Chapter 12 Casting for New Films
After returning from Xiangjiang, I gave the staff of the studio a small long vacation to go out to engage in team building, and when I came back after the end, I began to prepare for the shooting of the new film, first of all, casting.
In fact, during the release of Infernal Affairs, Chen Yongren has also been thinking about what to shoot in the second movie, and then decided to play a big one, it just so happens that the special effects of this world Huayu movie are much more developed than in his previous life, so he decided to shoot "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", and then searched the Internet and found that the book had not been written, and then began his creation...
The production cost of this "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" will be more than three times that of "Infernal Affairs", with an initial budget of 200 million. If you want to play, you have to play big, and if you want to shoot, you have to shoot the top and best movie effects. Therefore, this movie, for the production of film special effects, will account for as much as half of the total investment.
When the movie "Ghost Blows the Lantern" was officially established and the casting began, the entire entertainment industry asked Chen Yongren or studio staff about the situation of the film and the hope of cooperation through various operations.
However, most of Chen Yongren's movies directly send out audition invitations to target actors, so when the audition invitation is issued, many people have asked, have you received an audition invitation from Longteng Studio? It can be seen that Chen Yongren's current status, at present, if you want to talk about who is the most popular director in Huaxia, it should be Longteng Chen Yongren. After all, during this time, the name Chen Yongren has been in the Chinese entertainment industry to the point that no one in the world knows you. There's no way Infernal Affairs is too popular, and he just won the Best Director Award at the Academy Awards, so about his new film plan, it can be said that the entire entertainment industry is paying attention.
So when the audition invitation was sent, I received great excitement and excitement, and for some people who are not very famous now, this will be their chance to become an instant hit. And if they didn't receive it, they were full of loss, and some even protested why they only sent invitations to artists under Light Wanda, Chen Yongren ignored this, and used whoever he liked to use when making movies. It's just that I later learned that the person who slandered him on the Internet turned out to be the male who drove him out of the crew at the beginning, so Chen Yongren reposted it on Weibo and wrote, "The audition invitation for the movie is not sent to a specific person, but to the actor I think is the most suitable for this role-player." Then for some that we haven't received, we will have the opportunity to cooperate next time, and for some people, what I want to say is: Heaven has reincarnation, who will be spared by the sky!"
When many fans saw that their idols were finally more popular, they were extremely excited and happily commented at the bottom:
"Wow, boss, you finally remembered your Weibo password" and so on.
And many stars who pay attention to Chen Yongren commented at the bottom: "I wish Director Chen, the new film plan to shoot smoothly"
"Ah Ren, what type of new film is there, is there a small role suitable for me, it's okay to run a trick," Sun Honglei commented at the bottom
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Many celebrities are commenting, those who know are blessed and joking, and those who don't know are thinking about Chen Yongren's shortcut to success, wouldn't it be beautiful if they entered his eyes. However, many people have noticed the last sentence and are thinking about what the meaning of the last sentence means, after all, everyone doesn't seem to have any friendship with Chen Yongren before, so this individual should not refer to himself, so what will it be?
Netizens are omnipotent, and it didn't take long for someone to expose the causes and consequences of Chen Yongren being fired in a small crew. "What? dare to bully my idol," without saying a word, Chen Yongren's fans sprayed that person.
This incident is just a small episode for Chen Yongren, after all, he is a person who wants to become an international director, how can he have spare time to get along with these small roles. Therefore, after posting another Weibo to persuade fans to calm down and pay more attention to the movie, they withdrew and began to prepare for the audition.
Time came to the day of the audition on April 25th, and there were a lot of actors in Longteng Film Production Studio today, this is the first time since the opening ceremony, so many people came at once, but all the staff know that they are here to audition for the boss's new movie "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" today, and it is not surprising that the employees of Longteng Studio are now full of pride, and now the potential of Longteng Studio is super large, and the salary is also very high, so people who can work here are the objects of envy.
Outside the audition, a group of star actors were waiting in the lounge next door or outside the door, all of them looking forward and nervous.
The main roles in the audition are one by one, and the secondary ones are in groups of several people. The audition started on time at nine o'clock in the morning, and the judges of this audition were the two assistant directors of Chen Yongren's foreign group, and the auditions were lined up on a first-come, first-served basis, and the first one to go in was the cream student Chen Kun, who has filmed several TV series and the response is good, but he doesn't like this title very much with a cream boy, and has always wanted to transform, this time he received an audition invitation for "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", which is extremely important and precious to him, so he went over early to prepare.
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After a while, I saw Chen Kun come out of it, and everyone who knew him surrounded him, "Kun Zai, how is it, is it over?"
"How is my brother, have you passed?"
Chen Kun looked sad at first, looking at his melancholy little eyes, everyone thought that he hadn't passed, and comforted him one after another, "It's okay, there is no chance this time and next time, come on"
Then Chen Kun suddenly had a smile on his face: "I've passed, wait for you to go in and come on."
"Wow, congratulations, congratulations" The brothers and sisters who knew him or were from the same school congratulated him one after another.
Then Chen Kun went back, after all, it was okay to stay here after passing the audition, so he should go home and study the role carefully.
In fact, at the beginning, when Chen Kun received the invitation to audition, he was stunned, after all, he was not the acting school more than ten years later, his fame and status were still in the initial stage, and he didn't have any film works. And it was said to be an audition, but as long as there was no big problem, it was properly arranged, so Chen Yongren's new movie would look for him, and the audition was still the male number one, at that time, I repeatedly asked the agent if it was true, the agent was actually a little confused, I didn't expect that there would be pie in the sky, after all, now Chen Yongren's film entertainment industry doesn't know how many people want to squeeze their heads to star, who doesn't want to be an actor like Infernal Affairs, and later confirmed with the company again and again, Chen Kun was extremely excited and valued, honing his acting skills at home every day, and this audition can be said to be his career is about to enter a new journey。
Yang Mi, who was on the side, was extremely envious when she saw that her senior brother had successfully passed the audition, and at the same time secretly cheered herself up, "Yang Mi, you must be able to do it!" Because the role she was going to audition for was Ding Sitian, and there were three competitors at the same time, so she was a little nervous now, but she still adjusted her mentality on the side, and soon it was their turn to go in.
As soon as he entered, Chen Yongren glanced at a few people, then looked down at the information and said, "Let's introduce yourself first."
Several people introduced in turn, and it was Yang Mi's turn: "Director Chen is good, the judges are good, my name is Yang Mi, I am currently studying in the Beiying Performance Department, I am a freshman this year, I am very happy to get this audition invitation, I hope to get this opportunity to learn from all the seniors"
Chen Yongren said: "Whether you can get this role depends on whether you can pass the performance of the meeting, now, give you a script, give you half an hour to prepare, and then perform it, understand?"
"Understood" Yang Mi and the others responded loudly.
"Okay, come up and get the script" Then several people took the script and each found a place to familiarize themselves with the script.
Since they are going to act, they must memorize the lines, so several people are memorizing their lines and thinking about how to act.
Half an hour passed quickly. "It's time", and as soon as the half hour was up, the staff reminded them.
"When the time comes, you should all be familiar with the script," Chen Yongren asked
Several people nodded.
"Okay, the audition will officially start, and the first Li Yuanyuan will come first" Chen Yongren directly decided the order of the game.
The rest of the people looked at the competitor and breathed a sigh of relief, after all, the pressure to be the first to play is the greatest, and it is also prone to mistakes.
Therefore, the further back of the audition, the better, provided that you can see other people's audition performance, otherwise there is no difference before and after, and then the audition performance began.
Time passed quickly, one after another went up to perform, and soon it ended, and after the end, several people were very nervous and expectant, hoping that they would be selected.
After the performance of several people, Chen Yongren discussed it with the two assistant directors of the crew, and then decided that this role would finally fall to Yang Mi.
Then the results were announced, and Yang Mi was undoubtedly the lucky one this time, but she still has some strength in her own right when she debuted as a child star, and this time will be her chance to become a hit, so after hearing the results, the whole person was a little stunned, looking stupid, although the rest of the people did not get the opportunity to perform, they still congratulated Yang Mi, and then several people left, and Yang Mi also thanked Chen Yongren and went back to prepare, after all, she is still a student now, and the movie may be started soon, so she has to go back to school to ask for a leave。
Two days later, the auditions for the movie "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" were all over, and the launch conference was scheduled for June 1.
The film is also in the preparation and filming stage, and at the same time, all the actors will be trained intensively, and they will learn about the relevant materials of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" and some other training.