Chapter 196: Become the director of 'The God of Medicine'!
After reading the four scripts brought by director Ning Hao, the one that left the deepest impression on Lin Yuan was the movie script "I'm Not the God of Medicine".
If you want to look at it from the perspective of film awards, the two movie scripts "Sweet Life" and "Journey of Clouds and Waters" are definitely qualified to hit the major domestic gold awards. The reason is very simple. Don't look at the domestic commercial films that have begun to win.
Nominated for various major awards, but in the end, the films that can actually win the awards are still those drama films that tend to have profound meanings.
But from the perspective of box office stability, the most suitable film script for Lin Yuan is definitely "Xiu Chun Dao·Shura Battlefield".
As the sequel to "Xiu Chun Dao".
This movie is definitely a standard commercial movie. This kind of movie does not have such strict control over the details during the shooting process. More importantly, it also has the previous movie as a reference. Things that require Lin Yuan's attention during shooting will not be ignored.
There are too many, and it is most suitable for a new director like Lin Yuan.
As for the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine", it can be regarded as a commercial film with practical significance. As long as the director can perfectly present the story in the script on the screen, then this movie will not only have an impact on various domestic audiences.
A big gold medal, and the box office is guaranteed.
Of course, all this assumes that there are no problems with the filming of the film.
For a newcomer like Lin Yuan who has never directed a film before, it is somewhat difficult for him to challenge a film of this kind of subject.
So after hearing what Lin Yuan said.
Ning Hao did not rush to answer, but pondered for a while.
He originally wanted Lin Yuan to shoot the movie "Xiuchundao·Shura Battlefield". Firstly, this movie was relatively simple to shoot. In addition, Lin Yuan had starred in this movie and was praised by the director.
It will also be easier to get up.
Secondly, the role of Ding Xiu played by Lin Yuan in "Xiu Chun Dao" left a deep impression on the audience at the time.
If Lin Yuan can become the director of "Xiu Chun Dao·Shura Battlefield", it will become a hot topic. Not only will it have a good effect in the promotion of the film, but the final box office will definitely be very explosive.
So when he came over with the script, he also put the script of "Xiu Chun Dao 2" at the top.
What he didn't expect was that after reading the script of "Xiu Chun Knife 2", Lin Yuan did not directly choose this movie, but continued to read further.
After a few seconds, Ning Hao said: "Teacher Lin Yuan, are you sure you don't want to consider the movie "Xiu Chun Dao: Shura Battlefield"? If you direct and star in this movie, I'm sure the final box office results will be
It must be quite explosive."
Lin Yuan compared the scripts of the two movies in his mind, and finally felt that the script of "The God of Medicine" was more attractive, so he said in a firm tone: "I still want to try the script of "The God of Medicine"
For a movie, if the shooting effect is not satisfactory, Director Ning, you can replace me at any time, I will just use my name as assistant director."
When Xu Zheng saw this, he also winked at Ning Hao.
They all know how good the script of this movie is, and the difficulty of filming is indeed not small for a new director Lin Yuan, but after all, they have two of them as producers, and they will help Lin Yuan keep an eye on the crew when the time comes.
It's not a difficult thing to finish filming this movie smoothly.
Seeing that Lin Yuan had said so, Ning Hao immediately agreed.
Just after Ning Hao agreed to hand over the script to Lin Yuan for filming, Xu Zheng quickly changed the topic: "Then let's make a decision. It's not too early now, so I'll treat you two to a meal nearby.
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Ning Hao smiled and replied: "That's a good relationship. Not only did we reach our first cooperation with Teacher Lin Yuan, but now we have a free dinner."
As Ning Hao finished speaking, Xu Zheng took a closer look and frowned: "Mouse, that's not right!"
"What's wrong?"
"I found a director for you, and now you want me to treat you to dinner. It doesn't make sense. You have to treat us to this meal."
"Okay, okay, I'll give you my treat. How come you, a film producer, are so picky!"
The three of them burst into laughter and after teasing each other, their relationship became much closer.
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In a private room of a certain hotel.
After ordering the food, Xu Zheng also looked at Lin Yuan before the food was served, and then asked: "Lin Yuan, do you know how to make movies?"
Lin Yuan shook his head.
He was just a walk-on in Hengdian, where did he learn how to make movies?
At that time, being able to work as a special guest actor and make a living was already very good. I never thought that one day I would be able to direct and star in a movie.
After signing with Xitian Media and debuting, I basically studied acting courses.
He is good at acting, but when it comes to making movies, compared to Xu Zheng, he is at the level of a primary school student.
However, Lin Yuan didn't know anything. Since the filming of "Tang Detective", he would sit next to the director whenever he had free time, and then sit next to him and learn how other directors directed a good movie.
Over time, I have never eaten pork, and I have seen pigs run away.
Basically, I know by heart what the director should do when the crew is filming.
Xu Zheng saw Lin Yuan shaking his head and said with relief: "Don't worry, making a movie is actually not that difficult. Haven't you seen that there is a saying in our circle, 'If you act well, you will direct'. With your current understanding of the script, you can
There will definitely be no problems in making this movie, but if you want to make it well, you need some talent."
Having said this, Xu Zheng deliberately coughed twice and straightened his chest.
There are many actors who have turned into directors, but there are very few who have achieved great results in both directions like him.
I won’t say how accomplished he is, but he definitely has some talent.
Seeing Xu Zheng's stinking look, Lin Yuan and Ning Hao couldn't help but chuckle.
Lin Yuan immediately picked up the teapot, filled Xu Zheng's cup with tea, and then started teasing: "Brother Zheng, what do you think my talent is like?"
"Yes, you are much more talented than Huang Bo!"
Xu Zheng smiled and got down to business: "You basically don't have to worry about making a movie, but you have to put more thought into the crew and actors."
The crew is usually a temporary team formed to complete the filming of a certain movie or TV series. After the filming is completed, it is basically announced to be disbanded, unless they have made multiple movies like Xu Zheng and Ning Hao, they basically have
Own fixed crew.
For them, it is extremely easy to build a crew.
But after all, this was Lin Yuan's first time making a movie. If he wanted to make a movie with his own style, both the crew and the actors had to be selected by himself in order to achieve the best results.
As Xu Zheng talked about business, Lin Yuan nodded slowly after hearing this.
This matter is indeed something worth worrying about for a new director, but unfortunately for Lin Yuan, it is not a trouble at all.
The investor behind him is Enlight Media. He is backed by capital. Does he need to worry about these things?
When the time comes, let Enlight Media help build a creative team and identify the executive director, actors, assistant directors, production directors, coordinators, external producers and other personnel. As for the selection of crew members such as photography, art, styling, and recording, it will be up to
At that time, it is handed directly to the production director. As a director, he only needs to determine the actors for the roles.
After chatting for a while, the food was served.
While Ning Hao and Xu Zheng were eating, they taught Lin Yuan their experience in making movies.
After a while, the three of them started talking about casting, and the two of them recommended several relatively good actors to Lin Yuan.
When it came to movie casting, Lin Yuan suddenly raised his head and glanced at Xu Zheng.
"Brother Zheng, are you interested in starring in this movie?"
"I?"
After hearing this, Xu Zheng held the piece of meat in his mouth and hesitated to put it in.
His eyes were full of surprise.
Obviously, he had no idea that Lin Yuan would directly target him.
Xu Zheng hesitated for a moment and asked, "What role are you going to let me play?"
Lin Yuan looked directly into Xu Zheng's eyes and slowly said two words: "Lu Yong."
Regarding Lin Yuan's answer, not to mention Xu Zheng, even Ning Hao was stunned.
"Lu Yong?"
Xu Zheng asked in a puzzled tone: "I play Lu Yong, so what do you play?"
They have all read the script. Lu Yong is the protagonist with the most roles in the movie script "The God of Medicine", and he is also the character who best reflects the character's growth.
To put it simply, this kind of role is the leading male position in the movie.
And now, Lin Yuan is directing and acting in his first movie. He doesn't play the male lead, so he does it. What's the point?
If he hadn't looked at Lin Yuan's serious expression, Xu Zheng would have thought that Lin Yuan was joking with him.
Lin Yuan did not answer Xu Zheng's question, but asked instead: "Brother Zheng, don't you think the character Lu Yong is very similar to the character Pan Xiao you played in "No Man's Land"?"
In the movie "No Man's Land", Pan Xiao was a selfish person at the beginning, but after entering the no man's land, he wandered to the edge of human nature many times, and finally completed his transformation and showed it with his own life.
The transformation process of human nature.
In the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine", Lu Yong started out as a health care product vendor, then wanted to make money by selling counterfeit medicines, and finally learned about the leukemia community in depth, and took risks for the sake of his fellow patients, risking being killed.
The risk of being caught smuggling counterfeit drugs also shows the brilliance of human nature.
As an actor, Lin Yuan believed that he could play the role of Lu Yong well.
But from the director's point of view, since there are suitable and experienced actors now, why doesn't he let Xu Zheng star?
Furthermore, if he plays the role of Lu Yong, he will definitely be like Huang Bo. He will have to be busy with filming and film shooting. Doing so will have some impact on the effect of the film.
Instead of being busy taking care of both ends, it would be better for him to play an equally challenging role. Anyway, with his current acting skills, he can basically handle any role with ease.
Ning Hao said nothing.
From the beginning, he was planning to let Xu Zheng play the role of Lu Yong.
It's just that after Lin Yuan accepted the script, he was not prepared to interfere with the filming of the movie. The director, Lin Yuan, was solely responsible for the casting. Besides, if Lin Yuan played the role of Lu Yong, in his opinion, it would be a good idea.
There is no problem at all. After all, he knows very well how good Lin Yuan's acting skills are.
Now that he heard that Lin Yuan was planning to let Xu Zheng play the role of "Lu Yong", Ning Hao nodded in a subtle way.
At least from this point we can see that Lin Yuan is responsible enough as a director.
Seeing that Xu Zheng didn't answer, Lin Yuan directly made an offer: "Brother Zheng, 35 million in salary, what do you think?"
This is the first time Lin Yuan has paid someone else a salary.
Being offered a salary of RMB 35 million all at once, to be honest, I felt a little bit distressed.
If he hadn't thought about the investment from Enlight Media, he would have almost said the friendship price was 25 million.
Xu Zheng waved his hand and declined in a low voice: "It's not about the salary. If I play Lu Yong, which role will you, the director, play?"
This is Lin Yuan's first self-directed and self-acted film. How can a celebrity star in his self-directed and self-acted debut film play the second male lead?
He recommended the script to Lin Yuan, but it turned out that he stole Lin Yuan's male lead.
Is this appropriate?
"As long as I play the role of Lu Yiyi, if it doesn't work, I can ask the screenwriter teacher to add some scenes for me. Isn't that okay?"
Lin Yuan acted as if he would not give up until Xu Zheng agreed.
Seeing that he was stubborn, Xu Zheng had no choice but to agree: "Okay, okay, can't I act?"
At the end, I didn’t forget to complain: “Other people’s crews can only direct and act themselves at most, but our crew has to go to the studio to film.”
Just after Xu Zheng agreed, Lin Yuan laughed twice and joked: "By the way, Brother Zheng, since you just said it's not about the salary, how about the salary be reduced to 30 million?"
"Go away, even if you lose a penny!"
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After dinner with Xu Zheng and Ning Hao, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening when they returned to the apartment.
I told Sister Xia and Mr. Li about the movie script.
The specific time and place for filming have not been decided yet. We just asked Vice President Li of Enlight Media to help bring out the main creative team of the crew first.
Two days passed in a flash.
The crew had just finished their vacation and received a call from Huang Bo early in the morning.
There was nothing else to do except to inform Lin Yuan to prepare for filming the last scene in the mental hospital of "A Good Show".
It was said to be a mental hospital, but in fact it was just a suitable community that the crew found.
In order not to affect the normal life of the residents in the community, the crew took advantage of the afternoon to shoot when there were fewer people. The last scene took three days to shoot and was finally completed.
That night, Lin Yuan went to a nearby restaurant with the crew to have a closing banquet.
The filming crew's wrapping up banquet basically consisted of three things. Except for the red envelope giving out part, which caused a burst of cheers from the entire crew, everyone was basically busy working on the rest of the time.
While eating, Huang Bo also asked Lin Yuan about filming movies.
He has a good relationship with Ning Hao and Xu Zheng, so he naturally knew that Lin Yuan had accepted the script from Bad Monkey Pictures.
The two of them had a tacit understanding and did not mention the casting of the movie. After all, Lin Yuan had already cast Xu Zheng to play the role of Lu Yong. If he cast Wang Baoqiang again in the movie, wouldn't he be deliberately causing trouble?
As for the three people's initial agreement to make guest appearances in each other's films, the three of them actually knew it very well. This was an excuse deliberately made as friends to support Wang Baoqiang's film.
Take Huang Bo's "A Good Show" as an example.
Lin Yuan and Wang Baoqiang have so many roles, but they don't get paid, and they act as friends with zero pay. Is this possible?
If they really want to do this, will the management be willing to pay such a high salary to hire them to film in the future?
But it's different in "Havoc in Tianzhu". Lin Yuan and Huang Bo were originally guest stars, and they didn't have many roles. They were announced as friendly actors with zero pay, which would not have any impact on their commercial value. On the contrary,
It can help create a little buzz for the movie "Havoc in Tianzhu" and attract more fans to buy tickets to watch.
Otherwise, with Wang Baoqiang’s investment of less than 100 million, it would be obviously impossible for this movie to achieve a high box office.
When Lin Yuan arrived, he didn't mention letting Huang Bo and Wang Baoqiang star in the movie. Firstly, he couldn't afford to pay them, and secondly, there was really no suitable role for them in the script, so he simply didn't talk about it.
thing.
After a brief chat, Lin Yuan began to bring the topic to Wang Baoqiang's upcoming movie "Havoc in Tianzhu".
"Brother Baoqiang, when are you going to start shooting your movie?"
Wang Baoqiang thought for a while and replied: "After the Chinese New Year."
After hearing this answer, Lin Yuan nodded thoughtfully.
It just so happened that he could finish the matter before the Chinese New Year, and Wang Baoqiang would only make a cameo, so he wouldn't waste much time. Basically, he could start filming the movie "I'm Not the God of Medicine" after the Chinese New Year.
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With the completion of the movie "A Good Show", Lin Yuan finally had a few more quiet days.
When I was in the apartment, besides reading the script of "The God of Medicine", I was thinking about casting for the movie.
There are only two roles that have been tentatively decided at the moment.
In addition to some roles that can be played by extras or special actors, there are still five roles with larger roles that have not yet been decided. These have to be carefully selected by him as a director.
But before he could finalize the list of actors, Master Xing's call came to his mobile phone.
Before answering the phone, Lin Yuan knew that Master Xing was calling to promote the movie "Mermaid".
As expected.
The two chatted for almost half an hour, basically discussing the release and promotion of the "Mermaid" movie.
According to Lin Yuan's idea, the main creative team is prepared to participate in variety shows and media interviews, so as to increase the audience's expectations for the movie through short-term exposure.
However, Star Master doesn't seem to like participating in these variety shows.
You must know that netizens' expectations for the movie "Mermaid" mostly come from Xing Ye, followed by the starring Lin Yuan. If Xing Ye does not participate in these variety shows, the topic discussion of the movie will definitely be greatly reduced.
In the end, the two discussed it for a long time and only decided on the time for the premiere press conference.
The premiere press conference will start on Christmas Day, December 25th, and it will be officially released on New Year's Day, January 1st.
You can tell from this release date.
The movie "Mermaid" is bound to win the box office championship during the Spring Festival!