The crew of "Infernal Affairs" will be a huge one that Peng Xiangming has never been in charge of.

The first thing to finalize, of course, is the main framework of the crew.

After the New Year, An Minzhi rushed back to the original company and began to do the post-editing of "Youth Without Regrets" as quickly as possible.

She needs to basically clarify her relationship with that side before the crew officially starts filming, and then officially resign and join here as the company's president and producer of "Infernal Affairs".

There are only two producers of "Infernal Affairs", one is Peng Xiangming, and the other is her.

In addition, she has cooperated with the executive producer of the old company for many years, and has confirmed that she will follow her to jump ship, at this time, she temporarily asked for leave to come out, and even more free than her, and when she was away, she did her best to arrange the preparation of the crew for her.

He will serve as the executive producer of Infernal Affairs.

The director is Peng Xiangming.

There are two assistant directors, one is Zhao Jianyuan, who is responsible for filming planning and selecting venues, and the other is Wu Chunjian, who is responsible for casting, actor communication, and communication with various departments of the crew.

Wu Chunjian was sent by Fengxiang Film and Television, and it is impossible for Peng Xiangming to give him a position as a producer, but it is reasonable for an assistant director who is very familiar to him to serve as the deputy director of casting.

In addition, there will be a supernumerary staff in the director team, who does not take the salary of the crew, but when it is released, Peng Xiangming also plans to label him as an assistant director - he is a so-called "supervisor" sent by the Golden Shield Film and Television Center, nominally responsible for supervising the use of relevant support funds to prevent abuse and misappropriation, but in fact, this is a small window opened by the leaders, and he is responsible for contacting local organs at all levels.

As long as it is necessary to use relevant departments to provide filming assistance, such as venues, such as police cars, such as police uniforms, he can help coordinate and solve the problem, and even he can coordinate the mobilization of relevant local manpower and material resources, such as dispatching local armed police, police, etc. to assist in shooting.

When necessary, he can also provide relevant firearms experts to provide filming guidance.

In a word, as long as you sing the praises of the people's police, the relevant departments will provide all the assistance possible - when the communication was first made, Peng Xiangming was startled, and even later when he heard the old man say that the relevant ministries and commissions admired Peng Xiangming a lot, he was still surprised by the help provided by the government at this level.

This level of support, regardless of anything else, just the use of the venue and group performances, as well as related costumes and props, the crew can save a lot of money!

It's not even just about saving money, it's about the realism of everything you use.

Realism, put into film and television works, is called texture.

And for them, this is provided for use free of charge, and an executive order is sufficient.

But this is not the end, when chatting, the old man actually reminded him that he could try to apply to the relevant departments of the state for a national third-level director, saying that the above should be approved.

When this movie is finished, if the response is very good, maybe you can directly apply for a second-level director.

Peng Xiangming was almost shocked by him again.

You know, this title is not something that anyone can apply for! It can't be given casually!

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Xu Jingwei will come over to be the executive producer of this film.

The director of photography will be Xu Jingwei's "queen photographer" Zhao Xinwei. When filming the short film "Pure Heart" before, he had already taken the camera for Peng Xiangming, and they were actually very familiar with each other.

Previously, at the celebration banquet of "Three Kingdoms", Hu Zhongjun, who had been entangled with Peng Xiangming, was actually pulled in by An Minzhi - she highly recommended her old senior, and Peng Xiangming also believed in her professional vision, so Hu Zhongjun became one of the main photographers of "Infernal Affairs".

Zhao Xinwei has his own photography team, which is used to working together, but Hu Zhongjun is a lone wolf, so Peng Xiangming had an idea, called Du Jue, and pulled him into the game.

He and Peng Xiangming are first-class, they are students of the 13th level of the Photography Department of the Film Academy, and they are about to graduate, and they have participated in Zhao Jianyuan's small crew before, and since the beginning of the year, they have followed Zhao Jianyuan to carry the camera for ten days and helped Zhao Jianyuan complete his graduation short film "Go Home".

Zhao Jianyuan said that this old guy is good, hard-working, and his work is not bad, and the feeling of the camera is great.

They are all classmates, and Peng Xiangming is of course more willing to give him a chance than recruiting people from the outside.

The photography team was formed in less than a day, and it was just a matter of a few phone calls.

Costumes, lighting, makeup, props, etc., many departments, Xu Jingwei and Wu Yun contributed a part, and An Minzhi also directly brought in a part, and soon implemented them one by one and signed the contract.

Then, there are the characters and actors.

The script of this movie was changed at the end, and there were a total of twenty-two people on the cast, and later Peng Xiangming added another one. A policewoman who doesn't have too many scenes.

Ma Baozhong deliberately made a detour and asked Li Kanghua to take a bridge to eat with him, Li Kanghua said in advance that he wanted to cooperate to do something, but when it came to the wine table, they didn't have any proposal to cooperate, they just brought the girl named Zou Xiaoyi over, and the meaning was very clear.

Then stuff her with another policewoman in it, anyway, just add a few lines to it.

Peng Xiangming will play Chen Yongren in his youth.

In addition, it was decided early that Qi Yuan would play the newly added role of a policewoman, Sun Xiaoyan would play the role of psychotherapist Li Xin'er, and Zeng Rou would play her original role in the MV story version, Chen Yongren's ex-girlfriend.

As for Liu Jianming's girlfriend, who is called "Zheng Xiuwen" in this movie, it will be handed over to Liu Mi.

This will be Liu Mi's first time playing the role of Peng Xiangming.

As for Chen Xuan, Peng Xiangming decided to give him the role of Silly Qiang, who is easy to shine once he is portrayed, to temper and improve his acting skills.

In addition, it has been finalized, Cheng Yu will play Liu Jianming, one of the two protagonists.

previously starred in the short drama "Pure Heart", Sun Liheng of the Yanjing Youth Repertory Theatre, Peng Xiangming felt that his acting skills were quite exquisite, and intended to let him play the role of the police boss in the movie, Huang Zhicheng.

Of course, it hasn't been decided yet, and he still needs to audition to see if he can perform what Peng Xiangming wants.

In addition to these important roles that have basically been determined to find good people, there is also a male protagonist Chen Yongren, drug dealer boss Han Chen, and young Liu Jianming, all of whom are carefully selected and strictly controlled by Peng Xiangming, but other roles are mainly supporting roles on the side of the police and drug dealers, and Peng Xiangming's hand is loosened.

I called Ning Xiaocheng, Du Siming and several other old friends separately and asked if there were any suitable young actors to recommend? Then, Xu Jingwei and Wu Yun, do you have anything to recommend? Zeng Rou and Sun Xiaoyan?

Some are returning favors, and some are giving favors.

There are contacts and contacts, so they are called friends.

When the time comes, let's see how the candidates they recommend, if they are suitable, they will be retained, and if they are not suitable, they will be retained!

In addition, Wu Chunjian was sent by Fengxiang Film and Television to be an assistant director, and he was responsible for casting, and he also had to leave one or two small roles that were not very important.

Lao An may also have someone she likes to support.

So in fact, the audition is definitely required, but it is likely that there is no need to recruit openly at all.

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When discussing the choice of the most important actor Chen Yongren, Xu Jingwei recommended Jiang Bin.

Among the domestic actors around forty years old, Jiang Bin is known as the best acting student, with a delicate appearance, and his temperament is more suitable for Chen Yongren's character style in the play, in addition to the fact that he is a movie café and the salary is almost certainly tens of millions, even Peng Xiangming feels that he is indeed very suitable.

But later, Cheng Yigui, who participated in the meeting, whispered, "He is British." ”

Peng Xiangming was only stunned for a moment, and immediately vetoed him decisively.

Just kidding, other themes are not a big problem, but this is a praise of the anti-narcotics police, if you really find a foreign actor to play, maybe it will cause some turmoil at that time.

Wu Chunjian recommended another young actor, named Qin Yuan, who is a little younger, just thirty-three years old, and is still handsome, and he can still play the male protagonist in idol dramas and romance dramas, but Peng Xiangming saw the photo of him that Wu Chunjian found on the computer, but his eyes lit up at that time - not to mention, this kind of delicate and slightly melancholy temperament is really quite suitable. At least at first glance, I feel that there is an eye.

So Peng Xiangming agreed to him to audition.

There is no doubt that he is a contracted actor under Fengxiang Film and Television.

But Wu Chunjian said that if Peng Xiangming thinks he is suitable, don't care about how much he is paid, Fengxiang Film and Television is willing to subsidize half of it - Peng Xiangming laughed and said that he would admit it.

In fact, this Qin Yuan should not be popular, because at his age, he should have been acting for ten years, but Peng Xiangming had never heard of him before. Such an actor is still a TV drama actor, and he is pulled over to let him be the leading actor of a movie that countless people pay attention to and are optimistic about, even if he doesn't give a penny, he will definitely be willing to come.

After a careful discussion from the candidates recommended by others, three candidates were finally decided, Han Chen and the young Liu Jianming's actor candidates, and everyone made their own recommendations, Peng Xiangming After the preliminary review, he agreed that Wu Chunjian would contact them one by one, and invite them to come over to participate in the audition when the time came.

After finishing these preliminary preparations, they left the rest of the work to An Minzhi and Cheng Yigui, and Peng Xiangming and Zhao Jianyuan went out to survey the scene together before the first month of the new year.

Many indoor scenes, of course, can be filmed in the studio, and Peng Xiangming has to go to various cities one by one to feel the atmosphere of the streets, so that it can be finalized.

Of course, the choice of this location, if it is not necessary, must be arranged in the same city as much as possible, which not only saves costs, but also avoids the pain of the crew.

And because Peng Xiangming's setting of the original version has not been greatly changed, this location city must be close to the sea.

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