"Okay, you want the remake rights of "A Chinese Ghost Story", I'll give it to you. Shao Yifu then said.

"Thank you, sir, how much do you want?" asked Summer again.

"No need, hundreds of thousands, two hundred thousand, it's just a small amount of money, so let's worry about it. Sir Shao waved his hand.

The story of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is adapted from Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", which can be adapted by Shaw Brothers, and naturally can be adapted in summer. What's more, there are so many movies with the same name and surname in the world, even if he uses the name "A Chinese Ghost Story" in the summer, he can't sue him.

Therefore, if the price is too high, it is definitely asking for trouble. And more than 100,000 or 200,000 Hong Kong dollars is a lot of money for ordinary people, but for him and summer, it is just sprinkling. In this case, fortunately, I don't want a penny, and it's good to leave a favor.

Money is easy to calculate, but it is difficult to repay the debt of favors! Now it is not so easy to make the summer owe yourself a favor. If you have the chance, don't miss it!

"Well, thank you Sir for your generosity. Seeing Shao Yifu say this, Xia didn't shirk anymore, nodded and said with a smile.

Although he and Shao Yifu have a life-and-death fight sooner or later, before that, it is still necessary to maintain the harmony on the surface. Just like China and the United States, there will be a war in the coming days, but before that, cooperation and exchanges are still inevitable, and even cooperation is greater than confrontation.

"You're welcome, if you shoot this drama well, it will also be beneficial to me. Shao Yifu said with a smile.

There are many old movies similar to "A Chinese Ghost Story" in the Shaw Brothers library, and if the summer remake of "A Chinese Ghost Story" becomes popular, it is likely to set off a remake boom in Hong Kong. When the time comes, these old Shaw Brothers movies will come in handy. Whether it's selling it to someone else to remake it or keeping it for yourself, it's a very lucrative thing. It's much better than putting them in a warehouse to fall into dust.

"Don't worry, sir, I'll shoot this drama well. Summer nodded.

……

After leaving Shaw Brothers, he went to Xu Ke's film studio in the summer.

Xu Ke ran away from Xinyi City last year and set up a film studio with the funding of Princess Jin, and his entrepreneurial work is "The Working Emperor" by Xu Guanjie and Wang Zhengxian. That movie grossed more than 17 million Hong Kong dollars, which was the first shot for the film studio.

However, Xu Ke did not make persistent efforts, and caught up with the victory, "The Working Emperor" has been painted for nearly half a year, and there is no new film to start filming yet.

Summer knows that Xu Ke is a picky person, and he would rather not turn on the camera without a good story. This is also the reason why his films are so high-quality and he is recognized as a "ghost talent" in the Hong Kong film industry. Unlike Wang Jing, although there are more high-quality products than Xu Ke, there are more bad movies, so not only did he not gain a higher reputation than Xu Ke, but he was called the "king of bad movies".

Summer went to him this time, just to collaborate with him on the two movies "Dao Ma Dan" and "A Chinese Ghost Story". Although these two movies have been watched many times in the previous life in the summer, they can also be shot according to the gourd. But imitation is imitation, and even if it is imitated, it will still give people a strange feeling.

Especially for people like Xu Ke, his movies are unique, with a sharp style, laughing and scolding, worrying about the country and the people, and using the past as a metaphor for the present...... Others can't imitate it.

In the summer, he can imitate Liu Guanwei ("Mr. Zombie", "Zombie Family"), Wang Jing ("Ghost Horse Superman") and other second- and third-rate directors (Wang Jing's directing skills are second-rate, but the screenwriting skills are first-class and his grasp of the market is first-class), and even better than them.

But everyone like Xu Ke, Wang Jiawei, Wu Yusen, and Du Qifeng, he can't imitate it well. After all, he was only a second-rate director in his previous life, relying on the golden finger of "advanced memory", imitating and borrowing, and barely reaching the quasi-first-class level. But after all, he is not a real first-class director, and his grasp of the details of the movie is still not so delicate.

And for movies, it's often the details that determine success or failure. Because movies need to be moving, it needs to make the audience happy, angry, sad, and cry......

But people's feelings are very sensitive, and the audience can also detect the small negligence in the details. Therefore, there is often only one line missing, and the audience may change from the expected laughter to just smiling, and from the original expectation of crying to just sadness...... The skin is not the flesh, and the flesh is not the bone, which makes it difficult for the audience's emotions to be released heartily.

Therefore, a classic that may have been passed down for centuries has become a mediocre work that can only be a smash hit.

……

Come to the film studio in Kowloon Tong.

"Mr. Xia?!Hello, long time no see!" Xu Ke was taken aback when he saw Xia. didn't expect this big man to take the initiative to come to the door, which really flattered him.

Although he debuted much later than him in the summer, the results he achieved were really beyond his reach. Not to mention making billions of Hong Kong dollars, just excellent movies such as "The True Color of Heroes" and "Midnight Bell" can see that his talent is really extraordinary.

"Director Xu, Miss Shi, it's been a long time. Summer said with a smile. The last time I met Xu Ke, I still sent Wang Jixian over to audition for "The Working Emperor". Now that I pinch my fingers, it's been half a year in the past.

"Mr. Xia, please sit down, tea or coffee?" Shi Nansheng greeted with a smile.

"Tea was fine, thank you. Summer said with a smile, and sat down.

"Mr. Xia, you are here today to ......" Xu Ke asked curiously, really not understanding how Xia suddenly visited.

"Oh, I came here to have two dramas that I want to work with Director Xu. Summer said with a smile, and then took the tea, "Thank you, Miss Shi." ”

"What's the matter, excuse me. Xu Ke nodded.

"I want to ask, does Director Xu have any movies to make recently?" Xia then asked.

Xu Ke blinked, and Xu Ke's attitude towards this matter was a little reserved.

Because his film studio is funded and supported by the Golden Princess Cinemas, and the Golden Princess Cinemas and Summer's Tongxin Cinemas are competitors. If I help Summer to film, I will be a little sorry for Princess Jin.

"This, I've been reading a few scripts recently, and the new film is estimated to be ......," Xu Ke muttered.

"It is estimated that filming will not be able to start for half a year. Shi Nansheng didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and hurriedly replied.

She is the housekeeper of the film studio, responsible for taking care of the company's money and food affairs. Although Xu Ke is the owner of the film studio, his main job is to shoot movies.

The so-called inappropriate family doesn't know how expensive firewood and rice are, and Xu Ke doesn't know how much money he will lose if his film studio idles for a day. But Shi Nansheng, who is the housekeeper's mother-in-law, has a clear heart. Not counting the income of the two of them, just the total salary of these large and small employees in the company is thousands of yuan a day. Coupled with the rent of water and electricity, it will cost 200,000 or 300,000 Hong Kong dollars a month of idling.

In addition, Xu Ke's new visual studio, which specializes in making film special effects, is also a rather money-burning machine. Not only does it cost money to produce special effects, but it also costs money to import advanced equipment and technology from abroad.

However, in the current Hong Kong film industry, there are very few movies that use special effects. Therefore, although the new visual studio technology is the first in Hong Kong, it has not received many external cooperation invitations. also makes this studio only enter and not leave, it is completely a gold-absorbing hole, and there is also a loss of two or three hundred thousand yuan per month.

Together, these losses cost 500,000 or 600,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, which is not a small amount. Although the film studio filmed, there was financial support from the Golden Princess. But the daily operation of the studio has to cost Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng's own money.

Last year's "Working Emperor" did make some money. But Xu Ke hasn't made a movie for half a year, and the film studio has never had any income. Sitting on the empty mountain, it looks like the money is about to be spent. If no new films are made, within three months, the film studio will have to go bankrupt and close down.

Xu Ke is an artist, he can immerse himself in the world of cinema and ignore the copper stench. But Shi Nansheng, as his virtuous helper and housekeeper, really can't ignore it. Therefore, when she heard that there was a drama in the summer and wanted to ask Xu Ke to help shoot it, she immediately agreed.

When Xu Ke heard Shi Nansheng say this, he couldn't help but glared at her angrily, "Didn't you trap me in injustice?"

Shi Nansheng shook his head at him, signaling him not to refuse in a hurry, "Since Mr. Xia is sincere today, he can't refuse someone thousands of miles away." ”

"Mr. Xia, our lord has indeed been reading some scripts recently and preparing for the new film. However, there is less than half a year, and it should not be possible to start filming. Shi Nansheng then said to Xia, "You also know our master's temper, and if there is no good script, I would rather not start it." ”

Xia nodded, "Don't worry, I dare to guarantee that the two scripts I brought today will definitely satisfy Director Xu." This part is called "Dao Ma Dan", please take a look at Director Xu first. With that, he took out the script and handed it to Xu Kedao.

Xu Ke was stunned for a moment when he heard the name of the script. Then I took the script and read it carefully.

Shi Nansheng also came up behind him and watched with him.

"In the early Republic of China, the country was in turmoil, the warlords were divided, and the people were miserable, and patriots opposed the warlords, saving the people from fire and water......"

As soon as he saw the background of this story, Xu Ke's eyes lit up, and his resistance suddenly eased a lot.

Because Xu Ke himself was an overseas Chinese in Vietnam, he experienced the civil war between North and South Vietnam, and did not immigrate to Hong Kong until he was 16 years old. Therefore, the war experience in his childhood is deeply imprinted in his mind, and it also makes his movies more accustomed to shooting troubled times, especially like to reflect the changes of the big times from the perspective of small people. Like "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Huang Feihong", "Shanghai Night", etc., are the best embodiment of his film style.

Therefore, when he saw that the story of "Dao Ma Dan" took place in the early years of the Republic of China, the era of warlord melee, he immediately liked it. (To be continued.) )