Li Yadong was sipping tea while looking at Xiao Gangzi from time to time.

I found that the expression on his face was extremely rich.

When I first started looking at it, I obviously had a feeling of brightness, as if I had accidentally found a favorite.

After reading a few pages, his brows couldn't help frowning, and his face looked very solemn.

After reading a few more pages, the speed of turning the book slowed down significantly......

Li Yadong noticed a detail, he didn't want to drink tea, reached out to the table and touched the cup, but he didn't touch it, so he gave up.

There was a knock at the door, and then the waiter pushed the door in, followed by a middle-aged man with long hair and a shawl, with a strong literary atmosphere, obviously Liu Zhenyun. Li Yadong got up to say hello, completely out of a kind of spiritual admiration, but Xiao Gangzi still sat there indifferent.

Liu Zhenyun frowned at first, but after glancing at the book in his hand, he smiled again.

"Hello Mr. Li, I have admired my name for a long time, and I finally got it. As for Director Feng, he is too familiar, but he doesn't know me. ”

"Ah......" Xiao Gangzi came back to his senses at this time, and there was one more person in the room.

The film and television copyright transaction with Liu Zhenyun can be regarded as "Lang has the intention of having a concubine", and it is a matter of course, so after a meal, there will be results.

Li Yadong spent 20,000 yuan to get the film and television copyright of "Revisiting 1942", which is also the market price.

The price quoted by Xiao Gangzi, Liu Zhenyun nodded, and Li Yadong just had to pay.

After the three of them sat down for a while, they each left, and the fastest runner was Xiao Gangzi, who rushed back to the room with Li Yadong's "Revisiting 1942" in a hurry.

In the next three days, according to Xiaohao's report: Director Feng basically never went out, and even the food was delivered to the room to eat.

Then on the fourth day, Li Yadong received a call from Xiao Gangzi, and he said in that weak voice, "Li Dong, this book ...... I'm a little afraid to shoot. ”

This kind of tone is rare for him to appear in reality, didn't he shoot a "Lao Paoer" back then, and he also won the actor, which can be regarded as his true character.

"What, afraid of committing taboos?" Li Yadong sat at the desk by the bedroom window, threw away the hero pen in his hand, and frowned.

"I'm not afraid of this, it's no problem to shoot it as a theme of the Anti-Japanese War. But here's the problem...... I'm afraid that the level is effective, and it won't be able to present that kind of shocking effect. ”

“……”

Li Yadong felt a little speechless, but he clearly remembered Xiao Gangzi's calmness and calmness when he asked them a few days ago if they could make an epic blockbuster.

"Li Dong, don't you know, I read it in one go, and I feel that the previous experience is simply naïve, and it has made a qualitative leap in my understanding of my own nation. This book, too...... It's heavy!"

"So do you still want to shoot it? I still haven't figured it out. Li Yadong said a little depressed.

The copyright has been bought, and the girl actually said that the level is not enough to shoot......

What do you call it?

Of course, the reason why Li Yadong did not hesitate to buy the copyright of this book is also because he knows its value.

20,000 yuan, how can you lose?

"Of course I want to ......"

"Then shoot, think about it, what are you afraid of?"

What Li Yadong didn't know was that Xiao Gangzi's mood at the moment was the same as when he first came into contact with this book last time, and in his previous life, he didn't shoot it immediately after getting the film and television rights of this book, but shelved it for 19 years.

In his words, "I have 1942 in my heart, and the story of the film has been polished for 19 years, and the manuscript has changed several times, and it is perfect."

Perhaps because he was stimulated by Li Yadong, Xiao Gangzi was silent for a while before he said: "It's okay to shoot, but I need time." ”

"How long?"

"At least three years. ”

To be sure, it's too long to spend three years making a movie in this day and age. You have to understand that you can make a movie in Hong Kong in a week.

Moreover, people in this era are diligent, and they work hard for three years, and it is estimated that they can reach the next five or six years.

But after Li Yadong thought about it, he still agreed, Xiao Gangzi has two words to describe "Revisiting 1942", which is extremely ironing, that is, "heavy", not heavy.

This book is so "thick" that there is always a feeling that people can't finish reading it.

Xiao Gangzi's script was finalized in this way, and Li Yadong did not go out of the gate in the past three days, and naturally he was not busy in vain.

After thinking about it again and again, he also chose a script for Chen Kaige, Zhang Dabeard, and Jiang Wen.

Among them, Zhang Dabeard's script is the easiest to finalize, because there are too many TV series about the theme of the Anti-Japanese War, far better than movies.

Of course, those TV series that do not pay for the death of thunder and have a plot of tearing devils, Li Yadong has passed all of them.

After such a screening, there are probably two films that he remembers deeply - "Bright Sword" and "Latent".

Then he chose "Latent".

It's not that "Bright Sword" is bad, there is only one reason, he remembers "Latent" better......

After all, there are fewer characters and backgrounds.

At the same time, he also thought about it, spy war films should still be very marketable in this era, because this is a completely new theme, and movies with tough themes like "Second Battalion Commander, Bring Lao Tzu's Italian Cannon" abound in the past.

And when it came time to choose movie scripts for Brother Chen Kaige and Jiang Wen, Li Yadong was a little difficult.

Why?

Because he recalled, in his impression, neither of them seemed to have made anti-Japanese war films.

Originally, "eating hot pot and singing songs" was good, but it was about bandits.

So he had no choice but to "graft flowers" and shoot them with films from other directors.

So I began to meditate, and I still remembered what good anti-Japanese war movies.

In the end, a pair of twins came to mind - "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Army" and "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party".

These two films have some unique advantages...... Because Li Yadong "just" watched it not long ago, it should have been 17 years in his last life, after watching "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Army", he revisited "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party" again.

So he remembers these two films very clearly, and they are both good films.

Then it's settled.

Importantly...... How is it distributed?

In all fairness, the script of "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Army" is definitely better than "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party", not to mention anything else, just the scene of those handsome guys sweeping with machine guns has properly earned the audience's attention.

In terms of qualifications and experience, Brother Chen Kai is of course stronger than Jiang Wen.

But Li Yadong thinks that this matter can't be counted like this.

It can be seen from "Farewell My Concubine" and "The Legend of the Cat Demon" that Chen Kaige's artistic flow shooting techniques, and "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party" is obviously more gentle than "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Army".

Therefore, perhaps it is more appropriate to hand over the blood-burning drama "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Army" to the talented director Jiang Wen to film.

I was embarrassed to rob Liu Weiqiang's job......

The next time I go to Hong Kong, I can't say that I can only stuff him with the "Infernal Affairs" that I have written in my free time.

At this point, all the five major scripts have been finalized.

So it took another three days, and Li Yadong worked day and night, and finally got the synopsis of the other four scripts except "1942" roughly.

Then he came to the Dongfanghong Hotel and convened a meeting of the five directors.

Except for Xiao Gangzi, the other four were quite nervous.

In less than a day, the news that Li Yadong, the boss of Dongfanghong Group, was ready to personally spend a huge amount of money to create five epic film and television dramas, spread within the Cultural Week.

It's also a normal thing, because the five directors naturally need actors after they have a script, and this cultural week is star-studded, which happens to be a good time to make an appointment.

The Dongfanghong Hotel, which is no longer open to the public and full of celebrities from all walks of life, gradually began to become a little commotion.