Chapter 921: Breaking the Army
"Triple salary!? There should be no problem with this! I'll ask!" After Chen Jia heard this, he was stunned at first, and then replied repeatedly.
"Then you'd better hurry, I want to get this film up and running as soon as possible. Duan Yun reminded.
"Okay. After Chen Jia finished speaking, she hung up the phone.
After Duan Yun put away the phone, he walked to his study and turned on the computer.
According to Duan Yun's original plan, he originally wanted to let the Three Artillery and his gang participate in Ning Hao's new film "Desert No Man's Land", and the relevant script also added a lot of action scenes, and the characters in it were very suitable for the Three Artillery to participate in them.
However, Ning Hao is one of the three cash cows in Duan Yun's hands, and it is impossible for Duan Yun to force him to start work during the New Year, and there are not many action actors used in the film "No Man's Land in the Desert", and it is completely impossible to arrange the thirty people of the three guns.
So he needs to pick a good action movie script in advance.
Now Chen Jia selects the excellent scripts received by the company almost every day and sends them to Duan Yun's email, and reading the scripts has become a part of Duan Yun's life.
Opening his email, Duan Yun began to review the scripts one by one.
Soon, a script called "Breaking the Army" attracted Duan Yun's attention.
Nowadays, most of the film and television drama scripts that Duan Yun has received are costume martial arts scenes, and there are some creative boos among them, but this is not what Duan Yun wants.
Because although the three artillery and the gang are also practitioners, most of them are actually born in sanda fighting, mainly in actual combat, and correspondingly, they are not good at traditional martial arts routines, so it is obviously difficult to make this kind of classical martial arts film.
This "Broken Army" is different, the story background of this script is modern, depicting the story of the border anti-drug team and a multinational drug cartel.
In addition, Duan Yun found that the style of this script is relatively dark, and the cruel and realistic style has a strong sense of picture, which is very rare in the scripts that Duan Yun has seen!
This couldn't help but remind Duan Yun of those excellent action movies in his previous life.
More than ten years ago, costume martial arts films like "Shaolin Temple" and "Swordsman of Shuangqi Town" were popular on the entire big screen in China, and later Hong Kong films such as "Huang Feihong" and "Jingwumen" were also popular all over the country.
But in recent years, domestic martial arts films have continued to be weak, mainly because there have been no kung fu superstars with great box office appeal like Jackie Chan and Jet Li in China, and the plots of domestic martial arts films are old-fashioned, and the martial arts action is too 'fake', which eventually led to domestic martial arts films entering a trough.
Of course, there are exceptions to this, and the "Kill the Wolf" and "Fuse" series produced by Hong Kong and Taiwan in the past few years have been widely praised by the industry and have also achieved quite a bright box office.
This undoubtedly made Duan Yun see the hope of a breakthrough in a new film and television genre.
Duan Yun naturally didn't have the opportunity to include the top director teams of Hong Kong and Taiwan action movies under his command, after all, they were already famous masters and had their own independent companies.
And even if you cooperate, the cost is too high, and it is not easy to make money.
So Duan Yun thought about trying to shoot such a film by himself, and once he cultivated a mature team, he would undoubtedly become another cash cow under Duan Yun's command!
Judging from the style and content of the script "Breaking the Army", it is undoubtedly exactly what Duan Yun wants.
After selecting the script, Duan Yun put the text of the script into his USB flash drive.
At this time, it was close to noon, and when Duan Yun was about to cook something to eat, Chen Jia called again.
"Mr. Duan, I have found directors and crew members who are willing to work overtime during the Chinese New Year. After the phone was connected, Chen Jia said to Duan Yun.
"So fast?" Duan Yun said in surprise.
"It's just that these directors have only made one literary film before, and there are more newcomers in the crew...... Chen Jia said softly.
"That's ......," Duan Yun suddenly suddenly realized when he heard this.
Like rookie actors, many directors who are at the bottom of the film and television industry are also facing the situation of having no chance and 'hard to find a play'.
In fact, among these rookie directors, there are also many good directors who have never met talents, but they have no investment and no good scripts, and they can only wait helplessly.
So if these directors want to get ahead, they can only shoot some low-cost small productions that no one wants to take over, in order to get an opportunity to show their talents, just like Ning Hao, who took the script to invest everywhere.
Chen Jia said to Duan Yun that it was difficult to find directors and shooting teams a year ago, mainly referring to those middle and high-level directors who have already become famous, and as for new directors and teams, they are actually easy to find.
"Mr. Duan, I feel that this director's qualifications are relatively shallow, he has only shot a small-budget literary film before, and the box office is very ......low," Chen Jia reminded Duan Yundao on the phone.
"What box office can you expect for a literary film?" Duan Yun smiled when he heard this, and then said: "I want to meet this director, can you ask him when he will have time in the next two days?"
"The director said that as long as our company needs it, he will be on call!" Chen Jia replied.
"Hehe, that's good. Duan Yun nodded with satisfaction and said, "That's okay, you can book a private room in the restaurant on the street opposite our company, and I'll talk to him in the evening." ”
In fact, he usually doesn't meet with these rookie directors, after all, he is just a behind-the-scenes boss, and Chen Jia and Jiang Yi handle things on the table.
But this time is a little special, after all, the group of three guns is used to being at ease in the rivers and lakes, and it is likely that they are not very suitable for the crew's arrangement, so he needs to arrange it himself.
"Okay. After Chen Jia finished speaking, she hung up the phone.
After Duan Yun put away his mobile phone, he walked to the study and picked up the USB flash drive he was sitting on, put on his coat, and went downstairs directly.
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At six o'clock in the afternoon, Duan Yun came to the private room of the restaurant that Chen Jia had set up as agreed.
Not long after he sat down, Chen Jia led a young man wearing black-rimmed glasses and a leather jacket into the house.
"Mr. Duan, this is the cutting-edge director Li Bin, who has just joined our company. After Chen Jia entered the door, he took the initiative to introduce Duan Yun.
"You're Duan Yun, right!?" Li Bin was taken aback when he saw Duan Yun, and then exclaimed, "It's really Duan Yun!"
"Eh, have I seen you before?" Duan Yun was also surprised when he heard this.
"I've seen you on TV, the East Asian semifinals, you played so beautifully against the South Korean team!" Li Bin showed excitement on his face, only to hear him continue: "I didn't sleep all night when I was excited!"
When Duan Yun heard this, he suddenly showed a sudden expression, this rookie director Li Bin is actually still his fan!
"Sit!" Duan Yun originally wanted to introduce himself, but now it seems that there is no need for it.