Because he was going to receive Xu Qinghai tomorrow, Li Yang stayed at the construction site for a while, then called back Wangcai and drove back to the city.

"I didn't have a reservation, Brother Yang, what's wrong?" said Jigu Ayi.

"These four cats don't accept any reservations tonight, and when the café closes in the evening, you can bring someone to bring the four of them to my house!" Li Yang said.

"Okay, Brother Yang!"

In the afternoon of the next day, Xu Qinghai came to the Youmao Inn as promised, Xu Qinghai was not tall, he looked very ordinary, he wore thick glasses, a sweatshirt on his upper body, jeans on his lower body, sneakers on his feet, and a backpack on his back.

If it weren't for him introducing himself as Xu Qinghai, Li Yang really couldn't believe that the person in front of him was the director on the phone yesterday, and he looked like a programmer.

On the contrary, the other man who followed him looked like a director, he was dressed in hip-hop, his hair was long, he wore a pigtail, and in addition to that, they were accompanied by a man and a woman.

After Xu Qinghai's introduction, Li Yang also knew that the man with pigtails was the assistant director Archie, and the other man and woman were pet trainer Zhou Kai and female screenwriter Jiang Lai.

Because of this movie, cats are the real protagonists, so the whole crew attaches great importance to the choice of cats, so many people came, and pet actors are not like humans, auditions can be used to see acting skills, pets need professional pet trainers to cooperate during the filming process, and they also need to contact pets to feel their personalities, see if it is easier to control, evaluate the difficulty of shooting, etc.

"Your business here is really hot!" Xu Qinghai said with a smile, looking at the cats in the hall, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, "Why didn't you see Black Tan and Doug?"

"They are at my accommodation, because I consider that there are customers in the store during the day, which is not very convenient, so I specially brought them home last night!" Li Yang said.

"Oh, then let's go to your house and talk!" Xu Qinghai also understood.

The four of them followed Li Yang to his residence, and as soon as they entered the house, Wangcai shouted vigilantly, Li Yang hurriedly stopped, and then locked Wangcai in the guest room.

"Yes, just these four little guys?" Xu Qinghai saw the four cats playing in the room at a glance, and smiled, he had repeatedly studied all of Li Yang's Douyin videos in the past two days, and he could recognize these four cats at a glance.

"Well, the appearance is very consistent!" Screenwriter Jiang Lai's eyes also lit up, judging from the appearance alone, these four cats are very close to the four characters in the movie.

"Meow, meow-" Seeing Xu Qinghai and the others, the cats not only did not fear running away, but came over one after another, meowing, and even the oranges ran to Xu Qinghai's feet very undisciplinedly, rubbing and rubbing.

"Pretty good!" the trainer Zhou Kai squatted down, stretched out his hand and scratched Oscar's little head, and Oscar didn't recognize it.

Seeing these four close and cute cats, Xu Qinghai and the others instantly became cat-sucking guests, holding a cat and petting non-stop, Li Yangzhen doubted that they were here to choose a role, or to suck cats for free.

Li Yang came over and gave them a detailed introduction to the personalities of the four guys: "Especially this orange cat, as long as there is food, let you do whatever you want, the guy who has no discipline at all, I will show you it later, you will know!"

Li Yang successively showed Xu Qinghai the specialties of the four cats, and Xu Qinghai and them were smiling and happy.

"How do you feel about them?" asked the assistant director, named Archie.

"Very good! Director Xu also showed me the video yesterday, these little guys are indeed very smart, and Boss Li has also trained them a lot, so they are still relatively easy to control, at least easier than the cats we have seen before!"

"What about Jiang Lai?" Xu Qinghai looked at Jiang Lai.

"I must have no problem here, these guys' image and temperament are very consistent with the characters!" Jiang Lai smiled slightly.

"In this case, let's decide on these four little guys!" Xu Qinghai said, in fact, he flew a lot of things in order to choose the role of a cat at this stage.

There are not a hundred but dozens of cats that have been seen before and after, but none of them have been particularly satisfied.

In the film and television industry, there are three most difficult scenes to film, one is a water play, one is a children's play, and the other is an animal play.

And cat scenes are even more difficult, after all, cats are relatively more difficult to control, so in order to make it easier to shoot, and in order to better present a real and perfect effect, his choice of cats is still very strict.

"Okay, if you think it's okay, it's okay!" Everyone gave Xu Qinghai an affirmative look.

Xu Qinghai introduced the plot of the movie to Li Yang, and then talked in detail about the cat's appearance fee, as well as the follow-up shooting and cooperation.

This movie is adapted from a novel, which itself has a fan base, and the box office is estimated to be more than 50 million, but according to the crew's original budget plan, the appearance fee for a cat is at most 200,000.

But considering that Li Yang's cat itself is an Internet celebrity cat, the whole network has tens of millions of fans and traffic, and he has just been on the happy board camp, which is a great help and guarantee for the later publicity and box office of the movie.

Moreover, the cat itself has undergone special training, which will be of great help to the shooting and overall presentation, which can greatly save manpower and material resources, and can even shorten the shooting cycle by half.

So after the final negotiation, Xu Qinghai finally negotiated this cooperation with Li Yang at a total price of 3 million, including the appearance fees of the four cats, as well as the post-publicity cooperation of the movie.

Although Li Yang doesn't know how to price this thing, this price has met his expectations, and this is also a win-win thing, if the cat's participation in the movie can be successful, then the value can definitely double in the future, and there should be no shortage of advertising cooperation and film and television cooperation.

"Okay, I can accept this price! When will you start shooting? How long will it take, I need to make arrangements in advance!" Li Yang asked.

"If it's decided today, we should start filming next week, and the plot about cats will be filmed for about two months!" Xu Qinghai said.

"Okay, the contract ......"

"In this way, we won't leave today, I will ask the legal counsel to send the contract over in the evening, after you confirm that it is correct, we will sign the contract, and the money will be sent to you immediately, and we will take the cat directly this time, what do you think?" Xu Qinghai said.

"Yes, but the safety of cats, I hope to be absolutely guaranteed!" Li Yang also said what he cared about, this kind of cooperation needs to be honest with each other, and all problems should be thought of in front, so as not to end up unhappily.

"You put a hundred hearts, we are more concerned about the safety of cats than you, we will equip them with a special pet doctor and nutritionist to ensure that they are healthy and healthy, after all, we don't want them to have any problems than you, if you shoot half, any cat can not star, this is a huge waste and blow to our early investment, you say yes! And we will also draw up compensation clauses in the contract, you can definitely rest assured!"

"Okay, then follow your process!" Li Yang smiled.

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