Starring himself or something.

It's just a ridiculous idea that flashed in Shen Zhengyuan's mind, and it can't be true.

Earlier, so many actors were brushed off because of their lack of experience in TV series shooting, how could he personally go into battle to play the starring role.

For this, Shen Zhengyuan is still a little self-aware.

What's more, there is more important work waiting for him than the starring role.

It's just that the role of Baek Seung-chan is a problem that needs to be solved after all, and the preparation of the crew of "The Producer" is nearing the end, and it is about to enter the official filming sequence, but the position of one of the leading actors is still missing. This actually shows from the side that the current TV station has a weak foundation in TV dramas and does not have enough contacts.

However, after all, rice has to be eaten one bite at a time, and the TV station's switch from variety shows to the TV drama market also represents a challenge in itself.

Shen Zhengyuan never thought that the whole process would be smooth sailing, but so what, the process of TV station producing variety shows was not the same twists and turns, and in the end, it didn't make him break out of a way, and let the TV station go further and further on the road of variety shows.

While thinking, Shen Zhengyuan began to rummage through the number in his mobile phone.

Although Al Jazeera does not have much focus on TV dramas, this does not mean that Shen Zhengyuan really has no way.

Looking at his phone, Shen Zhengyuan quickly found the number he wanted and dialed it.

"Hello, I'm Kim Eun-sook......"

After a long wait for the ringtone, just when Shen Zhengyuan thought that there was no one on the other side, a slightly tired voice came from the other end of the phone.

"It's been a long time, screenwriter Kim Eun-sook, I'm Al Jazeera's Sim Jung-won. ”

"Shen Zhengyuan?" Kim Eun-sook on the other side may be really tired, and when she heard the introduction on the phone, she was stunned for a second before suddenly replying: "Oh, President Shen, I'm sorry, I've been busy with new dramas recently, and I've been in chaos all the time, and I haven't reacted for a while." ”

"Something about the new TV series?"

Shen Zhengyuan listened to Kim Eun-sook's explanation on the phone, and he had some memories in his heart, when "Dragon Bayi" ended, the other party did say that he planned to create a new script, but it has been a while since the crew was completed, but he has not heard the news about Kim Eun-sook's new drama for a long time.

Is it because something went wrong with the new drama?

Of course, although Shen Zhengyuan had such an idea in his heart, he only stayed at the stage of thinking.

At present, Al Jazeera's situation is that the mud bodhisattva crosses the river, and it is difficult to protect itself.

The question of starring in his own TV station's first TV drama "The Producer" is still unresolved, and he obviously has no extra thoughts to care about the problem of Kim Eun-sook's screenwriting of the new drama.

What's more, as a well-known screenwriter in South Korea, the other party's connections in TV dramas are much wider than what he wants to do, and if it is something that even Kim Eun-sook can't solve smoothly, it is obviously not something that Shen Zhengyuan can help with at present.

On the other side of the phone, screenwriter Kim Eun-sook didn't seem to want to talk more about her new drama, so she immediately turned the topic to Shen Zhengyuan's phone call: "I don't know, what did President Shen call me for?"

"Actually, I called Kim Eun-sook this time to write you. Kim Eun-sook threw out the question so cooperatively, Shen Zhengyuan naturally did not twist, and said bluntly: "I hope to be able to get your help from the screenwriter on the issue of TV dramas, and after a while, the first TV series of the TV station is about to be filmed, but among the young actors of one of the roles in the play, the TV station has not been able to find a suitable candidate, so I called Kim Eun-sook to write the screenplay, hoping to help recommend a few suitable young actors......"

"The first TV series?"

On the phone, Kim Eun-sook was a little surprised when she heard that Shen Jung-won was planning to shoot a new drama not long after "Dragon Bayi" ended, and it was also the first drama on his cable TV station. Recently, she has been so focused on the creation of a new drama that she has ignored such a big news from the outside world.

However, since everyone has already called him, let alone the president of a TV station, Kim Eun-sook will not refuse.

Therefore, after silently recalling and sorting out his thoughts, Kim Eun-sook spoke: "Because I don't know the outline and plot of President Shen's new drama here, I can't directly give any specific candidates, but according to the roles of young actors in traditional TV dramas, in the "Inheritors" created and filmed two years ago, I have cooperated with many young actors, and I can give their contact information to you, President Shen." ”

Shen Zhengyuan knows a little about the drama "The Inheritors", and knows that Zheng Xiujing plays the supporting role in the play, and the starring role of this drama is the long-legged Oba Li Min, who was very popular in the past two years. But, to be honest, although Li Min's acting skills are good and his popularity is high, it really doesn't match the overall atmosphere of the drama "The Producer".

Of course, Kim Eun-sook obviously thought of this, so she did not directly recommend a specific actor, but used a more general way to return the choice to Shen Zhengyuan.

"That's really bothering Kim Eun-sook to write a screenplay for you. ”

"President Shen, you're polite, in fact, I'm ...... here"

"Screenwriter Kim Eun-sook?"

"It's okay, President Shen, I'll pass the number to you now. ”

Hanging up the phone, Kim Eun-sook passed the numbers of actors who had worked with them during the "Heirs" period stored in the phone.

On the side, Shin Woo-chul looked at the screenwriter Kim Eun-sook who hung up the phone, and asked, "Since Al Jazeera's president Shen Zhengyuan called, why don't you tell us about the new drama, maybe the other party can help us solve the ......"

"The possibility is too small, now the other TV station is planning to shoot the first TV series, from the perspective of time, it is not too suitable time, in addition, Al Jazeera is only a cable TV station, even the three major TV stations may not be able to accept my new drama, let alone cable TV, SBS said so?"

Hearing this, Shin Yuzhe shook his head, but the answer he gave was not optimistic: "I think there is some danger, SBS thinks that the theme of the new drama is too hard, which is not conducive to advertising placement, and the investment is large, which is not conducive to the later income of the TV station." ”

"In that case, let's take a look at other TV stations, there will always be a way. ”

"That's all there is to it. ”

……

hung up the phone, and didn't make Shen Zhengyuan wait too long, and the screenwriter Kim Eun-sook passed the actor's contact number.

Although he got the number, Shen Zhengyuan didn't call him rashly, but first looked at the name on the number and looked at the actor's information.

After confirming the identity of the actor against the name, Shen Zhengyuan felt a little sure in his heart.

There are many actors introduced by screenwriter Kim Eun-sook, but after Shen Zhengyuan watched it, there were only two who really matched his inner thoughts. One is the actor Kim Woo-bin, who was born as a model and became an instant hit with "The Inheritors", and the other is the young actor Kang Ha-na, who is also "The Inheritors".

The images of these two young actors are actually not much different, and they can also be said to be experienced in TV dramas, although they have not played the leading role, but they have been affirmed in terms of acting skills.

From this point of view, Bai Seungcan's role should be decided on these two people.

Seeing that he was finally able to determine the last starring actor in "The Producer", Shen Zhengyuan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

In my mind, I couldn't help but start thinking of the new script that screenwriter Kim Eun-sook said.

I don't know what type of TV series it is?

……

A few days later.

At the end of September, it was a beautiful autumn day.

A black nanny car drove into Al Jazeera in Mapo-gu.

"Here, it's Al Jazeera~"

Getting out of the car, Lee Ji-eun looked at the single-story gray floor building in front of him, and he couldn't connect it with the image of the TV station in his impression.

After all, with the development of the TV station, the current three-story TV station building is obviously unable to meet the various needs of the TV station, such as "The Masked Singer" has always been recorded on the stage of the warehouse below, which is not a thing.

It's just that, first, it is obviously not easy to build a brand new TV station building in Seoul, a place where every inch of land is valuable, although the current income of TV stations is good, but it is far from the extent that it can be built. As for the renovation of the floor, although this is also a solution, it is a pity that the TV station, as a labor-intensive media industry, runs non-stop almost every day, variety shows need to be filmed every week, and the news is broadcast continuously every day, and it is impossible for Shen Zhengyuan to interrupt the operation of the TV station for several months in a row for renovation and expansion.

This doesn't work, and the result of that can't do it is that Al Jazeera in front of you can only continue to operate in the original three-story building.

Of course, Shen Zhengyuan also knew that this was not a long-term solution, so he had actually been thinking about the expansion of the TV station in his heart.

"Don't look at Al Jazeera, but this TV station has been very popular recently, and many of the TV station's variety shows are even comparable to wireless TV in terms of ratings. ”

The variety show ratings of cable stations surpassed those of wireless stations, and there are currently only two cable stations in the whole of South Korea that can do this.

One is tvn, relying on Luo Yingxi's PD's "Three Hours and Three Meals" series and "Tricks" series to occupy the top few cable station ratings, and the other is Shen Zhengyuan's Al Jazeera, "The Masked Singer" has always maintained a strong trend in the ratings of the program with the growth of the number of broadcast periods, and has beaten a large number of cable stations, even wireless stations.

Even, even JTBC, which occupies the top position in cable channels, can't be as strong as Sim Jung-won and tvn's Na Young-seok PD in terms of variety show ratings.

After all, although JTBC has abundant funds, the TV station can produce variety shows not only by relying on abundant funds.

While talking, the agent and Lee Ji-eun walked into the TV station.

Today is the first meeting of the TV series "Producer", and the starring actors in the TV series are all Lee Ji-eun's actor predecessors.

Therefore, the agent deliberately took Lee Ji-eun to the TV station some time in advance to avoid being late and leaving a bad impression on the crew.

Walking into the building, there is a busy scene in front of me, the hall on the first floor of the TV station can only be full of people coming and going, and the degree of busyness of everyone even gives Lee Ji-eun a little busier than what he saw in SBS and MBC.

In the midst of the crowds, the agent found the staff and took the two to the conference room of the "Producer" crew.

knocked on the door and opened the door of the conference room, and the two immediately saw Shen Zhengyuan discussing something with others.

With the sound of knocking on the door, Shen Zhengyuan looked at the situation, and naturally glanced at the two people at the door of the conference room. He stopped on one of the figures for a moment before he said, "Li Zhienxi, I didn't expect you to come so early, and even the crew hasn't arrived yet." ”

To be honest, at the beginning, Shen Zhengyuan was also shocked when he saw Lee Ji-eun starring in the drama "The Producer" through the [Script Deduction Card]. I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence, and through this wonderful way, I met this Lee Ji-eun, who had a relationship with me at the beginning.

"Hello President Shen, I am IU's agent. Facing Shen Zhengyuan's gaze, the agent first bowed and introduced himself.

nodded slightly to the agent and replied, and Shen Zhengyuan immediately spoke: "Since you are here, then the agent will sit in the conference room with Li Zhien first, and the rest of the actors should come over soon." Although Shen Zhengyuan had the heart to chat with Li Zhien and them more, the situation did not allow it.

This is no longer the case.

In the past, when Shen Zhengyuan was in the crew of "Dragon Bayi", he only played the role of a screenwriter, and he was also supported by Kim Eun-sook, and almost all the work of the crew was handled by the other party. However, this is different, as Al Jazeera's first TV series, he is a screenwriter and producer, and even the director of this show, and his various identities are intertwined, and instead of having free time, he has become more busy.

That's right, Shen Zhengyuan did not play the starring role in "The Producer", but thought that the more important work was the director of this drama.

Unlike actors, Shen Zhengyuan does not have any acting experience in terms of actors, but in the shooting of the camera, Shen Zhengyuan has a background in documentaries after all, not to mention that he only upgraded [documentary shooting skills] to (intermediate) before, although this is only the shooting skills of documentaries, but after all, they are all the same as the shooting of TV series, and they all use the lens to speak.

What's more, compared to letting others serve as directors, Shen Zhengyuan still has a natural advantage in directing the drama "The Producer", that is, as the only person who knows the entire plot using the [Script Deduction Card], he can shoot according to the TV series he has seen, and shoot the whole drama according to the gourd.

Even, because Shen Zhengyuan sees works that have been edited in the post-production, it can greatly reduce the error rate of TV series shooting, and greatly improve the shooting progress and post-editing speed.

To put it simply, no one is more suitable as the director of the drama "The Producer" than Shen Zhengyuan.