In mid-August, Ranfeng Film Company set up a project for Jiang Ran's first directorial film "Nightclub", and the day after the company approved the project, Jiang Ran came to the editorial department with the prepared story outline and discussed with the editors of the editorial department about the improvement of the script.

The original version of the movie "Nightclub" is a comedy film produced by BJ Orange Sky Huayin Music Production Co., Ltd. in 2009, the film director and screenwriter Yang Qing, starring Xu Zheng, Li Xiaolu, Qiao Renliang and others.

The original story takes place in a small supermarket that is open 24 hours a day, and on this night, the two clerks on night duty are Li Junwei and Tang Xiaolian. Li Junwei is taciturn on the outside, but he secretly likes his colleague Tang Xiaolian, and he has a friend who is still playing tricks after filming countless scenes.

Two months ago, unemployed lottery player He Sanshui bought a lottery ticket in the supermarket and won a prize of 9,500 yuan, but the prize was lost due to the supermarket proprietress typing a wrong number. So he took his stupid cousin tire back to the supermarket that night, and he must get his bonus back, and at the same time, Li Junwei's friend came to the supermarket to practice robbery for filming that night, plus a real robber who came to the supermarket to pick up diamonds.

is such a lottery fan who looks like a robbery for debt collection, a friend who came to the supermarket to practice robbery for filming, plus a real robber, three groups of fake and real "robbers" staged a ridiculous funny scene, during which the endless accidents and surprises made the whole process full of variables and jokes, which made people laugh.

There are many things in the original play that have not yet appeared in the current Hong Kong society, and the environment, way of speaking and living habits of the original script are also different from those in Hong Kong today. Therefore, in addition to the story framework, creative concept and some jokes in the entire "Nightclub" script, the specific plot flesh and blood also need to be re-edited by the editorial department. With the experience of the first "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Many Stars", the two editing teams responsible for the plot and laughter were coordinated by Jiang Ran, and the editing work was completed smoothly this time, and when the time came to the end of August, the script of "Nightclub" had been completed.

Next, Jiang Ran spent nearly ten days to complete the design of the storyboard script with the assistance of the assistant director Liu Liwei, and when Jiang Ran was doing the storyboard script, the recruitment of film actors was also in progress.

"Mr. Jiang, for the role of Tang Xiaolian, my opinion can be considered Zhong Chuhong, the actor of Shen Qing in "The Story of Hu Yue" directed by Xu Anhua. Zhong Chuhong was the fourth sister of Hong Kong in 1979, and later participated in To Qifeng's "Blue Water and Cold Mountain Killing Gold" and Xu Anhua's "The Story of Hu Yue", which successfully portrayed the Vietnamese girl Shen Qing in "The Story of Hu Yue", and her acting skills are basically passable, and now she has a certain popularity, she is very beautiful, and her salary is not high now. Liu Liwei suggested to Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran thought about it for a while and said with a sigh: "I originally planned to continue to cooperate with Dai Yue'e, after all, I have worked together, and now I think about her acting skills are really worrying, Ah Wei, you go and contact Zhong Chuhong to see if her schedule and salary are suitable." ”

"Okay, Mr. Jiang! Do you have suitable candidates for He Sanshui, Li Junwei, Zhu Liao and others?" Liu Liwei saw that Jiang Ran accepted his opinion, and then asked the candidates for other actors.

"He Sanshui, I'll ask Brother Lak about the schedule later, Li Junwei's words, you try Chow Yun-fat, I feel that he and Zhong Chuhong's play are more compatible in "Hu Yue's Story". Of course, Jiang Ran knew that Zhong Chuhong and Chow Yun-fat acted very well, and in the original history, the two would collaborate on many movies for a long time in the future, and successfully created many on-screen couples.

After Jiang Ran and Liu Liwei preliminarily determined the three leading actors, it is time to consider several candidates for supporting roles, although these roles are supporting roles, they occupy an important role in the movie, so they need to be carefully considered.

Although Jiang Ran watched a lot of Hong Kong movies in later generations, he only remembered some stars and a small number of outstanding supporting roles for Hong Kong actors, so after thinking about it for a while, he still didn't have any clue, so he asked Liu Liwei's opinion.

"Ah Wei, do you have any suitable candidates to recommend?"

"Mr. Jiang, how about you hand over the role of Zhu Liao to Yuanhua to play?" Liu Liwei heard Jiang Ran ask him for his opinion, and he didn't give his opinion directly.

"Yuan Hua, are you talking about Sammo Hung's junior brother Yuan Hua?" After Jiang Ran heard Liu Liwei's suggestion, the image of the chartered man in "Kung Fu" unconsciously appeared in his mind.

"That's right, he's a Shaw Brothers guy now, and he's played some less important roles. Liu Liwei explained to Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran held his chin in one hand, thought about it for a while, and said, "You tell him to try it." Then Jiang Ran continued to ask: "What about the other actors?"

Liu Liwei thought about the descriptions of the characters in the script, and said: "If you have tires, you can try Qin Huang of TVB, if you are a robber, you can consider Liu Zhaoming, and if you are a robber, I think Hu Feng is more suitable, and the proprietress can choose Yuanqiu." ”

Jiang Ran didn't know anything about Qin Huang among the few people introduced by Liu Liwei, and the other people also had limited understanding, so he said, "You can make an appointment with a few people to meet first." ”

"Okay, Mr. Jiang. Liu Liwei knew that Jiang Ran might not know much about the situation of a few people, and when he heard that he was going to meet a few people, he immediately agreed.

After Liu Liwei went out, Jiang Ran dialed the phone of Liao Chen Baixiang, "Hey, hello, I'm Chen Baixiang!"

"Brother Lak, I'm Jiang Ran, why are you busy now?Eat together at night?" Jiang Ran and Chen Baixiang are also in constant contact, knowing that he has connected several movies since "Ghost Horse Zhiduoxing", and he is very busy now.

"Ah Ran, if you have something, just say it, just eat, I had a night shift yesterday, and I will continue to work in the afternoon. Chen Baixiang's voice clearly revealed a sense of tiredness.

"Brother Lak, you have to have a degree to take the movie, the body is the capital of the revolution, I am now preparing a movie, ready to start filming later this month, do you still have a schedule, if so, come and help me." Jiang Ran persuaded Chen Baixiang and went directly to the point.

Chen Baixiang said without much thought: "No problem, I will leave the schedule to you from the end of this month." ”

"Then thank you Brother Lak, I was informing you before the movie started, you rest first, and when you are free, we will get together. ”

"Okay, I'll sleep a little longer, hang up. After speaking, Chen Baixiang hung up the phone directly.

After getting Chen Baixiang, Jiang Ran went to meet Zhong Chuhong and Chow Yun-fat with Liu Liwei the next day, and the two formed a good friendship in "The Story of Hu Yue", and now they are coming to meet Jiang Ran together.

After Jiang Ran entered the hotel, he saw Chow Yun-fat and Zhong Chuhong from a distance, and now Chow Yun-fat has a strong appeal in TV, but in terms of movies, Chow Yun-fat is also a newcomer who has just emerged, not to mention Zhong Chuhong, who only participated in two movies in total.

Jiang Ran and Liu Liwei walked straight to the two, and Liu Liwei said: "Mr. Zhou, Miss Zhong have been waiting for a long time, I am Liu Liwei, the producer of "Nightclub", and I talked to you on the phone before. Speaking of this, he turned sideways and let Jiang Ran introduce to the two: "This is director Jiang Ranjiang, and he is also the screenwriter of "Nightclub", Mr. Jiang previously planned and edited and participated in the filming of the movie "Ghost Horse Zhi Duo Xing". ”

Jiang Ran stretched out his hand and said to the two: "Hello Mr. Zhou and Miss Zhong, I'm Jiang Ran, just call me Ah Ran." ”

Although Chow Yun-fat and Zhong Chuhong felt that Jiang Ran was too young and a little unreliable as a director, they thought about the success of "Ghost Horses" produced by Ranfeng Film Company, but Jiang Ran planned and edited and participated in the filming of this movie, so the two quickly stood up and said: "Mr. Jiang, hello!"

After a few people sat down, they briefly exchanged a few words, Jiang Ran began to pull the topic into the topic, Jiang Ran saw that the two of them had concerns about their identity as directors, so they said: "Both, I believe you all know that our company's last film was successful, but you may not know that we have been preparing for a month just for the preliminary preparation of this movie." So, don't worry that I'm young and not capable enough to direct films, every film in our company will be well prepared, and I was involved in the editing of this film throughout the whole process, and all the images and shooting methods of the whole film are already in my mind. Jiang Ran pointed to his head and said confidently.