"Minister Ying, The Last Emperor is a big production with an expected investment of 20 million US dollars, and I hope to get the full support of the government and allow full live shooting in the Forbidden City." In an office of the Ministry of Culture, Qiao Feng said solemnly.

"Mr. Qiao, we are very happy that you can not shy away from the external situation and cooperate with us in the film, and we are very welcome. The British Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture first welcomed the cooperation in the film, and then refused Qiao Feng's request to shoot in the Forbidden City with a difficult face.

On the side, the person in charge of the China Film Co-production Company, commonly known as the co-production company, which is responsible for the management, coordination and service of Sino-foreign co-production films, is a little anxious.

This is a big production with an expected investment of 20 million US dollars, which has never been a big production in China, although the leading Hong Kong company is the leading company, but after all, the co-production company is also mixed in a corner, and in the future, we have co-produced a 20 million dollar big-budget movie with Hong Kong.

Besides, this is Qiao Feng's movie.Other people in China may not know who Qiao Feng is, but how can the person in charge of the co-production company not know it.

When the original fast pistols and fast gunners were filming in Dunhuang, the assistance in filming from Xiying was the co-production company.

and the Shaolin Kid who Qiao Feng funded the script was also co-produced by the co-production company and the Hong Kong Leftist Film Company.

And there was also a direct cooperation with Qiao Feng, that is, the kung fu kid broke through the love barrier, this movie was jointly produced by Qiao Feng and the co-production company, and the domestic copyright belongs to the co-production company.

If it's a commercial film, then if you don't cooperate, you won't cooperate, but this last emperor is obviously not, this is a feature film, a biographical drama, judging from the content of the script, it is obviously going to be distributed to Europe and the United States.

Of course, this can be seen just by looking at the expected investment of 20 million US dollars, otherwise if it is released in the mainland, Hong Kong, and even Southeast Asia, the film will not even recover the cost.

This is the film with the largest investment in Qiao Feng's films, and if you can't even recover the cost, it will be funny.

Qiao Feng's undefeated golden body can be shattered, there is no doubt that Qiao Feng will not let such a thing happen.

That is for sure, this film can only be released in Europe and the United States, especially in the North American market.

What a face-showing thing to move the story of Chinese to Europe and the United States for Europeans and Americans to see.

"Minister, there is a precedent for filming in the Forbidden City, you forget, in 73 years, the American NBC company filmed the documentary "Forbidden City" in the Forbidden City." The person in charge of the co-production company reminded in a whisper.

"Oh, I remember, I remember, there is such a thing." Vice Minister Ying nodded suddenly, but he was still very embarrassed and said to Qiao Feng: "Mr. Qiao, although there is a precedent, it is a documentary after all, it is only a documentary, just shooting the landscape of the Forbidden City, and there are so many people who shoot it, which is completely different from the large-scale shooting of tens of thousands of people in the last emperor's movie, and it is easy to cause some damage to the Forbidden City and cultural relics if there are too many people."

"Minister Ying, the last emperor I invested 20 million US dollars, I want to shoot it into a grandiose, colorful, spectacular epic blockbuster. Qiao Feng organized his words and said again.

"This.... Well, I'll report it to my superiors and see if I can get permission?" The British deputy minister said after a moment of silence.

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"How's that, agreed?" Qiao Feng said goodbye and left and came to the street, waiting for Section Chief Yang outside, Li Hanxiang hurriedly surrounded him, Li Hanxiang asked very eagerly.

"The script has been reviewed, but it is still not allowed to shoot in the Forbidden City." Qiao Feng said helplessly.

"Hey, you know." Li Hanxiang shook his head with a wry smile after being disappointed, although he hoped that he could be allowed to shoot in the Forbidden City, but in fact, he was ready to be rejected.

Because of this kind of thing, Li Hanxiang had already encountered it once when he was filming the curtain to listen to politics two years ago, and that time he was also full of hope and wanted to shoot in the Forbidden City, but in the end the application was rejected.

Although the filming locations of that drama include the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, the Chengde Summer Resort, the Eight Temples Outside Chengde, the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty, etc., they are all limited shooting, especially the scenes of the Forbidden City, when filming the enthronement ceremony of the Tongzhi Emperor, they can only shoot external scenes, and the rest of the internal scenes must be filmed elsewhere.

And in the cut shot, there is a picture of the main entrance of the main hall behind the emperor being blocked by iron bars during the enthronement ceremony.

"Don't be discouraged." Qiao Feng smiled and comforted: "It's good that the script has been approved, and there are no restrictions on the content to be deleted, this is already a big victory.

"That's all it can be." Li Hanxiang sighed a little discouraged and said.

"Let's go, let's go back.Now that the script has been approved, the other subsequent roles should also be selected.Start preparing as soon as possible.When the results come, let's start pre-shooting." Qiao Feng said.

The filming of the last emperor is a huge project, of course, but all the domestic serious historical drama filming projects are quite huge.

It is certainly impossible to start filming after all the personnel are fully in place, so I don't know how much time will be delayed and how much investment will be spent.

Take the scene of Puyi's enthronement ceremony as an example, there are no less than 2,000 extras needed, and it is impossible to wait for all these 2,000 extras to be found before starting to shoot a movie.

If the filming of the enthronement ceremony is later, I don't know how much it will cost to eat and drink with the extras, not to mention the salary.

Therefore, shooting can only be to prepare while shooting, and when you are not ready for a big scene, you can shoot some simple scenes first.

For the big production of 20 million US dollars, the co-production company took the most important attitude, and soon it was only a week, and the preliminary preparations were almost completed.

Then, the notice also came back and forth.