The Great Player of Light and Shadow

The crew's rules are to hold a meeting with the main creators at the preparatory team of Huairou Film and Television Base at 10 a.m. the next day.

But Huang Xiaoming and Wang Junkai arrived at 9 o'clock and practiced together for a while at the scene.

It didn't take long for the two of them to see actors or staff entering the venue one after another, some they knew and some they didn't.

At 9:30, Cheng Yuan's car parked outside the door. The couple got out of the car and brought someone along with them.

"Director Cheng."

"Cheng Dazao."

"Hello, Director Cheng."

Everyone greeted him.

"Have you eaten everything?" Cheng Yu'an said with a smile, "If you haven't eaten yet, go get something. I'm not in a hurry here."

I didn’t even go to the hotel conference room for the meeting today. It was just in the photo studio in Huairou. The tables and chairs were set up for everyone to meet and chat.

At 10 o'clock, Cheng Yu'an saw that everyone had arrived and began to preside over the meeting.

For the movie "Mulan", the person in charge of Disney is their senior vice president Steve Lloyd Rogers, while the person in charge of the domestic connection is Zhou Tiedong, the president of Remote Film and Television Overseas Business Unit.

At today’s meeting with the main creators, the docking teams from China and the United States were also present.

Cheng Yu'an first introduced the two people in charge: "This is the American producer Steve Lloyd Rogers, and this is our Chinese producer Zhou Tiedong."

Then he started to introduce the important behind-the-scenes personnel: "I hired Mr. Zhao Xiaoding, director Zhang Yimou's royal cameraman, for filming. Mr. Zhao is still filming "Shadow" and can't make it. This is Mr. Zhao's assistant."

Qin Ranqiu has his own film to shoot and cannot complete the filming with Cheng Yuan.

"Art Design, Teacher Cao Jiuping."

Cheng Yu'an had a great idea and invited director Zhang Yimou's right-hand men to come over.

Cao Jiuping and Zhang Yimou have collaborated on 10 films, from "Codename Jaguar" to "Happy Days". During this period, Mr. Cao was responsible for the art of all director Zhang's films.

The last film Mr. Cao made was "Wonderful West and East" in 2011 - this film has not been released yet.

In order to invite Cao Jiuping to come out, Cheng Yu'an also spent a lot of thought and made many connections.

Cheng Yu'an will take a lot of real shots in "Mulan". He needs a photographer who can shoot deserts, grasslands, Gobi, and snowfields, and he also needs an art director who can design his scenes.

That’s why we invited two seniors, Zhao Xiaoding and Cao Jiuping.

"Action director, Mr. Yuan Ba. Mr. Ba still has unfinished work, so he can't meet with you today. He will join the team when filming officially starts."

The person coming to the meeting today is Yuan Jiaban’s agent.

The martial arts circle is very small. During the period of receiving action training, Huang Xiaoming recognized the people in Yuan's class and already guessed that Cheng Yu'an might ask Yuan Baye to provide action guidance.

After introducing several important behind-the-scenes staff, we finally got to the actors.

"You guys introduce yourselves, I won't go into details."

"Me first, me first." The little girl who came by Cheng Yu'an's ride stood up and said impatiently, "Hello everyone, my name is Song Zuer. I am 18 years old and I am a freshman in film school. I like..."

"Okay, okay," Cheng Yu'an interrupted her, "I'm asking you to introduce yourself, I'm not asking you to come on a blind date. I'm going to bring you here, and I won't finish it as soon as I start."

Song Zuer was used to it and said nonchalantly: "Anyway, please take good care of me in the future."

"Have you ever played Nezha?" Someone recognized her.

"Don't say this." Song Zuer refused, "I don't want you to say this. I am already 18 years old and want to follow the path of a mature woman."

"You are a big kid," Liu Yifei said with a smile, "You are only 18 years old, but you still want to act like a mature woman."

The joke was over and the actors continued their introductions.

"Hello everyone, my name is Zhang Zifeng, I am 16 years old."

"Hello everyone, my name is Peng Yuchang."

"Hello everyone, my name is Wang Junkai."

"Hello everyone, I am Zhang Xincheng."

"I'm An Zhijie."

"My name is Han Haolin, I am 8 years old this year." The little guy doesn't have stage fright.

"Okay, okay, you don't need to introduce yourself." Cheng Yu'an interrupted Ni Dahong, "Who doesn't know you?"

Those who need to introduce themselves are all young actors, old actors like Ni Dahong, Dobutie, Zhang Fengyi, and Huang Xiaoming and Liu Yifei, so there is no need to introduce themselves.

Cheng Yu'an said: "Everyone is familiar with it. Let me tell you about our play first. I won't tell the story. Everyone is familiar with the story of Hua Mulan.

[To tell you the truth, I have been using Yeguo to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with more sounds.

"Today I mainly talk to you about the filming. You have all seen this drama. It involves action training and the scenery is all over the country. It will be tiring to shoot because I want to shoot it as realistically as possible. The desert,

Gobi, grassland, etc., so the shooting time may be longer. The current shooting cycle of the production team is about 8-9 months."

This time is really long.

Cheng Yu'an quickly explained: "We have to shoot real things and tell the truth, so sometimes we have to wait and see. We will start shooting next month and shoot Gobi and desert scenes in the Western Cinema, and then return to the Bashang grassland to shoot snow scenes in the winter, and also

We are going to Xiangyang Tangcheng to shoot indoor scenes. When spring comes next year and the grassland turns green, we will go to Xilin Gol and Altai to shoot the most beautiful grassland scenes."

The reason why we don’t shoot snow scenes in the Western Cinema is because the snow in the northwest is so heavy and thick in winter that horses can’t run in the snow, so we can only shoot in grasslands where the snow is not that deep.

"The battle front is long and the task is difficult. Thank you for your hard work." Cheng Yu'an first coaxed the actors.

The actors also said that these are not problems at all.

Cheng Yu'an continued: "Now I will assign the script and subsequent tasks to everyone."

"Zur, Xiao Mulan." There was no script for her.

"Where's my script?"

"You just need to say a few words. You don't need any paper at midnight. I'll tell you verbally later." Cheng Yuan said with a smile.

Song Zuer was not happy anymore. It was hard for her to get cast in a Hollywood princess movie, but she only had two lines and not even a serious script.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Cheng Yuan did not tease her and gave her two pages.

"Zifeng, play Hua Mulan's sister when she was a child." Sister A heard that her sister came, so Hua Mulan must have a sister.

It's also two pages.

Song Zuer became emotional: "She is obviously younger than me, but she still plays my sister?"

"Your face looks more like Yifei." Cheng Yu'an said.

"Haolin, you play Mulan's younger brother." Sister Wen is coming.

"Peng Peng, you play the role of my grown-up brother."

"Wang Junkai, you play Mulan's teammate in the military camp, Ayao."

"Zhang Xincheng, you play A Lin."

"An Zhijie, you play Jin Bao."

These three people are Hua Mulan's teammates in the 1998 animated version. Cheng Yu'an retained some characters and plots from the animated version out of concern for overseas audiences.

"Teacher Zhang Fengyi, you play the emperor."

"Teacher Ni Dahong, you play the role of a military supervisor." In the animated version, there was a prime minister who accompanied the army, and Cheng Yu'an was changed to a supervisor.

"Teacher Dobjie, you play Rouran Khan."

"Xiao Ming, you are General Li Xiang."

The roles have been roughly assigned. Several actors are temporarily unable to come today, but Cheng Yuan has made arrangements ahead of time.

Cheng Yu'an added: "Yifei has been training for two months. Xiao Ming, Wang Junkai, Zhang Xincheng, An Zhijie, and Teacher Dobjie. The four of you will also train starting tomorrow. You have heavy fighting scenes.

, we strive to play well."

"Oh, and also, "Mulan" will be released globally. If you want to dub it yourself, you must seize the time to learn English well." Cheng Yu'an gave the actors scripts in both Chinese and English.

The original soundtrack of "Mulan" is definitely in Chinese, and the English version will be released overseas.
Chapter completed!