Chapter 179 "Mr. Zombie" starts shooting
After 1984, Lin Jing became busier.
He is busy with his studies and writing "Rise of a Great Power", and even the "Love Letter", which has been confirmed as the candidate for the main role, has been hung up and temporarily put aside.
Wang Shuxian, who was still in Hong Kong and occasionally came to see her, felt tired and couldn't help asking.
"Don't you feel tired so busy? Why bother to make things difficult for yourself?"
"This is not called fatigue, but fulfillment. Enrichment, do you understand?"
It is obvious that Wang Shuxian doesn't understand the fact that he has nothing to do every day except on the set, except playing on the set.
"The world of academic masters is not something that mortals like me can understand."
So she had to use this emotion as her own annotation.
Then Lin Jing said something at the right time.
"Hmph, the wisdom of mortals!"
Wang Cuixian had no choice but to run aside and draw circles.
In this way, another month has passed on New Year's Day.
During this month, several movies have been released one after another.
Among them are "Man and Ghosts" produced by Jiahe, produced by Hong Xinbao, directed by Qian Yuesheng, starring Lin Zhengying, Dong Wei and Chen Long.
"Man and Ghosts" continues the enthusiasm of ghost movies in the early 1980s, inherits the style of the fantasy comedy action movies of the previous work "Man and Ghosts", blends traditional kung fu comedy elements, and carries forward the plot of scaring ghosts and making real ghosts. The story has many jokes, which is hilarious.
Lin Zhengying and Uncle Ying finally became the protagonist from a supporting role in "Scary Man". Although he has not yet shown his magical ability to catch ghosts and catch zombies like the later zombie film, he still showed off his pear garden skills he learned from Pink Apricot.
But the whole movie seems to be too persistent in funnyness. A large number of funny jokes dispersed the main line and did not lay enough. As a result, when it was time to reach the "gaochao" part, all the fighting scenes were casually cut, and finally ended up in a hurry, a typical start and ended in a bad way.
This also led to the unsatisfactory box office of "Man and Ghosts". Not only did it fail to surpass "Man and Ghosts" and go up to the top, but it failed to even pass tens of millions. Although it also achieved profitability, it was also true that it failed to become popular.
Hong Xinbao, who is the producer of this movie, also believes that the "Ghost Fights Ghost" series may end with this "Man Scared Ghost".
After the paintings in "Man and Ghosts", two popular films of the year came out.
One is the third sequel to "Best Partner" of "Best Partner" in New Art City, and the other is the "Teppanyaki" which is followed by "Man and Ghosts".
What is more interesting about these two movies is that the male protagonist of "The Best Partner Queen's Secret Order" is Xu Guanjie, and the male protagonist of "Teppanyaki" is Xu Guanwen. The two brothers each represent the two arch rivals Xinyi City and Jiahe, fighting on the big screen together. It has to be said that it is also a good highlight outside the big screen.
It’s just a pity that in front of "The Best Partner Queen's Secret Order", although "Teppanyaki" is also good, it is still hard to match.
In just one week of release, the box office of "The Queen of the Best Partner" left Teppanyaki far behind.
When the two movies were drawn, the total box office of "The Queen's Secret Order" reached more than 29 million, while "Teppanyaki" had only more than 19 million, which was almost a box office gap of 10 million.
In this new year, Jiahe lost to Xinyi City just as the beginning of the year and lost.
At this time, Jiahe missed the achievements it created last year.
Although Jiahe failed to beat New Art City in terms of total box office revenue last year, with the annual box office champion "Fast Food Truck" of 27.1 million and the annual box office runner-up of "Plan A", 24.13 million, it steadily surpassed New Art City's "Best Partner: Great Show of Power" of 23.27 million.
But this year, Jiahe is a bit overwhelmed in the annual box office rankings, because Jiahe has so far, except for the "Teppanyaki" that has been released. "The Divine Double Shooter" that follows "Teppanyaki", has a good momentum, but the box office trend is almost the same as "Teppanyaki". In surpassing "The Best Partner: The Great Show of Magical Powers", people have not seen hope.
More importantly, except for these two masterpieces at the beginning of the year, Jiahe has no plans for major productions in the future. Therefore, both Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang were a little anxious.
The screenwriters of the two masterpieces "Plan A" and "Fast Food Truck" that won last year are both Lin Jing, and the screenwriters of the two movies "Happy" and "The Dao Ma Dan" that exceeded 20 million, are also Lin Jing. Going back to the previous year's "The Five Blessings Stars" and achieved a very good box office.
"Does it still fall on Lin Jing in the end?" He Guanchang thought hard, only thinking of such a solution that was not a solution.
But this year, you can win the world. Lin Jing's script is known as the "golden script". With the rise of the Time and Space Film Studio, it is no longer so easy to invite. After all, others have their own film production companies, so why do you still have to flow out and work hard to write a popular good script for you?
What's more, last year, one of the foundations of Jiahe and Lin Jing's cooperation was that Lin Jing's time and space film studio still needed Jiahe's theaters. Now, there are rumors outside that the Time and Space Film Studio has reached a consensus with Shaw Movie. Shaw Movie is preparing to withdraw from the film production field and specialize in the TV field, and rent all its theaters to the Time and Space Film Studio.
As a person in the circle, He Guanchang naturally has his own news channel and knows that the rumor is true. And just a while ago, a loan contract was signed. Although not all Shaw Cinemas were rented to Time and Space Film Studio, Time and Space Film Studio did successfully own 13 cinemas, and they are all large theaters with more than 100.
Time and Space Film Studio can make movies by itself, and now the only screening channel to curb its development has been solved. Time and Space Film Studio is equivalent to a dragon entering the sea, and nothing can hinder its development and growth.
Thinking of this, He Guanchang shook his head. He no longer thought that the script would be successful if he invited Lin Jing. Although the cooperation between Jiahe and Lin Jing has always been pleasant, Hong Xinbao, a "strong general" under Jiahe, has a very good relationship with Lin Jing.
He Guanchang, who was sitting in the office, walked out, but as soon as he left, he saw Hong Xinbao coming in a hurry.
"Xinbao is here." Generally speaking, Hong Xinbao stays in his own branch and rarely comes to Jiahe's headquarters.
"He Sheng." Hong Xinbao greeted.
"I'm here to the headquarters today, what's wrong?" He Guanchang asked casually.
"There is nothing special, I just come here to report a new film project." This year, Hong Xinbao and Cen Jianxun set up another film company called "Debao". They are affiliated with Jiahe and are still being released. "The Divine Brave Double Fire Cannon" is the new work of this "Debao".
Hong Xinbao is like this. He always seems to be a little bored with the old in film companies. He believes that the old will not go to the new and will not come. He is keen to build a new one every once in a while. In just a few years, from Baohe to Debao, the film company has changed three or four.
He Guanchang looked at Hong Xinbao with a complicated look.
Hong Xinbao's film production company earns fixed salary and has never been overly dividends. No matter how high the box office of the movie is, his salary is much higher than that of most filmmakers, but this high is worth compared to "Fast Food Truck" with a box office of nearly 30 million, no wonder he had such an idea.
Maybe he wanted to ask Jiahe for the influence and jump out of Jiahe. He Guanchang said in his heart.
"Hasn't "The Divine Double Fire Cannon" just been released? There will be a new project so soon?" He Guanchang asked. After asking, before Hong Xinbao could answer, he felt a joking tone and said, "Is it possible that there is a new golden script?"
The so-called golden script refers to the script written by Lin Jing. Although the weight is very small, it is as valuable as gold.
"Where is the golden script that is so easy to get." Hong Xinbao could not understand what He Guanchang meant by saying "gold script" and smiled. He replied, "It is the sequel to "The Divine Double Fire Cannon" "Two Dragons Going to the Sea."
"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is so popular that the box office is so popular. The newly established "Debao" fired its first shot. It is the time to take advantage of the situation to pursue. Whether it is Hong Xinbao or Cen Jianxun, they all think this way and do the same.
"So that's how it is." He Guanchang was a little disappointed.
"In fact, A Jing did write a new script." But He Guanchang just expressed his disappointment. Hong Xinbao's next sentence aroused his interest again.
"A new script, isn't that?" He heard that Lin Jing had written a new script and seemed to have the intention of handing it over to Hong Xinbao, He Guanchang's eyes lit up. The thought that had just been extinguished burned again.
"It's just a pity that she wants to leave this script for her company to produce." Hong Xinbao seemed to be here to attack He Guanchang today, and his words were ups and downs.
"That's a pity." He Guanchang sighed. He said, "How great would it be if he could hand it over to Jiahe for production?"
"But she is going to invite me to be the producer and let Gen Bao come to star." Hong Xinbao's words are not shocking.
Lin Zhengying used to have another name called Genbao. Hong Xinbao and Lin Zhengying played with each other since childhood. Although Lin Zhengying has changed his name, he is still used to calling him Genbao in private. Just like Hong Xinbao's brothers, he is used to calling him Sanmao.
"Ms. Lin's courage is rare in the film industry." Without the idea of worrying about the gains and losses of invites dramas from Lin Jing, He Guanchang quickly restored his true nature as a boss of Jiahe and commented on the characters.
"Haha." Hong Xinbao smiled, saying that he was also very satisfied with Lin Jing's courage.
In fact, things are not as complicated as He Guanchang thought. What he was not bold enough? Lin Jing was thinking purely about zombie movies like "Mr. Zombie", which could not be played by Uncle Ying.
The script of the first "Mr. Zombie" series of movies, after Lin Jing's "spurring", was "exhausted" by Lin Jing, and the screenwriter team of Time and Space Film Studio "worked hard" in Wang Jing's exaggerated words, and finally passed the review.
Although this version of "Mr. Zombie" cannot be said to be perfect, it is indeed better than the original version.
With the script and sufficient funds, we can naturally launch a project.
But before the filming starts, Lin Jing still has a few things to consider.
Although "Mr. Zombie" has the overall style, although it is a fantasy cloak, it is actually a comedy action movie. Action scenes account for a large proportion. Director Wang Jing has made a lot of movies, but I think it is not what he is good at reading action scenes.
In the previous films, he focused on filming literary and martial arts on the basis of grasping the overall style. He handed over the action director to film the martial arts.
In this way, Lin Jing must find a good action director. Just now, Lin Zhengying, who has already booked as the starring actor, is also an excellent martial arts director.
Since the 1970s, he has been a martial arts director. What he has always been talked about is that he once acted as an action guide in Bruce Lee's "Brother Tangshan", "Dragon and Tiger Fight", and "Die Game", and designed action scenes for these films with Bruce Lee.
It can be said that in action scenes, Lin Zhengying is qualified and talented, and is fully qualified to serve as an action director in "Mr. Zombie".
Of course, no matter how capable Lin Zhengying is, he is still just a person after all. A large number of action scenes require a large number of action actors and behind-the-scenes stunt actors to complete. At this point, it is precisely what the Time and Space Film Studio lacks. After all, although the Time and Space Film Studio has risen very quickly, the time is still too short, and many departments have not yet had time to improve.
Therefore, Lin Jing also invited Hong Xinbao to be the producer, one of the purposes was to let the Hong family help make this film.
Moreover, with a big Buddha like Hong Kong's film industry, Wang Jing, who is very fond of merit and loves to show off, probably wouldn't dare to show off too much and point fingers at the areas he is not familiar with, and at the same time it will reduce many other unnecessary troubles and troubles.
With the producer, director and behind-the-scenes staff, the next thing to do is to gather other members of the original version. The original members are deeply rooted in people's hearts, including Lin Jing, so she is not ready to make too many changes.
For example, the two apprentices of Uncle Jiu, Qian Xiaohao, the actor of the tall, rich and handsome Qiu Sheng, Xu Guanying, the actor of the dink literary talent, Wang Xiaofeng, the actor of the female ghost Dong Xiaoyu, and Lou Nanguang, the actor of the security captain Awei.
Once you have determined the main roles that have more room to play, the rest will be much simpler.
Ren Tingting, who exists as a corner of the vase, is actually fine as long as she is young and beautiful. However, Li Saifeng was acting well in the original role, and she had a good relationship with Lin Jing, so she is still here to act now.
Others, the big boss of the whole film, the zombie king Ren Weiyong, was left to the original Yuanhua, who is now a member of the Hong family class.
The guest appearance of Taoist Simu Chen You, the rice shop owner Wu Ma, the rice shop owner's son Acai Tian Kaiwen, etc.
In addition, as the first movie series "Mr. Zombie", several foreshadowings were specially buried, such as Mr. Feng Shui, which had not appeared in the original version. This will be an important figure in the subsequent series of films. This version specially mentioned it, and Feng Cuifan will make a guest appearance.
Chapter completed!