After meeting with Feng Jingxi, Jiang Ran's acquisition of Sun Hung Kai Bank finally made real progress. Just as Ran Dong and others expected.

After Feng Jingxi clearly supported Jiang Ran's acquisition intention, Arab banks began to have doubts and hesitations about the acquisition of Sun Hung Kai Bank.

After all, Feng Jingxi, as the founder of the bank, and the fact that he has always actually controlled and controlled the development of the bank, the Arab banks are very worried about whether they can really effectively control the bank after Feng Jingxi's explicit support for Jiang.

It was this worry and hesitation that gave Ran Dong and the acquisition team an opportunity.

When the Arab banks hesitated, Ran Dong and others, under the intermediary liaison of Feng Jingxi, quickly launched acquisition negotiations with Bailida and Merrill Lynch.

In the end, when the time entered early July, Ran Dong and other representatives of the negotiation team, Jiang Ran, quickly reached an agreement with Bailida, Merrill Lynch and Feng Jingxi.

In the end, Jiang Ran successfully obtained 70% of the equity of Sun Hung Kai Bank at the cost of 400 million Hong Kong dollars, becoming the largest shareholder of the bank and a shareholder with absolute controlling stake.

After the completion of the Sun Hung Kai Bank acquisition, Jiang Ran began to slowly turn more attention to his new films, in addition to continuing to focus on the company's other acquisitions and day-to-day administrative matters.

Jiang Ran's new film adapted from the later "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", after the official project was officially established in mid-May, after more than a month of preparation, most of the preliminary preparations have basically been completed after entering July.

"Mr. Jiang, this director Du Qifeng. In an office of Ranfeng Group, Shi Nansheng and Wang Jing introduced Jiang Ran with a young man in his thirties.

Jiang Ran is naturally no stranger to To Qifeng, although the other party is still only a slightly famous TV series director, he has not yet made a name for himself in movies.

However, as a person with memories of later generations, Jiang Ran naturally would not underestimate Du Qifeng's ability. In his later years, he won many Academy Awards and was nominated for several international film festivals such as Gala, Berlin and Venice.

And Johnny To's films are not only unique in style and have been favored by film festivals, but also have a very good market response in the film market.

Moreover, what is even more commendable is that when Johnny To is filming movies, he not only has his own unique film style and understanding, but he can also control a variety of different film genres and themes.

In his career, there are typical Hong Kong-style comedies such as "Happy Ghost", "Eight Star Annunciation" and "Judge of the Dead", as well as classic literary films such as "The Story of Ah Lang".

There are not only classic police and bandit shootout films such as "Gunfire", "Underworld", and "Dark War", but also love movies like "Left to Right", "Lonely Men and Widows", and "A Hundred Years of Good Together".

Therefore, in Jiang Ran's view, Du Qifeng's development potential is actually in the current Ranfeng Energy Group, and only Tsui Hark can be compared with it.

Other directors, whether it is Wang Jing, who has proven himself in history, or Lin Jiawen, who is famous in this life because of the rise of Jiang Ran and Ranfeng Group, is actually weaker than To Qifeng in terms of directorial potential.

After all, although Wang Jing has many classic movies such as the "God of Gamblers" series and "The Legend of Deer and Ding" in later generations, he himself is seriously restricted by the limitations of Hong Kong films and cannot jump out of the cage of Hong Kong movies, and can only fall into silence with Hong Kong movies in the end.

And Lin Jiawen and other directors who have been praised because of Ranfeng Group, although their current development is quite good, they all have their own limitations in terms of production types, and even Jiang Ran does not have much confidence in the future development.

"Mr. Jiang, I heard that you are looking for a suitable executive assistant director for your new film, so I took the liberty of recommending Ah Feng here. Thank you for your kind attention. After Shi Nansheng's introduction, Wang Jing rubbed her hands and smiled shyly.

The relationship between Wang Jing and Du Qifeng can be regarded as brothers to a certain extent. After graduating from the wireless training class, To Qifeng turned to the background and studied directing under Wang Tianlin.

And Wang Tianlin is Wang Jing's old man, so the relationship between Wang Jing and Du Qifeng is very familiar, and this time Du Qifeng also heard Wang Jing say that Jiang Ran's movie was looking for a suitable executive director, so he thought about it and asked Wang Jing to help introduce him.

After all, although Johnny To turned out to be somewhat famous, it was basically in TV series, and in movies, although he also directed movies, his results were not very ideal.

To a certain extent, the current To Qifeng can even be regarded as a new Ding in the film industry. Therefore, if To Qifeng wants to set foot on the big screen now, he needs a pedal and the support of the bigwigs in the circle.

As a new rising film boss in Hong Kong, Jiang Ran not only has an extraordinary status and voice in the film and television industry, but also continues to create miracles in wealth, and quickly becomes the richest man in the middle and upper reaches of Hong Kong's ranking.

Such a big man who has both resources in the circle and surplus financial support is obviously the ideal backer that all filmmakers who want to get ahead of are eager to aspire to.

Jiang Ran listened to Wang Jing's introduction, and looked at Du Qifeng, who was still very young, with a smile.

"Hello, Mr. Jiang! I'm Johnny To. When Du Qifeng saw Jiang Ran looking at him, he immediately bent down and bowed his head in greeting, and his slightly tense voice showed his nervousness.

Jiang Ran smiled, waved his hand and said, "Director Du, hello! Don't be nervous, we're just chatting casually today." ”

Jiang Ran said it simply, but after Du Qifeng heard this, instead of relaxing, he became even more nervous, because Jiang Ran's words, to him, were the dual situation of heaven and hell.

If he performs well today, and in the next short period of time, he will be recognized by Jiang Ran, then he will become the executive director of Jiang Ran's new film, and his future in the film industry is limitless.

In this regard, just look at the current director Lin Jiawen of Ranfeng Group.

On the contrary, if Du Qifeng can't get Jiang Ran's approval in the future, it will definitely be a big blow to Du Qifeng's career.

On the one hand, it directly lost the opportunity to cooperate with Jiang Ran and Ranfeng Group;

On the other hand, with Jiang Ran's current status in the Hong Kong film and director circle, if it is rumored that he does not agree with Johnny To's ability, then the vast majority of investors in Hong Kong will definitely have great concerns when facing Johnny To, which is definitely a fatal thing for newcomers like Johnny To who have not yet proven it in the film industry.

"Director Du, I see that you have also directed movies independently before, why did you return to the TV station later?" Jiang Ran asked with a little curiosity.

"Mr. Jiang, I did direct a movie in 1980, but I was still relatively young at that time, and I was still a little deficient in dealing with some issues, so I went back to the TV station and studied with director Wang Tianlin for a few years. ”

"Although movies and TV series are different in some shooting, they both rely on the language of the camera to tell the story, and they have a lot in common. ”

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After that, neither Wang Jing nor Shi Nansheng were interfering in the conversation between Jiang Ran and Du Qifeng, because this was Jiang Ran's test time for Du Qifeng, and he could only rely on Du Qifeng himself.

In fact, after Wang Jing introduced To Qifeng, Jiang Ran had basically determined in his heart that the executive director of his new movie would use To Qifeng.

Although Johnny To doesn't seem to be very old now, in fact, he has been in the film and television industry for more than ten years, and he has been involved in directing for nearly ten years, and has experience in directing independently.

Jiang Ran believes that the current Du Qifeng, even if he is not at the level of later generations, should not be far from the finished product, so Jiang Ran is not worried at all about whether Du Qifeng is qualified to be an executive director.

The reason why he is still testing Du Qifeng with great interest is that on the one hand, he doesn't want to give the other party a chance too easily, this is not embarrassment or pretense, it is just because the opportunity to get too easily will not be cherished and valued, which is obviously not what Jiang Ran wants to see.

On the other hand, although Du Qifeng is capable, it is precisely because he knows that the other party is strong, so Jiang Ran is afraid that in his new movie, Du Qifeng will not be able to keep to himself and bring in too much of his own ideas and concepts.

This is obviously something that Jiang Ran is unwilling and does not allow, after all, if there are two different ideas in a movie, then there is a great possibility that it will cause confusion in the style and theme of the movie.

Although, Jiang Ran is confident that he can completely control the crew, and no one can be a demon in his own crew. But if you really encounter a stubborn deputy who is unwilling to compromise on the concept and style of the film, it will be very troublesome to deal with.

Obviously, after some communication, Johnny To is obviously very clear about his position, and he is not desperate for the sake of art.

To Qifeng told Jiang Ran very clearly in the conversation that when he was on the TV station, because of the producer system, all production must be under the control of the producer, and he knows the nature of the executive director's work very well, and he is also very clear about his own positioning.

After Jiang Ran listened to Du Qifeng's words, he smiled happily and said, "I'm very happy that Director Du has such an awareness, which is very good." ”

"Of course, in your future cooperation, I also welcome you to put forward your own opinions, but in the process of implementation, you must do things according to my requirements. ”

"In addition, you don't have to worry about your ideas and ideas not having a chance to be expressed, as long as you can direct independently in the future, our group will respect your directors' opinions very much. ”

Jiang Ran recognized the cooperation with To Qifeng in his words, and in the end, he gave To Qifeng a promise in a meaningful way, a promise to direct a film independently.

"Thank you, Mr. Jiang, for giving me this opportunity. I'm going to try my best. Du Qifeng bowed to Jiang Ran with some excitement and said.