He Sheng!

"Brother Quan, don't come to this set, Ah Xin!"

The one who came to pick up the airport was Guan Jinpeng's assistant Brother Quan, who had already known him when he was filming "Lan Yu", when He Xin was still a poor boy, when he lived in the Friendship Hotel, Brother Quan took care of him very much.

Of course, his status is different now, seeing that Brother Quan looked polite, he still stepped forward and hugged Brother Quan as before.

People are like this, with the change of status, the way of getting along with people will also change, just like in the earliest days, everyone got along with meat and vegetarian food.

For example, Brother Quan often looks for him: "Ah Xin, let's have a supper together!"

Or joked with him obscenely: "Ah Xin, your guy is so big, don't be a pity, do you want to arrange it for you tonight, I'm in for a treat!"

Well, when I was filming "Lan Yu", except for the female scenekeeper whose eyes were shining, the other men were very inferior.

After the two embraced, the polite smile on Brother Quan's face became the same as before, with a somewhat appearance.

Then he nodded to Chang Jihong on the side: "Mr. Chang, the hotel will be arranged in Kowloon Tong, and Director Guan will pick up the two of them at night." ”

"Thank you, Director Guan is so polite!" Sister Hong said with a smile.

As the saying goes: people respect me for a foot, and I respect people for a foot. That's how the connections are run.

Sister Hong didn't actually know Guan Jinpeng at the beginning, but she gradually became familiar with it through He Xin's relationship. With the deepening of exchanges between Hong Kong and the mainland in film and television, everyone often comes and goes, and every time Lao Guan comes to the capital, Sister Hong is warmly received.

At the same time, it is precisely because of Sister Hong's matchmaking that Guan Jinpeng and Hai Yan reached a cooperation agreement this time. Based on Wang Anyi's adaptation of the same name "Song of Long Hatred", the TV series version is controlled by Hai Yan, produced by Guan Jinpeng, and directed by Ding Xiaohei, while the film version is produced by Shanghai Film Studio, and also brings together the investment of Shanghai Film Studio, Emperor and Hai Yan, and is directed by Lao Guan himself.

Now the cooperation between the two places is very popular, and this mode of filming the movie version and the TV series version at the same time is very popular. On the one hand, the market for TV dramas in the mainland is very vast, and on the other hand, piracy in the mainland is so rampant, which increases the risk of film investment, and at the same time, starting filming is a way to share investment risks while saving costs.

It can be seen that Lao Guan arranged it very carefully, for example, the hotel was arranged in Kowloon Tong because Xu Laowei's studio was in the innovation center of Kowloon Tong.

"Director Guan has been quite busy lately, hasn't he?"

After getting into the car, He Xin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, chatted casually with his brother.

"The two projects were added together, and it was a really busy time, and everyone worked overtime almost every day. ”

"When will the movie version be launched?"

The TV drama version is the main control of Hai Run, and it has been finalized that it will start shooting in Shanghai at the end of July, and the heroine is a newly signed artist of Shanghai Hai Run, Huang Yi, the actor of Xiaoyanzi in the third part of "Returning the Pearl", and at the same time, famous Hong Kong and Taiwan artists Xie Junhao and Wu Xingguo joined.

One more thing, the male No. 3 actor in the TV series version is Li Wei, who plays Zhu Bajie, who plays a scumbag who starts and abandons in the play.

"It may not be until the end of August and the beginning of September, but in fact, the preparations are almost over, mainly waiting for the actors' schedules, after all, they are all big stars, and the schedules are tight. Brother Quan smiled.

"Song of Long Hatred" is a literary film, the starring role has been finalized a long time ago, the female number one is Zheng Xiuwen, who is very popular at the moment, and the three male protagonists are Liang Jiahui, Wu Yanzu and Hu Jun.

This lineup is definitely top-of-the-line. And it is rumored that Xu Laowei originally intended to invite Liang Jiahui to play the male lead in "Seven Swords", but he gave up because of a conflict with the schedule of "Song of Long Hatred".

"Oh, by the way, has Brother Jun been in Hong Kong lately?" He Xin asked casually again.

Originally, he and Hu Jun hadn't seen each other for a long time, Hu Jun had been filming in Shanghai some time ago, and he usually ran between the mainland and Hong Kong. When he came to Hong Kong this time, he originally thought that Hu Jun could get together if he was here, but when he called Hu Jun last night, his mobile phone was turned off.

As a result, the whole brother winked at him weirdly, and said with a smile: "Hu Sheng is a big star now, I don't know his whereabouts!"

He Xin couldn't help laughing.

Since the broadcast of "Dragon Babu", Hu Jun is now in the stage of red and purple, and he has also developed well in Hong Kong, starring in two movies "Golden Rooster" and "Infernal Affairs 2" one after another, although he is not the protagonist, but his performance in these two movies has been well received by the media and the audience.

And he appeared in the Hong Kong entertainment industry as an outsider, especially his 1.85 meter height and appearance full of tough guy taste, in the group of Hong Kong actors who are generally only about 1.7 meters tall, it will inevitably give people a refreshing feeling.

It is said that many grandmothers like him very much, and even the media even gave him a nickname: Walking Hormone!

However, in the past two years, the scandal between him and Liu Jialing has also been very noisy. At first, it came out when the two collaborated on "Infernal Affairs 2", and in the first half of the year, the two collaborated on "A River Flows Eastward", and during the filming, news of various intimate interactions between the two continued to break out.

As the saying goes: the wind is not necessarily without yin.

Insiders like He Xin and Quan Ge have long known that Hu Jun and Liu Jialing have a good relationship, for example, when Hu Jun first came to Hong Kong to develop, the red Toyota car he drove was Sister Jialing.

As for whether there is a relationship between the two that goes beyond friendship, it is natural that the benevolent will see the benevolent and the wise will see the wise!

......

The time for the audition is about 10 o'clock in the morning.

He Xin originally thought that the audition should be in a conference room or something, and then the director, producer, screenwriter and other main creators lined up, a bit like corporate personnel recruitment, talk to you about the characters, and then let you try to play a piece of this.

However, when he and Chang Jihong came to the Xu Ke Film Studio on the second floor of Hong Kong Innovation Square on time, they were greeted by a middle-aged woman in white clothes and black pants, with a round face and short hair, who looked very capable.

Although everyone met for the first time, they recognized at a glance that this was Xu Ke's wife, who was also a famous filmmaker Shi Nansheng.

Shi Nansheng greeted the two warmly, then pushed open the door of an office next to him, and shouted inside: "Master, Mr. He is here." ”

He Xin heard this title a little novel, as if it was the name of the wife of a large family to her husband in the old society.

At this time, he didn't have time to take a closer look, so he walked in.

The office inside is not large, only about ten square meters, and the first impression is that there are many books in it. The shelves next to and behind the desks against the wall were stuffed with books, either hardcover or plain paperbacks, and most of them looked old, and at a glance the owner often looked at them.

The other two walls are covered with paintings, and even on the floor against the walls, there are many drawings, oil paintings, but more of them seem to be storyboards from movies.

At this time, the owner of this office is sitting in a chair behind his desk, holding a drawing board, and his head is immersed in drawing.

"Director Xu!"

He Xin greeted politely.

"Oh, please be seated!"

Xu Ke glanced up at him, smiled at him, and said, "Wait a minute, I'll be fine right away." ”

"Oh, that's okay. ”

He Xin answered, and sat down on a sofa with a calm expression.

If you stay in the circle for a long time, you will find that many of the directors are different from ordinary people, especially some people who are known as "ghost directors" by the outside world. It's easy for them to get caught up in their own world and lose sight of what's going on around them. Lou Ye is this kind of person, but he found out today that Xu Ke seems to have a little bit of this meaning.

It should be said that it is not the first time he has seen Xu Ke, he saw him once from afar at the Academy Awards ceremony. But this is the first time we have met in close proximity like today.

He was in his early fifties, his hair was half gray, and he was messy. He has the same gray beard, but the beard looks well-trimmed.

He is the kind of person who does not have three taels of flesh on his face, and that face is so thin that it seems that his cheekbones are very high, and the whole face is even a little concave, and the ears are large and attractive, which adds a bit of eccentricity to his already long and strange face.

It is very similar to the image of those immortal Taoist priests in his imagination.

Although it was the first time he had met the legendary Hong Kong director face to face, he did not show that nervous or admiring look, on the contrary, he was very indifferent from beginning to end.

This probably comes from his normal heart at this time, and he has no desire for this audition. If you can pass the audition, it will only be a new job, otherwise, it doesn't matter, pat your ass and report directly to the crew of "Wu Ji".

He browsed the paintings on the wall and guessed that they were probably from Xu Ke's handwriting. Because there have long been rumors in the rivers and lakes, it is said that Xu Ke's painting is successful. And he saw a few more storyboard manuscripts that were obviously "The Legend of Shushan".

After about five or six minutes, Xu Ke finally stopped the pen in his hand, and deliberately took a closer look at the work he had just completed, but when he was watching, he raised his eyes from time to time to look at He Xin, who was sitting opposite.

When he looked at it for the first time, He Xin subconsciously stopped his body, and was about to speak with a smile on his face, but found that the other party looked down at the painting in his hand again.

After repeating this a few times, just when he was a little stunned, he saw Xu Ke hand over the painting in his hand along with the drawing board and said, "You take a look at this first." ”

As he spoke, he looked a little apologetic: "I drew it according to my impression, and it may not look like it." ”

This is a figure painting, and the person in the painting is a big bald head, but with a fierce expression, wearing heavy leather armor on the upper body, and a pair of gaudy green pants with red flowers on the lower body.

At first glance, the person in this painting has a bit of the demeanor of Teacher Ji Chunhua.

Look at it again, there are four words below - wind and fire.

As a lover of martial arts in his youth, he was also familiar with Liang Yusheng's "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain", and he was also a treasure of the characters in it.

The so-called Wind and Fire City, the description in the book should be like this: 12 years ago, the Wind and Fire City was originally a border general in the late Ming Dynasty, named Zhao Yibiao, and the army was stationed on the Tumen River.

Later, Jin and the Ming Dynasty fought for many years, the king of Goryeo took advantage of the Ming Dynasty to look eastward, invaded the north of the Tumen River, Zhao Nu, with its three first wind generals Gua Geluo, the fire general Damuha, and the thunder general Qu Mingji attacked the Goryeo army at night, with tens of thousands of people to kill the enemy more than 100,000 heads, and captured several cities in Goryeo, the king of Goryeo retreated in a hurry, Zhao Yibiao became famous in this battle, and was regarded by the enemy as the military god at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and privately feared it as "the wind and fire".

It's just that he was later designed by Duoduo, who first ruined his righteous name, and then sent someone to assassinate him by pretending to be an assassin of the Heaven and Earth Society. In order to rescue Mingji, who was hit by the sword of distraction in order to protect him, lost all his memories and scattered his mind, he was like a wasted person, and finally became a hired killer of the Manchu Dynasty.

A proper villain!