The next morning, Liu Chengzhang met Li Qian.

The two hadn't seen each other for at least two years, and when they saw Liu Chengzhang coming in, Li Qian immediately got up, and the two shook hands again after more than two years.

After sitting down, assistant Fang Shengnan served tea, and Li Qian went straight to the point.

"Yesterday, Lao Fang called me and said that you are back and want to come to Minghu, I have nothing to say here, as long as you come, I will give you the highest treatment. Just attach your personal studio to it, and if you shoot a new film from the company, then your studio can enjoy up to 10% of the investment rights, and I will respect your creation, but the final cutting right cannot be given to you. For the film you want to make, the company has the right to invest up to 49%, and the other parts also have the right of first refusal, the copyright belongs to the company, the distribution belongs to the company, and you have the right to final cutting. ”

Fang Baijin was a little stunned, he didn't expect Li Qian to be so direct, but Liu Chengzhang was not surprised at all.

He thought about it for a moment, then nodded, "That's it!

Fang Baijin was stunned at first, and then laughed again.

It really hit it off.

He also understood Li Qian's intentions: although they were very good friends with each other, and they once admired each other, but after all, there was a conflict in the middle, at this time, of course, there is no need to mention the past things, and it is impossible to say who is right and who is wrong, but to completely expose the matter, so that the two of them are not embarrassed, of course, it is best to determine the current relationship between each other!

Sure enough, between the three words, it didn't even matter for five minutes, and when the matter was over, Li Qian had a smile on his face, patted Liu Chengzhang on the shoulder, and then got up and took out his cigar, there are several kinds, you can choose.

Liu Chengzhang and Fang Baijin chose one, and then all three of them lit it in turn.

Without speaking, they each smoked their own cigars.

For a while, the house was full of clouds and fog.

The exhaust system soon turned on automatically, quickly pumping the fumes out of the room.

Li Qian likes cigars, Fang Baijin has also smoked for several years, only Liu Chengzhang, although he occasionally goes to a party or something, and smokes once or twice, but he usually smokes. In his words, cigars are too time-consuming, there is a lot of effort to smoke a cigar, how many things to do!

So for him, packs of cigarettes on the market are the best, convenient, fast, and enjoyable.

So, after a few puffs, he accidentally choked.

Li Qian laughed, and Fang Baijin also smiled and guided.

It was only at this time that everyone began to communicate gradually.

First of all, I heard Liu Chengzhang talk about how he felt about staying in the United States for so long, and learned that he also served as a camera assistant in a film crew invested by Oriental Dream Film Company, Li Qian asked him by the way what he thought of the production level of Oriental Dream.

Then, Li Qian naturally asked: "When you come back this time, do you have any ideas for the new movie, and what do you want to do?"

Liu Chengzhang hesitated, but still said, "Do you have any suggestions?"

Although he knew that Liu Chengzhang asked this, it meant that he should already have his own plan in his heart, but Li Qian still got up when he heard the words and took out a plan from his desk drawer.

The thing was handed to him, and Li Qian said: "Last year, Columbia took down the film shooting rights of Transformers for the next 20 years, and I thought that the first part would be launched next year this year, and I also made a plan to send it to me, oh, this is a translation." They wanted me to direct the film. ”

Liu Chengzhang had already turned the first page, but he didn't read it at all, mainly listening to Li Qian. When he was done, he looked down and began to look at the plan—it was really a very simple plan, just to argue for the prospects of a live-action movie of Transformers, a cartoon, and it seemed a little simple.

To put it bluntly, this thing is just a task that Minghu Culture gave to Li Qian after it acquired Columbia Pictures and Glen Charles took office.

Although Glen Charles seems to attach more importance to this matter, and it seems that he also thinks that making a live-action movie about Transformers is a great adaptation idea, he is obviously more willing to leave this matter to Li Qian to lead - of course, the adaptation rights are in Colombia, and Minghu Culture can participate in the investment at best, and the future copyright, distribution rights, etc., are still Colombian.

So, there is no story, no setting, no characters, just a planning book.

The plan is not long, and the translation is only a few thin pages, Liu Chengzhang took more than ten minutes to finish it, raised his head, and was a little confused, "This is ...... How do you shoot it?"

Li Qian smiled, "Of course, it is a purely commercial way, the friendship between robots and humans." Then, together against the forces of evil, of course, another group of robots!"

After a pause, he added: "It doesn't matter what kind of movie, commercial, artistic, in the final analysis, telling a story is still about emotion! Emotion is a branch, and everything else, even if it is blooming, is just a visual effect attached to the branch." ”

Liu Chengzhang pursed his lips when he heard this, and then nodded slowly.

After a while, he said seriously: "Yes, all literary and artistic works are talking about emotions. In movies, it is even more important to straighten out the emotions of the characters as the first key. The special effects are easy to do, but the emotions are not something that everyone can say. ”

Li Qian smiled, "I feel very deeply!"

Liu Chengzhang smiled bitterly when he heard this.

Seeing him hand the plan back, Li Qian took it, threw it on the coffee table, and asked, "How is it, are you interested?"

Then without waiting for Liu Chengzhang to answer, he said seriously: "Although I don't have time at all at this time, I want to invest 100% of my energy to make a new movie, or such a large investment in commercial films, the energy is still not allowed, I must first ensure that the later stage of the film in my hand is foolproof." So, it's definitely going to be a very visual-focused film, and the investment can be budgeted for according to your requirements, and I'm planning to make this film to 3D-IMAX specifications as well. Would you like to play this one?"

As we all know, before the rise of Li Qian's films, Liu Chengzhang has always been the most famous technical director in China, he is very fond of using some new technologies that have just begun to emerge in Hollywood at that time, and predicted ten years ago that the future will inevitably be the world of film special effects.

Although the experiments of the two films "Sword Fairy" and "Flying Sky" are difficult to say successful, in today's China, if you want to make commercial blockbusters and special effects, he is indeed the best choice except for Li Qian.

I just need to give him a little restraint and let him finish the story first!

And to be honest, in the case that he has no time to doppelgänger, Li Qian still really hopes that Liu Chengzhang can take over this movie - Liu Chengzhang's "ghost talent" is by no means just talking, Li Qian believes that as long as he takes care of it and lets Liu Chengzhang play on the basis of a qualified business story, there will be various technologies of Minghu Culture as support, which will be a commercial masterpiece that can follow the path of "Avatar" and continue to expand the influence of 3D movies.

Li Qian certainly hopes to hand over such a global commercial masterpiece to a Chinese director, on the one hand, it can help him become famous, and on the other hand, he also hopes that through his hands, he can bring more thinking and successful examples to Chinese filmmakers.

But at this time, Liu Chengzhang didn't think about it for too long, so he shook his head.

"I ...... Forget it, I'm not very interested in this kind of film. ”

After a pause, it seemed that he felt that he had directly rejected Li Qian's invitation a little too softly, and added with a little embarrassment, "The investment is too big, I am a little afraid to play now, not to mention that if you want to shoot 3D, I am completely unfamiliar with this technology." …… I'll forget it!"

Li Qian opened his mouth, but finally nodded slowly, "It's okay!

He could feel that Liu Chengzhang was really a little resistant to this movie.

Yes, although Liu Chengzhang is a director of modern technology, he doesn't seem to like things like modern cities and mechanical senses, and he prefers to use advanced technology to show some traditional oriental aesthetics.

So, if you seriously sum it up, he is about the kind of director who likes to "use world technology to tell Chinese stories" - of course, Li Qian admires and likes it very much, he just didn't know that Liu Chengzhang would hate the story of this robot before.

So, he asked, "So what do you want to shoot?"

Liu Chengzhang was silent for a moment, carefully considered the words, and finally spoke: "I want to change your "Painted Skin" article. I don't know if it's okay?"

Li Qian was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then laughed.

Sure enough, this is Liu Chengzhang.

Swordsman, monk, sword fairy.

Monster.

That's his style, that's his way.

He just likes to shoot Chinese things, especially classical things.

Li Qian nodded decisively and asked him, "Have you figured out how to change it?"

Liu Chengzhang hesitated for a long time before he said slowly: "My current idea is that I think your original story is too simple, and the whole scale is a little smaller, which is not very convenient for filming." So, my current thinking is to make the story a little more concrete, and then expand it a little bit. For example, I think we can set the background of the story in the south, which can be the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, or the Ming Dynasty. I prefer the Song Dynasty, a dynasty of literati. Then, I'm currently thinking about the villain boss......"

Li Qian didn't interject, and listened very carefully to his rambling about his thoughts on "Painted Skin".

It can be heard that he should have been thinking about this story for a long time, and he definitely didn't want to shoot this story on a whim, but after experiencing two failures, he began to seriously consider the balance of a new story - of course, he should not have completely decided how to tell this story, because many of his ideas are even contradictory, and his words are a little upside down.

His focus is: the smoke and rain painting boats in the south of the Yangtze River, the tide of the Qiantang River, a bewitching monster who is good at confusing people's hearts, and a scholar who is upright.

There are a lot of particularly sensual pictures.

That's what he's always been good at.

However, he said that this monster should not be the final villain, but should use this monster who "doesn't know that people's hearts are good, but only knows that people's hearts are extremely evil", introduce some human factors, and carry out some human and emotional torture on people and demons. And use this to lead to the twist of the story.

He hesitated whether to introduce the factor of a lady in the main room, but he was afraid that it would tell the story of a big woman and a mistress, and he hesitated to set this painted skin demon as a demon who was hurt by love, and the scholar of the male protagonist happened to be the reincarnation of the man who hurt her in his previous life.

In short, he himself is already all kinds of entanglements.

But Li Qian was extremely happy.

Before the start of filming of a movie, if the director doesn't bother with the story, then what should he worry about?

For a technical school like Liu Chengzhang, and a director who has always been known for being good at shooting the charm of Jiangnan, when he puts the focus and tangled points at the beginning of a movie on the story, in Li Qian's view, it means to a large extent that the movie is already halfway through.

So, Li Qian happily accompanied him to brainstorm.

In another time and space, he watched "Painted Skin", and in good conscience, the filming was already quite good, but there were still many places that Li Qian didn't like very much.

In contrast, he even prefers Liu Chengzhang's story, which is only taking shape.

However, while everyone was still discussing, Liu Chengzhang suddenly stopped and asked Li Qian: "Can you say hello to the actors in advance and ask them to set aside a schedule for me?"

Li Qian asked, "Who do you want?"

Liu Chengzhang hesitated again, but in the end, he was still ruthless and said, "Qin Jingjing, He Yingyu." ”

Li Qian laughed, and Fang Baijin also shook his head with a smile.

After two box office failures, Liu Chengzhang seems to be a lot more low-key, and he doesn't seem to be so tough when he talks and acts. However, his style of liking big investments and big stars has obviously not changed.

This one is the two most popular actresses in China today.

Hearing him say these two names, Li Qian already vaguely understood what he was planning in his heart.

Although Qin Jingjing is beautiful enough, her way over the years has always been biased towards Tsing Yi, with a dignified and atmospheric style, and although He Yingyu is the most popular little flower in China so far, in fact, her drama is very miscellaneous, modern and ancient science fiction is all-encompassing, and pure beating women can stand, and a "Dragon Gate Inn", a gold inlaid jade, let her step into the palace of acting with one foot.

Therefore, in Liu Chengzhang's heart, Qin Jingjing can play the eldest woman, and He Yingyu will be the painted skin demon?—— well, the picture must be very beautiful.

Li Qian took out his mobile phone on the spot and wanted to call, but hesitated for a moment and put the mobile phone down again, "That's the case, I set up my own rules, the film and television department and the brokerage department, which run separately, and I can't be unruly." So, how about you put the script and the plan in the book first, and then we talk about the next step?"

Liu Chengzhang immediately understood.

People, you can ask for it, at least it doesn't matter who you want to play, it's all negotiable, but Minghu Culture is currently very large-scale, and it is impossible to occupy other people's schedules in advance just because you Liu Chengzhang sent a sentence who you want to film your own drama - maybe this privilege is only qualified by Li Qian.

So after hesitating, he got up happily and said, "No problem." Then I'll find a few old guys in the past few days and start saving stories. I'll talk to you again. ”

Li Qian nodded, "Okay!" and then said: "In addition, I recommend it, there is a screenwriting team from our Minghu Film and Television Department on the ninth floor, the strength is good, in China, it should be the highest level and the most formal screenwriting team, the old party is very familiar, you let him take you up, let those guys help you come up with ideas, it shouldn't disappoint you." ”

Liu Chengzhang nodded, "Okay!"

…………

When he left, Fang Shengnan came in to clean up the coffee table, but Li Qian collapsed on the sofa, looking up at the chandelier on the ceiling, thinking about messy things.

Liu Chengzhang wants to shoot "Painted Skin", which can be supported.

This kind of story is suitable for him to shoot.

But what about Transformers?

At present, it has been agreed that Colombia will allow Minghu Culture to participate in 30% of the investment, but the premise is that Li Qian will be the director of the film, and if Li Qian insists on using 3D technology to shoot, the additional cost of 3D technology will be borne by the crew, and the two sides will make additional investment in proportion.

In addition, because this film is considered to be renamed, Minghu Culture will be responsible for the domestic distribution and can get the treatment of domestic films, so Colombia agreed that the distribution rights in China can be handed over to Minghu Culture, but all other local distributions belong to Colombia.

Although Columbia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clear Lake Culture, both parties operate independently, and the professional managers on the Colombian side will certainly not allow the dominance of the film to fall into the hands of Clear Lake Culture.

They just hope that their boss, who is a big international director, will not be so biased and can come and lead several successful projects for Colombia.

But Li Qian really didn't have time.

If you want him to direct "Transformers", you will have to postpone the schedule until at least more than a year later.

What's more, it's really more than a year later, and he may not be able to direct this movie. Because after "Avatar", he has his next work goal.

Although "Transformers" is very good, it is worth trying, and it is also a super blockbuster series worth looking forward to on the road to 3D movie promotion, but this series is not like "Avatar", or his next goal, it must be himself.

Not to mention that on the Hollywood side, there are already many good commercial blockbuster directors with quality assurance, even in China, especially within Minghu Culture, there are now two people who are qualified.

It's just that both of them have refused.

So, if you still try to find a Chinese director to lead the series, who else will you find?

Li Qian was paralyzed on the sofa and distracted, not paying attention, Fang Shengnan had already cleaned up the tea set, put out the coffee table, and poured Li Qian a cup of boiled water, and everyone had already left.

Li Qian took the plan book on the coffee table in his hand and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.