"Magical Young's new work manifesto, the high school campus song and dance film "Song and Dance Youth"!"

It was the headline of the entertainment section of the Los Angeles Times, and they published an interview with Wang Yang as promised. Soon after the newspaper was launched, the interview appeared on the Internet, and then it was quickly reprinted everywhere, and the forums that had been affected by the viral propaganda of "Ghost Record" were hotly discussed. After all, "Ghost Shadow" has just been drawn offline in North America, and the total box office in North America has received 163 million.

Anyway, the people who are paying attention to Wang Yang now know the news, he is going to shoot a campus song and dance film, called "Song and Dance Youth", the content is an inspirational story. By the way, in order to make this movie, he also acquired a small film company with no future, I don't know what it was called before, but now it is called Flame Film Company, so he became a company owner.

Of course, Wang Yang had already told Jessica, Zachary and other friends about this news last night, and shared the joy with them.

However, the focus of the media's attention is not his film company, and there is nothing surprising about the acquisition of a small company with a net worth of tens of millions, and there has never been a shortage of film companies in Los Angeles; the media are concerned about movies, and his second film, a campus song and dance film? The filmmakers were taken aback, Wang Yang is not surprised to make a campus film, but a song and dance film, and what is the current market for song and dance films? Everyone knows this very well.

High School School Revue? He said he had high expectations for the film? What is the definition of "high"? Recovering the cost or becoming "The Hot Prodigal"?

Although the entertainment media have not had time to comment, the discussion of the news is already going on on the Internet. "Truth be told, this film is worrying, and maybe in the future, it will teach the young and vigorous 18-year-old director a lesson that cinema is not something that simple. This comment is already polite, and many of the comments are directly sarcastic: "Probably he was stimulated by being wronged by college, so he misses high school life? Want to make a movie about high school students? But does he know how to make movies? Yes, he studied at the USC School of Television and Film, but guys, he only studied for a semester and a half, and he may not even know the difference between Eisenstein and Einstein......"

Eisenstein was a great director, and Einstein was a great scientist. Of course, Wang Yang can tell the difference, he ignored these voices, the public's doubts are all in his expectation, if he continues to shoot horror films, they may say "expectation", he is still a future star, but when he shoots campus song and dance films, their attitude will change greatly, he is no longer a promising future, just a fire-fighting moth looking for death.

Whether his moth will die or not, whether he knows how to make movies, etc., will be proved by facts in the future. Although arguing with the media is one of the propaganda methods, it is not suitable for movies with positive themes such as "Youth Musical", and he does not like to use it. Besides, the market for "Youth Musical" is mainly the student class, and the student class is not as mean as the film critics, they are willing to accept new things, and the more abnormal things are, the more they like them, such as his title of "youngest multimillionaire", he is now the new idol of many young students.

And one of Wang Yang's previous worries has also become a reality, in the "Los Angeles Times" interview report, the last two-thirds of the content is about his private life. It is no wonder that Wang Yang rarely accepts exclusive interviews with the media, and even declines the opportunity to appear on the cover of "Vanity Fair", let alone talk about his private life publicly; this time the "Los Angeles Times" was invited by Flame Pictures to do an exclusive interview, and reporter Kim Sylvie naturally knows how to seize the opportunity and ask enough.

In the chairman's office of Flame Film, Wang Yang sat on a rotating office chair, looking at the newspaper unfolded in his hand, his face full of helplessness.

I saw that most of the page was circled by the headline "The youngest multimillionaire is single", and the first question in this large section was "Do you have a girlfriend?" and then followed by his answer: "No, my career has just started, and I hope I can devote myself to it." This is indeed what he thinks now, he has experienced a lot in the past six months, and his mentality has changed a lot, he just wants to make movies well now, cherish these hard-won opportunities, and just go with the flow in terms of feelings.

"Have you ever had a girlfriend before?" Kim Sylvie asked, and when she entered the interview private life stage, she became a gossip tabloid style. This was followed by his answer: "I had a relationship in high school, you know, and then we broke up. ”

Seeing this question and answer, Wang Yang couldn't help but shake his head and wipe his eyes. It was a once sweet love affair that ended in failure. When he was a sophomore in high school, he met a mixed-race blonde girl from Lowell High School at an exchange event in San Francisco High School, she was very beautiful and had a lot of personality, and they had feelings for each other, so they came together.

At first, they had a good relationship, chatting happily on the phone every day, and came out to meet on weekends to maintain their relationship. But the good times didn't last long, and after the initial love, the problem of their incompatible personalities was also exposed, and they always quarreled over some small things at first.

"I like to go to the cinema but she likes to go to the playground, I like basketball and she loves baseball, I like McDonald's, she likes KFC, I like Coca-Cola, she loves Pepsi...... So we started arguing, arguing, arguing, and arguing, and in the end we couldn't stand it anymore and had to break up. In the newspaper, he replied to Kim Sylvie when she asked, "Can you share this relationship with us?"

Looking at the words in the newspaper, Wang Yang smiled slightly, he still thinks back to that relationship now, and he will feel a little sweet, but more calmly. He was about to forget what the blonde girl looked like, and even if he tried to think about it now, it was a blur, a hearty smile, and a nice voice...... He shook his head violently, interrupting his recollections, and continued to look at the newspaper, "Have you ever wondered what your future partner will be like?"

Why are all these gossip questions? Wang Yang reluctantly put the newspaper aside and stopped reading it. He turned on his computer and got ready to get to work for the first round of casting for the role of "Youth Musical".

In fact, just a few days ago, just after acquiring A-Pix, he wrote a casting list for "Youth Musical" and asked Sandy Pikes to send it to agencies such as the Screen Actors Guild and the agency so that they could give some good introductions.

"Youth Musical" is different from "Ghost Shadow", the main actors have double digits, so if you don't ask the agency to help, it will increase the difficulty of casting and ask for trouble.

His casting table sets the basic criteria for casting, including all the main characters such as the male lead, the female lead, etc., such as the male lead Troy Burton, and the appearance requirements: tall, sunny and handsome, athletic...... The casting form sent to the agency is the first round of criteria, and the agency notifies the members who meet the requirements for the role, and then replies to the flame film with the information of the members who are interested in participating in the audition.

Then, Wang Yang first looked at these materials, filtered out those who did not meet his requirements, and then handed back the final list of actors to the agencies, and agreed on a time for a group audition.

And today, the company has successively received replies from the actors' union and several organizations, and they have passed over the information of the members who are eligible and interested in participating in the audition of the actor and heroine of "Youth Musical", and it will take time to sort out the information of the members who meet the requirements of other roles.

In "Youth Musical", there are several characters who are particularly important, the male protagonist Troy Burton, the female protagonist Gabriella Mantes, the female number two Xia Pei Evans, the male number two, the male protagonist's good friend and teammate Chad Denver, as well as Xia Pei's younger brother Rennes, the heroine's good sister Taylor Michaesi, and the piano accompanist Kathy Nelson.

As for the characters such as Troy's father, Gabriella's mother, Mr. Dabbs, the black team member who loves to cook, and the fat girl classmate, there is no need to worry about the candidate. These characters appear less and don't need to explode, the young don't need to be charming and how superb their acting skills are, and the acting school grabs a handful; the older ones have more choices, and there are countless middle-aged actors who can get by in Hollywood, and their salaries are very cheap.

So in this casting, it is mainly for the seven important roles, among which there are several male and female protagonists, and the male and female number two are the most difficult to choose; these four roles first have a lot of requirements in appearance, which must conform to the temperament and appearance of the character, sufficient acting skills, and the salary is in line with the budget of the movie.

In addition, in singing and dancing, it is naturally good to understand it now, but if you don't understand it now, you will not be eliminated immediately. Because in terms of dance, whether you understand it now or not, you will receive professional guidance, learn and rehearse the dance in the movie, and in terms of singing, as long as you have talent and a good voice, with the assistance of professional teachers and recording studios, you can also complete the task of recording songs.

Since Wang Yang is the investor, producer, and director of "Youth Singing and Dancing Youth", there is no doubt that he has the power, and the decision on who will play what role is in his hands. Of these seven important roles, he has almost set one now, and Shapee-Evans is played by Rachel.

Shapee-Evans is a haughty and competitive daughter, she and her younger brother Wren are the absolute stars of the school music club, she is always dressed up and beautiful, and she speaks with a quirky tone, and is a snarky "bad girl".

Rachel's current acting skills are enough to cope with this role, and she will also do a very good job in the future "Transforming into a Hot Girl", a full "bad girl", and then she continues to be the school flower of "Mean Girl" and the daughter of "Love Notebook", all of which are performances that make people give a thumbs up. Her role as "Chapel-Evans" seems to be a return to her original acting path.

And in terms of appearance, she has no problem, plus she dances very well and has a good voice, now as long as she is sure that she is not completely devoid of musical cells, Wang Yang will give her the role of "Xia Pei Evans".

Why didn't you let her audition for the heroine? Wang Yang thought about it, but finally dismissed this idea, it has nothing to do with Rachel's appearance and acting skills, the reason is that she is the heroine of "Ghost Shadow". The impact of "Ghost Shadow" on her is that when the audience sees her, they will associate it with "Meier", which will be more or less terrifying, which is not conducive to the feeling of watching the movie.

So she can't be a heroine for the time being, and the market needs time to erase the impression of her, or continue to star in horror movies. That's the scary thing about "labels", once you're characterized as a "horror movie actor", sorry, it's hard to get a chance to act in a G-rated movie.

Wang Yang is sorry for this, but he will not mess up the role with Rachel and Zachary because of apologies. He is responsible for the movie, the company, and himself, "Youth Musical" is very important to him, the outside world is waiting to see his jokes, he can't mess up, messing up will not only affect his future, but also make dozens of employees of Flame Films face the crisis of unemployment.

He promised Chris Lynch that he would make the company better and better, and he promised himself that he would make a good movie! If it was because of his own partiality, which led to the failure of "Youth Musical" and led to the company's big layoffs, he would not be able to forgive himself.

So the only reason Rachel got "Shapee Evans" will only be that she is suitable for the role and she can handle it. The same goes for Zachary Levy, to whom Wang Yang wants to give the role of "Wren Evans".

Of course, if there were a few girls who were suitable to play "Shapey Evans", he would choose Rachel, but if there were people who were a big cut better than Rachel, he would ...... Will hesitate.

Thinking of these, Wang Yang held the mouse and opened the information from the institutions, and began to select the hero and heroine.

Only in a small number of films, these two characters are not the most important, but in all movies, no matter how long the hero and heroine appear, it directly determines whether the film can be successful or not. This is especially the case with "Youth Singing and Dancing Youth", this movie "idols" are more important than "powerful", the requirements for the appearance of the male and female protagonists are stricter than the requirements for acting, they must be beautiful, cool, and able to fascinate men and women of the same age, become the new idols of students, and make them crazy.

"No, it's not tall enough, it doesn't look like it's dynamic......" Wang Yang looked at the audition photos on the screen with a focused face, muttered to himself, clicked the mouse a few times, and eliminated the handsome guy on the screen, his name was deleted, and he would not enter the second round of auditions.

"The eyes are not big enough, the eyes are not glamorous enough, no...... The eyes are too big, they look cute, no......" After a while, Wang Yang deleted more than 20 handsome young guys of different types, and clicked on the next picture, a handsome white guy with blue eyes and inverted eyebrows appeared on the screen, Wang Yang was stunned and muttered: "Why is this guy so familiar?"

He stopped to look at the cast profile of this photo, Jack Gyllenshill, born on December 19, 1980, is 183cm tall...... He searched in his mind, and suddenly it turned out that Jack Gyllenhill was the protagonist of "Brokeback Mountain", and now this guy is still very tender, so he can't recognize it for a while.

Jack Gyllenhill Wang Yang frowned, looked at several of his photos repeatedly, thought about it for a while, and finally shook his head and eliminated the future protagonist of "Brokeback Mountain". Jack Gyllenshill is of course handsome, but his type is not sunny handsome, not suitable for Troy Burton's temperament, he is too mature to say, Jack Gyllenshill is "handsome", not "handsome".

Wang Yang deleted more than a dozen actors in a row, and then another actor stopped him, Heath Ledger!Born on April 4, 1979, with a height of 185cm...... Wang Yang couldn't help but sigh a little, oh my God, it's the actor of "Brokeback Mountain" again! And the clown in "Batman: The Dark Knight", this guy's future acting skills are fantastic, his clown is simply superb, absolute actor! But after he played the clown, there was no movie later, and there were no relevant reports about him in his head, and I don't know what was going on. Wang Yang thought about this, but shook his head again and deleted Heath Ledger.

The reason is very simple, Heath Ledger's appearance does not match, he is not handsome enough to play the charming effect of Troy Burton, he is a powerful faction, not an idol.

"No, I don't have the strength of a basketball captain...... No, you want sunshine......" Wang Yang kept clicking on the next one, the next one, and all the handsome guys were eliminated.

Wang Yang's current hand is like a "hand that makes idols", those who stay have the opportunity to play Troy Burton, if "Youth Musical" is successful, "Troy Burton" will become a popular youth idol all over the world and become famous overnight;

Eliminated one after another, and in the end, there was no name on the actor's side that could enter the second round! Wang Yang couldn't help but be stunned, could it be that he was too picky? Oh, please, where did the handsome guys in Sunshine go?!

Wang Yang scratched his head helplessly, in this case, he had to send the actor's casting list to more agencies to expand the scope of the search, if there is no suitable candidate in Los Angeles, maybe he will have to go to New York to find it. Now he has to start auditions for the heroine instead, and there are really a lot of candidates recommended by the heroine, nearly twice as many as the hero.

This is normal, actresses will become famous earlier, most of them are child stars, child models, etc., they are the most popular when they are young, and then they are replaced by new debuting beauties a few years later;

Among these girls, few of them came to participate in the first round of auditions, let alone star-level actors. Nothing out of the ordinary, the film film debut of the 18-year-old director, a small-budget investment, a song and dance film...... Taken together, these factors seem to point to the word "bad movie".

"The smile is beautiful and nice...... Hmm, the eyes are charming, and it's not bad......" Wang Yang browsed the photos of these young and beautiful girls one by one, some were eliminated, and some were selected for the second round.

These beautiful girls have their own characteristics and temperaments, and the requirements of Gabriella, the heroine of "Singing and Dancing Youth", are to be beautiful, smile very sweetly, and have a certain figure, no higher than 180cm. So, how many beautiful girls are laughing is not sweet? So this time, Wang Yang finally gained something, only some who are too short, do not match their temperament, or look old and too tender, will be kicked out.

"Wow, beautiful girl!" Looking at this picture, Wang Yang smiled in a good mood and stopped, the picture is a white girl, with black hair, mixed blonde, black eyes, high nose, and very sweet appearance, he looked at the girl's information, called Jennifer Love Hewitt, born on February 21, 1979, 160cm tall, has played many small roles in movies, she learned to dance and sing since she was a child, and last year, she also won the "Best Young Star" of the Hollywood Reporter Awards , it seems that the future is bright.

Wang Yang didn't have to think about it, he ticked Jennifer's name, and then continued to look at the next picture.

After more than a dozen beautiful girls, he has a new harvest, a sexy and charming, sweet smile beauty, Eliza Dushku, born on December 30, 1980, 165cm tall, also learned dance since childhood, and can play the piano. She became famous when she was 14 years old, and that year she starred in "True Lies" and played Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter in the film.

"Another one!" Wang Yang happily ticked Eliza Dushku's name, there are already more than a dozen beautiful girls who can enter the second round of auditions, and there are several who can sing and dance since childhood, Gabriella's candidates don't seem to have to worry, in terms of appearance alone, these beautiful girls are very suitable.

After browsing for a while, Wang Yang looked at the toothy and smiling girl on the screen, and couldn't help but smile: "Jessica Alba, born on April 28, 1981, is 170cm tall...... Ok!" he nodded, ticked Jessica's name, and smiled at the screen, "Of course, you're in the second round." ”

He looked at the candidate names that were now ticked off, Jennifer Love-Hewitt, Eliza Dushku, Jordana Brewster...... Undoubtedly, Jessica is the best in terms of appearance alone, and in the future, as she becomes more and more charming, she also gets more opportunities to perform, although she has won some "Golden Raspberry Awards", but she has the highest achievement among these girls.

But it's 1998, and it's now, Jessica's appearance hasn't reached the point of killing everyone in seconds, and her acting skills are ...... Wang Yang looked at the screen and said softly, "Jessica, come on." ”

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