming signed a contract with your company? Why is his script only provided to your company?"

Lu Ming said with a smile: "Maybe Director Gong doesn't know yet. He was blocked by Haile Group last year, so no film and television company dared to use his script. Except for our Tianmeng Company, only Dreamland under Shiyue Group still has it." I was filming the love apartment he wrote."

Gong Hangao came to his senses at this time, and he then said: "So that's what happened, but having said that, with his current reputation, I'm afraid he doesn't have to worry about the banning of Haile Group at all. No company will have trouble with money."

Speaking of which, Gong Hangao glanced at the two scripts on the table, and then continued to ask: "Who do you plan to find for the filming of Wulin Biography?"

After Gong Hangao finished speaking, Liu Mengmeng's phone vibrated, and Liu Mengmeng walked out immediately.

Lu Ming replied at this time: "It hasn't been decided yet, but a director has agreed to read the script first."

As soon as Lu Ming finished speaking, Liu Mengmeng returned to the reception room. She whispered to Lu Ming, "Director Lu, another director you invited is here."

Lu Ming was a little speechless. Why did these two people come so fast? He hasn't negotiated yet, and the salary has not yet been settled. If two directors are together, some things are not easy to discuss.

At this time, Lu Ming said to Liu Mengmeng: "Let him wait for me in the meeting room first, and I will come over soon."

Seeing what was going on with Lu Ming, Gong Hangao said directly: "Director Lu, do you have any guests?"

Lu Ming smiled and replied, "The director I just mentioned is here."

Gong Hangao asked: "Who is that director, let me see if I recognize him."

Lu Ming replied, "His name is Zhang Yuegang. Director Gong, you should have heard of it."

Hearing this, Gong Hangao laughed directly, and then he said: "We are old classmates, you can just let him come to the reception room."

Hearing this, Lu Ming froze for a moment.

He didn't expect that Gong Hangao and Zhang Yuegang knew each other, and they were still classmates.

But having said that, this is actually not surprising. After all, the actors and directors of the older generation are basically from the Hualin Film and Television Academy.

Lu Ming immediately said to Liu Mengmeng, "You bring Director Zhang to the reception room."

After Lu Ming's voice fell, Liu Mengmeng left the office. After a while, Zhang Yuegang came to the reception room. When Zhang Yuegang saw Gong Hangao, he smiled and said, "Henkel, why are you here today? You didn't come Do business with me."

Gong Hangao replied: "There is a lot of business, it depends on whether you are willing to take it or not."

Lu Ming immediately walked up to Zhang Yuegang and stretched out his hand and said, "Director Zhang, I am Lu Ming, the chairman of Tianmeng Company."

Zhang Yuegang said with a smile on his face, "I know you. I came to your wedding when you and Shi Huan got married."

Lu Ming smiled awkwardly, he didn't think of this person at all, when he and Shi Huan got married, many people from the entire film and television industry came, most of them he didn't remember.

At this time, Gong Hangao said: "Old Zhang, I have already picked out one script, and only this one is left. You can take a look first, and if you are interested, you can take it."

Hearing this, Zhang Yuegang asked suspiciously: "There are two scripts? Is your Tianmeng company planning to shoot two film and television dramas at the same time?"

Lu Ming was about to answer, but Gong Hangao answered first: "There are four, and Lao Xu has taken one."

Zhang Yuegang was a little surprised that such a small company as Tianmeng Company was able to shoot four dramas at the same time.

The key is that the script they produced can still impress Xu Mulin and Gong Hangao.

The three of them are well-known directors in China. They have very strict requirements on scripts. They don't know how to accept ordinary scripts. They only shoot scripts they are interested in.

Since Xu Mulin and Gong Hangao accepted the play of Tianmeng Company, it means that Tianmeng Company's script is very good and moved them both.

At this time, Zhang Yue just picked up the script on the tea table and flipped through it. He only saw the first two pages and asked, "Is this the script written by Huan Ming?"

Hearing this, Lu Ming said with a smile: "Is this screenwriter already so famous? Both of you know that he wrote it just by looking at the script."

Zhang Yuegang replied: "The main reason is that the script format is quite special. As far as we know, in the entire film and television industry, he is the only screenwriter who writes scripts in this format, and there are very few screenwriters who write in such detail as him."

Lu Ming said, "So that's how it is."

Lu Ming thought to himself, he had never learned screenwriting before, and he always wrote scripts according to the script format he thought, but he didn't expect this to become a feature instead.

Zhang Yuegang continued to read the script at this time, and after a while, he asked, "Henkel, which script did you pick?"

Gong Hangao replied: "The Babu of Tianlong."

Zhang Yuegang said with a smile: "It seems that I have no choice, but Wulin Biography is also quite interesting, and this kind of drama should be easy to shoot."

In fact, Lu Ming did not plan to hire a well-known director to shoot the drama "Wulin Biography". After all, "Wulin Biography" does not need to change many scenes, and the plot tends to be funny. Directors with a little experience can handle it. Can live.

But since Zhang Yuegang has already been invited, he can only be allowed to direct. This kind of big shot in the film and television industry should try not to offend.

At this time, Lu Ming smiled and asked, "Both directors, are you satisfied with the script?"

Gong Hangao said with a smile: "There is nothing wrong with the script."

Lu Ming then said:

"Let's talk about pay next."

Zhang Yuegang said directly: "You pay us as much as you pay Lao Xu, and our pay in the film and television industry is the same price."

Hearing this, Lu Ming was stunned for a moment, thinking that it was so easy to talk.

Then Lu Ming said, "The price I offered Director Xu was 2000 million for a drama."

After the words fell, both Zhang Yuegang and Gong Hangao were stunned.

2000?
so low?
This Xu Mulin cheated people!
In fact, 2000 million is not low, but for directors of their level, the salary also includes some other expenses. Usually, their TV drama salary is no less than 3000 million, and the film salary is even higher.

But now that Xu Mulin only charged 2000 million, the two of them are too embarrassed to raise the price.

(End of this chapter)