Lu Lin stayed in the crew of "The New King of Comedy" for two days before leaving, during which he had dinner with Zhou Xingxing and his bodyguard.

During the meal, the faces of the two of them were tired, and Zhou Xingxing said several times that he couldn't shoot, and he didn't know what the mainland audience liked to watch.

The bodyguard said that because of family changes and career bottlenecks, he has not seen a character that makes him excited. Then asked Lu Lin, how can he shoot so many special effects blockbusters in a row.

Lu Lin smiled bitterly, "It's a routine, throwing money on special effects! But now the audience's aesthetic fatigue is serious, if "Daughter Country" can exceed three billion, I will burn high incense!"

Although it was a 500 million start on the first day and the reputation was also very good, the follow-up trend of "Daughter Country" was not strong. Judging from the current decline, the mainland box office should be between 28.9 billion and 3 billion.

Although this achievement is still the envy of many filmmakers, compared with Longlin Pictures' previous works, it can be said that the decline is obvious.

When summarizing the 2018 National Day files, media such as Time.com and Penguin Entertainment basically used "obvious decline" to describe this year's Chinese movies. Objectively speaking, in the past two years of 18 and 19, there are indeed only a handful of films in the Chinese film industry that can make people shine.

Speaking of this year's National Day file alone, in addition to the five films released on the same day on September 30, there are eight films that will be released one after another during the seven-day holiday. However, all seven are cannon fodder.

The evaluation is slightly good, and the box office of "Finding You", which caused a little repercussions, was 20 million on the first day, and the attendance rate was actually a little higher than that of "Shadow". If nothing else, the final box office should be about the same as another time and space, about 200 million.

This film is similar to the theme of "Dear", it is all about finding children, starring Yao Chen and Ma Yili, and it is generally not bad.

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"Director Lu, you only had a "Dayu Controls the Water" in the first half of the year, why didn't there be any movement in the second half of the year?

Zhou Xingxing said: "It can't be that I'm too tired to shoot, right? I just worked too hard when I was young, and my spirit is not enough when I am old!"

The bodyguard smiled: "If I had just taken the ...... marriage!" Halfway through the words, he remembered his divorce, and swallowed back what he was going to say.

Lu Lin smiled helplessly and said, "Sort of, anyway, I don't have the strength I used to have!"

Zhou Xingxing said: "I understand, hundreds of billionaires!"

Hearing this, the bodyguard glanced at Lu Lin, thought about his net worth again, and couldn't help sighing, and said: "The big boss is the big boss, do you have a good role, take care of me!"

Lu Lin took a sip of wine, put down the cup and thought about it: "There is a role, there are not many scenes, but it is very special!"

The bodyguard smiled: "Oh, Director Lu's film, there is no problem with how many scenes, as long as you can show your face!"

Lu Lin said with a smile: "Cheng, then in "Three-Body Problem 2", Yun Tianming's brain will be played by you!"

The bodyguard was stunned when he heard this, "Brain? Are you me acting in "Three-Body Problem 2"?"

Lu Lin laughed, Zhou Xingxing also smiled shyly, and said: ""The Three-Body Problem" is a good film, I also like it, if there is a suitable or fun role, take me one!"

Lu Lin raised his glass and said, "Cheng, in the future, Director Zhou will make films, as long as there is a suitable role, I can make a cameo!"

Seeing this, the bodyguard also hurriedly picked up the cup and grinned: "I said two great directors, such a fun thing, you have to take me!"

Lu Lin laughed and said, "I must call you!"

The three of them each took a sip of beer in their cups, and the bodyguard asked: "How are the preparations for "Three-Body Problem 2" going?

Lu Lin shook his head slightly and said, "Not necessarily, except for the funds, the actors of the script have not been finalized." ”

Longlin Pictures has too many film plans to be filmed, and some are preparing, so they are temporarily shelved, such as "Yang Jian Splits the Mountain to Save His Mother" prepared before. There are also "Male Company 3" and "Wolf Warrior 3", which have been preparing, etc., and there is no accurate shooting plan at present.

"Three-Body Problem 2" was mentioned earlier, which is also related to Lu Lin's VR movie plan. Because he felt that it would be very interesting to watch "Three-Body Problem 2" with the main story background of the universe in the form of VR, and then he wrote a synopsis of the script himself and threw it to the screenwriting department for them to fill in the details.

In terms of actors, Luo Ji is naturally played by Deng Chao, and this one has said hello. As long as Lu Lin determines an approximate shooting time, Deng Chao will naturally set aside the schedule.

The only thing that is not sure is the actor of "Our Lady" Cheng Xin, in the past few years, Lu Lin had thought of letting Jing Yan play this scolded role. Not to mention acting, at least in terms of being scolded, the young lady is still quite experienced.

But now that the two have been in love for many years and have received a certificate, and Jing Yan plays the heroine Zhuang Yan in "Three-Body Problem 1", Cheng Xin will definitely not be able to play again. Who will play Cheng Xin now, it has become a big problem.

There is no description of Cheng Xin's appearance in the original book, but according to the character shown in the book, Lu Lin also wanted to find a girl who looked very innocent and harmless to play it.

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After leaving Hengdian, Lu Lin first returned to Dream Beauty VR Technology Company to learn about the research and development progress of various technologies, and then returned to Longlin Pictures Company to continue the preparations for "Three-Body Problem 2".

At this time, the news that Lu Lin was going to shoot "Three-Body Problem 2" finally spread.

is different from Lu Lin's previous special effects blockbusters, "Three-Body Problem 1" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which made many actors who are interested in the award quite excited.

Moreover, as a special effects blockbuster, if you can star in it, your personal box office record can also be improved a lot! For a while, there are actually many actresses who want to try the role of Cheng Xin.

Under Longlin, Zhao Liying, Fat Di, and Du Xiaorao don't want to, they basically feel that they don't match their previous screen images.

And Gu Li Nazha, who joined Longlin Pictures for a short time, was a little hesitant. She has been quite black in the past few years, and she is really afraid that she will be scolded even worse because of this role.

As for the youngest Song Zhu'er, she really wanted to try, and she looked very innocent, but she was too young, which made Lu Lin hesitate.

Outside of Longlin's company, there are many actresses who want to try this role, most of them say that they want to prove their acting skills and want to transform or something. Such as Liu Tianxian, Tang Yan, Yang Mi, etc.

In terms of appearance and age, these people are also suitable, and in terms of acting skills, they are all about the same, and they are not too outstanding, or Lu Lin didn't see it, and he didn't think about how to choose for a while, so he decided to meet the alternative actors one by one.

Because it is still in the preparation period, the start-up is more punctual, and there is no very formal audition, so I will briefly talk about the understanding of the role first. On this day, it was Yang Mi who first went to Longlin Pictures and came to audition!