John Woo?

Huo Yaowen glanced at Wen Yingguang, who was sitting opposite, with a strange look in his eyes, this is a coincidence, among the more than 20 people who came to apply, among the three people selected, there was a well-known director in the future.

Wen Yingguang didn't notice the boss's expression, and continued: "General manager, these three people have worked in the crew for many years and have some directing experience, I think we can properly train new directors, which will also be of great help to the company's future development, especially this Liu Zhi and Wu Yusen, both of whom studied behind Chu Yuan and Zhang Che before." ”

Huo Yaowen closed the recruitment roster, "Well, it's okay to train new directors, but I asked you to find a good director before." ”

"Yes, I've found my target. Wen Yingguang's heart tightened, thinking that fortunately he had expected it.

"Who?"

"Chu Yuan. ”

Perhaps because he was afraid that the general manager did not know Chu Yuan, he hurriedly introduced: "Chu Yuan is a veteran director, he began directing and filming more than ten years ago, and the 60-year-old "Poor World Parents' Heart" became famous in one fell swoop, and for the next ten years, he was shooting Cantonese films, until he joined Cathay Pacific in 71 to shoot the Chinese martial arts film "Long Muxiang", and later after Cathay collapsed, he joined Shaw Brothers to shoot the movie "Fire and Harmony", and the box office of the movies made in recent years has been very good. ”

Hearing this, Huo Yaowen frowned, and it took a while to calm down, thinking that it was him!

Speaking of Chu Yuan, I am afraid that few people know about the director, but he was one of the well-known directors in Hong Kong in the 60s and 70s. Most of the early films were short and ethical movies of some parents, such as "Black Rose and Black Rose", "Seventy-two Tenants", etc.; until the 70s, he cooperated with Gu Long, who served as a screenwriter, and filmed more than a dozen classic martial arts works such as "Meteor Butterfly Sword", "Tianya Bright Moon Knife", "The Sword of the Third Young Master", "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword", "Lu Xiaofeng" and so on.

However, what makes young audiences most familiar with Chu Yuan is not his director's works, but his roles, such as the Buddha in Zhang Weijian's version of "Heaven and Earth Fighting for the Monkey King", and Cheng Feng's father Cheng Shouzhong in "Sister Tuogun".

"So, this Chu Yuan is willing to come to our company to make a film?"

Huo Yaowen recalled the information about Chu Yuan, and immediately thought about what the company's first movie would be filmed, that is, "Seventy-two Tenants".

According to the original history, this movie was released in 1973, when it not only pressed Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon", but also broke the Hong Kong box office record that year. suppressed "Enter the Dragon", which was built with a lot of money by Golden Harvest and Warner in the United States with a low-budget film, naturally has two brushes.

Wen Yingguang said embarrassedly: "Still... Not yet, but I've already sent someone to contact him, and I heard that Chu Yuan's life in the Shaw Clan is not very satisfactory, and there is a good chance that he wants to come and join our Huanyu. ”

Huo Yaowen said: "Then contact as soon as possible, if Chu Yuan signs a contract with Shaw Brothers, the company will pay the liquidated damages, the company has been established for more than half a month, and the photographic equipment should be shipped over soon, I only have one request for you now, that is, I must let me see the company's first movie shot before October." ”

"Don't worry, general manager, I will definitely dig Chu Yuan to the company in these two days. Wen Yingguang had sweat stains on his forehead, and he knew that this was the general manager's test for him.

"Well, it's better to be so. ”

Huo Yaowen waved his hand and said, "You go back and prepare first." ”

"Yes. ”

Wen Yingguang nodded, and when he got up cautiously and was about to leave, he suddenly heard the general manager behind him say: "By the way, is there a female martial artist in the company who knows kung fu?"

"General manager, when the company needs martial artists, most of them are recruited temporarily, and we used to make romance movies, and we rarely use martial artists, so there is no fixed martial arts team. ”

"Then go and recruit some to come and sign the contract, maybe you need it later. ”

Huo Yaowen does not guarantee that the company will only shoot romance films in the future, and if Chu Yuan is dug up, then according to the original history, after he finishes filming "Seventy-two Tenants", he will adapt and shoot Gu Long's martial arts works.

In addition, Huo Yaowen is now the honorary president and director of the Martial Arts Association, and there must be a lot of script resources in the future, so it is necessary to set up a dragon and tiger martial arts class that belongs to the company.

"Good general manager. ”

"Remember to bring in a female martial artist. ”

"Got it. ”

Although Wen Yingguang didn't understand why the general manager insisted on recruiting a female martial artist, he still nodded and agreed.

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After returning that day, Wen Yingguang poached the people in order to get the task ordered by the boss as soon as possible, and also communicated with Xiao Zhi, who had just joined the company, and confirmed that Chu Yuan was very unsatisfactory in Shaw's, so Xiao Zhi asked the other party to come out to see him privately.

As for what the two talked about, Huo Yaowen didn't ask, anyway, Chu Yuan promised to wait for him to finish filming "Ainu", and then have a showdown with Shaw Brothers and come directly to Huanyu Film Company.

In less than a week, after Chu Yuan finished filming and editing "Ainu", with the assistance of the lawyer sent by Wen Yingguang, he paid the liquidated damages for signing a contract with Shaw Brothers, and took his old team to Huanyu Film Company directly.

Originally, Huo Yaowen wanted Chu Yuan to shoot "Seventy-two Tenants" directly, but when he inquired later, he learned that "Seventy-two Tenants" was a drama arranged by the Shanghai Theater Troupe before World War II, and later a Hong Kong director filmed it in 63 years.

In the current situation where the copyright is unknown, Huo Yaowen did not rashly let Chu Yuan start filming, but found Gu Long, who had just returned to Hong Kong from Taiwan, and asked him to be the screenwriter to adapt "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword".

For Huo Yaowen's invitation, Gu Long readily agreed, and with his previous experience in helping Shaw Brothers write scripts, he changed it to a script within two days, and began to discuss the later filming with Chu Yuan.

Seeing that the film company was gradually on the right track and was about to start filming its first movie, Huo Yaowen did not focus on this, but turned his attention to the United Kingdom and the United States.

Litt sent more than a dozen telegrams saying that after "Game of Thrones" was published in the UK in March, it topped the British book sales charts for 13 consecutive weeks after the cryptic publicity of Tolkien, the author of "The Lord of the Rings", and has sold more than six million copies so far.

"General Manager, this is a telegram from Lidt yesterday. ”

Yao Wenjie looked happy, the more well-known the boss, the better he took advantage of the development of the company, recently negotiated cooperation with the publishing house and publisher in Nanyang to a key place, and now the boss's new book is selling well in the UK, and it can rise again in terms of sharing.

Huo Yaowen took the telegram and looked at it, it was mostly the sales of "Game of Thrones" in the UK, and the sensation caused was no less than that of "Harry Potter" the year before last, with a sales volume of six million copies, according to such a high manuscript fee, he could earn tens of millions of pounds, he was naturally happy in his heart, but he smiled indifferently and said "good".

"By the way, the general manager, the people from the Disney Company in the United States also sent a telegram this morning, saying that the production of the "Harry Potter" cartoon has been completed, and it is expected to be broadcast on American television next week. ”

"Really? That's good. Huo Yaowen's eyes widened, thinking that this was finally done!

A total of five episodes of the Harry Potter cartoon, each episode is less than 20 minutes, and it took more than a year to produce, so it is no wonder that Disney has become a world-class animation production company.

Although the sales of "Harry Potter" in the United States are good, they are definitely a lot worse than those in the United Kingdom, but once the cartoon is broadcast, I think it will bring profits to Huo Yaowen whether it is to drive the sales of the original book or the peripherals of the animation.

In addition, he wrote the second part of "Harry Potter" last month, and has been revising it recently, and when the cartoon is broadcast, the sales of the second part will inevitably be good, which can be described as double happiness.

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